Erick Rojas Pacheco
@erickrojas-agct.bsky.social
Master's student in Biochemical Sciences - UNAMexico | Passionate about the intricate and often unnoticed processes of life | Heart and Peripheral Nervous System Development | Outdoors and Chess enthusiast | The Global South in Science!
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🧵 Why the obsession with p < 0.05 is hurting science.
September 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🧵 Why the obsession with p < 0.05 is hurting science.
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...we fund more to kill than to live
When a society pours more time and money into more creative ways to kill fellow humans than into better lives or a livable planet, we’re off course.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
When a society pours more time and money into more creative ways to kill fellow humans than into better lives or a livable planet, we’re off course.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Germany's Helsing unveils 'Europa' combat drone
German defence startup Helsing unveiled a new autonomous combat drone, joining a race to build remote-piloted systems that can swarm into battle with fellow robots or team up with crewed fighters to help reshape the future of air warfare.
www.reuters.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
...we fund more to kill than to live
When a society pours more time and money into more creative ways to kill fellow humans than into better lives or a livable planet, we’re off course.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
When a society pours more time and money into more creative ways to kill fellow humans than into better lives or a livable planet, we’re off course.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026.
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM
This EMBO Workshop on C. elegans Biology is t he IV Latin American Worm Meeting. It will convene in Mérida, Mexico. The overall mission of this meeting is to create an inclusive environment that pro…
meetings.embo.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026.
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
Registration by 16 January 2026
Abstract submission by 17 October 2025
meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm
#EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪
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We submitted our ms to @reviewcommons.org, the feedback we got was really good! We thank the reviewers for their comments. They suggested some really interesting experiments that we had not thought about, we have just posted our revision plan; you can find it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila
For organs to be functional, the cells and tissues that constitute them must effectively interact with each other and coordinate their behaviours. Halfway during Drosophila embryogenesis, two lateral ...
www.biorxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We submitted our ms to @reviewcommons.org, the feedback we got was really good! We thank the reviewers for their comments. They suggested some really interesting experiments that we had not thought about, we have just posted our revision plan; you can find it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Erick Rojas Pacheco
Handmade time-lapse of zebrafish-like development. Credit to Dr. Andro Montoya. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
April 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Handmade time-lapse of zebrafish-like development. Credit to Dr. Andro Montoya. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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1/17
Confused by plus/minus strands, coding/template, or forward/reverse in DNA data? You're not alone. Here's how to never mix them up 🧵
Confused by plus/minus strands, coding/template, or forward/reverse in DNA data? You're not alone. Here's how to never mix them up 🧵
April 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1/17
Confused by plus/minus strands, coding/template, or forward/reverse in DNA data? You're not alone. Here's how to never mix them up 🧵
Confused by plus/minus strands, coding/template, or forward/reverse in DNA data? You're not alone. Here's how to never mix them up 🧵
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New preprint from my group! Here we studied the contribution of a subset of human- and hominoid-specific transposons (SVA, LTR5HS) to the evolution of human craniofacial development. We specifically focussed on cranial neural crest (CNCC) formation and migration 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Human-specific transposable elements shaped the evolution of craniofacial development through regulation of neural crest migration
Craniofacial development and neural crest specification are evolutionarily conserved processes, yet subtle modifications to their gene regulatory networks drive species-specific craniofacial diversity...
www.biorxiv.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New preprint from my group! Here we studied the contribution of a subset of human- and hominoid-specific transposons (SVA, LTR5HS) to the evolution of human craniofacial development. We specifically focussed on cranial neural crest (CNCC) formation and migration 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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As one of the subjects in this study, I can tell you that the closest natural color to 'olo' is achieved by mixing two parts #Midori and one part #BlueCuracau. Not sure what those are? Just reach to the back of your parent's liquor cabinet, it'll be beside the Galliano.
