Fer Castro Prado

Fer Castro Prado

@fercpr.bsky.social

✨ PhD statistician with a soft spot for (molecular) biology. ✨ 📊🧬 @usc.gal, IDIS ex @dkfz.bsky.social, @hlforum.bsky.social, #lindaunobel 🦋 Migrating from: https://twitter.com/FerCPr (for obvious reasons) ▶️ All my links: https://linktr.ee/FerCPr 🌈

355 Followers 91 Following 22 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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JAE INTRO ICU - Iníciate en la investigación con la MBG-CSIC

El Programa #JAE Intro ICU ofrece a estudiantes de grado y máster y a recién titulados una primera experiencia profesional en entornos de #investigación punteros 👇.

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It was not Heraskevych who got disqualified from Olympics. It were Olympics who disqualified themselves from being human .

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you have wonder if the problem was “world,” “facts,” or “books”

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

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Mastodon The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

One perk of a federated system is that you don't force others to use (or be used by) a certain provider. Think about email. 📧

💡For example, I'm on mastodon.social, but you can follow and message me with a genomic.social account, among many others.

If I'm on Facebook, and you don't love Meta, well—

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Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastodo...

A wave of people have left ex-Twitter to check out something called Mastodon (as well as Bluesky).

That leaves many wondering — what is Mastodon anyway?

This explainer by @eff.org will help you make heads or tails of this new approach to communications and social media

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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2 months ago

No Decreto 79/2010, a Xunta prohibiu o ensino de matemáticas en galego en todo o ensino obrigatorio.

Como a norma contradí outras de maior rango, é legal usar o galego, malia todo 🤍🩵
consellodacultura.gal/fondos_docum...

👇 Neste estudo achegan cifras sobre a situación actual (spoiler: non é boa).

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Cauliflower fractal forms arise from perturbations of floral gene networks Shifts in floral-regulatory networks determine the emergence of fractal patterns in growing cauliflowers.

La explicación biológica del origen de estas estructuras grométricas singulares de las coles #romanescu se encontró hace unos años, y la investigación se publicó en la revista @science.org con la colaboración de investigadores del @ibmcp.bsky.social @csic.es @upv.es
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🍅 Un estudio analiza el ‘idioma interno del tomate’

🧬El @i2sysbio.es ha descifrado cómo se comunican sus genes en procesos clave como la maduración o la respuesta a la sequía

🌱Este hallazgo abre nuevas vías para desarrollar cultivos más resilientes

👉 http://tiny.cc/9mex001

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Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026 | Computer Weekly The UK and Europe are ramping up opposition to encryption and stepping up surveillance of private communications. Here is what to expect this year.

Hidden within the Online Safety Act is the spy clause that threatens encryption on messaging apps.

As ORG's James Baker says, Ofcom "may be waiting to see what happens in Europe with the Chat Control proposal, because it’s quite hard for the UK to go alone.”

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666367...

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🌾La comunidad botánica española describe 80 especies nuevas en 2024 y 2025

🔎19 han sido descritas por investigadores/ras del Real Jardín Botánico (#RJB_CSIC)

🔬Estos hallazgos ponen de manifiesto que parte de la biodiversidad permanece aún oculta para la ciencia

👉 http://tiny.cc/uoex001

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3 months ago
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Un minuto para decir lo que quieras. ✨
Ese es el premio por 100 programas en #SaberyGanar.
Aquí mis 60 segundos: 👇👋

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Fer Castro: «Oxalá nun futuro se fale de min polo logrado na investigación, non na televisión» O compostelán, doutor en Estatística, é coñecido en televisión trala súa participación en concursos como «Pasapalabra», «Cifras y letras» e «Saber y ganar». «A este concurso volvín para ter unha sensa...

«Oxalá que nun futuro non se fale de min polo logrado en televisión, senón en investigación, porque iso quererá dicir que ten repercusión».😌

Grazas pola bonita reportaxe a:
✍️ Olalla Sánchez, e mais
📸 Paco Rodríguez
para a @vozdegalicia.bsky.social .

www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/sant...

