Building a microscope

An imaging sensor for rats brain

Parakeet?

Dinner with local carcavelos

End of day 2:

Maybe journals aren’t the root cause of problems in academia just a symptom…

P. S. Yeah, I see that is it not a classical Doom.

With videogames!!!!

View on the ocean

Second day at the @embo.org course hack your microscope. Today the teams will start approaching the challenges: organoids separation in flow, and live/dead automatic staining.
The place is amazing and the course fantastic. @itqbnova.bsky.social

An advertisement with an exaggerated facial expression

As I said: 8 hours :)

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

a video game screen shows mario standing on a pyramid and says world 41 time 334 Alt: a video game screen shows mario standing on a pyramid and says world 41 time 334

I’m a simple man….

At the train station to Amsterdam

Playing Tetris on the train: the Traintris

At the airport, direction Lisbon

Can I finish kid Icarus before boarding?

Ready for Oeiras, for the EMBO course “hack your microscope”.
Just 8h and I’m there :)

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The difference in many things with the USA is striking.

It’s so low also because they retire at 64… that’s the protesting part :)

Again, net. In a country with proper welfare, social security, healthcare, free education, and so on. I’m ok with that (very similar salary).

In uni? Net? Professorship? 3-5k per month

If you work at a uni, your salary is also coming from the student fees…

By any chance did you compare the fees of the universities in France and in USA?
I’d rather have a lower salary and free universities than a higher salary and a 50k$/year university and student debts for life.

A neurosciencenews.com (real site? Who knows? I immediately wrote them off as garbage) article about a nasal spray that might reduce dementia illustrated with a profile of a nose with smoke emanating from the tip.

Pro tip to all the science publications out there: I will probably begin to think about taking you seriously when you quit using AI to illustrate - and apparently edit - your articles. No human thinks this depicts a nasal spray.

here it's super easy to enter the class with the
"Y este frío cuando se acaba?"

Curre curre guagliò YouTube video by 99 Posse - Topic

:O :O :O
But but but but… that’s from my city
(And very much my teenage years)

My brother (sound technician) is still working with them from time to time :)

youtu.be/rCTwxYC4NK8?...

He’s coming nearby in June :)

a man wearing a hat and a striped shirt is dancing in a warehouse . Alt: a man wearing a hat and a striped shirt is dancing in a warehouse .

That’s also good for me :) but I guess it’s little bit less known….

Next year I’ll try with bad bunny :)

You’re killing me, man :D

a man in a gap sweatshirt is playing an acoustic guitar on a stage . Alt: a man in a gap sweatshirt is playing an acoustic guitar on a stage .nirvana

Thank you Daniel :D

a man is singing into a microphone with the words insane in the membrane behind him Alt: a man is singing into a microphone with the words insane in the membrane behind him

I hope it was for a liposome study

a man wearing a bomber jacket and a red tie is talking into a microphone Alt: eminem

I had some long back to back meetings, so I entered the PhD room singing:

"Hey kids, do you like violence?
Wanna see me stick nine-inch nails through each one of my eyelids?"

Ladies and gentlemen... they didn't know Eminem....
one said: "I've heard of him, but never listen any songs from him"

and fairer

Theres three solutions:

Stricter elligibility criteria
AI-assisted review
Add more 'lottery' to it - reduce application burden to a brief 1-2 page technical overview. If it is receptive and 'feasible', it goes in the lottery. Random draw wins.