Carmine D'Amico
banner
cardamico.bsky.social
Carmine D'Amico
@cardamico.bsky.social
Researcher | Aalto University
he/him 🍉

🧬 Life-inspired materials
🎶 Sometimes a music writer
🇫🇮 Based in Helsinki
I’ve had the chance to write about Nicolas Jaar over the years, but I’ve always carried this quiet regret of being “too young” to really write about Flying Lotus' "Cosmogramma" when it came out.

Finally putting it into words felt like letting something go.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Loops and Spirals
Albums that sounded nothing alike, yet asked the same question.
substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I've decided to get back to writing about music. no hot takes, no algorithms, just a blog, like it used to be.

Starting Monday, tuning back in. 📻

open.substack.com/pub/howtorea...
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Carmine D'Amico
Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Carmine D'Amico
It does have to be said that Bluesky is feeling like a great place to hang out and talk science 🧪
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:21 AM
That urge to jot down words about music again, just like in the old days on that-other-social-platform.

Year-end lists are around the corner, and maybe it’s the right time to start searching for those words again. Who knows.
November 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM

I didn’t know how to start fresh on this platform, so I figured I’d do it with my last publication of my PhD journey.

We used microneedle patches to deliver a virus loaded with tumor-specific peptides as a prophylactic cancer vaccine.

#immunotherapy

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transdermal delivery of PeptiCRAd cancer vaccine using microneedle patches
Microneedles (MNs) are a prospective system in cancer immunotherapy to overcome barriers regarding proper antigen delivery and presentation. This stud…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM