Gerard Mazón
@gemazbu.bsky.social
Biòleg, investigador, curiós...
ex-barceloní, former new yorker, actuellement parisien.
#Genome_integrity & #DNA_repair
ex-barceloní, former new yorker, actuellement parisien.
#Genome_integrity & #DNA_repair
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Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature
go.nature.com/450KElr
go.nature.com/450KElr
Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them
Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.
go.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature
go.nature.com/450KElr
go.nature.com/450KElr
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Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
Hmm, let’s see… mass detention of civilians without trial or traditional legal protections on the basis of identity (race, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation) rather than any criminal act, often for an indefinite period and done principally to expand political power. Check.
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
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#NatMicroPicks
E. coli making paracetamol from plastic waste! 🦠💊
A new biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling using microbes.
#MicroSky #SynBio 🔧🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
E. coli making paracetamol from plastic waste! 🦠💊
A new biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling using microbes.
#MicroSky #SynBio 🔧🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling - Nature Chemistry
Synthetic and biological chemistry are traditionally seen as separate fields. Now, a biocompatible chemical reaction enables an engineered microbe to convert plastic waste into valuable compounds unde...
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#NatMicroPicks
E. coli making paracetamol from plastic waste! 🦠💊
A new biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling using microbes.
#MicroSky #SynBio 🔧🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
E. coli making paracetamol from plastic waste! 🦠💊
A new biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling using microbes.
#MicroSky #SynBio 🔧🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why is the current admin okay with this at University of Florida? It seems far worse than anything Harvard did. Of course, we know it is just pretext…
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Why is the current admin okay with this at University of Florida? It seems far worse than anything Harvard did. Of course, we know it is just pretext…
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
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Researchers have revealed the structural mechanisms of a major #DNA repair pathway, homologous recombination, in human cells.
buff.ly/HErLINb
buff.ly/HErLINb
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Researchers have revealed the structural mechanisms of a major #DNA repair pathway, homologous recombination, in human cells.
buff.ly/HErLINb
buff.ly/HErLINb
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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
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Never underestimate how much Republican messaging relies on their followers being:
A) Scared of large cities
B) Unfamiliar with large cities
C) Unable to conceive of how large a city like LA (or Seattle or Portland or Minneapolis) is
D) Too stupid and incurious to read maps
Works every time.
A) Scared of large cities
B) Unfamiliar with large cities
C) Unable to conceive of how large a city like LA (or Seattle or Portland or Minneapolis) is
D) Too stupid and incurious to read maps
Works every time.
Los Angeles population is roughly 4M+ people.
It’s a massive city, folks.
The combined 4700 National Guard and Marines have been sent to about a 3-block area to aggressively eat lunch and watch peaceful protestors sing and dance. 👇🏽
💃🏽🎶🕺🏼
So now you know.
Keep lifting the veil, LA fam!
It’s a massive city, folks.
The combined 4700 National Guard and Marines have been sent to about a 3-block area to aggressively eat lunch and watch peaceful protestors sing and dance. 👇🏽
💃🏽🎶🕺🏼
So now you know.
Keep lifting the veil, LA fam!
June 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Never underestimate how much Republican messaging relies on their followers being:
A) Scared of large cities
B) Unfamiliar with large cities
C) Unable to conceive of how large a city like LA (or Seattle or Portland or Minneapolis) is
D) Too stupid and incurious to read maps
Works every time.
A) Scared of large cities
B) Unfamiliar with large cities
C) Unable to conceive of how large a city like LA (or Seattle or Portland or Minneapolis) is
D) Too stupid and incurious to read maps
Works every time.
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Just out: BRCA2 reversion mutation–independent resistance to PARP inhibition through impaired DNA prereplication complex function | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @kyriepappas.bsky.social #SawyersLabMSKCC
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just out: BRCA2 reversion mutation–independent resistance to PARP inhibition through impaired DNA prereplication complex function | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @kyriepappas.bsky.social #SawyersLabMSKCC
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Exciting DNA Repair meeting for the French-German community.
Registrations still open!
Registrations still open!
May 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Exciting DNA Repair meeting for the French-German community.
Registrations still open!
Registrations still open!
Exciting DNA Repair meeting for the French-German community.
Registrations still open!
Registrations still open!
May 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Exciting DNA Repair meeting for the French-German community.
Registrations still open!
Registrations still open!
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The richest and most powerful man on the planet
March 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The richest and most powerful man on the planet
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Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻
Still antivaxxers will not be concerned in their bubble even if their kids die. They will just explain it by a new conspiracy theory.
www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2...
Texas reported more than 70 additional measles cases on Friday, for a total of 400 cases
The reported case count jumped from 327 cases on Tuesday, an increase of more than 20%.
Texas and New Mexico have reported a combined 43 hospitalizations
Texas reported more than 70 additional measles cases on Friday, for a total of 400 cases
The reported case count jumped from 327 cases on Tuesday, an increase of more than 20%.
Texas and New Mexico have reported a combined 43 hospitalizations
Texas measles outbreak jumps to 400 cases, including more cases in northeast Texas
The state of Texas is now reporting a total of 400 measles cases in the outbreak that began in Gaines County. There are an additional 53 cases reported in New...
www.dallasnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Still antivaxxers will not be concerned in their bubble even if their kids die. They will just explain it by a new conspiracy theory.
Chainsaw politics and start over at the same place
Le FMI confirme que l'Argentine a demandé un nouveau prêt de 20 milliards de dollars
Le FMI confirme que l'Argentine a demandé un nouveau prêt de 20 milliards de dollars
Le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) a confirmé le montant de vingt milliards de dollars du nouveau prêt sollicité par l’Argentine, en parlant de négociations « très avancées ». Le pays est déjà le principal débiteur du FMI, avec une dette de 44 milliards de dollars.
rfi.my
March 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Chainsaw politics and start over at the same place
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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
About time
Le gouvernement réfléchit à accueillir des chercheurs américains dans les universités françaises
Le gouvernement réfléchit à accueillir des chercheurs américains dans les universités françaises
Le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur a demandé aux acteurs de la recherche de réfléchir à l’accueil des scientifiques qui quitteraient prochainement les Etats-Unis en raison de la politique menée par Donald Trump.
www.liberation.fr
March 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
About time
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New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Real chilling effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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We like to stereotype them as absurd, but the fact that French people give their government a healthy little full-scale riot reminder of the French Revolution every time they get pissed off is VERY effective.
This shit doesn’t happen in France and I’ll tell you why: the rich went too far once and they cut all their heads off and now, when those in power fuck workers over, the French stop working. Don’t forget your real power Americans. They don’t let you have unions for a reason.
February 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We like to stereotype them as absurd, but the fact that French people give their government a healthy little full-scale riot reminder of the French Revolution every time they get pissed off is VERY effective.
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good news, finally submitted my grant to nsf on Technical biases in quantifying the inclusive fitness of minority alleles under diversifying selection in diverse microbial communities
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
good news, finally submitted my grant to nsf on Technical biases in quantifying the inclusive fitness of minority alleles under diversifying selection in diverse microbial communities
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Auch das ist #ichbinhanna
Profs verbringen einen Großteil ihrer Arbeitszeit damit Drittmitteln hinterherzurennen damit sie dann Postdocs auf 2-Jahresverträgen anstellen können. Ist das wirklich effizient? 🧪🎓
Profs verbringen einen Großteil ihrer Arbeitszeit damit Drittmitteln hinterherzurennen damit sie dann Postdocs auf 2-Jahresverträgen anstellen können. Ist das wirklich effizient? 🧪🎓
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Auch das ist #ichbinhanna
Profs verbringen einen Großteil ihrer Arbeitszeit damit Drittmitteln hinterherzurennen damit sie dann Postdocs auf 2-Jahresverträgen anstellen können. Ist das wirklich effizient? 🧪🎓
Profs verbringen einen Großteil ihrer Arbeitszeit damit Drittmitteln hinterherzurennen damit sie dann Postdocs auf 2-Jahresverträgen anstellen können. Ist das wirklich effizient? 🧪🎓
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A Paris, un adolescent tué devant le lycée Rodin lors d’une rixe entre bandes rivales
🗞️ Le Monde - 🕐 17/12 11:02
#actu #news #presse #lemonde
🗞️ Le Monde - 🕐 17/12 11:02
#actu #news #presse #lemonde
A Paris, un adolescent tué devant le lycée Rodin lors d’une rixe entre bandes rivales
Devant le lycée Rodin, à Paris, en juillet 2021. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
Un adolescent a été tué, mardi 17 décembre au matin, devant le lycée Rodin, dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris, lors d’un affrontement entre bandes rivales, a annoncé le p... [2367 chars]
www.lemonde.fr
December 17, 2024 at 11:46 AM
A Paris, un adolescent tué devant le lycée Rodin lors d’une rixe entre bandes rivales
🗞️ Le Monde - 🕐 17/12 11:02
#actu #news #presse #lemonde
🗞️ Le Monde - 🕐 17/12 11:02
#actu #news #presse #lemonde
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Maybe I get to live in the US equivalent of "Cultural Revolution" in the next 4 years. For those of you curious, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura...
"In May 1968, Mao launched a massive political purge." A cult formed around Mao while institutions were dismantled.
"In May 1968, Mao launched a massive political purge." A cult formed around Mao while institutions were dismantled.
Cultural Revolution - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Maybe I get to live in the US equivalent of "Cultural Revolution" in the next 4 years. For those of you curious, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura...
"In May 1968, Mao launched a massive political purge." A cult formed around Mao while institutions were dismantled.
"In May 1968, Mao launched a massive political purge." A cult formed around Mao while institutions were dismantled.