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Yet another kumbaya exercise?️ 🫶🔥 The microbiologist Henry Miller is angry at the broad definition of a #scientist being advocated by Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of Science. Judith Hochstrasser Henry Miller, MS, MD Science Magazine 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/is-…
Have you ever lost your way in a high-rise building 🏢? Researchers have been conducting an experiment to find out how best to help people find their way about. Dr. Michal Gath-Morad 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/way…
It’s no easy task to find the right #professor. Three experts from University of Basel and EPFL lift the lid on academic appointments. Edwin Cartlidge 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/how…
“I saw #companies as profit-obsessed bureaucracies that stifled curiosity. How wrong I was.🫣” Former #postdoc Anthony Guihur - also on 🟦 shares his insights into why he changed from the #academic to the private sector. 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/sel…
What happens if someone writes an #abstract using AI🖊️? The authors still have to assume full responsibility. We look at how science is trying to cope with #AI. Judith Hochstrasser 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/sme…
#Deepfakes can sometimes be useful – at least in psychological research. Université de Lausanne 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/dee…
Is there a link between #embryos and some forms of cancer? Multiplying cells during development are orchestrated by the influence of morphogens. To understand this process, researchers use nanoparticles to inhibit them in flies 🪰 . Biozentrum, University of Basel. 👉 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/a-m…
There’s a heated debate about #PostcolonialTheory. The historian Kijan Espahangizi Kijan Espahangizi University of Zurich would like a more differentiated discussion about it. Florian Fisch 👉 horizons-mag.ch/2024/08/27/wer…
Are you without a job, despite having a university degree? Or are you at a dead end in your academic career? Muriel Riesen of the National Qualification Programme (BNF) at Universität Bern knows how to help you. Florian Fisch 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/man…
Why 🦠 #Salmonella is less dangerous in 🍜 hot food. Biozentrum, University of Basel Universität Basel 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/hea…
"Funding restrictions, political pressures, and misleading information. They all may threaten #AcademicFreedom freedom," says Laura Bernardi, Vice-President of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. 👇 horizons-mag.ch/2024/06/06/res…
"Blogs are trampolines for communicating research." Our member Marco Cavallaro shares his #experiences of #communicating 🎙️📞 his #research 🔬🔭💻 in the latest issue of Horizons Magazine. ▶️Read the article here: go.swissyoungacademy.ch/marco-cavallar…
🌍 📜 💦All over the world, the fight for drinking water is often down to the last drop. This issue of Horizons Magazine explores conflicts over blue gold and the solutions that emerge from research. ➡️horizons-mag.ch ➡️snf.ch/en/QzZKwD3xk6K…
Countries often argue over water resources – but they rarely resort to armed conflict because of it, says political scientist Thomas Bernauer Thomas Bernauer in this interview with Schreiberin. Here he dismantles the myth of #waterwars 👉 horizons-mag.ch/2024/09/05/dis…