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Pedro Almeida
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Master in Physics • Env. Researcher at the Australian Institute of Marine Science • Pianist
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These 3 tiny dots are not just random stars in the sky.

That's Earth, Jupiter and Venus seen from Mars 🌌

That’s us… 225 million miles away 🤯
January 11, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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Wagner Moura won the Golden Globe for best male actor in a drama film for his role in "The Secret Agent."

Catch up on more highlights from the Golden Globes: bit.ly/4jCkNaq
January 12, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Scientific method and The Peanuts 😉
December 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life ..."

Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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now reading : the history of a tenth of a second by Jimena Canales

“it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound.”

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Galera, segura minha mão

Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.

Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"Like everyone who loves books, Carson felt at once awed and aggrieved that there was more to read than could ever be read, and that to choose to read one book was to forsake the chance to read a different one."

Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Can science-based interventions reduce #polarization? Social and behavioral scientists are working to bridge the ever-widening #PoliticalDivide. Their efforts offer some reason for optimism: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#SocialScience #BehavioralScience #election #SocialMedia #misinformation
January 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM