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Biòleg/Biologist • PhD in Genetics • #SciComm Divulgació científica • ‘Nova York és l’excusa’: pòdcast de cultura i curiositats de #NYC amb @apales.bsky.social.

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Capítol 2x02: Mr. Cardamom és l'alcalde

Nova York té un nou alcalde!
Dediquem el capítol 2x02 a #ZohranMamdani, fins fa poc un polític desconegut per a la majoria. Mamdani serà el "primer" en moltes coses i potser també el primer alcalde de #NovaYork amb un passat com a músic de rap. @apales.bsky.social

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09.11.2025 08:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)
YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)

Pell de gallina. #TomWaits

Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor) youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4

16.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Capítol 2x01: Nova York és un zoològic

Comencem la 2a temporada de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ parlant d’animalons urbans, alguns d’ells il·lustres, com els coiots de Central Park, Romeu i Julieta. Bestioles a banda, també hi trobareu música, sèries, pel·lis i lectures sobre NYC. Amb @apales.bsky.social

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15.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Un bebé recibe la primera terapia personalizada de edición genética para tratar una enfermedad rara Este hito podría servir de modelo para el desarrollo de terapias similares en otros casos.<br>

Primera terapia personalizada basada en la edición genética. El tratamiento, diseñado en tiempo récord en Estados Unidos, corrige específicamente la mutación responsable de la enfermedad en un bebé y abre una nueva era en la medicina de precisión.
www.heraldo.es/noticias/soc...

04.06.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

“When the next flu pandemic occurs, there is not going to be enough vaccine for everyone who wants it unless we invest to broaden the types of flu vaccines.” Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

29.05.2025 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Capítol 6: Folkies i swifties al Village Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

Al 6è capítol, la pel·li ‘A complete unknown’ ens serveix d'excusa per passejar per Greenwich Village de la mà de Bob Dylan. Hi fan acte de presència Edward Hopper, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, o Taylor Swift, entre d'altres.
@apales.bsky.social
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11.04.2025 11:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Capítol 5: D'hotel en hotel (Part 2) Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

Reprenem les històries d'hotels històrics de #NovaYork amb el Waldorf-Astoria, l'Algonquin, i el Chelsea. Hi trobarem actors, escriptors i músics. Ah, i fins i tot un animaló! I com sempre, us recomanem llibres i pel·lícules.
@apales.bsky.social
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05.03.2025 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Genética y salud: por qué el pomelo interacciona con la medicación ¿Por qué el pomelo interfiere con algunos fármacos? La clave está en las furanocumarinas. Identifican los genes clave en su producción en el pomelo y descubren por qué ni naranjas ni mandarinas las fa...

Genetics and health: why grapefruit interacts with medication | My original piece in Spanish: Genética y salud: por qué el pomelo interacciona con la medicación
#SciComm
www.heraldo.es/noticias/sal...

14.02.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FossilFriday The wonderfully preserved foot of the La Ferrassie 2 #Neanderthal woman @Musee de l’Homme

17.01.2025 08:08 — 👍 104    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
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NIH is purging Trump-targeted programs—but is sparing existing grants, so far Chaos extends to CDC, which is shuttering websites in “data apocalypse”

The chaos triggered by President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning federal funding for diversity and other topics continues to shake the National Institutes of Health and other health agencies. scim.ag/3EjJGag

31.01.2025 23:08 — 👍 153    🔁 69    💬 5    📌 6
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Capítol 4: Nuevayol Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

Portem uns quants dies ballant i cantant ‘NUEVAYoL’ de Bad Bunny així que era inevitable fer un capítol sobre la influència dels porto-riquenys a NY. Nou episodi de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ 👇🇵🇷
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26.01.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Capítol 4: Nuevayol Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

Amb l’excusa del nou disc de #BadBunny repassem l’herència porto-riquenya a #NovaYork: els barris, la salsa, Héctor Lavoe, la Puerto Rican Day Parade, i parlem també d’un parell de musicals ben coneguts… @apales.bsky.social
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29.01.2025 22:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Genética: descubierto el misterio de los gatos anaranjados Dos equipos científicos, de Japón y Estados Unidos, han identificado el gen que altera la producción de pigmentos en los melanocitos, dando como resultado el característico pelaje naranja.

‘Geneticists reveal the mystery of orange cats’ | My original article in Spanish: Genética: descubierto el misterio de los gatos anaranjados #SciComm
www.heraldo.es/noticias/soc...

07.01.2025 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Capítol 3: D'hotel en hotel (Part 1) Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

El tercer capítol el dediquem a històries curioses que han passat en alguns dels hotels més icònics de Nova York. Hi fan acte de presència Fidel Castro, Truman Capote i Ricky Martin, entre d'altres. Ah, i també hi trobareu Ilibres recomanats! @apales.bsky.social
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31.12.2024 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Neglect, it is.

WHO finds that the direct cause of "the mystery disease" in Congo is malaria, exacerbated by malnutrition. Malaria can be *cured* by a few cheap pills, as long as it's caught early. So these are deaths of neglect.

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

17.12.2024 16:16 — 👍 558    🔁 239    💬 1    📌 12
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Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

Over 75 Nobel laureates urge Senate to turn down Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

09.12.2024 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Illustration of Zhoukodian skull XII. Text: Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at Zhoukoudian in November, 1936. The locus L hominins lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago. The series of hominin remains from Zhoukoudian were named by Davidson Black as Sinanthropus pekinensis, but anthropologists today regard them as one of the best-known fossil samples of Homo erectus. Like other cranial remains from Zhoukoudian, the cranial base of skull XII was broken away, nearly all the facial bones are missing, and some extensive damage exists along the outside of the cranial vault. This evidence is consistent with the kind of damage left by large carnivores. A concordance of evidence from the site suggests that cave hyenas were responsible for accumulating many of the hominin remains at Zhoukoudian.

