European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

Encouraging message from @mhaklay for #CitSciMonth.

On #CitizenScience:

👉It has potential in both applied and frontier science
👉Any community can be involved
👉There will always be place for researchers but let’s be inclusive.

More ERC-funded #CitizenScience projects 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649746370717179904

Together with a group of Finnish amateur stargazers, computational space physicist @MinnaPalmroth and her team @helsinkiuni discovered a new kind of #NorthernLights.

Full story 👉 https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/night-sky-your-window

#CitSciMonth #CitizenScience #InternationalDarkSkyWeek

📷 ©Pirjo Koski

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649692022566178817

Have you ever had a science experiment gone wrong?

It even happens to Nobel laureates! Read about Reinhard Genzel’s anecdotes from his youth and more.

Our former ERC member won a 2020 #NobelPrize for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy. 🏅
RT @NobelPrize: “One day, I was playing with the spectrometer and boy, did I get the full 15 kilovolts!”

Even 2020 physics laureate Reinhard Genzel had some unsuccessful forays in science…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649683010365583360

RT @europainitalia: .@ERC_Research
@MLeptin ha tenuto una lezione a @EUI_EU; incontri a Roma con premio Nobel @GiorgioParisi, Accademia dei Lincei e ministro @BerniniAM

I fondi ERC aiutano 🇮🇹 ad attrarre talenti: il 20% dei borsisti ERC si è trasferito qui con borsa di studio🇪🇺

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649395428754956289

Innovative @ERC_Research funded #technology 💻 developed by Adrien Bousseau @inria_sophiais is set to change the way designers ✍️ create & test their #designs, making it easier than ever to bring their visions to life.

Full story 👉 https://europa.eu/!MCMCgk
#WCID

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649352338807857154

Fruitful visit to Italy: 🇮🇹
@MLeptin gave a lecture at @EUI_EU; then meetings in Rome with #Nobel laureate @GiorgioParisi, Accademia dei Lincei and minister @BerniniAM.

ERC funding helps Italy attract talent: 20% of ERC grantees there moved to Italy with their grant. 🇪🇺
RT @EUI_EU: "...funding cannot be short-sighted. To maintain a healthy research system, it is right to invest in long-term, curiosity-driven research."

🤝 @ERC_Research President @mleptin at the…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649288059840524288

#CitizenScience has the potential to strengthen our sustainable development and make research more democratic.

Director of @EuCitSci & the head of Citizen Science @mfnberlin explain its transformatory power.

👉 https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/transformative-potential-citizen-science

📷 ©Ben Kriemann #CitSciMonth

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1649005058405855234

A new harvest of ERC-funded research results!

This week's highlights include:

🌍 Ecosystemic politics @ElanaWilsonRowe

🪸 Coral reef heat tolerence @jr_guest

🚶‍♂️#Neanderthals and humans in Iberia @AlcarazCastano

More findings 👉

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648966849751814145

RT @sup_recherche: 🇫🇷🇫🇷
"Ce que l'expérience nous montre c'est que ce qui est recherche exploratoire aujourd'hui a toutes les chances de faire les applications de demain."

Le prix #Nobel Alain Aspect était présent lors de la célébration des 1500 boursiers @ERC_Research.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648772849526530055

RT @mleptin: Preceding the great event marking 1500 ERC grantees based in France last week, I met Minister @sRetailleau and found we share a vision for innovative and independent research.
On a side note: all 6 attendees were female; physicists, lawyers, political scientists (#6 taking pic).

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648743138750496796

RT @EUI_EU: "...funding cannot be short-sighted. To maintain a healthy research system, it is right to invest in long-term, curiosity-driven research."

🤝 @ERC_Research President @mleptin at the EUI today - an excellent opportunity to meet with the Institute's many successful ERC grantees.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648645780951932929

Did you know that April is #CitSciMonth?

To enable Indigenous Peoples to record and show how #climatechange affects their #environment, researcher Victoria Reyes-García & her team worked to create a #CitizenScience platform.

Learn more👉http://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/bringing-indigenous-and-local-knowledge-climate-change-research

📷 ©Joel Redmano

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648628145661018113

💼 Are you looking for a PhD position or a Post-Doc job?

📚 Browse through vacancies in ERC-funded research teams 👉
https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/timelines/1399385761724649480

#careers #jobsearch #research #EUfunded #PhDposition #postdocjobs

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648597360153620480

"The experience show us that what's exploratory science today has every chance to become the innovations of tomorrow."

We had an on the fly conversation with #Nobel laureate Alain Aspect at the celebration of 1500 ERC grantees in France - he's one of them! 🇪🇺
RT @UEfrance: 👩‍🔬 Avec @sup_recherche, nous célébrons aujourd'hui 𝟏 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞́𝐚𝐭𝐬 du Conseil européen de la recherche en France 🇫🇷

Créé en 2007, l'@ERC_Research soutient l'excellence scientifique à travers…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648564345989677059

Breakthroughs in archaeology are inspiring a re-appraisal of the relationship between humans & tropical forests.

Damian Evans uses a new generation of #lidar tech to detect traces of human activity in SE Asia. 👉🏼 http://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/866454

#WorldHeritageDay @EFEO_Paris @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648219865654910976

Whilst in Paris to celebrate 1500 researchers awarded ERC grants in France, we also had an engaging discussion with many grantees at a workshop organised by @PCN_ERC_France.
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/celebration-1500-erc-grantees-france

The next such gathering for grantees is taking place in Copenhagen on 8 June.
🇪🇺

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1648043945325219864

RT @sretailleau: En célébrant son 1 500e lauréat du conseil européen de la recherche (ERC), la recherche française confirme son excellence et l'importance de ses coopérations européennes.

Vive la recherche, vive l’Europe ! 🔬🇪🇺🇫🇷

👉 https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/la-france-au-coeur-de-la-recherche-d-excellence-1500-laureats-du-conseil-europeen-de-la-recherche-90470

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1647999277891723277

Have you been experimenting with #AI image generation tools like @midjourney_ai or DALL-E?

According to ERC grant holder @jilltxt at @UiB visual technologies are fundamentally changing the way we see our world. 👇

Full story in 🎧 #podcast 👉 http://on.soundcloud.com/m3RL2

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1647938524002545667

Why do some countries face problems obtaining ERC grants? Why is there such a disparity in performance? What is the ERC doing to help now? What is it considering for the future?

Read our Q&A session with Alice Valkárová, ERC Scientific Council Member. 👉 http://bit.ly/ScCviewWidening

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1647857494293884930

“Solutions to these problems are complex and may be difficult to implement.”

Jacek Kuźnicki, former President of the 🇵🇱Polish @NarodoweCentrumNauki, gives his views on how to improve EU research grant competition success rates in some countries.

Read 👉 http://bit.ly/ERCWExtOpEd

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1647517698170159105