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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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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Journal of Biomedical Sciences is open access and free of APCs, backed by the taiwanese National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). If you care about IF, it is at Nat Comm level. link.springer.com/journal/1292...
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Journal of Biomedical Science
Journal of Biomedical Science encompasses all fundamental and molecular aspects of basic medical sciences, with an emphasis on providing the molecular studies ...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most infuriating book I have ever read, and the only one that made me cry. And 100 years later, here we are again.
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
El siglo pasado, mientras hacía el doctorado y junto a dos médicos residentes, alquilamos un piso cuyo dueño era un guardia civil casposo y chusquero. Estaba en un barrio alejado del centro de Salamanca y con unos vecinos... Igualito que en tu caso cuando nos fuimos, se quedó la mitad de la fianza.
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
600+ gene knock outs that could be avoided to generate
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Go to France and see. A lot
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Learning English by watching (mostly US) TV shows made this. Spending 3-4 months each in Ann Arbor, Nashville and Seattle, left no trace; netiher 3 did years post-doc with a Missourian colleague.
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
30 years ago we used a home-made restriction enzyme buffer with that ingredient. We could tell every year from anywhere on the department when our TA was preparing a new batch.
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Kuato Total Recall
ALT: Kuato Total Recall
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My hometown!
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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 · 24/08/2026
I was not far from there and we had to park the car and could not go out
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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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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A border whitin the border
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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 · 14/07/2026
Maybe it's already decided before the final
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Watch out, because this year we caught students using AI on their cell phones during in person final exams
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I will
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Or when you try to lift from the ground your 10kg 10mo little nephew...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
These were Spanish "bros" going to the airport to cross the pond I think
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Same here, but in Spain: bunch of "bros" going on summer holidays
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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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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Lovely!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We will not say the same about their fancy scopes with electric focus and magnification though
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So sorry Rebecca...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Enunciados de más de una linea y se atragantan; oraciones subordinadas y pierden el hilo. Y ojo, que el 60% de mis alumnos llegan de ciclos formativos
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Congratulations Christian!
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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 · 10/03/2026
You worry too much
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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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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Twice a week since 2001 when pubcrawler appeared
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I visited it last year with my 7yo son and we loved it!
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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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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Congrats! I remember reading your papers 25 years ago, when I was hoping my mutants had a heart defect caused by NC depletion
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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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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Well, I see now the banner on the right...
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Definitely Spain. Maybe Zaragoza?
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"How to sneak into your parents bed in the middle of the night"
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Mandolines without finger-safeguard should be forbidden!
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Alejandro Barrallo @abarrallo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We used to do that with zf embryos for the antiDig used in in situs. Now, get the ko cells for your GOI
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