@varechavala
Scientist and mum. Ikerbasque Professor @ Biobizkaia HRI Interested in #RNAtherapy for #neuromuscular disorders. De Bilbao de toda la vida and adopted Londoner. https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-arechavala-gomeza-a482509/
#apaperaday @keystonesymposia.bsky.social special! Klaus & I made it to Banff for the nucleic acid therapy delivery conference. Today’s pick is from Nucleic Acid Therapeutics (NAT) by Andersson et al: an update on assessing hybridization dependent off target risks for NATs. doi 10.1089/nat.2024.0072
Un año esperando para firmar un contrato FPU ya concedido: "Te sientes un poco estafado"
Sí la Administración convocante de unas ayudas no puede supervisar el cumplimiento de las condiciones, ¿para qué está?
www.eldiario.es/1_c710be
A view of the stairs inside Hintze Hall. The handrail is highly decorated, with carvings of animals. At the top of the stairs, a giant sequoia slice is visible.
A view of the ornate arches in Hintze Hall, carved with floral patterns. In the background, stairs are visible.
A view of the ornate arches in Hintze Hall, carved with floral patterns. In the background, there are tall, arched windows, and a statute of Charles Darwin.
Come for the dinosaurs, stay for the architecture! 🤩
We couldn’t resist sharing some more photos taken on a recent stroll around the Museum!
Have you ever noticed these details? ✨
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
#apaperaday Today's pick is from BMC Neurology by Strober et al on an analysis of caregiver burden for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 3 different regions (USA, Europe and Japan). Usually these studies focus on only one country. doi: 10.1186/s12883-025-04531-8
Thank you for choosing our figure to illustrate the post! The author is not just a great researcher, but a #raredisease patient herself.
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🧬 New Special Issue of JND out today to celebrate #RareDiseaseDay:
“RNA Therapeutics in Neuromuscular Disorders”
Exploring RNA-targeted approaches in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Spinal muscular atrophy, Myotonic dystrophy and more: buff.ly/JOtdEJb
#Neuromuscular #RNAtherapeutics #DMD #SMA #DM1
#PLoSBiology Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... "In the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles) the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles."
In a new @wonkhe.bsky.social piece, RoRI fellows Anna Butters and @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy explore distributed peer review - and what it can (and can’t) fix: wonkhe.com/blogs/a-new-...
Ey... que ya tenemos en marcha dos eventos!!
Bilbao el día de Pi (viernes 13 marzo) y Barcelona «Ciencia para salvar el mundo» (sábado 30 de mayo).
Si estás cerca o conoces a alguien a quien le interese, échanos una mano divulgando las fechas y programas 👇
You are right, we will have to do better next year.
#apaperaday with some delay due to train issues this morning. The pick is from @worldmusclesociety.org journal Neuromuscular Disorders, by Ulm Seiwert et al on 3 cases with duplications of dystrophin exons, only one of which associated with dystrophinopathy. DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2026.106335
Not all dystrophin duplications will be pathogenic and the analysis tools used generally will not be able to assess where the duplication is located (in tandem or not). Long read sequencing is expensive, but it can provide clarity.
A computer screen shows the RareDiseaseDay web page. In front of it, aa pile of pink, blue, purple and green balloons, glowsticks and paint jars.
When you are a #raredisease researcher and you search your drawers for ideas of what to do this year...
Finger paint? Balloons? Glowsticks? Party poppers?
A week to go...
#RareDiseaseDay #Shareyourcolours #Showyourstripes
Ya tenemos programa de charlas y talleres para BCAM NAUKAS «El día de Pi» | Viernes 13 de marzo 2026
naukas.com/2026/02/18/y...
⚠️ ATENCIÓN: se ha ampliado el plazo de solicitud de la FPU25 hasta el 27 de febrero. 📆
📩 Más información: www.ciencia.gob.es/InfoGeneralP...
‼️🔔Os presentamos NAUKAS BARCELONA 2026 «Ciencia para salvar el mundo» | Sábado 30 mayo en el Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa
Ya tenemos cartel, programa y ponentes... ya está casi todo listo!!
naukas.com/2026/02/17/o...
#apaperaday again TREAT-NMD conference themed with today a pick from Scientific Reports by Okada et al, where they used a Japanese Duchenne patient registry (affiliated to the TREAT-NMD global registry) to generate a cost effectiveness analysis model. Doi 10.1038/s41598-025-32735-y
De la entrevista para @jotdown.es de @javisburgos.bsky.social
📸 Laura Peláez
#11defebrero
Y hoy hemos pasado de los alumnos de 16 a las mujeres de más de 55 que han pasado por el laboratorio en Biobizkaia para ver de primera mano que es lo que hacemos... y les han recibido tres mujeres estupendas: Andrea (postdoc), Nadia (predoc) y Uxue (TFM)...
#MujeresEnCiencia #11F #MujeresSTEAM
Ayer pasamos por el centro comercial con @ondavasca.bsky.social y algunos colegios para hablar sobre mujeres en ciencia...
Aquí dejo un resumen.
www.ondavasca.com/el-talento-f...
#11F #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScienceDay #IDWGS
It is not! I love it when authors tell me why I should read their papers!
Ehem.
How much is a swirl?
A teaspoon? A tablespoon? A woodenspoon? 🤪
I need an SOP, I am a scientist!
The fat free yoghurt makes the "lemon curd + digestives" healthier?
Mmmm.. do not think so, but looks yummy, nonetheless. 🫠
(I think I would try with FULL FAT yoghurt and start testing all the "healthier" combos SYSTEMATICALLY)
Ayer en San Sebastián. Hoy en Bilbao.
Una recomendación importante: no se os ocurra bajo ningún concepto comprar nada en la tienda online AllZone. Pagas, no te mandan lo que compras, y para conseguir que te devuelvan el dinero tienes que hablar con tu banco para que les reclamen la pasta. Por favor rebluit para que no caiga más gente 🙏
¿Cómo se reconstruyeron los espacios reales del mundo de Shakespeare para la película 'Hamnet'?
Lo analizo en este artículo de #ElCuadernoDeBarro.
Espero que os guste.
open.substack.com/pub/elbarroq...
Hola, @generoycomunicacion.com
¿Hay fecha ya para este año? Es que empiezo a tener muchas cosas en mayo y me daría mucha rabia perdérmelo...
This is a great and welcome acknowledgment that we need more publishing venues explicitly dedicated to limiting publication bias
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
