Czech national parks join forces! 🌲 With Swiss support 🇨🇭, they are launching a sustainable tourism project. Key data will be provided by PřF UK geographers dr. Romportl & dr. Janík 🎓 to help analyze tourist traffic, protect biodiversity, and find routes without crowds. 💚

🚀 Lead a new research group at @charlesuni.cuni.cz, Prague! Seeking an ERA Chair (R3/R4) in Integrative Metabolic Physiology & Bioenergetics. 💰 ~€2.5M budget 📩 Informal chat: [email protected] 📅 Deadline: 30 Sep 2026

Thirty-two high school students completed an intensive chemistry camp at Charles University, wrapping up the 24th year of the KSICHT seminar. The programme included hands-on lab work and a visit to the BIOCEV research centre. Registration for the next run is now open. 🧪

🤝 The Faculty of Science has partnered with the Charles University Endowment Fund & the ŠKODA AUTO Endowment Fund. 🌲 This collaboration connects research and philanthropy to address environmental challenges, starting with a study on the ecological impacts of forest management.

🕯️ We are deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Pavel Kindlmann, a renowned population ecologist from the Institute for Environmental Studies. He uniquely combined mathematical modeling with nature conservation. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

🎉🔬 BIOCEV is celebrating 10 years! Over the past decade, it has grown into a world-class biomedical research centre. 🧬🤝 The collaboration between Charles University (including our faculty) and CAS institutes shows the power of combining top science with education. Proud to be there from the start! 👏

🏛️ Thousands of visitors joined us for Museum Night at the Faculty of Science. Our museums, map collection, and Na Slupi Botanical Garden opened after dark to showcase geology, anthropology, and botany. 🌿 Thank you to everyone who made this evening possible!

📍 Faculty info meeting: Tuesday, 23 June, 14:00 in hall B12, Benátská 2. Learn about our new repositories and the upcoming Open Science mini-grants call opening on 1 Sept 2026, which offers up to CZK 4 million to help researchers create FAIR datasets.

Our Faculty is the only institution globally to award the SAS® Specialization Certificate in Advanced Demographic Analysis! 🎓📊 Congrats to our graduates Adam & Jakub, who received theirs from Dean Vladimír Krylov & @SAS. 👏✨

At the R&I Matchmaking Event in Athens 🇬🇷, Kateřina Chmelíková, Monika Snítilá, Martina Holíková and Roman Hrubý represented our Faculty of Science. They presented our research 🔬 to 100+ European partners to build new collaborations for upcoming Horizon Europe projects. 🤝

🎓 PhD students & early-career researchers: want to boost your chances of securing EU funding? 🇪🇺 Join a practical online workshop on European grants (MSCA, ERC, Erasmus+, COST & more) and learn how to build a strong proposal from scratch. 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/djay4vWG

🔬 Great news from our Faculty! Two researchers have won funding in the prestigious ERC CZ programme. 🌿 Filip Kolář (PolyAdapt) earned the highest ERC rating (A) and ranked joint 1st-3rd nationally. 🧠 Daniel Rozbeský (MOVIGATE) secured an excellent B rating and a top-10 spot. 👏 Congrats to both!

Join us for Albertov Zeolite Day 2026! 🔬

Our study unraveling the structural and pigmentary mechanisms of UV color signal production in Podarcis wall lizards is now published in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @sciencecharles.bsky.social @uv.es @mff.unikarlova.cuni.cz

The second Tiger Trail charity event raised 33,350 CZK. for Sumatran tiger conservation in Indonesia’s Way Kambas National Park 🐯 Organised by our Center for Environmental Forensic Science and partners, the event welcomed 255 participants to the Botanical Garden and Albertov 🏃

✨ Charles University has appointed new professors! Among them are three from the Faculty of Science: Petr Drahota, Libor Krásný, and Jiří Petrák. Congrats to all! 👏🎉 Proud of their scientific excellence and contribution to research.

Success at ICYG 2026! ⚒️ Over 100 young geoscientists from 14 countries gathered at the Kostelec nad Černými lesy chateau. From paleontology to geophysics, the future of earth sciences looks incredibly bright. Kudos to the organizers! 💎

🌍 The Sustainability@Leave COST Action conference took place at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, led by Prof. Jiřina Kocourková. Experts from across Europe discussed parental leave policies, gender equality, care, fertility, and social sustainability. 🤝🎓

Registration for the 2026 edition of the MAT-BIO Exchange Summer School in Mathematical Biology is open only until 8th June! 🫨 🫨 🫨 lnkd.in/d7is4hcX

👶 How can parental leave better support families? On 26 May, our Department of Demography hosts the final COST Action CA21150 conference. Join European experts and policymakers discussing family policy, gender equality, and the release of new Czech GGS research data. More info here: 1url.cz/ieRlM

New sports scholarships at the Faculty of Science: Dean Vladimír Krylov has recognised three student-athletes for their 2025 achievements. Congratulations to Lucie Lasíková (athletics), Ondřej Charvát (karate), and Jiří Blaha (biathlon) on their awards for 2026. 🎓

New in Nature Methods: The launch of GloBIAS, a global society for bioimage analysis. Co-authored by Martin Schätz (Charles University/UCT Prague), this initiative aims to standardise how we extract data from microscopic images across 14 countries. See: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🧪 Czech chemists have discovered a new way to “lock” molecular conformations! A team from our faculty developed a simple, efficient method to create chiral pillar[5]arenes—key molecules for biomedicine and advanced materials🌟 This metal-free approach opens new paths for sustainable chemistry ♻️

@honzadobes87.bsky.social from our faculty received the Learned Society of the Czech Republic Award for young scientists 🏆 His research focuses on gut immunity and host–microbiome interactions, including the discovery of immune cells crucial for defense against fungal infections 🔬 Congratulations!

