Letting the text breathe allows you to clear your mind and see what you actually wrote. An article published this week in Nature has received a lot of attention and shares online. It calls for scientists to take time to think. The article mentions that we are distracted by social media, but comments have highlighted […]
There is evidence that reforestation reflects a biodiversity gain of more than 200% in a degraded area Originally published in Portuguese at Valor Econômico – 7/22/2024 5:01 Carbon dominates the climate agenda, but biodiversity is the heart of the matter. The ton of carbon is a good unit of measurement, but the carbon itself is […]
How making and keeping promises can create a snowball culture of accountability It’s hard to find a book where you agree with 100% of what the author says. I just finished reading “Accountability at Work: How to Make and Keep Promises.” I wrote a thread about it with many quotes. The book arrived at a […]
#BitcoinScience has the power to be more democratic and inclusive: anyone can be a scientist! Academia was ‘invented’ after the Second World War. In his work “Science, the Endless Frontier,” Vannevar Bush, building on the success of science centralization in institutions during the 19th century and the Manhattan Project in the 20th century, created a […]
The problem with trying to fix an error after making many mistakes is that we tend to err in the opposite direction. You know the saying: first by omission and then by excess? In statistics, we say there are two types of errors: “Type I error” and “Type II error,” which are terrible names because […]
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