Andrés Rico-Medina, PhD
@andresrime1
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PhD @CRAGENOMICA @Ana_CanoDelgado work in brassinosteroids in Arabidopsis and crops.
Barcelona, España
Joined May 2018
Debemos normalizar exponer públicamente a los responsables de estas atrocidades. La actuación fue llevada a cabo por Borja Palacios Alberti, biólogo del Parque Nacional de Picos de Europa. Estranguló y golpeó a los siete cachorros de la imagen hasta causarles la muerte.
Hace unos días se cumplieron 21 años de una de las mayores salvajadas hecha contra el lobo desde la propia Administración, cuando personal técnico (biólogo) del Parque de Picos, reventó las cabezas de una camada de 7 cachorros para "evitarse problemas de daños al año siguiente".
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Un grupo de científicos proponen en Nature prohibir la pesca y la minería en alta mar para que los ecosistemas marinos se recuperen Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever https://t.co/qVCdFzn2kK
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Nature - Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.
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i am always fascinated by how tech bros do not understand art. like at all. they don’t understand the purpose of creative expression.
Forget "Black Mirror". We need WHITE MIRROR An optimistic sci-fi show about cool technology and how it relates to society. Who's making this?
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Update: exploiting the ambiguity of the species concept to argue they’re real dire wolves is VERY VERY BAD. This isn’t the bloody time to talk about how “there technically is a phenotypic species concept”; it’s the time to decry the irresponsible way colossal has manipulated it.
On the dire wolf situation: - They technically have dire wolf DNA - They aren’t real dire wolves; more like hybrids, & likely lack many real dire wolf traits - Exploiting the ambiguity of the species concept to argue they’re real dire wolves is (maybe very) bad
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On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Fluorescent confocal #microscopy of a #Sorghum bicolor embryonic root tip in the medial plane, showcasing the meristematic region. Image courtesy of @Ana_CanoDelgado. 📖 See Rico-Medina, et al.: https://t.co/WotJQeUmgN
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Latest New Phytologist cover highlights our study in Sorghum bicolor roots by the team in @Ana_CanoDelgado lab at @cragenomica 🌱🌾
🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now! 📚 https://t.co/dADHxm4N2y Highlights include: 🌱 Manipulating #pollinator behaviour 🌱 #Coevolution between plants and their cryptic pollinators 🌱 Fungal small RNA hijacking @wileyplantsci #PlantScience
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Makes perfect sense—if you know nothing about ecology, evolution, genetics, history, and see wildlife as props.
@elonmusk This isn't just some breakthrough its a turning point in history. Science has rewritten parts of nature laws and brought back what was lost thousands of years ago. Friends, Remus isn't just a wolf he a living symbol that human willpower and limitless technology together can
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This is exactly what I was afraid of. This slop is being sold as a magic solution to the extinction crisis. It took less than 24 hours for Trump’s Secretary of Interior to use it to call for the deregulation of the Endangered Species Act.
The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.” The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of
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Thank god I threw a tantrum when anyone complimented privatisation of education and academic research. These things shouldn't turn profit, shouldn't appeal to investors or generate clickbait content. This isn't research, this isn't conservation, this is venture capital slop.
Dire wolves have been brought back from extinction by genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences. George R.R. Martin is a Colossal Biosciences cultural advisor and investor, while Peter Jackson loaned his Iron Throne prop for a photoshoot. ( https://t.co/HR2nCmIByx)
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This is not a dire wolf. They cannot do de-extinction. They can just tweak living animals to have primitive features. This company is going to make designer zoo animals. They will be isolated, lonely, and a shadow of their loving relatives. Real scientists support conservation.
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
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Meses de preparación. De esfuerzo humano. De amor. De inversión económica. De obstáculos superados. Llegaron. Se aclimataron. Crecieron. Exploraron los nuevos cielos. Y se toparon con la caza, el "patrimonio cultural" de España.
Qué hermosa esta historia: Extintos en Europa central desde hace 300 años, 36 ibis eremitas están siguiendo un avión ultraligero piloteado por un científico en su olvidada ruta migratoria, desde Austria a España (2.800 kilómetros). 📷 @AP_Noticias. 📰 @guardian Hilo🧵
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These climate summits are an utter and complete farce now completely hijacked by Big Oil taking microscopic steps to advert climate change whilst ever increasing emissions and destroying Earth natural world
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
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A big part of my thesis research is finally online. Read about brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 in sorghum here! 👇
Molecular and physiological characterization of brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 mutants in Sorghum bicolor Rico-Medina et al. @cragenomica 📖 https://t.co/kiZmAMNWWn
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Congratulations to @andresrime1 and my entire #Sorghum team for their work and enthusiasm on this “minor” cereal that I envisioned to be big @ERC_Research 🌱🌱🌱
🌾 A cereal ally against climate change 🤝 Sorghum is a key crop for the future due to its drought resistance 🌍 In a new study published in @NewPhyt, @Ana_CanoDelgado's research group has identified the molecular mechanisms behind its resistance 🧬🌱
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I was recently floored by a line of dialogue in a children’s book—“We don’t ignore bigotry, Jack. That’s how cowardly bigots turn into brave bigots”—if you were wondering why children’s books are important, and why there has been so much concerted effort to ban them.
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Our paper is out. And it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science
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Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in...
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The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production. The EC could have done the same thing to achieve rapid decarbonization and
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Unlike you, many voters are capable of reading a party's manifesto and don't hate queer or disabled people
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Sí eres mejor por negarte a consumir basura. Ante los medios que fomentan el antiintelectualismo y el contenido idiotizante, tu trabajo es adquirir una mente crítica y culturizarte en ciencias y en humanidades.
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Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.
I really don’t think people quite grasp just how much more well read highly educated people used to be in the past.
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