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SupercuriousPhD

@supercuriousphd.bsky.social

Super-curious virologist, pharmacologist, educator and oral biology researcher; lover of our beautiful natural world. Postings and opinions my own. Re-posts not necessarily endorsements....NO DMs about crypto- or "grooming" for crypto! You will be blocked.

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻@dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 6h ago

🍁🌎 Can bioenergy crops help restore native forests? Our new paper suggests they can! We found that willow plantations can serve as an effective “nurse crop” for native hardwoods—linking renewable energy & ecological restoration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... @sunyesf.bsky.social

Established Short‐Rotation Willow (<fi>Salix</fi> spp.) as an Effective Facilitator of Native Hardwood Tree Regeneration in New York State, <fc>USA</fc>

In the Northeastern US, short-rotation willow biomass crops have the potential to serve as nurse crops that facilitate hardwood regeneration on former agricultural land to support afforestation effor...

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Western Environmental Law Center@westernlaw.org · 5h ago

NEWS RELEASE: We just filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's baseless eviction of bison from public grazing land in Montana. We're representing the mighty @westernwatersheds.bsky.social. Read more: westernlaw.org/conservation... 🌎

Conservation groups to challenge Trump administration’s move to banish bison from public lands - Western Environmental Law Center

Western Watersheds Project, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, on Wednesday filed a complaint in Montana Federal District Court against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for revoki...

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Nature Medicine@natmed.nature.com · 2h ago

A first-in-human phase 1 study of an allogeneic, clinical-grade #iPSC-derived neural stem/progenitor cell product in patients with subacute complete #SpinalCordInjury demonstrates clinical feasibility and long-term safety.

An iPSC-derived neural progenitor cell therapy for subacute spinal cord injury: a phase 1 trial with long-term follow-up - Nature Medicine

A phase 1 trial evaluating the safety of iPSC-derived neural stem cell transplantation in subacute complete spinal cord injury, with 2–4 years of follow-up including MRI, neurological and functional assessments met its primary outcome.

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Brunella Longo@brunellalongo.bsky.social · 2h ago

Extremely relevant in Sjögren's (gum disease and loss of teeth bone due to xerostomia) the bacteria causing also RA colonise the mouth: there is no way to mitigate their damage other than obsessive hygiene + quarterly dental hygiene sessions the cost of which is between £65 and £120 in London!

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The Journal of Rheumatology @jrheumatol.bsky.social · 6h ago

Editorial From Mouth to Joint: Citrullinated Bacteria in Driving Synovial Autoimmunity 📖 doi.org/10.3899/jrhe... @benaroyaresearch.bsky.social #PeriodontalDisease #RheumatoidArthritis

Brunella Longo@brunellalongo.bsky.social · 2h ago

This should be put forward for urgent revision of protocols that make difficult prescriptions for antifungal medications like Nystatin or antibiotics. Undetected by normal tests or judged minimal, candidiasi can make huge damage to impaired exocrine glands in Sjogren's.

ACR Journals@acr-journals.bsky.social · yesterday

Data from 3,826 patients with Sjögren's disease showed infections & reinfections were more frequent in SjD vs matched controls with sicca symptoms and patients w/ SLE / RA. Younger patients and anti-SSA/Ro positivity correlated with higher infection & reinfection rates ACROR doi.org/10.1002/acr2...

Unique and shared ID profiles in SjD and top pathogens in the SjD patient population. (A) The Venn diagram illustrates the overlap of unique ICD-10 ID codes identified in the SjD patient population with those identified in control conditions, including SLE, RA, DE, and DM. The analysis focuses on ICD-10 diagnostic codes with statistically significant odds ratios. The table details the eight ICD-10 codes that were significantly different in the SjD cohort relative to the control cohort, of which seven were elevated in SjD and one (B95.0) was found to be decreased in SjD. §An ICD-10 code found to be less frequent in the SjD cohort compared to others. (B) This panel highlights the top eight pathogens identified across all ID ICD-10 codes in the SjD cohort, including candidiasis, herpesviruses, dermatophytosis, Streptococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp., osteomyelitis, Clostridium difficile, and Mycobacterium spp. The figure shows the percentage of the SjD patient population diagnosed with any ICD-10 code associated with these infections.
Nature Metabolism@natmetabolism.nature.com · 6h ago

RESEARCH | G Sarkar, Ana Domingos et al (Uni Oxford, UK) Lepr+Adrb2+ sympathetic perineurial cells coordinate leptin signalling and sympathetic output to modulate energy expenditure, thermogenesis and body weight in male mice 🧪

The perineurium integrates leptin with its sympathetic outflow to protect against obesity - Nature Metabolism

Lepr+Adrb2+ sympathetic perineurial cells coordinate leptin signalling and sympathetic output to modulate energy expenditure, thermogenesis and body weight in male mice, independent of changes to food intake.

