🙌🏾Kick-off Meeting of MarieSkłodowskaCurie-Doctoral Network: Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century (LAC-EU).

Establishing a framework to understand #LAC & its relationship with #EU , fostering respectful, non-Eurocentric research & engagement: t.ly/D_rie

HPAI is truly affecting animals everywhere. Surveillance in the urban environs of NY city, over 1700 samples collected and virus detected in 4 different bird species. Viruses w different genotypes. Important for risk, response, biosecurity
👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New from EFSA: guidance for public health authorities in EU/EEA countries on how to interpret the current situation of HPAI outbreaks in animals, includes mitigation measures. Useful guidance document.
👉efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.29…

¿Te interesa aplicar a #MSCA #DoctoralNetworks 'Understanding #LatinAmerican Challenges in the 21st Century' (LAC-EU), financiada por #HorizonEurope ? Te invitamos a la sesión informativa del próximo 17 de abril!
Más detalles👇lac-eu.network/news

Just completed a survey on the cOAlition S' 'Towards Responsible Publishing' proposal. Feel free to participate and share your thoughts to help shape the future of scholarly communication. Let's advance innovative publishing practices! bit.ly/43ezEzK

Interested in applying for a PhD position within the #MSCA #DoctoralNetworks 'Understanding #LatinAmerican Challenges in the 21st Century' (LAC-EU), funded by #HorizonEurope ? Join us for an online informative session!
More details 👇 lac-eu.network/news/onlineinf…

Lack of immunity raises risk of bird flu pandemic, EFSA says reuters.com/world/lack-imm…

Call for 2 PhD Fellowships under the Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – at the Universitat de Barcelona.
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Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century (LAC-EU)’ invites applications for 12 PhD Fellowships under the Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - work with us im Oslo, Barcelona, Paris, Buenos Aires, Luvien and York! lac-eu.network/callforphdrese…

Do you want to be our new PhD researcher in the Marie Curie Network 'Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century (LAC-EU)'? You can apply for a PhD SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment in Oslo or partner-institutions in Barcelona, Paris, Buenos Aires, Leuven or York. lac-eu.network/callforphdrese…

Does tweeting increase citations? We conducted an experiment with 110 tweeted papers and 440 controls, waited 3 years for citations to accumulate... and found no significant increase in citations
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

'Think of science as a marathon and not as a sprint.'

How do you keep a healthy work-life balance as a scientist? Listen to 2009 chemistry laureate Venki Ramakrishnan's advice on how to achieve a good work-life balance.

#NobelPrize

Call for participation: PhD candidates in Nordic countries may now apply for a 5 June Masterclass, 'Thoughts on the Planetary', with 2024 Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe. The Masterclass will take place in Bergen, Norway. All expenses covered. Deadline: 25 April. Details below:

It's confirmed. #AvianInfluenza has now reached Antarctica’s mainland. It surfaced in Europe in 2021, reached North America the same year, South America by 2022, and the Antarctic islands in 2023, & only recently hitting the northern tip of Antarctica’s mainland. #WAHIS

The ongoing spread of avian influenza has now reached an unprecedented milestone as it infiltrates the northern tip of Antarctica's mainland. What does it mean for #wildlife ?

jeuneafrique.com/1547167/cultur…

The 2024 Nils Klim Prize is awarded to environmental social scientist Siddharth Sareen, University of Stavanger, for his research at the intersection between social sciences, the humanities, and technological and environmental sciences.

holbergprize.org/en/nils-klim-p…

Kunnskapsdepartement…

We congratulate the 2024 Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe and the 2024 Nils Klim Prize Laureate Siddharth Sareen!

holbergprize.org/en/news/holber…

Kunnskapsdepartement
Wits University
WiSER
Universitetet i Bergen
Universitetet i Stavanger
Fridtjof Nansen Institute

– Jeg ser Afrika som både verdens «reservekraft» og verdens «kraftreservoar» – et kraftlager for fremtiden, sier mottager av Holbergprisen 2024, Achille Mbembe. Morgenbladet har intervjuet prisvinneren. (Betalingsmur).

morgenbladet.no/ideer/2024/03/…