Tullio da Silva Maia (he/him)

Back home :)

Travel tip: KLM, never again!

Direct flight (Rio-Amsterdam) cancelled and now I'm stuck in Madrid with little clue on what happened with my luggage 🤡

Amazing! @anthrobite.bsky.social @ulibeisel.bsky.social :))

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats Trump’s immigration policies echo WWII-era propaganda linking disease and race, weaponizing public health fears to justify deportations and dehumanization.

Amazingly proud of our daughter Marion who has published this article with @nichecanada.bsky.social! A new generation Jørgensen academics has begun! @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

The brilliant @silviamil.bsky.social is joining us in Munich 🥳 - and this means there’s a faculty post open in #egenis at the University of Exeter, which includes collaboration with our TUM group.. if you do philosophy of data and AI, consider apply! #philsci #UKEUbridges

Getting used to it 🫰🏾😅🪗

Not a huge fan of Amsterdam but the possibility of building a community here is undeniable.

Short participation in a forró evening at Nieuwland, a political/cultural collective in the city.

In the video, my own version of "Vapor di imigrason", by Mayra Andrade

Nada contra cientistas (tenho até amigos que são), mas gostaria de ver a imprensa entrevistando mais urbanistas com propostas concretas de adaptação das cidades à crise climática porque isso dá um norte às pessoas sobre o que cobrar dos políticos, em vez de ficarmos apenas "oh, vamos todos morrer!".

My ex student (German boy who became a good friend of mine) referring to the (Brazilian) girl he's seeing as "boyzinha" (slang from Paraíba, Pernambuco and other NE Brazilian states).

Sometimes supervising is kinda priceless! 🫰🏾

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The truth is I never felt this vulnerable in my life.

The rise of the far right is not an abstract subject. I will be unemployed fairly soon, then my visa expires. I'm unwelcome here and (professionally) useless in Brazil.

I try not to succumb in despair, but I've been failing...

That is, bringing the reservoirs to the conversation in a moment of crisis seems not to be ideal. Putting sloth (an endangered animal), not the biting midges, in evidence might be irresponsible to say the least...

I really hope Brazilian health authorities do not adopt the name "sloth fever" to refer to #OropoucheFever.

Hope the slaughtering of monkeys during the recent yellow fever crisis has taught us that the distinction between vector and reservoir needs to be done cautiously.

Just found out by chance that my thesis is available for reading =]

If you want to know one thing or two about vigilância epidemiológica (epidemiological surveillance), mosquitoes and viruses in the Brazilian northeast, feel free to check it out =]

ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/h...