Biological and health sciences

Experts tracked and addressed COVID-19 rumors and misinformation in Puerto Rico

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Mercy Corps Puerto Rico, together with Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT), Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), Ciencia en Tus Manos (CETM) and Internews developed a Rumor Tracking Program "Infórmate, Protégete, Vacunate" on news related to vaccines and COVID-19 in Puerto Rico. The effort ran from March to June and collected more than 1,000 rumors that were categorized by risk levels (high, medium and low). Much of the misinformation and rumors collected revolved around the safety of the coronavirus vaccine.

Let's talk about the Delta variant

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The arrival of the Delta variant has changed the landscape of the pandemic. Before we get into the details, the good news: vaccines work and protect us from serious consequences, hospitalization and death if we get the Delta variant (and the other variants) and it gives us COVID-19. The prevention measures that we already know also work to protect us from Delta and the other variants.

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Quick guides for identifying bryophytes Puerto Rico

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Bryophytes are a group of plants that includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. Although these plants are present in almost all forests and terrestrial ecosystems in Puerto Rico, few resources are available to recognize the most common species and those that are important for forest health.

Investigadora boricua quiere esclarecer el efecto del COVID-19 en la salud menstrual

Submitted on 28 July 2021 - 5:04pm

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Research link: https://redcap.psm.edu/surveys/?s=ADHK8PN7D8 

Research by Dr. Idhaliz Flores, a molecular biologist at Ponce Health Sciences University, seeks to survey at least 500 women to determine if COVID-19 has affected their menstrual health.

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Application Call: Seminars at Yale Neuroscience: Advanced PoStdoc Extramural Series (SYNAPSES)

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More information: https://medicine.yale.edu/neuroscience/seminars/synapses.aspx

The Neuroscience Department and Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale are pleased to announce the 2021-2022 SYNAPSES seminar series.

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Seeking research assistants (reclutando asistentes de investigacion)

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We are looking for an immediate hire of multiple Research Assistant/Interviewer positions at FDI Clinical Research in San Juan, Puerto Rico to implement the protocols for data collection for the NIH-funded PROSPECT project, an island-wide observational study of cardiovascular risk factors among adults in Puerto Rico. The project and the position will be supervised by Dr. Josiemer Mattei at Harvard University’s TH Chan School of Public Health and Dr. Jose F.

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UPR Humacao recibirá $4.2 millones de la Fundación Nacional de las Ciencias

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Dr. Aida I. Rodríguez Roig, rector of the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) announces a new allocation of $ 4.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the extension of the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) project, which brings together professors and students from the UPR of Humacao and Cayey, in collaboration with colleagues affiliated with the Materials Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

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Job Opportunity: CienciaPR Civic Science Fellow

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Join Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) as a Civic Science Fellow to help us improve scientists’ capacity to engage different audiences with science in culturally relevant and inclusive ways.

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