4/4 If you speak Portuguese and want to learn more about the wonderful work being developed by the devoted team of employees and volunteers, check out Casa Jose Coltro's website and Insta:
casajosecoltro.org.br
www.instagram.com/casajosecolt...

3/4 They ran two Foldscope workshops after which the smaller kids went home with their own microscopes to continue their scientific journey; and with the youths, they had a conversation of how they ended up being scientists (spoiler: by chance, not linearly, and with the help of oh so many people!).

2/4 Clarice, Mateus (a Ph.D. student at École polytechnique) and Paulo (a researcher at Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino) "showed and told" what it is to be a scientist.

2/2 at the @cienciapioneira.bsky.social Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino Quantum Biology School. Peter Hore is, of course, the master on all things bird-magnetoreception!

3/3 and the realization that we are all doing science every day, from optimizing cooking recipes to using physics to improve our chances to score a goal in soccer!

PS: The throwable microphone was incontestably the coolest thing in the room!

2/3 In the program: an impromptu design, based on a student's interest, of an experiment to check how hierarchies form in maned wolf communities; how to distinguish fake news from real science; why ChatGPT will not take away scientists' jobs;

2/2 This school is probably the world's first. The goal was to educate an interdisciplinary cohort of scientists and scientists-in-training about quantum biology and its myriad implications and applications.

The slides will be publicly available shortly.

2/2 The physicists heard Clarice's take on why magnetic field effects in biology might be driven by quantum sensing happening within proteins.

In the cocktail following the talk, she was asked (twice!) if she rapped -- apparently she talks fast
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2025.paratyquantum.org/2025/

2/2 Be on the lookout -- Paul has a new book, "Quantum 2.0", which is coming out soon!

4/4 A big thank you to the team at Convergent Research for shining a light on these foundational issues and supporting the people tackling them.

🔗 Explore the Gap Map: notion-db-prototype.netlify.app/gaps/lack-of...

#QuantumBiology #Science #OpenScience #ConvergentResearch

3/4 This gap strikes at the heart of quantum biology. Without tools that can directly measure quantum effects in living systems, many theoretical ideas remain untested. Building the experimental infrastructure to finally close this gap is central to our mission.

2/4 The Gap Map highlights critical R&D bottlenecks that hold back science, alongside the capabilities and resources needed to address them.

QBI is listed under: “Lack of Direct Measurement of Quantum Effects in Biological Systems.”

The meeting is internal so there is no public recording -- but here are some pics!