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Pedro JM Costa
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Father, Academic, geologist, skeptical
Prof @ Universidade de Coimbra
Researcher @ Instituto Dom Luiz
Sea, tsunamis, sediments, marine geology and music...
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June 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Horizonte...
June 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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University vessel 😊
June 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Cloudy
June 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Check out this new paper on offshore #tsunami deposits… a joint effort by RWTH-Aachen, U.Coimbra, U.Lisbon, Compl.U.Madrid, U.Ghent, HAEDES and Inst.Hydr.Lisbon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shallow seismic stratigraphy of the southwestern Algarve shelf (Portugal) and characteristics of offshore tsunami deposits
Understanding the sedimentary dynamics of continental shelves is crucial for decoding past high-energy events like tsunamis. Based on data from HSV FI…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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zzsylvester.bsky.social
Finished reading ‘Breaking Through’, Katalin Karikó’s book - it’s easy to read and it’s full of her refreshingly honest takes on science and careers in science. Here is one example 🧪
My first message is this: We can do better. I believe we can improve how science is done at academic research institutions. For one thing, we might create a clearer distinction between markers of prestige-titles, publication records, number of citations, grant funding, committee appointments, eti-quette, dollars per net square footage-and those of quality science. Too often, we conflate the two, as if they're one and the same. But a person isn't a better scientist because she publishes more, or first. Perhaps she's holding back from publication because she wants to be absolutely certain of her data. Similarly, the number of citations might have little to do with the value of the paper and more to do with external events. When Drew and I published our landmark Immunity paper, it barely got any notice. It took a pandemic for the world to understand what we'd done and why it mattered.
January 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This. 1000x this.
Article in Nature titled “Scientists need more time to think”
December 30, 2024 at 8:04 PM