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Meghie Rodrigues

@meghier.bsky.social
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Journalist covering science, climate, and the environment. Words for #Nature, #Eos + | Climate disinfo PhD researcher at #Unicamp | #ClimateTracker ‘20 fellow | RISJ #Oxford OCJN alumna. Views = mine. Got tips? DM me! meghie.journoportfolio.com

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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 10h
No dia 26 de outubro terei o prazer de estar no Goethe-Institut de São Paulo para conversar sobre comunicação de ciência (com um monte de gente muito boa). Todos convidados! Inscrições até 21/10: www.daad.de/surveys/3174... Informações e programação em www.dwih-saopaulo.org/pt/event/sci...
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Science Communication in Transition: Strategies, Responsibilities and Emerging Challenges in Germany and Brazil
O Centro Alemão de Ciência e Inovação (DWIH) São Paulo convida pesquisadores, profissionais de comunicação, jornalistas e demais interessados a participar do evento “Science Communication in Transition: Strategies, Responsibilities and Emerging Challenges in Germany and Brazil”, nos dias 26 e 27 de outubro, no Goethe-Institut São Paulo.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing — here’s how governments must prepare
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The worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing — here’s how governments must prepare
From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
>> These can be slips at some point in your careers, but especially as seasoned scientists. If you're a senior researcher/professor and would like to share your story, please do reach out! I'm looking forward to hearing from you. It's for the Careers section at Nature. Thanks a lot in advance!
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dear senior scientists and tenured/full professors of this network, hello! I'm looking for researchers with a long way down the road who have a story (or stories) of mistakes or errors made (especially if these involve funny stories, so bloopers are more than welcome!). >>
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Bê Neviani @beneviani.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Estudo com camundongos leva a pistas sobre como memórias negativas atrapalham o sono Pesquisa analisou a atividade cerebral dos animais enquanto eles dormiam Os q foram submetidos a choques acordaram + vezes em comparação àqueles q ñ levaram @meghier.bsky.social www.sempaywall.com/api/clean/ww...
Pessoas dormem em parque em Seul, na Coreia do Sul - Kim Soo-hyeon
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"In the hope of raising the alarm before it’s too late to slam on the brakes, I’m going to share some of my journey into researching the safety and security of LLMs, and the uphill battle I’ve faced trying to get AI labs to pay attention." spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking...
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How Darth Vader Taught Me Card Counting and AI Security Got Weird
It only took a little prompting to hijack the biggest AI models
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/07/2026
It is not headed by a “climate critic“. It is headed by someone who is unqualified in this area, who cannot offer valid critiques but instead shares debunked claims, and who regularly attacks climate scientists. Like me.
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The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.
The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.
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Bê Neviani @beneviani.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Meghie Rodrigues: O poderoso sistema imune das plantas que nós nem percebemos Os sabores de orégano, pimenta e mostarda são, na verdade, defesa dos vegetais contra nós Na maioria das vezes, eles só não querem ser incomodados por insetos @meghier.bsky.social www.sempaywall.com/api/clean/ww...
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Eos @eos.org · 29/05/2026
A new study suggests that total recovery of Earth’s ozone layer could be delayed 7 years if feedstock emissions aren't addressed.🧪 Research by Luke Western @mit-cs3.bsky.social & others; comments from M. Aurelio Franco @uspoficial.bsky.social. Story by @meghier.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/rep...
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Repairing the Ozone Layer May Take Longer Than Expected - Eos
A new study reveals that if left unchecked, unaccounted-for emissions of ozone-harming substances could delay the layer’s full recovery by almost a decade.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Que loucura. Já estamos vivendo Black Mirror. Mto precisa a leitura do Leon e da Nilce sobre a indústria cultural — o processo de transformação da criatividade e da cultura em fast food está sendo anabolizado pela IA. Suspeito que Walter Benjamin meio que já sabia... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxU0...
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Empregados da Meta pedem SOCORRO!
YouTube video by CORTES - Leon e Nilce [Oficial]
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A 4-year-old girl died yesterday inside a hot vehicle. It's the third such death so far this year and we're just getting into the summer hot season. Back in 2024, I wrote this piece about why the number of children that die in hot cars seems stubbornly stuck. 🧪 (It was wrenching to write.)
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Children Keep Dying in Hot Cars. Here’s What Needs to Change
Cases of deadly heatstroke of children in cars have remained stubbornly persistent—here’s why they happen and how we can prevent them
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
That's a good point!
