Víctor Casanova

Postdoctoral Researcher at @BcnVih , @idibaps , @hospitalclinic

Background and Interest in:
Immunology / Viral Infections / HIV / Cell Senescence

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A slew of new papers on ultraprocessed foods, likening the food companies to the tobacco industry, and emphasizing the link to dementia @AMJPublicHealth
https://t.co/pgD1yHxa7E
https://t.co/CQF25scTdn

[RAB Ràdio @RABradioBCN]

🇨🇭El català fa un pas històric a Suïssa.

El cantó de Zúric incorporarà el català com a llengua oficial del seu programa educatiu a partir del curs 2026-2027.
Una victòria de les famílies, les escoles catalanes i tota la comunitat catalana a l'exterior.

https://t.co/4vyD58eV2N

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The p-tau217 breakthrough blood test replicated again, predicting Alzheimer's disease in a large cohort mean age 61. The cover of the new issue is telling @TheLancet https://t.co/Qre6mCkpMV

[Elisa Moraga @elisa__moraga]

Moltes gràcies per donar visibilitat a la feina de l'equip de laboratori de recerca de @BcnVih i a la comunitat predoc @idibaps. És un autèntic honor formar part d'aquest equip @BcnVih!

[SENESCEL scientific society @SENESCEL]

💥📢Remember you can already register for the III International Conference SENESCEL. https://t.co/JoRgYfmDJ9
Join us and this amazing list of speakers in beautiful Salamanca!

[Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals]

A report in @TheLancet says that there are 4,046 fabricated references across 2,810 papers. This has been widely reported so we won't report dwell on the details here, but you can read the article here: https://t.co/dvfuEkVqgu

The question we have is this.

Assuming that the fabicated reference were generated by an LLM. If this is the case, can we have trust in the rest of the paper? Given that we are dealing with medical issues, shoud we err on the side of caution and retract all of the 2,820 papers?

We could investigate each one, but how long would that take?

As an aside, we wonder how many of these papers decalred the use of AI?

[Societat Catalana d'Immunologia @SCImmunologia]

🦠 Missió Immune al @CosmoCaixa_CAT!

Joc interactiu per descobrir com funciona el sistema immunitari, 3 dies abans del Dia Internacional de la Immunologia.

📅 Diumenge 26 d'abril
📍 Barcelona
🎟️ Gratis per a clients CaixaBank

ℹ️ https://t.co/4wEKqRq9Kc

@CaixaResearchCA

[VIHClínicBCN @BcnVih]

#SantJordi2026 🌹📖
Unitat VIH #CLÍNIC 📸
@InciarteDr @berta_torres @VCasanovaG @protoello @elisa__moraga @ViarSonia @hospitalclinic #PVIH

[Jordi Mas @jordimash]

Aquí els de Lego m'han guanyat

[SENESCEL scientific society @SENESCEL]

🟢Registration is now open for Senescel 2026 (Sept 16-18, Salamanca, Spain).

Enjoy a fantastic lineup of international speakers on aging and cellular senescence at one of the liveliest university towns in Spain.

https://t.co/JoRgYfmDJ9

[Pep Martorell @pepmartorell]

La IA permite hacer ciencia más rápido que nunca.
También permite contaminar la literatura científica a escala industrial.
Dos historias de Nature que deberían preocupar a cualquiera 👇

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

"sleep training" a newborn means letting a defenseless baby scream for its mother in the dark until it's either exhausted or has given up on life.

the attachment literature is clear that before 6 months, a baby crying with nobody coming learns exactly one thing, that calling for help doesn't work
and you even have parents bragging about how they tortured their kid into an 8h sleep

you need to attend to every need of your child. they don't have a prefrontal cortex able to understand what's happening. if you love them and care for them, they'll barely cry, and when they do there's a clear reason you can address right away

[Enrique Soriano @[email protected] @e__soriano]

110.000 papers que contienen referencias inventadas solo en 2025

[Anna Navarro i Descals (Schlegel) @NavarroDescals]

Catalunya no només perd població està perdent capacitat de futur.

Segons la @FIEC1 ja tenim 427.423 catalans a l’exterior. +5,1% en un any. I gairebé un 40% dels que marxen tenen educació superior.

Això no és mobilitat. És com una fuga de talent estructural. Però el problema és encara més profund:

Molts d’aquests catalans:
• no poden votar amb facilitat
• no poden tornar sense una penalització econòmica o professional molt gran
• no tenen cap via real per transferir el coneixement adquirit fora

Sense adonar-nos estem expulsant talent (o digueu-ho com voluguis) … i després bloquejant el seu retorn.

Cap país competitiu fa això.

Els ecosistemes que lideren el món (Silicon Valley, Singapur, Japó) fan exactament el contrari: atrauen, retenen i, sobretot, RECUPEREN el talent. Et fan tornar.

Catalunya encara no té una estratègia real de “brain circulation”.

Sense això:
no hi ha economia del coneixement
no hi ha sobirania digital
no hi ha competitivitat global

Això no va de dades.
Va de model de país.

Cal passar de la fuga de talent… a una política activa de retorn, connexió i influència global. I cal fer-ho ja.

#Talent #Catalunya #BrainDrain #EconomiaDigital #PolíticaPública #CatalansAlMón #AdeuAlTalent #braincirculation

[SENESCEL scientific society @SENESCEL]

💥We are happy to announce the 3rd SENESCEL International Conference.
💙 Join us this year in the beautiful, monumental university city of Salamanca!
📅 September 16-18, 2026.
https://t.co/hqkzb8XlwY

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A single dose of antibiotics can have lasting effects on your gut microbiome, with changes that last well beyond 4 years. Three types of antibiotics stood out for their long term disruptive impact (3 at left, Figure)
@NatureMedicine
https://t.co/ObWU56P9Bd

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

The Sagrada Família reaches its highest point following the placement of the upper arm of the cross of the tower of Jesus Christ. As is a tradition in construction, the Catalan flag is hoisted, indicating that the tower structure is complete and that there were no incidents, as well as the Vatican flag, as it is the Catholic Church’s tallest Temple.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Predicting when symptoms of Alzheimer's disease will occur with elevated p-tau217 blood test and a person's age, even 20+ years in advance
@NatureMedicine
https://t.co/EYaGglBh1H

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Our immune system is the driver of the biologic process of aging. A new and comprehensive review @NatRevImmunol
https://t.co/0Fm9w7U341

[Carles Heredia @CarlesHeredia]

Mirant les xarxes i al meu voltant, sembla la vaga de docents més massiva dels darrers anys.

Ja sé que mentir és molt de @socialistes_cat, però a no ser que jo visc en una bombolla total, aquesta dada del 37,2% no s'agafa ni amb pinces.

#VagaEducativa