Álvaro Muñoz Sánchez (Alva)
@corylocroton.bsky.social
Plant taxonomy, systematics and evolution. Philosophy of biology. Ecosocialism. Queer stuff.
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TLDR: Support for deuterostome monophyly comes from sources of systematic error (branch-length, site-rate and site-compositional heterogeneity). When these are explicitly modelled, we cannot distinguish between monophyletic and paraphyletic Deuterostomia. (12/12)
July 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
TLDR: Support for deuterostome monophyly comes from sources of systematic error (branch-length, site-rate and site-compositional heterogeneity). When these are explicitly modelled, we cannot distinguish between monophyletic and paraphyletic Deuterostomia. (12/12)
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La carta del delegado del Gobierno de la CM que al mono borracho le parece intolerable.
July 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
La carta del delegado del Gobierno de la CM que al mono borracho le parece intolerable.
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El senador Alex Padilla (Demócrata por California) fue sacado a empujones, esposado en el suelo y detenido por “interrumpir” con una pregunta la rueda de prensa de la directora de Homeland Security, Barbie Ice Kristi Noem en la que esta mentía diciendo que “Los Ángeles es una ciudad de criminales”👇
June 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
El senador Alex Padilla (Demócrata por California) fue sacado a empujones, esposado en el suelo y detenido por “interrumpir” con una pregunta la rueda de prensa de la directora de Homeland Security, Barbie Ice Kristi Noem en la que esta mentía diciendo que “Los Ángeles es una ciudad de criminales”👇
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Guys, please talk about Thiago Avila.
He's the Brazilian activist on Freedom Flotilla kidnapped by Israel. He's still detained and has been doing a hunger and water strike since yesterday early morning. There have been reports of unsanitary conditions too.
Please talk about him.
He's the Brazilian activist on Freedom Flotilla kidnapped by Israel. He's still detained and has been doing a hunger and water strike since yesterday early morning. There have been reports of unsanitary conditions too.
Please talk about him.
June 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Guys, please talk about Thiago Avila.
He's the Brazilian activist on Freedom Flotilla kidnapped by Israel. He's still detained and has been doing a hunger and water strike since yesterday early morning. There have been reports of unsanitary conditions too.
Please talk about him.
He's the Brazilian activist on Freedom Flotilla kidnapped by Israel. He's still detained and has been doing a hunger and water strike since yesterday early morning. There have been reports of unsanitary conditions too.
Please talk about him.
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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation
More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
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Un músico canadiense, una escritora inglesa y un doctorando español: tres casos (tan solo que yo haya leído, habrá decenas más) de personas trans que tenían un viaje laboral programado a EEUU y lo han cancelado porque no les podían dar visados o era muy probable que les detuvieran en el aeropuerto
Cada día una barbaridad. La universidad NYU recomienda a Rita Indiana no viajar a la Feria del Libro de Madrid pese a estar invitada.
www.20minutos.es/noticia/5717...
www.20minutos.es/noticia/5717...
Quién es Rita Indiana, la profesora de Nueva York a la que han 'recomendado' no viajar a la Feria del Libro de Madrid, pese a estar invitada
Cuando la Feria del Libro 2024 terminó, arrancó, en las cabezas de sus gestoras y organizadoras una nueva, sin apenas tiempo de descansar. Fue entonces -Donald...
www.20minutos.es
June 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Un músico canadiense, una escritora inglesa y un doctorando español: tres casos (tan solo que yo haya leído, habrá decenas más) de personas trans que tenían un viaje laboral programado a EEUU y lo han cancelado porque no les podían dar visados o era muy probable que les detuvieran en el aeropuerto
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Paxson (2025): "Science has contributed to... discrimination through biological essentialism, either by assigning specific undesirable biological characteristics to socially-normed... groupings or... assigning a genetic basis for these phenotypic differences." 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Teaching developmental biology to drive social change: Pedagogy that challenges biologically deterministic views on phenotypic variation
Discrimination against groups of people based on socially-normed phenotypic variations is commonplace in many societies. The stigmatized phenotypic va…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Paxson (2025): "Science has contributed to... discrimination through biological essentialism, either by assigning specific undesirable biological characteristics to socially-normed... groupings or... assigning a genetic basis for these phenotypic differences." 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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"The vast majority of our data on mating systems comes from a small number of disproportionally sampled families.
