This new children’s book (in 🇩🇪) features 48 beautiful pages filled with cool facts about the Sun! On 2 of them, MPS-scientist Achim Gandorfer and MPS-engineer Bianca Grauf speak about our balloon mission #SunriseIII and tell what they love about our star. Enjoy! #WASISTWAS #TesloffVerlag #Sunrise3

We celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany! Let's recognise the fantastic contributions postdocs have made to research, teaching, innovation, administration and much more! Join us on Wed 17 Sept for #GCPostdocNetwork #PAWde Postdocs and Friends Social: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event

25 years: international Molecular Biology & Neurosciences research & teaching programmes in Göttingen! #IMPRS: unique collaborations across our Campus: Uni, UMG, MPIs, DPZ and more. Congratulations to those celebrating in Göttingen and alumni worldwide: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Calling all #GCPostdocs! Check the programme for next week's Postdoc Appreciation Week: paw-germany-2025.sessionize.com/schedule. Book sessions about postdoc careers, grant-writing, well-being, parenting and more. Göttingen Postdoc Network celebrates & supports #PAWde: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

Congratulations Dr Anggi Hapsari and Dr Oliver Barnstedt at our Campus on their new ERC Starting Grants! Good luck with #ERCStG research #SaLtedPeat and #LearnMamBo! Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Ecology #UniGoettingen & #Neuroscience #MBExC #UMG Thanks to @erc.europa.eu

Congratulations to Sait Şeyhanlı @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social on securing a coveted Boehringer Ingelheim PhD Fellowship 🎉! The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds supports exceptional young scientists worldwide in their PhD projects in basic biomedical science. ‬‬‬‬

What secrets about the early Earth are buried in the jaws of a dinosaur? A research team analysed isotopes in the enamel of their fossilized teeth to investigate the climate and photosynthesis during the age of the dinosaurs: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Four outstanding trainees at our institute🥳 – Congrats to Jannick Flottmann, Frederike Thiele, Yannick Trolldenier, & Sarah Zamzow on being awarded the Trainee Award of @maxplanck.de for their outstanding achievements, personal development, & commitment. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5078643/pr_2...

Cosmic dust holds clues to Earth’s ancient atmosphere Tiny particles of rock have been raining down on our planet since time immemorial. Researchers find fossilized micrometeorites can reconstruct the atmosphere of the past: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Apprenticeship at the MPI-NAT: In this INSIDE NAT issue we present the training as animal technician with the subject research and clinic. What makes training with us special? What are the advantages of training in Göttingen? 👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...

Guinea-Paviane im Senegal treffen ihre nächtlichen Entscheidungen offenbar unabhängig von potenziellen Risiken durch Fressfeinde oder Parasiten und bevorzugen es, in guter Nachbarschaft zu schlafen. Dabei nutzen sie überwiegend hohe Bäume in den Galeriewäldern entlang des Gambia-Flusses. 🌴👉 (1/2)

A “molecular lever” behind allostery: Maximilian Vossel, Bert de Groot, & Aljaz Godec @compbiophys.bsky.social ‬have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that allows mechanical signals to travel across proteins. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5065934/rn_2...

What inspires scientists about their research, and what keeps them motivated every day? In the “My Science and Me” gallery of @maxplanck.de, employees from the 84 Max Planck institutes share their research through stunning images. Our MPI-NAT researchers are among them. 👇

What happens when a theologian, a physicist and a biologist walk into a bar? You’d have to come to a postdoc social to find out! Postdoc Walk&Talk social tomor (Fri 25 July) & #SciComm Club next Wed (30 July). Postdoc events: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event #Interdisciplinary #StrongerTogether

We know when the wild birds sing Researchers used automatic audio recorders and AI to collect and identify detailed data about birdsong in European Forests. It turned out it was more than just larks and owls: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #JournalOfOrnithology: doi.org/10.1007/s103...

