For Economist subscribers: a new episode of Inside Defence. I spoke to John Foreman, UK defence attaché in Moscow at the time of the invasion. We looked at the culture, strengths & weaknesses of Russia's armed forces, challenge of working in Moscow & much else www.economist.com/insider/insi...

Bom livro, explica muito dos nossos tempos. amzn.to/47gnDx6

“Whether the greenlash continues, or gives way to new momentum for climate action, will be determined not only by elections, economic developments or Donald Trump’s latest views,” argues Luisa Neubauer, but also by “the stories we tell ourselves”

A tide of fabricated research risks scientific integrity on.ft.com/490bhut | opinion

A ratified trade deal might eventually add more substance to Europe’s ties with Latin America as a whole. The relationship needs that

Chatbots pose a risk to democracy on.ft.com/4oRVRgi | opinion

Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot. He may as well have been

Esta é uma péssima comparação. Salário depende da ocupação, e a composição de ocupações é diferente no setor público e no setor privado. Não há no setor público a concentração de profissionais de serviços pessoais, operadores de caixa, telemarketing e frentistas, malpagos, maioria no setor privado.

“People stopped writing about me as if my writing had humour in it,” he says in an interview with The Economist. But humour matters to the 78-year-old author

Are you a science and technology aficionado? We are looking for someone to report on anything from astronomy to archaeology, particle physics to synthetic biology. Apply by September 28th:

A Nature Outlook article reports on the preliminary evidence that microbiota-based treatments can be beneficial for people with mood disorders, such as depression and anxiety. But how these interventions work is not clear, and human trials are needed. #microbiome #medsky 🧪

A tour of Britain’s newest supercomputer

I’m back! Deleted twitter for good

If you name your AI benchmark "Humanity's Last Exam" and get Kevin Roose to gush about it, you work in advertising, not in computer science. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

Colombia is right but I hope it opens itself up to the whole world and does not allow itself to become too reliant on China. Latin America needs to be less reliant on former colonial powers/ current superpowers.

'In our democracy right now there is an open question' on whether 'monopolists in extraordinarily powerful firms are going to be able to corrupt the political process and interfere with legitimate law enforcement' — Joe Biden's antitrust boss Lina Khan www.ft.com/content/ed2a...

I’m really disturbed by what has happened in social media since the US election. Total capitulation to fascism. I can’t delete my Meta accounts because they are the only way I can talk to my friends and dear ones abroad, but it really bothers me that I’m still a part of them.

A student asked me about modeling 13C relaxation times using MD trajectories. I found some papers on the subject, but none are clear enough for an undergrad — which is understandable, given the topic. #CompChemSky

I’m an MD person who’s started to need QM stuff and — wow — there is so much to read since the last time I did QM calculations! #CompChemSky #ChemSky

Wow! #Chemsky has grown quite a bit! Those who are interested should also follow #CompChemSky

As we ask for systemic changes to fight climate change, we need to also ask for systemic changes in universities regarding the mental health care of scientists in the front lines. Individual actions are great, but insuficient. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#NexoPolíticasPúblicas | Estas pesquisas concluíram que os territórios indígenas são eficazes na redução do desmatamento e na promoção do crescimento de floresta secundária. Leia com #acessolivre no 'Acadêmico' de Kathryn Baragwanath do DRCLAS-Harvard pp.nexojornal.com.br/academico/20...

O Agro é Fogo! Brasil está em chamas! CIentistas, ambientalistas, lideranças indígenas e comunitárias falam há meses da crise climática e de crimes por trás do fogo. Voluntários se mobilizam e se arrsicam cada vez mais. Autoridades reagem. A mídia fala sobre o tema o dia todo! Mas a crise não passa!

I’m very proud of my first student, Anelisa, who ran experiments and wrote a beautiful senior thesis about selectivity in de novo drug design. She is very bright and I am very lucky to have been her advisor! #CompChemSky

Faz sentido porque a administração do Bolsonaro era mais explicitamente um Clube do Bolinha. Um verdadeiro deserto feminino.

Sad news for Theoretical Chemistry #CompChemSky #ChemSky Last Wednesday Prof. Emer. Wim Nieuwpoort (Groningen) passed away at the age of 93. For more information see the LinkedIn message by the Zernike Institute of @unigroningen.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/moniek...

Hello #compchemsky! I did my PhD with David Mobley at UC Irvine, my postdoc with Rob Rizzo at SBU, and I currently teach and do research in my native country, Brazil. I hope I can network and learn many things from you. Cheers!

Temos feeds acadêmicos — seja sobre Universidade, Ciências Exatas e da Natureza etc — em língua portuguesa? Contato com os membros anglófonos é tudo de bom, mas falar com os brasileiros, portugueses, angolanos etc também importa muito. #Universidade #Química #Física #Biologia #SkyAcadêmico

Missed the ORCA 6 Release Event? No problem, all talks are now available on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/@faccts_orca), the academic (MPI Kofo) ORCA channel (youtube.com/@orcaquantum...), and the ORCA forum (orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/app.php/portal). #ORCAqc #ORCA6 #CompChem #QuantumChem #ChemSky

Watch live: CIA director Bill Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore talk to FT editor Roula Khalaf https://www.ft.com/content/56d16869-f9e1-4c82-8022-5f8d2044c5cd

🧪 From 05-09 Aug 2024, Isaac Newton Institute hosted a "Modelling & inference for pandemic preparedness" workshop ❓ Two main themes: i) Statistical inference in & across infectious disease models; ii) Epidemiological modelling to inform policy making. 📹 Talk recordings: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Agriculture & climate are a 2-way street. Agriculture is a key contributor to GHG emissions & is also one of the most vulnerable sectors to a changing climate. Climate change will likely exacerbate agriculture's impacts (eg lower productivity ➡️ more land clearing to compensate ➡️ more emissions). 🧪

Absolutamente nada é defensável na atitude do Sílvio Almeida, mas eu acho que esse escândalo esconde uma disputa por protagonismo. A Anielle sem negar o assédio por um dia inteiro, a Janja postando foto de madrugada e várias ações simultâneas me soam a um ataque arquitetado.

Do @baekdal.bsky.social , interpretando dados do @reutersinstitute.bsky.social sobre o quanto os brasileiros fogem das notícias: três a cada quatro brasileiros evitam o noticiário ao menos de vez em quando.

I asked ChatGPT to roast my Instagram feed and I wish I was as strong as the app believes lol

[Grant writing mode on]

Acho que deveríamos voltar a defender o devido processo legal, mas mediante acusações graves como essas, o melhor para o Ministro seria renunciar.

As alegações contra o Ministro Sílvio de Almeida são muito sérias e o silêncio da Ministra Anielle Franco é muito emblemático, mas é estranho que essa onda de acusações tenha aparecido concentrada neste momento. Tem muitos caroços nesse angu.

Preguiça de tudo que tenho que fazer hoje: organizar documentos, participar de uma banca e continuar escrevendo um projeto para financiamento de pesquisa.

Vou organizar meus materiais didáticos para disponibilizá-los todos no meu site gduarter.github.io

Meu cachorro viu uma pessoa na cobertura do prédio da frente e começou a rosnar e latir para ele. Eram 6:00 AM.

Hoje parece que fui atropelado por um caminhão de tão cansado

Quando eu morrer, quero ser cremado. Não sei se terei velório, mas se tiver, terei contratado carpideiras para chorarem e gritarem muito.

🚨GRAVE: usuário do Bluesky cria lista que permite bloquear de uma vez uma penca de perfis caça-clique que espalham fofoca, exagero, inutilidade e desinformação. bsky.app/profile/did:...

É por isso que a Janja tem que ficar longe da política e das câmeras. Agora os bolsonaristas vão usar essa foto com a a desconhecida mais famosa do Brasil, a Deolane, para atormentar o governo. Merecido; tem que tirar esses amadores dos holofotes.

Yesterday I had a video call with my best friend in America and he was just laid off from a Quantum Computing company. Another friend was laid off sometime ago from a Pharma-related tech. Their stories make me apprehensive to try to go back.

Chemists need to do a better job getting our terms into the discourse😭 I said this at the old place, but someone should really write a children’s book called Left Hand Right Hand that gets “enantiomer” into kids’ heads at the stage when they’re captivated by dinosaurs.

Podcast muito interessante: “Repensando o boom de IA”, onde a jornalista Soumaya Kenyes entrevista Daron Acemoğlu shows.acast.com/the-economic...

As notas de aula do meu curso de Introdução à Química Moderna (em português) podem ser encontradas em gduarter.github.io/teaching/202...

As notas de aula do meu curso de Termodinâmica Química (em português) podem ser encontradas em gduarter.github.io/teaching/202...