Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

Our flag shone brightly on the Arco della Pace at the Opening Ceremony of the #MilanoCortina2026 Olympic Winter Games. A symbol of peace and prosperity, a journey defined by cooperation and unshakable solidarity. Let’s go EU athletes! ©️Jamie Squire / Getty Images

Some good news for once: the plan to build a large light-polluting and dust-producing industrial facility just 5km from some of the world's biggest telescopes, has been dropped. The project caused an outcry among astronomers and criticism from Chilean politicians. 🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

HIRING: The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is recruiting researchers, lab technicians, policy officers and admin assistants for our facilities in Italy, Belgium and Germany. ➡️ link.europa.eu/CJ6kwR 📅 We will post new vacancies every Thursday. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs #JRC

The best moment for #DigitalSovereignty was long time ago. The second best moment is NOW. Not tomorrow. 👉 european-alternatives.eu 👉 www.goeuropean.org 👉 github.com/diselostudio... 👉 buy-european.net/en/categories #DSA #Europe

We strongly condemn the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former Commissioner Thierry Breton. Link to full statement: link.europa.eu/NtMX4K

Japan is joining Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme. Openness and international cooperation can shape a bright future for science and technology. Through science, we can build bridges, strengthen competitiveness, and accelerate the green and digital transitions.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Félicitations!

Delighted to share this somewhat provocative blog I have written - happy to discuss!

By 2025, 41 countries had introduced 250 #ResearchSecurity policy measures, almost 10x more than in 2018. As geopolitics reshapes global science and innovation, the new OECD STI Outlook 2025 highlights the need to safeguard critical assets while keeping science open: oe.cd/STIO25 #scicom #scipol

The @ec.europa.eu has adopted yesterday the Pact for the Med - and I am proud that my proposal to establish a Mediterranean Science Diplomacy Center has been included! The Med can show how to use #ScienceDiplomacy for peace-building! north-africa-middle-east-gulf.ec.europa.eu/joint-commun...

Can science diplomacy be used to maintain int. coops? A panel with: @uschroeder.bsky.social, @mrentetzi.bsky.social, Anke Reiffenstuel @diplo.de, Jan Marco Müller @ec.europa.eu and Marcelo Knobel Details: bit.ly/4mYw8Sj In Coop with @uni-hamburg.de, @buceriuslaw.bsky.social & ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS

One of the most inspiring scientists of all times has left us. Thank you, Jane.

22 October 2025: Join the AU–EU Dialogue on #ScienceDiplomacy to discuss: - Science advice to foreign policies - Using science diplomacy for trust-building - Role of research & tech infrastructures - Training and capacity-building Register by 15 October: surveymonkey.com/r/SD_AU_EU_D...

Join us for the biggest #ScienceDiplomacy event of the year!

Upcoming: On 3-4 Dec, The DK Presidency of the EU Council is running a High-Level Conf on Reforming Research Assessment. This is a critically important topic of updating our science metrics and also support the role of new boundary roles, such as those in #scienceadvice. buff.ly/SVVY4Et #scipol

Great discussion today at #RiDaysEU about the link between academic freedom, science diplomacy and research security, featuring Robbert Dijkgraaf, Stéphanie Balme and James Hammond! Will the #EU be the only scientific superpower with academic freedom left?

SAVE THE DATE: 2nd European #ScienceDiplomacy Conf – Bridging divides in a fragmented world, 17-18 Dec - Copenhagen. The discussions will cover both regional and thematic aspects of #SciDip, highlighting the crucial contributions of non-state actors. Registration will open during September.

🌍 Session spotlight: Science Diplomacy in a Fragmented World at @royalsociety.org, with @ukri.org 📅 9 Sep📲 register here: connect.iiasa.ac.at/networks/eve... 🔍🧵

DYK? Europe's contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope are: 🌈 The NIRSpec instrument 🔴 50% of the MIRI instrument 🚀 Launcher & launch services 👩‍💻 Scientists to support mission operations in Baltimore, USA Discover more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭

6 and 9 August 1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki vanished in a flash, and more than 200,000 lives were lost in just a few days: civilians, families, entire neighbourhoods. These remain the only nuclear attacks in history. Eighty years later, the silence still burns.