Machtverhältnisse bei Primaten: Klar dominante Geschlechter sind die Ausnahme! Neulich war der NDR bei uns zu Gast und hat unsere Forschenden Claudia Fichtel & Peter Kappeler zu ihrer neuen Studie interviewt. 👉 Hier geht’s zum Beitrag: www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se... #DPZ #patriarchat

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an unsere Professoren Lutz Ackermann, Timo Betz & Jörg Enderlein! 👏 Sie erhalten ERC Proof of Concept Grants, um ihre Forschung zu nachhaltiger Chemie, biomedizinischer Bildanalyse und Lumineszenz-Quantenausbeute weiterzuentwickeln. Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Is it better for #Wellbeing if your village is near a city or a farm or a forest? And which is better for #Biodiversity? Researchers studied how surrounding landscapes affect people & nature in villages: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #NatureSustainability research: doi.org/10.1038/s418...

Das Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation in Göttingen feiert am 16. Juli seinen 100. Geburtstag. Ein Blick auf die Geschichte des Instituts und die Verantwortung, die daraus erwächst. www.mpg.de/25050354/100... #Wissenschaftsgeschiche #Physik

🎉 Heute feiern wir ein Jubiläum: Die Abteilung Funktionelle Bildgebung am DPZ wird 10 Jahre alt! 🧠✨ Aus diesem Anlass führte das Team Kolleg*innen aus anderen Abteilungen durch das MRT-Gebäude und gab spannende Einblicke in ihre Forschung – zum Beispiel auch, wie die MRT-Scanner funktionieren.

Congratulations to Professors Ackermann, Betz & Enderlein and teams for new ERC Proof of Concept grants: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Funding to build on the innovation potential of their research findings #GreenTechnology #DrugDevelopment #BiomedicalImaging #MaterialsScience #Agriculture

Exploring the dynamics of change in urban and rural spaces: “Sustainable Rurbanity” Congratulations to researchers here and at Uni Kassel on their new DFG interdisciplinary Research Unit: “Sustainable Rurbanity – Resources, Society, and Regulatory Systems”: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

The German radio station "Bayern 2" has devoted the latest episode of its show “IQ” to the #Sun - and to Solar Orbiter’s first views of the solar poles. Interview partner is Sami Solanki of #mpsgoettingen : www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:... In German. Enjoy! #SolarOrbiter @science.esa.int

New events: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event for researchers across Göttingen & all welcome. PostdocSocial on Thu 10 July, Walk&Talk 25 July & #ScienceCommunication club. #GetOutOfTheLab Sign up: #GCPostdocNetwork: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc & get involved with Göttingen’s #PostdocFair2026

The startup Ovo Labs aims to make fertility treatments more effective by improving the quality of human egg cells. More about the MPI-NAT spin-off by our Director Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social, Agatha Zielinska, & Oleksandr Yagensky, in our INSIDE NAT article:👇 www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029307/INSI...

Wir gratulieren der neuen #Forschungsgruppe „Sustainable Rurbanity“! 👏 Gefördert von der #DFG erforscht das Team, wie Stadt und Land zusammenwirken und Wandel prägen. Mit dabei: @unikassel.bsky.social & Forschende aus Indien, Ghana & Marokko. Viel Erfolg! Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Do red squirrels and dormice get along? Researchers discovered that they can: forests combining both deciduous and conifer trees make it easier for them to coexist: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Biodiversity #Ecology #EuropeanJournalofWildlifeResearch: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There are also research opportunities across the Göttingen Campus for #MSCA postdoctoral fellowships. Funding experts can help you with your application: goettingen-campus.de/funding. Check out this page to see all the contacts and research centres across the Campus (scroll down):

Congratulations to everyone involved here & at Osnabrück Uni for the new DFG Scientific Network “New Realities of Global Work: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Integrative Approaches”, to research the changing dynamics of global collaboration in a digital age: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Congrats to Nobel Prize laureate Rodrick MacKinnon who presented today’s Manfred Eigen Award Lecture, titled “Higher-order transient structures (HOTS) and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling”, at our institute. The award includes a medal and prize money of 10,000 euros.

