Alfonso T. García-Sosa, PhD

Today I officially withdrew from a US based conference I was invited to 😞

I feel horrible because I was really looking fwd to it, but the *real* danger of being denied entry (or worse) of being detained for *no reason* prevents me from travelling. I am sure I am not alone in this predicament ☹️

President of the Mexican Senate,
"We'll build the wall and pay for it.
But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland."

Different rules of the game would have radically changed history.
Our counterfactual simulations show that without colonial transfers, Europe would have been a debtor — and South Asia or Latin America could have become global creditors.
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]

By that standard, most of the world’s leaders, western and European governments and media and academia fail even worse

Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

Even if that were the case, making the human trials more risky would have a negative effect since I would imagine it would be more expensive and harder to get backing to launch one. Human trials are the bottleneck. Better to improve the success rate of these even if it means more animal testing

I agree it would be a good thing. But it would need to be very well described, even maybe more so than the main text, for it to increase the value of the information of what didn't work, or what would need tweaking for it to work.

Los pingüinos tejen alianzas:

Firings sweep across FDA as former leaders lament drug agency's gutting Mass firings and forced resignations swept through the FDA on Tuesday, as part of thousands of planned job cuts at federal health agencies being implemented by the Trump administration.

"FDA as we know it is finished," the agency's former commissioner lamented as the agency he once led is gutted by the new administration. Follow the developing story: endpts.com/firings-swee...

BioNTech details promising mid-stage data for its PD-L1xVEGF in aggressive lung cancer BioNTech's BNT327 shows promising survival data in lung cancer trial, with 72.7% of patients surviving one year, outperforming benchmarks set by Keytruda and Tecentriq.

BioNTech’s PD-L1xVEGF antibody has shown an impressive rate of one-year survival when used first-line for a serious form of lung cancer. If results stay consistent in larger trials, this approach could become the standard of care.

Is it left-handed? No. Is it right-handed? No. It’s AI-handed! @stuartcantrill.bsky.social

The person-years of life lost from the pandemic (here for Europe) with premature mortality reflects an underestimate of the toll of Covid @plos.org
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Hey @ec.europa.eu why is Eurostat not on bluesky and still posting on X? How can you promote high quality statistics and data about Europe on a platform that is owned and destroyed by someone who is actively undermining fact-based public discourse as well as the international order?

One of the coolest studies of last year would not be funded by the current NIH policy. By studying people undergoing gender affirming testosterone treatment, they discovered how sex hormones shape the #immune response, with important consequences for everyone!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Interesting and timely, especially considering the clinical trials ongoing for FX-909 for urotelial cancer

Now published! Read our newest story! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📢In our latest Editorial, we reflect on what science tells us about the importance of diversity. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I guess they are selling it (really) hot 🤔

Well over 600 signatories now. Please keep the momentum going.

Sign and share to show how much the wider scientific community is concerned by the Royal Society's silence over Musk's FRS.

Members of the UK and international scientific community are all welcome to sign.

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Our "X" account is now frozen. You can now only find us on Bluesky @bsky.app.
Stay tuned for more exciting #compchem research news!!! #compchemsky #chemsky

Entiendo entonces, que ahora el Cartel del Golfo se llamará Cartel de América, ¿es correcto?

A screenshot of my Google maps accessed from Germany showing the label "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". The map also shows stars of the places I've been to in Mexico and a little icon for my home town.

So this label in Google is wrong and is actually just a performance pandering to a fascist regime, because this is no different from when Maduro decided Christmas started in October.

To the MAGA latinos who voted: congratulations, you helped transform the US in the authoritarian regime you feared.

Please check it out - postdoc is available in Struct Biol for Drug Discovery in Cancer in my group at IIT.

Great project with potential for impactful results, papers and more ...

iit.taleo.net/careersectio...

Trump acaba de decir que Estados Unidos "volverá a expandir su territorio".

Literal.