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Victor Montal

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Alzheimer research, compchem, bioinfo, neuroimaging, NBA

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L'algorisme @lalgorisme.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Un apunt final. El periodista que va documentar bona part d'aquest entramat, Jesús Rodríguez, de la Directa, va acabar acusat de terrorisme i exiliat. Aquest 2026, l'AEPD ha sancionat la Directa i VilaWeb per publicar les identitats d'infiltrats policials.
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🍉 Cesc Bernat 🍂 🍄 @cescbernat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No, AI hasn't officially solved a Millennium Prize Problem (yet). It has produced a candidate solution. That's amazing — and potentially historic — but it is not an accepted solution yet. As of today, the Clay Mathematics Institute still lists the Navier–Stokes problem as Unsolved. 1/2
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In 2012 one paper linked two separate discoveries about fluid moving through the brain and gave us the word "glymphatics." @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social on why the theory it produced is still fiercely contested. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-brain-d...
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Brain Drain: The Controversy Around Glymphatics
Dr Yvonne Couch on the glymphatic system row: what we actually know about how the brain clears fluid, and where scientists still disagree.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Mates en català @matescat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lorenz s'ho va trobar en un model de l'atmosfera: dues situacions gairebé iguals acaben en llocs oposats, per això el temps no es prediu a llarg termini. És un atractor: un punt que segueix tres equacions i sempre cau en aquesta forma. El d'avui: Halvorsen.
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Björn Meyer @bmeyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Politics has consequences
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Bernie Sanders needs to stop insisting that the US government should own 50% of the money-losingest corporations the world has ever seen and start talking about how they will *not* get a government bailout when their investment bubble bursts. 22/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
AI *does* have destructive potential. It has the potential to destroy the productive economy when an AI salesman convinces your boss to fire you and replace you with chatbots that can't do your job: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 15/
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Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Hussein N. Yassine @yassinelab1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ceperognastat and the Limits of Tau Biomarker Translation open.substack.com/pub/hyassine...
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Ceperognastat and the Limits of Tau Biomarker Translation
Tau PET tracks Alzheimer’s disease better than amyloid PET, but tracking disease is not the same as proving what will rescue the brain.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🧵The Nakba in 1948 not only resulted in the expulsion of nearly 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland, it also displaced thousands of Palestinians within the newly created state, expelling them from their home villages and preventing them from returning.
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AEMET @aemet.es · 07/08/2026
🧵🔥 El peligro de incendios se incrementa estos próximos días a niveles muy altos o extremos en buena parte de la Península. Mapas del pronóstico de peligro de incendios para el viernes 7 y sábado 8 👉
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AEMET @aemet.es · 05/08/2026
🌡️🌊 La temperatura del agua de nuestros mares está más de 3 °C por encima de lo normal para estas fechas en el Cantábrico y más de 4 °C en el Mediterráneo occidental. ➡️ Esto provoca noches muy cálidas en la costa y un aumento de la sensación de bochorno por la elevada humedad.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
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L'algorisme @lalgorisme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fa tres setmanes: un guàrdia civil condemnat a Tenerife a 4 anys i mig per espiar dues exparelles i familiars. Abans: 8 anys per a un agent de Madrid que consultava dades de dones per extorsionar-les. Els casos són freqüents
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 02/08/2026
What makes total solar eclipses so special? 🌑 Why don't they happen every month? 📅 And how can the Moon block a Sun that's 400x larger? ☀️ All the answers here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2… 🔭 🧪 1/2
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Why total solar eclipses are so special
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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 26/07/2026
👉Israel protagoniza una escalada bélica contra la población palestina en Cisjordania En las últimas horas, colonos israelíes han incendiado mezquitas y automóviles, han allanado decenas de hogares y los han saqueado.  ✍️ @queraltcastillo.bsky.social  📸 Mauricio Morales elsal.to/49036
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
El derechista Aznar sobre el cambio climático: "Los abanderados del apocalipsis climático exigen recursos millonarios para causas tan científicamente cuestionables como mantener la temperatura del planeta, y resolver un problema que quizá, o quizá no, tengan nuestros tataranietos"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Ana Requena Aguilar @requenaaguilar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
No es una demanda civil, es una querella penal: nos acusa de delitos que implican penas de cárcel. Por hacer y publicar una investigación sobre violencia sexual. Ojalá seamos conscientes de lo gravísimo que es esto, de que quieren callar el periodismo que denuncia la violencia sexual.
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. A total of 549 Scots volunteered to fight in Spain. Proportionally more Scots volunteered than from any other country. We still have a lot of work to do in Scotland to tackle fascism, racism, and all forms of discrimination.
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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Andreu Escrivà @andreuescriva.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hablando de recoger, ¿sabéis qué famoso invento popularizado en Francia en 1789 recoge también a determinada parte de los empresarios?