✍️ On the blog: IIASA researcher Pratik Patil reflects on how researchers and research institutes can respond more effectively to the emerging polycrisis with transformative approaches and frameworks to facilitate public understanding and policy. Read the article 👉 iiasa.ac.at/blog/jul-202...

📘 Ever wondered what it's like to work for the EU? Apply for a Blue Book Traineeship! ✅ 5-month paid traineeship ✅ Starting March 2026 ✅ Apply with any Bachelor’s degree ✅ Build skills, friendships, and your 🇪🇺 future 🗓️ Deadline: 29 Aug, 10:00 👉 europa.eu/!YNDggC

True country sizes vs. Mercator projections

Today we made history. Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science. Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

The world has a new science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution. This result is thanks to so many, including our two Intergovernmental Meeting Co-Chairs, 🇺🇾 Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre and 🇯🇵 Vice-Minister Yutaka Matsuzawa. Very grateful to them both for their leadership and support.

Yesterday we celebrated #50YearsofESA @esa.int's journey began fifty years ago when ten European States put pen to paper and signed the ESA Convention. Not just any document, but a legal masterpiece that would profoundly shape our continent’s future, achieving what many thought impossible.

📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world? @rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern: 🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North. Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y 🧪🧵👇

fun map of the day: seating arrangements for legislators around the world

Before and after of Blatten, Switzerland — a village buried following the collapse of the Birch Glacier.

Now open: New €10 million call for organisations under #MSCA4Ukraine. The latest Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call will provide vital support to displaced Ukrainian researchers to continue their work in EU and Horizon Europe institutions. Learn more → europa.eu/!jfJkGf

📅 Call for applications❗ 👩‍🎓 IIASA Marie Curie Fellowships ⏰ Deadline — 31 May 2025 💡 Are you a young researcher with a PhD and no more than eight years of full-time equivalent research experience? 🧑‍🔬 Apply now ➡️ iiasa.ac.at/opportunitie...

We are hiring! Deadline 14 May. This job will be a fantastic opportunity to use science to inform policymaking. What we work on: - protecting democracy - fighting disinformation - countering polarisation - improving evidence informed policymaking recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/1881

Great to see chemist #Francis being succeeded by mathematician #LeoXIV - I am not a catholic, but it feels good when religious leaders value science. We are playing in the same team. @vaticancity.bsky.social

Join the ISC and UCL STEaPP #Webinar - Strengthening science advice at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 🗓️ 22 May | 15:00 UTC | online ➡️ Info & registration: council.science/events/future-avenues-for-science-advice-un @ucl.ac.uk #ScienceAdvice #UNGA #GloablPolicy

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Looking to advance your research career? Choose Europe. Practical information: europa.eu/!B8hjh3 Register for the info session on 6 May: europa.eu/!gX3Dgv

Full speech here: audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-2...

Recently, INGSA launched its newest Regional Chapter, this time in #Europe! It was a great success that was the culmination of many years' work and collaboration across partners. Find out what happened and what the future holds for #INGSAEurope ingsa.org/event/ingsa-... @davidmair4.bsky.social

Some #ScienceDiplomacy in there...

The importance of Pope Francis for the successful delivery of the Paris Climate Agreement ten years ago cannot be understated. Those who did not want to listen to science, received the evidence via the papal encyclical Laudato Sì.

Where am I?

Interested in science for policy and speak Polish, Spanish or French? Come and work with us at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Deadline 6 May 2025. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

Scientific evidence won't go away just because you don't like the message.

I am delighted to announce that as of June I am going to take over the chairmanship of the Foreign Ministries Science & Technology Advice Network (FMSTAN), the global network of the "voices of science" in Ministries of Foreign Affairs: ingsa.org/divisions/fm...

European and Swiss research and education will benefit from a wider pool of talents and scientific excellence. We've set in motion the agreement for Switzerland’s association to Horizon Europe, Euratom Research and Training, ITER/F4E, Digital Europe, Erasmus+, and EU4Health. → europa.eu/!68qQnD

An honour to be visiting today @queenscollegeox.bsky.social in the frame of the inaugural @ingsa.bsky.social Europe conference - an intellectually stimulating environment!