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Mostly space and COVID stuff.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

Enjoy, y’all.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@CBSNews So demeaning to those hero pilots.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@xThen_Now Con qué poco te conformas, mi cuate.

Negrete, México-Bulgaria, Mexico 86.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@CapLaloVargas Luna, sí. Marte, espero que no.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@PerellClips There's this thing called science outreach in which a great many scientists and science journalists publish the latest on scientific findings in an engaging manner for the general public.

Is he aware of, for example, Scientific American? National Geographic? StarTalk?

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@nmas Artemisa III no irá a la luna. Su mismo artículo lo dice:

“La misión que probará las capacidades de acercamiento y acoplamiento con aterrizadores lunares comerciales en órbita terrestre baja…”

[Guillermo Ochoa @guillermochoa]

El video usado para promocionar el mundial de #México86 y transmitido durante la ceremonia de inauguración. México, el primer país en ser anfitrion de tres mundiales.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

Truth.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“To be able to care about the world as it will be when we are dead is one of the signs of a civilized mind.”

— Bertrand Russell

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@CBSSunday Keyword being “imagines”.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

More evidence that COVID is bad, very bad, for your brain.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Beyond brain fog: viral proteins as convergent drivers of neuroinflammation and proteinopathy

🚨“COVID-19 never really leaves your brain.”

New science review proposes SARSCoV2 viral proteins stay behind as long-lived toxins, triggering chronic neuroinflammation and planting the seeds of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, even after mild infection.

This very interesting and eye-catching GERMAN review reframes post-viral neurological syndromes( L0ngC0vid) as driven by persistent viral proteins acting as long-term toxins ("protein-as-pathogen" model), not just the active infection!

➡️Core mechanisms:
- SARSCoV2 Spike and OTHER viral proteins activate glial TLR4/TLR2 receptors, triggering chronic neuroinflammatory cascades via NLRP3 inflammasome,
- They also disrupt autophagy, allowing toxic protein aggregates (tau, amyloid-beta, α-synuclein) to accumulate and seed neurodegeneration,

➡️SARSCoV2 specific evidence:
- Animal studies show Spike protein alone (without live virus) induces TLR4-mediated cognitive deficits, memory impairment, synaptic loss, and sustained neuroinflammation, recapitulating post-COVID syndrome,
- Spike binds α-synuclein, accelerating Parkinson-like clumps,

➡️Human data evidence:
- Millions experience "brain fog,"
- Post-COVID patients exhibit measurable brain damage: cortical thinning, hippocampal iron accumulation, and biomarkers of ongoing neuronal injury,

➡️Broader risks:
- Even mild infections leave lingering proteins that promote Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s-like pathology via shared pathways,
- Same pathways seen in influenza, dengue, West Nile etc,
- Mild infection = no protection,

‼️So, according to this review, the “protein-as-pathogen” model makes it crystal clear: every new SARSCoV2 infection (even mild or asymptomatic) deposits more of these long-lived toxic viral proteins into the brain. They don’t fully clear. They accumulate.

Each reinfection reloads the TLR4/TLR2 → NLRP3 inflammasome trigger and further collapses autophagy, speeding up the tau/amyloid/α-synuclein proteinopathy and neurodegeneration.

SARS-CoV-2 does not just infect.

It weaponizes its own proteins as long-lived intracellular saboteurs.

Millions are probably already carrying this hidden payload.

This is not brain fog.

This is a silent, population-scale reprogramming of human brains toward dementia-like decline.

The long-term neurological cost will probably dwarf the acute pandemic itself!
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections
https://t.co/x0oxacaNwl

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@ukhadds @lorentzcenter Any media coverage?

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@Milenio “Fácil de digerir”… no para todos.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@nypost Apples and oranges. UFOs aren’t science.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@r_velascoa Dile eso en la cara a los cientos de miles de familias afectadas por la violencia en el país.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@JuanFTorresLand No. ¡Duro con ellos! ¡Que forjen sus habilidades matemáticas para la vida en los fuegos purificadores de los exámenes a tiempo limitado!

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@airlinevideos What is the reason for that?

[AC @AstroBioComp]

Ask your representatives to stop this madness.

[Planetary Society @exploreplanets]

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget just proposed new rules that would let political appointees, not scientists, decide which research gets funded in the United States.

Under these rules, a senior political official would have to personally approve every single federal grant before it goes out.

Peer review, which has been the gold standard for evaluating science on merit, would be reduced to just a suggestion. And if your research falls out of political favor? Any active grant can be revoked at any time, with no explanation required.

We're talking about NASA grants, NSF grants, the funding that powers discoveries about our Universe and our planet. This rule was not written by NASA's leadership, and it works against the agency's own exploration goals for the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

The rules would also ban entire categories of research outright, and cut off collaboration with scientists from other countries, even if those researchers live in the U.S.

Researchers wouldn't even be able to use grant money to publish their findings or attend scientific conferences without getting special permission first.

This affects everyone from PhD students to career scientists to all of us whose lives improve because of federally funded research.

The public comment period is open right now, but this time,
we're not asking you to sign a form letter. We need your actual words, your story, to make a difference. Identical submissions get counted as a single comment, so the more you write, the less OMB can ignore us.

We cannot stress how dangerous this rule would be if enacted.
But we can stop this if enough people submit their personal story of why peer-reviewed science is important.

The deadline to submit comments is July 13th. https://t.co/42YYTxVYK2

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@nypost C-O-V-I-D.

It’s transmitted through shared air.

[AC @AstroBioComp]

“The Declaration reaffirms the enduring principle that transmitting a response to an extraterrestrial intelligence is a decision that belongs to all of humanity and should only take place following international consultations, specifically through the United Nations.”

[Astrobiology @astrobiology]

Updated Rules for Evaluating and Revealing the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://t.co/eylwYrE6C5 #astrobiology #SETI #technosignature #DisclosureDay

[AC @AstroBioComp]

@GPS_noticias A ver si entendí: ¿viajó por cuestiones de trabajo pero él mismo cubrió los gastos de su viaje de trabajo?