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Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 4h ago

🧪 Nearly half of all hospitalized COVID-19 patients had a dormant virus they were already carrying that “woke up". This was a known phenomenon, but a new study provides additional data (n=1,154 patients) showing how viruses like Epstein-Barr and CMV reacted in response to COVID infections. #MedSky 🛟

COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms

Virus reactivations by SARS-CoV-2 could worsen initial symptoms and increase risk of Long Covid

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Mike Fainzilber@mfainzilber.bsky.social · 2h ago

🧪 Humanity dumbing down for the past ~50 years… scienceblog.com/t-a-study-of...

A study of 730,000 Norwegian conscripts found the IQ gains of the 20th century reversed after 1975, falling by roughly seven points a generation, and ruled out genetics as the cause by comparing broth...

A massive study of Norwegian conscripts reveals that IQ scores, which climbed steadily for a century, have been falling sharply since the 1970s—and the culprit isn't in our genes.

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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS@kokedit.bsky.social · 2h ago

As a #medical #editor, I composed this letter to my physician–authors about using #ArtificialIntelligence to #write their #research papers: www.linkedin.com/posts/kokedi... #AI 🧪

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. | Katharine O&#39;Moore-Klopf, ELS

The headline on an opinion piece in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠: 𝐈’𝐦 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮: 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀.𝐈. An excerpt from the piece: “… The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling...

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juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 2d ago

April “Have you ever wondered why a thick corky bark covers the whole tree, even to the smallest twigs? The cork is armor. Bur oaks were the shock troops sent by the invading forest to storm the prairie; fire is what they had to fight. Each April ... fires ran at will ... sparing only such old oaks"

Michael Le Page@mjflepage.bsky.social · yesterday

A study of the 2023 Canadian wildfires 🔥 has concluded that drifting smoke caused a 3 per cent drop in solar power generation in Europe and North America, costing nearly $2 billion and increasing CO2 emissions 🧪 It's happening again this year, of course www.newscientist.com/article/2582...

Canadian wildfires are reducing solar power generation in Europe | New Scientist

Lost solar power due to smoke blocking the sun cost Europe and North America nearly $2 billion in 2023 alone

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · yesterday

Part of the “American Golden Age” of Science. Success in industry works when you don’t cut off federal funding for the next generation of graduate students at universities. 🧪 archive.today/eYz0t

NSF testing new Ph.D. model giving trainees academic and industry experience

Students working in fields eligible for NSF funding will be able to participate, including chemistry, engineering, and basic life science research that doesn’t deal directly with the treatment of dise...

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Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)@jperkel.bsky.social · yesterday

This is cool. The Center for Scientific Integrity (which oversees @retractionwatch.com) announces the first winners of its Ctrl-Z Prize for researchers with the courage to retract their own work. 🧪 centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/08/04/2...

The Center for Scientific Integrity announces inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z Award for courage in retracting their own work - The Center for Scientific Integrity

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors a junio...

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Prof Sam Illingworth@samillingworth.com · yesterday

🧬 A gel that grows its own water channels Chemists built a hydrogel from an uncapped peptide and found it self-organises into ordered nanofibres with internal water channels, no scaffolding needed. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75984-9 #Chemistry #Nanotech 🧪

Atomic-precision π-driven peptide hydrogel nanofibers with ordered water channels - Nature Communications

In peptide-based systems, aromatic stacking is usually achieved by terminal capping, but here the authors show that a π-extended aromatic unit can be integrated into an uncapped peptide using a pyrene...

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Nature Metabolism@natmetabolism.nature.com · yesterday

#Throwback 🧪 CONSENSUS STATEMENT | Recommendations for mitochondria transfer and transplantation nomenclature and characterization Jonathan Brestoff, @mitoscientist.bsky.social‬ et al.

Recommendations for mitochondria transfer and transplantation nomenclature and characterization - Nature Metabolism

This Consensus Statement provides a nomenclature framework and experimental recommendations for studying mitochondrial transfer and transplantation.

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