#ECCB2026 European Conference on Computational Biology, Geneva🇨🇭: Call for tutorials & workshops. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Pinker war mal ein wirklich prägender Denker. Jetzt hat er sich in seltsame anti-progressive Kulturkämpfe verstrickt und schimpft auf Klimaschutz. Hier ein schmerzhaft schlechtes WELT-Interview. Atmen wir tief durch und sehen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)

Sorbonne joins the growing list of top institutions opting out of university rankings. sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Thanks to Science Magazine for the opportunity for our Secretary General, Lidia Borrell-Damian, to contribute an editorial on our view of the next framework programme for R&I supporting excellence, openness & collaboration at the heart of Europe’s research future. #HorizonEU bit.ly/4ny3gRb

For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up. The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend. By Nektarios Tavernarakis: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Nicht verpassen: „Kipppunkte im Klimasystem.“ Die Forum Basiliense Lecture 2025 mit Ricarda Winkelmann. Diesmal im Gehry Large Auditorium auf dem Novartis Campus. Eintritt frei!

🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Le partenariat entre le FNS et le CIFAR offre aux chercheuses·eurs en Suisse de nombreuses possibilités de collaboration au niveau international et interdisciplinaire. Le 20 octobre 2025, un webinaire vous présentera ces opportunités. Inscription ici ➡️ https://sohub.io/erfl

🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Die Partnerschaft des SNF mit CIFAR bietet Forschenden in der Schweiz vielseitige Möglichkeiten für die internationale und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. Am 20. Oktober 2025 stellen wir die Möglichkeiten in einem Webinar vor. Zur Anmeldung ➡️ https://sohub.io/d6z9

+++ Eilmeldung +++ Physik-Nobelpreis geht an Donald Trump www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/phys...

📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026 For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026 ➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg that vaccinations have been so successful that "there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers." #TAF25 bit.ly/46a5DUE

"How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do? An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective." | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @gretchentg.bsky.social for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 270 million Swiss francs. The SNSF rejects these cuts. However, in order to be prepared, it has decided to cut costs in consultation with all partners. ➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1 #research #science #CHParl

“Scientific cooperation with Europe and continued access to the #HorizonEurope programme are essential to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of research and innovation,” emphasised Torsten Schwede, President of the SNSF Research Council, during a round table organised by Foraus. ➡️ buff.ly/BJEcZ7P

2025 Latsis Swiss Science Prize 🏆 🧪 Dr Saskia Stucki has been awarded the Latsis Swiss Science Prize for her in-depth contributions at the interface between animal, human and environmental law. Congratulations! www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/Z-... fondationlatsis.org/en/ @snsf.ch

2025 Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize 🏆 🧪 Physicist Tobias J. Kippenberg has been awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his excellent work in quantum optomechanics and the generation of optical frequency combs. Congratulations! marcel-benoist.ch/en/prize-2025/ @snsf.ch

Studentische Hilfskraft (HiWi) for the ModelArchive @torstenschwede.bsky.social Start date: asap @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... Apply here: biped.biozentrum.unibas.ch/apply/hiwi_m... #job #research #Hiwi #biology #science #basel #recruiting #career

It’s the last day of this year’s [BC]² conference and attendees are gathering for the final parallel sessions: - Integrative Bioinformatics for Evolutionary and Environmental Processes - Computational methods for single-cell and spatial omics: from data to biological insights #bc2basel

Program update! Don’t miss the chance to hear from these inspiring speakers: ➡️ Katrin Milzow, Co-Director of the Swiss National Science Foundation ➡️ Anne Scheel, Assistant Professor, Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands ➡️ Silke Bellanger, Head of Digital Services / Open Science, University Library Basel

[BC]² has formally kicked off with our first plenary session, chaired by @dgfeller.bsky.social (UNIL), Catherine Jutzeler (ETHZ) #bc2basel

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Authors concluded that this study “demonstrates that following current climate policies will not only overshoot the 1.5-°C limit of the Paris Agreement by a wide margin but also may prohibit returning to it thereafter.” Wishful thinking is not a realistic strategy for future generations. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

