Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza

Assistant Professor in Breeding and Genomics of fruit species at Universidad de Concepción

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

La mejor experiencia de lectura es encontrar una frase tan buena que tengas que cerrar el libro y mirar la pared durante un minuto.

[ChileBio @ChileBio_AG]

La edición genética ya deja de ser una promesa y se está convirtiendo en innovaciones concretas. Acá 6 productos editados genéticamente próximos a comercializarse, que muestran cómo esta tecnología puede impulsar una agricultura más resiliente, sostenible y con mejores alimentos.

[Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza @camunoze]

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[Timothy Dhalleine @tdhalleine]

Un día normal sobrevolando la cordillera de los Andes, viendo la montaña más alta de América desde la ventana : el Cerro Aconcagua 😱 #Chile #Argentina

[vistaaura @vistaaura222]

Torres del Paine, Chile

[Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza @camunoze]

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[jobRxiv @jobRxiv]

University of Copenhagen is hiring! 9 new positions available

Individual job details below!👇

[Timothy Dhalleine @tdhalleine]

Así terminamos Febrero en Torres del Paine : con una paz real, una palabra tan corta pero con un significado tan profundo. 🏔️ #Patagonia #Chile

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Barbara McClintock's discoveries were so far beyond the understanding of the time that other scientists ignored her work for more than a decade. But she persisted, trusting herself and her evidence. She was awarded the Nobel Prize "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements."

Watch the very moment she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983.

[Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza @camunoze]

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[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

The real boss.. 😅

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Christoph Waltz shares a life-changing quote from Voltaire that hits deep

"Change is annoying. But certainty is absurd."

When we cling to absolute certainty — about ourselves, our views, our opinions — we kill curiosity and growth.

Embrace the uncertainty. Let go of the need to be right. That's where life becomes truly worth living — rich, free, and alive.

0:53 clip inside — pure inspiration.

[Claudia Muñoz-Espinoza @camunoze]

Navidad 2025!!

[R E P L I C A N T @Roybattyforever]

Han tocado la banda sonora de “Interstellar”(2014) en el órgano de la Catedral de Colonia y es realmente alucinante.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

🚨 Confirmed: Schizophrenia’s “voices” are the brain mishearing its own thoughts.

For decades, neuroscientists have theorized that the "voices" heard by individuals with schizophrenia stem from the brain mistaking its own inner dialogue for external sounds. A groundbreaking study from the University of New South Wales has now provided direct evidence supporting this hypothesis through brainwave analysis.

Using electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor the brain’s electrical activity, researchers examined how individuals process their internal speech. Typically, when we speak—aloud or silently—the brain anticipates the sound of our voice and temporarily suppresses activity in the auditory cortex, the area responsible for processing external sounds, to differentiate self-generated thoughts from external stimuli.

However, in people experiencing auditory hallucinations, this predictive mechanism malfunctions. The study involved 142 participants, including those with schizophrenia who recently experienced hallucinations, others with the condition but no recent hallucinations, and a control group without a diagnosis.

Participants were instructed to mentally say “bah” or “bih” while hearing these sounds through headphones. In those who heard voices, a striking pattern emerged: their brains showed heightened activity in the auditory cortex when their imagined speech matched the external sound, rather than suppressing it as expected. This suggests the brain was processing internal thoughts as if they were external voices.

This sensory misclassification sheds light on why hallucinated voices feel vividly real, revealing them as a neurological error rather than mere imagination. The findings not only deepen our understanding of schizophrenia but also pave the way for earlier detection of psychosis, potentially enabling more timely and effective treatments.

["Corollary Discharge Dysfunction to Inner Speech and its Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders." Schizophrenia Bulletin, 21 October 2025]

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

That one employee who gives 110% at work 😂

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

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