Esti Castillo
@esticas.bsky.social
Scientist, physiology at UPV/EHU
🔬Investigating how organs help or harm each other. Cachexia and cardiovascular disease. AEBtik EHra itzulia. 📖 👀 🏊🏻♀️
🔬Investigating how organs help or harm each other. Cachexia and cardiovascular disease. AEBtik EHra itzulia. 📖 👀 🏊🏻♀️
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🏃🏾♀️ Euskara gara lelopean, 2026ko martxoaren 19tik 29ra , 24.KORRIKAk Euskal Herri osoa zeharkatuko du.
📍 Atharratzetik abiatuko da eta Bilbon amaituko da, lekukoak, eskuz esku, 2500 kilometro baino gehiago egin ostean.
🔗 www.korrika.eus
#24KORRIKA #EuskaraGara
📍 Atharratzetik abiatuko da eta Bilbon amaituko da, lekukoak, eskuz esku, 2500 kilometro baino gehiago egin ostean.
🔗 www.korrika.eus
#24KORRIKA #EuskaraGara
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🏃🏾♀️ Euskara gara lelopean, 2026ko martxoaren 19tik 29ra , 24.KORRIKAk Euskal Herri osoa zeharkatuko du.
📍 Atharratzetik abiatuko da eta Bilbon amaituko da, lekukoak, eskuz esku, 2500 kilometro baino gehiago egin ostean.
🔗 www.korrika.eus
#24KORRIKA #EuskaraGara
📍 Atharratzetik abiatuko da eta Bilbon amaituko da, lekukoak, eskuz esku, 2500 kilometro baino gehiago egin ostean.
🔗 www.korrika.eus
#24KORRIKA #EuskaraGara
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🧬 Jatorri metabolikoko gibel koipetsua larriagotzen duen mekanismo bat aurkitu dute
🔍 Urrats bat gehiago gibel koipetsu metabolikoa ulertu eta haren aurka borrokatzeko bidean.
https://f.mtr.cool/yesgyuymhv
🔍 Urrats bat gehiago gibel koipetsu metabolikoa ulertu eta haren aurka borrokatzeko bidean.
https://f.mtr.cool/yesgyuymhv
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🧬 Jatorri metabolikoko gibel koipetsua larriagotzen duen mekanismo bat aurkitu dute
🔍 Urrats bat gehiago gibel koipetsu metabolikoa ulertu eta haren aurka borrokatzeko bidean.
https://f.mtr.cool/yesgyuymhv
🔍 Urrats bat gehiago gibel koipetsu metabolikoa ulertu eta haren aurka borrokatzeko bidean.
https://f.mtr.cool/yesgyuymhv
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🧬 Encuentran un mecanismo que agrava el hígado graso de origen metabólico
🔍 Un paso más para comprender y combatir el hígado graso metabólico.
https://f.mtr.cool/micasdcmvb
🔍 Un paso más para comprender y combatir el hígado graso metabólico.
https://f.mtr.cool/micasdcmvb
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🧬 Encuentran un mecanismo que agrava el hígado graso de origen metabólico
🔍 Un paso más para comprender y combatir el hígado graso metabólico.
https://f.mtr.cool/micasdcmvb
🔍 Un paso más para comprender y combatir el hígado graso metabólico.
https://f.mtr.cool/micasdcmvb
Etorkizuneko medikuntza gaur egungo ikerkuntza da
Minbizi pazienteek gaixotasuna ikertzen ari diren laborategiak bisitatu dituzte - Campusa
Hasi da errektoretza taldearen entzute bira
www.ehu.eus
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Etorkizuneko medikuntza gaur egungo ikerkuntza da
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Hurrengo udan...
Familia barnetegi gehiago!
🔗 diariovasco.com/sociedad/con...
@diariovascobsky.bsky.social
Familia barnetegi gehiago!
🔗 diariovasco.com/sociedad/con...
@diariovascobsky.bsky.social
Convivencia familiar en euskera | El Diario Vasco
El barnetegi de Aduna concilia las clases de los adultos y la diversión de los pequeños en un entorno paradisíaco y euskaldun, dejando amplio espacio a actividades conjun
diariovasco.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Hurrengo udan...
Familia barnetegi gehiago!
🔗 diariovasco.com/sociedad/con...
@diariovascobsky.bsky.social
Familia barnetegi gehiago!
🔗 diariovasco.com/sociedad/con...
