Paulo E. Abreu
@g0shie.bsky.social
Professor of Chemistry@Universidade de Coimbra. Chemistry, cooking, clarinets, symmetry, music, art, computers and programming all make me tick!
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2393-0203
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Journalists.
It's not "unproven"
It's "bullshit"
It's not "unproven"
It's "bullshit"
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Journalists.
It's not "unproven"
It's "bullshit"
It's not "unproven"
It's "bullshit"
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Many EU member countries have a rich colonial past, e.g. France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium... (I know, Germany too - but this is off my topic here.) Do you know any museum from any of such country who would be interested to work with us on a European funded project about taking […]
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August 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Many EU member countries have a rich colonial past, e.g. France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium... (I know, Germany too - but this is off my topic here.) Do you know any museum from any of such country who would be interested to work with us on a European funded project about taking […]
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Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?
July 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?
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![Comic. The Three Types of Unsolved Physics Problem (First panel) Vague. PERSON [next to curved diagram] What is the nature of time in quantum gravity? Is it a background parameter, a dynamic aspect of spacetime, or an emergent phenomenon? (Second panel) Precise. PERSON 2 with short hair [device with equation below: 71Ga + νe → 71Ge + e- .] Why does the *S.A.G.E.* Gallium Neutrino Capture Experiment produce only 75% as much germanium as predicted? (Third panel) Cursed. PERSON 3 with white hat [rectangular block with hairs growing out of it labeled Zinc Whiskers] Why does some metal randomly grow hairs? It keeps causing short circuits and we have no idea what’s going on. OFF-PANEL: Is this a joke? PERSON 3: No! Please help!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiguoi672ahbrlp4eewfdz6v2ynlajbtpmucqed6fl4npoeu3uypkm@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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![5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigzaphhj4mfgfrxddlvdmw47335gnwzqbfqvrnff5x4oovgpf36nq@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
First time making scallion pancakes!
June 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
First time making scallion pancakes!
“I hate people when they’re not polite”
June 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“I hate people when they’re not polite”
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Lastly to round up the 🧵: Science works doesn't mean every scientific study produces a fact ready for public consumption. Scientific work is incremental, iterative, nonlinear, slow, imperfect, relentless. Continuous improvement upon what was. Science works not despite but because of many failures.
May 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Lastly to round up the 🧵: Science works doesn't mean every scientific study produces a fact ready for public consumption. Scientific work is incremental, iterative, nonlinear, slow, imperfect, relentless. Continuous improvement upon what was. Science works not despite but because of many failures.
Really confused by this phrase, why the contrast ? Indigenous peoples were not using sustainable or ethical methods? Really confused...
"The evolution of chocolate over the centuries has been truly remarkable. Early preparations in Central America before the 1800s -
"The evolution of chocolate over the centuries has been truly remarkable. Early preparations in Central America before the 1800s -
May 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Really confused by this phrase, why the contrast ? Indigenous peoples were not using sustainable or ethical methods? Really confused...
"The evolution of chocolate over the centuries has been truly remarkable. Early preparations in Central America before the 1800s -
"The evolution of chocolate over the centuries has been truly remarkable. Early preparations in Central America before the 1800s -
There’s a pot of gold in my department …
May 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
There’s a pot of gold in my department …
Being a teacher is so lonely ....
May 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Being a teacher is so lonely ....
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Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage
Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage
Presenting an award at the Breakthrough prize ceremony, the actor and writer allegedly accused the president of destroying American science
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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I cannot nor I will not yield to you.
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I cannot nor I will not yield to you.
Felt like re-reading this…
March 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Felt like re-reading this…
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French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Code maintaince issues: two github repositories (both from 2022 I think), one does not work and the other does not reproduce what is being described in the paper... "What a day it was!".
March 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Code maintaince issues: two github repositories (both from 2022 I think), one does not work and the other does not reproduce what is being described in the paper... "What a day it was!".