Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Plate. @hunchbacksociety
#Ceramics #stoneware #pottery
#ceramic #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #Artmastodon
@madparreira.bsky.social
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"Similar to other biotechnologies, genome editing faces substantial obstacles in Africa. These include regulatory uncertainty, limited access to laboratories, equipment and reagents for molecular biology work, a shortage of trained professionals, and a low rate of returnees among the diaspora. There is also little investment: most countries devote less than 1% of their gross domestic product (GDP) to research and development. The dependency of African institutions on external funding, unequal collaborations with the Global North and control of intellectual property and licensing by foreign entities further hinder progress. Additionally, there are low levels of integration of biotechnology in school and university curricula, inaccurate risk perceptions and apparent low levels of public support (often due to misinformation), and, as a consequence, inadequate political will."
"It is tempting to look for parallels with human empires. Perhaps it is impossible not to see rhymes between the natural and human worlds, and as a science journalist I’ve contributed more than my share. But just because words rhyme, it doesn’t mean their definitions align. Global ant societies are not simply echoes of human struggles for power. They are something new in the world, existing at a scale we can measure but struggle to grasp: there are roughly 200,000 times more ants on our planet than the 100bn stars in the Milky Way."
(Photo: Wan Azizi Ws/Getty)
Dont miss it, @hunchbacksociety & many other talented artists at @almeida_felipa FEIRA DO EQUINÓCIO DA PRIMAVERA/Spring Equinox Fair
March 20 & 21 from 12h to 19h.
Tomorrow & Thursday
#Ceramics #stoneware #pottery #ceramic #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #Lisbon #LisbonArt
"The organized lying practiced by totalitarian states is not, as is sometimes claimed, a temporary expedient of the same nature as military deception. It is something integral to totalitarianism, something that would still continue even if concentration camps and secret police forces had ceased to be necessary."
Photo: Ullstein Bild/Getty.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1947/03/the-prevention-of-literature/655342/
I don't think this is what Ali had in mind with "float like a butterfly".
Hatching.
@hunchbacksociety
#Ceramics #stoneware #pottery #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #artmastodon
@madparreira.bsky.social
Nature inspires art. Toothpick holder by @hunchbacksociety
#Ceramics #stoneware #pottery #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery
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A bucolic box by @hunchbacksociety
#art #ceramics #stoneware #ceramic #Pottery #handmade #artgallery #stoneware
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"Calvino is probably the most seductive writer for me. I begin each of his books thinking, No, I don’t think so—I don’t think I’m going to get involved with this. Then I’m slowly, slowly drawn in."
(Illustration by Enes Diriğ; Source photograph by Lloyd Bishop).
Hunchback in natural habitat @hunchbacksociety
#art #ceramics #stoneware #ceramic #Pottery #handmade #artgallery #stoneware #artmastodon
"The prototype for that image was the frontispiece for Thomas Henry Huxley’s book Man’s Place in Nature, from 1863. It shows a similar series of primates, from gibbon to gorilla, that become successively taller and more erect, culminating in an upright human. Only here, they appear in skeleton form. What I discovered in the course of my research, from unpublished letters and other sources, was that the artist who drew the skeletons for Huxley’s book, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, was himself bitterly opposed to evolution."
"Brazil is seeing an unprecedented surge in dengue, a viral disease that can cause excruciating pains and is sometimes fatal. Its spread is fueled by a hot rainy season and Brazil’s rapid, unplanned urbanization. Health officials have reported more than 1 million suspected cases in January and February, four times as many as in the same period in 2023, and hundreds have died. But the country has far too little vaccine to protect its population."
#Dengue #PublicHealth #Vaccines
https://www.science.org/content/article/dengue-raging-brazil-promising-local-vaccine-least-year-away
"Paula Coutinho (1941-2022) foi uma mulher que quebrou barreiras, considerada vanguardista na neurologia, num mundo, à época, predominantemente masculino. A sua principal referência e mentor foi Corino Andrade, neurologista que descobriu a paramiloidose em famílias das Caxinas, e de quem foi herdeira científica. “‘pescada’ nas aulas práticas de Neurologia e levada para o serviço do Dr. Corino de Andrade”, no Hospital de Santo António (HSA), no Porto, em 1965, quando ainda frequentava a Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto. Foi a primeira neurologista a desenvolver o “pensamento genético” na doença neurológica, o que faz dela, de facto, a pioneira da neurogenética em Portugal."
https://www.publico.pt/2024/03/08/ciencia/noticia/paula-coutinho-pioneira-neurogenetica-2082426
"Under Burrows’s ultraviolet lamps, pistil and stamen, stigma and anther glow with the colors of a distant planet or some bioluminescent creature of the deep seas, at once alien and familiar."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/books/review/what-the-bees-see-craig-p-burrows.html
"The Health Engineers" the latest episode of the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus podcast is now online.
You can hear it by scrolling down on the Pioneer Campus site:
https://www.pioneercampus.org
On spotify 👇
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vo5oVvdLzRLqcMdpIcaXC
On apple podcasts 👇
https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/the-health-engineers/id1718886869?i=1000648063427&l=en-GB
#Science #Medicine #SciComm #SciencePodcast #Podcast #Bioengineering #Healthcare
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
