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Alfonso Martinez Arias

@AMartinezArias

Born and bred in Madrid, brewed in Chicago and Cambridge. Curious about how cells build embryos #NotIntheGenes #InNumbersWeTrust
Cambridge, Barcelona amapress.gen.cam.ac.uk Joined April 2013
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Alfonso Martinez Arias @AMartinezArias
This is a great loss for the #DevBio community and the #SCBEM field in particular. Marta was (how hard to write this) a positive person, a creative scientist & a great collague. Will be missed.
Manuel Ansede @manuelansede Oct 30
Desaparecida en el accidente de trenes Marta Shahbazi, una de las científicas españolas más brillantes
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Alfonso Martinez Arias @AMartinezArias
💯 spot on and people are gullible. Fortunately there are real scientists working on the field but they don't confound what they do w/ gobbledygook that seems to enthrall many people. Fits the times. Sigh
Trevor Klee Verified account @trevor_klee Oct 27
Michael Levin kills me. Because there's an interesting observation here (that maybe you can bias cortical cultures to grow in a certain direction), confounded by the lack of an effective control (checking to see if you can bias cortical cultures to grow in any other direction or if you've just made them always go left no matter what), completely muddled by some nonsense theory (something about "training cells out of disease states").

All of his papers are like this. An interesting, usually unreproducible observation; zero interest in effective controls or interrogating whether it's a robust phenomenon; a lot of handwaving on top.
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