Pablo Belaunzaran
@pbelaunz.bsky.social
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying? www.vox.com/climate/4700...
Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying?
A controversial reintroduction program is off to a messy start.
www.vox.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying? www.vox.com/climate/4700...
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I stand with unionized Starbucks workers, who are on strike across the country right now for better wages and working conditions.
Until Starbucks strikes a fair bargain with its workers and ceases its union-busting behavior, I'll continue to boycott the company.
Until Starbucks strikes a fair bargain with its workers and ceases its union-busting behavior, I'll continue to boycott the company.
It’s Time to Roast Starbucks | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I stand with unionized Starbucks workers, who are on strike across the country right now for better wages and working conditions.
Until Starbucks strikes a fair bargain with its workers and ceases its union-busting behavior, I'll continue to boycott the company.
Until Starbucks strikes a fair bargain with its workers and ceases its union-busting behavior, I'll continue to boycott the company.
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John Hopkins University will no longer charge tuition to students from families earning less than $200,000 per year.
Means-testing may be less than ideal, but this is certainly very far along the right track.
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Means-testing may be less than ideal, but this is certainly very far along the right track.
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
John Hopkins University will no longer charge tuition to students from families earning less than $200,000 per year.
Means-testing may be less than ideal, but this is certainly very far along the right track.
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Means-testing may be less than ideal, but this is certainly very far along the right track.
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
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For solving a 50-year mystery by uncovering the machinery behind BMP, a molecule with protective effects against various disorders, Uche Medoh is the winner of the 2025 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.
🎉 Learn more about the work: https://scim.ag/4qVpK1a
🎉 Learn more about the work: https://scim.ag/4qVpK1a
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
For solving a 50-year mystery by uncovering the machinery behind BMP, a molecule with protective effects against various disorders, Uche Medoh is the winner of the 2025 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.
🎉 Learn more about the work: https://scim.ag/4qVpK1a
🎉 Learn more about the work: https://scim.ag/4qVpK1a
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Poverty is a policy decision.
Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.
Inequality is a policy decision.
Remember this.
Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.
Inequality is a policy decision.
Remember this.
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Poverty is a policy decision.
Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.
Inequality is a policy decision.
Remember this.
Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.
Inequality is a policy decision.
Remember this.
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Zambia’s swift registration of lenacapavir shows strong national leadership and commitment to ending HIV. With partners, Unitaid is working to ensure affordable access, effective delivery, and rapid adoption of this twice-yearly HIV prevention option.
Learn more: www.facebook.com/mohzambia/po...
Learn more: www.facebook.com/mohzambia/po...
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Zambia’s swift registration of lenacapavir shows strong national leadership and commitment to ending HIV. With partners, Unitaid is working to ensure affordable access, effective delivery, and rapid adoption of this twice-yearly HIV prevention option.
Learn more: www.facebook.com/mohzambia/po...
Learn more: www.facebook.com/mohzambia/po...
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The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence gathered experts from medicine, policy, engineering, and community groups to develop a plan for reducing firearm harms by 2040.
Learn more in this Special Communication: ja.ma/43hclqa
Learn more in this Special Communication: ja.ma/43hclqa
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence gathered experts from medicine, policy, engineering, and community groups to develop a plan for reducing firearm harms by 2040.
Learn more in this Special Communication: ja.ma/43hclqa
Learn more in this Special Communication: ja.ma/43hclqa
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If there are elections happening in your state or local area, exercise your right to vote this #ElectionDay.
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If there are elections happening in your state or local area, exercise your right to vote this #ElectionDay.