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Yet another reason to boycott ex-Twitter. 👇

“Some of this content is technically illegal, but no one is getting punished for it besides the victims. [...] The scale and visibility of the attacks just keeps getting worse.”

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Science in 2026: the events to watch for in the coming year The rise of AI scientists, missions to explore the moons of Earth and Mars and a massive ocean-floor drill are among the developments set to shape research in 2026.

The rise of AI scientists, missions to explore the moons of Earth and Mars and a massive ocean-floor drill are among the developments set to shape research in 2026

go.nature.com/4j3NcG5

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3 months ago

Orgullo de tele pública,
apoyando las causas justas

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How much info do we really need to recognize a face? 👀
New research shows that humans can identify familiar faces even when 8 images are blended together.
This might have implications for identity-fraud prevention.
👉 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/face-morphing

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3 months ago

Orgullo de tele pública,
apoyando las causas justas

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Un minuto para decir lo que quieras. ✨
Ese es el premio por 100 programas en #SaberyGanar.
Aquí mis 60 segundos: 👇👋

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3 months ago

POR FIN ‼️ #50anosdespois

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Let's do this one last time. 😌

👕🌈 @hrc.org

#SaberyGanar #GraphicDesignIsMyPassion

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El metrosidero bicentenario de la Policía Local de A Coruña, candidato a Árbol del Año Está considerado el ejemplar más antiguo de la ciudad y diversos estudios lo vinculan a una posible procedencia neozelandesa ligada a rutas marítimas españolas en el siglo XVI

🗳️Está aberta a votación para elixir a Árbore do Ano en España.

🌳 O ‘Metrosideros excelsa’ de Monte Alto aspira a repetir a xesta do carballo do Banquete de Conxo. 🌳

Voten! ➡️ www.xn--arbolybosquedelao-uxb.es/votar-arbol-...

galego.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/coru...

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Desvelamos uno de los secretos mejor guardados de la historia de España: los motivos de mi misteriosa desaparición de #SaberyGanar .👇

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Today at #COP30, thousands turned out in the streets of Belém🇧🇷 to demand urgent action on the #ClimateCrisis.⁠

It was the first major protest outside the annual climate talks since #COP26 4 years ago in Glasgow, as the last 3 gatherings were in locations with little tolerance for demonstrations.

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4 months ago

Worth noting that Oates didn't go for hate here, but pity, which stings more.

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The Moth Presents Dr. Mary-Claire King at the World Science Festival YouTube video by The Moth

The week of the 2025 #PremiosPrincesaDeAsturias is a good moment to remember Mary-Claire King's monologue on how she got the funding for the BRCA1 research. #genetics #history

“The week of April Fool's Day of 1981 began badly.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOP5...

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5 months ago
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Fernando Calvet i Prats. Un pioneiro da bioquímica e un promotor da biotecnoloxía en Galicia A Real Academia Galega das Ciencias nomea ao químico nado en Vilafranca del Penedès como Científico Galego do Ano 2025

🧪Hoxe celébrase o Día da Ciencia en Galicia

👨‍🔬A Real Academia Galega de Ciencias homenaxea ao químico Fernando Calvet i Prats, nomeado como Científico Galego do Ano.

Pioneiro no estudo da bioquímica e promotor da biotecnoloxía en Galicia. Descubre a súa historia👇🏼

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Jane Goodall’s Lasting Message To Us All YouTube video by New Scientist

If you have 10 minutes to spare, watch this one:

youtu.be/HCwD7PkRzVU

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How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals – and the world Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world

In 1960, at a time where humans were defined as nature‘s only tool-makers, she observed chimp David Greybeard fishing for termites with a twig he had stripped of leaves.

Her mentor: “Now we must redefine ‘tool’, redefine ‘man’, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

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Conservationist Jane Goodall, whose work revolutionized the study of primates, has died | CNN Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.

Goodall worked hard and “saved every penny” to go to Africa and live with the animals.

“Everybody laughed at me because I was just a girl, we didn’t have any money (and) WWII was raging.”

“Work hard, take advantage of opportunity, but above all, never give up.”

💚

www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

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