Gustavo Ogasawara @gojonnes@qoto.org

“A ciência não tá nem aí para sua opinião”. Essa frase é uma grande mentira.

É mentira e, além disso, soa arrogante. Eu entendo a intenção de quem a disse, de enfatizar que opiniões pessoais não mudam fatos. No entanto, o mais correto seria afirmar que a opinião de alguém não altera uma verdade ou um fato comprovado. A ciência não é dona da verdade e nem pretende ser. Ela erra, e errar faz parte do processo de tentar compreender o desconhecido.

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a-ciencia-nao-ta-nem-ai-para-sua-opiniao-essa-frase-e-uma-grande-mentira/

A moment of peace

Massaguaçu Beach, Caraguatatuba, Brazil, 1990s, school vacation, summer heat. I remember it like it was yesterday. That atlantic ocean, that sand, happy kids, my family. At that time, my knowledge was very limited. I didn’t know what war was, or dictatorship, or any of those things. At most, I knew about Tiradentes, Pedro Álvares Cabral, and Dom Pedro I. Of course, I was just a child.

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/a-moment-of-peace/

Forbidden for children

I should be focused on studying or writing my thesis, but I decided to write mediocre things on this blog instead. Today, October 12th, is Children’s Day in Brazil. It’s also the day of "Nossa Senhora", the country’s patron saint, and the day of my aunt’s funeral — my father’s sister — who also passed away during the first weeks of October.

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/forbidden-for-children/

Precisamos parar de ser hipócritas em relação à legalização do aborto

A questão do aborto não se resume a ser contra ou a favor. O que leva alguém a recorrer a um aborto envolve fatores complexos, pessoais e muitas vezes dolorosos. E essa decisão não depende da vontade do Estado. Mesmo com a criminalização, os abortos continuam acontecendo , de forma clandestina e em condições precárias, que colocam em risco também a vida da mãe.

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/precisamos-parar-de-ser-hipocritas-em-relacao-a-legalizacao-do-aborto/

Envelhecer

Envelhecer é o descobrimentodas nossas fragilidadesatravessar oceanoscom dor nas costasavistar terra firmecom vista cansadadescobrir que o descobrimento pode ser invasão que a nossa rochapode estar cheia de fraturasque um conto de fadaspode não ter um final felizque a poesiapode ser imperfeitae que a verdadeira beleza da vidapode estar na imperfeiçãomas de certo que sabemosou não?Que envelhecer é melhorquando estamos juntos Um feliz aniversário Meu eterno…

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/envelhecer/

We never really know, but we like to keep fooling ourselves.

Lap_so

One more lap____and so on Nobody reads me Brave as the flying butterswimin calm watersa music far off in my nonsensea lighthouse steadypulling me through fog Can I bear one more timeCan I bear myselfCan Ib ,,,???e

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/lap_so/

It’s time to move past the political idea of left and right. Politics is multilateral.

Seeing politics today through the lens of LEFT and RIGHT is worse than watching a film in black and white. In fact, watching a black-and-white film can actually be quite enjoyable. Viewing politics through today’s left–right lens is like trying to watch a football match in black and white, on a YouTube channel with no footage of the pitch, connected to free Wi-Fi that stops working…

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/its-time-to-move-past-the-political-idea-of-left-and-right-politics-is-multilateral/

É preciso superar a ideia política de esquerda e direita. A política é multilateral.

Enxergar a política através da ideia de esquerda e direita atual é pior do que assistir à um filme em preto e branco. Na verdade, assistir à um filme em preto e branco pode até ser legal. Enxergar a política através da ideia de esquerda e direita atual é como tentar assistir à uma partida de futebol, em preto e branco, em um canal de youtube sem imagens do campo, conectado à um wifi…

https://gojonnes.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/e-preciso-superar-a-ideia-politica-de-esquerda-e-direita-a-politica-e-multilateral/

Sometimes we have to #walk through a field of shit to truly appreciate the field of #roses.

Anyone working in #agriculture knows how important #timing is, but did you know that plants have internal #rhythmic biological mechanisms that can influence the effectiveness of #agrochemical applications depending on the time of day?

Understanding these mechanisms and how to apply this knowledge in the field is still a challenge. Together with Carlos Hotta and Antony Dodd, we decided to present some ideas in this new article published in The New Phytologist Foundation—my first as first author. ✨

I’m very excited to share these ideas because they’re part of the topic of my doctoral thesis, which focuses on #plant sensitivity to #herbicides at different times of the day.

#Chronobiology is a relatively recent science, but its discoveries have already earned a Nobel Prize in 2017. Personally, I believe that studies in chronobiology applied to agriculture could lead to the emergence of a new scientific field: #chronoagronomy.

Chronoagronomy could focus on studying the effects of time in agriculture—understanding all temporal factors and how they affect production systems, from soil preparation and crop rotations to the final product price in the market—with the goal of optimizing outcomes through process synchronization and the application of #chronoculture or circadian agriculture.

#Agronomy has always relied on knowledge of temporal factors, but has never studied them systematically in all their dimensions. Understanding the role of #time might be the breakthrough we need to produce more, produce better, and avoid environmental disaster.

Check out the article here: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.70346