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Vote tomorrow, New Yorkers. Cities need mayors who understand that bike-friendly infrastructure makes cities work better & safer for EVERYONE, including drivers. Better, safer, cleaner, cooler, quieter, more successful, more healthy, more equitable, more affordable with less congestion. #VOTEMamdani
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Vote tomorrow, New Yorkers. Cities need mayors who understand that bike-friendly infrastructure makes cities work better & safer for EVERYONE, including drivers. Better, safer, cleaner, cooler, quieter, more successful, more healthy, more equitable, more affordable with less congestion. #VOTEMamdani
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Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
![But the sketch I have here attempted to give of its varied functions shows us that it is really a most complex structure, a wonderful piece of machinery, as[ 259] it were, which in its various component gases, its actions and reactions upon the water and the land, its production of electrical discharges, and its furnishing the elements from which the whole fabric of organic life is composed and perpetually renewed, may be truly considered to be the very source and foundation of life itself. This is seen, not only in the fact of our absolute dependence upon it every minute of our lives, but in the terrible effects produced by even a slight degree of impurity in this vital element. Yet it is among those nations that claim to be the most civilised, those that profess to be guided by a knowledge of the laws of nature, those that most glory in the advance of science, that we find the greatest apathy, the greatest recklessness, in continually rendering impure this all-important necessary of life, to such a degree that the health of the larger portion of their populations is injured and their vitality lowered, by conditions which compel them to breathe more or less foul and impure air for the greater part of their lives. The huge and ever-increasing cities, the vast manufacturing towns belching forth smoke and poisonous gases, with the crowded dwellings, where millions are forced to live under the most terrible insanitary conditions, are the witnesses to this criminal apathy, this incredible recklessness and inhumanity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2g72wvrmzdfakrjq56d3lddj/bafkreidgfp3g5erh7m3rdhzqvar2th65nqj72arwtpxrzak4yvtepmshba@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!
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“In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office.” — @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office
Amid the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes — as in Montreal municipal election campaign — aren’t fit for office.
cultmtl.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office.” — @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
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27 October 1902 | A Dutch Jewish man, Levie van de Kar, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp. He perished on 3 September 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
He was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp. He perished on 3 September 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
27 October 1902 | A Dutch Jewish man, Levie van de Kar, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp. He perished on 3 September 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
He was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp. He perished on 3 September 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
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Across scientific disciplines, US university departments are cutting the numbers of PhD candidates they plan to accept in the current application cycle, for students due to begin in 2026, according to a Nature news article. Some plan to pause admissions altogether. #Academicsky 🧪
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
go.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Across scientific disciplines, US university departments are cutting the numbers of PhD candidates they plan to accept in the current application cycle, for students due to begin in 2026, according to a Nature news article. Some plan to pause admissions altogether. #Academicsky 🧪
This is amazing!
Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
October 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is amazing!
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The 4th Latin America Worm Meeting!
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 4th Latin America Worm Meeting!
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Adding a microbiology comment to urine culture reports reduced unnecessary antibiotic use in asymptomatic bacteriuria. This low-cost intervention may improve antimicrobial stewardship, especially in primary care. doi.org/10.1017/ash....
Influence of a microbiological commentary on the management of asymptomatic bacteriuria | Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology | Cambridge Core
Influence of a microbiological commentary on the management of asymptomatic bacteriuria - Volume 5 Issue 1
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Adding a microbiology comment to urine culture reports reduced unnecessary antibiotic use in asymptomatic bacteriuria. This low-cost intervention may improve antimicrobial stewardship, especially in primary care. doi.org/10.1017/ash....
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Fascinating case describes the first adult case of measles-associated HLH a rare, potentially fatal hyperinflammatory syndrome. The patient had received 2 MMR doses & had confirmed measles IgG prior to illness, but had also been treated w rituximab years earlier.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) secondary to measles in an adult with a loss of post-vaccination humoral immunity following rituximab
Measles is an important re-emergent infectious disease globally. Vaccine immunity
at the population level is key to the prevention of outbreaks, as unvaccinated or
immunosuppressed adults are particul...
www.thelancet.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Fascinating case describes the first adult case of measles-associated HLH a rare, potentially fatal hyperinflammatory syndrome. The patient had received 2 MMR doses & had confirmed measles IgG prior to illness, but had also been treated w rituximab years earlier.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
June 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼.
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
The Global Fund will roll out the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab — with or without Pepfar - Bhekisisa
The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It’s a good economic investment, says the Fund’s Peter Sands, into a ga...
bhekisisa.org
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼.
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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Los médicos son mejores escritores que los escritores. Ahí estánChejov, Bulgakov, Ramón y Cajal, Conan Doyle, Pío Baroja, Guimaraes Rosa, Schnitzler, Mariano Azuela o Döblin* para dar fe de ello.
*y dos psiquiatras, Lobo Antunes y Sacks.
*y dos psiquiatras, Lobo Antunes y Sacks.
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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You can use this website to look up how much money goes into your state from NIH, how many jobs are supported, and more.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
You can use this website to look up how much money goes into your state from NIH, how many jobs are supported, and more.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...