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#Global #crop #introduction drives #host jumps, turning native #pathogens into emerging #diseases

#OpenAccess
#PNAS


https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536984123

#Global #crop #introduction drives #host jumps, turning native #pathogens into emerging #diseases

#OpenAccess
#PNAS


https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536984123

#Global #crop #introduction drives #host jumps, turning native #pathogens into emerging #diseases

#OpenAccess
#PNAS


https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536984123

#Global #crop #introduction drives #host jumps, turning native #pathogens into emerging #diseases

#OpenAccess
#PNAS


https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536984123

#Global #crop #introduction drives #host jumps, turning native #pathogens into emerging #diseases

#OpenAccess
#PNAS


https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2536984123

La rivista #Pnas ha ritirato uno studio che annunciava la regressione completa del tumore al pancreas in 45 topi, risultato che aveva acceso forti aspettative e raccolto 3,6 milioni di euro in donazioni.

Indovina indovina? Conflitto di interessi: il ricercatore è lo stesso cofondatore della società che produce le molecole testate.

Top.

@salute #medicina #ricerca #tumore #tumorepancreas

🐱👶 Researchers from #Cornell and #Washington University used #3D imaging to show how artificial selection pushes #cats and #dogs toward similar "baby-faced" skull shapes.

The study indicates that flat-faced breeds share more traits with each other than with their own wild ancestors.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71137856/similarities-cats-dogs-evolution-babies/

#biology #evolution #science #genetics #research #pnas #pets #nature

https://www.europesays.com/es/521903/ La revista ‘PNAS’ retira el estudio de Barbacid de cáncer de páncreas por conflictos de interés no declarados #barbacid #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Conflictos #declarados #Estudio #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #interes #Internacional #International #InternationalNews #InternationalNews #LatestNews #LatestNews #News #Noticias #NoticiasDestacadas #NoticiasDestacadas #pnas #retira #revista #Titulares #ÚltimasNoticias #ÚltimasNoticias #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

#peoplesworld:
"
Safety meltdown: Trump’s weakening of nuclear reactor regulations sparks opposition
"
".. attorneys general from several states .. announced they’ve formed a coalition to oppose the Trump administration’s new rules slashing security and environmental requirements for experimental nuclear reactors."

".. creation of “much more nuclear waste.”"

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/safety-meltdown-trumps-weakening-of-nuclear-reactor-regulations-sparks-opposition/

10.3.2026

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #DOE #Kernenergie #NEPA #NuclearSafety #NuclearWaste #PNAS #Reactor #UCS #USA

Edit: so the direct submission is just normal, and the journal also has a "contributed submissions" but it seems that's also peer-reviewed:
https://www.pnas.org/author-center/member-contributed-submissions
Maybe my info was just outdated 🤔

Edit 2: actually, it looks like the authors in that contributed submission case can choose their reviewers 🤔🤔

"Contributed submissions must include the names of at least two experts in relevant subject areas (particularly for multidisciplinary studies) who have agreed to review the manuscript."

-- original post --
Question about direct submissions in the journal #PNAS to anyone who might know:

Some of the articles there are noted as "direct submissions" - does this mean that these manuscripts do not go through peer-review before being published?
Isn't that strange?
Shouldn't these papers be considered similar to preprints?
Why would anyone want to do this instead of going through the peer-review process or posting as a preprint?

Example: Volitional learning promotes theta phase coding in the human hippocampus

✍️ 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶 𝟰𝟬｡𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗳𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹’𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮

✅ Uno studio condotto su 3.000 incisioni paleolitiche rivela sorprendenti sequenze di segni, la cui complessità è paragonabile alla proto-cuneiforme mesopotamica. Lo studio è pubblicato sulla rivista scientifica PNAS

#Archeologia #Preistoria #Paleolitico #OriginiDellaScrittura #studi #PNAS

➡️ L’articolo su Storie & Archeostorie: https://wp.me/p7tSpZ-cno

https://storiearcheostorie.com/2026/02/27/segni-paleolitici-origine-scrittura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

✍️ 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶 𝟰𝟬｡𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗳𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹’𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮

✅ Uno studio condotto su 3.000 incisioni paleolitiche rivela sorprendenti sequenze di segni, la cui complessità è paragonabile alla proto-cuneiforme mesopotamica. Lo studio è pubblicato sulla rivista scientifica PNAS

