A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same portal to enter human cells as the virus that causes COVID-19, raising the risk that it could spark an outbreak in people go.nature.com/4gLKy50

Should we not all make a more public pitch towards preserving science right now? Like, academia has its problems but is an amazing power for good. E.g. Car-T cancer therapy is saving many lives. Wouldn't have happend without NIH indirect costs. There are a million examples.

Es permitido, aún a los agnósticos, rezar por Francisco. He definido mi agnosticismo con esta frase: no tengo un problema con Dios y él tampoco conmigo. Pero por alejado que yo esté del rito y la pompa, le reconozco a Francisco que nos acercó a los descreídos al mensaje auténtico

Take a moment?

Today’s reminder, from Erasmus

Good luck to all the Oscar nominees. And remember…

This is likely true for human-related studies, not because scientists are dishonest, but because the penny-wise-pound-foolish academic funding system incentivizes small, cheap, underpowered studies over more expensive high-quality, experiments that would actually be reliable.

Es hora de regular la hoja de coca para ser usada con fines agroindustriales, medicinales, gastronómicos y más. La coca no es cocaína.

Con profundo pesar recibo la noticia del fallecimiento del profesor Julián Betancourt; uno de los más importantes divulgadores científicos colombianos. Creó el Museo de la Ciencia y el Juego de la Univ. Nal. hace más de 40 años, visitado por miles de jóvenes cada año.

Arguing about whether certain things “are computers” is akin to Aristotelians arguing about whether certain things “are movers”. Computation, like motion, is a useful and highly general abstraction of processes. Any additional ontological baggage just confuses things.

The fact that the matter in your brain enacts computations is independent of whatever evolutionary process led to it. The matter in rocks enacts computations too, of equivalent sophistication. (Just as the matter in your hand enacts motion, irrespective of evolutionary process.)

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SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using

Meet the first dire wolves to exist in over 10,000 years ti.me/4cnbBTr

De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf – it hasn’t newscientist.com/article/247540…

Multiple learning rules in different parts of dendrites Definitive goodbye to hoping the brain is simple...?? 😯 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Quisiera que volviéramos a esperar en que la #paz es posible. Que desde el Santo Sepulcro, donde este año la #Pascua será celebrada el mismo día por los católicos y los ortodoxos, se irradie la luz de la paz sobre toda Tierra Santa y sobre el mundo entero.

#PapaFrancisco

Murió el Papa Francisco, el primer pontífice latinoamericano

Vigente durante más 23 siglos es esta afirmación que se le atribuye a Aristóteles: “El hombre, cuanto más estudia es más sencillo, porque a medida que estudia descubre la grandeza de su ignorancia”.