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The University is not an NGO
'More Mises'... for real?
High pressure on upstream demand in the clean energy production chain: challenges of the energy transition and human rights
Two characters of science: research, Holocaust and philosophy
Reviewers, opinions and the governance of science
Is it possible to teach the essay?
Freedom of expression and the definition of real numbers
Much Ado about nothing
Scientific methods
To enjoy reading scientific articles
If and only if
'Snubification'
Utopias of a green future: how China intends to become an 'ecological civilization'
In search of the lost climate
Praise for literary education (for those who write)
balance
The heteronomy of universities
War and socio-environmental collapse
Era of Global Boil: the challenges of governance and climate justice
Unicamp 2050: building today the university we want to be
Noah's Ark
Redoubled effort to combat hunger
The Paradox of Benevolence
Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to research into messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines against Covid-19
'VaR' is not football
How and why I'm not a novelist
Climate Emergency and Interdisciplinarity
percentages
Melba Phillips, woman of science and conscience, featured in a poetic license
Climate Emergency: what should universities do to face it NOW?
Corroborations
Prose and the exercise of conversation.
Climate change and the local aspect: the role of municipalities in climate actions and the local climate action plan of Campinas
Can machines think?
The science of the state and other things
COP30, an important victory for the Lula government
Rand and Greenspan
Alternatives to peer review in funding agencies: an agenda under debate
Read and write
Technical decisions
Kepler's Three Moments
The acute phase of Covid is behind us, but now is the time for reflection
One of the biggest challenges of the 21st century: extreme events and the urgent need for adaptation
Rise and fall of a discovery that won the Nobel Prize
The Rule of Three and the 21st Century
Lea, Caio, Black and Scholes
Climate change and health: on a collision course
Sonnets
How to measure the relationship between science and politics? Overton's contributions
Models and Realities
World meteorology day
The Advisory Committee on Ecological Change and Environmental Justice: performance and future actions
How will the world measure excellence in research?
Algorithms and Fundamentals
Fever of Reason
Listening to the Ticuna in Alto Solimões: experiences of the Indigenous Guards
An 'adult in the room' at the Central Bank
Me and the robot
In defense of weak causes
Some reports about the fever tree
The transformations of Brazilian Higher Education — 2010-2020
A manifesto against disinformation
Attacks were also a security crisis
January 8th as a neofascist insurrection
Impact-based forecasting: meteorology for the benefit of society
About Frances O'Connor's Film "Emily" (2022)
Sailing is necessary; live, no.
The draft of the coup
A gender perspective at COP27: notes on Bedouins
Once upon a time there was science and enchantment
There's no point wanting it, it has to be!
Half a century since the last trip to the moon
Uncertainties in the face of extreme events
Between opportunities, barriers and inequalities: the faces of academic mobility
Write your own Bible
Bathrooms
The Climate Framework Convention is dead. And now?
Popularization of science, tips from a short note
HIDS: a window of opportunity for implementing the SDGs in a territory of knowledge and innovation
Let's be Rational
Universities and environmental education
Amazon at the crossroads of climate change
We need to talk about the textão
The fate of Brazilian agriculture
Why teach climate change?
Planning and energy consumption when dealing with extreme weather events
The school of men and the Church of Christ
Grace in writing
Morals, family and religion in the final stretch of the elections
Peer review: benefits, biases and alternatives
DART: an impactful mission!
The University and the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems
Scales, instruments for everyday life, science and against obscurantism
Technology in the sky to observe Earth
Essay on our climate blindness
Writing exercises
Apology for true scientific innovation
At Arnoni's farewell
The artist and the cabin boy
Emanoel Araújo, the man from the Afro Brasil Museum
From geophysics to sociophysics
Climate emergency communication
Cepagri and the dissemination of meteorological information
Reginaldo, present!
"Writing is wanting to win"
Faced with the contentious relationship between Idea versus Reality: Humility
The necessary rapprochement between engineering and human sciences
Cult of celebrity exposes the agonizing stage of journalism
Science for sustainable development and the role of physics
What was once an estimate is now a reality
Inflation: the cause is not the effect
At the bend of the river...