Illustration of Zhoukodian skull XII. Text: Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at Zhoukoudian in November, 1936. The locus L hominins lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago. The series of hominin remains from Zhoukoudian were named by Davidson Black as Sinanthropus pekinensis, but anthropologists today regard them as one of the best-known fossil samples of Homo erectus. Like other cranial remains from Zhoukoudian, the cranial base of skull XII was broken away, nearly all the facial bones are missing, and some extensive damage exists along the outside of the cranial vault. This evidence is consistent with the kind of damage left by large carnivores. A concordance of evidence from the site suggests that cave hyenas were responsible for accumulating many of the hominin remains at Zhoukoudian.

Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at “Dragon Bone Hill”, or Zhoukoudian, in November, 1936. The locus L hominins including this one, skull XII, lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago.

07.12.2024 17:35 — 👍 28    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Capítol 2: Un gall dindi a la cuina (Thanksgiving) Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

Avui que fa un vent terrible i segurament esteu refugiats sota la manta pot ser un bon moment per escoltar l’últim episodi de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’, el pòdcast en què @miqueltuson.bsky.social i servidora parlem de les nostres dèries de la ciutat on ens vam conèixer open.spotify.com/episode/6s9Z...

07.12.2024 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu. Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu.
– opinion article by David A. Kessler, Biden administration’s chief science officer during Covid-19. #birdflu
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...

03.12.2024 22:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Illustration of Qafzeh 9 skull with text: Bernard Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef led excavation at Qafzeh Cave in 1967 when the burials of two skeletons were uncovered. Qafzeh 9 is an adult found in a flexed position, with the Qafzeh 10 child
skeleton at its feet. Anthropologists recognize that this adult individual shares most of its anatomical features with recent humans, but may not be directly connected to any recent populations. She or he was a young adult at the time of death, and had several age-related pathologies of the mandible, including malocclusion of the incisors, osteochondritis of the temporomandibular joint, and a fibroma. Probably none of these contributed to the death of this individual. The individual lived sometime between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago.

Illustration of Qafzeh 9 skull with text: Bernard Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef led excavation at Qafzeh Cave in 1967 when the burials of two skeletons were uncovered. Qafzeh 9 is an adult found in a flexed position, with the Qafzeh 10 child skeleton at its feet. Anthropologists recognize that this adult individual shares most of its anatomical features with recent humans, but may not be directly connected to any recent populations. She or he was a young adult at the time of death, and had several age-related pathologies of the mandible, including malocclusion of the incisors, osteochondritis of the temporomandibular joint, and a fibroma. Probably none of these contributed to the death of this individual. The individual lived sometime between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago.

Qafzeh 9 is one of the most complete skeletal individuals of a population that lived in southwest Asia around 100,000 years ago. Their skeletons show many similarities with recent humans in their anatomy, and their cultures included some shell pendants and use of ochre.

03.12.2024 16:11 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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Farmacogenética: por qué no todos respondemos igual a un medicamento La herencia genética de distintas poblaciones mundiales influye en los efectos adversos de los medicamentos.

Genetic ancestry influences drug toxicity | My original article in Spanish: La ascendencia genética de distintas poblaciones mundiales influye en la toxicidad a los fármacos
www.heraldo.es/noticias/sal...

03.12.2024 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Magnífic reportatge, jo també el recomano! Em va fer recordar el seu temps amb Pascal Comelade i la Bel Canto Orchestra. @x1c.bsky.social

03.12.2024 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability - Nature Communications A greater degree of Late Quaternary hominin morphological variability is present in eastern Asia than previously assumed. Indeed, a number of distinct populations are present, some that now have new s...

‘Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability’ - original article www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.12.2024 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis? Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people?

New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

02.12.2024 22:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Avui en Jaume Terradas, fundador del @creaf.cat ret homenatge a Margalef a pàgina sencera al Diari Ara ❤️

30.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 30    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History (Gift Article) It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.

The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.

We may get lucky. I hope so.

🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

29.11.2024 14:05 — 👍 406    🔁 152    💬 15    📌 23
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Opinion | The U.S. Response to Bird Flu is Not Reassuring the World The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

19.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 821    🔁 314    💬 33    📌 55
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El 'niño meteorólogo' contra l'Aemet Hi ha un corrent de fons mediàtic i d'opinió que sens dubte va afectar la presa de decisions del govern valencià el dia dels aiguats, sigui conscientment o inconscientment. Un caldo de cultiu que en e...

El 'niño meteorólogo' contra l'Aemet - Article molt interessant de Miquel Bernis al @ara.cat sobre com els reaccionaris d’extrema dreta intenten desacreditar els científics, en aquest cas els meteoròlegs d’AEMET.
www.ara.cat/129_4f90e1

29.11.2024 13:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Capítol 1: Rates de Nova York Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

I per si us vau perdre l’estrena del nostre #pòdcast sobre cultura i curiositats de la ciutat de #NovaYork, aquí el teniu. Amb motiu de les eleccions el vam dedicar a unes quantes rates (figurades).
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29.11.2024 09:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Capítol 2: Un gall dindi a la cuina (Thanksgiving) Nova York és l'excusa · Episode

En el segon capítol del #pòdcast ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ parlem del Dia d’Acció de Gràcies i de la fal·lera dels novaiorquesos per les desfilades. Ah, i també d’alguna sèrie i música relacionades amb aquesta tradició americana.
#NovaYork #ThanksgivingDay
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29.11.2024 09:27 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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