As you settle back into your routines after the Easter break there is no better feeling than being excited to go back to work!

If you’re already there, kudos to you - you’re one of the lucky ones. If not, the following articles will help you find the right direction.

25% of 2024 is over (ouch!) and we’ve published a lot during these months so if you missed some articles, here is a selection of our reader’s favourites plus a few inspiring recommendations that we hope you’ll enjoy.

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Some inspiring reads from all over the internet!

Escape Shouldlandia - Paul Millerd

We all have plenty of things we want to do, projects we want to start and dreams we wish to accomplish. “I should learn to code” - “I want to become a better writer”. But we end up postponing them forever or worse, we never do them. If you’re anything like me, you’re living in Shouldlandia and here is what you can do about it.

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Hedonic Escalators - George Mack

Hedonic adaptation is something we all have to deal with. After a certain amount of wealth, more money only marginally improves your life. If you do something every day, the 100th time does not give you the same pleasure as the 1st one. The opposite is hedonic escalators: life events or activities that don’t adapt to a stable baseline. Knowing what they are is a life hack

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What you can't say - Paul Graham

Are you open-minded? Everybody answers yes to this simple question, which means the truth is much more subtle. If you don’t have opinions that you are afraid of sharing with your peers, it might be that you’re a conformist without even realizing it. The secret to independent thinking is being able to think what you want, not say what you want

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This week's top scientific reads

1. NVIDIA announces Polaris from Hippocratic AI (ArXiv)

2. AI won’t replace radiologists (Nature Medicine)

3. Precision Psychiatry is here (Nature Neuroscience)

4. BioMistral: open source Bio-LLM (ArXiv)

5. CAR-T Therapy for Glioblastoma (Nature Medicine)

Read the highlights of these articles here.

Latest European funding rounds in health & bio

• Protembis raised €30M to develop its medical device that protects patients from brain injury during left-sided heart surgery 🇩🇪

• WASE raised €10M to convert waste into biofuel 🇬🇧

• Wellola raised €2.2M for its patient communication management system 🇮🇪

• Clean Food Group raised €3M to develop sustainable oil and fat alternatives 🇬🇧

• Nouscom raised an additional €7M in their Series C round to further advance the development of viral vector vaccines against cancer 🇨🇭

• Metyos raised €2.3M to develop biosensors for chronic kidney disease 🇫🇷

• Surge raised €7.5M to discover biomarkers for precision drug development 🇫🇷

• Tonic App raised €10.85M for its healthtech platform that aggregates different medical resources for doctors 🇵🇹

• Agteria Biotech raised €1.4M to develop an enzyme-based feed additive that reduces livestock methane emissions 🇸🇪

• UpHill raised €6.5M for its care orchestration platform that leverages automation to increase hospital capacity and face higher demand 🇵🇹

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