journals
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While the journal reviews, the world changes
There is a curious feeling that accompanies those who do research in areas linked to technology. You write about the present knowing that, when the text is finally published, part of it will already belong to the past. Scientific production has always needed time. Peer review, corrections, new readings, opinions. This care is one of…
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The conflict between academic identity and personal identity
During my undergraduate studies, my professor Dr. Silvia used to start some classes with music. It wasn’t to analyze the melody or figure out who the artist was it was to pay attention to the lyrics, and afterwards, we would talk about what that text evoked in each of us. At that moment I didn’t…
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July 8: Researcher and Science Day in Brazil
July 8 brings together two important celebrations: National Science Day and National Scientific Researcher Day. The date honors the founding of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), created on July 8, 1948, and considered one of the milestones in the organization of scientific research in Brazil. The commemorations were officialized by two…
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Moths and orixás
For a long time, science believed that several moths belonged to the same species. They were found in different regions of Brazil and received a single name: Eois russearia. It seemed simple. But nature is rarely as simple as it seems. Researchers from Unicamp and USP gathered different types of evidence: morphological characteristics, genetic analyses,…