European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

🔬When you think of silk, you think of delicate & soft materials, but #DYK it is actually a #superfibre? ERC-funded researchers @CSIC are testing it in implants materials for human eyes & knees.
👉 https://bit.ly/38oPIqr
#biomaterials #ophthalmology
@IO_CSIC @VioBio_Lab

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525787124481396737

🎥 Replay: #STOA
@STSforum debate at the European Parliament on a #GlobalGreenDeal.

ERC President Leptin stressed the role of purely curiosity-driven research without policy priorities.
“953 ERC projects contributes to addressing the #GreenDeal”

Watch here (@MLeptin at 33’35)👇
RT @EP_ScienceTech: Did you miss the high-level #GlobalGreenDeal conference?

🔴Recording: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/panel-for…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525780094693801986

"I remain as addicted as ever to the discovery process."

That’s the (healthy) addiction of Sir Peter Ratcliffe, 2019 #NobelPrize winner, ERC grantee.
Revisit our interview on #COVID, bottom-up science, preparedness for other infectious threats etc (2020):
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine/nobel-prize-winner-epidemic-has-so-far-been-close-shave-humanity
RT @NobelPrize: "I remain as addicted as ever to the discovery proces…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525750088802394112

Today is World Migratory Bird Day 🐦
But how do these birds find their way?
Two scientists with #ERCSyG are studying how #birds sense geomagnetic field to navigate. Their unique collaboration is paving creating new science field: quantum biology. 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTQAFdFF1c

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525534747824472064

Reflections on the meaning of life - listen to 2021 Nobel laureate and ERC grantee @Ben_List👇
RT @NobelPrize: What is the meaning of life?

Hear 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List answer the question we all are trying to find an answer to.

#NobelPrize

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525363989370355712

RT @GabrielMariya: Scientists pushed back another frontier of human knowledge!

🔭Now we know what lurks at the centre of our galaxy & understand better how black holes work.

👏Congratulations to all researchers who made it happen, including @ERC_Research grantees!

Read👉https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/black-hole-at-the-centre-of-our-galaxy

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525124861554790402

RT @royalsociety: Professor Maria Leptin ForMemRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her leadership in European science – currently as President of @ERC_Research – builds on her research contributions across fields from immunity to genetics. @mleptin #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/maria-leptin-35820/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525089431941677059

How to find more accurate ways for drug discovery?

Animal models don’t accurately predict human responses. ERC grantee Yaakov Nahmias @HebrewU combines human microtissues with electronic sensors to create a new paradigm for drug discovery.

👉 https://bit.ly/3vYGUk1 @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1525023059475767296

RT @EP_ScienceTech: Deputy Dir @AbreuMPa @Energy4Europe, Prof Kleiner @LeibnizWGL & President @mleptin @ERC_Research emphasise the need for more renewable energy, transnational collaboration & fundamental #research at today's #GlobalGreenDeal event

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/events/details/from-a-european-to-a-global-green-deal/20220427WKS04141
📺https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/panel-for-future-of…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524864337978048528

New week, new opportunities 🔎✨

Join ERC-funded researchers on their exciting cutting-edge projects - check the new job openings on our Twitter Moment!

👉 http://bit.ly/3vET7Zz

#jobsearch #innovation #research #EUfunded #careers

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524804111987707907

RT @BlackHoleCam: This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way. A new era of black hole physics begins.
https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/black-hole-at-the-centre-of-our-galaxy

Credit: @ehtelescope #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole @ERC_Research

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524742310361059328

How the black hole image was taken? Here is a quick explainer on the Earth-sized telescope👇 ?s=20&t=c2yWTi0csF1ipm5j-5R7KQ
RT @ESO: 🔵 To image it, the team created the powerful @ehtelescope which linked together 8 existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope 📷 ESO/L. Calçada

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524741233763295232

The ERC funded the research @BlackHoleCam led by Heino Falcke (@hfalcke), Michael Kramer and Luciano Rezzolla, key researchers behind this new discovery. 📡
To get a better understanding of the research 👉 https://bit.ly/BLACKHOLE_

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524738897988788225

⚡Have a look at the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy🌌captured by @ehtelescope 📡
It is the first direct visual evidence of this dark giant, and another #EUfunded science breakthrough.

Find out more 👉https://bit.ly/BLACKHOLE_

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524738318495272962

RT @ESO: 🔴🎥 We're live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQLA6lo6R0 Got questions? Use #askEHTeu

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524736987944660995

Maria Leptin stressed the need to explain the scientific method to people, adding that “overpromising on what science can do and underdelivering are sure ways to undermine public trust in science” - in her keynote speech at the @ALLEA_academies #TransformingScience event.
RT @ALLEA_academies: Our session 2 is about to start!

@mleptin will deliver the keynote "Science communication for an age without gatekeepers"

@marcschiltz1, …

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524725516468727808

Last day to register!

Tune into the European Parliament #STOA & Japanese @stsforum event 'From a European to a global Green Deal'.

Tomorrow 12 May from 14.00.

ERC President Maria Leptin takes part in a debate at 14.30.

👉 http://europa.eu/!MnkJKG
#EUGreenDeal
RT @EP_ScienceTech: 🔔Last day to register!

Tomorrow 12/5 14h EU Parliament #STOA & Japanese @stsforum present:

'From a European to a #GlobalGreenDeal'🌍

👉https://…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524411022492241921

Congratulations to our President
Maria Leptin on being elected as a Foreign Member of the @RoyalSociety!

"@MLeptin whose leadership in European science - currently as President of the @ERC_Research - builds on her research contributions across fields from immunity to genetics."
RT @royalsociety: We are very happy to announce the over 60 exceptional scientists from around the world who have been elected as Fellows and Foreign Mem…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524391645998989312

ERC grantee Sue Black's @HUniqueProject research @LancasterUni aims to find ways to identify child sex abusers just from images of their hands.

#EUvsChildSexualAbuse

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51647973

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524369051564355586

Today, the European Commission proposed new rules to help stop the sexual abuse of children. 👇
RT @EU_Commission: Child sexual abuse is a real and growing danger.
📈 More than 2 million children are being affected every year.

We are proposing new rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online. ⬇️

#EUvsChildSexualAbuse

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1524367677598609408