#Archeologia #Preistoria #Paleolitico #OriginiDellaScrittura #studi #PNAS

➡️ L’articolo su Storie & Archeostorie: https://wp.me/p7tSpZ-cno

https://storiearcheostorie.com/2026/02/27/segni-paleolitici-origine-scrittura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

✍️ 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶 𝟰𝟬｡𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗳𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹’𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮

✅ Uno studio condotto su 3.000 incisioni paleolitiche rivela sorprendenti sequenze di segni, la cui complessità è paragonabile alla proto-cuneiforme mesopotamica. Lo studio è pubblicato sulla rivista scientifica PNAS

#Archeologia #Preistoria #Paleolitico #OriginiDellaScrittura #studi #PNAS

➡️ L’articolo su Storie & Archeostorie: https://wp.me/p7tSpZ-cno

https://storiearcheostorie.com/2026/02/27/segni-paleolitici-origine-scrittura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

✍️ 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶 𝟰𝟬｡𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗳𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹’𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮

✅ Uno studio condotto su 3.000 incisioni paleolitiche rivela sorprendenti sequenze di segni, la cui complessità è paragonabile alla proto-cuneiforme mesopotamica. Lo studio è pubblicato sulla rivista scientifica PNAS

#Archeologia #Preistoria #Paleolitico #OriginiDellaScrittura #studi #PNAS

➡️ L’articolo su Storie & Archeostorie: https://wp.me/p7tSpZ-cno

https://storiearcheostorie.com/2026/02/27/segni-paleolitici-origine-scrittura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

✍️ 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶 𝟰𝟬｡𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗳𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹’𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮

✅ Uno studio condotto su 3.000 incisioni paleolitiche rivela sorprendenti sequenze di segni, la cui complessità è paragonabile alla proto-cuneiforme mesopotamica. Lo studio è pubblicato sulla rivista scientifica PNAS

#Archeologia #Preistoria #Paleolitico #OriginiDellaScrittura #studi #PNAS

➡️ L’articolo su Storie & Archeostorie: https://wp.me/p7tSpZ-cno

https://storiearcheostorie.com/2026/02/27/segni-paleolitici-origine-scrittura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Unique among the senses, the ear expends energy to amplify the stimuli that it detects. New research shows that a segment of mammalian cochlea ex vivo displays features of this active process—amplification, frequency tuning, compressive nonlinearity & generation of distortion products—operating locally & near criticality at a Hopf bifurcation—a unified biophysical principle that underlies auditory processing across species. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503389122
#PNAS #Hearing #Auditory #Complexsystems

How can tiny amounts of gas produced by cosmic rays inside grains of sand give clues about Australia’s ancient landscapes?

Researchers at our Uni, #Curtin & #Köln demonstrated a new method to reconstruct how ancient landscapes eroded and sediments moved across continents millions of years ago. Find out about the cosmic clock in tiny crystals: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=8063

Research in #PNAS: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516058122

#InternationalResearchCollaboration #GeoscienceRocks

Aktuell in PNAS erschienen: Diese Studie erklärt, wie das Gehirn den Zeitpunkt zukünftiger Ereignisse voraussagt. Link zur Studie: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518982123
#Neurowissenschaft #Hirnforschung #Aufmerksamkeit #Prognose #Wahrscheinlichkeit #Zeit #PNAS
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/01/13/skalierungsfreie-schaetzung-der-wahrscheinlichkeit-so-trifft-das-gehirn-vorhersagen

Anakonda w żyrandolu. Naukowcy zbadali, w którym momencie (i dlaczego) zaczynamy milczeć w sieci

Wolność słowa w internecie to nie tylko kwestia tego, na co pozwala algorytm. To przede wszystkim kwestia tego, na co pozwalamy sobie sami.

Nowe badanie opublikowane w „Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” pokazuje mechanizm autocenzury. Wniosek? Największym wrogiem autorytaryzmu (i korporacyjnej cenzury) jest nasza odwaga.

Większość dyskusji o cenzurze w sieci skupia się na „złych moderatorach” lub „banowaniu kont”. Tymczasem naukowcy z Arizona State University postanowili zbadać coś znacznie ciekawszego: moment, w którym użytkownik sam postanawia zamilknąć, zanim ktokolwiek go ukarze. Stworzyli model symulacyjny, który wyjaśnia dynamikę strachu i buntu.

