🌍 Interested in the 2026 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)? Join our #YSSP26 Application Webinar for Europe & Asia to learn how to prepare a strong application and hear from alumni. 🗓 19 Nov 2025 | 1-2pm CET 📩 Register by 17 Nov: [email protected] ▶️ iiasa.ac.at/early-career...

"Forever chemicals" represent new environmental threat to #Florida's famed Everglades insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202... via @amybgreen.bsky.social

Grad students! Come join us at IIASA as part of our summer research program!! See our webinars for more info

🚀Apply now and spend the summer of 2026 with us! If your research aligns with #citizenScience, #AI, deep learning, data fusion, #remoteSensing, #geospatial techniques, explore opportunities with us: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/bdzj3tzb 💡See IIASA’s full range of research areas below ⌛Deadline: 12 January

NEW – Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Americas — North, Central, and South — is the only region of the world that has ever managed to stop endemic transmission of measles. But that hard-won victory against the highly contagious virus is on the verge of being rolled back. www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

We recently studied how avian malaria parasites are distributed globally, with bird migration, host community similarity, & environmental affinity all playing a role. Important because some lineages are more harmful than others and distributions susceptible to global change doi.org/10.1111/1749...

The moisture emitted by forests travels across national borders to provide precipitation to far-away fields go.nature.com/47RAMgg

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Snake venom is complicated stuff, sporting many damaging proteins whose overall molecular structure differs between species. But scientists have had a breakthrough

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪

Join the new Science Diplomacy Grid webinar: Grid Talks: Global Perspectives in Science Diplomacy Researchers, policy professionals, diplomats, students, technologists, and anyone interested in the intersection of science and global affairs is welcome to join. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Last days to get your concept notes submitted for the 2025 round of the #EuropeanUnion-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Sub-Saharan African countries. ⏰Deadline: 3 November 2025, 15:59 CET (UTC+1) Read more:🔗 gbif.link/BID-Africa#EuropeanUnion-funded #BIDAfrica #Biodiversity

A study by I. R. Onley, P. Cassey, & M. A. McGeoch shows that biodiversity data sharing platforms are key to managing biological invasions. Closing the "knowing-doing" gap can create better conservation outcomes. 🌍 Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1

Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.

Some doctoral programmes in the US are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding go.nature.com/4o63boK

Japanese scientists have found ~10 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested. Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that are not yet fully understood. www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/...

🌏 We’re hiring! Research Scholar / Modeler – Global Land Carbon Cycle & Land Use Change. Join IIASA’s Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems & Integrated Assessment and Climate Change research groups groups to advance open-source Earth system models. Apply: iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...

📢 CALL OPEN! The Korea Research Foundation–IIASA Postdoctoral Fellowship offers up to 24 months of funded research for Korean PhD holders. Work on climate, systems analysis, and more 🌍 🗓️ Apply by 14 Nov 2025 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/opportunitie...

Graduate students! Applications for @iiasa.ac.at‘s summer research program is open!

Evolutionary biologist @scs22.bsky.social has had a lot of success recently sequencing ancient RNA viruses from museum samples. This summer I had the chance to accompany him and a team of researchers to the Arctic where they hope that the permafrost might allow them to go further back in time. 🧪

At last week’s #OvershootConference at IIASA, Journalist in Residence, Lisa Palmer, along with science communicators Katharine Mansell, Holly Simpkin, and Marina Menga were tasked with gaining a better understanding of the narratives that can put the science into dialogue with a range of audiences.

New on the #IIASAblog: From a holiday to high-level conversations 🇬🇭 IIASA’s Felicity Addo turned a trip home to Ghana into a journey of teaching, learning & building bridges through science. “Africa doesn’t need charity - it needs partnership.” iiasa.ac.at/blog/oct-202... Learn more about Felicity ⏬

By comparing DNA in historic specimens with that in modern fish populations, researchers have discovered that fish have not only grown scarcer, but their genetic diversity has also declined. https://scim.ag/4h710P0

“Using metrics to assess researchers can be ‘very dodgy terrain,’” says @jameswilsdon.bsky.social. Great overview of how research assessment is changing worldwide in @nature.com , featuring recent work by RoRI with the Global Research Council: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The seventh Planetary Boundary of nine has been crossed. Ocean acidification has joined climate change, change in biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater change, modification of biogeochemical flows, and introduction of novel entities.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Greater noctule #bats use echolocation to track migrating #birds and consume them on the wing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re hiring! Join IIASA and shape global solutions for a sustainable future. We currently have three exciting opportunities open across our programs ⬇️

🎉 Happy Birthday, IIASA! For over 50 years, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has united science and policy to tackle global challenges - from climate and energy to data-driven sustainability - connecting the Global North and South through systems thinking. 🌍

'In the [17th, 18th and 19th Cs] glaciers...were considered cursed by the devil in Alpine folklore, their advances linked to spiritual forces as they threatened hamlets and farmland. ...villagers [called] on priests to talk to the spirits of glaciers & get them to move....' bbc.com/news/article...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

"Global environmental factors impact the evolution of adult hemoglobins in squamata reptiles (lizards and snakes) and terrestrial turtles" New paper by the super talented Juan D Carvajal-Castro et al.! 🐍🦎🐢 #CienciaCriolla 🌎🧪 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

JOB: Interested in international science, policy & diplomacy? Consider applying if you are Interested in Developing membership engagement, diversifying partnerships, raising visibility, & increasing scientific and policy impacts. iiasa.ac.at/employment/j....

IN THE SCIENCE REPORTING CATEGORY: “Dire straits for the Panama Canal” by science and environmental journalist James Dinneen, for New Scientist www.newscientist.com... #SciWriAwards 💚🧪📝[3/n]

I joined a team of ecologists wading through the muck of the Carolina coast in search of "ghost forests" killed by rising seas for @science.org. We were guided by a a new map that reveals millions of dead trees standing along the East Coast, marking an overlooked consequence of climate change...

The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR

🚨 1 week left to apply to #EDSsummit Data + environment + community. This will be our final year hosting the summit! Oct 8 deadline → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #earlycareer #envdatasci #openscience #EDSsummit #ClimateData #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience

As part of the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling over 40 missions. Agency employees have already been instructed to do the prep work for ending these programs, according to a NASA scientist. More from @jessimckenzi.bsky.social. ⬇️