Pedro Santamaria
@p-santamaria.bsky.social
Retired researcher in Developmental Genetics, Evo-Devo. Drosophila. Polycomb Group. (PRC genes). Finder of "polyhomeotic", Nuclear transplantation in the egg. Cell mosaics and chimeras. Epigenesis in Drosophila. CSIC --> CNRS. Hobby: mosaics.
- As the idea of God is an "Non-necessary hypothesis"...
- “This apparent alliance between religious fundamentalists and vaccine opponents makes perfect sense,” including the fact that both pose a danger to Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- “This apparent alliance between religious fundamentalists and vaccine opponents makes perfect sense,” including the fact that both pose a danger to Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
‘God is an anti-vaxxer’: Inside the conference celebrating RFK Jr.’s rise
An anti-vaccine conference in Austin celebrated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise to political power, highlighting his influence in Trump’s Washington.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
- As the idea of God is an "Non-necessary hypothesis"...
- “This apparent alliance between religious fundamentalists and vaccine opponents makes perfect sense,” including the fact that both pose a danger to Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- “This apparent alliance between religious fundamentalists and vaccine opponents makes perfect sense,” including the fact that both pose a danger to Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- "How do you smell ?"
Hormonally based odor cues contribute to perceptions of dominance and may serve as one channel through which information about social status and personality is communicated.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hormonally based odor cues contribute to perceptions of dominance and may serve as one channel through which information about social status and personality is communicated.
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The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status
Awareness of the social status of conspecifics is crucial for members of social species, including humans. Given that testosterone is thought to promo…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
- "How do you smell ?"
Hormonally based odor cues contribute to perceptions of dominance and may serve as one channel through which information about social status and personality is communicated.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hormonally based odor cues contribute to perceptions of dominance and may serve as one channel through which information about social status and personality is communicated.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Naturae makes mosaics. Scientist (developmental biologists) make mosaics (also)... Because cells (tiles) need to "talk" between them to "construct" (build) an organ with a "pattern". And we need to hear (listen) their conversation (talk). I made also Chimeras.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Why does biology keep building things out of tiles?
Science talks with two scientists about finding the beauty in nature’s mosaics
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November 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Naturae makes mosaics. Scientist (developmental biologists) make mosaics (also)... Because cells (tiles) need to "talk" between them to "construct" (build) an organ with a "pattern". And we need to hear (listen) their conversation (talk). I made also Chimeras.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
I Wonder:
-If the "positive affective contagion" works also between Drosophila, or even between flies and the researcher himself.
-I wonder also if we are aware that China Research become omnipresent in all fields.
-And our empathy towards them, as a consequence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-If the "positive affective contagion" works also between Drosophila, or even between flies and the researcher himself.
-I wonder also if we are aware that China Research become omnipresent in all fields.
-And our empathy towards them, as a consequence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Positive affective contagion in bumble bees
Affective contagion, a core component of empathy, has been widely characterized in social vertebrates but its existence in any invertebrate is unknown. Using a cognitive bias paradigm we demonstrate p...
www.science.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I Wonder:
-If the "positive affective contagion" works also between Drosophila, or even between flies and the researcher himself.
-I wonder also if we are aware that China Research become omnipresent in all fields.
-And our empathy towards them, as a consequence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-If the "positive affective contagion" works also between Drosophila, or even between flies and the researcher himself.
-I wonder also if we are aware that China Research become omnipresent in all fields.
-And our empathy towards them, as a consequence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pattern, Prepattern, Regulating gene-expresion and Epigenesis... (All in one specialty or dedication ?)
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knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns
More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model — and adding new twists — to...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Pattern, Prepattern, Regulating gene-expresion and Epigenesis... (All in one specialty or dedication ?)
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
The question is : "Why concentrate (only five ?? ) most of the senses in the head ? Where hearing organs reside in insects ? (smell, touch and taste are also scattered ! )
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Awesome ears: The weird world of insect hearing
Evolution made insect ears many times over, resulting in a dazzling variety of forms found in spots all over the body. Biologists are digging deep into some of those ears to figure out how and why the...
knowablemagazine.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The question is : "Why concentrate (only five ?? ) most of the senses in the head ? Where hearing organs reside in insects ? (smell, touch and taste are also scattered ! )
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
- Differential (♂ versus ♀) epigenesis.
