I am also on a work trip and will try to record something even cooler

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

"A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's great news, for those in ~40 countries that aren't NZ.

In NZ, it is not Medsafe-authorised.

Not so much a moment, more like a permanent state of mind

Why is it so much easier to spot typos after you submitted? It’s like magic!

FUN FACT: "indígena" e "endógeno" são dobretes (palavras com a mesmíssima origem etimológica mas acepções que divergiram ao longo do tempo, como aprumar/chumbar, duplo/dobro, delgado/delicado)

e "indígena" e "autóctone" são a mesma palavra (indígena em latim, autóctone em grego).

If I might translate this: you can run an LLM on a cheap (~£300, e.g a Raspberry Pi5 with AI Hat+ 2) computer you own, in your house, disconnected from the internet, which will never give your data to Sam Altman or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, and will outperform ChatGPT from a year ago

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

A tributação efetiva dos bancões é bem menor do que a das fintechs

nacionalizei a piada da @queerkigaard.bsky.social

Neymar robô

Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

Learning a lot from this great article about Japanese railways.

For example, TIL Japan has privatized parking: “Before someone buys a car, they must prove that they have a reserved night-time space on private land, either owned or leased.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ja...

ótima coluna (como sempre) do Pedro Nery

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

Me trying to quickly think up a fake name but the only other object in the room is the president

this is fucking nuts:

idk i think it’s probably a best case scenario at this point that trump’s national law enforcement guy is so incompetent and intoxicated that he can’t even effectively oppress us

on the subway hiding from person i'm having lunch with tomorrow so we don't run out of conversation

Esqueci de dizer que a viagem é para dar aula! A insider faz camisas socias?

The Agents Are Waking Up The Intelligence Revolution that swept through the software industry this past winter is coming to knowledge-work next.

Worth reading in tandem with this blogpost by Mark Humphries. I really think people who aren’t using Codex/Cowork/Antigravity don’t really have a grasp of how much more capable these agents became in the past five months.

Eu gosto de viver perigosamente. Viajo com apenas duas camisas para dois dias e uma delas é branca. #ProfissãoPerigo

Any excuse to revisit this gem 😊 youtu.be/fTzXJMU1sLc

The kids are all right Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

Absolutely. I teach high school, Every year is better. I sincerely believe all the phone panic is actually Covid's effects. Also schools focused so much on mental health coming back kids are social/emotional ahead of pre Covid
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

What’s new in biology: spring 2026 A breakthrough drug for pancreatic cancer, organ recovery, weight loss drugs that preserve muscle, a whole-cell simulation, how plants make nicotine, semaglutide fails for Alzheimer’s, and more.

" In 2000, around 2 percent of donors who died from circulatory death were able to donate their organs; that figure rose to 49 percent in 2025."
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When you apply for a professorship at some German universities, you won't hear back from them until they fill the position – even if they don't even invite you for interviews. So it may take 1–2 years(!) of no official feedback. None.

(Other unis here tell you they won't invite you🤷)

Exactly one year ago today:

How does cheap access to foreign technology impact the informal sector? In Mexico, reducing tariffs on imported inputs helped workers move from informal to formal employment, particularly benefiting skilled workers who are most complementary to foreign technology.

🆕 How does cheap access to foreign technology impact the informal sector?

Today on VoxDev, Pamela Bombarda (CY Cergy Paris Université) & Maria Bas (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) discuss how reducing tariffs helped workers move to formal employment in Mexico: https://ow.ly/tmwk50YKivK