Mariano F. Zacarías-Fluck
@marianozf.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Senior Researcher @lsouceklab.bsky.social in Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology @VHIO.bsky.social , Barcelona. Amateur musician/genealogist/photographer. #Datavis lover. I sometimes don't follow but add to my lists 😊
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 3w agoHave seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
gavi.org
Look, you can regulate things! "Anthropic explained its changes are designed to meet Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which mandates AI disclosures for generated or manipulated content."
this is really cool! And I find the blog post very inspiring too!
ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ@drmowinckels.io · 2mo agoI'm an R person who just shipped two cross-platform desktop apps in Rust + Tauri + React — a stack I'd never written before. One built straight in code with Claude, one designed first as a clickable artifact. Story: https://l.drmowinckels.io/sNeRrN
this is indeed great. Not an attack on AI at all, but this shows very clearly how dangerous is to use GenAI for scientific writing. Exposure to plagiarism. Plain and simple.
Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 2mo agoRead to the end. This is the best, well-reasoned argument for a complete blanket ban on AI assisted writing.
“A p-value is the most widespread statistical concept that is not definable in a single sentence“ CHECKMATE
Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2mo agoStop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
📣 New VHIO-@caixaresearch.bsky.social Scientific Seminar‼️ 🔹 Targeting clonal heterogeneity in treatment-refractory Glioblastoma with novel and empiric immunotherapies 👩🔬 Dr. Sheila Singh 🗓 Friday, 19th June at 12h 🎤 Host: Dra. Laura Soucek Register at 👉 scientific.seminars@vhio.net
What happens when researchers stop competing for funding? Twenty Dutch metascientists replaced competition with collaboration for NWO grant applications, proving collective approaches can outperform individual ones. @sajedehra.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...
What happens when researchers stop competing for funding? - tue.nl/stories | funding | open science | Daniel Lakens | Sajedeh Rasti
Twenty Dutch metascientists explore whether collaboration can outperform competition.
tue.nl
For years, #RAS and #MYC were considered "undruggable." The success of RAS has changed the conversation. Proud to see this recent @nature.com News & Views highlighting MYC as a promising next frontier and #Peptomyc as a key player helping advance the field. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Landmark cancer trial shows success against ‘undruggable’ cancer — raising hopes for future treatments
Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumours will be next.
nature.com
I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
I'm using @proton.me (mail, storage), @duckduckgo.com (search, blockade of trackers on my phone) and Brave instead of the horrendous Chrome. I've been testing @asklumo.proton.me and to me, it works very well in general, not yet tested it for coding help. I can't wait to move away from Android!
Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 4mo agoRegular reminder that there are alternatives to Google Search and Google Chrome. Some European alternatives are listed here: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-... (where you can also find alternatives for other tech products should you be looking for them)
I'm usually not one to join the anti-AI hype train, but most of what I read this week was about AI degrading the scientific infrastructure I rely on heavily, from GitHub to arXiv to peer-reviewed published literature. Weekly Recap / Five Things: blog.stephenturner.us/p/five-thing...
Five Things (May 15, 2026): AI is why we can't have nice things
GitHub problems, vibe-coding regrets, Elsevier sues Meta, fabricated citations, the arXiv banhammer for AI-generated content
blog.stephenturner.us
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This is extremely concerning. #AI have the potential to be fantastic tools, but also to make us perhaps anxious or demanding for immediate results, curbing our own capacity for critical thinking and perseverance
Kris Inwood@kris-inwood.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew report of experimental evidence from Grace Liu & collaborators showing that AI assistance improves immediate performance - but after just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving people who lose access to the AI perform worse and give up more frequently than those who never used it.
New advising trick I've been trying: when a student looks skeptical about something, but doesn't *say* they are, I say "the look on your face says you don't believe me" I think explicitly acknowledging the nonverbal cue gives permission to voice what they're unsure about so we can talk about it
Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. A handwritten letter from Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1861: “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis - Nature
Mouse models demonstrate that vagal sensory neurons transmit signals from lung adenocarcinoma to the brain, increasing sympathetic efferent activity in the tumour microenvironment and thereb...
nature.com
I had intended to post something about this new Google DeepMind paper that appeared yesterday in Nature, but the press coverage has added to what there is to say. So this is a long 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature
AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...
nature.com
A very tidy blog entry on how to maintain a lab notebook. Easy to follow, super useful tips.
Carlos Scheidegger@cscheid.net · 8mo ago(I assume this is some of that: colinpurrington.com/tips/lab-not...)
The time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Analysis of 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations 🙃 gptzero.me/news/neurips/
"While moderate levels of endogeny are common in special issues, excessive endogeny is a blatant case of scientific misconduct. We define special issues containing more than 33% endogeny as Published in Support of Self (PISS)... The large majority of guest editors engage in endogeny responsibly..."
Martin Plöderl@ploederl.bsky.social · 8mo agoPISS journals 😂 arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