- "A growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male (♂ ♂) or female (♀ ♀) humans. What this means isn’t yet clear". (But was logic and necessary).
www.psypost.org/evidence-sug...
- "A growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male (♂ ♂) or female (♀ ♀) humans. What this means isn’t yet clear". (But was logic and necessary).
www.psypost.org/evidence-sug...
Evidence suggests sex differences in the brain are ancient and evolutionary
New research reveals that hundreds of genes behave differently in male and female brains. These variations appear early in fetal development and may explain why the sexes face different risks for dise...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
- Differential (♂ versus ♀) epigenesis.
- "A growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male (♂ ♂) or female (♀ ♀) humans. What this means isn’t yet clear". (But was logic and necessary).
www.psypost.org/evidence-sug...
- "A growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male (♂ ♂) or female (♀ ♀) humans. What this means isn’t yet clear". (But was logic and necessary).
www.psypost.org/evidence-sug...
How Become an OLIGARCHY (instead of a democracy).
- “Trump is an expression of the will to power of the oligarchy.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
- “Trump is an expression of the will to power of the oligarchy.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
How Become an OLIGARCHY (instead of a democracy).
- “Trump is an expression of the will to power of the oligarchy.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
- “Trump is an expression of the will to power of the oligarchy.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Una niña juega con el modelo de una neandertal, en el Museo Neandertal de Alemania
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Los neandertales también se besaban: un gesto de amor con 21 millones de años de antigüedad
Un estudio de la Universidad de Oxford sostiene que el beso evolucionó en el ancestro común de humanos y simios, y que nuestros antecesores probablemente se besaban entre ellos
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November 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Una niña juega con el modelo de una neandertal, en el Museo Neandertal de Alemania
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
PERT (Prime-Editing-mediated-Readthrough-of-premature Termination ): Supposed to be a Panacea for many genetic diseases or illness... The interesting word is "Agnostic". Logically nobody will dare to found the "disease-atheistic-genome-editing" ! (oxymoron ? 😉😉).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prime editing-installed suppressor tRNAs for disease-agnostic genome editing - Nature
A new strategy that uses prime editing to convert an endogenous tRNA into a suppressor tRNA shows therapeutic potential for multiple genetic diseases that are caused by premature stop codons.
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
PERT (Prime-Editing-mediated-Readthrough-of-premature Termination ): Supposed to be a Panacea for many genetic diseases or illness... The interesting word is "Agnostic". Logically nobody will dare to found the "disease-atheistic-genome-editing" ! (oxymoron ? 😉😉).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Article dans le journal "Le Monde": "En France, où la généalogie génétique est interdite pour des raisons éthiques, le garde des sceaux, Gérald Darmanin, a annoncé son intention de faire évoluer la loi" (avec "My Heritage", "23andMe", "Ancestry", etc ?)
www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
Au Texas, les cow-boys de l’ADN : « Othram est le Google du crime »
En combinant un séquençage ultraperformant de l’ADN avec l’exploitation des données de sites de généalogie, l’entreprise de biotechnologie Othram a permis la résolution de nombreux « cold cases ». En ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Article dans le journal "Le Monde": "En France, où la généalogie génétique est interdite pour des raisons éthiques, le garde des sceaux, Gérald Darmanin, a annoncé son intention de faire évoluer la loi" (avec "My Heritage", "23andMe", "Ancestry", etc ?)
www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
"In fact, most of the saga contained in the Bible, including stories about the Glorious empire of David and Solomon, was less a historical chronicle than a brilliant product of the human imagination"... (also including the New Testament. Evidently ) !
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
An Archaeological Dig Reignites the Debate Over the Old Testament's Historical Accuracy
Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"In fact, most of the saga contained in the Bible, including stories about the Glorious empire of David and Solomon, was less a historical chronicle than a brilliant product of the human imagination"... (also including the New Testament. Evidently ) !
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
“We’ve seen all sorts of poop across the Bristol stool scale, all shapes, all sizes, all colours”. Says Poyet, referring to the stool classification chart physicians use to assess digestive issues.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Waste not: how researchers harness pee and poo for science
It might seem gross, but these materials are treasure troves for research.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“We’ve seen all sorts of poop across the Bristol stool scale, all shapes, all sizes, all colours”. Says Poyet, referring to the stool classification chart physicians use to assess digestive issues.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The picture of God from these proclamations is of a needy deity who craves submissive expressions of gratitude. And the implication is that absent these extravagant, coordinated expressions of gratitude God would petulantly withdraw his favor (like Donald Trump).