Praise for brevity
The long journey of science into the public
The Beckettian void in Waiting for Godot
New wave of covid-19?
What to expect from the 2023 Quilombola Census?
The surprising extreme weather events
Proposal to charge monthly fees is unconstitutional
From the shelves to the ocean
Anatomy of a scientific current
A trajectory of commitment to the dissemination of knowledge and the training of readers
Nature-Based Solutions in cities
Pandemic, misgovernment and disinformation
Scientific participation: where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Only the WHO can decree the end of the pandemic!
Solid waste is proof of our unsustainability
Ocean research needs to be prioritized if we don't want to sink
It's not NATO's fault and it's not a war against the West
Culture will save the environment
Cathedral of bones or humus of Brazilian culture?
Russia commits international unlawful act
Childhood vaccination coverage should increase
Ocean Decade
Borders and barbarism
One step forward, two steps back
Mohamed Habib, a public intellectual
There is no limit to denialism and charlatanism in Brazil
Mohamed Habib: the Political Biologist
The post-Covid world, dystopia or solidarity?
A couple, their laboratory and forest viruses by candlelight
Vaccination of children: we need to create a wave of empathy to infect the country
The Edgard Leuenroth Archive today!
Anvisa approves Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5 to 11
Science: growing discomfort and the need for change
Pandemic: the fourth wave and new variant
Glasgow's timid and imprecise advances
Attacks on Covid-19 vaccines are killer news
Reflections on the pandemic. Is it really ending?
Brazil 2022: a decisive year
Science in Brazil in the 19th century: a story behind each article
The Brazilian contribution to the malaria vaccine
Speeches at the UN and attacks on legal norms
If you breathe and have empathy, wear a mask and get vaccinated
Only the Erinyes will be benevolent: about health plans and men on horses
From the Paris Agreement to COP 26. What money tells us
Short tour of science, Brazil, 19th century
The researcher facing ecological change and environmental justice
We need national unity to defend the constitutional order and the democratic rule of law
Third dose of vaccine against Covid-19 is already a reality in Brazil
Give us our daily curriculum today
CAPES and CNPq: Between blackouts and blackouts
Older vaccinated people getting infected? It's not the vaccines' fault
Climate Change, Sustainability, Transformative Science: research on gold mining in Tropical Forests
Vaccination is necessary; Living is imprecise
A text that I didn't want to need to be written
Rapid vaccination can slow the virus’s evolution
Back to the future: hybrid teaching has always existed, our problem is different
Post-COVID19 energy transition: global, national and sub-national
Testing and monitoring as an invisible practice in pandemic containment strategies
Vaccines administered after their expiration date?
What does science look like?
We are not at the moment to choose vaccines against Covid-19
No prayers for the dead
Can you celebrate World Environment Day in 2021 in Brazil?
Science has always needed art
Laboratory of the Faculty of Education takes a stand in defense of bilingual education in common schools
Slow vaccination worries
In defense of History
The ancient object of science and art
When the environment has no name, by Mia Couto
HIDS: possibilities for innovation in territorial management instruments
From risk communication to knowledge co-production: reflections and bets in times of crisis
It is necessary to end the Covid Kit farce and focus on combating the pandemic
HIDS – planning and management instruments
From the High Technology Hub to the International Hub for Sustainable Development (HIDS)
HIDS: a technology park for the 21st century
Anppas and Unicamp in the process of building the Environment and Society field in Brazil
What university ideas will the pandemic recover?
300 thousand: neglect and debauchery
Politics, the public university and its allies
About projects and forecasts
Why hasn't "wear a mask" worked?
"Scientia Vinces"
Our weapon against the virus is the vaccine
The environment as a negative sign of modernity or an allegory of outrage against nature?
University communication and canteens
The perseverance of ideas: life on Mars, Theory of Relativity and Chloroquine
FNDCT for what? You can't even imagine how important he is to you!
We need a popular outcry
An overview of the development of vaccines in the world
Climate change, pandemic and health: where are we going?
IPBES nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
There is a lack of oxygen, but we have vaccines and science in our veins
Heads or tails? One certainty: get vaccinated!
The vaccine queue is already moving in several countries, but here...
From anti-vaccinism to Eeyore systems
The federal government's plan foresees vaccinating around 51 million Brazilians from priority groups
Political squint and genocide
Historic Moment: Vaccination against Covid-19 begins around the world
Ecologism and the configurations of good and evil in contemporary society
Pfizer vaccine: A milestone in the fight against the pandemic
Evidence, scientific dissemination and science teaching at the crossroads
Vaccine tests are promising and Brazilians trust science more
The right to have an opinion
Short stories about viruses, scientists and science
What country is this?
Professional training to work in science, technology and environmental management in the Anthropocene - Unicamp's contribution
It is Science that needs to give the final word on the issue of vaccines
Politicization of the vaccine affronts science and puts lives at risk
Nine months into the pandemic, the incredible response from science and a warning
Denying fake news about vaccines
Percolation, from coffee to viruses and the forest
Science why do I want you?
Climate change and Covid 19: future perspectives for coping with extreme events
Covax Coalition and the global dispute for vaccines against Covid-19
Environment and Society is the theme of the newest series of articles in Jornal da Unicamp
The glass bead game
Anti-vaccine movement: a serious threat to global health
Covid-19: Hidden and, this time, added dangers
The light in dark times
Luiz Carlos Dias: "Crowded roads and beaches, it seems like Covid-19 is over and no one warned"
Scientific knowledge about the pandemic is growing rapidly and so is misinformation
Why are universities important?
The contempt for History, the suicide of the State and the weakening of Society
Connecting the dots of the pandemic
Brazilian research institutes and public universities in the fight against Covid-19
Two centuries of far from spontaneous controversy
Brazil: the Murder of the Spirit
Letter to the editor of The Lancet
Military, science, Popular Education.
From open access to science to Pandora's box
Water hyacinth and Covid-19
Yellow fever: the incredible story of the first identified human virus.
Notes from the 19th century in times of cholera for Covid-XNUMX
COVID-19: data instead of opinions
COVID-19: science is not opinion, it is knowledge
The mobilization of science in times of COVID-19
Why is it essential to suspend classes? Caution yes, panic no
The philosopher and anti-science
About scientists, professionals and amateurs; disseminating science, but forgotten
Hitler's beautiful hands
When science belongs to everyone
A manifesto for the public university
Chacaltaya, Bolivia: the mountain and science[I]
The zap and the Nobel
Biodiversity is not a problem, it is a solution!
The eugenics of universities
Immortality and marginal science
Bacurau, or Bolsonaro's Brazil
Long live the humor of scientists!
Neither pure nor applied: it is science, period
About Formula 1, football, Pan-Americans and universities
North American evangelicals and politics (III). Challenges of the new millennium
North American evangelicals and politics (II). How a Christian nation is created
Scientists, these unknown
North American evangelicals and politics (I)
Respectful public!
Populist right – between the revolt of the poor and the revenge of the rich
McCarthy, the press and Brazil
We are all Wajãpi!!
Firefighters setting fire
Ronald Reagan, the president and his shadow
Vietnam, an (unintentional) lesson from Robert McNamara
The chaos of rankings and the ranking of chaos
God, the Uniform and the Family – the gallery of hypocrites
Abandon flesh or hope
'Mani Pulite'. The tragedy, the farce and the hangover
The duration and measurement of time
Who invented the telegraph? Left-right-right, right, left-right...
From Spain, lessons of hate
About antipodes, maps and flat Earth
Bolsonaro, the ecocide
Bolsonaro and resentment
Whose heritage is it, anyway?
Conflict of fundamental rights in cases of virtual lynching
Do the indicators lead to the necessary questions?
Chaos engineering – is this the new politics?
Baby, I hacked the baby!
Great wealth and great poverty are equally pathological for society
The gates of delirium
Trump and his clones. It's worse than you think.
'Scientific Marxism'
Building a perspective on violence against women and girls
Books, their reviews and thousands of letters in science
From one small screen to another – politics in the era of electronic communication
The clash in the beginnings of science needs to be remembered
The gospel according to the smartphone
New opportunities for integrated approaches to Human Rights and Sustainability
Release to carry a weapon. The weapon of voting
Rejection of Bolsonaro spreads
Student chaos is good for the university and society
And when the Messiah steps up?
