“If we shouldn’t use Impact Factors, what should we use instead?” Today, DORA is releasing new guidance on research indicators, including Journal Impact Factor, citations, h-index, altmetrics, and more. 🧵1/3 bit.ly/DORAindicators

My new article on the establishment of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) is now on Taylor&Francis online. I have 50 free online copies. If you're interested in molecular biology and European science policy, please use this eprint link: tandfonline.com/eprint/VKMYN2E…

#Lifesciences in Norway: join on 13 June at University of Oslo Universitetet i Oslo for the EMBO 60th anniversary. Learn about #funding opportunities, scientific #publishing, #AI , #OpenScience, talks. embo.org/funding Register at eventbrite.de/e/embo-in-norw…

“As public scientists we express shock and sadness at having suffered unjustified violence, the result of obscurantism and anti-scientific impulses.” Activists have destroyed a field of gene-edited rice in Italy. RIS8imo rice has been designed to be environmentally friendly as

The Swiss National Science Foundation and swissuniversities have revised the National Open Access Strategy for a free and immediate access to publicly funded scholarly publications. swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swis…

Keen to hear and discuss the history and future of research funding in Europe and Italy? Register for a special event at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei that I’m organizing with Francesco Cassata 🇺🇦 for the EMBO 60th anniversary. Rome, 17 September lincei.it/it/manifestazi… #sciencefunding

Our EMBO director Fiona Watt giving the ISSCR Achievement Award Lecture at #ISSCR2024 in Hamburg. Congratulations also from @EMBOpress!

From EMBO to ERC: an interview with historian Francesco Cassata Francesco Cassata 🇺🇦 Università di Genova on establishing molecular biology as a field and #science diplomacy in Europe embo.org/people/from-em…

Francesco Cassata 🇺🇦 Università di Genova Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and EMBO host a one-day conference on new strategies for #researchfunding in Europe and Italy Conference in Rome on 17 Sept: lincei.it/en/node/10833 Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Wonderfully honored to receive this award! Just the fact that @embo have this award feels like validation, let alone winning it! A heartfelt thank you, as well to all the colleagues along the path, and so excited for what's to come.

The conference 'From EMBO to ERC: New Strategies for Research Funding in Europe and Italy' is happening next week (September 17)! Join us in Rome or follow the live stream. Program and info: lincei.it/it/manifestazi… EMBO

#EMBOat60 in #Italy - new strategies for research #funding in Europe and Italy. An event hosted by Accademia dei Lincei in Rome Francesco Cassata 🇺🇦 #lifesciences embo.org/features/embo-…

Happy to have organised this great event with Maria Rescigno and Francesco Cassata 🇺🇦! #ResearchFunding

The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding has been endorsed by: FWF NWO Nieuws EMBO EMBL FNP Foundation for Polish Science ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche DFG public | @[email protected] Green Algorithms Initiative Loïc Lannelongue Green Labs - NL IBEC Medical Research Council CNRS 🌍 UK Research and Innovation Wellcome

It was exciting to be part of this EMBO adventure with so many colleagues and see our efforts materialise in the Heidelberg Agreement zenodo.org/records/139388… Thanks to all for being such amazing partners!

We share on the FEBS Network an overview of the recent "Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding": a key multistakeholder agreement led by EMBO and other organisations on how funders can support sustainability in research. network.febs.org/posts/heidelbe…

“By endorsing the Heidelberg agreement, we call on the global research community to work together for #sustainability.” Read the nature correspondence by P. M. Weber, S. Bendiscioli Sandra Bendiscioli, G. Wallon and F. M. Watt Fiona Mary Watt rdcu.be/dYzul

"A creative moment to rethink the past and redefine the organization's identity." Keynote by Francesco Cassata Francesco Cassata 🇺🇦 at the meeting of the EMBO communities. Watch the historian's commentary on the EMBO history in the EMBO movie: embo.org/about-embo/his… #emboat60