Prof Carla Faria

It is of course unconscious and very different from "oops, it slipped", but would the word occur to a Black person as an intrusive thought?

Fair point. I am trying to understand the issue, which honestly I don't. I still wonder what brings the intrusive thought there and why he and the public were not protected.

I am no expert on this condition, but my question is exactly yours: what brought this intrusive thought there? How someone swears & the words they use tell a lot about their minds.

Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation | Amazon Watch “This proves that life – the river – has no price. It cannot be sold, it is not negotiable. That’s why we will never back down.”

#TapajosVivo #Amazonia
The fight continues, but it is important to celebrate our victories.
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Bringing all online was an insane amount of work for uni staff.

Que absurdo. E a cara de pau ha' alguns meses, durante a #COP30 foi de matar. Isso tem que parar #SOSAmazonia

Realmente, e' horrivel. Existe um prazer sadico em querer ver as pessoas sofrerem.

Ainda falta revogar essa maldita lei, mas e' um começo. Fico insultada como a #Amazonia e' vista como uma colônia, seja por governos de direita ou de esquerda. E sim, estou de saco cheio de marxistas do sudeste falando no lugar das pessoas do Norte. E' uma farsa colossal!
#SaveTheTapajosRiver

This destruction has been like this forever. #Amazonia is viewed as a colony to be plundered, also by many Brazilians. I was happy that the COP30 was in Belem, but I couldn't shake the feeling that our voices are never heard. What a farce!

#SaveTheTapajósRiver #RevogaDecreto12600

The Tapajós River is not just water, it is memory, food, culture, and life. Sending so much love with the Indigenous people of the Baixo Tapajós who are currently fighting against dredging and all projects that threaten their future.

Bom dia 👇

Seminar poster with my picture (woman of mix Black heritage in a red jumper with somewhat frizzy hair) on the left, a photoelectron spectrum on the right, abstract in the middle and a title "Exploring Quantum Interference in the Attosecond Domain" on top, a green heart in the top right corner.

I have really enjoyed this outreach event. It was great to be a speaker in the Physics Undergraduate Seminar at UCL, and talk to so many enthusiastic students with great (and unusual) questions. Hopefully I could be of help!

Sunset on the beach with a person and a cow on the foreground

Ferry boat crossing a river, beach and someone fishing

Birds having breakfast on a swamp - three hornbills and a white ibis

Kingfisher sitting on a branch

Here are a few pictures from Goa, India, to clean up the timeline. We all need that from time to time 😊

Had a great time at the 2025 IAMNOP in Delhi (plenary talk & session chair). It was great to see the pictures and meet the vibrant Indian Physics community. And yes, I look more and more like my paternal grandmother, lol.

News headlines in Hindi about the US attacks in Venezuela, with aeroplanes and a wheelchair in the background. The picture shows a map of South America, Trump and Maduro.

News headlines in Hindi about the US attacks in Venezuela, with aeroplanes and a wheelchair in the background. The picture shows Trump, Maduro, explosions and Trump entering something that looks like a war room.

When you are coming back from paradise and reality smacks you in the face. On Saturday, while waiting for my connection to Delhi. As a South American, this is particularly triggering. For more info see, e.g., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Sunset at the beach in Goa, India, where I spent the holidays after an international conference in Delhi.

2025 was about starting a new research area, renewal in many ways, and reconnecting with my Amazonian roots. It brought success, recognition, help from unexpected places, nasty surprises from collaborators and the necessity to realign myself once more. Happy New Year everyone, despite everything!

Beautiful place. Where is it? Happy New Year!

Woman of mixed Black heritage in front of a Xmas tree wearing red glasses, a read jumper, dark blue jacket and a red scarf

I wish all of you strangers a great holiday season with a festive enough picture. I will go offline soon, but not before leaving my best wishes. May 2026 be less weird than 2025, and treat everyone with more kindness. Take care!

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#SOSAmazonia

They are amazing & severely under-rated birds. I do online yoga with cats several times a week. It is not intentional in my case, but I am their tenant (or they view it this way)

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Seven missing to 900

Sorry to read that. Definitely worth a one-star review.

Explain the situation above to the company & threaten that you will write a one-star review if you don't get your goods ASAP.

This was a good #AttoFridays talk from a fellow Latin American who has been working with us for a while (available soon on YouTube once we get the OK from her). We will have one more talk in this season and will come to an end. #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #LatinasInSTEM

Afro-European woman (me) in a black dress with red flowers standing in front of a building with a straw roof, with mom (right) and aunts (left), who look Native American.

It’s impossible to watch #cop30brasilamazonia without feeling deeply connected. My family carries Indigenous ancestry, even if our ties are complex, we cannot name our people & are middle-class city dwellers. Enough of plundering #Amazonia and treating ppl from the North of BR as outcasts!

Absolutely worth a read. It exposes the greenwashing at #COP30 and shows that Indigenous people are deliberately excluded from key decisions. #Amazonia is seen as a colony within BR, which has been plundered for centuries.

Definitely worth a read - it's frustrating to see the greenwashing that is happening while the govt discussed oil drilling in the #Amazon Delta. #Amazonia has been plundered for resources and has been seen as a colony for centuries within Brazil. Indigenous ppl are left out of key decisions. #COP30

It's important to shine light on Belem & #COP30, but when I see this it reminds me of how Indigenous people are mostly left out of key negotiations. Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, for instance, destroyed the Xingu River and was pushed through during a left-leaning PT presidency.