Patricio Rojas Silva
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Patricio Rojas Silva
@patorojassilva.bsky.social
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Saturn and its moons photographed by Voyager 2
April 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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BREAKING: Bird Flu Reinfections Surge at US Poultry Farms, Experts Urge Vaccines and Stricter Measures.
March 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bird flu pandemic is looming.

The virus has jumped to a sheep in Yorkshire, proving it’s adapting.

With every spillover, the risk of human transmission grows.

Time is running out swift action is our only defense.
March 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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One of life’s greatest tragedies is losing a child.

And yet, 1 child under 5 dies somewhere in the world every 18 seconds - mostly from preventable causes like

💔 Birth complications
💔 Pneumonia
💔 Diarrhoea
💔 Malaria

This amounts to 4.8 MILLION deaths each year.

NEW report: bit.ly/4kTTBUV
March 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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BREAKING: Bird Flu Continues to Spread as Trump’s Pandemic Experts Remain Absent, Raising Alarms.
March 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Archaeal Virology Unit @pasteur.fr stands up for science!

@vsevillia.bsky.social, Titouan, @miguelgrv.bsky.social, Eduardo, @anton1nouriss.bsky.social, ..., Virginija, @sonaida.bsky.social, Jovan
March 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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New paper by Yulia Sevryugina:
Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines
"image and entire article duplications are primary causes of self-plagiarism-related retractions"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines
This study explores the incidence and nature of self-plagiarism across various disciplines. Using Retraction Watch data, we analyze retraction times, authorship patterns, disciplinary differences, ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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New online! A Consensus Statement on establishing causality, therapeutic applications and the use of preclinical models in microbiome research
A Consensus Statement on establishing causality, therapeutic applications and the use of preclinical models in microbiome research
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Published online: 03 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41575-025-01041-3In this Consensus Statement, causality, therapeutic applications and preclinical models in microbiome research are critically assessed,…
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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BREAKING: Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year

w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu (Gift Article)
A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Nature research paper: Limited impact of Salmonella stress and persisters on antibiotic clearance

https://go.nature.com/3EAundb
Limited impact of Salmonella stress and persisters on antibiotic clearance - Nature
Experiments in infected mice and tissue-mimicking chemostats show that resilience of Salmonella against antimicrobial compounds is largely a result of starvation-induced general resilience rather than survival of a small subset of hyper-resilient cells.
go.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Nature research paper: Synthetic lethality of mRNA quality control complexes in cancer

https://go.nature.com/4jLGwvZ
Synthetic lethality of mRNA quality control complexes in cancer - Nature
PELO–HBS1L and SKI complexes in the human mRNA quality control pathway exhibit a synthetic lethal interaction and may represent novel targets for the development of cancer therapies.
go.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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BREAKING: 8.3 Million Birds Killed in January 2025 as Avian Flu Outbreaks Strike 5 States

According to USDA, 8.3 Million Birds Have Been Killed in January 2025 Due to Avian Flu in 8 Outbreaks Across 5 States.
January 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Andalucía 📍 🇪🇦
December 23, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Look at the moon 👀
January 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I’m never going to make rent by sharing all the free links, but this is so important — friend link: brandy-schillace.medium.com/american-ing...
American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak
So Why Risk Letting It Return?
brandy-schillace.medium.com
January 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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“In a scene that predates the #Matrix movie by 50+ years, Paul looked out into a sea of metal cases, each containing a human being, plugged in to the machine. Only their heads poked through, floating disembodied. Rows and rows, as if without end”
🧪🗃️ #polio #vaccines
Please read and share.
American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak
So Why Risk Letting It Return?
brandy-schillace.medium.com
January 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs.
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
December 17, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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🦠I attended a fantastic meeting of coronavirologists (et al.) in early December. @cohenjon.bsky.social covered it for Science and really captured the essence, the urgency, and even the spicy bits. Watching him work, live, was pretty rad, and this is a great read www.science.org/content/arti...
COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat
www.science.org
January 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM