Humberto Debat

Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication Publishing initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are promoting diamond open access, multilingualism, and non-profit, scholarly-led governance structures.

A blueprint for a fairer system! Our new article explores how the GlobalSouth is pioneering equitable, multilingual, and community-driven models of scholarly publishing. #OpenScience #SciComm Read it here, via @elife.bsky.social @elifecommunity.bsky.social 📖

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Grapevine holobiome metatranscriptomics provides a glimpse into the wood mycovirome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.21.644598v1

The Collapse of Argentine Science Under Javier Milei: One Year of Unprecedented Defunding by @humbertodebat.bsky.social in #revistainfonomy
doi.org/10.3145/info...

#Argentine #Scientificsystem #Scientificpolicy

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

#Updated Latin American Scientists from multiple areas.

Includes colleagues from Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Colombia 🇨🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Guatemala 🇬🇹, Mexico 🇲🇽, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Peru 🇵🇪, and Uruguay 🇺🇾

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RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement
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Screen grab of title page from BioRxiv website

New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors.

Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Bueno, lo prometido es deuda. Va una primera versión de #CientificosLatam en múltiples áreas.

Si alguien quisiera que su contacto fuera agregado, por favor dejarlo en comentarios🥂

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What lies within the virome of a major vineyard pest? 🍇🦟 Explore our latest research on RNA virus discovery in Lobesia botrana. A step forward in understanding pest-virus interactions:

For Wild Animals, the Bird Flu Disaster Is Already Here Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under pressure in the wild.

Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus, also known as the bird flu, could set off another human pandemic. But for wild birds, the virus has already decimated avian populations around the globe, with body counts that can sometimes be staggering.

AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses

So @cbo.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in SciAm.

We look at the drive by OpenAI, Apple, etc to create personally-aligned LLMs as intermediaries between users and primary text on the internet, and consider the possible consequences on society as any shared understanding of the world erodes.

‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina One year into President Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.

Thinking of colleagues in Argentina. Sad to read this.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 Hey people in the Sky who
love plants and viruses! Here is a great starter pack of people to follow! Let me know if you want to join! go.bsky.app/426v1X8

Hi! I would like to join, Thanks!

"successful pandemic preparedness requires early outbreak management, including effective responses targeting spillovers before there is evidence of human-to-human transmission"

Timely piece from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social in @plosbiology.bsky.social

#H5N1 #flu 🧪
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Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ciencia Argentina Join the conversation

Les comparto una lista de miembros del sistema de Ciencia y Técnica de Argentina - Es un starter pack viviente y actualizable. --
Here you may find a starter pack of scientist from Argentina -- please share!

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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

Here's an article by @kakape.bsky.social on the migration of scientists to Bluesky from X. One thing stood out to me: there's a button for sharing on X at the top (along with Linkedin, etc.), but no blue butterfly to be seen! www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Scienticide’: Argentina’s science workforce shrinks as government pursues austerity
Key science agency has lost 9% of employees since President Javier Milei took office last year
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I made a quick Starter Pack for scientists working on virus discovery - please reply if you’d like me to add you to the pack (or remove you) or to recommend anyone! #scisky go.bsky.app/HK1wxRb