Der #Wald wird im #Klimawandel trockener. Gerade im Oberboden wird das #Wasser knapp. Welche Bäume wachsen so noch gut, und machen Mischwälder einen Unterschied? An Fichte, Buche und Douglasie haben Forschende untersucht, woher die Bäume ihr Wasser holen. Mehr: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

🚩 Nacht des Wissens – am Samstag, 21. Juni, ist es soweit! Auf unserem Campus und verteilt über die Stadt laden faszinierende Themen Groß und Klein zum Entdecken ein. Programm: www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/komplett/ Für einige Veranstaltungen ist eine Anmeldung nötig. @ndw-goe.bsky.social

Today, our woolly colleagues are revealing their new summer look 🦙✂️. It’s perfect for the warm days ahead this weekend ☀️! Are you ready for summer? Or is it time for a trip to the hairdresser again? 💇

Hannes Böckmann, Claus Ropers, & colleagues from Göttingen & Marburg have succeeded in using light to specifically alter the electronic state of a material. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5029730/rn_2...

Glückwunsch an das GönomiX-Team! Wir freuen uns mit #UMG und @mpi-nat.bsky.social über ein neues #Graduiertenkolleg. Ziel ist es, unser Verständnis der Gene und ihrer Funktionen in der Evolution der Tierwelt zu erweitern. www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html... @dfg.de‬ @thegoecampus.bsky.social

Your night out with science: Join us on June 21 at the Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social 🌙🦉 in Göttingen! 🎯 What to expect (2/5): 👇 #ndwgoe

How to repair damaged ecosystems around the world? Researchers found that when restoring nature even ecosystems that look similar on the surface can respond very differently to the same fix: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Ecography: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New #GCPostdocNetwork events: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event Organised for postdocs in Göttingen, everyone welcome: Postdoc Social on Thurs 12 June, then BBQ Grillfest, Walk&Talk & #ScienceCommunication club. #Interdisciplinary #GetOutOfTheLab #StrongerTogether: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

Studierende, Promovierende & Postdocs aufgepasst: Unsere Job- und Karrieremesse steht wieder an. Am 3.6. (Nordcampus) und 4.6. (Zentralcampus) bietet sich die Gelegenheit, mit rund 90 Unternehmen in Kontakt zu kommen. Dazu gibt es ein Rahmenprogramm. Mehr Infos: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/663302.html

Congrats to our research group leader Loren Andreas on the Heisenberg Position👏– a five-year funding of the Heisenberg Program, which is aimed at outstanding scientists who aspire to a professorship. @dfg.de is financing his position at our institute & providing him with additional research funding.

A head and a hundred tails: how does branching worm manage reproduction? Independent reproductive units known as stolons form at the tip of the tails and swim free. Researchers investigated gene expression: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research #BMCGenomics: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

🔬 100 years of quantum mechanics: In the public lecture series of @unigoettingen.bsky.social, Claus Ropers will speak on “Quantenphysik mit freien Elektronen” (in 🇩🇪) at the Aula am Wilhelmsplatz, May 27, 6:15 pm. More info on the lecture series: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/696100.html

Unser Genetiker Christian Roos spricht im rbb-Interview („Die Profis“) über das dramatische Artensterben. 🎧 Zum Interview: radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/die_profis/archivierte_sendungen/beitraege/von-sumatra-bis-madagaskar--die-dramatische-lage-der-weltweit-ge.html

How many countries can feed their own population with a healthy and sustainable diet on their own? How many are vulnerable to breaks in supply - whether from war, natural disasters or trade problems? Find out more: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html..., #NatureFood: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Pint of Science runs in Göttingen from 19-21 May! Researchers from a range of disciplines across Göttingen share their stories – in English or German. From ears to years to online hate, you could discover the stars, find a forest and much more! Further info: pintofscience.de/events/goett...

The EC presented its draft of a new EU Return Directive. Will these policies achieve what they set out to do? Will they contribute to greater security? Researchers publish fact-check on deportations in Germany: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... www.moreproject-horizon.eu/executive-su...

🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Max Crayen zum DPZ-Promotionspreis 2024! 🧠👏 Ausgezeichnet wurde er für seine herausragende Doktorarbeit zur visuellen Wahrnehmung.

Speed dating with science! Book an appointment with DPZ scientist Hunaid Hameed: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne...

🆕🎧 What exactly happens during ovulation? @tabeamarx.bsky.social chats (in German) about how she, @ovarylab.bsky.social, & Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social visualized the entire process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real time. Tune in 👂⏯️: open.spotify.com/episode/5mYk...