Riccardo Bianco

@teresaberther.bsky.social

Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals Host body temperature can define a virus’s replicative profile—influenza A viruses (IAVs) adapted to 40° to 42°C in birds are less temperature sensitive in vitro compared with human isolates adapted t...

How does fever work?

Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.

This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice to be an incremental researcher:

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Thanks for the warm welcome! Very excited to share this and hope it can be helpful to people in the field

Researchers paid nearly $9 billion to publishers between 2019 and 2023 so you could read our work. Why? Why??

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That’s a wrap! Thanks to Christian Dobel & Andreas Keil for organising the Tinnitus & Misophonia Symposium at #2024SPR and to Cosima Lukas, Evangelos Paraskevopoulos, Lisa Reisinger for your important contribution! @therealspr.bsky.social

New insights into Misophonia from Andreas Keil. His group finds distinct neural & emotional responses to trigger sounds, separate from hyperacusis, fear, or anxiety disorders. #2024SPR @therealspr.bsky.social

Lisa Reisinger showed us that Tinnitus is characterised by aberrant auditory prediction patterns. By examining neural responses to predictable vs. random tones, she found robust, replicable differences, hinting at new pathways to understanding tinnitus. #2024SPR @therealspr.bsky.social

🔊 Exciting talk from Evangelos Paraskevopoulos. Join us to explore findings from 3 studies on atypical brain connectivity in tinnitus, involving auditory & non-auditory networks. Learn how tDCS may reshape cortical activity patterns for personalized treatment! #2024SPR @therealspr.bsky.social