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I dare you to look at these pictures without a smile on your face. It's impossible. :) Happy birthday, dear David Attenborough. And thank you for being such an inspiration! www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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A life in pictures: Celebrating Attenborough at 100
As the British naturalist celebrates a milestone birthday, we take a look at how his work has shaped science.
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
David Attenborough and one of his creations.
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Yago Santos @yrs-pa.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
O David Attenborough fez 100 anos e talvez um dos documentários mais recentes (recente com 7 anos kkkkk mas vocês entenderam) legais com ele é o que tem no Netflix chamado "David Attenborough e o nosso planeta". É interessante ver a mudança do mundo ao longo da vida dele
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/04/2026
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#AIagents promise to speed up ordinary online tasks, but they can also share private files publicly, delete others, and libel people. A new study examines these #AIsafety vulnerabilities. #OpenClaw #AIgovernance @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI algorithms can become ‘agents of chaos’
Given autonomous control of other software, programs shared private medical details and deleted files without permission
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Kendall Powell @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Leading in science as a woman doesn't mean smooth sailing through gender bias, unfortunately, writes @mangalasrinivas.bsky.social @nature.com. She gives practical advice for navigating the shards of the cracked glass ceiling (hint: there's no magic bullet). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Cracked, but still there: the glass ceiling persists for senior women in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Mangala Srinivas reminds junior colleagues that career success won’t protect you from gender-based bias.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Caldas e Serro, além de Ouro Preto, estão na mira de projetos minerários. Os riscos são imensos e os benefícios reais, mínimos. Comunidades e ecossistemas inteiros colocados em risco pelo lucro de poucos. Vale a pena essa troca? www1.folha.uol.com.br/ambiente/202...
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Este episódio novo do Ciência Suja está excelente. As queridas Carla Ruas e Silvia mergulharam nos Monsanto Papers e acharam MUITA ciência suja por lá. Vale escutar!
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Agrotóxico: seguro para quem?
Ciência Suja · Episode
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It should go without saying that a world w/ more erratic precipitation is less suited for hydropower (imminent deadpool at Glen Canyon being exhibit A, though unmentioned in this story). Let's not build thousands more dams that will be obsolete almost from the jump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
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Hydropower Is Getting Less Reliable as the World Needs More Energy
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
chronicled the cow of the moment defector.com/veronika-the...
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Veronika The Cow's Record Scratch | Defector
Veronika was 4 years old when she picked up her first tool: a tree branch, found in her pasture in the town of Nötsch im Gailtal in the Austrian alps. Veronika lives with Witgar Wiegele, an organic fa...
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
These fossils have been chipped out of the ground over decades, but we finally managed to date them thanking to the flip-flopping of the Earth's magnetic field. And they date right from the time when the common ancestor of these three lineages would've been kicking around. 🧪
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise
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Kim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Most of the scientists at the nonprofit that I cofounded, including my two cofounders, came from NCAR. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this place for climate science.
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Eos @eos.org · 15/12/2025
New research presented tomorrow at #AGU25 from Gabriel de Oliveira @ #UofSouthAlabama, input from @anealencar.bsky.social @ipam-amazonia.bsky.social, story by @meghier.bsky.social.
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Eos @eos.org · 15/12/2025
Wildfires in rainforests threaten public health as well as ecology. eos.org/articles/fir...
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Fire Encroaches on One of the Amazon’s Most Pristine Indigenous Lands - Eos
New research shows how recurring wildfires in the buffer zones around Brazil’s Vale do Javari may undermine one of the Amazon’s last great refuges for isolated Indigenous peoples.
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IPSO - International Programme on the State of the Ocean @oceanipso.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
#COP30 delivered climate finance and adaptation progress but no #FossilFuel phase-out plan, leaving ambition far behind science. Here are some of the outcomes from the UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil. Editorial by @meghier.bsky.social and @jeff-tollefson.bsky.social ↩️ #ClimateScience
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What happened at COP30? 4 science take-homes from the climate summit
COP30 negotiated efforts to protect forests and ramp up financial packages for climate action, but with one glaring omission: a road map to cut fossil fuels.
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Jérôme OLLIER @jeromeollier.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP - @meghier.bsky.social @carolyngramling.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/3-id...
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Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP
As action from the U.N.’s huge COP30 international meeting falls short, smaller groups are banding together to find ways to fight climate change.
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Jérôme OLLIER @jeromeollier.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What happened at #COP30? 4 science take-homes from the climate summit - @meghier.bsky.social @jeff-tollefson.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What happened at COP30? 4 science take-homes from the climate summit
COP30 negotiated efforts to protect forests and ramp up financial packages for climate action, but with one glaring omission: a road map to cut fossil fuels.
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Eos @eos.org · 05/11/2025
With input from Tomás Domingues @ the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, story by @meghier.bsky.social.
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Eos @eos.org · 05/11/2025
Carbon emissions are helping make older trees in the Amazon bigger. But “it doesn’t mean carbon dioxide is good for the forest," says Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert @camplantsci.bsky.social. "What we’re seeing is resilience, not relief.” eos.org/articles/as-...
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As CO2 Levels Rise, Old Amazon Trees Are Getting Bigger - Eos
New data show resilience among the rainforest’s giants, though scientists warn that nutrient limits and rising heat could end the trend.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Dr Mann, are you in Belém?
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Eos @eos.org · 30/10/2025
Scientists are helping combat wildfires by doing what they do best: Collating data. eos.org/articles/in-...
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In Parts of the Brazilian Amazon, Science Leads the Fight Against Forest Fire - Eos
The state of Acre counts on science to optimize its limited resources for monitoring and combating forest fires and environmental destruction.
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Eos @eos.org · 30/10/2025
@meghier.bsky.social reports on an encouraging approach in Acre 🇧🇷 ahead of #COP30, with input from Claudio Cavalcante @ #SemaAcre CIGMA, Quelyson Souza @ #SemaAcre, Freitas Filho @ #CorpoDeBombeiros, and Liana Anderson @ #INPE.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
You gotta be kidding me www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...
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Iceland Announces an Unfortunate First: Mosquitoes
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 20/10/2025
Story Idea: Study after study has shown that the vast majority of people, 80-89%, want governments to “do more” to address climate change. Understanding who these people are and why gov't action doesn’t align with the overwhelming public interest are all rich territory for reporting. #the89percent
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Covering Public Support for Government Climate Action
Explore how the global majority not only cares about climate change, but wants their governments to “do more” to address it.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"Precisamos inventar um país em que mais pontes sejam possíveis e menos muros necessários para viver em paz. O grande problema da sociedade brasileira é acreditar que a harmonia só existe quando há grades, muros, vidros blindados, classe executiva, VIP, VIPão exclusivo." www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...
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Ricos no Brasil: 'brasileiro é obcecado por ricos por crença ilusória na mobilidade social', diz antropólogo que se infiltrou na elite - BBC News Brasil
Autor de livro 'Coisa de Rico', antropólogo Michel Alcoforado se infiltrou entre super-ricos para estudar as diferenças de classes sociais no Brasil.
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Rest in peace, Queen 💔
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
demais!! obrigada!
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
caraca, que super! obrigada pelo toque!
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Great to talk to Prof. Guimarães for @nature.com and share her research and advocacy for women and girls in #STEM. So much we don't know about the historical contributions of Black people to science!Thanks for your careful editing, @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social! :) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Computing is a Black people’s thing’
Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.
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Podcast Ciência Suja @cienciasuja.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
O Ciência Suja é finalista do Prêmio Einstein Mais Admirados da Imprensa de Saúde, Ciência e Bem-estar, do @portaldosjornalistas.com.br.web.brid.gy 😊✨ O Theo, @chloepinheiro.bsky.social e @meghier.bsky.social também estão concorrendo! Dá pra votar até sexta-feira aqui: bit.ly/4pnT6oh
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Os Jornalistas +Admirados do Brasil
Esta página foi construída para abrigar a votação de todos os prêmios da série +Admirados, que visa reconhecer e homenagear os profissionais +Admirados de cada editoria do jornalismo Brasileiro
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Jesse Wise 🍉 @jessewise.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Good reporting on an attribution study from @nature.com: 🫠 Emissions from each of the 14 biggest #fossilFuel Firms made >50 heatwaves otherwise near-impossible 📈 Exxon & Aramco made 51 #heatwaves ≥10,000× likelier 🔥180 companies caused ~½ the rise in intensity (forest loss most of the rest)
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
As U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright lobbies for more fossil fuels in Europe, climate experts are warning his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer. buff.ly/o0B07sK
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Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe - Inside Climate News
European climate experts say the pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on climate disinformation.
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Nature @nature.com · 18/08/2025
"I love to tell people is that computing is a Black people’s thing" Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science. go.nature.com/4oxew1E
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‘Computing is a Black people’s thing’
Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.
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