Cesc Bertran-Cobo
@cescualito.bsky.social
Enthusiastic, non-conformist researcher
🦟 Health Data Scientist & Project Manager @isglobal.org
🎓 HIV Course Coordinator @lshtm.bsky.social
🧠 PhD in Paediatrics @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 They/Them
🦟 Health Data Scientist & Project Manager @isglobal.org
🎓 HIV Course Coordinator @lshtm.bsky.social
🧠 PhD in Paediatrics @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 They/Them
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Salut mental i ciència: Com investiguem els transtorns del cervell?
Cicle de xerrades divulgatives 'A la recerca de la salut'
👤Albert Martínez Pinteño i Natalia Rodríguez Ferret
📆02/12
⏰ 19:00
📍 Casa Golferichs
👉https://f.mtr.cool/hooocdwdre
Cicle de xerrades divulgatives 'A la recerca de la salut'
👤Albert Martínez Pinteño i Natalia Rodríguez Ferret
📆02/12
⏰ 19:00
📍 Casa Golferichs
👉https://f.mtr.cool/hooocdwdre
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Salut mental i ciència: Com investiguem els transtorns del cervell?
Cicle de xerrades divulgatives 'A la recerca de la salut'
👤Albert Martínez Pinteño i Natalia Rodríguez Ferret
📆02/12
⏰ 19:00
📍 Casa Golferichs
👉https://f.mtr.cool/hooocdwdre
Cicle de xerrades divulgatives 'A la recerca de la salut'
👤Albert Martínez Pinteño i Natalia Rodríguez Ferret
📆02/12
⏰ 19:00
📍 Casa Golferichs
👉https://f.mtr.cool/hooocdwdre
Reposted by Cesc Bertran-Cobo
#InauguralLecture by Prof Alfred Ngwa: Parasites on Wings - Malaria & River Blindness.
From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.
📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2
From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.
📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#InauguralLecture by Prof Alfred Ngwa: Parasites on Wings - Malaria & River Blindness.
From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.
📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2
From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.
📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2
🫵 Science needs you! 🫵
Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)
Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🫵 Science needs you! 🫵
Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)
Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)
🫵 La ciència et necessita! 🫵
Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)
Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🫵 La ciència et necessita! 🫵
Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)
Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)
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"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed | News24
South Africa has become the first African country – and our medicines regulator the third worldwide – to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN), that could bring an en...
www.news24.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
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@news24southafrica.bsky.social explores "Who should be first in line for the upcoming anti-#HIV jab?" in #SouthAfrica
Who should be first in line for the upcoming anti-HIV jab? | News24
One in 10 clinics in SA — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start to hand out a twice-a-year anti-HIV jab as early as February. Medicines regulator Sahpra says it’s on track to announce its registration decision by the end of October. So who should get LEN first?
www.news24.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
@news24southafrica.bsky.social explores "Who should be first in line for the upcoming anti-#HIV jab?" in #SouthAfrica
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🆕Film by LSHTM explores 'Hidden Malaria' in #India
It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...
It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...
Hidden Malaria: The hunt for an invisible enemy
YouTube video by LSHTM
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🆕Film by LSHTM explores 'Hidden Malaria' in #India
It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...
It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...
Reposted by Cesc Bertran-Cobo
Researchers at EMBL Barcelona highlight malaria-induced disruption of pericytes, bringing us a step closer to understanding how cerebral malaria damages the brain, and how these damages could be prevented or reversed.
www.embl.org/news/science...
www.embl.org/news/science...
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Researchers at EMBL Barcelona highlight malaria-induced disruption of pericytes, bringing us a step closer to understanding how cerebral malaria damages the brain, and how these damages could be prevented or reversed.
www.embl.org/news/science...
www.embl.org/news/science...
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Europe is the only region of the globe that saw more deaths due to HIV in 2022 than it did in 2010.
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
More Europeans are dying from HIV now than 15 years ago
Europe, taken as a whole, is losing some of the gains it has made in tackling the burden of HIV, the 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) heard in Paris.
Teymur Noori of the European C...
www.aidsmap.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Europe is the only region of the globe that saw more deaths due to HIV in 2022 than it did in 2010.
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
Hello, Bluesky 👋 I’m Cesc (they/them), an enthusiastic scientist who finds it essential to conceive research as indivisible from its social context.
I recently joined this platform. Wanna know a bit more about me? 🧵
I recently joined this platform. Wanna know a bit more about me? 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Hello, Bluesky 👋 I’m Cesc (they/them), an enthusiastic scientist who finds it essential to conceive research as indivisible from its social context.
I recently joined this platform. Wanna know a bit more about me? 🧵
I recently joined this platform. Wanna know a bit more about me? 🧵