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Elena Alonso
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Física (UCM), PhD (MPIP)
#SciComm #OpenScience at @imdeanano.bsky.social
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Elena Alonso @elenalonso.bsky.social · Oct 8
En su carrera por el dominio total de los paneles solares, a China le ha salido un rival: la perovskita española.
Una investigación de Nazario Martín @ucm.es @imdeanano.bsky.social
🔆 www.xataka.com/energia/domi...
En su carrera por el dominio total de los paneles solares, a China le ha salido un rival: la perovskita española
El sol seguirá brillando, pero la forma en que lo aprovechamos está cambiando a velocidad de vértigo. Mientras China y otros países están enfocados en mejorar...
www.xataka.com
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physgal.bsky.social
Sometimes cows are round. 😊🎢
A spherical cow stuffed toy
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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imdeanano.bsky.social
¡Salto cuántico en #metrología!

📏Investigadores han descubierto que los #memristores pueden ofrecer estados de resistencia ultra-estables discretos ligados a constantes universales.

💽 Es un paso clave hacia estándares eléctricos integrados en chips.

+info nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan...
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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imdeanano.bsky.social
🚀 Un pequeño paso para el grafeno, ¡un gran paso para la electrónica y espintrónica!
En IMDEA Nanociencia han logrado que el Grafeno sea un conductor superrápido y ¡también interruptible!

Y tenemos un cómic que explica todo el avance.
👉 Descúbrelo aquí www.nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan...
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
elenalonso.bsky.social
Por una ciencia más inclusiva 💟
imdeanano.bsky.social IMDEA Nanociencia @imdeanano.bsky.social · 10d
Para cerrar la #SemanaCienciaInnovación, hemos preparado un taller adaptado muy especial para el alumnado del colegio Manyanet: "TOCA LA NANOCIENCIA".

⚛️Las formas del carbono
⚗️ Espectros resonancia RMN
👇 STM-Braille

+info www.nanociencia.imdea.org/es/divulgaci...
#NanocienciaParaTodos
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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imdeanano.bsky.social
New research from IMDEA Nanociencia, CNB & CBM reveals how bacteria "feel" the surfaces they land on!

🧫🤏Using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy #FLIM, scientists can watch membrane tension change in real time.

+info: nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/news...
#IMDEAnanoPublications
Bacterium on a surface. Generated with ChatGPT 4.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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stephenturner.us
Science in 2025
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
elenalonso.bsky.social
¡Deseando ver esto!
institutocajal.bsky.social Instituto Cajal (Centro de Neurociencias Cajal, CSIC) @institutocajal.bsky.social · 17d
✨Cajal imaginó el cerebro como una cámara que revela el pensamiento.
🎬 Su legado cobra vida en el documental “Ramón y Cajal: dibujos en la retina”, de Luis Gómez Juanes, donde participan investigadores del Instituto Cajal.
Más info: shre.ink/oBYe
📍Estreno 20/Nov
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
elenalonso.bsky.social
"La justicia en España funciona y es igual para todos."
LOL
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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isidroaguillo.bsky.social
Bibliometric databases coverage (March 2025) including the number of Open Access items (millions)
March 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
elenalonso.bsky.social
Puede que la serie #AllIsFair de Kim Kardashian sea de lo malo lo peor.
Pero que aparezcan científicas de éxito hablando de #nanotubos de carbono y de sus propiedades era totalmente inesperado. Punto positivo.
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
elenalonso.bsky.social
¿"Influir" o "influenciar"?

Influenciar solo se usa como verbo transitivo. En construcciones intransitivas, lo adecuado es emplear el verbo influir.👇

www.fundeu.es/recomendacio...
«influir» e «influenciar» significan lo mismo, pero se construyen de forma distinta
Los verbos influir e influenciar tienen significados equivalentes (‘tener algún efecto sobre algo’), pero se construyen de forma distinta, ya que influir puede usarse como transitivo y como intransiti...
www.fundeu.es
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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stephenturner.us
There was never a better media player software. iykyk
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
In the age of AI slop, true expertise is even more important to value.

Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).

We need them and their journals.

7.2/n
Thank you for being annoying
OR: whack 'em if you got 'em
www.experimental-history.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.

We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.

