Sofia de Oliveira, Ph.D.
@sdeoliveira.bsky.social
Neurodivergent Scientist🧪 Passionate for #neutrophils #zebrafish 🐟 & #microscopy 🔬 Post about life, women, and trainees' advocacy. LOVE so many things... Particularly my #FREEDOM #Neurodiversity #FirstGen #WomenInSTEM
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
Google Maps removes Lake Ontario. Open Google Maps and report that the map is wrong. Click the three bars on the upper left corner. Scroll down to 'Get Help' and report the mistake. maps.app.goo.gl/BpYqNtmLgNEF...
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🐟 Want to get more involved with ZDMS? We’re looking for members to join our committees & Research Interest Groups💙 📝 Volunteer interest survey: forms.gle/qifrMwEEiziv... 📅 Respond by Oct. 2 Visit ZDMS webpage & learn more about us: www.zdmsociety.org/committees #Zebrafish #DiseaseModeling #ZDMS
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.
Tomorrow, we’re going to Washington. Register at MarchOnWashington2026.com.
Donald Trump is a failed president trying to hide from accountability. That’s what this is about. Americans are tired of him and his Republican yes-men in Congress. They want change. November is our chance to make sure they get the message loud and clear.
Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer
Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer 20 years on from vaccine launch
Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.
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Claims that immigrants are responsible for measles outbreaks are a lie. 94% of US measles cases are in unvaccinated people. Contact tracing shows a majority of imported measles cases are in unvaccinated US residents returning from travel. The cause of measles outbreaks is anti-vax disinformation.
Violence against women is a pervasive #HumanRights violation globally. It happens in every country and culture but can be prevented if we: 💞 Respect women 💞 Support survivors 💞 Invest in prevention #EndViolence against women and girls.
Our second issue of iSLB for 2026 is out! Check it out here: www.leukocytebiology.org/assets/docs/...
📣 Still time to register for the next Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology Webinar #BBinLB from @leukocytebiology.bsky.social 🧪 🗓 August 26th 🥼 Dr. Chyna Lovell, from MASS Genera/Harvard will present "Lessons in Immune Homeostasis: The Goldilocks Principle" 👇🏽 #leukocytes #WomenInSTEM
Society for Leukocyte Biology@leukocytebiology.bsky.social · 2w agoOur next FREE FOR ALL webinar is on August 26th at 1pm ET. This month, Dr. Chyna Lovell from Mass General/Harvard will present on “Lessons in Immune Homeostasis: The Goldilocks Principle". Find out more and register here: www.leukocytebiology.org/index.php?op...
📣Come and help @zdmsociety.bsky.social growth and become an even stronger community! Volunteering in committees and Research Interest Groups is a wonderful way to get involved and to know other researchers in the field. If Communication and Outreach is your thing WE WANT YOU! DM me👇 #zebrafish
Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 2w ago🐟 Want to get more involved with ZDMS? We’re looking for members to join our committees & Research Interest Groups💙 📝 Volunteer interest survey: forms.gle/qifrMwEEiziv... 📅 Respond by Oct. 2 Visit ZDMS webpage & learn more about us: www.zdmsociety.org/committees #Zebrafish #DiseaseModeling #ZDMS
Today I visited the Liberty Bell at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. I cried like a baby! I started reading all that amazing history in the walls and suddenly tears dropped from my eyes... WTF America, what are you doing?
'Visa-related delays are not minor inconveniences — they are avoidable structural disruptions with far-reaching consequences for scholars, academic institutions and the broader US research enterprise' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The invisible tax of US visa bureaucracy on international scholars - Nature Biotechnology
Survey data document US visa types and burdens of time, cost and mental health among international postdocs.
nature.com
You know what's SO COOL about having a kick ass, nimble, whip-smart policy team? We can publish stuff like this: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
How the National Science Foundation is Closing the Door on Opportunity in Science — Stand Up for Science Foundation
At the National Science Foundation, the recent rescinding of Title VI disparate-impact regulations, termination of equity-focused STEM education programs and broadening-participation grants, and...
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The most important climate action you can take isn’t obsessing over your individual carbon footprint. We need to change the system so the easiest, most affordable choice for everyone is also the best choice. How do we change a system? It starts with your voice!
Meryl Streep Say It Louder
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Submit your comments soon! The deadline is only a few days away. ⚒️🧪
Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her)@waterbarnes.bsky.social · last mo.The new #OMB rules would transform funding decisions. I don't know where I would be without #NSF funding. Thanks @agu.org for providing a way to submit comments about the latest set of disastrous OMB rule changes. Deadline Aug 24th #resist agu.quorum.us/campaign/dvw...
From the article: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I believe this figure is the most disturbing....we need to value science in the U.S., and we seemingly don't anymore. The world is not going to wait. We are falling behind and the next generation of scientists is going to suffer from this. 🧪🌎🧬🌊🌱
So I woke up in the middle of the night that RFK, Jr. was claiming that scientists were making Americans unhealthy by demystifying proteins by determining their three-dimensional structures.
Stephen Stotch's Bad Dream in South Park
ALT: Stephen Stotch's Bad Dream in South Park
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'In Portugal, the national fallout from a failed push by its education minister, Fernando Alexandre, to fully digitise the exam marking process (...) Parents, teachers, and students have been protesting, demanding Alexandre’s resignation after his policy resulted in serious marking errors.'
AI cheating, leaked papers and marking errors: how exam protests went global
Student unrest sweeps India, Portugal and Mexico as grievances and pressure for good grades in tough job market collide
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This is a consistent finding every few years. And it’s not a surprise. Almost ANYTHING will be more efficient and cost-effective than our current “system” 🤷🏻♂️
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Time-lapse video of vascular development in a transgenic #zebrafish embryo. Credit to @kuglerelisabeth.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday
🧪 Free webinar on Muscle and Cardiac Diseases from @zdmsociety.bsky.social August 26th sign up 👇🏽
Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 4w agoThe next webinar (on Muscle & Cardiac diseases) from our 2026 RIG Meet Ups series, takes place on August 26th (Wed.), at 7AM PDT | 10AM EDT | 3PM BST | 4PM CEST | 7:30 IST. To sign-up for the FREE event, you must register in advance: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🐟 #ZDMS #zebrafish #RIGMeetups2026
Deadline Extended! The ZDMS SciArt Competition 2026 is now accepting submissions until September 1, 2026! Win up to $300 for your scientific illustration or short film. Submit your work: www.zdmsociety.org/sci-art-competition #SciArt #Zebrafish #SciComm #STEMArt #DiseaseModels
August is #PsoriasisAwarenessMonth 🧡💜 With the help of #zebrafish, scientists are expanding what we know about these chronic diseases 🐟👩🔬 Learn more about the fishy research model making real-world impacts on patients: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #KnowYourZDM #ZDMS #Psoriasis #DiseaseModels
Bohemian Rhapsody live at Wembley on July 11, 1986: the greatest live version of this song. Original post
“Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.” — Karl Popper
