Instead of improving inadequate #WorkingConditions , employees are today often told they have to increase their #resilience 💪. We look at how this concept became a desirable quality in today’s society. 👇
Judith Hochstrasser
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Graphic: What pollen tells us about alpine vegetation over 14,000 years of history.☘️🌲🌲🌲🏔️
Universität Bern 👇
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From cats🐱 to US presidents🤵‍♂️: The popular infographics of ‘Wissen in Bildern’ (Knowledge in pictures) at DIE ZEIT are diverse and popular. The designer responsible, #MatthiaSchütte , tells us about the main challenges he faces. 👇
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Should we ban #antibiotics in livestock? Researchers at ETH Zurich have constructed a model to see if taxation could also help to prevent #resistance .
See here for the result 👇👇👇
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Will ☀️ #GlobalWarming kill off the 🌊 #GulfStream ? The answer 👇👇👇 isn’t so simple. And it’s not the Gulf Stream that’s the real problem.
Universität Bern Oeschger Centre TU München Prof Thomas Frölicher Frerk Pöppelmeier
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Thought provoking issue Horizons Magazine, especially this from the editorial: '...if I’d taken the routes that were already geared to the tourist masses instead, I’d actually have given the locals more control over what they really wanted to reveal about themselves.' #travel #writing

The #SocialSciences are not inherently flawed. This is the conclusion of a #reproducibility project in #ExperimentalPsychology in which the same studies were repeated rigorously 4 times.
Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) Malte Elson Judith Hochstrasser
See here for the results
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Researchers at D-CHAB have developed super-strong mini-magnets 🧲🧲🧲.
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Insulting to families?
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In nature, Amanda Sierra Amanda Sierra complains that academic #conferences are often held at weekends with no consideration for the private life of #researchers . Judith Hochstrasser 👇
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Jupiter’s moon #Ganymede might harbour life in its underground ocean. Researchers from Universität Bern have been simulating its atmosphere.
🚀🛰️ ESA's Juice mission will either confirm or disprove their results. 👇
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Fake results, plagiarism and other cases of #ResearchMisconduct : should they be made public? This is the topic of a fierce debate in the USA. 👇
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🏊🌊 How can you survive for as long as possible in water? Tina van Duijn Tina van Duijn, a postdoc at the University of Technology Sydney UTS, has been testing the best methods. #SLRG
See the result here👇
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Who actually decides whether #AnimalTesting can proceed? 🐭❓🔬
Suzann-Viola Renninger, an ethicist at University of Zurich, talks about trusting your gut in moral issues and about discussing dignity on Zurich’s Commission on Animal Experimentation Kanton Zürich. 👇
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🌎☝️🦠 Can #science succeed in mastering the #chaos of a complex world?
Tom Gauld
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Giving motorbike riders 🏍️ a computer in their helmet, letting geomatics technicians see underground cables, and sending patients into a virtual forest 🌳 before an operation: #VR glasses are opening up endless possibilities. We look at a few of them 👇
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🐝🐝🐝 Researchers at Agroscope have been creating a visual record of the ecological achievements of wild bees. 🐝🐝🐝
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Trump’s election victory was not least a vote against Hillary Clinton. Diego Garzia of Université de Lausanne has found that such ‘negative voting’ is widespread, even in Europe. And it’s leading to increasingly spiteful election campaigns. 👇
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We should value teaching 👩‍🏫👩‍🎓 more because it embeds academia in society, says Hannah Schoch of Webredaktion UZH News englisch. She tells the story of a 🇺🇦 Ukrainian experience. 👇
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From literary punk to digital researcher: we present a portrait of Edy Portmann of the University of Fribourg Uni Fribourg by Daniel Saraga. A career from digital humanism to #fuzzyLogic . 👇
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Always in the right spot for the best #holidayphoto ! 🗻 
#Switzerland has built many special platforms for #tourists to admire its spectacular #panoramas . The British photographer Simon Roberts likes to snap tourists in holiday pose. 👇
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