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Thanksgiving Thoughts | Free Inquiry
The Thanksgiving holiday has religious roots. There is no denying that. Religious roots that are revealing. The first thanksgiving proclamation on American ...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The picture of God from these proclamations is of a needy deity who craves submissive expressions of gratitude. And the implication is that absent these extravagant, coordinated expressions of gratitude God would petulantly withdraw his favor (like Donald Trump).
secularhumanism.org/exclusive/th...
secularhumanism.org/exclusive/th...
We: Metics of the outside-world, lived better aging lives, despite our status, in an native-English speaking and anglophone society, where we must and heve to live. An enormous analysis of data found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging
An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging
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November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We: Metics of the outside-world, lived better aging lives, despite our status, in an native-English speaking and anglophone society, where we must and heve to live. An enormous analysis of data found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
Reposted by Pedro Santamaria
In the 2nd DrosoSpain #DrosoSpain2026 meeting there will be a time and a place to celebrate Antonio Garcia-Bellido’s life and scientific contributions. This will be on the 10th of April at 6pm @neuroalc.bsky.social #SavetheDate @umh.es @fly-eds.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In the 2nd DrosoSpain #DrosoSpain2026 meeting there will be a time and a place to celebrate Antonio Garcia-Bellido’s life and scientific contributions. This will be on the 10th of April at 6pm @neuroalc.bsky.social #SavetheDate @umh.es @fly-eds.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social
The "Ten Commandements" (especially the first) are (almost only) an obsole series of social rules from an archaic society.
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“Science Cannot be Suppressed” – Highlights from the New Skeptical inquirer, Science v. Creationism, and Texas Ten Commandments | Center for Inquiry
Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. While the print edition is still making it ...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The "Ten Commandements" (especially the first) are (almost only) an obsole series of social rules from an archaic society.
centerforinquiry.org/blog/science...
centerforinquiry.org/blog/science...
It's a Synderesis affair !! Smooching might be OK, but not always. Kissing occurs in most extant large apes, and likely also occurred in Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), first evolving in the ancestor to this group ∼21.5–16.9 mya.
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A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing
Kissing can be observed across the animal kingdom. This presents an evolutionary puzzle, since the fitness benefits of kissing are unclear. We use a n…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It's a Synderesis affair !! Smooching might be OK, but not always. Kissing occurs in most extant large apes, and likely also occurred in Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), first evolving in the ancestor to this group ∼21.5–16.9 mya.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There are some non-scientific "questions swirling aroud biology's new technology" that - I think - we should table the discussion for now.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Lab-grown models of human brains are advancing rapidly. Can ethics keep pace?
Whether neural organoids feel pain or should be placed in animals are among the questions swirling around biology’s hot new technology
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November 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
There are some non-scientific "questions swirling aroud biology's new technology" that - I think - we should table the discussion for now.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
It’s a lot easier to destroy something than it is to build it back up. It’s true of everything being dismantled in the U.S. right now. (f.i. : The Department of Education, and the East Wing). it will likely take generations to rebuild the things being broken right now.
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gizmodo.com/trump-picked...
Trump Picked an Interesting Day to Dismantle the Department of Education
Jeffrey who?
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It’s a lot easier to destroy something than it is to build it back up. It’s true of everything being dismantled in the U.S. right now. (f.i. : The Department of Education, and the East Wing). it will likely take generations to rebuild the things being broken right now.
gizmodo.com/trump-picked...
gizmodo.com/trump-picked...
"Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample,” was authored by Matthew S. Lebowitz, Baoyi Shi, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S. Appelbaum, and Linda Valeri.
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Why people think kindness is in your DNA but selfishness isn’t
A new study in Public Understanding of Science finds that people tend to see good behavior as more genetically caused than bad behavior, mainly because kindness and generosity are perceived as more na...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample,” was authored by Matthew S. Lebowitz, Baoyi Shi, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S. Appelbaum, and Linda Valeri.
www.psypost.org/why-people-t...
www.psypost.org/why-people-t...
