How come only 20% (3 out of 15) of the speakers are female? Is this science-driven or the usual male-bias? To make our food systems sustainable we need gender balance in conferences on that topic! erc.europa.eu/news-events/ev… @EUPanelWatch Deputy Managing Director Global Affairs @eu_eeas @GENDERACTION_EU Gender & Precarity in Academia - EU Research Group

ChatGPT for grants nature.com/articles/d4158…

But the scholarly work, which takes time, deep thought and ingenuity, chatbots can’t do. That, she says, is “the actual core of what we are supposed to be doing”. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Very sad to hear of the death of Prof. Teresa Rees. Her meticulous and ground-breaking scholarship on gender equality inspired me as a student and an academic. cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2766…

Journal after journal publishes pieces like these but nothing really changes. Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold nature.com/articles/d4158…

"much more needs to be done to understand and meet postdocs’ needs" nature.com/articles/d4158… nationalpostdoc The Postdoctoral @Postdoc_Academy

📢 Results from the #FlyingLess project in the Nature portfolio journal "Climate Action" ⭐️An evidence-based approach to accelerate flight reduction in academia⭐️ Now online and open access 🔓 nature.com/articles/s4416… Nationale Klimaschutzinitiative (NKI) Nicole Aeschbach | find me on b…s…k…y Susann Görlinger

"Air travel overwhelmingly outweighs the carbon footprint of research travel, representing more than 96% of greenhouse gas emissions in a database of about 130K travel segments by car/train/plane in 159 research units across France" hal.science/hal-04264960/ flyingless CNRS 🌍

Hier près de 2,9 millions de passagers de vols commerciaux ont été enregistrés aux USA, un record. Mais vous n'oublierez pas d'éteindre le WiFi et baisser le chauffage. Carte Flightradar24

Two years ago we at Wild Card started a sort of 21-century peasant’s revolt to challenge the Royals to rewild. Today I’m thrilled to say that it seems to be working! Historic shifts are taking place. Read my piece in the Guardian out today 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#Italy lags behind for #women in science and technology #womeninSTEM ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/we…

The EuroScience Open Forum (#ESOF), a major European science event for early-career researchers, faces uncertainty as its organizer, EuroScience, has filed for bankruptcy. Science Careers scim.ag/6rp

Peer reviewers are turning to ChatGPT when writing referee reports, suggests a new study by Weixin Liang & colleagues. My latest for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158… Andrew | @[email protected] Voice of Researchers

"Comparing > 146K peer reviews submitted to the same conferences before & after ChatGPT, the analysis found that the frequency of adjectives such as commendable, innovative, meticulous, notable ... increased significantly since the chatbot became mainstream"

Where I Work is an award-winning photography feature from the journal Nature. Proud to be among the science workers in the exhibition of portraiture from Nature’s Where I work section. The exhibition is now installed in the Kings Cross area, London StacksAMilli nature.com/immersive/wher…

🌳 Ecosia the eco-friendly search engine, now offers its own browser as an alternative to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. It includes an ad-blocker, supports tree-plantation projects through ad revenue, and runs on solar power alternativeto.net/news/2024/4/ec…

Are you a scientist who wants to support this letter? You can do so here BES careers docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

"She is, of course, aware that there’s a nonsensical aspect to this, too – flying around the world to perform a programme warning of climate catastrophe."

"“Are we going to have a machine that is 100% accurate [at spotting sarcasm]? ... that’s not something even humans can achieve.”" theguardian.com/technology/art…