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"The prints are very small, some are roughly the size of a stamp, & are at times watercoloured." @madparreira

Mini-etchings inspired by Seghers, Rembrandt & Bruegel the Younger/loosely inspired by 17th century Dutch landscape paintings.

madalenaparreira.com

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”
Stephen King, On Writing.

"The prints are very small, some are roughly the size of a stamp, & are at times watercoloured."

Mini-etchings inspired by Seghers, Rembrandt & Bruegel the Younger/loosely inspired by 17th century Dutch landscape paintings.

madalenaparreira.com/miniature

"And all the while, the lice have recorded this journey in their genes. A new study, for example, found that some lice in the Americas are hybrids of those carried there by Native Americans and others ferried across the Atlantic by European colonists."
@Carl_Zimmer

Pediculus humanus, the human louse. Image Credit:Frank Collins/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

nytimes.com/2023/11/08/science

If you're in Lisbon in December:

"Save the date 🍽️ FEIRA DO PRATO FALANTE ➰ 5&6 de Dezembro 🍽️ Pop Up no atelier em Campo de Ourique.

Save the date ➰ next pop up at the studio 5&6 of December ➰more details soon." @madparreira.bsky.social

#Ceramic

SBIAP: Brazilian Society for Immunology & Arts in Portugal.

"SARS-CoV-2 infection is milder in children, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This study finds increased interactions between immune and epithelial cells in children's noses, priming the epithelium for stronger interferon responses upon infection."
Magalhães et al @emboreports

embopress.org/doi/full/10.1525

Thanks to LS4FUTURE Associated Laboratory for the invitation to speak at Career Day 2023 - and to hear the other panelists's stories. As a side note, it was odd to learn from postdocs at the speed-dating portion of the afternoon that Portugal's government had fallen (as if they needed *more* uncertainty).
(Photo by Andreia Freitas/IBET)

‘The analysis estimates that 1.5–2% of all scientific papers published in 2022 closely resemble paper-mill works. Among biology and medicine papers, the rate rises to 3%."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

“We’re seeing the emergence of dengue in areas where we’ve never seen it before,” Adam Waickman, an immunologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, said during the meeting. “Effective dengue control is going to require multi-layered efforts.”

Particles of dengue virus (red; artificially coloured) infect a tissue specimen.
Image Credit: Science Source/SPL'

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

Sitting in on Luis Graça's lab retreat in paradise with no wifi.
Our regular programming will resume soon.

Thanks to the program students and the European MD/PhD Association for the invitation to speak at their "Finding the Creative Spark in Biomedical Research" conference at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)/PRBB (Barcelona Biomedical Research Park).

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