Sílvia Castro
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Sílvia Castro
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INESC-ID is recruiting for a position in communication and another in operations management. The deadline for applications is January 5th.
Communication: lnkd.in/dBzZwWuB
Operations Manager: lnkd.in/dpkmaynp
Braga Science Film Fest's first edition is around the corner! This year, the special guest will be George Kourounis, National Geographic explorer Angry Planet's presenter. Registrations are free: bragasciencefilmfest.com
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#scicompt
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Their business is Global, but Feedzai keeps the HQ of their business for AI tools to fight financial fraud, valued at $1B+, in Coimbra.

www.jornaldenegocios.pt/negocios-ini...
There's a new kid in town: "Técnico Innovation Center – powered by Fidelidade." A former train station was now transformed into a space focused on opening innovation, technology, research, and knowledge creation.
And a Fire Station 🚒
#NobelPrize in Physics 2023 awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier.
Anne L'Huiller is only the 5th (!) woman to be awarded the Physics Nobel Prize.
Katalin Karikó left Hungary in 1985 when the lab lost its funding. She left with her husband and Daughter and practically nothing else. In 1995 she was demoted from the University of Pennsylvania because no matter how many times she applied for NIH she never got a grant for it.
Science, it works. Academia, not really

"It is a miracle that Karikó stuck in academia for so long after being treated this way (...) We should worry about the invisible Karikós: the people with good ideas (...) who dropped out (...) We’ll never know what we missed"
www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/k...
The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research
"Fund people not projects" is easier said than done. A better way to fund science is to bend over backward to fund a truly diverse range of people and ideas, even including those perceived as unpopula...
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I need to date a MIT alumni just so I can use their MIT Tech Review subscription 😅
The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) is coming into force Today! It’s going to affect some of the world’s biggest tech and social media giants, including Google, Facebook, and X.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/...
exacto, a informação agregada é realmente muito útil para se fundamentar o que já todos sabemos
165 projetos desde 2007: Champalimaud (21 projetos; IMM (18) e Gulbenkian (16). Acho que diz qq coisa sobre as condições para competitividade das instituições públicas
The laboratory for computer science and informatics at NOVA FCT is looking for an Associate Professor in Artificial intelligence & Machine Learning
www.di.fct.unl.pt/en/node/3655
The CS department at Instituto Superior Técnico is looking for Assistant Professors in AI, HCI, and Information Systems:

dei.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/noticias/cam...
Feedzai announced the second edition of the Feedzai Women in Science Scholarships at Técnico. The scholarships support women, students, or future students, for MSc programs at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Applications are open until September 15
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Feedzai | Women in Science - Scholarship programme at Técnico
As Bolsas Feedzai | Women in Science | MSc visam apoiar os estudos de alunas inscritas em mestrados com o objetivo de promover o papel das mulheres em áreas cientificas, e destinam-se a alunas, estud...
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The latest ERC dashboard comprehensively overviews ERC-funded projects. Portugal has secured funding for 165 projects since 2007
dashboard.tech.ec.europa.eu/qs_digit_das...
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