European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

Catch up on ERC-funded research results. This week's digest includes exciting projects on:

🧠 New clues on brain evolution @Pawel_Burkhardt
🇺🇦 Population displacement tracking @melindacmills
🌊 Meteotsunamis in Europe @FredericDiasUCD

Read more 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1651503964872114177

RT @EUScienceInnov: And... We are LIVE again! 🔴

Today on the 2023 Knowledge Valorisation Week programme:

- 🆕 code of practice on managing intellectual assets
- open innovation & tech scouting
- recipes for sharpening skills
- science for policy in turbulent times

👉https://research-innovation-community.ec.europa.eu/events/rF2UaVBFdp7axYkmpZ0Q4/overview https://t.co/jXZsWzIOnn

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1651211375346163712

ERC-funded teams are hiring! 💼

We've collected a list of tweets about PhD positions and Post-Doc vacancies in ERC funded teams.

Browse to find your future job 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1651141579825090560

On #WorldMalariaDay read about ERC grantee @johnrbpalmer's research on human-mosquito interaction 🦟

By using #citizenscience to track when mosquito bites happen, the research aims to inform disease prevention strategies.

👉 https://bit.ly/3AuNBMh

@HorizonMagEU @UPFBarcelona

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1650828927349460993

⚠️Deadline extended to Tuesday 2 May 2023 by 12:00 CEST.

Don't miss this (extra) opportunity to apply!
RT @ERC_Research: 📢 Job opening at the ERC!

We are looking for a Project Adviser / Scientific Officer in #Ecology and/or #Evolutionary #Biology

Application details: https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-02/ERCEA_CA_222_2023-Job-Opening.pdf

Deadline: 25 April 2023 by 12:00 (midday) Brussels time

#jobfairy #job #career #open #position https://t.co/OB57De8qck

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1650808815737008132

On this #DiplomacyDay 🌍🕊️, we share the inspiring story of @ERC_Research grantee Anastasia Piliavsky @KingsCollegeLon who was born in Odessa. She put her academic career on hold to help Ukrainians in need. Listen to her story 👉 https://youtu.be/Hi62iTY9G_k

#StandWithUkraine

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1650394201790767104

"It took many decades to go from the first evidence of that extraordinary property of the quantum world to the first applications. That lesson should be recalled to our governments and their funding agencies."

Worth recalling Alain Aspect’s powerful #NobelPrize speech. #EUfunded

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1650111955871358977

What’s the benefit of #citizenscience? Sure, it improves research, but it also creates better, more engaged citizens, says Stefania Milan (@annliffey) of @UvA_Amsterdam.

More ERC-funded #CitizenScience projects to share during #CitSciMonth 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1650109765199200256

On #WorldBookDay read about ERC grantee Matthew Collins' research that studies DNA from parchment 📚

The research uncovers medieval stories beyond the text itself by giving a new glimpse into historical production and trade.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/ERC_B2C

@uni_copenhagen

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1650046895920943106

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