Eduardo Fernández Ortuño
@edufdzortu.bsky.social
Evo-devo researcher on cortex evolution 🐍🐀🐓🦦🦧🧠 I love animals and understanding how the past generated the present 🤠 https://vborrelllab.wixsite.com/website
With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for national and state elections, institutions are facing up to proposed restrictions on academic freedom go.nature.com/4an43R5
Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany
With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for national and state elections, institutions are facing up to proposed restrictions on academic freedom.
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“The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The National Institutes of Health,… accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4vtwEN1
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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👏 ¡Enhorabuena a Eduardo Fernández Ortuño @edufdzortu.bsky.social, que realizó su doctorado en el @borrell-lab.bsky.social del @neuroalc.bsky.social, por ser finalista local del concurso #HiloTesis! @umh.es 🔗 comunicacion.umh.es/2026/05/29/e...
A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain go.nature.com/4cVC2Am
Key US science panels are being axed — and others are becoming less open
A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.
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These highly sentient creatures have weak protections for their well-being. That must change. go.nature.com/48vuHGw
Cephalopods deserve higher welfare standards in research
These highly sentient creatures have weak protections for their well-being. That must change.
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Speeding up a bit the paper in the weekend fitting in some creativity as the code runs Many things change in life. Never thought I'd end up liking constructivism :S
Yesterday I went to a kind of a different lab :D A lot of washes, but not an immuno
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is facing threats from the White House. https://scim.ag/4pIZfei
Trump administration moves to break up leading U.S. climate and weather center
White House budget director calls the National Center for Atmospheric Research a source of “climate alarmism”
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Tidying up my samples before I leave as I finish my PhD. Sooooo many hours, reduced to just a few boxes 🥹
España, un país que desprecia a la ciencia www.eldiario.es/129_c15f51?u...
España, un país que desprecia a la ciencia
La ciencia es un florero para los dos principales partidos que han gobernado este país y para unos sindicatos que no se han preocupado nunca por las condiciones laborales del personal científico
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#SciencePhoto_IN “Not very fond of reptiles” Author: @edufdzortu.bsky.social Lab: @borrell-lab.bsky.social "Merciless, the cryostat was a bit rough with this precious sample of a snake embryo, a model we use to study the evolution of the brain cortex. With @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social SPEII."
Three species, same data, same orthologs, two cookings. So, reality is really a matter of choice I guess :S
