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Luís M. Silva

A reminder that you can change your PhD supervisor. You don't have to stay with them if they do not support your success. Yes, changing supervisors is emotionally challenging, but not changing can be significantly worse. #AcademicChatter

A new study finds that the glow of outdoor lights might be enough to delay when the Culex pipiens mosquito, the primary carrier of West Nile virus in the United States, goes dormant during the winter. Learn more: https://scim.ag/49TDcvA

Repellents can fend off yellow fever mosquitoes on the hunt for blood, but a new study suggests that the insects can learn to associate the common repellent DEET with a meal. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/deet-repellent-attract-mosquitoe-spray

Classifying ovaries solely as #reproductive organs has obscured their role as systemic regulators of female physiology. @jennifergarrison.bsky.social contends that ovarian #aging is a primary determinant of healthspan and belongs at the center of geroscience. 🧪

Just to remind you of who the villains are in this Ebola epidemic.

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Introducing openRxiv Labs! 🔬 Growing from the strong foundation of bioRxiv & medRxiv, Labs is an experimental space for working with collaborators to push the boundaries of open scientific communication. 👉 Check it out and learn more: openrxiv.org/openrxiv-lab... #OpenScience #Preprints #Scicomm

Check out my first PhD paper, a model investigating life-history trade-offs and the evolution of sex differences in longevity, just out in @natcomms.nature.com! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Big thanks to Xiang-Yi Li Richter and @lottedevries.bsky.social!

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A study in Nature Climate Change reconstructs historical seabird dispersal routes, showing that birds responded to temperature shifts by changes in range size rather than body mass. These trends are projected to persist. go.nature.com/4v88o2A 🌍🧪

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Classifying ovaries solely as reproductive organs has obscured their role as systemic regulators of female physiology. This Perspective discusses that ovarian aging is a primary determinant of…

plos.io

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Beyond reproduction: The ovary as a systemic regulator of female health and aging

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A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

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PLOS Biology

Males and females often live different lengths of time, but why remains unclear. Here, the authors present a theoretical model showing that trade-offs between survival and reproduction, together with ...

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Asymmetric life-history trade-offs shape sex-biased longevity patterns - Nature Communications

Over the last thirteen years, bioRxiv and medRxiv have grown into widely used infrastructure for rapid research sharing in biology and medicine. The reliability and researcher-first values that have d...

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Launching openRxiv Labs - openRxiv

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Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...