Paulo E. Abreu

Pois … É muito confuso tudo isto…

Ministro anuncia aumento de quase 40 milhões de euros para a FCT em 2026 Fernando Alexandre anunciou um aumento da verba para a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – mas só nas verbas oriundas de impostos. Ministro garante nova Lei da Ciência até ao final do ano.

Ministro anuncia aumento de quase 40 milhões de euros para a FCT em 2026
No discurso de encerramento, o ministro com a tutela da Ciência anunciou um aumento de 8% no orçamento da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) para 2026.
www.publico.pt/2025/07/11/c...

Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?

Comic. The Three Types of Unsolved Physics Problem (First panel) Vague. PERSON [next to curved diagram] What is the nature of time in quantum gravity? Is it a background parameter, a dynamic aspect of spacetime, or an emergent phenomenon? (Second panel) Precise. PERSON 2 with short hair [device with equation below: 71Ga + νe → 71Ge + e- .] Why does the *S.A.G.E.* Gallium Neutrino Capture Experiment produce only 75% as much germanium as predicted? (Third panel) Cursed. PERSON 3 with white hat [rectangular block with hairs growing out of it labeled Zinc Whiskers] Why does some metal randomly grow hairs? It keeps causing short circuits and we have no idea what’s going on. OFF-PANEL: Is this a joke? PERSON 3: No! Please help!

Unsolved Physics Problems

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Experimental data on the MO energies ? That is contradictory as MO energies are not observables...

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Big hug!

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

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First time making scallion pancakes!

the github link is not correct

“I hate people when they’re not polite”

It’s here!!!

Lastly to round up the 🧵: Science works doesn't mean every scientific study produces a fact ready for public consumption. Scientific work is incremental, iterative, nonlinear, slow, imperfect, relentless. Continuous improvement upon what was. Science works not despite but because of many failures.

- where Indigenous peoples used whole cacao beans, sugar, and spices to create chocolate drinks - contrast with today’s focus on sustainable, ethical sourcing and the production of plant-based, premium, and artisan chocolates."

Really confused by this phrase, why the contrast ? Indigenous peoples were not using sustainable or ethical methods? Really confused...
"The evolution of chocolate over the centuries has been truly remarkable. Early preparations in Central America before the 1800s -

Really interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

Confesso que nem me lembrei disso... enfim é o que dá ignorar a realidade...

There’s a pot of gold in my department …

What nitrite have you used ? As I dont have access to "pink salt" I have always done my meat curing without it (the end product just looks sad ...). I was never brave enough to use the stuff we have in the laboratory.

Being a teacher is so lonely ....

Being a Messiaen fan, so stealing all those names!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Dia da liberdade

Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage Presenting an award at the Breakthrough prize ceremony, the actor and writer allegedly accused the president of destroying American science

Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

"Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time." - Jean-Michel Basquiat #quote

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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I cannot nor I will not yield to you.