Pedro Machado

Academic career means being in your late 40s and realizing that the biggest purchases you’ve made in your life have been for lab equipment😅

Wonderful news! Parafilm M rules! Very well-deserved recognition after helping so many other #NobelPrize winners achieve their breakthroughs! Congratulations @ParafilmM

In situ CLEM at room temperature and in cryo embl.org/about/info/cou… via @embl

Today, I reflect on the legacy of @IGCiencia over the last 60 years and what it has meant for research and the scientific community in Portugal and beyond. IGC was never just a place—it was a pioneering model. #IGCLegacyLivesOn 1/5

Seminário de “entrada” - sócia correspondente- Academia das Ciências de Lisboa sobre a minha investigação - saúde humana e do planeta. Honra dupla pois falei a seguir a Filipe Duarte Santos. Não pude deixar de comentar que nao faz sentido a ACL ter tão poucas mulheres e jovens.

GIVING AWAY 5 CHIBI YONE EGG CODES! EVERY REGION! ✅ FOLLOW 🩷 LIKE ♻️ RETWEET PICKING WINNER MAY 10TH! GOOD LUCK! #TFTPartner

@Kaghoegames @Mortdog Makes me rage

@Mortdog Does sett making us bigger do anything?

TFT is an interesting game in that it's normal flow is often not it's most desired flow. First, let's define a standard game of TFT. If you think about the most normal game of TFT you can imagine, it likely has 3 gold augments. It has you two starring your 1 and 2 cost champs in Stage 2, your 3 cost champs in Stage 3, your 4 cost champs in Stage 4, and maybe your 5 cost champs in Stage 5. You get your normal item distribution, with around 12-14 components total by Stage 5. Pretty normal, standard TFT. Now thing to some of your favorite games of all time, that you either played or watched. How many of them fit within this standard power curve? My guess is close to none of them for most people. MOST people remember the games where the hit a two star 4 cost early in Stage 3 or even 2, or the game where a Prismatic augment or a unique champion gave them more than 20 items. These games that are so different from that standard game are often what players are chasing after, and lead the most memorable moments. So for us, it's a question of finding the right levers and opportunities to give players the chance to experience these games outside the normal curve. If it happens too often, it's not special. If it doesn't happen enough, most players won't be able to experience it. That line is pretty thin, and varies player to player...especially when our top players play 1000+ games a set. Encounters are one such mechanism to allow players to experience things outside the norm. Lillia can give you games where all 3 augments are on Stage 2. Rakan opens up the possibility of two star 4 costs in Stage 2. It's a key example of a potential method to experience these games outside the norm, and for most players (not all), this is super fun and exciting! Future sets will likely continue to explore ways to achieve these level of deviation from the standard. This is a topic I could talk a great deal about. Something as simple as "How often should a player hit three star 5 costs" is a great example of a topic in this space (I've already hit 3 this set in ranked O_O). But for now, I'm on campus and it's time for breakfast. Until next time, take it easy :)

@HenriquesLab Sailor Moon!

Looking for manga suggestions for a 7 and 40-ish y.o. read together

#ImageForensics - a beautiful scanning electron microscopy photo of a plant seed. But can you spot a problem?

What’s your tipple of choice during the Festive Season? If it’s Gin, you’ll be interested in how our X-Pulse Broadband Benchtop NMR Spectrometer can be used to accurately measure alcohol content in a series of gins.     okt.to/V0Wxc7     #NMRchat

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY 🔬 Meet the Techniques Day 1 🔬 At PEMC, we can carry out EDS at both high and low acceleration voltages, broadening our applications. Our services are available commercially, contact us at emc@plymouth.ac.uk 📧 #ElectronMicroscopy #Advent

There's still time for your registration for the one day meeting. . Please use the link below to register. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. semtuk.org/future-meeting…

📢We're exploring plans to offer our members the chance to attain 'Chartered Microscopist' status. Find out more and have your say by completing our quick survey! 👇 ow.ly/zcq250QbxWR

Registrations are open for SEMT One Day Meeting. The meeting will be held on the 13th December 2023 at the Natural History Museum. I hope to see some of you there in person or virtually! semtuk.org/future-meeting…

Abstract and registrations are open!!! Very excited to come together with our community and discuss all things Volume Imaging…

Future TechEM Seminars have just been announced and shared with mailing list. If you didn’t receive the email and you would like to, please send me an email or DM. Remember North American based friends - seminars are at 10am Lisbon time which is very unfortunate for you. Sorry!

Last few spots available for our course on EM of marine organisms. If you are interested, we are looking forward to hosting you in Napoli 🍕 More information in the website below 👇

@PaoloRonchi10 @J_Cell_Sci @VolumeEM1 @SchwabYannick @MocaerK Beautiful!

Thanks @J_Cell_Sci for selecting our image for the cover!!! @VolumeEM1 My first one 😊 Feeling very proud 😍 @SchwabYannick @MocaerK journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/136/…