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content
I blog about the same things that I tweet, just in more depth, but never longer than 1000 words. And I translate content from my science communication book.
podcast
There has never been a better time to live and whatever the metrics you choose, the world is on its ‘all time high’. So why living seems sometimes so hard? Here I ask people in the forefront of building the future their reasons to be optimistic and the challenges they see ahead.
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Persuasion is an art that requires a paintbrush, not a sledgehammer
résumé
Born and raised in Rio
I was born and raised in #RioDeJaneiro and that in part defines who I am. My super power is to balance the EXTREME #flexibility of #Brazilians to be a competitive ADVANTAGE in #creativity, not a flaw. 1/10
Became a Scientist
I became a #Marine #biologist when I graduated @UFRJ, but became a #Scientist when I understood that #Science happens in BRAIN. The #ScientificMethod (another Super Power) disciplines the MIND. And I learned #Statistics #Informatics #Languages and #Music. 2/10
International network
#Science is GLOBAL and its CRITERIA are UNIVERSAL. After a #PhD in #Biophysics @UFRJ, I worked in #Europe with research groups from 12 countries, became an INTERNATIONAL #Scientist and built my main asset: my #network. 3/10
Career in academia
I became a #professor in #Biophysics @UFRJ, which was exactly what I WANTED. In 15 years I SET up my own research group in #Genes & #Environment relationships, RAISED +USD1M in projects, PUBLISHED +40 articles and SUPERVISED +10 master and PhDs. 4/10
Run a crowdfunding
I’ve written a #Blog for +10 years and a FUN #Book about #men & #women. But it was EXECUTING the 1st #scientific #crowdfunding in #Brazil that I understood: one can to TALK #science in a way that EVERYONE understands, ENJOY and even FUND! 5/10
Created Bio Bureau
I wanted my #PhD thesis to be USEFUL and I used a grant turn it into a PRODUCT. Today @biobureaubio has +10 years, +10 scientists and growing REVENUE. #Biotechnology SOLUTIONS for the challenges of #Sustainable #Development. 6/10
Bitcoin and blockchain
I co-founded #MobileBrain and built the framework for the FASTEST growing #educational #mobile platform in #Brazil in 2012, w/ #neuroscience and EVOLUTIONARY #psychology, w/ +700k users in the 1st year; and #Genecoin, which created #blockchain solutions for #biodiversity. 7/10
Create solutions.
I learned to IDENTIFY challenges, SYNTHESIZE #information, DECIDE, RISK and #create SOLUTIONS. #Modeling #POC #Prototyping #MVP and #Piloting a business. I specialized with @IAGBerkeley in #Customer & #Product Discovery. I became an ASSET. 8/10
Live to 150 years
I’m +50 and I want to LIVE +150 years, which gives the dimension of my #ambition and #willingness to go beyond. I work with #PEOPLE, #companies and #FUNDS to decide, based on SCARCE/UNCERTAIN #Scientific #Evidence, how to build the #future. 10/10
It is not about strength. It is about lightness and speed
A man needs to see things with his own eyes, walk the world with his own feet, have his back burned by the sun and his feet blistered by the street
topics
biotechnology
Bread, beer and wine are biotechnology. Biotechnology is not difficult and is for everyone. Professionally, develop biotechnology to solve environmental problems. Here, I try to explain biotechnology to everyone, specially in business environment.
biodiversity
I’ve studied biodiversity through the lenses of their genes for many, many years and that gave me a unique perspective about it. Here I try to share this knowledge in a way that help decision makers make better business and research choices involving biodiversity
business
I’ve been a science entrepreneur for more than 10 years now and we are helping large corporations from energy sector to develop biotechnology solutions to recalcitrant problems. Because of that I have a unique perspective on innovation inside corporations and I can talk about science and business.
bitcoin
Money is the most successful social technology invented by humanity and many of the problems that we face in society that have their origin in the corruption of money. Here I try to explain to people in my network what Bitcoin is and it fixes that
Chasing perfection? Don’t be vulgar… authenticity is much harder to get
portfolio
Cuddling is the ultimate reward
more topics
innovation
I discuss, from the scientists perspective, why innovation happens in startups and not in corporations or academia
entrepreneurship
I share with young scientists my experience as an entrepreneur and how it is easier to fit your PhD in your company then vice-versa
creativity
I try to breakdown behavior into criteria that helps creativity and share what me and other people to do remain creative
incentives
the most recent topic of my interest and exploration. I share as I learn.
education
There are too many business models for teaching and not a single one for learning. That is why I’m more interested in learning then teaching
complexity
I’m dazzled by entropy, Bayes theorem, game theory, self-organization, and the origin of Life, so I read and write about these.
science
Science has given us over the last 500 years more than philosophy and religion gave over the last 2000. The scientific method is the best problem solve tool that human kind has developed.
psychology
Or should I say evolutionary psychology, since I’m interested in instincts the biological basis of human behavior
Success is measured by the level of mastery you show, not how hard you work
5th article that shaped my career: “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” Ioannidis, 2005
“Published research findings are sometimes refuted by subsequent evidence, with ensuing confusion and disappointment. (…) There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be...
4th article that shaped my career: “The politics of publication.” Lawrence, 2003
“It will be a chilly day in hell before all the older scientists agree to change anything, much less something that currently benefits many of them.” Robert Insall This great quote was actually no...
3rd article that shaped my career: “Is an environmentally sustainable future for the European Community compatible with continued growth: carbon dioxide and the management of greed.” Slesser, 1993
I bumped into this article completely by chance. My former lab had a subscription of the journal ‘Science of the Total Environment’, and one day, while I was organizing the issues in a she...
2nd article that shaped my career – “Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History” Ludwig, Hilborn & Carl, 1993
Paul Kinas, professor os Statistics at FURG, introduced this article to me during his grad school course on Bayesian statistics. It is impressive how much I learned from Kinas and how many times I men...
1st article that shaped my career: “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” – Gould & Lewontin, 1979
Euclydes Santos used this article during his course ‘Physiological adaptations to estuarine environment’, in graduate school. I seriously doubt that, even with all the interest that I have for eve...
Superspecialization and Knowledge Mosaicism in the Brain
Comedian Will Rogers said that “Everyone is Ignorant, just in different subjects.” This was true back then but is more and more true in a world overloaded with information. But I only star...
Love is not an scarce resource. We can always make more to share.
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Discoveries are rare because our expectations cloud our vision and cloud our perception of the world
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