Anakonda w żyrandolu

Badacze wyróżnili trzy modele kontroli słowa, które obserwujemy na świecie (i w social mediach):

• Model rosyjski (legalistyczny): władza tworzy tysiące szczegółowych przepisów. Jeśli zrobisz X, dostaniesz karę Y. Jest surowo, ale wiesz, na czym stoisz.
• Model amerykański (korporacyjny): państwo umywa ręce, a o tym, co wolno, decydują prywatne firmy (Twitter, Meta) w oparciu o swoje regulaminy i zyski.
• Model chiński (nieoznaczony): to najciekawszy i najbardziej przerażający mechanizm, nazwany przez badaczy „Anakondą w żyrandolu”.

Na czym polega „Anakonda”? Władza (lub platforma) nie mówi, gdzie dokładnie przebiega czerwona linia. Mówi tylko: „zachowuj się, albo spadnie na ciebie wąż”. Brak jasnych reguł sprawia, że ludzie – ze strachu przed nieznanym – cenzurują się sami znacznie bardziej rygorystycznie, niż wymagałby tego jakikolwiek spisany regulamin. To mechanizm psychologiczny: gdy nie wiesz, co jest zakazane, zakładasz, że zakazane jest wszystko.

Pomóż nam rozwijać iMagazine – ruszyło badanie czytelnictwa 2026

Bądź odważny (to spowalnia system)

Symulacje wykazały, że autorytaryzm (czy to państwowy, czy narzucany przez algorytmy) „pełznie”. Zaczyna się łagodnie, jak w chińskiej Kampanii Stu Kwiatów, zachęcając do dyskusji, by potem nagle uderzyć.

Jednak model matematyczny ujawnił też antidotum. Jest nim odwaga. Jeśli społeczeństwo (lub społeczność serwisu) jest wystarczająco „bezczelne” i mimo niejasnych gróźb nadal wyraża swoje zdanie, system represji się zacina. Władza nie może przejść do etapu „drakońskiego”, bo musiałaby ukarać wszystkich naraz, co jest zbyt kosztowne.

– Bądź odważny – radzi Joshua Daymude, współautor badania. – To jedyna rzecz, która spowalnia pełzający autorytaryzm. Nawet jeśli nie wygrasz od razu, kupujesz czas.

Mandat za prędkość a autocenzura

Co ciekawe, autocenzura nie zawsze jest zła. Badacze porównują to do ograniczeń prędkości. W systemie „jednakowa kara dla wszystkich”, najbardziej milkną ci umiarkowani – bo ryzyko nie jest dla nich warte świeczki. Ekstremiści i tak krzyczą.

W systemie „kara proporcjonalna do winy”, sytuacja się odwraca: ekstremiści milkną (bo kara za duże wykroczenie jest ogromna), a umiarkowani czują się swobodnie, naciągając zasady tylko „trochę”.

To badanie to ważna lekcja dla nas wszystkich w 2026 roku. Niejasne „Standardy Społeczności” i bany za algorytmiczne domysły działają jak ta Anakonda – sprawiają, że boimy się odezwać. A jedynym sposobem, by wąż nie spadł, jest… hałasowanie.

Apple Pay dla dowodu osobistego. Dlaczego Bruksela udaje, że technologia nie istnieje?

en las #fakenews, en el #populismo, en la ignorancia. Pero quizá el problema también está dentro. Hoy la sociedad y la ciencia comparten sus objetivos: eficiencia, competencia, emprendimiento, visibilidad. Y en ese espejo, la ciencia comienza a parecerse peligrosamente a las lógicas de la sociedad que la produce

Un estudio publicado en #PNAS, q analizó 1.8 mil millones de citas entre 90 millones de artículos en 241 disciplinas científicas, mostró que los campos científicos están produciendo

Samraat Pawar and I wrote a #Commentary for a recent #PNAS paper by Arnoldi et al., titled: "A universal thermal performance curve arises in #biology and ecology."

Find our commentary here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528528122

#PNAS Deconstructing symmetry breaking dynamics https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2523903122 #arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22583 The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) successfully predicts the density of topological defects deposited by the phase transitions, but it is not clear why.