April 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As one of the subjects in this study, I can tell you that the closest natural color to 'olo' is achieved by mixing two parts #Midori and one part #BlueCuracau. Not sure what those are? Just reach to the back of your parent's liquor cabinet, it'll be beside the Galliano.
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This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
1/n
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1/n
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
1/n
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1/n
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
Reposted by Erick Rojas Pacheco
5⃣ New approach for cell clustering in single-cell data
Detecting reliable cell types from single-cell omics is a challenge. CHOIR, a new random forest-based method, outperforms existing tools and robustly predicts cell types from single-cell omics data.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
Detecting reliable cell types from single-cell omics is a challenge. CHOIR, a new random forest-based method, outperforms existing tools and robustly predicts cell types from single-cell omics data.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
April 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
5⃣ New approach for cell clustering in single-cell data
Detecting reliable cell types from single-cell omics is a challenge. CHOIR, a new random forest-based method, outperforms existing tools and robustly predicts cell types from single-cell omics data.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
Detecting reliable cell types from single-cell omics is a challenge. CHOIR, a new random forest-based method, outperforms existing tools and robustly predicts cell types from single-cell omics data.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
The Microsymposium of the Mexican Society of DevBio was a success (yes, tacos included!)
April 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Microsymposium of the Mexican Society of DevBio was a success (yes, tacos included!)
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The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila
For organs to be functional, the cells and tissues that constitute them must effectively interact with each other and coordinate their behaviours. Halfway during Drosophila embryogenesis, two lateral ...
www.biorxiv.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Daniel Ríos Barrera, a group leader at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Daniel has been featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social's ‘Transitions in development’ interviews and @the-node.bsky.social's ‘Lab meetings’ series. #100biologists
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Our next extraordinary biologist is Daniel Ríos Barrera, a group leader at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Daniel has been featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social's ‘Transitions in development’ interviews and @the-node.bsky.social's ‘Lab meetings’ series. #100biologists
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Issue 5 is complete!
On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
March 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Issue 5 is complete!
On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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It's been great to get our 2025 courses underway over the last few weeks! We've already run two virtual courses, with attendees learning more about #RNAseq and use of #Python for data analysis.
Want to join us in 2026? Take a look at our courses: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
🧪🧬🖥️ #GeneSky
Want to join us in 2026? Take a look at our courses: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
🧪🧬🖥️ #GeneSky
March 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It's been great to get our 2025 courses underway over the last few weeks! We've already run two virtual courses, with attendees learning more about #RNAseq and use of #Python for data analysis.
Want to join us in 2026? Take a look at our courses: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
🧪🧬🖥️ #GeneSky
Want to join us in 2026? Take a look at our courses: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...
🧪🧬🖥️ #GeneSky
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Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine.
@socdevbio.bsky.social
@socdevbio.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine.
@socdevbio.bsky.social
@socdevbio.bsky.social
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A protein that may have shaped human speech.
NOVA1 is a protein expressed in the central nervous system, possibly involved in the development of spoken #language through differential RNA regulation during #brain development.
#Science Wow!
➡️ science.org/content/arti...
➡️ nature.com/articles/s41...
NOVA1 is a protein expressed in the central nervous system, possibly involved in the development of spoken #language through differential RNA regulation during #brain development.
#Science Wow!
➡️ science.org/content/arti...
➡️ nature.com/articles/s41...
February 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A protein that may have shaped human speech.
NOVA1 is a protein expressed in the central nervous system, possibly involved in the development of spoken #language through differential RNA regulation during #brain development.
#Science Wow!
➡️ science.org/content/arti...
➡️ nature.com/articles/s41...
NOVA1 is a protein expressed in the central nervous system, possibly involved in the development of spoken #language through differential RNA regulation during #brain development.
#Science Wow!
➡️ science.org/content/arti...
➡️ nature.com/articles/s41...
Just posting a good memory from the 2024 solar eclipse with Escalante's lab!
February 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just posting a good memory from the 2024 solar eclipse with Escalante's lab!