Ines Carvalho
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Conservation biologist, ecology and conservation genetics 🌍🧬 cetaceans, science communication, ocean lover 🐬🐋🌊
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For maximum enjoyment put on '(Dont Fear) The Reaper' while you read this:

'A maioria dos investigadores do Departamento de Genética Humana do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Ricardo Jorge tem mais de 50 anos, pondo em risco a continuidade da investigação sobre doenças genéticas e cancros hereditários'
Departamento de Genética Humana em risco de continuidade por falta de renovação dos colaboradores
A maior parte dos colaboradores tem mais de 50 anos, alerta o responsável daquele departamento do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge. O problema é maior na Citogenética Clássica.
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The Portuguese government wants to dismantle the National Institute for Nature Conservation (ICNF)! It has already dissolved the National Science Foundation (FCT)! There are many similarities with something we know all too well here... #conservation #EU
www.publico.pt/2025/10/14/a...
Há preocupação e incerteza sobre fim do Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e Florestas
Ministério do Ambiente e Energia não confirma que há planos para redistribuir funções do ICNF pela Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente e pelas CCDR. “É impensável”, diz a Zero.
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Mesmo. Foi tudo corrido! Sobretudo mulheres! ☹️
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UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
Em Cascais, a grande maioria vota nisso mesmo. Destruição de todos os espaços verdes para o betão!
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#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.
Jane Goodall showed the world there is an important place for emotion, empathy & advocacy in science. Her unconventional approach revolutionized our understanding of the other beings we share Earth with.

Here's my tribute. Vale Jane Goodall 💔 Thank you for all you gave humanity!

🧪🌏 #NatureWriting
World-Renowned Primatologist Jane Goodall Passes Away at 91
Jane Goodall, one of the world's most beloved primatologists and conservationists, passed away from natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour.
www.sciencealert.com
Really sad news!
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
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Igual!!!! Só espero que não se deixem levar..... 🤯
Really cool!
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
Wind-jet upwelling in the GOP. (A) Typical wind vectors and SST through the topographic low in the Isthmus of Panama showing reduced sea surface temperatures in the Gulf (Feb 4, 2019). (B) Daily satellite-derived SST 1985–2025. Dashed line shows the lowest 2025 SST (27.5 °C); gray arrow indicates anomalous 2025.
Não havia, mas não deixo de ficar em choque com tudo o que foi dito!
O discurso foi absolutamente medonho!!! 🤯🤯🤯
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Vários economistas, incluindo os prémios Nobel Joseph Stiglitz e Daron Acemoglu, alertaram hoje para o risco do "colapso do jornalismo de interesse público" em todo o mundo, após uma reunião do Fórum sobre Informação e Democracia, em França.

Sabe mais: comunidadeculturaearte.com/economistas-...
Great news for stp!
São Tomé and Príncipe will establish eight marine protected areas covering 93 square kilometers (36 sq miles) of coastal habitats in the Gulf of Guinea.

The island nation aims to protect its marine environment while improving the lives of fishing communities, who rely heavily on fish for protein.
São Tomé and Príncipe commits to creating a marine protected area network
The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has taken a significant step in marine conservation, announcing that it will establish eight marine protected areas in its coastal waters. The declaration…
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