Pedro Santamaria

@p-santamaria.bsky.social

Retired researcher in Developmental Genetics, Evo-Devo. Drosophila. Polycomb Group. (PRC genes. "polyhomeotic" etc.), Nuclear transplantation in the egg. Cell mosaics and chimeras. Epigenesis in Drosophila. Atheist. Hobby: mosaics.

- Neither of the two !! Neither Sports and nor Politics !! But SCIENCE !! - Who, in one's right mind, is interested in contingent, inconsequential and circumstantial "sports" 😒 or "even in liberal", demagogic, nationalistic and ideological politiciens🥴 ??! gizmodo.com/the-ceo-of-b...

The CEO of Bluesky Says He Wants Less of a Focus on Liberal Politics (and More Sports)

Some on Bluesky don’t seem to have noticed the “sports” part.

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🗣️“Cuando una encina dispone de agua, su copa se refrigera; cuando sufre estrés, se calienta" 🌳El @iascsic.bsky.social utiliza la temperatura de las encinas como señal temprana de estrés hídrico 🔎Un trabajo clave para la gestión de las dehesas mediterráneas 👉 http://tiny.cc/rz47101

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🤔¿Son iguales los órganos de hombres y mujeres? 🪰En la mosca de la fruta, un mecanismo organiza de manera distinta el intestino según el sexo 🔎Estas diferencias determinan cómo machos y hembras metabolizan las grasas 🔬Un hallazgo de @ibv-csic.bsky.social 👉http://tiny.cc/hg57101

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- Nice to see that we, Europeans, support more "Gravity" than in the "Lightweight" USA (NOTE: Not to scale!!!) - Prognosis : We😇 will stay, when in some "eons" (the Postzoïque😉) you 😱 will dissapear drowned by the floods. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5660/?utm_so...

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | The Geoid

The geoid is an equipotential surface that can be thought of as the shape an ocean surface would take due to the Earth's gravity field. In this visualization the geoid height is greatly exaggerated, b...

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- When President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released its final report last month, its conclusions and recommendations were as predictable as they were Deplorable ! - Defenders of Secular government will have to push back quickly and forcefully. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

A Trump commission urges ‘bridges’ between church and state in sweeping draft report

The Religious Liberty Commission is an advisory body created by President Donald Trump last year and filled almost entirely by conservative Christians.

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"The study identified eight motifs: - Three types of trills (short, fast, ultra-fast), - Three types of whistles (flat, slightly modulated, highly modulated), sequences of notes described as "chaotic" and, - Finally, "harmonic" series". www.lemonde.fr/en/science/a...

The secrets of birdsong, organized by eight 'elementary' motifs

Drawing on more than 100,000 recordings, researchers have identified the eight basic motifs, including trills and whistles, that songbirds use to compose their tunes.

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"Arthur Mensch, athée revendiqué, doute frontalement du récit de la superintelligence imminente que vendent Sam Altman ou Elon Musk. Là où les signataires voient un danger existentiel à cadrer, lui voit surtout un emballement quasi mystique". posthumain.com/intelligence...

Pétition contre l'IA : 1 100 salariés veulent freiner l'automatisation

Plus de 1 100 employés d'OpenAI, Anthropic, Google et Meta demandent à Washington des outils pour ralentir l'IA au besoin. Mistral, lui, n'a pas signé. Décryptage de ce qu'ils réclament vraiment.

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La réalité ou l'existence d'un fait précis (Jésus) ne change rien au problème et ne présente aucune utilité pour le sujet abordé ! Jésus était juif et n'avait aucune intention de créer une nouvelle religion. Personne resucite ni fait des miracles. secularhumanism.org/2026/07/carr...

Carrier Fails to Carry His Burden | Free Inquiry

The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus, by Richard Carrier (Durham, NC: Pitchstone Publishing, 2025, ISBN 978-1-63431-282-0), 439 pp., $24.95. Over the ...

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