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Amelia Cervera 🍉

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Ribozymes, transposable elements, circRNA, viruses, plant biology Ella-She 💖💜💙♀️🌱 Every fraction of a degree counts Trans rights are human rights⎥ Black lives matter Posts in ENG/ESP 🧭 València, Spain Banner by @jaythechou.bsky.social

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · May 17

Our new preprint is online. Ribozymes with translation initiation (IRES) activity in the 5' UTRs of viruses!

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · May 17

Self-cleaving ribozymes conserved in RNA viruses unveil a new role in protein translation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.16.594327v1

Small self-cleaving ribozymes are catalytic RNAs originally discovered in viroid-like agents, which

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

Fork found in kitchen.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Patricia González @pgonz8.bsky.social · 5h

¿Acabo de leer que la Iglesia medieval no intentó controlar la sexualidad? Acabo de leer que la Iglesia medieval no intentó controlar la sexualidad. Madre mía. Pero hagamos un pequeño repaso por la historia...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

"The case is proceeding."

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says the US-backed agreement to end Israel's war on Gaza will have no bearing on his country’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xhyzpq

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Guillermolo @guillermolo.es · 8h

Mañana hay huelga.

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 21d

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3d

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Vuarnet @antoniovuarnet.bsky.social · Aug 8

IMPORTANTE: Para desactivar Gemini del móvil y que no aparezca al pulsar el botón de encendido:

Finn @tfinnt.bsky.social · Aug 8

ajustes > ajustes adicionales > accesos directos por gestos > iniciar el Asistente de Google > desactivar

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations to our amazing colleagues in Peru! They just published several lifetimes of work: 236 new plant species collected from Oxapampa Asháninka Yánesha Biosphere Reserve.
revistas.unsaac.edu.pe/index.php/RQ...
If we are to avoid a 6th mass extinction we have to stop it in the Andes.

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Meteored España @es.meteored.com · 8h

⛽⛈️ El Mediterráneo occidental sigue siendo gasolina para las tormentas.

Se ha enfriado en su zona central pero en nuestro entorno las anomalías cálidas siguen siendo pronunciadas, lo que significa que puede aportar energía extra en situaciones de dana o aire frío en altura

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 9h

Awesome public health news:
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of
1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
2. Syphilis and
3. Hepatitis B
www.who.int/news/item/13...

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis. This makes the Maldives the first country in the world to achieve ‘triple elimination’.

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soy sauce @soysauuce.bsky.social · 11h

montserrat gudiol no pintó el silencio: lo sostuvo. en sus mujeres hay una resistencia que no grita, pero desarma. miran hacia adentro para afirmar otro modo de estar en el mundo.

es mi rescatada de hoy 👇🏽

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re looking to help rebuild Gaza a farmer and a civil engineer seems like a good person to help ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed was finishing his studies to be a civil engineer in Rafah. His home and the small farm that him and his family had were destroyed. He’s now trying to survive with his large family, including many small children, in tents.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“Across all tested groups, the algorithm was not sensitive, meaning that many users with high blood pressure would be falsely reassured with no notifications. The algorithm seemed to also perform worse among younger participants and participants with lower BMIs — the seemingly healthy-appearing”

Why this cardiologist is cautious about the Apple Watch’s blood pressure feature

“Hypertension notifications, alongside the growing suite of health metrics in the Apple ecosystem, are not population health tools,” a cardiologist writes.

www.statnews.com

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Itxasota @itxasota.bsky.social · 1d

Me da un poco vergüenza pero estamos en los tiempos del autobombo, y, coño, que tb me hace ilusión compartir: me han dado el premio Euskadi 2025 por mi ensayo "Mujeres furiosas.El monstruo femenino en el audiovisual de terror". Muy contenta y abrumada.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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Alfredo Pascual 🍉 @guyb.bsky.social · 1d

El periodismo es un paciente que agoniza, pero no está muerto.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Mauro Entrialgo @tyrexito.bsky.social · 1d

Hamás ya no tiene ni un rehén israelí. Israel sigue teniendo decenas de miles de rehenes palestinos secuestrados. www.elsaltodiario.com/palestina/ha...

Hamás libera a los 20 prisioneros vivos y Trump en Israel habla de “un nuevo comienzo”

Todos los cautivos vivos en manos de Hamás son liberados a la espera de que Tel Aviv entregue casi 2.000 presos palestinos.

www.elsaltodiario.com

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 1d

Ran into these AMAZING Stapelia grandiflora in our conservatory today. The patterns, colors, hairs, and the smell - carrion mimic to perfection. #Stapelia #plantjoy #iamabotanist

A close up of one flower showing red hairs and petal with yellow strips

Another close up from a slightly diff angle

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Mir🦋 @mirtanicosia.bsky.social · 2d

Pablo Laurta manejaba la cuenta @VaronesUni2 hecha para criticar a las mujeres que denunciaban violencia. Ayer asesinó a su ex esposa Luna y a su ex suegra Mariel. Secuestró a su hijo. Hay cosas que las vemos venir cuando denunciamos y nos tratan de "feminazi zurdas".

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 1d

Imperial Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea)

This is blue. I painted on hydrochloric acid to draw a smiley to showcase the color change due to acid directly on the petals.

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lasti.bsky.social @lasti.bsky.social · 1d

Lo que opino de CCOO y UGT después de contraconvocar paros para joder la huelga general por Palestina porque no han sido ellos la voz cantante es de vomitar.
Hasta el coño me tienen estos del sindicato vertical

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 1d

He inventado la comida-merienda-cena. ¡Todo en uno!

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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