The Influence of the Bauhaus on Science
Memory and Human Rights. The Syrian conflict in sounds and images
Indoctrination is the repetition of opinions without evidence
Spain, 2019: this time they didn't pass. The left won
Why did I believe the Earth is round?
Elections in Spain could be a historic test in Europe. Again
Transcendental Cinema
Science versus Bolsonaro
Human Rights for force agents, too!
Tying a class together: interdisciplinarity, cybernetics and the unusual
Transitions completed and the return of what was never gone. The Spanish example
Wheat addiction and its strange history
The infamous minority of 2018
Dance and Human Rights
The fusion that went cold
Dizziness of change and salvationism. The invitation to fatal illusions
The comet and the vaccine
Trump and his troops. The freaks who become the rule
Religious freedom as the right to transcendence
The third edition of 'Capitalism and Environmental Collapse'. What has changed in the last 3 years?
Bridge to the future. May Our Lady protect us!
Passing
Who do we scientists write to?
God and the devil in the pre-salt land
Trances in an extreme time
The global teenagers’ climate strike
The right to family. Society in the face of homeless mothers and children
Servant agency
Madrid, 2004: an attack, an election
The dark side of progress
The working day in hell (in the actions of 'sovereignists' and 'Europeans')
Working class and left in France – who migrated where?
Human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples: for a public positioning of universities
Against (all) theocracies
The growing gap between knowledge and the public
Pact Management Committee at Unicamp
'Please be informed that Santa Claus exists'
The resistible rise of Donald Trump. Summary of the opera (III)
Academic and pragmatic researchers: a false dichotomy
Interview with Ugo Giorgetti
Long live the Bohr atom
The resistible rise of Donald Trump. Brazilian media plays the trumpet (II)
Evangelical Caesaropapism
Human Rights: the common ideal to be achieved by all peoples and all nations
Forest Gump in a large laboratory
The resistible rise of Donald Trump. The path to success (I)
School without a Party? It's possible?
First impressions
Many weights, many measurements
New York and the Bronx. Social collapse and resistance policies (II)
Replacement and increase: advice from Dom Pedro II to rulers
Each university, a sentence
New York and the Bronx. Opulence seen from the other side (I)
Racism and naturalization of inequalities: a historical perspective
A bus on the road
A warning about supposed enemies, internal or external
Learning about and from university rankings
Social distances – inequality distributed along subway tracks
For an accessible university
American technology and its ghosts – here come the Germans!
Embrapa, the numbers before the car!
Innovation in the United States – the military bias and its limits
The dark side of science
And school, what is it? And how should it be?
The crisis and the future of Embrapa
Brazil and the university through new lenses
The thoughts of Abdias Nascimento and the fight against racism (1)
The geography of jobs, power and knowledge
Human rights and the environment in the United Nations system: what principles for climate justice?
SciELO 20 years: from visionary to indispensable
Help! Where did those jobs that were here go?
Bush Family (V). The Saudi family's flying carpets
Suicide mortality: several reasons to prevent
The university's numbers
Bush Family (IV). The return home
The connective tissue of science
Bush Family (III). Osama in the Heights!
Educating in Human Rights and the university
Bush Family (II). The origin of the species
Degrowth V – The two enemies of humanity and agrointoxication
Excellence is bullshit
Bush Family (I). Daddy knows everything
Lula and diplomacy
Innovation – far beyond Professor Pardal
The construction of policies to implement Human Rights
When a company imitated the university and not the other way around
Education and productivity: from the apocalypse to salvationist reforms
The paths to joining Unicamp
Moore's law of scientific publishing?
Inequality starts well before school. And it increases with every step
Is a pedagogical project for Human Rights viable?
