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Alejandro Barrallo

@abarrallo.bsky.social
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25+ years of zebrafish. Hair cell toxicology research. Associate professor at the Universitat de Barcelona. Father of one. Photographer of birds

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Mireya Plass @mireyaplass.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🚨 Job Alert We are looking for a Research Technician to join my lab a IDIBELL/UB The successful candidate will support experimental work in the lab. Tasks include the culture and differentiation of iPSC cell lines, characterization 2D human nervous system models
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
That was the most of the solar eclipse we got from home. Pretty impressive moment, though.
Picture of the camera screen while taking a photo of the solar eclipse on August 12th 2026
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EvodevogenomeUB- Cañestro’s lab @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We are hiring!! We offer a 4-year PhD contract to join our newly granted project on EvoDevo and Genomics in the University of Barcelona 2026-2030. Postdocs are also welcome ➡️ evodevogenomics-unibarcelona.weebly.com/join-us.html @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🇪🇦⭐⭐
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Marisol Soengas @msmelanoma.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tribuna con @xrbustelo.bsky.social, @jaestebancbm.bsky.social, JM Torralba y J Gil sobre la resolución provisional de los proyectos PID (“Plan Nacional”), con media de 50.000 euros/proyecto/año (costes directos). Hay otras convocatorias, pero esta es básica e insuficiente elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
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¿Qué ciencia puede realizarse con 50.000 euros al año?
“Esta limitación presupuestaria dificulta afrontar los experimentos complejos que hoy exige buena parte de la investigación en múltiples campos”, denuncian los autores
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Oldest, longest kept, most beloved meeting T-shirt
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Against all odds, me & @mireyaplass.bsky.social got funded by @idibell.bsky.social to perform some scRNAseq on zebrafish hair cells!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Amazing!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Like one of the commenters said: before modern medicine half the children died. Just walk in a 100 year old cemetery
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Demoledor: elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
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La Academia de Ciencias de EE UU tumba el estudio de Barbacid sobre la ‘curación’ del cáncer de páncreas por ocultar sus intereses empresariales
La organización retira el trabajo en la revista PNAS y reprocha que el científico y dos colegas no declararan que poseen parte de la compañía Vega Ocotargets para la explotación comercial de los resultados
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I wish I had known earlier!
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Job Alert!🚨 Opening for a Postdoctoral Research Officer in Sensory Neuroscience at Swansea Uni. to work on an exciting project investigating the structure & function of the cupulae of the lateral line neuromasts in #zebrafish. More details to apply: www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... 🧪 #PostdocJobs
(A) Deconvolved multiphoton image of a zebrafish neuromast. All nuclei are labeled green by a histone-GFP fusion and hair cells are labeled red by α-tubulin-Tomato expression. (B) Schematic diagram of a neuromast cross-section showing different structures, cell types, and innervation. Credit image and text to Ma & Raible (2009) Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.057
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
onlinelibrary-wiley-com.sire.ub.edu/doi/10.1002/... "We would like to express our gratitude to the editors of BioEssays... Sven journals rejected the manuscript... without peer review. One editor explained “We don’t want to get a reputation for publishing hit pieces on papers in other journals.”"
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A potential late sequelae of measles after normal recovery. Occurs in ~ 2/10,000. Fatal. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org today
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My quote of the day Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New in #eNeuro: A Mouse study from Schenberg and colleagues reveals that 50% of Type I inner hair cells in the ear are required for minimal balancing. doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0303-25.2026
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I don't think my kid would miss a few of his bricks...
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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Well, this is a brilliant #IDSky article that cuts close to the bone! 😬 Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)! #AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social
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Infected With the Academic Bug
It starts innocently. A paper you’re proud of, the thrill of seeing your name on PubMed. Everyone is genuinely happy for you; you’re a threat to no one. Bu
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Cristina Pujades @cristinapujades.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship
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European Zebrafish Resource Center @ezrc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Zebrafish aren’t just fascinating to watch — they can regenerate parts of their heart, fins, spinal cord, and even retina! 🐟✨ This makes them one of the most powerful model organisms for studying regeneration and human diseases 🧬🔬.
