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Michael Rera
@michaelrera.bsky.social
researching on ageing & death
PI UTELife lab, fly wrangler
cofounder/gravedigger @publisciences @publifactory
https://michaelrera.github.io/
Pinned
Happy to announce the latest preprint of PhD candidate Mariana Abakarova (not yet on bluesky) tinyurl.com/4ewd2v85 in co-supervision with Prof. @laineelodie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr / @upariscite
tinyurl.com/2ntnfvw3
Funded by @agencerecherche.bsky.social ADAGIO and @erc.europa.eu PROMISE
Proteome-wide prediction of the Functional Impact of Missense Variants with ProteoCast
Background: Dissecting the functional impact of genetic mutations is essential to advancing our understanding of genotype-phenotype relationships and identifying new therapeutic targets. Despite the p...
www.biorxiv.org
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Typiquement l’utilisation du « factchecking » à des fins de gaslight réactionnaire. Pas pour rien que Woessner est comme un poisson dans l’eau au REC.
POV : encore une fois, une femme a été victime de viol puis licenciée
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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En train d'écouter une émission fraichement diffusée par RTL sur "l'affaire Mannechez", j'ai pas attendu trois minutes pour entendre le journaliste qualifier la relation incestueuse entre Virginie et son père "d'histoire d'amour hors norme" qui plus tard parle de "conte de fée incestueux".
En décembre 2018, j'ai assisté au procès de Denis Mannechez, accusé de l'assassinat de sa fille, Virginie.

Deux frères racontent leur calvaire, une soeur son inceste. Ils demandent : pourquoi la justice les a abandonnés ?

Le 1er octobre 2025, je publie : "Qui a tué Virginie ?" aux éditions Globe.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Who says capitalism can't innovate when OpenAI is out here inventing consumer liability protection law from first principles
OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT
The case is ongoing.
www.theverge.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Peer review is often criticised for being slow, biased and quashing revolutionary ideas.

With our consultative review process, reviewers discuss their reviews with each other before reaching a decision and limit suggestions for extra work. buff.ly/AnqASqz
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Le fascisme ce n’est pas que l’ED. Le fascisme s’installe à l’aune d’un climat politique qui laisse prospérer la mesquinerie et la médiocrité. C’est en ce sens que la culture de l’humiliation publique, qui fait de la raillerie et de la cruauté des signes de ralliement, est pleinement fasciste.
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A paper in Nature presents evidence of lightning on Mars, detected in sounds and electrical signals captured by NASA’s Perseverance rove. The observations indicate that Mars’s atmosphere is electrically active, which may have implications for future exploration. go.nature.com/49IbPpg 🔭 🧪
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.

📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.

Prosecute her and everyone involved.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Le VIH adresse un grand merci à tout ceux qui s'opposent aux cours d'éducation sexuelle et qui cherchent à nuire au planning familial
🇫🇷📈 VIH : forte hausse des diagnostics chez les 15-24 ans

Selon les nouvelles données de Santé publique France, les jeunes sont de plus en plus touchés par le VIH.
+41 % de diagnostics chez les 15-24 ans en dix ans, alors que la prévention stagne.
VIH : hausse des diagnostics chez les 15-24 ans, les jeunes HSH en première ligne - Association STOP homophobie
Les diagnostics VIH progressent fortement chez les 15-24 ans, en particulier chez les jeunes HSH, selon Santé publique France.
www.stophomophobie.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social:

Four years Ukraine is fighting for the whole Europe.
NATO was built to fight only one war, not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria. One war to save free Europe from Russian aggression.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Le gars a un kink avec les uniformes : il a essayé de les fourguer aux écoles publiques, ensuite il a tenté le SNU et là il y va Franco (pun intended) avec le service militaire 🫡
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Fruit fly geneticists have a lot of fun when it comes to naming genes.

One of my favourite is pitchoune a.k.a. DDX18 (meaning small in Provence) because mutations in this gene produce larvae that cannot grow beyond the first instar larval stage.

journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
A Drosophila RNA helicase gene, pitchoune, is required for cell growth and proliferation and is a potential target of d-Myc
ABSTRACT. This article describes the characterization of a new Drosophila gene that we have called pitchoune (pit) (meaning small in Provence) because mutations in this gene produce larvae that cannot...
journals.biologists.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says
The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France's Institut Pa...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Fascinating article by @heidiledford.bsky.social: single cells from one 74 year-old man were a truly chaotic mosaic of mutation: some cells had a missing Y chromosome, chromosomes with extra arms, and more.
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Au moins, Jordan Bardella sait se situer politiquement !

Pour soutenir la lutte dessinée, engagée et indépendante :
▶️ ko-fi.com/allanbarte
▶️ fr.tipeee.com/allan-barte

▶️ Source : www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Excited to share the latest work from the lab:
rdcu.be/eRWuD

Great team effort, led by @enriberti.bsky.social first at @unil.bsky.social and now @unifr.bsky.social; with fantastic collaborators @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and @dahaniel.muench.bio.
Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference
Nature - Calcium imaging of taste neurons and the ventral brain provides insight into evolutionary divergence of food choice in Drosophila species, supporting a role of sensorimotor processing in...
rdcu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Faire de la vulgarisation sur Instagram c’est quand même très ingrat

Je me casse la tête tous les jours pour des infos sourcées sur la création variétale et j’ai 100 followers

Des comptes de « scientifiques » qui surfent sur l’actualité est disent nimp : 150 k followers
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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"Louise rentre la bouche en sang d’un week-end chez son père (...). Elle évoque à sa mère de nouveaux viols. Aux urgences, le médecin qui ausculte la petite fille envoie une nouvelle information préoccupante aux services de la protection de l’enfance. Sans effet" www.liberation.fr/societe/quan...
«Quand Louise parle, elle n’est pas entendue» : le combat d’une mère et sa fille de 4 ans, obligée d’aller chez son père accusé d’inceste
Après avoir dénoncé des agressions sexuelles rapportées par sa fille, Anna s’est notamment heurtée à la pénurie de personnel dédié à la protection de l’enfance et aux lenteurs de la justice.
www.liberation.fr
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Chicago...
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Une liste de juifs désignés à la vindicte publique ?

Vous êtes sérieux ?
Tout va bien ?

Rien que le fait d'avoir eu l'idée hein... et d'un historien en plus...
a man in a military uniform is standing next to another man with #highcastle written in the corner
Alt: a man in a SS military uniform is standing next to another man in Waffen SS uniform saying "Fantastic" with #highcastle written in the corner
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?

Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.

👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Dites @univ-amu.fr il y a votre professeur harceleur qui continue à harceler. Vous virez quand cet énergumène ?
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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So called microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) are not "organizing centers". They don't control their position (network center), nor MT orientation, length and shape (network shape). The actual organizers are MTs, molecular motors and regulators of MT +ends. MTOCs nucleate MTs.
Let's rename MTOCs.
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM