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Roberto Morรกn-Tovar

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Theoretical Physics at University of Cologne ๐Ÿงซ ๐Ÿงฌ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Bici de ruta | Literatura | Salsa ๐Ÿฆœ https://rmorantovar.github.io/

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When Science Funding Becomes a Lottery or, how Europeโ€™s funding schemes turned evaluation into ritual

"Here Borges appears once again, this time as a lottery. In The Lottery in Babylon, chance slowly colonizes everything: rewards, punishments, careers, meaning itself.(...) At first, it is a lottery with rules; eventually, the rules dissolve and only ritual remains."
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12.02.2026 08:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Transient disruption of T cell help impairs germinal center dynamics and memory responses Germinal center responses can recover from transient loss of T cell help, but the sustained reduction in TFH cells impairs recall responses.

Work led by Louise Webb now out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A huge team effort: Helena Carslaw, Jess James,
@emae-watson.bsky.social, Silvia Innocentin, Jayalini Assalaarachchi, Sigrid Fra-Bido, Isabel San Martรญn Molina, @smguillaume.bsky.social , Sam Woolliscroft, Alice Burton & Grant Kennedy

26.01.2026 02:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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08.08.2025 22:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is thinking in phase space rather than real space one of the most characteristic traits of a physicist?

29.07.2025 19:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last May, we were thrilled to host the 2nd edition of #EESTCBio ๐Ÿฆฌ๐Ÿ“–

Meet the poster prize winners!
โญ Roberto Morรกn-Tovar @rmorantovar.bsky.social r.bsky.social
โญ Juan Pablo Muรฑoz Dรญaz
โญ Josep Mercadal @josepmercadal.bsky.social

Read more here: www.embl.org/about/info/c...

10.07.2025 06:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Best poster prizes atย โ€˜Theory and concepts in biologyโ€™ โ€“ Course and Conference Office

www.embl.org/about/info/c...

07.07.2025 08:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ #Hiring now! The group of @boztugk.bsky.social from the newly found Clinic of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology is looking for a

Postdoc: Mechanisms of autoimmunity and autoinflammation in inborn errors of immunity (m/f/d)

Go to our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

15.05.2025 10:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This work looks fantastic, Max. Congrats!
Will definitely find the time soon to read the preprint!
ยกSaludos desde Colonia!

04.06.2025 20:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ…We congratulate ๐ŸŒŸRoberto Morรกn-Tovar (University of Cologne, Germany), on winning the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the recently held EMBO/EMBL Symposium 'Theory and concepts in biology' #EESTCBio! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

We wish you all the best, Roberto!

@rmorantovar.bsky.social @events.embl.org

21.05.2025 13:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Se nos fue Pepe :( Gracias por la revoluciรณn. Gracias por la dignidad. Gracias por las enseรฑanzas. Tu espรญritu vivirรก en Latinoamerica y en el mundo entero. Descansa en paz viejo โœŠ๏ธ

13.05.2025 20:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week, I attended my last conference as a PhD student @events.embl.org
4 days of "Theory and concepts in biology", with new topics, new questions, and an amazing community. I was awarded the prize for best poster sponsored by @febsletters.bsky.social ๐Ÿ˜Š

11.05.2025 12:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The final day of the excellent Theory and concepts in biology EMBO | EMBL Symposium is about to begin! ๐Ÿ”ฌLooking forward to a final morning of talks on the dynamics of animal behaviour, unsupervised exploration of morphology from microscopy data, and more.

#EESTCBio
@events.embl.org

09.05.2025 07:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think a failure in how we talk about vaccines is in how we don't communicate how they don't all work exactly the same. Some vaccines (like polio vaccine) prevent most individuals from getting polio for life. Others, like covid or even MMR prevent severe disease and foster herd immunity.

03.03.2025 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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I want to tell you a story about computers, creativity and art. (1/N) ๐Ÿงต
Sydney Brenner once said in 2012 that โ€œnobody has actually read the human genome. I mean, computers have processed the human genome, but we all know computers are stupid.โ€
(Summary of a talk I gave at the Sanger last week)

03.03.2025 02:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 43 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

New over here! I will start posting about the immune system, viruses, and biophysics. Occasionally, about literature and road cycling.

11.02.2025 18:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0