Abraham Acevedo
acevedolab.bsky.social
Abraham Acevedo
@acevedolab.bsky.social
Molecular biologist, almost neuroscientist, neurodegeneration, ALS, mouse models
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Help spread the word about developmental language disorder, a common yet often hidden condition that makes it hard for children to understand what's said to them & to articulate thoughts & feelings. Lots of helpful resources & information at radld.org.
#DLDday #DevLangDis @radld.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Calling early career PIs. A great opportunity to start your lab at @crick.ac.uk in the heart of London.
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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‘We can leave knowing we left a mark’: how Corsica Studios transformed London nightlife – and why it’s closing
‘We can leave knowing we left a mark’: how Corsica Studios transformed London nightlife – and why it’s closing
The beloved south London club has announced it will shut next year as redevelopment of the site goes ahead. Founder Adrian Jones, DJs and promoters look back
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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“This is an immensely exciting development for the Huntington’s field.” https://scim.ag/4nnW62z
In a first, a gene therapy seems to slow Huntington disease
Small study suggests uniQure drug could be first successful treatment for devastating brain disorder
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September 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Researchers have discovered a new biological process they've called 'interstasis', which keeps groups of proteins in check, preventing excessive build up and protecting the cell from potential harm.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Better together: researchers discover how cells keep groups of proteins in check
Researchers have discovered a new biological process that they’ve called ‘interstasis’, a way for cells to promote the equilibrium of functionally-related proteins, preventing too many from accumulati...
www.crick.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Incredible!!!
September 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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2024 Swedish study on 2.5M people's data:
"Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability... This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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September 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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September 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The best piece I’ve read this year on Trump’s increasingly blatant lurch towards total power.

To quote Sinclair Lewis, if you think “it can’t happen here” you are just not paying attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland
Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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August 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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An evergreen thread: Race/Ethnicity is *not the same* as genetics, and you can't use Race/Ethnicity as a sort of stand-in for genetics. These two concepts are connected via aspects like skin colour, but the connection is alot less profound and categorical than most people think.
August 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Geneticist Liane Russell was born #OTD in 1923.

She pioneered the study of mutagenesis and teratogenesis due to radiation, and identified the role of the Y chromosome in sex determination. Her work led to diagnostic x-ray safety standards for women of childbearing age. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them | Nesrine Malik
The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them | Nesrine Malik
When millions of once-loyal supporters become disillusioned with a party, there can only be one result: electoral disaster, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?
They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?
Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to survive
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
August 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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To summarize
-waves are not seasonal
-vaccines are waning
-people are getting long covid
-it’s still not an endemic disease
-very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series

Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.
August 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"Using multi-unit recording we found that inner speech is robustly represented in motor cortex, & decoded imagined sentences in real time. We demonstrate strategies to prevent brain-computer interfaces from unintentionally decoding private inner speech." Fascinating new @cp-cell.bsky.social paper:👇🧪
Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses
Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of private inner speech can be preven...
www.cell.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature
A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...
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August 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Nature research paper: Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

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Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature
Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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🚨 New #ALS #MND publication from our lab (co-lead @drchayts.bsky.social), in collaboration with Bernát Nógrádi and colleagues from Hungary and Sonia Alonso-Martin and colleagues from Spain, just published in @natcomms.nature.com -> rdcu.be/eyNIs
The CCL2-CCR2 axis drives neuromuscular denervation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Nature Communications - Neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) are denervated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) through unknown mechanisms. Here, the authors show immune cells infiltrating muscle of...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re doing more harm than good …
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Nature research paper: Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis

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Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis - Nature
Imidazole propionate produced by gut microbiota is associated with atherosclerosis in mouse models and in humans, and causes the development of atherosclerosis through activation of the imidazoline-1 receptor in myeloid cells.
go.nature.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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“Sleep, like ageing, may be a inescapable consequence of an aerobic metabolism” 🤔

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature
Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A male-essential miRNA is key for avian sex chromosome dosage compensation - Nature
Birds have evolved a unique sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism involving the male-biased microRNA (miR-2954), which is essential for male survival by regulating the expression of dosage-sens...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM