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Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

Pell de gallina. #TomWaits

Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor) youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4

YouTube video by Tom Waits

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October 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

Primera terapia personalizada basada en la edición genética. El tratamiento, diseñado en tiempo récord en Estados Unidos, corrige específicamente la mutación responsable de la enfermedad en un bebé y abre una nueva era en la medicina de precisión.
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Un bebé recibe la primera terapia personalizada de edición genética para tratar una enfermedad rara

Este hito podría servir de modelo para el desarrollo de terapias similares en otros casos.<br>

U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

June 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

“When the next flu pandemic occurs, there is not going to be enough vaccine for everyone who wants it unless we invest to broaden the types of flu vaccines.” Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

Genética y salud: por qué el pomelo interacciona con la medicación

May 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

Genetics and health: why grapefruit interacts with medication | My original piece in Spanish: Genética y salud: por qué el pomelo interacciona con la medicación
#SciComm
www.heraldo.es/noticias/sal...

¿Por qué el pomelo interfiere con algunos fármacos? La clave está en las furanocumarinas. Identifican los genes clave en su producción en el pomelo y descubren por qué ni naranjas ni mandarinas las fa...

NIH is purging Trump-targeted programs—but is sparing existing grants, so far

February 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM

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Chris Stringer

@chrisbstringer.bsky.social

#FossilFriday The wonderfully preserved foot of the La Ferrassie 2 #Neanderthal woman @Musee de l’Homme

January 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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Science Magazine

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The chaos triggered by President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning federal funding for diversity and other topics continues to shake the National Institutes of Health and other health agencies. scim.ag/3EjJGag

Chaos extends to CDC, which is shuttering websites in “data apocalypse”

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January 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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Alejandra Palés

@apales.bsky.social

Portem uns quants dies ballant i cantant ‘NUEVAYoL’ de Bad Bunny així que era inevitable fer un capítol sobre la influència dels porto-riquenys a NY. Nou episodi de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ 👇🇵🇷
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Capítol 4: Nuevayol

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Genética: descubierto el misterio de los gatos anaranjados

January 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

‘Geneticists reveal the mystery of orange cats’ | My original article in Spanish: Genética: descubierto el misterio de los gatos anaranjados #SciComm
www.heraldo.es/noticias/soc...

Dos equipos científicos, de Japón y Estados Unidos, han identificado el gen que altera la producción de pigmentos en los melanocitos, dando como resultado el característico pelaje naranja.

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination

January 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Amy Maxmen, PhD

@amymaxmen.bsky.social

Neglect, it is.

WHO finds that the direct cause of "the mystery disease" in Congo is malaria, exacerbated by malnutrition. Malaria can be *cured* by a few cheap pills, as long as it's caught early. So these are deaths of neglect.

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

December 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

Over 75 Nobel laureates urge Senate to turn down Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

Capítol 2: Un gall dindi a la cuina (Thanksgiving)

December 9, 2024 at 9:45 PM

Reposted by Miquel Tuson

John Hawks

@johnhawks.net

Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at “Dragon Bone Hill”, or Zhoukoudian, in November, 1936. The locus L hominins including this one, skull XII, lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago.

Illustration of Zhoukodian skull XII. Text: Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at Zhoukoudian in November, 1936. The locus L hominins lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago. The series of hominin remains from Zhoukoudian were named by Davidson Black as Sinanthropus pekinensis, but anthropologists today regard them as one of the best-known fossil samples of Homo erectus. Like other cranial remains from Zhoukoudian, the cranial base of skull XII was broken away, nearly all the facial bones are missing, and some extensive damage exists along the outside of the cranial vault. This evidence is consistent with the kind of damage left by large carnivores. A concordance of evidence from the site suggests that cave hyenas were responsible for accumulating many of the hominin remains at Zhoukoudian.

December 7, 2024 at 5:35 PM

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Alejandra Palés

@apales.bsky.social

Avui que fa un vent terrible i segurament esteu refugiats sota la manta pot ser un bon moment per escoltar l’últim episodi de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’, el pòdcast en què @miqueltuson.bsky.social i servidora parlem de les nostres dèries de la ciutat on ens vam conèixer open.spotify.com/episode/6s9Z...

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Opinion | I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu.

December 7, 2024 at 5:13 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu.
– opinion article by David A. Kessler, Biden administration’s chief science officer during Covid-19. #birdflu
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...

Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

Farmacogenética: por qué no todos respondemos igual a un medicamento

December 3, 2024 at 10:46 PM

Reposted by Miquel Tuson

John Hawks

@johnhawks.net

Qafzeh 9 is one of the most complete skeletal individuals of a population that lived in southwest Asia around 100,000 years ago. Their skeletons show many similarities with recent humans in their anatomy, and their cultures included some shell pendants and use of ochre.

Illustration of Qafzeh 9 skull with text: Bernard Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef led excavation at Qafzeh Cave in 1967 when the burials of two skeletons were uncovered. Qafzeh 9 is an adult found in a flexed position, with the Qafzeh 10 child
skeleton at its feet. Anthropologists recognize that this adult individual shares most of its anatomical features with recent humans, but may not be directly connected to any recent populations. She or he was a young adult at the time of death, and had several age-related pathologies of the mandible, including malocclusion of the incisors, osteochondritis of the temporomandibular joint, and a fibroma. Probably none of these contributed to the death of this individual. The individual lived sometime between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago.

December 3, 2024 at 4:11 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

Genetic ancestry influences drug toxicity | My original article in Spanish: La ascendencia genética de distintas poblaciones mundiales influye en la toxicidad a los fármacos
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La herencia genética de distintas poblaciones mundiales influye en los efectos adversos de los medicamentos.

New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?

December 3, 2024 at 4:39 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people?

www.livescience.com

December 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM

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Anna Ramon

@annaramon.bsky.social

Avui en Jaume Terradas, fundador del @creaf.cat ret homenatge a Margalef a pàgina sencera al Diari Ara ❤️

November 30, 2024 at 4:30 PM

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zeynep tufekci

@zey.bsky.social

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.

The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.

We may get lucky. I hope so.

🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History (Gift Article)

It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.

Opinion | The U.S. Response to Bird Flu is Not Reassuring the World

November 29, 2024 at 2:05 PM

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Tulio de Oliveira

@tuliodna.bsky.social

I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

El 'niño meteorólogo' contra l'Aemet

November 19, 2024 at 10:29 AM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

El 'niño meteorólogo' contra l'Aemet - Article molt interessant de Miquel Bernis al @ara.cat sobre com els reaccionaris d’extrema dreta intenten desacreditar els científics, en aquest cas els meteoròlegs d’AEMET.
www.ara.cat/129_4f90e1

Hi ha un corrent de fons mediàtic i d'opinió que sens dubte va afectar la presa de decisions del govern valencià el dia dels aiguats, sigui conscientment o inconscientment. Un caldo de cultiu que en e...

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November 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM

Miquel Tuson

@miqueltuson.bsky.social

En el segon capítol del #pòdcast ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ parlem del Dia d’Acció de Gràcies i de la fal·lera dels novaiorquesos per les desfilades. Ah, i també d’alguna sèrie i música relacionades amb aquesta tradició americana.
#NovaYork #ThanksgivingDay
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Capítol 2: Un gall dindi a la cuina (Thanksgiving)

Nova York és l'excusa · Episode