The deindustrialization of America (IV). Opera summary
police state
Interlude about the future
Degrowth. IV – The limits of water
The deindustrialization of America (III). The politics of resentment
University rankings: use in moderation
Human rights and food security
The deindustrialization of America (II). The pilgrimage of automobiles
For an ethnography of universities
The deindustrialization of America (I). Machines stopped, souls defeated
Human rights and right to work
Politics by other means – judicial chicanery and media circus
Degrowth (III) – Collapse of biodiversity
The time of 'Homo Academicus'
The unbanked – or the financial life downstairs
The elections in Mexico: a reconfiguration in Latin America?
Science 'Malaysians'
Human rights and sexual and gender diversity in Brazil: advances and challenges
Public policies, real reasons and effective arguments
Degrowth (II) – Climate change
Vancouver, the city that wants to be (even) greener in 2020
2018 and a court of eights
Changing the world, changing things: about chaos and anguish
World Cup time: culture, science, technology and... football
Human Rights education and the university’s social commitment
Degrowth. A left-wing perspective on socio-environmental crises (I)
All for education, but not all in the same way
About cheating, plagiarism, broken and ragged
Equivocal hypothesis, fallacious reasoning
Broken routes
Between the blackboard and the smartphone
Universities with open doors and voices
Giving young children a voice about their rights
It's snack time, what a happy time! The snack and the blackboard
Forget about the research project for a bit!
Decline in male fertility. A still little studied case of ecological suicide
About boys and wolves, petflix version
Small, medium or large science
Global Compact on Migration and Human Rights
Knowledge society – participant observation and retrospective
The world of readers and the urgency of writing
Social networks need to be taken seriously as a space for disseminating science
Vices and virtues of education as a panacea
About wars and diplomacy (I)
This strange career called university teaching
Human Rights are a particular case of the rights of nature
Job displacement – ​​United States, showcase of the future? (II)
Dissociate the State from corporations and associate science and politics. Two conditions to turn the tide
Recollections about Physics at the end of the Cold War
Universities and dictatorships
Job displacement – ​​United States, showcase of the future? (I)
Warnings from the past in scientific communication
Human Rights and the International Day of Struggle for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The brothers and the girls in the sights of the homi
Science and Human Rights
Science and human rights
IPBES and the decline of biodiversity
Smoking, science, language, ideology and omission
Human Rights beyond borders
Drink in moderation: the case of alcohol consumption in Canada
Who is afraid of fake news?
From Edson to Marielle. Fifty years of political assassinations
Scientists: from amateurs to citizens
Compassion in times of trouble
Immigrants and Geni
How did the research end up at the university?
Women and Human Rights in Brazil: advances and challenges
Occupy Wall Street: who is among the 1%? And how did this crystallize?
Anonymous academics
'Critical point in the Amazon'
Cultural terror in new attack on academic freedom
Higher education and innovation – where is the United States headed?
Photography and memories: what we want to record
A flea behind the ear of Physics
To be or not to be in favor of Human Rights?
Higher education models – break for our commercials...
Us and the Venezuelan crisis
When the alarm does not come from the 'catastrophists'
Meditations on Judges (2)
Tax havens (4) – The revenge of big capital
Meditation on Judges (1)
Tax havens (3) – The rich without borders
End of paid public higher education in Chile, why the silence?
The climate records of 2017 and the legacy of the current generation
The results of the entrance exam
Tax havens (2) – Much more than Switzerland
Affective memory
In addition to Ipiranga and São João
Tax havens (1) – Capital Motels
University guardians
The pope, indigenous people and complex relationships in Latin America
How is this world here possible?
When scientists are not enough to do science
About sincericide
The game of musical chairs in the Spanish Congress – a warning to other sailors
The university: holiday reading
Less democracy to save democracy
Developments in research with indicators of social impacts of science
Science at Christmas or with draft beer
Media, parallel realities and convenient schizophrenia
Times, calendars and reinvention of expectations
Public universities threatened elsewhere
Judges, hold the bailiffs!
Police state, gateway to hell
Atlas of food poisoning in Brazil
Things that mix: religion and politics
Unread, copied or non-existent references: for rigor in science
Isn't the working class anymore?
Populisms and democracies
Cuts in science take time to heal: the Canadian case
Open science for whom? Nanotechnology, society and environment
Was it Aquarius or was it Aquarius? From the printed newspaper to the networks
Didn't pass the entrance exam
Too late for 3º C?