-families with significant proportions of dioecious or monoecious species are much more likely to be undersampled
-the frequency of selfing in angiosperms is overestimated"
#Botany 🌱
-families with significant proportions of dioecious or monoecious species are much more likely to be undersampled
-the frequency of selfing in angiosperms is overestimated"
#Botany 🌱
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The evolutionary dynamics of plant mating systems: how bias for studying ‘interesting’ plant reproductive systems could backfire
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
May 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"The vast majority of our data on mating systems comes from a small number of disproportionally sampled families.
-families with significant proportions of dioecious or monoecious species are much more likely to be undersampled
-the frequency of selfing in angiosperms is overestimated"
#Botany 🌱
-families with significant proportions of dioecious or monoecious species are much more likely to be undersampled
-the frequency of selfing in angiosperms is overestimated"
#Botany 🌱
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I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science
NSF to ONLY fund research in five areas: artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. Can this be happening?
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science
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Un nuevo estudio global (Pärtel et al. 2025) —en el que he tenido la fortuna de participar— analiza por qué muchos lugares tienen menos especies de plantas de las esperables.
Spoiler: la culpa no es solo del lugar, sino de lo que pasa alrededor. 🧵1/11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spoiler: la culpa no es solo del lugar, sino de lo que pasa alrededor. 🧵1/11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - Nature
A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...
www.nature.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Un nuevo estudio global (Pärtel et al. 2025) —en el que he tenido la fortuna de participar— analiza por qué muchos lugares tienen menos especies de plantas de las esperables.
Spoiler: la culpa no es solo del lugar, sino de lo que pasa alrededor. 🧵1/11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spoiler: la culpa no es solo del lugar, sino de lo que pasa alrededor. 🧵1/11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately: One of the most valuable features of the modern state is its ability to reduce individual-level cognitive burden in a complex world.
Not having to worry about whether your food or medicine is safe is one big part of that.
Not having to worry about whether your food or medicine is safe is one big part of that.
It's so depressing to me how quickly people have decided that safety regulations just don't matter. You really don't want botulism, listeria, or salmonella and there are very few companies who will put ethics over profits unless they're forced to. This is what government should be doing.
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
April 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately: One of the most valuable features of the modern state is its ability to reduce individual-level cognitive burden in a complex world.
Not having to worry about whether your food or medicine is safe is one big part of that.
Not having to worry about whether your food or medicine is safe is one big part of that.
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Posting this for the umpteenth time.
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Posting this for the umpteenth time.
sex means "biological sex" is saying absolutely nothing
April 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
sex means "biological sex" is saying absolutely nothing
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BREAKING NEWS: the number of #fungi species on the IUCN Red List has surpassed 1000!! 🥳🥳
Today's update confirmed that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving fungi to decline worldwide. It's the top story on the press release —
iucn.org/press-releas...
Today's update confirmed that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving fungi to decline worldwide. It's the top story on the press release —
iucn.org/press-releas...
First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 27 March 2025 (IUCN) – The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban ...
iucn.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
BREAKING NEWS: the number of #fungi species on the IUCN Red List has surpassed 1000!! 🥳🥳
Today's update confirmed that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving fungi to decline worldwide. It's the top story on the press release —
iucn.org/press-releas...
Today's update confirmed that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving fungi to decline worldwide. It's the top story on the press release —
iucn.org/press-releas...