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
And the link: rdcu.be/eEdHJ
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Early downregulation of hair cell (HC)-specific genes in the vestibular sensory epithelium during chronic ototoxicity
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Accepted for publication!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New preprint out from our lab! Great effort from the four first authors, all of them talented PhD students. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Early downregulation of HC-specific genes in the vestibular sensory epithelium during chronic ototoxicity
Exposure of mammals to ototoxic compounds causes hair cell (HC) loss in the vestibular sensory epithelia of the inner ear. In chronic exposure models, this loss often occurs by extrusion of the HC fro...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
First day of summer holidays. I could sleep a bit more. 8:00 am sharp gardeners start blowing leaves and mowing the park
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Misja Baas @misjabaas.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Dune, 1965
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/07/2025
the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
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Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.
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David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The Confocal Room
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Grant funded! Insufficiently, though, as usual...
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Mireya Plass @mireyaplass.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If you like our recent work and are interested in developing a postdoc project related to isoform diversity in individual cell types and their regulation, get in contact! We are looking for applicants for Marie Curie and EMBO postdoctoral fellowships #postdocposition #singlecell #RNA_processing
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My friend's daughter has been recently diagnosed with B-ALL in the US. Every help will be welcomed. www.gofundme.com/f/g7vvec-sup...
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Donate to Support Emma's Fight Against Leukemia , organized by Yejin Mun
Our sweet Emma, who always brings warmth, laughter, and a special kind of "Emma magic… Yejin Mun needs your support for Support Emma's Fight Against Leukemia
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@mireyaplass.bsky.social te suena?
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Feinstaub = partículas en suspensión Stickstoffdioxid = NO2
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BertaLSL @bertalsl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
En el #DiaMundialdelMelanoma, gracias por visibilizar el trabajo que hacemos en los laboratorios para entender mejor este cáncer y ayudar a diseñar mejores estrategias terapéuticas para los pacientes @neuroalc.bsky.social @csic.es
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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EL PAÍS Ciencia y Tecnología @elpaiscyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
El primer bebé tratado de una enfermedad metabólica rara con CRISPR da esperanza a miles de pacientes elpais.com/salud-y-bien...
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El primer bebé tratado de una enfermedad metabólica rara con CRISPR da esperanza a miles de pacientes
El éxito del caso de K.J. abre la puerta al tratamiento de personas con enfermedades ultrarraras, a falta de un seguimiento más prolongado del niño
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism" —the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing —from decades of NIH funded research www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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Miguel Maravall @mmaravall.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New preprint out from our lab! Great effort from the four first authors, all of them talented PhD students. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Early downregulation of HC-specific genes in the vestibular sensory epithelium during chronic ototoxicity
Exposure of mammals to ototoxic compounds causes hair cell (HC) loss in the vestibular sensory epithelia of the inner ear. In chronic exposure models, this loss often occurs by extrusion of the HC fro...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I could not have imagined that a single-cell analysis tool could be be used to cluster football players... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Who needs action potentials in skeletal muscle? Not zebrafish!
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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#SantJordi #DracsiRoses Verd, blaus, grocs o vermells per Sant Jordi abracem la biodiversitat de DRACS!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Totally agree
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Springtime in our balcony
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SEBD @sebioldev.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The #SEBD is offering 4 scholarships to cover the registration of this international course on clinical embryology taking place in Santander at the end of July and sponsored by @sebioldev.bsky.social @csic.es and @devdynamics.bsky.social sebd.es/otros-congre...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Unexpected role for CLC-2!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Off to Paris for the #EZPI25 meeting
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Really interesting read
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The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer
Genome sequencing results and single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that cancer is purely a ‘genetic disease’. This Essay delves into cancer omics data that ...
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 17/03/2025
Una investigación revela el abuso de poder generalizado en los institutos de investigación Max Planck en Alemania
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Una investigación revela el abuso de poder generalizado en los institutos de investigación Max Planck en Alemania
La cadena alemana Deutsche Welle (DW) y la revista Der Spiegel revelan comportamientos abusivos en muchos de estos prestigiosos centros científicos, debido a la falta de supervisión y un modelo de com...
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