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Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday! #OTD #WomenInStem #WomeninScience
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Happy #AdaLovelaceDay! 🤗A day to celebrate #WomenInSTEM 🎉, named after ‘poetical scientist’ #AdaLovelace, who in the 1840s (!) envisioned machines that could compose music, draw & calculate, & who wrote what’s considered the first algorithm for a computing machine - 100 years before computers existed!💻 image
Huge congratulations to Dirk Görlich, our director @ Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences & Steven McKnight @ UT Southwestern Medical Center – winners of the 2025 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research for deciphering the functional principles of cellular logistics and organisation🎉🫠 Such a fantastic achievement! 😊
Order through disorder
Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in proteins.
The Max Planck Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies.
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The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.
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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounti...
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Niederlage & Sieg zugleich: Das OLG Hamm wies die Klimaklage eines peruanischen Bauern gegen RWE ab, erkannte aber erstmals an, dass Großemittenten grundsätzlich für Klimaschäden haftbar sein können - ein juristischer Meilenstein mit globaler Relevanz. Rechtsexpertin Jannika Jahn erklärt die Hintergründe.
In der Klimakrise sind alle Nachbarn
Welche Bedeutung hat das Urteil des OLG Hamm gegen den peruanischen Bauern Saul Lliuya? Klimajuristin Jannika Jahn vom MPIL schätzt das Urteil fü...
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