An important read for #researchers and anyone looking to #DefendResearch! More and better public communication is essential! Read David Shiffman's piece and then use the #DefendResearch toolkits to write a letter to the editor! https://www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%80%9Cwhy-are-we-funding-this%E2%80%9D https://www.defendresearch.org/take-action

Researchers are now vacuuming DNA from the air

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250603114822.htm

#HackerNews #DNA #Vacuuming #Air #Researchers #ScienceInnovation #EnvironmentalScience

Watch: Finnish president hosts Kultaranta Talks as "old meets new" in a changing world

The annual foreign and security policy event will be attended by political leaders, policymakers and researchers from around the world.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20167966

#foreignpolicy #securitypolicy #politicalleaders #policymakers #researchers

My + colleagues #prelights #article about the acceptance of #LGBTQ+ biologists in #biologicalsciences based on a #preprint. #Researchers from Arizona (USA) conducted this first specific #survey, coming to the conclusion that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals now feel largely accepted in the biological sciences, unlike about ten years ago. #Gendernonconfirming people are still #lessaccepted.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

R. Prosee, R. Harrison, S. F. Wirth (2025)
https://biologists.social/@preLights/114670174770964423

#Nature-Magazine

Some #US #researchers want to leave the country. Can #Europe take them?

In early May, European politicians and university leaders gathered in Paris at #Sorbonne #University to deliver a message to US researchers affected by cuts made by the administration of US President Donald Trump: move here instead.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01629-4

🚨 Not based at #UCPH? No problem!

Health Data Science Day 2025 is open to #students, #researchers, and #professionals across Denmark and beyond🌐

Happening on 6 November in #Copenhagen, it’s a #FREE, #interdisciplinary event celebrating where #health meets #data💸

🧬 #Posters. #LightningTalks. Great coffee. New #connections.

🔗 Join the fun: https://heads.ku.dk/calendar/2025/events/hdsd2025/
❗ Deadline is 1st of October

#HDSD2025 #HealthDataScience #Bioinformatics #MedicalResearch #OpenEvent #Networking

1/2 For #Students and #Researchers: As a musician I find myself griping about #AI flooding streaming platforms with garbage. As a #Researcher who’s used #MachineLearning for decades now I’ve recognized not the grave danger but *certainty* that resistance will leave you in the dust -you simply can no longer expect projects to scale when coding by hand for hard problems in #Science so just in time here’s a project that intermediates can use to get up and running in a basic #DeepLearning framework-

The members are concerned that political appointees at the #State Dept, which manages the program, are acting illegally by canceling the awarding of #Fulbright #scholarships to almost 200 American #professors & #researchers who are prepared to go to #universities & other #research institutions overseas starting this summer, …including Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #tyranny #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy

Well done.

#Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing #Trump Aides of #PoliticalInterference

The board of the prestigious program told the #State Department it had no right to cancel #scholarships for nearly 200 American #professors & #researchers.

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-board-resign-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why are there #runes on the badges of these pigs 🐷 and a sjull or whatever.

hmmmmm. Doesn't sound good to me. #Researchers , experts on #farright groups, want to comment?

#BorderEnforcementSecurityTasfForces #HSI #HomelandSecurityTaskForce

#FascistUSA #StopAbductionsAndRemovals

One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in #Astronomy was a junior professor giving a talk and 1/3rd in, hesitates, bows her head, obviously feeling a bit faint and blanking. She steps down and asks her collaborator who - unprepared - continues the talk. Very impressive, and I want to be that level of collaborator. #astrodon #storytime #researchers #kindness

What happens 2,700 km beneath our feet? ETH Zurich #Researchers have solved a decades-old #Mystery, revealing how flowing solid rock accelerates seismic waves deep inside Earth. Read more:

Why seismic waves spontaneousl...

U.S. #Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a #BrainDrain. As the United States cuts #budgets and restricts #immigration, #China and #Europe are offering #researchers #money and #stability. #cuts #damage #biomedical #research #science #scientists #research #medicine #maga #trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.3jjH.HvyxcdgtxpRw #scholarship #education #postdoc

@denbi.bsky.social will also support the de.KCD #SummerSchool 2025 - #Cloud Essentials for #MedicalData (Heidelberg, 2-3 July). This hands-on summer school introduces doctors, clinical staff, and medical #researchers to the fundamentals of cloud technology and digital #tools for handling sensitive data, using the de.NBI cloud. Read more https://www.denbi.de/training-courses-2025/1895-de-kcd-summer-school-cloud-essentials-for-medical-data

#Researchers have identified a species of #frog Limnonectes phyllofolia completely new to #science. The tiny #Indonesian #amphibians have unusual fangs in their jaws thought to be used to defend territory #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/07/28/the-worlds-smallest-fanged-frog-found-in-indonesia/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

In a riveting saga of academia's elite 🤓, a consortium of scholars has pooled their intellectual prowess to reinvent the wheel – this time with triangles! 🔺 #Arxiv promises code "soon," but we all know that means as soon as the #researchers can remember their #GitHub passwords. 🤔
https://trianglesplatting.github.io/ #academia #innovation #triangles #HackerNews #ngated

#Researchers have identified a species of #frog Limnonectes phyllofolia completely new to #science. The tiny #Indonesian #amphibians have unusual fangs in their jaws thought to be used to defend territory #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/07/28/the-worlds-smallest-fanged-frog-found-in-indonesia/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Last few days to submit your Workshop idea for our 2027 programme.

Send us your proposal by 30 May.

https://www.biologists.com/workshops/propose-new-workshop/

#BiologistsWorkshops #Workshop #Researchers #GlobalSouth #Biology #Science #Research

APnews: Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them — https://apnews.com/article/trump-research-funding-cuts-brain-drain-f1ac9fe5c8a90f5d5ec9b2726475e10e

"What’s unusual about the current moment is that many global recruiters are targeting researchers by promising something that seems newly threatened: #AcademicFreedom."

Nations and blocs reported to be recruiting #US #researchers: #Australia, #Canada, #EuropeanUnion, #France, #Germany, #UK

#science #news

[EN] #Researchers all over #Greece have called for a #Strike on Thursday 29 May 2025

Demonstrations and discussions will take place on many cities across the country #Athens #Iraklion #Thessaloniki #Patras #Mitilini

Researchers demand:

• Collective labour contracts
• Fair payment and social security for all
• New permanent positions
• Recognition of previous working experience for all
• No research for wars. Science to benefit communities
• Safe and hygienic workspaces
• No discrimination