A milestone in generative #AI for transparency and diversity: Switzerland’s first fully open multilingual Large Language Model #LLM. Entire development process (architecture, model weights, training data, recipes) is openly accessible. @ethz.ch #EPFL @cscsch.bsky.social 🧪 ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

#BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 22 new projects from 100+ applications approved this year – from kokumi flavour to healing gardens. 🍽️ 🌳 The next Proof of Concept call deadline is 15 September 2025, and the Discovery call on #quantum technologies is open until 16 September 2025. ➡️ sohub.io/axgu

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Critical benchmarking of structure prediction methods has been crucial for measuring progress and detecting breakthroughs. But how will the future look like? Join the discussion at our workshop in Basel on September 8 - just before the [BC]2 conference. @sib.swiss @biozentrum.unibas.ch ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Save the Date #eccb2026: 31 August-4 September 2026 The 25th ECCB European Conference on Computational Biology will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, organized by @sib.swiss For more information: eccb2026.org 🧪

📢 🚀 We are hiring! 🔎 🙏 Scientific Officer (80-100%) 👉A rare opportunity to play a central part in coordinating the research activities of NCCR AntiResist. Come and join us! 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #hiring #job #science #research

Looking for a #fellowship for an independent #PhD at one of the best places for life sciences in the world? The summer call at @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch is open until October 12, 2025. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...

Call for Ambizione Ambizione grants are aimed at early-career researchers who wish to conduct and lead a project of their own. Interested in learning more about this call? Take part in our online info event on 14 August 2025. Submission deadline: 4 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/dDQl9QA

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

🧪 Gene regulation in bacteria: The team led by @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social discovered that environmental stimuli cause rapid fluctuations in the concentration of regulatory proteins, leading different target genes to respond differently to the same stimulus. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

🎤 Discover the [BC]² 2025 closing keynote by Julia Merkenschlager (‪@harvard.edu‬ Medical School). Her work combines molecular immunology and computational biology to reveal how the immune system evolves precise antibody responses. 📅 10 Sept, 16:00 | 📍 Basel, CH 👉Register: tinyurl.com/bc2-2025

A small reminder to all structural biologists around working on biomolecular complexes: please consider sharing your complexes as targets for CAPRI - AI has not solved all structure prediction problems and there are still challenges! See www.capri-docking.org/contribute/

In an urgent letter to Congress, 150 employees from the National Science Foundation have insisted that lawmakers intervene to stop budget cuts, mass firings, the withholding of billions in funding, and allegedly coerced resignations at the agency.

🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇 Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.

Study showing that the global “plastosphere” contains more than 16,000 chemicals, much more than previously expected. Importantly, at least 4,200 plastic chemicals are of concern because of the hazards they pose to health and the environment. #empa www.empa.ch/web/s604/bed...

🔎The ERC Starting Grant 2026 is open to researchers of any nationality who are 2–7 years post-PhD and have already demonstrated scientific excellence and leadership potential. https://tinyurl.com/mwx8pvmv 📆Info Event on 18.8., 12:00–13:30. https://tinyurl.com/38tx9hd7 #HorizonEU

Congratulations to the Swiss Polar Institute @swisspolar.bsky.social and Antarctica New Zealand for signing a Memorandum of Arrangement to enable joint research projects in the fields of polar and climate research.

We will be hosting a mirror site of the CASP data and workflows at @sib.swiss. Operating a redundant site with independent funding is a good idea for important scientific infrastructure, independent from the current funding situation in the US.

#Deadline for nominations for the 2025 Swiss Open Research Data #ORD Prize is 31 July 2025. The award celebrates research projects of individual researchers and research teams demonstrating innovative ORD practices. ord.swiss-academies.ch/news/ord-pri...

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

PhD programmes need to prepare students for careers outside universities and stop talking about “Plan B”… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣 The SNSF is taking part in the #Ocean 2 #call of the @belmontforum.bsky.social‬ . Researchers who are based in Switzerland and eligible for SNSF funding can apply for a grant. 📆 Submission deadline: 5 March 2026. ℹ️ buff.ly/wueZBkC

The entire Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/t...