Pedro Belio Mairal

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I què han planctat?

It’s funny how horchata in Spain is a completely different thing. It is a traditional drink from Valencia done with tiger nut and it is absolutely delicious.

Molt innocent has de ser si penses que necessiten una platja per posar un altaveu amb la missa.

Això és perquè no has anat a un cole de l’Opus.

Oh god… do I miss this city 😭

Merda, hauria d’haver escrit 8—D en el seu moment.

Comté, sense discussió.

In the minority here, but I think it would be refreshing and I'd appreciate reading a piece like "On the value of reductionist science".

While *incredibly* valuable, not everything *needs* -omics and the like, let alone when only done because it _can_ be done, with an illusion of mechanism.

Paul George on està?

Ok.

I can see multiple legends of the INP in those pics.

I was looking for our review, authored by Eileen, to share with a student and... AI decided to change our names to male names. Are women in science getting their names "translated" to Edward/Eduardo?

A Viral Toolbox of Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Synaptic Tags Fibronectin intrabodies generated with mRNA display (FingRs) are a recently developed tool for labeling excitatory or inhibitory synapses, with the be…

You could try to engineer this for pre-syn markers if you plan to use synaptic reporters in the long run.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There's been SIX 20-point comeback wins this playoffs, the most in a single postseason in the play-by-play era (since 1997).

Thunder: down 29 in G3 at MEM
Pacers: down 20 in G5 vs MIL
Knicks: down 20 in G1 at BOS
Pacers: down 20 in G2 at CLE
Knicks: down 20 in G2 at BOS
Knicks: down 20 tonight

it's wild listening to old folks who entered academia in the 70s. full scholarships, grants to travel the world, robust humanities departments, tenure, pensions. they spend their peaceful twilight years in million dollar homes. while today's academics have no job security, career path, or savings

Interesting idea, but I wonder if that wouldn’t trigger a build-up of culture-related mutations. Even though PSCs are supposed to self-renew indefinitely, in practice they’ve got a passage limit. The longer you keep them going, the more likely they are to accumulate weird aberrations.

You mean reprogramming into iPSC, differentiate, and then re-reprogram again?

And by crisis I don’t mean a 2008-style meltdown or a war. A “crisis” could just be Macron trying to become president of the EU Commission in a few years and cutting a deal with the far right to shift money into border security. Whenever priorities change, science is where they pull the money from.

I really hope I’m wrong and this time things will be different. But while cuts to research in the US are seen as an exception, in Europe they’re a cycle. Anyone coming here now should demand strong legal protection in their contracts, so they’re not left behind when the next crisis hits.

Of course, the big names already established in the US kept their labs there and just opened new ones in Spain. They were fine. Like today, these flashy moves won’t hurt them, they’ll crush the careers of those transitioning into PI roles, or anyone without a huge, well-known lab behind them.

I still remember an interview with a guy who was setting up his lab abroad, believed the promises, came back home with hope. Five years later, with no renewal, he ended up taking over his father’s taxi when he retired. No more science. We stole his career. And like him, hundreds more.

I’ve seen this story before. In the 2000s, Spain launched a flashy program to bring back Spanish researchers from abroad, mostly the US. Promises of funding, 5-year contracts with renewal into tenure-track, and investment. Then the 2008 crisis hit and, well, you can guess how that ended.

I honestly don’t know if they realize all these people will expect to sustain their research long-term. What’s the EU plan in 5 years, when these flashy programs are over? Another round of cuts and brain drain?

More infrastructure, long-term plans to raise science funding to 5% of GDP, more scientific jobs, stable funding year-round (not seasonal grant chaos), better salaries. Do that, and researchers will come. No need for flashy special programs.

I feel this is something no one talks about.

But eLife was moved to the preprint collection.

Are they shifting the money towards HHMI investigator labs and current fellows?

YES