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1️⃣ 🌍 Fresh out in #Science! The Asian tropics are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, but where does all that diversity come from? 🤔🔍 We used 🌴 phylogenomics and 🦴 new fossils to unravel the roles of different regions in generating and distributing species! 🌱 #Evolution
March 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
1️⃣ 🌍 Fresh out in #Science! The Asian tropics are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, but where does all that diversity come from? 🤔🔍 We used 🌴 phylogenomics and 🦴 new fossils to unravel the roles of different regions in generating and distributing species! 🌱 #Evolution
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“...there is no effective removal of the invaders, and operations are being carried out that have no effect, since there is no Permanent Base to monitor the Indigenous Territory, leaving the Karipuna and the isolated peoples who live within it in an extremely vulnerable situation.”
March 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“...there is no effective removal of the invaders, and operations are being carried out that have no effect, since there is no Permanent Base to monitor the Indigenous Territory, leaving the Karipuna and the isolated peoples who live within it in an extremely vulnerable situation.”
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Se ha filtrado el borrador de ley de universidades que está preparando la CAM. Si se aprueba, será la muerte de la universidad pública madrileña. Es escandaloso. No exagero. Se vienen tiempos oscuros como no espabilemos. Explico algunos puntos críticos. Va hilo. 👇
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Se ha filtrado el borrador de ley de universidades que está preparando la CAM. Si se aprueba, será la muerte de la universidad pública madrileña. Es escandaloso. No exagero. Se vienen tiempos oscuros como no espabilemos. Explico algunos puntos críticos. Va hilo. 👇
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1. Un modelo de financiación por objetivos. El 30% de los ingresos de las universidades tendrá que ser por captación privada de fondos. ¡¡El 30%!! Para alcanzar ese 30%, la CAM obligará a cumplir objetivos que se fijarán en un "contrato-programa". Si se cumplen, bien. Si no, no llegarán fondos. 👇
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
1. Un modelo de financiación por objetivos. El 30% de los ingresos de las universidades tendrá que ser por captación privada de fondos. ¡¡El 30%!! Para alcanzar ese 30%, la CAM obligará a cumplir objetivos que se fijarán en un "contrato-programa". Si se cumplen, bien. Si no, no llegarán fondos. 👇
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2. Entre estos objetivos se prevé que la CAM beneficie a aquellas universidades que suscriban mayor cantidad de contratos con empresas privadas, o cuyos profesores tengan más vínculos laborales con empresas (incisos k y o del artículo 88). O sea: privatización de facto a lo bestia. 👇
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
2. Entre estos objetivos se prevé que la CAM beneficie a aquellas universidades que suscriban mayor cantidad de contratos con empresas privadas, o cuyos profesores tengan más vínculos laborales con empresas (incisos k y o del artículo 88). O sea: privatización de facto a lo bestia. 👇
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3. Como objetivos se premiará también que las líneas docentes y de investigación vengan determinadas por el Consejo Social. Por si no lo sabéis, el Consejo Social es una institución compuesta básicamente por representantes del empesariado que tiene ciertas funciones en las universidades ya hoy. 👇
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
3. Como objetivos se premiará también que las líneas docentes y de investigación vengan determinadas por el Consejo Social. Por si no lo sabéis, el Consejo Social es una institución compuesta básicamente por representantes del empesariado que tiene ciertas funciones en las universidades ya hoy. 👇
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4. El papel de estos Consejos Sociales se refuerza. Se les atribuye el poder de aprobar los presupuestos de la universidad e incluso de vetar la propuesta que haga el Consejo de Gobierno de la universidad. Es, en toda regla, una intervención privada de la soberanía y autonomía universitaria.👇
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
4. El papel de estos Consejos Sociales se refuerza. Se les atribuye el poder de aprobar los presupuestos de la universidad e incluso de vetar la propuesta que haga el Consejo de Gobierno de la universidad. Es, en toda regla, una intervención privada de la soberanía y autonomía universitaria.👇
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5. El cumplimiento de los "objetivos" va a desencadenar, sin duda, el cierre de Grados, Doctorados, Institutos y Líneas de investigación que no sean rentables para el mercado. 👇
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
5. El cumplimiento de los "objetivos" va a desencadenar, sin duda, el cierre de Grados, Doctorados, Institutos y Líneas de investigación que no sean rentables para el mercado. 👇