Barral
mb-n.bsky.social
Barral
@mb-n.bsky.social
Physician-Scientist
Gleisi e Lindbergh defendem Nísia após ataques da extrema-direita e especulações sobre cargo www.brasil247.com/regionais/br...
Gleisi e Lindbergh defendem Nísia após ataques da extrema-direita e especulações sobre cargo
Os parlamentares fizeram críticas ao Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM)
www.brasil247.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Firing experts 🧪 who can identify agricultural pests 🐛 early on might not be the best thing if you really wanted to lower food prices. But maybe that was never the point ...
Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪
February 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics.

“American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening.

Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Efeito Lula: inflação tem recuo recorde em janeiro e preços dos alimentos devem começar a cair
revistaforum.com.br/economia/202...
Efeito Lula: inflação tem recuo recorde em janeiro e preços dos alimentos devem começara cair
IPCA foi de 0,16%, o menor índice para um mês de janeiro desde a implantação do Plano Real
revistaforum.com.br
February 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Tagging 🧪
February 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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there's confusion as fed agencies cancel scientific meetings, including NIH study sections

some pause on activities is expected, experts said, but many are on edge w/o knowing how long it will last

w/ @pompanolab.bsky.social & @annikabarber.bsky.social
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www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...
Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern
A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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“ Y ya podemos prepararnos porque lo que anunció el nuevo presidente de Estados Unidos aboca a una suerte de caos global 2.0 trufado de ideas políticas y morales del siglo XIX. “
Nacionalismo 2.0 con ideas del XIX
MILAGROS PÉREZ OLIVA
January 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A má ciência ameaça a saúde pública: como análises incorretas fazem vacinas parecerem perigosas
theconversation.com/a-ma-ciencia...
A má ciência ameaça a saúde pública: como análises incorretas fazem vacinas parecerem perigosas
Artigo da Frontiers in Medicine afirma que vacinas aumentam o risco de morte, mas erros graves na metodologia geraram resultados errados e conclusões infundadas, expondo falhas na revisão por pares.
theconversation.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Explore CIDACS-Fiocruz’s publications on race and health in celebration of Brazil’s National Day of Black Consciousness.
O dia reforça a importância de reconhecer as contribuições históricas da população negra ao país e combater desigualdades ainda presentes.
cidacs.bahia.fiocruz.br/2024/11/20/d...
November 21, 2024 at 7:35 PM
A má ciência ameaça a saúde pública: como análises incorretas fazem vacinas parecerem perigosas
theconversation.com/a-ma-ciencia...
A má ciência ameaça a saúde pública: como análises incorretas fazem vacinas parecerem perigosas
Artigo da Frontiers in Medicine afirma que vacinas aumentam o risco de morte, mas erros graves na metodologia geraram resultados errados e conclusões infundadas, expondo falhas na revisão por pares.
theconversation.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Dr. Spalding ( IFLScience, 2021) wrote about Santa:
How does Santa deliver presents to 850 million children in one night without being seen? Impossible under classical mechanics, but feasible as a “superposition of quantum states: if Santa is seen, the uncertainty principle would no longer apply.
December 24, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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💉 Climate change weakens vaccines 🌎

This @natclimchange.bsky.social study finds that rising temperatures & extreme weather disrupt vaccine storage, transport, & effectiveness, worsening health inequities globally.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#ClimateChange #SciComm #Vaccines 🧪
Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity - Nature Climate Change
Climate change poses a substantial threat to global health by altering environmental conditions and impacting vaccine effectiveness. We explore how climate change impacts vaccines and worsens inequiti...
doi.org
December 22, 2024 at 9:06 PM
A Surprise Blockbuster in Brazil Stokes Oscar Hopes, and a Reckoning www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/w...
A Surprise Blockbuster in Brazil Stokes Oscar Hopes, and a Reckoning
Decades after her mother missed out on an Oscar, Brazil’s Fernanda Torres may have a chance to win a golden statuette with a role in a film that has set off deep soul-searching.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Latin America is a leader in nonprofit open-access journals. But it struggles to give them global visibility

www.science.org/content/arti...
Latin American journals are open-access pioneers. Now, they need an audience
SciElo, other platforms work to help journals reach readers around the world
www.science.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Do El País:
“La subida del salario mínimo no destruye empleo”
salario mínimo … ha subido un 54% en España,.. los precios un 19%... … organismos y expertos se opusieron a la subida que destruiría empleo y aumentaría el paro... Hay más trabajadores cotizando y menos desempleados...”
December 9, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Msg do Pre SBPC, Renato Janine: “Estamos ameaçados, ciência e educação, pelos rumores insistentes de cortes das verbas nas áreas vitais para o Brasil!
.. chamamos a comunidade acadêmica e científica do País para defendermos, juntos, o nosso futuro.
Com várias atividades esta segunda-feira, dia 25.”
November 24, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed
Peer review is often assumed to guarantee quality, but it doesn’t always work so well in practice.
dlvr.it
November 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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November 5, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Explore CIDACS-Fiocruz’s publications on race and health in celebration of Brazil’s National Day of Black Consciousness.
O dia reforça a importância de reconhecer as contribuições históricas da população negra ao país e combater desigualdades ainda presentes.
cidacs.bahia.fiocruz.br/2024/11/20/d...
November 21, 2024 at 7:35 PM
"Milton Santos: Lições de um intelectual público"
Conferência da Profa. Maria Adélia de Souza, professora titular da USP, no Dia da Consciência Negra, para explorar o impacto e o legado do geógrafo baiano sobre as desigualdades e território global bit.ly/MiltonSantos...
November 21, 2024 at 10:53 AM
November 5, 2024 at 2:46 AM