Thanks @lecteroide.bsky.social for the opportunity to share the efforts developed in MexOmics www.the-scientist.com/mexomics-map...

From Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace, via Liz Neeley’s newsletter

"¿Por qué, en un mundo que desprecia a los políticos, tantos lo apreciaban? . . . ¿Quizá porque guardaba convicciones que tantos han perdido? ¿Quizá porque decía lo que los otros callan? ¿O sería porque sus cuatro vidas tuvieron una coherencia que muy pocas tienen?" — Martín Caparrós #PepeMujica

José Mujica (1935 - 2025) ✨ Nos dio uno de los mejores consejos que podemos recibir en esta época: “Si ustedes no le dan un rumbo deliberado [a sus vidas], no se preocupen, el mercado se los va a dar.” Gracias por tantas enseñanzas, este continente te echará de menos.

I'm so happy to see On the Calculation of Volume ⏳ on the shortlist 🥳 (I was hooked and now am reading Book 2 😅). Also glad to see Under the Eye of the Big Bird made it, too! 🌏

In which a do not lament the decline of 23andMe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Our investigation was constantly changing, rather like a dance that led us around the room, an innocent and somewhat clumsy knowledge polka, a wonderment waltz, a blithe ballet of discovery, a hectic tap dance between facts and observations, a questioning tango ..." — Solvej Balle

"As a species, we simply don't have what it takes," opina uno de los personajes en esta novela. No lo contradigo. (Creo que mi parte favorita de esta lectura fue revisitar los capítulos después de terminar el libro esta mañana. Tuve—sí, hasta entonces—varios 'aha moments' que me emocionaron mucho.)

"When all the risks from alcohol are added up, most researchers say that any possible health benefits are outweighed by increased risks of cancer and other diseases above low levels of drinking." "The bottom line is that alcohol is a generally unhealthy substance," says epidemiologist Tim Naimi.

Hoy en el Instituto Mora (CDMX):

Do so-called vaginal #probiotics truly support vaginal health? Could #LiveBiotherapeutics — a term many experts prefer over “probiotics” to highlight their medical testing — offer a better alternative? In this short feature, I discuss what we know so far and the challenges that remain.

Comparto el hermoso comunicado que las madres y padres buscadoras leyeron en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México durante la jornada de Vigilia y Luto Nacional. Gracias a Alfredo López Casanova por rolarlo. Por favor ayuden a que se difunda. #15marzo #LutoNacional #TeuchitlanNuncaMas

Years of progress against disease reversed, hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. STAT's @helenbranswell.bsky.social tells a story with no happy ending here.

Sorry but a "woolly mouse" is not going to help bring back the woolly mammoth, an essentially impossible goal www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...

Acaban de anunciar la longlist de mi premio literario favorito, gracias al cual he conocido varias joyitas. 📚✨ (Está 'Perras de reserva' de Dahlia de la Cerda. No es mi libro favorito, pero hubo cuentos que disfruté. Felicidades a Dahlia.) Ahora, toca elegir cuál leer antes de la shortlist. 🥰

siempre fluyendo, nunca influyendo

Algunos son muy jóvenes para recordarlo, pero en 2010, una conferencia de la NASA, un paper en Science y #ArsenicLife en las redes —haciendo referencia a una bacteria 🦠 que usaba arsénico en vez de fósforo—, sacudieron los medios (y los corazones de científicas jóvenes ingenuas como yo entonces 🙈).

Fat buildup in the liver can progress into severe metabolic liver disease with limited treatment options. As obesity rises, fatty liver diseases are becoming more common—making new treatments urgent, experts warn. A Phase 2b trial of denifanstat, an oral fatty acid synthase inhibitor, offers hope.

“It’s unethical, it’s unlawful, and it’s inhumane,” said cancer researcher Mandi Pratt-Chapman. (It's also a major setback for biomedical science, whose long-overlooked focus on patient diversity led to critical gaps in understanding diseases and treatments across populations—and here we go again.)

Nueve periodistas de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia nos compartieron sus trabajos más recientes en la pasada edición del Cachito de Ciencia 🧪. Te las compartimos en el siguiente hilo: cachito-de-ciencias-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/u-ltima-se...

Related CDC news. (And scoop by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social!) CDC employees have to pause or retract any publications in science journals with "forbidden terms." Faust calls it "an expansion of an emerging censorship regime at CDC." insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

The FDA has removed webpages about diversity and inclusion in clinical trials for cancer drugs. www.npr.org/sections/sho... 10/12

Quiero que me inyecten un asteroide ☄️

#FossilFriday Sectioned Oligocene brachiopods in stone cladding of Whangarei Limestone at Wellington Railway Station, New Zealand.

Extra or missing chromosomes in cells are considered a hallmark of cancer. But new analyses reveal that even healthy breast tissue can have a few cells with these abnormalities. 🧬 The findings could impact how breast cancer is diagnosed.⚕️ www.drugdiscoverynews.com/not-just-can...

La Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia tiene abierta su convocatoria hasta el 31 de enero para quienes deseen incorporarse a ella como estudiantes, colaboradores o profesionales. Toda la información detallada por acá: redmpc.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/c...

Kicking off 2025, I wrote for The Scientist about how studying a peculiar family of wild mice is unlocking the genetic and neural roots of behaviors like monogamy, parental care, and threat response. 🐭 🧬 🧠 www.the-scientist.com/on-a-wild-mo...

Me había negado a abrir otra red social, pero pues caí amigos, ¿qué les puedo decir?