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Alejandra Manjarrez

@lecteroide.bsky.social
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Science writer 📝 Lectora y bailadora | 🇲🇽 | 🌎 🦠 I have unicellular ancestors. alejandramanjarrez.wordpress.com

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jose Luna-Muñoz spoke with The Transmitter about why each country—especially those in Latin America, where only five countries currently have a brain bank—needs its own biobank, and the challenges of building and sustaining one. By @lecteroide.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/brain-banks/...
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Reimagining Mexico’s brain bank
Since Alzheimer’s disease researcher José Luna-Muñoz assumed leadership of the facility—Latin America’s oldest—in 2011, he has been acquiring additional tissue types and is working to expand donor…
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What can a brain tell us after death? Researcher José Luna-Muñoz has spent decades exploring this question. I spoke with him about brain donation and the challenges of building and sustaining Mexico’s National Dementia BioBank. 🧠🇲🇽 www.thetransmitter.org/brain-banks/...
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Reimagining Mexico’s brain bank
Since Alzheimer’s disease researcher José Luna-Muñoz assumed leadership of the facility—Latin America’s oldest—in 2011, he has been acquiring additional tissue types and is working to expand donor…
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We are thrilled to launch The State of Neuroscience in Latin America, a special report in which we spoke with nearly 50 researchers across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay to capture the highs and lows of doing neuroscience research in Latin America. Explore now: bit.ly/4zGjlvn
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Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón @lbezarescalderon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Our team is recruiting a PhD student to investigate the evolution of pressure sensation in Zooplankton! The project will use marine invertebrate larvae to explore the molecular, cellular, and neuronal mechanisms behind this fascinating sensory system. More details here: bit.ly/3TTeF4Q
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
¡HOY! 🩸¿Los ovarios dejan de funcionar después de la menopausia? En Conexia también hablamos sobre el acelerado envejecimiento poblacional en México y sus retos sociales, y conocemos la fotografía científica de Ana Zagal. 📸 Sábado 12:00 h / 95.7 FM broadcast.radio.ipn.mx/RadioIPN
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hoy en Conexia descubrimos cómo científicos estudian la migración de ballenas con cables submarinos de internet 🐳; analizamos la física del fútbol y la ciencia detrás de tiros legendarios ⚽, y exploramos de qué modo el clima extremo está cambiando la vida de los monos capuchinos🐒. ¡No se lo pierdan!
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
📢 Estamos contentísimos de compartirles que mañana estrenamos programa de radio: CONEXIA 🎙. Es una colaboración de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia con Radio IPN. Le hemos puesto mucho corazón y esfuerzo, ¡ojalá puedan escucharlo! Sábado 12:00 h / 95.7 FM Transmisión web: www.ipn.mx/radio/
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
La memoria del periodismo científico en México en la Fonoteca Nacional. 🤩
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Exciting opportunities in marine biology! 🌊 🔬@lbezarescalderon.bsky.social is conducting research on marine and plankton sensory biology in beautiful Villefranche-sur-Mer at the LBDV. His lab is currently recruiting a postdoc and a research assistant. #AcademicSky #MarineBiology
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
¿Cómo explicar ese calorcito que se siente al morder un jalapeño? ¿O ese picor sabroso del jengibre? Aquí les comparto mi ensayo más reciente, que explora estas y otras preguntas sobre (casi) todo lo que pica, duele y acalora. 🌶️ 🥵 www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/dc9...
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Quemazón con notas de pimienta y habanero | Alejandra Manjarrez
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi nos inspiró a muchas. Acercó a montones de lectores al mundo de la novela gráfica y, de alguna manera, a la historia y la sociedad contemporáneas de Irán. A mí, sus libros me hicieron llorar y reír como pocos. Qué tristeza más grande despedirla hoy.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Mañana sale al aire el cotorreo que tuve con los queridos amigos de #ElShowDeLaTierra 🌏 😁 #Veracruz
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
En junio me lancé a Oaxaca para investigar el pasado y la vida cotidiana de una cícada que hoy crece en el Jardín Etnobotánico de esa ciudad. Fue una experiencia retebonita que me permitió escribir este "Perfil Silvestre" para mi muy querida RUM. www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/279...