@diariovascobsky.bsky.social
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Gure gorputzaren motorrak etengabe egiten du lan: bihotzak, atsedenik hartu gabe, odola ponpatzen du gorputz osoan zehar. Animalien munduan antzeko eginkizuna duten hainbat sistema daude, baina muskulu ganberadun bihotza da ohikoena.
https://zientziakaiera.eus/2025/04/25/kinuren-begirada-bihotza/
https://zientziakaiera.eus/2025/04/25/kinuren-begirada-bihotza/
April 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Gure gorputzaren motorrak etengabe egiten du lan: bihotzak, atsedenik hartu gabe, odola ponpatzen du gorputz osoan zehar. Animalien munduan antzeko eginkizuna duten hainbat sistema daude, baina muskulu ganberadun bihotza da ohikoena.
https://zientziakaiera.eus/2025/04/25/kinuren-begirada-bihotza/
https://zientziakaiera.eus/2025/04/25/kinuren-begirada-bihotza/
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Contrast this behavior with their response to losing $400 million of funding for medical research.
Breaking — Columbia walks away from bargaining, threatens legal action over request for members to attend bargaining remotely amid DHS raids. Columbia administration’s bargaining team stole a member’s computer and left the room during our first session because they were on Zoom.
March 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Contrast this behavior with their response to losing $400 million of funding for medical research.
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Absolutely reprehensible. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social is becoming the new @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social and not in a good way.
Breaking — Columbia walks away from bargaining, threatens legal action over request for members to attend bargaining remotely amid DHS raids. Columbia administration’s bargaining team stole a member’s computer and left the room during our first session because they were on Zoom.
March 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Absolutely reprehensible. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social is becoming the new @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social and not in a good way.
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8. Además, todo eso va a significar que la libertad de cátedra, la autonomía investigadora, la autonomía universitaria y la libertad ideológica quedarán sometidas al dictado de los intereses de los poderes privados que las financiarán por todas esas vías. Y eso es la muerte de la ciencia libre.
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
8. Además, todo eso va a significar que la libertad de cátedra, la autonomía investigadora, la autonomía universitaria y la libertad ideológica quedarán sometidas al dictado de los intereses de los poderes privados que las financiarán por todas esas vías. Y eso es la muerte de la ciencia libre.
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The Columbia Postdoctoral Workers Organizing Committee condemns the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil. We demand that Columbia restore its sanctuary campus policy and fight back against threats to the safety of international workers. Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pL4Z...
CPW Sanctuary Campus Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The Columbia Postdoctoral Workers Organizing Committee condemns the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil. We demand that Columbia restore its sanctuary campus policy and fight back against threats to the safety of international workers. Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pL4Z...
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Hearing that the entire $82mil in funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program has been cancelled as part of the #ColumbiaUniversity #NIH grant terminations. This study has been ongoing since 1996. It’s hard to describe the disruption and impact of cancelling this study. @altnih4science.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hearing that the entire $82mil in funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program has been cancelled as part of the #ColumbiaUniversity #NIH grant terminations. This study has been ongoing since 1996. It’s hard to describe the disruption and impact of cancelling this study. @altnih4science.bsky.social
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🚨🧪 Are you a researcher affected by the recent cancellation of federal grants and contracts at Columbia University?
I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private.
Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Email: humberto.basilio@us.nature.com
Repost please!
I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private.
Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Email: humberto.basilio@us.nature.com
Repost please!
March 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨🧪 Are you a researcher affected by the recent cancellation of federal grants and contracts at Columbia University?
I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private.
Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Email: humberto.basilio@us.nature.com
Repost please!
I'm working on a story for @Nature.com. If you want to chat, your identity will be kept private.
Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Email: humberto.basilio@us.nature.com
Repost please!
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Interesante exclusiva de @vsquare.bsky.social
Heritage Foundation, el think tank conservador más influyente en la órbita de Donald Trump, está colaborando con fuerzas iliberales de Polonia y Hungría, como Ordo Iuris y el Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), para promover una reforma radical de la UE
Heritage Foundation, el think tank conservador más influyente en la órbita de Donald Trump, está colaborando con fuerzas iliberales de Polonia y Hungría, como Ordo Iuris y el Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), para promover una reforma radical de la UE
March 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Interesante exclusiva de @vsquare.bsky.social
Heritage Foundation, el think tank conservador más influyente en la órbita de Donald Trump, está colaborando con fuerzas iliberales de Polonia y Hungría, como Ordo Iuris y el Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), para promover una reforma radical de la UE
Heritage Foundation, el think tank conservador más influyente en la órbita de Donald Trump, está colaborando con fuerzas iliberales de Polonia y Hungría, como Ordo Iuris y el Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), para promover una reforma radical de la UE
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But just as much can be learned from actions that have gone largely *unopposed* (see table).
Unsurprisingly, given the orgs fighting back, there are few unopposed actions in the civil rights or labour rights spheres.
So what is there? 7/24
Unsurprisingly, given the orgs fighting back, there are few unopposed actions in the civil rights or labour rights spheres.