Don't give your pet mouse 🐁️ a tattoo. A study by Capucetti et al. in PNAS found the ink lingers in lymph nodes for months and kills immune cells. Effect on vaccines varied; Comirnaty (for COVID) injected into a tattoo was weaker while the flu jab was stronger.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/tattoo-ink-races-into-lymph-nodes-kills-immune-cells-and-alters-vaccine-responses-study-finds-120225.html

#MouseStudy #tattoo #vaccine #PNAS #lymph #immune #InMice

Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and others have successfully identified a previously unknown cyclic climate pattern by historical reanalysis of datasets and satellite observations. The findings are published in #PNAS. https://idw-online.de/en/news861949

RE: https://sciences.social/@primatology/115572642951558575

New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution #PNAS

A uniquely preserved Neanderthal skull from Italy reveals that their famous noses were not shaped by cold adaptation after all. Altamura’s nasal cavity forces a rethink of how Neanderthals grew, breathed, and evolved. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #PNAS https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-cave-that-reshaped-a-face-what

de afloramiento en todo el mundo que dependen de la delicada sincronización de la naturaleza.

Fuente: “Supresión sin precedentes del afloramiento del Pacífico de Panamá en 2025”.
Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (#PNAS), 2 de septiembre de 2025

Thank you @pnas.org for the gifts, and most importantly, the invitation to participate on the #PNAS ECR workshop. It is a nice gesture to include ECRs in the journal planning activities, and listening to our questions (that sometimes is hard to have the courage to send it out 😅).

Stoked to see this journal cover of PNAS with one of my photos: a mating pair of Swamp Bluet (Africallagma glaucum) from Harold Porter Botanical Garden in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, photographed in 2011.

#Odonata #odonataoftheworld #damselflies #EvolutionaryBiology #naturephotography #pnas

#NaukasBilbao25 Elixabete Rezabal nos muestra que para el agua pesada los modos de vibración son más lentos. ¿Puede olerse la diferencia? Las moscas pueden. #PNAS Molecular vibration-sensing component in Drosophila melanogaster olfaction https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1012293108

By combining high-resolution electrostatic mapping with molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the behavior of these surface-trapped ionic charges. We found that they spread across the surface with remarkable mobility. Their two-dimensional diffusion exceeds that of ions in bulk water, with the limiting factor being the friction between the ionic solvation shell and the solid.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505841122

#PNAS #MolecularDynamics #SurfaceScience #PhysicalChemistry#ComputationalChemistry

Quand la science vient jouer les trouble-fête pour les politiciens qui s'apprêtent à sabrer l'État social.
#pension #nouveauluc #retraite #pnas #social #science #Politique #Luxembourg #LucFrieden #frontsyndical #politics
🟩Lire l'article▼
https://www.luxembourgjungle.lu/des-fissures-dans-le-mur-des-retraites/

What secrets lie hidden in the jaws of a dinosaur?

It turns out that the enamel of dinosaurs’ fossilized teeth contains oxygen isotopes that provide clues about the early Earth’s atmosphere. An international research team used their newly developed method to investigate the climate and photosynthesis during the age of the dinosaurs: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7874

Research in #PNAS: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.25043241

#EarthSciences #Geochemistry #IsotopeGeology

Aussi sur Le Monde (article en partie réservé aux gens qui ont un abonnement).
"Dans un article publié lundi 4 août dans « PNAS », la revue de l’Académie nationale des sciences des Etats-Unis, des mathématiciens et des biologistes ont recensé des pratiques frauduleuses grandissantes dans les revues de recherche."
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/08/10/la-fraude-aux-publications-scientifiques-s-industrialise-alerte-une-etude-americaine_6627655_1650684.html
#esr #recherche #université #revuesSavantes #fraude #falsification #criminalite #PNAS #PlosOne

The #PNAS article is now fully open access.

And for those who can't wait for full access to the #PNAS article by Reese Richardson et al about the extent of #coordinated #scientific #fraud, here is Richardson's blog post about the article:

https://reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a-do-or-die-moment-for-the-scientific-enterprise/

#PNAS A molecular tango between chromatin and metabolites orchestrates a feedback switch for alcohol consumption https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512733122 ethanol metabolites epigenetically modify chromatin status to control Fgf21 transcription. FGF21 suppress alcohol intake, via a feedback loop.

Our paper, "Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades" was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420704122

#Attention #VisualAttention #SpatialAttention #VisualCortex #Microsaccades #Saccades #EyeMovements #Representation #Dynamics #ActiveCognition #ActiveSensing #Decoding #V4cortex #ITcortex #Pulvinar #Neuroscience #PNAS

What is the Moon made of? And how did it get here?

Researchers from our Uni & @mpsgoettingen analysed samples from the Moon. Their results suggest that the Moon could in fact be a chunk ejected from the Earth’s mantel following a massive collision: https://s.gwdg.de/woj1iB

Research #PNAS: https://doi.org/n22f
#Geochemistry #Isotopes #Geology #Geosciences