Johan Van Weyenbergh

Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.

Study finds girls 3x more likely to solve math problems w/ a standard algorithm; boys more likely to never use an algorithm. Girls' compliance & teacher-pleasing tendencies may result in using algorithms more than boys, who are more socialized to be risk-takers. theconversation.com/girls-and-bo...

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication

Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Adding one original sentence to the recommendation letter that Chatgpt composed

Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
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White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

Gender Differences in Physician Use of Social Media for Professional Advancement This survey study examines gender difference in physician use of social media for professional advancement.

Study of men & women physicians in 2019 found that women were less likely than men to say that social media use had resulted in a speaking engagement or scholarship opportunity. Women used it more often than men to build a support network. @vineetaroramd.bsky.social
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The Bacteria that Halted Napoleon's Army - Little, Big Science More than three hundred thousand soldiers from Napoleon’s army died in the winter of 1812 during the retreat from the Russian steppes, yet the Russian army had almost nothing to do with it—many of the...

🧪How did the Russian army halt Napoleon’s invasion? Well, you could say they had some microscopic “troops” 🦠 that helped them out:

www.lbscience.org/en/2025/11/3...

@lbscience.org @drorbarnir.bsky.social

Cuba says 33 have died of mosquito-borne illnesses as epidemic rages Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population, according to official reports.

Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population. #RSNA25
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030

#WorldAIDSDay this year is a grim one

Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Today December 1st is #WorldAIDSDay.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.

👇

Amazing! 👏🏽👏🏽

In Australia, “no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination”

report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

Pathogenic IgG from long COVID patients with neurological sequelae triggers sensitive but not cognitive impairments upon transfer into mice Approximately 30% of long COVID patients still experience neurological symptoms (brain fog, pain, chronic fatigue) more than 4 months after the onset of COVID-19. This condition, known as ‘neurologica...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Long COVID’s hidden toll: the South Africans still battling fatigue, anxiety and memory loss Long COVID isn’t purely a biological problem; it’s a human one, shaped by both physiology and lived experience.

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

The new politics of autism As contentious claims over rising diagnoses get a presidential platform, Simon Baron-Cohen explains where talk of an ‘epidemic’ goes wrong — and why we need more recognition that autism comes in diffe...

A phrase that works throughout the biological sciences

'London psychiatrist Dr Lorna Wing, who coined the term “autism spectrum”, is attributed with saying: “Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”'

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A ciência exige autonomia, não tutela económica A reforma proposta pelo Governo foi feita ao arrepio das melhores práticas internacionais, sem acolher as sugestões e recomendações existentes e envolta em opacidade.

'Os benefícios dos resultados científicos são sempre impossíveis de prever num determinado momento. Esta dimensão incerta e cumulativa da ciência é fundamental para perceber a visão tacanha da análise do Conselho Nacional de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação.'
@speraltalisboa.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...

'We hypothesized that elevated temperature can inhibit the replication of human-origin influenza A viruses, whereas avian viruses, adapted to higher temperatures in birds, may be able to resist this defense.'
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Het idee dat het je zomaar kan overkomen zou angstaanjagend moeten zijn.
Maar omdat je de patiënten vaak niet ziet is het makkelijker om daar niet over na te denken.

Morgen 30 november wordt er voor hen actie gevoerd op het Malieveld.

#Longcovid
#ME/cvs
#Qcvs
#PAIS
#PAIS-protest

After Killing Half Of South Georgia's Elephant Seals, Avian Flu Reaches Remote Island In The Indian Ocean A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest population of the marine mammal, have died in two years. H5N1 avian flu is responsible for most of this catastrophe,...

After Killing Half Of South Georgia's Elephant Seals, Avian Flu Reaches Remote Island In The Indian Ocean
->IFLScience | #Ocean #BirdFlu #Elephant #Wildlife #AvianFlu #Island | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Exercise improves child #ADHD, but this is the first trial to test it in adults:
▪ Large effect (0.9)
▪ Strength/aerobic 30-40 min/day
▪ Brief mindfulness component

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41244864

Evidence: Moderate (6/10, high drop-outs, small, single-blind)

#mentalhealth #psychiatry #pmhnp

Europe’s Clinician Mental Health Crisis Deepens, WHO Warns A large WHO Europe survey of more than 90,000 clinicians finds worsening mental health across 29 countries, with night work and violence strongly linked to distress.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.

‘They don’t have symptoms’: #CAR-T therapies send #autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Popular obesity drug fails in hotly anticipated Alzheimer’s trials The studies may still hold clues to the powers and limits of GLP-1 drugs

Popular #obesity drug fails in hotly anticipated #Alzheimer’s trials | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’ A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.

STAT News: 'I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’

By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University

'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'

www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...

Neanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of another group.

Archaeologists discover that Neanderthals ate the women and children first. 🧪🏺

Making the diagnosis :-)

Pathogenic IgG from long COVID patients with neurological sequelae triggers sensitive but not cognitive impairments upon transfer into mice Approximately 30% of long COVID patients still experience neurological symptoms (brain fog, pain, chronic fatigue) more than 4 months after the onset of COVID-19. This condition, known as neurological...

At Université de Namur, researchers transferred IgG from 13 long COVID patients with neurological symptoms into mice.

The mice showed temporary pain sensitivity but no cognitive or mood changes, suggesting autoantibodies may drive long COVID pain.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RFK, Jr., Says Peanut Allergies May Be Tied to Aluminum in Vaccines and Pesticides. Here's What the Science Says Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins

Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins