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Ricardo O Louro

@ricardoolouro.bsky.social
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Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, working on metalloproteins, NMR spectroscopy, and microbial bioenergetics.

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Daumann Lab @daumannl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looking for a #PhD position in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team and an exiting project with supportive supervisors? Check out our available positions for researchers with microbiology, biochemistry or chemistry background @hhu.de here: www.bioac.hhu.de/bioinorganic... #ChemSky #MicroSky 🧪
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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re looking for postdocs to explore RNA dynamics in biologically relevant conditions in an international and genuinely curious research team. If you’re interested in RNA changing its shape to perform its function (even inside a living cell), we'd love to hear from you. Details: petzoldlab.com
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
Nearly half a million people across the world could lose their lives by February due to El Niño-driven extreme heat, according to a sobering new report. cnn.it/47sySSh
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Marcel Swart @marcelswart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Harry Gray is listed by Clarivate as one of the front runners for the #ChemNobel, via @chemistryworld.com #bioinorganic #chemsky www.chemistryworld.com/news/who-wil...
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Who will win the 2026 Nobel prize in chemistry?
Annual list of 'citation laureates' includes scientists behind base editing, self-assembled monolayers, and those who improved our understanding of electron transfer in proteins
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congrats to Ricardo Soares on his new paper on the mechanisms of multiheme cytochrome evolution done in my lab at @itqbnova.bsky.social and published in Protein science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Also, this is from 2014 and it’s still relevant theory/background: it matters who is irresistibly positioned as the object and who is the subject of these technologies. That has a huge effect on failure or adoption, & is a historical process as much as anything else: bsky.app/profile/hist...
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FrenchBIC @frenchbic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New post: 3-year PhD position at the University of Strasbourg – Bioelectrochemistry and Vibrational Spectroscopy Group frenchbic.cnrs.fr/2026/07/22/3-year…
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EuroBIC 18 Conference @eurobic18.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Welcome to the official BS page of the 18th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC 18), taking place in Groningen, the Netherlands 🇳🇱, from July 12–16, 2026. See you next week! Visit eurobic18.eu for the full programme, schedule, travel information, and other practical details.
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Ribbe Hu Labs @ribbehulab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are recruiting postdoctoral scholars to join our laboratories. Come be part of our team in sunny Southern California! faculty.sites.uci.edu/mribbe/avail...
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Available Positions – Ribbe-Hu Laboratory Hu-Ribbe
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/06/2026
A federal judge has voided President Donald Trump’s requirement of a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas, ruling that he lacked authority to impose the new policy for a program used by companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers in specialized fields. cnn.it/43ma90g
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
O How long does it take for an author of a scientific book published by Elsevier to buy a copy benefiting from the author discount? After 3 weeks I still do not know, gave up and bought it from Amazon at the regular price.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Another edition of the Advanced Course on Metals in Biology comes to a successful end. I am grateful to the colleagues who generously agreed to teach and to the students who made this a brilliant edition. It is heartening to contribute to build the biological inorganic chemistry scientific family
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Happy to share that I will be presenting the work of my lab at eurobic18.eu, as a keynote speaker.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I am looking for enthusiastic candidates to join my team www.itqb.unl.pt/research/bio... with a Marie Curie fellowship
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MSCA opens €399 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Grateful to Fulbright Portugal and FLAD for the support during my Sabbatical at @caltech.edu. You can find my testimony from minute 4 to 16. Thank you to all the friends and colleagues that made this such a wonderful períod of personal and intelectual discovery.
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Fulbright Portugal Forum Freedom 250: Part II
YouTube video by Fulbright Portugal
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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State of the Global Climate 2025
WMO’s State of the Global Climate report 2025 confirms that 2015-2025 are the hottest 11-years on record, and that 2025 was the second or third hottest year on record, at about 1.43 °C above the 1850-...
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It was a uplifting experience to attend the announcement, and acceptance speech, of the 10th president of @caltech.edu It gave me confidence that this institution will continue to be a beacon of excellent research and education.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Ir was a privilege to attend the seminar America250: Tradition, Technology and Innovation in the Mountain West promoted by the Fulbright commission. A prime oportunity to learn about the deep roots of Senator Fulbright's vision of a virtuous cycle of development by mutual knowledge and understanding
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
If you walk into a chemistry department to give a seminar on electron transfer, spectroscopy and metalloenzymes, and you find this in the halway, you know that you're in for an exciting afternoon. Thanks to Prof Jonas Peters at @caltech.edu for the oportunity to share my work @itqbnova.bsky.social.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Las Vegas is a place where the research on cytochromees and bioenergetics that is carried out in my lab at @itqbnova.bsky.social can be discussed at a very high level. I am grateful to Prof Ranjani Murali at the @unlv.edu for her wonderful hospitality and stumulating scientific discussions.
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Ricardo O Louro @ricardoolouro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Way to go Georgia! Great work! www.vox.com/ad/467542/bi...
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Meet the molecular biologist shining light on the mysteries of bacterial “slime”
Dr. Georgia Squyres studies the behavior of biofilms — communities of bacteria that can resist antibiotics
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