#ScienceUnderSiege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out one week from today! 🙂 Preorder now: Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un... Publisher: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

Atención chilenos, estamos haciendo un estudio narrativo de emociones evocadas por los candidatos a la presidencia. Ayer estuvimos presentándolo en @meganoticiascl.bsky.social y sigue abierto para que todos puedan evaluar a un candidato al azar. Lo ves aquí: pro.amorporlamarca.com/direct-surve...

Atención chilenos, estamos haciendo un estudio narrativo de emociones evocadas por los candidatos a la presidencia. Ayer estuvimos presentándolo en @meganoticiascl.bsky.social y sigue abierto para que todos puedan evaluar a un candidato al azar. Lo ves aquí: pro.amorporlamarca.com/direct-surve...

Editorial | "Las imágenes y los relatos del horror de Hiroshima y Nagasaki no son una conmemoración histórica más: sirven como recuerdo constante del daño existencial que la humanidad puede infligirse a sí misma"

Random chat last night... — Dad, I'm not vaccinating. They say the HPV vaccine is the most painful one! — Do you know what a papilloma is? — No... — A cause of cancer — x___x — A type of cancer that use to cause a lot of trouble and now you can avoid just getting vaccinated. — Ok

Tengo que hacer algunas clases este semestre. Afortunadamente son algunas de las cosas que más me entusiasman en el mundo, así que simplemente espero poder transferir algo de ese mismo entusiasmo. ¡Se viene el segundo semestre!

I've been culturing intact explants of embryonic mouse basal forebrain. It's a pretty cool way to model interactions between the different BFN populations in vitro, both in physiology and disease, specially in Alzheimer's where these neurons are particularly vulnerable. [Confocal— DAPI+Phalloidin]

This Thursday 31st/July at 3.30 pm we have another session of our Journal Club on Psychology and Neuroscience. This month we are led by Prof. @pauladagnino.bsky.social to discuss mental health outcomes monitoring in the public system. Join us!

Impaired BDNF-TrkB trafficking and signalling in Down syndrome basal forebrain neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.15.664857v1

I came across this concept today and I liked this blog post on epistemic respect and peer-review: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Coming to London on a summer Saturday—when Pride celebrations were in full swing, and everyone was out with friends in all sorts of playful attire—has been absolutely vivifying!

Tomorrow!

I grew up one little bit today. I'm going back to the lab in London in a couple of weeks, and instead of booking a bed in a noisy backpackers' hostel as usual, I evolved to booking myself a room in a proper family-run hotel next door. Yeahp... getting old.

🙏 to editor Sian Lewis for this @natrevneuro.nature.com highlight on our recent paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today, in news that surprise no one... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

True that the promising story about jacifusen still requires more data to weight its impact in the real world, but I can't help thinking about the 16-y.o. kid with ALS that after a year of treatment is breathing again and recovering movement. Unprecedented progress! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I feel you. I hope you comprehend.

If I were an elected Dem today, here’s what I’d be doing: - Not cooperating with anything administration wants to do. No bailing the GOP out. Shut it down. - Daily fireside chats explaining how/why I’m fighting. - Calling them fash. - Attending protests. Calling for protests (at their homes?)

Post transplataforma desde LinkedIn sobre los traspasos de capital de CORFO a las arcas fiscales, a propósito de un excelente comentario de Eduardo Bitrán: www.linkedin.com/posts/omlazo...

First splicing therapy in utero for spinal motor atrophy (SMA). Massive achievement.

Intracellular Trafficking SNARE Protein, Syntaxin-6, is a Modifier of Prion and Tau Pathogenesis in vivo and in Cellular Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.635172v1

About to repeat the classic stories of cobras in Delhi and rats in Hanoi. People will breed mosquitoes for cash.

Got baked beans from England just to pair them with Chilean merluza austral.

Interested how events are coordinated during #endosome maturation? Check out our latest paper! Congrats Daniel, Samit and Jachen! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

“Out of office” message put on. Limited connectivity, minimal meetings, sun, family and fresh air. 😌 Also time to read and plan for the future.

Todo indica que voy en el mismo vuelo que Dua Lipa. 😱

Three chilean neuroscience professors. We may have very little political power, but we have been partnering to do pretty cool stuff, and we are set to continue doing so. ;)

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

When back in the day Trump coined the infamous term “alternative facts”, I guess most of us thought it was a sort of tasteless joke. It was not. It was part of a political agenda: devaluation of truth.

Something that definitely saved my 2024, was building up a comfy place to get work done at home. This year I will start to get used to the actual office, but happy to have where to hide and write grants and papers.

I'm glad to share that we are back with the #NGFWebinarSeries on 2025. Join us every second Thursday of the month, starting with Prof. Brian Pierchala on 9th Jan, who will be opening the new season. More info & registration? ngfwebinarseries.org

Afuera del Omnium un estacionador de autos jugaba con un catalejo retráctil. Dos cuadras más abajo, en el semáforo una mujer esperaba cruzar Apoquindo con un loro en el hombro. Estoy tan habituado a identificar patrones, que pensé: “ahora veré alguien con una pata de palo”.

E quem quer todas as notas —ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si, dó— fica sempre sem nenhuma, fique numa nota só.

Scientists! We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1. You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester. Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

I'm glad to share that we are back with the #NGFWebinarSeries on 2025. Join us every second Thursday of the month, starting with Prof. Brian Pierchala on 9th Jan, who will be opening the new season. More info & registration? ngfwebinarseries.org

Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇

We are all familiar with the "We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we created them" quote attributed to Einstein. Clever, but I recently found a slightly different version: "We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them".

Hallucinations as sensitive detectors of plausible breakthroughs that simply haven't happened yet.

Finally, after all the aggression and intimidation suffered by the whistleblowers (@elisabethbik.bsky.social, for example), the work of Didier Raoult on hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID was RETRACTED by the journal. Here in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Approach-Avoidance Bias in Virtual and Real-World Simulations: Insights from a Systematic Review of Experimental Setups https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628144v1

The government could have finally brought Royal Mail into public ownership. It sold it to a Czech billionaire instead. We are being ripped off. It’s time to put Royal Mail back where it belongs: in public hands. bbc.in/49BZTmP

Rumbo al campus San Joaquín para la Feria de Aprendizajes del #PENTAUC. Vamos a mostrar algunos de los proyectos de investigación en neurobiología integrativa que los estudiantes diseñaron y pilotearon durante el semestre: análisis de la literatura, meta-análisis, experimentos, varios MUY BUENOS.

So cool! I’ve been fortunate enough to find the exact Mendelian randomisation practical course I needed, taught by Justo Lorenzo-Bermejo (from Heidelberg), who is visiting the country for a few months. I’ve managed to derust my R skills, picked up great methods, and truly dived into epidemiology.

Miles de documentos desclasificados por el gobierno de EEUU están disponibles desde hoy en español Con el apoyo de la Embajada de EE.UU., la página web del Museo de la Memoria y los DD.HH. aloja de manera permanente la plataforma DeclassEEUUCL.cl www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2024...

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

I still have a lot of questions about this findings (distribution of channels, presence of oligodendrocytes, effect on axonal transport trajectories, internal pressure changes)… but this is a good thing. A good paper opens up ideas and creates new questions. Congrats, @watanabelab.bsky.social!

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