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Humberto Debat

@humbertodebat.bsky.social
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Virologist at INTA, Argentina scholar.google.com/citations?user=W…

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Jun Huang @jhuang90.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1/7 Excited to share our new preprint on CnTV1, a novel mycovirus of Cryptococcus neoformans! Here’s what we did 🧵
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Science Under Threat Around the World 🧪 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ "The international scientific community can no longer absorb these shocks on an ad-hoc basis. Global scientific bodies and funders MUST get organized to shore up science during times of trouble." elifesciences.org/articles/111...
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Point of View: Science under threat around the world
Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to su...
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Peter Rodgers @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
SCIENCE UNDER THREAT Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions in Argentina and the US. In @elife.bsky.social, @humbertodebat.bsky.social discusses how the scientific community should respond to such crises. elifesciences.org/articles/111...
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Point of View: Science under threat around the world
Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to su...
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Humberto Debat @humbertodebat.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A blueprint for a fairer system! Our new article explores how the GlobalSouth is pioneering equitable, multilingual, and community-driven models of scholarly publishing. #OpenScience #SciComm Read it here, via @elife.bsky.social @elifecommunity.bsky.social 📖 elifesciences.org/articles/108...
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Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication
Publishing initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are promoting diamond open access, multilingualism, and non-profit, scholarly-led governance structures.
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/03/2025
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Grapevine holobiome metatranscriptomics provides a glimpse into the wood mycovirome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Revista Infonomy @revistainfonomy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Collapse of Argentine Science Under Javier Milei: One Year of Unprecedented Defunding by @humbertodebat.bsky.social in #revistainfonomy doi.org/10.3145/info... #Argentine #Scientificsystem #Scientificpolicy
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Zulma M. Cucunubá @zulmacucunuba.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#Updated Latin American Scientists from multiple areas. Includes colleagues from Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Colombia 🇨🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Guatemala 🇬🇹, Mexico 🇲🇽, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Peru 🇵🇪, and Uruguay 🇺🇾 go.bsky.app/2oEhFSh
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mary @marypetrone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors. Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Zulma M. Cucunubá @zulmacucunuba.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Bueno, lo prometido es deuda. Va una primera versión de #CientificosLatam en múltiples áreas. Si alguien quisiera que su contacto fuera agregado, por favor dejarlo en comentarios🥂 go.bsky.app/2oEhFSh
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Humberto Debat @humbertodebat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What lies within the virome of a major vineyard pest? 🍇🦟 Explore our latest research on RNA virus discovery in Lobesia botrana. A step forward in understanding pest-virus interactions:
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/12/2024
Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus, also known as the bird flu, could set off another human pandemic. But for wild birds, the virus has already decimated avian populations around the globe, with body counts that can sometimes be staggering.
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For Wild Animals, the Bird Flu Disaster Is Already Here
Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under pressure in the wild.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/12/2024
So @cbo.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in SciAm. We look at the drive by OpenAI, Apple, etc to create personally-aligned LLMs as intermediaries between users and primary text on the internet, and consider the possible consequences on society as any shared understanding of the world erodes.
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AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show
Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses
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Thulani Makhalanyane @thuls.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thinking of colleagues in Argentina. Sad to read this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina
One year into President Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🧪 Hey people in the Sky who love plants and viruses! Here is a great starter pack of people to follow! Let me know if you want to join! go.bsky.app/426v1X8
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"successful pandemic preparedness requires early outbreak management, including effective responses targeting spillovers before there is evidence of human-to-human transmission" Timely piece from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social in @plosbiology.bsky.social #H5N1 #flu 🧪 plos.io/3ZnpcnE
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Controlling minor outbreaks is necessary to prepare for major pandemics
Ongoing influenza H5N1 outbreaks highlight the need for timely, scalable interventions that draw on lessons from COVID-19. This Perspective discussed that successful pandemic preparedness requires ear...
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Humberto Debat @humbertodebat.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?
A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.
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Humberto Debat @humbertodebat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Les comparto una lista de miembros del sistema de Ciencia y Técnica de Argentina - Es un starter pack viviente y actualizable. -- Here you may find a starter pack of scientist from Argentina -- please share! go.bsky.app/TSsywa4
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Ciencia Argentina
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 20/11/2024
Here's an article by @kakape.bsky.social on the migration of scientists to Bluesky from X. One thing stood out to me: there's a button for sharing on X at the top (along with Linkedin, etc.), but no blue butterfly to be seen! www.science.org/content/arti...
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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
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Humberto Debat @humbertodebat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
‘Scienticide’: Argentina’s science workforce shrinks as government pursues austerity Key science agency has lost 9% of employees since President Javier Milei took office last year www.science.org/content/arti...
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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a quick Starter Pack for scientists working on virus discovery - please reply if you’d like me to add you to the pack (or remove you) or to recommend anyone! #scisky go.bsky.app/HK1wxRb
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