A book, a film, a world in common
What do citations in articles say?
Professional Training – we have no more time to waste: update and develop now!
About testimonials
Challenges of public schools... in the USA and elsewhere
Amazement and the ability to think
Sebos in the cloud
“Toasted, roasted and grilled”
And God created Richistan, the land of the super rich: who are they, where did they come from and where are they going?
Food, science and society: the challenge of communication
Mexico and the feast of the dead
5.145 authors: particles and cathedrals
Diabolical denunciation. A threatening tautology.
Charms and disenchantments of the Knowledge Society – what education and for whom?
What would Michelangelo do in Porto Alegre?
Agribusiness and the decline of insects
About Pokémon and foraminifera
From school lunches to astronaut compost
Thinking about History and its places
They no longer make authors like they used to.
Challenges and great potential in metrics that measure social uses of science
The current trajectory of socio-environmental collapse is indisputable
About the Nobel Peace Prize and freedom of expression
There was only one Heley and there are many Heleys
United States – colossus immune to change?
About expeditions
Suicide of the rector or the free university?
The day we stopped to listen to Fausto Castilho
Changes towards more multiple and open scientific communication
Horror at the gas station – a film awaiting remake?
The king's judgment and the impartiality of the norm
Looking at Africa
Scientific hopes and basic political facts about the Paris Agreement
Scams in sight!
The financing of American higher education and some of its intricacies
The ethos and its predators
Unicamp and Latin America
The Fund went bankrupt – or almost
Bad data. Income and taxation in high circles
Obscurantism and gag in education
Think about Mosul, pray for Mosul
The inevitable future
Affirmative action once had a different color. And for a long time
Democracy and its disappeared in Latin America
And yet, they change!
The education of elected officials and what remains for the rest – dilemmas that are not just North American
For democracy and open science
In defense of the Amazon and the Cerrado
Finally a Brazilian innovation: 2nd class patents
Political transitions and the numbing role of fear
The Unicamp Entrance Exam and its multiple choices
He killed the rattlesnake and published the stick
Nazism doesn't just live in Charlottesville
About utopias and disenchantment: the power of imagination in historical construction
From the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States
For a University involved in the agenda of our time
Libraries reinforce their social role and attract users
Education in times of cholera
Science is more than the sum of its indicators
The last century of tropical forests?
Educational reform should not be a strategy to divert attention
About violence and human rights: the role of education in dark times
The great tree massacre
USA and Germany: two education models
The moral superiority of the 'vanquished' in the public arena
Eucalyptus and its impacts
Consequences of rising sea levels in the 21st century
Children, natural resources and technological development
Bicycles integrate urban planning and culture in Vancouver
Venezuela and the kidnapping of Bolívar
Melting ice and rising sea levels
The new debut in Pugwash, 60 years later
Replacing fish with plastic
Any changes in High School?
Praise of Corruption
The different uses and meanings of research at our university
The fourth and fifth missions of the university
Corporate overfishing and fish depletion
Latin America and its labyrinths
From scholastic rationalism to persecutory madness in the 15th century
2007–2037: Methane enters the picture
For more women in all professions
Einstein's snooker
We are not transitioning to low carbon energy
Science and transparency – challenges for public policies and universities
The two ways to leave the Paris Agreement: the spectacular and the sneaky
Tours through the territories of science
University and diversity – how to explore this richness?
Hotel Amazonia
Scientific dissemination forms the cultural scenario and agenda
Aquifers, the invisible decline
When passing through a campus entrance
The commodification of water advances 'pari passu' with its scarcity
The four major dossiers of environmental degradation
Open access as institutional scientific policy
Júlio Ribeiro, beyond grammar
The right to have rights
Science as a nation development strategy
Mutualism and workers’ organization in Brazil
Paving the path to internationalization
Media, marketing and the avalanche of false positive scientific tests
Power strategies in the first educational reforms in Brazil (1922-1935)
Innovation Systems, Strategies and Policy: promoting the internationalization of Unicamp
Special Covid-19 Vaccines: Current scenario

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