Highlights

Computing

AI systems could monitor animals crossing highways

Study tested the performance of computer vision models

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Paleontology

Fossil lineage found in Rio Grande do Sul survived the world’s biggest extinction event

Predator lived 252 million years ago and had relatives in the region of present-day Eastern Europe, in what is now Russia

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Zoology

Wildcats from the Andes and Central America differ to those found in Brazil

Complex that includes Leopardus tigrinus and L. guttulus gains new species, L. pardinoides, all in danger of extinction

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Ethnobotany

Quilombola communities reveal the use of plants

Participatory research contributes to knowledge and university students develop cattail management plan

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Neurology

Study identifies rare form of Alzheimer’s acquired through treatment no longer used

Individuals were given a hormone extracted from cadavers, contaminated with protein fragments associated with the onset of the disease

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Immunology

Mechanism that keeps the immune response in check also aggravates malaria

The protozoan that causes the disease multiplies freely when certain immune cells are taken out of the fight

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Interview

2024 could become the year with the highest number of dengue cases

FAMERP virologist Maurício Nogueira discusses the characteristics of the current epidemic and the need for the health system to prepare for more patients

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Data

Women in higher education

The presence of women in higher education has been increasing since 2010

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Good practices

Signs of forced consent

Suspicion that ethnic groups were coerced into providing data and biological samples calls 96 forensic genetics articles into question

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Good practices

Norwegian minister behind crackdown on student misconduct resigns due to plagiarism

Sandra Borch resigned from her post on January 23 after allegations that she plagiarized at least 20% of her master's thesis

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Good practices

American university museum returns artifacts looted from Greece

Emory University reached an agreement with the Greek Ministry of Culture to return three artifacts held at the institution’s Michael C. Carlos Museum

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Human resources

Field courses in ecology encounter obstacles in Brazil

Practical disciplines, essential to the training of future researchers, suffer from a lack of funding

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Funding

Fund to identify organizations that support the Black population with Black leadership

Initiative seeks to collect data on inequality and philanthropy

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Equality

Breaking down structural barriers

Research network covering 16 countries maps gender inequality in the scientific environment and shares strategies to tackle the issue

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Interview

Barbara Weinstein: A Brazilianist in transformation

Part of the first group of women to graduate from Princeton University, the American historian analyzed the leading role of regional elites and workers in business dynamics in Brazil

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