Javi Ibarrondo
@jibarrondo.bsky.social
Researcher at UCLA. PhD. Immunology, HIV. I love science, music, books and friends. Hate lies, authoritarianism and bad people. I block trolls: no debate, no comment.
Antimalaria pesticide may have backfired, helping mosquitoes find love | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Antimalaria pesticide may have backfired, helping mosquitoes find love
Poison appears to have caused mutation that helps insects home in on mates in noisy cities
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NASA mission predicts solar explosion’s arrival at Earth with stunning precision | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
NASA mission predicts solar explosion’s arrival at Earth with stunning precision
Satellite network known as PUNCH breaks record for forecasting space weather event
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As a weekly anti-HIV pill nears the market, vaccine research faces new hurdles | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
As a weekly anti-HIV pill nears the market, vaccine research faces new hurdles
Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger
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With lucky dive, scientists get a front-row view of the creation of Earth’s surface | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
With lucky dive, scientists get a front-row view of the creation of Earth’s surface
Chance—and preparation—reveal live action at midocean ridges
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An antibody–drug conjugate active against antibiotic-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
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The floral illusion: A parasitic beetle mimics the scent of flowers to attract bees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
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Social dynamics of AI adoption in parents’ educational decisions | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
PNAS
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Can stimulating ownership increase fertility: Evidence from housing interventions in China | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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"Our findings provide direct evidence that intensified immigration enforcement increasingly contradicts its stated public-safety rationale". ICE arrests, 2015–2026: Variation in targeting, method, and geography | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Reversing vegetable biodiversity loss to diversify diets | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
Reversing vegetable biodiversity loss to diversify diets | PNAS
Vegetables are a critical component of diets, with inadequate intake of this essential food group leading to poor dietary quality and malnutrition....
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Major highway of the human nervous system gets a complete road map | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Major highway of the human nervous system gets a complete road map
First comprehensive map of the vagus nerve may point to more precise stimulation therapies
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Integrating humans into biodiversity science through ethnobiodiversity informatics: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Integrating humans into biodiversity science through ethnobiodiversity informatics
Charles Davis and colleagues propose ethnobiodiversity informatics as an expansion of biodiversity informatics to represent human systems as explicit data layers, thus modeling more realistically the ...
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These moths smell with their wings | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
These moths smell with their wings
Never-before-seen ability may allow the insects to home in on their favorite plants
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Atlas of lysosomal aging reveals a metabolite signature shared with lysosomal storage disorders | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
Atlas of lysosomal aging reveals a metabolite signature shared with lysosomal storage disorders
Lysosomal dysfunction is a well-recognized feature of aging. Here, we used a suite of tools for rapid lysosomal isolation to construct a multitissue atlas of the metabolite changes lysosomes undergo d...
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Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas
“Landmark” paper finds disease originated with European contact
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High-speed orcas are blowing sunfish to smithereens | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
High-speed orcas are blowing sunfish to smithereens
Never-before-seen behavior may represent the giant cetaceans playing with their food, ecologists say
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EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
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Time to HIV rebound after infusion of long-acting broadly neutralising antibodies 3BNC117-LS and 10-1074-LS and analytical treatment interruption (the RIO trial): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial - The Lancet HIV www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
Time to HIV rebound after infusion of long-acting broadly neutralising antibodies 3BNC117-LS and 10-1074-LS and analytical treatment interruption (the RIO trial): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-c...
Long-acting bNAbs can sustain extended ART-free viral control in people treated during early-stage HIV and represent a promising step towards achieving ART-free HIV remission.
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Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization
Newly found earthworks suggest about 3 million people might have lived in just about 3% of the forest’s entire area
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Why is tracing the source of cyclosporiasis outbreaks so difficult? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Why is tracing the source of cyclosporiasis outbreaks so difficult?
Parasite’s biology, combined with logistical issues and budget cuts, make tracking it a major challenge
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New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews
Vague language and extensive reviews could impede potentially useful research, some scientists fear
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Under fire from Republican senators, Fauci takes the Fifth at COVID-19 hearing | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Under fire from Republican senators, Fauci takes the Fifth at COVID-19 hearing
Former top NIH official says Senator Rand Paul is trying to imprison him because of an “unhinged obsession”
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mRNA-based influenza vaccine expands the B cell response breadth in humans - Nature Immunology
This study compares the humoral response of individuals who received inactivated influenza vaccines to that of individuals who received an mRNA-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine. The mRNA-based vac...
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Metabolic traits in obesity and normal BMI in industrialised countries: a multi-country analysis of national population-based studies - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
Metabolic traits in obesity and normal BMI in industrialised countries: a multi-country analysis of national population-based studies
In industrialised countries, blood pressure and non-HDL cholesterol in older adults with obesity are increasingly similar to those with normal BMI, with higher use of antihypertensive and lipid-loweri...
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Gene may help lizards get a grip in hurricane-force winds | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Gene may help lizards get a grip in hurricane-force winds
“Huge” new study of Caribbean anole populations catches evolution in real time
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Trump adviser’s Golden Age report on U.S. science is a missed opportunity, critics say | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Trump adviser’s Golden Age report on U.S. science is a missed opportunity, critics say
White House report aims to shake up a “calcified system,” but researchers warn it could do more harm than good
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