6/n
The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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physicsworld.bsky.social
By simply placing two identical elastic metasurfaces atop each other and then rotating them relative to each other, the topology of the elastic waves dispersing through the resulting stacked structure can be changed. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/KJ1B50XomnR
Twistelastics controls how mechanical waves move in metamaterials – Physics World
New technique could deliver reconfigurable phononic devices with myriad applications
ow.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
elenalonso.bsky.social
It is possible to skip the "Open Access payment".

Use the #RightsRetention statement on the first page of the submitted article.
After acceptance, archive the document in a repository
👇
openaire.bsky.social OpenAIRE @openaire.bsky.social · 17d
With #HorizonEurope #OpenScience requirements, it's possible to go the 'Green' route.

Use the #RightsRetention Statement. Add it on the 1st page of the article, in the ack. section or the message to the editor.

⚠️ Keep the statement from the initial submission to the final version!
There is no specific rule of where to put the Rights Retention Statement. You can: (1) add it in the first page of the article; (2) add it in the acknowledgment section; (3) add it in the message to the editor accompanying your article (cover letter). Keep the statement from the initial submission up to the final version. Keep a copy of the succsessive versions of your manuscript that have the licence notice, and achive any discusssion with the publisher to ensure you can prove you retained your rights during the whole process. Go the extra step: (1) add the text "CC BY 4.0" or "Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence"; and (2) add the CC BY logo to your manuscript on all versions, from submission to the final peer-reviewed version. Recommendations based on "Implementing the rights retention strategy to scientific publications - Guide to researchers" from the French Ministy of Higher Education and Research (2022)
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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openaire.bsky.social
With #HorizonEurope #OpenScience requirements, it's possible to go the 'Green' route.

Use the #RightsRetention Statement. Add it on the 1st page of the article, in the ack. section or the message to the editor.

⚠️ Keep the statement from the initial submission to the final version!
There is no specific rule of where to put the Rights Retention Statement. You can: (1) add it in the first page of the article; (2) add it in the acknowledgment section; (3) add it in the message to the editor accompanying your article (cover letter). Keep the statement from the initial submission up to the final version. Keep a copy of the succsessive versions of your manuscript that have the licence notice, and achive any discusssion with the publisher to ensure you can prove you retained your rights during the whole process. Go the extra step: (1) add the text "CC BY 4.0" or "Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence"; and (2) add the CC BY logo to your manuscript on all versions, from submission to the final peer-reviewed version. Recommendations based on "Implementing the rights retention strategy to scientific publications - Guide to researchers" from the French Ministy of Higher Education and Research (2022)
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Le sigh
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
elenalonso.bsky.social
Que mayor me estoy haciendo 🥲
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
elenalonso.bsky.social
Se apunta a una única célula cancerígena con un láser. La célula muere, y el efecto se extiende por todo el tumor.

Esta innovadora terapia fotodinamica es un trabajo de Sebastián Thompson @imdeanano.bsky.social

🍇 www.madrimasd.org/notiweb/noti...
Técnica innovadora para destruir células cancerígenas induciendo una “cascada” que se extiende por todo el tumor | madrimasd
La estrategia permite destruir células cancerígenas de forma selectiva, irradiando con un láser una sola célula
www.madrimasd.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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imdeanano.bsky.social
Investigadores en IMDEA Nano y CNB utilizan fotosensibilizantes clínicamente aprobados en una nueva estrategia de terapia fotodinámica.

🔦Tras irradiar una única célula, el efecto se propaga por todo el tumor.

nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/news...
Con apoyo de Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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eldiario.es
Google alerta de que la IA está creando virus informáticos que mutan en tiempo real para saltar las barreras de ciberseguridad
Google alerta de que la IA está creando virus informáticos que mutan en tiempo real para saltar las barreras de ciberseguridad
Los investigadores de la multinacional detectan que los ciberdelincuentes están usando esta tecnología para reescribir el código y adaptarse dinámicamente a las defensas de sus objetivos
www.eldiario.es
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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jennmanleylee.myatproto.social
Halloween decoration on a green lawn with yellow and brown scattered leaves. There is a fake black grave marker with white text which says “I Did My Own Research.” In front of the grave marker are two plastic skeletal hans and forearms that are positioned as if they are clawing up from below the grass.
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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elvis15.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 AM