Alejandra Manjarrez

Una cícada con ecos de montaña oaxaqueña y acentos italianos | Alejandra Manjarrez

En junio me lancé a Oaxaca para investigar el pasado y la vida cotidiana de una cícada que hoy crece en el Jardín Etnobotánico de esa ciudad. Fue una experiencia retebonita que me permitió escribir este "Perfil Silvestre" para mi muy querida RUM.
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/279...

Ya sé! 15 años después 😅

MexOMICs Maps the Genetic and Social Landscape of Disease in Mexico By focusing on twins and patients with lupus and Parkinson’s disease, a Mexican consortium is generating critical data to understand health and disease in the country.

Thanks @lecteroide.bsky.social for the opportunity to share the efforts developed in MexOmics

www.the-scientist.com/mexomics-map...

Thank you for sharing your work with us!

From Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace, via Liz Neeley’s newsletter

Guerrillero, rehén, presidente, filósofo: la vida inmensa de Pepe Mujica ¿Por qué, en un mundo que desprecia a los políticos, tantos lo apreciaban? ¿Quizá porque hablaba un idioma que parecía nuestro idioma?

"¿Por qué, en un mundo que desprecia a los políticos, tantos lo apreciaban? . . . ¿Quizá porque guardaba convicciones que tantos han perdido? ¿Quizá porque decía lo que los otros callan? ¿O sería porque sus cuatro vidas tuvieron una coherencia que muy pocas tienen?"

— Martín Caparrós

#PepeMujica

José Mujica (1935 - 2025) ✨

Nos dio uno de los mejores consejos que podemos recibir en esta época: “Si ustedes no le dan un rumbo deliberado [a sus vidas], no se preocupen, el mercado se los va a dar.”

Gracias por tantas enseñanzas, este continente te echará de menos.

I'm so happy to see On the Calculation of Volume ⏳ on the shortlist 🥳 (I was hooked and now am reading Book 2 😅).

Also glad to see Under the Eye of the Big Bird made it, too! 🌏

My favourite so far (of 3 I've read) is On the calculation of volume (Book I) 🤞

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford

In which a do not lament the decline of 23andMe.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Our investigation was constantly changing, rather like a dance that led us around the room, an innocent and somewhat clumsy knowledge polka, a wonderment waltz, a blithe ballet of discovery, a hectic tap dance between facts and observations, a questioning tango ..."

— Solvej Balle

"As a species, we simply don't have what it takes," opina uno de los personajes en esta novela. No lo contradigo.

(Creo que mi parte favorita de esta lectura fue revisitar los capítulos después de terminar el libro esta mañana. Tuve—sí, hasta entonces—varios 'aha moments' que me emocionaron mucho.)

Alcohol and cancer risk: what you need to know Experts weigh in on the risks of moderate drinking — and how people should assess them.

"When all the risks from alcohol are added up, most researchers say that any possible health benefits are outweighed by increased risks of cancer and other diseases above low levels of drinking."

"The bottom line is that alcohol is a generally unhealthy substance," says epidemiologist Tim Naimi.

Hoy en el Instituto Mora (CDMX):

Rebuilding vaginal health with beneficial bacteria Bacteria from healthy vaginas show promise in protecting women from pathogens, but advancing their development requires more funding and research.

Do so-called vaginal #probiotics truly support vaginal health? Could #LiveBiotherapeutics — a term many experts prefer over “probiotics” to highlight their medical testing — offer a better alternative?

In this short feature, I discuss what we know so far and the challenges that remain.

Comparto el hermoso comunicado que las madres y padres buscadoras leyeron en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México durante la jornada de Vigilia y Luto Nacional. Gracias a Alfredo López Casanova por rolarlo. Por favor ayuden a que se difunda.

#15marzo #LutoNacional
#TeuchitlanNuncaMas

WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.

Years of progress against disease reversed, hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. STAT's @helenbranswell.bsky.social tells a story with no happy ending here.

Can genetically engineered 'woolly' mice help bring back the mammoth? Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the company is far from its goal of fully resurrecting woolly mammoths by 2028

Sorry but a "woolly mouse" is not going to help bring back the woolly mammoth, an essentially impossible goal www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...

Acaban de anunciar la longlist de mi premio literario favorito, gracias al cual he conocido varias joyitas. 📚✨

(Está 'Perras de reserva' de Dahlia de la Cerda. No es mi libro favorito, pero hubo cuentos que disfruté. Felicidades a Dahlia.)

Ahora, toca elegir cuál leer antes de la shortlist. 🥰

Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same (Gift Article) The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life.

😘 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...

Claro, sí, fue ese mismo año!

siempre fluyendo, nunca influyendo

Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

Ahora, la periodista Sarah Scoles repasa la saga y su impacto en cómo investigadores, periodistas y sociedad discutimos publicaciones científicas.

(Y —esto yo no lo sabía— Science está discutiendo el retiro del artículo en cuestión.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...

Algunos son muy jóvenes para recordarlo, pero en 2010, una conferencia de la NASA, un paper en Science y #ArsenicLife en las redes —haciendo referencia a una bacteria 🦠 que usaba arsénico en vez de fósforo—, sacudieron los medios (y los corazones de científicas jóvenes ingenuas como yo entonces 🙈).

Oral drug shows promise for severe fatty liver in Phase 2b trial Sagimet’s denifanstat delivered significant improvements in disease activity and fibrosis for patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.

Fat buildup in the liver can progress into severe metabolic liver disease with limited treatment options. As obesity rises, fatty liver diseases are becoming more common—making new treatments urgent, experts warn.

A Phase 2b trial of denifanstat, an oral fatty acid synthase inhibitor, offers hope.

How a cancer researcher lost a gender-related grant to Trump’s executive orders “Unethical, unlawful, inhumane”: NIH-backed scientist decries termination of study collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity of cancer patients

“It’s unethical, it’s unlawful, and it’s inhumane,” said cancer researcher Mandi Pratt-Chapman.

(It's also a major setback for biomedical science, whose long-overlooked focus on patient diversity led to critical gaps in understanding diseases and treatments across populations—and here we go again.)

¡Última semana para unirte a la RedMPC! Esta semana cierra la convocatoria para nuevxs miembrxs de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia.

Nueve periodistas de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia nos compartieron sus trabajos más recientes en la pasada edición del Cachito de Ciencia 🧪. Te las compartimos en el siguiente hilo:
cachito-de-ciencias-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/u-ltima-se...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

Related CDC news. (And scoop by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social!) CDC employees have to pause or retract any publications in science journals with "forbidden terms." Faust calls it "an expansion of an emerging censorship regime at CDC." insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored.

www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social