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Andreu Escrivà @andreuescriva.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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El calor derrite las juntas de los raíles y suspende la circulación de tranvías en Leipzig
Las temperaturas de hasta 40 grados dañan también las autopistas de hormigón, donde las losas se expanden y luego se rompen bruscamente
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Andreu Escrivà @andreuescriva.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
¿Nos parecería normal llenar más de 20 autobuses y despeñarlos? Porque no adaptarnos al cambio climático es básicamente eso. Y esto es un sólo país una única semana. elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
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Francia registra 1.000 fallecidos más en los últimos días atribuibles a la ola de calor
La mortalidad aumentó entre el martes y el jueves, en pleno pico de la canícula, según la agencia nacional de salud pública, y los decesos en domicilios han crecido un 40%, aunque son cifras aún provisionales
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Frank Swain @frank-swain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)
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oyesherman.bsky.social @oyesherman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Pablo Hasél segueix a la presó.
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is a scary sight.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Unpopular opinion: Going straight to AI limits your creatively, because it short-circuits the iterative process you need to develop new ideas.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:
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NPR @npr.org · 09/06/2026
Gregory Bovino was the face of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Recently, he appeared at a conference alongside neo-Nazis and white nationalists. n.pr/4fvghdM
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What was Gregory Bovino doing at a 'remigration' conference in Portugal?
Gregory Bovino was the face of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Recently, he appeared at a conference alongside neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
STOP using ipTM for #AlphaFold PPI screens. * Artificially LOW when both full-length proteins have irrelevant, non-binding IDRs/domains. * If one protein is folded & other contains irrelevant IDRs or domains, the score is too HIGH bc of d0. * Use ipSAE or LIS. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
ipSAE vs ipTM for sorting true interactors from non-interactors. ipSAE is better at separating them.Post from "AF Cache: Efficient Pipeline for Running AlphaFold for High-Throughput Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction". Various scores on p53/mdm2 interaction.AlphaFOld ipTM score goes up when extra disorder is added to ONE proten. It goes way down when added to both proteins. Example of KRAS with RAF1 RBD.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Not wanting to be snarky but this is true of every technological advance in science. My entire PhD in 1983 was the fitting and refinement of a single protein crystal structure. Today I could do the same within an hour - no AI required. Hyperbole does not help.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This isn’t a debate between “development”& “conservation.” It’s a war between short-term greed and long-term survival. Our forests aren’t luxury green spaces,they are life-support systems. Destroy them,& we destroy the air we breathe,the water we drink,& the climate
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026
I just backed That One Matt Bors Comic on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
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That One Matt Bors Comic
A book about how “we should improve society somewhat” conquered the discourse
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If not now, when? This is an emergency.
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Action! Action Now.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 26/05/2026
“Academic science is not only about productivity, it is also about deep understanding, exploring creative solutions and training critical thinkers to be the next generation of researchers.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.
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Mike Greicius @mikegreicius.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🧪 #alzheimer #amyloid Amazing new paper from @sfackley.bsky.social that exposes the statistical alchemy Lilly applied to their donanemab data: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... There is little to no correlation between amyoid removal and clinical outcomes with donanemab (or lecanemab).
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Methodological Considerations for Quantile Aggregation in Alzheimer Disease Trials
This study evaluates the quantile-aggregation method using both simulated data and publicly available Alzheimer disease randomized trial data.
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Muchas gracias al rapero Pablo Hasel. Muy emocionado por su palabras desde prisión. Este libro nunca debería haberlo tenido que leer en una cárcel.Como nos pide,vamos a seguir luchando y organizándonos por su libertad, por la amnistía total y contra estos oligarcas www.presos.org.es/index.php/20...
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Pablo Hasel recomienda el libro «Oligarcas, los dueños de España» del periodista Fonsi Loaiza. – PRES.O.S.
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ | NOEMA
Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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#NeuroDegeneration preprints @prepub-neurodegen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reconsidering Brain Age: Why Age-Prediction Models Fail as Measures of Brain Aging #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Mohammed AlQuraishi @moalquraishi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Equivariance is dead! 😢 Or is it? 😈 Genie 3 is out! Our latest protein design model achieves SoTA results for binder design and motif scaffolding, greatly improving on BindCraft and Proteina-Complexa. It does so using all-atom SE(3)-equivariance based on a branched polymer representation👇
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Yeqing Lin @yeqinglin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Introducing Genie 3, a generative protein model that substantially advances the state-of-the-art for binder design, increasing in silico success rates by up to 20x on hard multimeric targets. It also debuts a form of inference-time scaling unobserved in other design models. 🧵1/8
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 08/05/2026
‼️El Govern admite que dos agentes de los Mossos espiaron una asamblea de profesores en Barcelona
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El Govern admite que dos agentes de los Mossos espiaron una asamblea de profesores en Barcelona
ERC y los Comuns exigen la dimisión de Trapero como director general de la policía catalana, mientras el Ejecutivo se escuda en que la ley permite a la policía "recoger información" sobre "la conflict...
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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. 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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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 05/05/2026
Un extrabajador de Amazon lanza un mensaje a Bezos en una pantalla gigante antes de la Met Gala: "Invertís en el genocidio" www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/t...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.
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ICE Agent Who Shot Dead Unarmed Mom Quietly Reassigned as FBI Probe Stalls
DHS officials tell PunchUp the FBI needs to “s--t or get off the pot.”
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hoy se cumple un año del gran apagón. Se llama Beatriz Corredor y es la Presidenta de Redeia. Sigue en el cargo ganando 1.500€ al día con un sueldazo de 546.000€. Fue ministra de Vivienda con Zapatero con el mayor número de desahucios de la historia (225/día).
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