Pedro T. Monteiro

The Software Engineering Lab is designed to support various forms of study and work, offering areas for both individual focus and collaboration, addressing the increasing demand for flexibility and shared experiences in academic life.

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Nopes, but i did found out that when calling is not enough, shutting down wifi is. Now, integrating the menace of no wifi works flawlessly :)

Isto é inacreditável

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

The functional landscape of the human ubiquitinome Protein ubiquitination regulates cell biology through diverse avenues, from quality control-linked protein degradation to signaling functions such as modulating protein-protein interactions and enzyme...

new preprint: Ubiquitin is a protein modification linked with degradation but known to regulate other functions. Over 100k ubiquitination sites have been discovered and here we (@julianvangerwen.bsky.social + others) try to prioritize those most critical to the cell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How sugary drinks loaded with fructose and glucose may promote colon cancer metastatic potential
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This 👇

Compression causes cancer cells to start spreading The switch between proliferation and invasion is triggered by mechanical force.

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Uma má notícia para Portugal: o número de alunos nas universidades caiu este ano Andreia Sanches é jornalista do PÚBLICO e acompanha há anos a educação em Portugal. A Andreia é a convidada deste episódio do seu podcast da manhã.

Sobre a redução do número de candidatos ao ensino superior (em 1a fase)
www.publico.pt/2025/08/26/s...

Not just Canada:

"In other words, if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law."

Why The U.S. Chills Its Eggs And Most Of The World Doesn't In many countries, eggs aren't refrigerated and they're still considered safe to eat. But in the U.S., we have to chill them, because we've washed away the cuticle that protects them from bacteria.

Quanto aos ovos estadunidenses vs europeus, é questão de combate à salmonela com duas táticas distintas, lá fazem lavagem especial aos ovos (q em contrapartida perdem película protetora, daí a necessidade de frio) e por cá vacinam as galinhas, sem perda da película e daí sem necessidade de frio.

Computation of Immediate Neighbours of Monotone Boolean Functions Boolean networks constitute relevant mathematical models to study the behaviours of genetic and signalling networks. These networks define regulatory influences between molecular nodes, each being ass...

Want to compute immediate neighbours of monotone Boolean functions but got lost with the combinatorics? 🤯
Now you can github.com/ptgm/pyfunct...

Our latest work (w/ JoseCury PatriciaRoxo @vmanquinho.bsky.social ClaudineChaouiya), to be presented at CMSB'25! doi.org/10.1007/978-...

When mRNA vaccines are wrongly attacked, this is one of many examples of what you're missing.
A broad spectrum prevention strategy against viruses
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity BY ZOË SCHIFFER AND WILL KNIGHT | 2-MINUTE READ

I’m old enough to remember when it was on pace to out-think humanity.

The long and newly updated story of lithium and its potential role for helping to prevent Alzheimer's disease
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Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

The new normal
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS It’s unclear exactly how GPT-5’s new approach to model-switching will work here.

Apple Intelligence
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Portugal com maior queda do rendimento real das famílias na OCDE no 1.º trimestre O rendimento real das famílias portuguesas recuou 4,5%, em cadeia, "principalmente devido ao aumento dos impostos a pagar, com o PIB real per capita também a contrair-se (-0,6%)", indica a OCDE, no de...

Venho só deixar isto aqui...

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Transporte de alta velocidade: como a Espanha se tornou um dos líderes mundiais nas viagens de trens rápidas - BBC News Brasil Nas últimas décadas, a Espanha optou por um meio de transporte caracterizado pela eficiência, mas também pelo custo elevado. Será que valeu a pena o investimento?

Enquanto isto, Portugal se tornou o líder mundiai em contratos Spinumviva
'Com quase 4 mil quilômetros de vias em operação, a Espanha possui a rede ferroviária de alta velocidade mais extensa da Europa, e a segunda maior do mundo, atrás apenas da China, um país sete vezes maior.'

A ministra da Saúde do “esforço adicional” e a pá A solução não virá de mais abnegação, mas de uma reestruturação corajosa. Não precisamos de mais heróis para aguentar sistemas insustentáveis; precisamos de um sistema sustentável, para os profissiona...

"A solução não virá de mais abnegação, mas de uma reestruturação corajosa. Não precisamos de mais heróis para aguentar sistemas insustentáveis; precisamos de um sistema sustentável, para os profissionais que o operam e para os utentes que deveriam conseguir tratar."
expresso.pt/opiniao/2025...

FCT: a extinção que subordina a ciência e ameaça o bem comum A arquitetura da política científica em Portugal é uma conquista histórica. Reformá-la exige clareza de princípios, visão estratégica e compromisso com o bem comum.

'Confundir ciência e inovação põe em risco equilíbrios essenciais, como os que existem entre financiamento estruturante e competição ou entre liberdade académica e prioridades políticas e económicas'
www.publico.pt/2025/08/02/c...

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Learn computational approaches to leverage biological networks for solving #biomedical disease challenges, at #ComputationalBiology25 course.

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AI expands the repertoire of CRISPR-associated proteins for genome editing A generative artificial-intelligence tool has designed a synthetic CRISPR system that successfully edits human DNA and sharply reduces off-target effects.

A generative artificial-intelligence tool has designed a synthetic CRISPR system that successfully edits human DNA
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What’s new in NotebookLM: Video Overviews and an upgraded Studio NotebookLM launches Video Overviews and upgrades to the Studio panel.

After podcasts (audio overview) now the Video overview!
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Hoje a FCCN terminou o Zoom Pro webconference do Colibri.

"É também o dia que começo a receber "You have been added as ... to ... in Microsoft Teams" 😢

como se não houvessem alternativas

Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology - Nature Reviews Cancer Comparative oncology combines evolutionary biology, ecology, veterinary medicine and clinical oncology to better understand cancer, for example, by identifying the molecular and cellular mechanisms un...

'Comparative oncology has two main driving goals. The first is to offer a deeper and more integrative understanding of what cancer is. The second is to find novel treatments for patients, by drawing inspiration from natural cancer-resistance mechanisms that have evolved in diverse species.'

Rent vs net salary in Europe: The most and least affordable cities Euronews Business takes a close look at net salaries and the rent for one-bedroom flats in European city centres to reveal the best and worst rent-to-salary ratios across Europe.

Can you afford to live in Lisbon?
www.euronews.com/business/202...

TL;DR: no!

Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of that sex are higher than of having one of the opposite sex

go.nature.com/45caBj4

When an assistant professor is not allowed to mentor students if they don't have another senior co-mentor

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.