Alexandre Neves 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇺🇸🇪🇺

RIP mom, we love you. Thank you for your joie de vivre, for focusing on education, travel, and culture, and for teaching me how to dance. To quote my brother @atilaneves, if there's a heaven, they definitely serve cachaça there.

The attacks on foreign researchers at Harvard and elsewhere are appalling. Scientists from other countries have enriched my education, training and research at every single stage of my career, and have become my closest and most cherished colleagues and friends. If there is a problem with researchers from other countries in the US it is that we do not value them enough, we do not appreciate how incredibly lucky we are that they have chosen - and were able - to come here, and we do not fight hard enough to make sure that they are welcome and that their status is not used against them in any way.

New Local Brewery Only Allows Dogs and Kids: bit.ly/4bxA6wU

Are vaccines unnatural? Yes, absolutely. Just like plumbing, antibiotics, cancer therapy, indoor heating, fruit in the winter, and cars are unnatural. Nature isn't a paradise, nature is death, injury, disease, and starvation. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

Europeans: “I am holidaying. Your emails will be forwarded nowhere to be read by no one. Good day” Americans:

Stereotype map of Portugal

It was a unique privilege to have, in Portugal, a place like the @IGCiencia 60y teaching us to aim higher, to try our best Today, we will celebrate those years and give a warm send off to the ones leaving @phd_igc At 6pm, in the patio, RIP Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência 💔

Return-to-Office Email Obviously Just Layoff without Severance: bit.ly/4dcHhdh

a friend sent this to me

WOBN News: Talus Bioscience Announces $11.2M in New Funding Led by Two Bear Capital to Advance AI Platform for Transcription Factor Therapeutic Discovery #biotech #news wobn.org/washington-ore…

Capitol Hill Block Party Gives Annual Reminder to Residents Over 40 That It Is Time to Move to Ballard: bit.ly/46dJW4m

Finishing your PhD be like

Let the games (and procrastination) begin...

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Amazing poster encouraging Japanese to emigrate to Brazil. Almost 250k would make the voyage from 1908 to 1984, making it the largest diaspora outside Japan

Really cool to see two fantastic alumni from @fredhutch @hutchbasicsci returning soon after many years to tell us about their fantastic adventures!

German legend Franz Beckenbauer has passed away today aged 78. RIP, Franz. 👑🕊️

Com a morte de Zagallo, descansou por completo todo o time titular campeão de 1958. O time que, sem qualquer exagero, mudou a história do país - há o Brasil antes e depois desses onze. Eterna gratidão por esses caras.

O Globo: Morre o técnico e ex-jogador Zagallo, tetracampeão mundial pela seleção brasileira oglobo.globo.com/esportes/notic…

NEW: As of Jan. 1, Seattle minimum-wage earners are making about $20 an hour, topping every other major city in the nation. st.news/3TOta82