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Una cícada con ecos de montaña oaxaqueña y acentos italianos | Alejandra Manjarrez
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Alejandra Medina-Rivera @alemedinarivera.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thanks @lecteroide.bsky.social for the opportunity to share the efforts developed in MexOmics www.the-scientist.com/mexomics-map...
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MexOMICs Maps the Genetic and Social Landscape of Disease in Mexico
By focusing on twins and patients with lupus and Parkinson’s disease, a Mexican consortium is generating critical data to understand health and disease in the country.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
From Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace, via Liz Neeley’s newsletter
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"¿Por qué, en un mundo que desprecia a los políticos, tantos lo apreciaban? . . . ¿Quizá porque guardaba convicciones que tantos han perdido? ¿Quizá porque decía lo que los otros callan? ¿O sería porque sus cuatro vidas tuvieron una coherencia que muy pocas tienen?" — Martín Caparrós #PepeMujica
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Guerrillero, rehén, presidente, filósofo: la vida inmensa de Pepe Mujica
¿Por qué, en un mundo que desprecia a los políticos, tantos lo apreciaban? ¿Quizá porque hablaba un idioma que parecía nuestro idioma?
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
José Mujica (1935 - 2025) ✨ Nos dio uno de los mejores consejos que podemos recibir en esta época: “Si ustedes no le dan un rumbo deliberado [a sus vidas], no se preocupen, el mercado se los va a dar.” Gracias por tantas enseñanzas, este continente te echará de menos.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm so happy to see On the Calculation of Volume ⏳ on the shortlist 🥳 (I was hooked and now am reading Book 2 😅). Also glad to see Under the Eye of the Big Bird made it, too! 🌏
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In which a do not lament the decline of 23andMe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford
Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Our investigation was constantly changing, rather like a dance that led us around the room, an innocent and somewhat clumsy knowledge polka, a wonderment waltz, a blithe ballet of discovery, a hectic tap dance between facts and observations, a questioning tango ..." — Solvej Balle
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"As a species, we simply don't have what it takes," opina uno de los personajes en esta novela. No lo contradigo. (Creo que mi parte favorita de esta lectura fue revisitar los capítulos después de terminar el libro esta mañana. Tuve—sí, hasta entonces—varios 'aha moments' que me emocionaron mucho.)
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"When all the risks from alcohol are added up, most researchers say that any possible health benefits are outweighed by increased risks of cancer and other diseases above low levels of drinking." "The bottom line is that alcohol is a generally unhealthy substance," says epidemiologist Tim Naimi.
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Alcohol and cancer risk: what you need to know
Experts weigh in on the risks of moderate drinking — and how people should assess them.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Hoy en el Instituto Mora (CDMX):
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Do so-called vaginal #probiotics truly support vaginal health? Could #LiveBiotherapeutics — a term many experts prefer over “probiotics” to highlight their medical testing — offer a better alternative? In this short feature, I discuss what we know so far and the challenges that remain.
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Rebuilding vaginal health with beneficial bacteria
Bacteria from healthy vaginas show promise in protecting women from pathogens, but advancing their development requires more funding and research.
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Rafael Mondragón @donmondragon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Comparto el hermoso comunicado que las madres y padres buscadoras leyeron en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México durante la jornada de Vigilia y Luto Nacional. Gracias a Alfredo López Casanova por rolarlo. Por favor ayuden a que se difunda. #15marzo #LutoNacional #TeuchitlanNuncaMas
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Years of progress against disease reversed, hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. STAT's @helenbranswell.bsky.social tells a story with no happy ending here.
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WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health
Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Sorry but a "woolly mouse" is not going to help bring back the woolly mammoth, an essentially impossible goal www.newscientist.com/article/2470...
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Can genetically engineered 'woolly' mice help bring back the mammoth?
Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the company is far from its goal of fully resurrecting woolly mammoths by 2028
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 25/02/2025
From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Acaban de anunciar la longlist de mi premio literario favorito, gracias al cual he conocido varias joyitas. 📚✨ (Está 'Perras de reserva' de Dahlia de la Cerda. No es mi libro favorito, pero hubo cuentos que disfruté. Felicidades a Dahlia.) Ahora, toca elegir cuál leer antes de la shortlist. 🥰
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carlafaesler.bsky.social @carlafaesler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
siempre fluyendo, nunca influyendo
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Algunos son muy jóvenes para recordarlo, pero en 2010, una conferencia de la NASA, un paper en Science y #ArsenicLife en las redes —haciendo referencia a una bacteria 🦠 que usaba arsénico en vez de fósforo—, sacudieron los medios (y los corazones de científicas jóvenes ingenuas como yo entonces 🙈).
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Fat buildup in the liver can progress into severe metabolic liver disease with limited treatment options. As obesity rises, fatty liver diseases are becoming more common—making new treatments urgent, experts warn. A Phase 2b trial of denifanstat, an oral fatty acid synthase inhibitor, offers hope.
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Oral drug shows promise for severe fatty liver in Phase 2b trial
Sagimet’s denifanstat delivered significant improvements in disease activity and fibrosis for patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“It’s unethical, it’s unlawful, and it’s inhumane,” said cancer researcher Mandi Pratt-Chapman. (It's also a major setback for biomedical science, whose long-overlooked focus on patient diversity led to critical gaps in understanding diseases and treatments across populations—and here we go again.)
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How a cancer researcher lost a gender-related grant to Trump’s executive orders
“Unethical, unlawful, inhumane”: NIH-backed scientist decries termination of study collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity of cancer patients
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Roberto González @perrobertogg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Nueve periodistas de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia nos compartieron sus trabajos más recientes en la pasada edición del Cachito de Ciencia 🧪. Te las compartimos en el siguiente hilo: cachito-de-ciencias-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/u-ltima-se...
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¡Última semana para unirte a la RedMPC!
Esta semana cierra la convocatoria para nuevxs miembrxs de la Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Related CDC news. (And scoop by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social!) CDC employees have to pause or retract any publications in science journals with "forbidden terms." Faust calls it "an expansion of an emerging censorship regime at CDC." insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social
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‘Good boy!’ Truffle-sniffing dogs are helping uncover hidden underground ecosystems
Their keen noses are helping researchers document the diversity of fungi living underneath Pacific Northwest forests
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
The FDA has removed webpages about diversity and inclusion in clinical trials for cancer drugs. www.npr.org/sections/sho... 10/12
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The FDA pulls key DEI initiative for cancer studies from its website
A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.
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Alejandra Amatto @aletaamatto79.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Quiero que me inyecten un asteroide ☄️
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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#FossilFriday Sectioned Oligocene brachiopods in stone cladding of Whangarei Limestone at Wellington Railway Station, New Zealand.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Extra or missing chromosomes in cells are considered a hallmark of cancer. But new analyses reveal that even healthy breast tissue can have a few cells with these abnormalities. 🧬 The findings could impact how breast cancer is diagnosed.⚕️ www.drugdiscoverynews.com/not-just-can...
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Not just cancer: chromosomal oddities in healthy breast tissue
A small percentage of cells in healthy breast tissue show chromosomal abnormalities often linked to cancer, a finding with potential diagnostic implications.
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Ana Nepote @nepologia.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
La Red Mexicana de Periodistas de Ciencia tiene abierta su convocatoria hasta el 31 de enero para quienes deseen incorporarse a ella como estudiantes, colaboradores o profesionales. Toda la información detallada por acá: redmpc.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/c...
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Kicking off 2025, I wrote for The Scientist about how studying a peculiar family of wild mice is unlocking the genetic and neural roots of behaviors like monogamy, parental care, and threat response. 🐭 🧬 🧠 www.the-scientist.com/on-a-wild-mo...
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On a Wild Mouse Chase to Understand Parenting, Love, and Fear
Studying a diverse and peculiar genus of mice offers researchers a window into the genetic and neural underpinnings of behavior.
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Alejandra Manjarrez @lecteroide.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Me había negado a abrir otra red social, pero pues caí amigos, ¿qué les puedo decir?
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