amchagas

amchagas, 2 months ago to 3DPrinting

All great things are made of small things... Today, one of our students achieved proof of principle on turning #singleuseplastic bottles into filament for #3dprinting! Then a #benchy was printed..
From here we scale up production and start making #openhardware out of plastic bottles!!

video of a machine pulling a long strip of plastic made out of PET bottle. the strip is passed through a hot nozzle and made into a round filament for 3d printing

amchagas, 2 months ago to science

It's Alive!! The #openscience lab has moved in (well, almost everything) to its new home!! Interestingly we are occupying an almost abandoned corridor at #universityofsussex, with the goal of bringing needed updates and life to certain lab/#science/#research practices!
If you would like to chat anything open science do send me a message!

#academia #openhardware #uk

video shot by a person holding a phone and walking through lab space. Showing many boxes, disorganised desks, and many objects laying about, as these are the final days of moving into this area. the walkthrough shows three different rooms, two being lab space and one being office space

amchagas, 2 months ago to running

Trying to get back at it... #running
Anyone has tips to keep consistency and a good balance not to be always working (or thinking about work related things?)

amchagas, 2 months ago to brazil

Today a small break from time off to give a talk at one of the biggest research institutions in #brazil! It is a big honour to be at Instituto Fiocruz in Belo Horizonte and to be able to talk about #openscience and #openhardware, how they can and should be used as tools to improve #reseaerch & #education and all the work we have been doing at @universityofsussex and @trendinafrica to enable everyone to do the same

amchagas, 2 months ago to academia

One of the best things about my current job is being able to collaborate in many different projects. This week a paper on the origins of movement in #drosophila came out! This is all the great work from Jonathan and Claudio, but it was great to support them with a bit of technical improvements to streamline their work! Read it all here at #openacess @ e-life (it was also great to have this under their new #preprint review system).

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/95209

#academia #biorxiv

amchagas, 2 months ago to brazil

If you are on time off, the obvious thing to do is go give a talk! 😅
In all seriousness, happy to be back in #brazil and have the space to talk about #openhardware and our work over the years in that space.

A Liga de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço convida todos para nossa palestra com o Dr. André Maia Chagas!

Tema: O uso de tecnologias abertas para uma ciência melhor.

Em conjunto com as Ligas de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Cirurgia, Cirurgia Cardiotorácica, Radiologia e Diagnóstico por Imagem, Cirurgia Minimamente Invasiva, Anestesiologia e Dor, Educação Médica,Transplante de Ógãos e Tecidos, Intensiva, LOGOS e HUB.

📅 27/03/2024
🕢 19:30
📍Auditório J

Contamos com a sua presença! 💛💙

elduvelle, 8 months ago to Electronics

What’s a good book or online tutorial on the basics of #Electronics?
(Especially the kind that we use as #Electrophysiologists ) 🙏⚡️

amchagas, 8 months ago to uk

Dear Fedi hivemind:

I am trying to organise a group of people working in academia (any career level, academic careers or technical) any that are working on #openhardware and affiliated with #uk institutions. If you are one, or if you know one, could you send me a message (or ask them to send me a message?)

The reason for the group is finding ways to work together and advocate for #openscience #hardware!

Please boost for reach?!

Thanks!

amchagas, 9 months ago to random

Mastodon hive, question about a project we built, thinking everyone would love but is not getting users: https://retina-hub.org (which is built on top of the excellent kerko project) is an attempt to have a system where people on the retina field can add their papers, classify them with predefined tags/keywords. The system is searchable, and can be used to share ones publications with a single link. Another point of the project is that it generates a public @zotero database that everyone can use...
(Again a lot of these features are kerko - I am emphasizing 'cause it has been built by someone else and you should check it out).

Everyone can access the page, but to have your papers listed, you need to fill out a form (maybe 2min per paper entry).

So my question is: does this sounds like a useless waste of time? Or are we just not giving people the right context/incentives to add their papers there? Anyone has suggestions?

amchagas, 9 months ago to random

Hi there!
Here is a short #introduction about me and things I have been doing lately!

Living in the UK, after a decade in Germany, originally being from South America.

for a while I have been an #openscience advocate and practitioner, focusing on #openhardware and tools for research.

I currently work at the University of Sussex in the UK, as a scientific officer and a lecturer in Open Science.

Some places that might be worth a visit (but some might be outdated)

https://open-neuroscience.com (a community led repository for open source tools in Neuroscience - which I started back in 20143

https://openhardware.space - online training resource for best practices on developing open hardware

https://amchagas.github.io (outdated personal page)

https://prometheus-science.com (my side hustle, a company offering services around open source hardware and open science