So what is there? 7/24
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
But just as much can be learned from actions that have gone largely *unopposed* (see table).
Unsurprisingly, given the orgs fighting back, there are few unopposed actions in the civil rights or labour rights spheres.
So what is there? 7/24
Unsurprisingly, given the orgs fighting back, there are few unopposed actions in the civil rights or labour rights spheres.
So what is there? 7/24
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This is not the work of months, but years, perhaps decades, both in the US and abroad.
But the civil rights and labour movements have shown us *that it can be done* and *how to do it*.
Much more detail on all this on my post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-to-fig... 24/24
But the civil rights and labour movements have shown us *that it can be done* and *how to do it*.
Much more detail on all this on my post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-to-fig... 24/24
How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration
Blue States, Labour organisations and Civil Rights organisations are doing the most - what can we learn from them?
christinapagel.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is not the work of months, but years, perhaps decades, both in the US and abroad.
But the civil rights and labour movements have shown us *that it can be done* and *how to do it*.
Much more detail on all this on my post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-to-fig... 24/24
But the civil rights and labour movements have shown us *that it can be done* and *how to do it*.
Much more detail on all this on my post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-to-fig... 24/24
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We saw all these factors play out in the ideological bent to science in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.
The stability of recent decades has left scientists unprepared for when their independence is revealed to be so fragile with few if any legal protections.
20/24
The stability of recent decades has left scientists unprepared for when their independence is revealed to be so fragile with few if any legal protections.
20/24
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We saw all these factors play out in the ideological bent to science in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.
The stability of recent decades has left scientists unprepared for when their independence is revealed to be so fragile with few if any legal protections.
20/24
The stability of recent decades has left scientists unprepared for when their independence is revealed to be so fragile with few if any legal protections.
20/24
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Another group who have done little to organise an opposition are scientists and scientific societies.
While there are ongoing lawsuits around pauses in grant funding or pausing international health programmes, these are being driven by labour organisations or NGOs , not scientists.
15/24
While there are ongoing lawsuits around pauses in grant funding or pausing international health programmes, these are being driven by labour organisations or NGOs , not scientists.
15/24
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Another group who have done little to organise an opposition are scientists and scientific societies.
While there are ongoing lawsuits around pauses in grant funding or pausing international health programmes, these are being driven by labour organisations or NGOs , not scientists.
15/24
While there are ongoing lawsuits around pauses in grant funding or pausing international health programmes, these are being driven by labour organisations or NGOs , not scientists.
15/24
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Empieza la semana del #11F, con mil eventos para dar visibilidad a la mujer en la ciencia
Pues estaría bien que también sirva para reivindicar salarios y horarios razonables, estabilidad y corresponsabilidad en los cuidados
Basta de fomentar vocaciones que abocan al abismo de las triples jornadas
Pues estaría bien que también sirva para reivindicar salarios y horarios razonables, estabilidad y corresponsabilidad en los cuidados
Basta de fomentar vocaciones que abocan al abismo de las triples jornadas
February 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Empieza la semana del #11F, con mil eventos para dar visibilidad a la mujer en la ciencia
Pues estaría bien que también sirva para reivindicar salarios y horarios razonables, estabilidad y corresponsabilidad en los cuidados
Basta de fomentar vocaciones que abocan al abismo de las triples jornadas
Pues estaría bien que también sirva para reivindicar salarios y horarios razonables, estabilidad y corresponsabilidad en los cuidados
Basta de fomentar vocaciones que abocan al abismo de las triples jornadas
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Léanlo. Regálenlo. Forren las paredes de colegios e institutos con él.
Salió en castellano y català el año pasado (y fue Esencial ACDCómic, de paso):
Salió en castellano y català el año pasado (y fue Esencial ACDCómic, de paso):
February 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Léanlo. Regálenlo. Forren las paredes de colegios e institutos con él.
Salió en castellano y català el año pasado (y fue Esencial ACDCómic, de paso):
Salió en castellano y català el año pasado (y fue Esencial ACDCómic, de paso):
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The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
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Most folks do not understand how far in advance the planning and logistics of NIH grants take.
We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year.
This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.
We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year.
This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.
January 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Most folks do not understand how far in advance the planning and logistics of NIH grants take.
We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year.
This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.
We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year.
This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.
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We have journalist confirmation of the cancellation of NIH study sections:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Fascists will happily live in the ashes of everything they burnt down so long as they are in power.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Fascists will happily live in the ashes of everything they burnt down so long as they are in power.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
We have journalist confirmation of the cancellation of NIH study sections:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Fascists will happily live in the ashes of everything they burnt down so long as they are in power.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Fascists will happily live in the ashes of everything they burnt down so long as they are in power.
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Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions