Escrevo meus artigos em inglês, não é meu idioma nativo, mas tenho vários certificados de fluência. Quando submeto artigos para revistas internacionais não tenho problemas com o texto, mas quando envio para revistas brasileiras, sempre reclamam. Me pergunto o motivo, pra mim não faz sentido algum.

Ontem foi dia das meninas e mulheres na ciência e tecnologia e não posso deixar de observar que, apesar das ações atuais, ainda precisamos avançar em assuntos básicos. Um desses seriam os concursos públicos, onde mulheres e homens têm seus currículos avaliados mensurados sem ao menos considerar...

I updated my website domain and now you can find me at www.jlsouza.phd

How to get academics all hot and bothered 😂

Breakthrough AI model can translate the language of plant life

Plant RNA-FM, a pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) model able to understand the genetic “language” pattern of plants, has been launched at John Innes Centre

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This week I got to lecture to the Agronomy undergraduate students at UFS. It was great to visit the university where I got my bachelor's, master's and PhD to share about my experience working with germplasm banks.

Many, if not most experiments do not work out during your PhD.

In this episode of The Struggling Scientists Podcast, we talk with Nobel Prize laureate Martin Chalfie about his PhD experience and dealing with failed experiments.

Listen here:
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This is my model organism Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), the source of chemotherapeutic agent vinblastine, clinically used for various cancers, e.g., leukemia. The synthesis of vinblastine is restricted to rare, specialized cells. Very nice flowers and makes great lab plants.

Happy to announce that I am starting a new project at EMBRAPA with a CNPq fellowship. I am thrilled to continue my partnership with the institution to explore the genomics of native plants and orphan crops.

Fazendo busca no Lattes e recebendo zero resultados até perceber que algum servidor deve estar fora do ar. 🤭😅

Had a great month of practical courses on gene editing and bioinformatics.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #687,343!

Me preparando mentalmente para abrir um documento de revisão de artigo na revista.