🌸 Changes in pollen reveal new insights into the evolution of plant self-fertilization. Researchers from Charles University and @iebcas.bsky.social discovered important evolutionary changes in pollen coat structure and proteins that have been overlooked so far 🌿🔬🧬 shorturl.at/PZVoE

Lead the future of demography in Prague 🌍 The Faculty of Science seeks an ERA Chair in Advanced Population Projections & Modelling. Build a top research group and shape European policy on aging & migration. 📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026 Contact: [email protected]

Methane escaping beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet highlights its sensitivity to climate change 🧊🌍 Research led by Marek Stibal, published in Nature Geoscience, shows it originates from 4,500-year-old Holocene organic matter 🌱 Even modest warming may accelerate ice loss and methane release.

🇨🇿🤝🇰🇷 A South Korean delegation visited the Faculty of Science, Charles University, to discuss fertility research and family policy with Czech demographers. The meeting highlighted shared challenges, including rising living costs and declining birth rates. 📊🌍

Rector of Charles University honored top students in 2026 🎓🏅 Faculty of Science students received Prof. Heyrovský and Příhoda awards for excellence in science and teaching, plus a rector’s award for outreach 🌍. Congratulations to Š. Zeman, S. Kolesár, K. Sixtová, K. Bezányiová, A. Damaška 👏

🌍Capturing #CO₂ where pressure is high matters most. A nickel-intercalated #MXene–clay heterostructure boosts high-pressure CO₂ uptake and retains measurable adsorption after pressure release, pointing to a promising route for pre-combustion capture and syngas purification. 🔗 buff.ly/4EXj7zb (MK)

🔬🌍 Join invited lectures at ICYG 2026 (15–16 May) in Kostelec nad Černými lesy, near Prague. Keynotes: Prof. Simon M. Jowitt (mining & climate) and Prof. Martin Košťák (fossils & sediments, CU). More: icyg.eu/keynotespeaker

🌍 SGA Council Meeting in Prague (Apr 15–17) brought together experts from around the world. Discussions focused on future activities, the Biennial Meeting 📅, student support and Mineralium Deposita . Program included a visit to the Josef Underground Lab 🏗️⛏️

Ten faculties joined the celebrations, and across three ceremonial events, around 550 graduates from the class of 1976 commemorated this remarkable academic milestone. At the @sciencecharles.bsky.social, Diamond Graduations were also celebrated for the very first time.

🌿 60 years of the Biology Olympiad! The national final at the Faculty of Science, @unikarlova.cuni.cz in Prague brought together 36 top students from across Czechia. 🥇 Beránek 🥈 Staněk 🥉 Meszaros Congrats to all finalists for outstanding performances!

From science shows to smart bins! 🌍 Litoměřice hosted the largest Earth Day in the region, co-organized by our faculty. We highlighted our strategic SYNERGYS project in Litoměřice, merging science, eco-education, and tech. Huge thanks to Czech Geological Survey for the fossil & drilling demos! 🔬💎

First Antarctic samples from the new Long-Term Ecological Monitoring (LTEM) program have arrived in Prague 🇦🇶 We’re proud to be part of the Czech Antarctic Research Programme together with Masaryk University and to lead LTEM, delivering key long-term data on ecosystem change. 🌍🔬

The 2025 Živa Awards highlight a success for our faulty! Our researchers and students excelled across the following categories:🔹 Vojen Ložek Award 🔹 Jan Suda Award 🔹 Special Award of Živa Magazine 🔹 Purkyně Award 🔹 Antonín Frič Award Proud of our faculty's impact on science popularization! 🌿🧬

The first FameLab Academy has a winner! 🏆 Marie Lexová won, supported by UK Rector Jiří Zima, Dean Vladimír Krylov, and UK Ambassador Matt Field. 🇬🇧🧪 A huge congrats to the new generation of science communicators! 👏🔬

Our study was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Paper Award by the @bigearthdata1.bsky.social at @tandfresearch.bsky.social ! I am grateful for this recognition to the editorial board, reviewers and my co-athors! Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/2096... @sciencecharles.bsky.social

The Bedřich Hrozný Award 🏆 for creative achievement has this year been awarded to Professor Ivan Čepička and PhD candidate Marek Valt for an outstanding discovery 🔬 that significantly advances our current understanding of the evolution 🌱🧬 of eukaryotic organisms. Congratulations!

The Faculty of Science invites you to an online information session on European Research Council (ERC) grants. 📅 21 April 2026 | 13:00–14:00 CET 💻 Online (link will be shared with registered participants) 🗣️ Held in English More info here: 1url.cz/FeNmQ

We invite you to a special lecture by visiting Professor Marek Mlodzik, Ph.D., from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, on new insights into Wnt signaling, its mechanisms, and its role in development and disease pathogenesis.

🎓 Norbert Baris (Petr Beier Group) has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Generation and Reactivity of Fluoroalkylated Nitrenes" at the @sciencecharles.bsky.social. Congratulations! 🎉 #IOCB #IOCBPrague #PhDjourney #PhDatIOCB

🔬 Team of Prof. Tomáš Obšil (Charles University) and Dr. Veronika Obšilová (Czech Academy of Sciences) revealed how cyclin Y and 14-3-3 activate kinase CDK16 🧬 Published in Nature Communications 📰

Dean Vladimír Krylov met with student Julie Zelingerová, who represented our faculty and the Czech Republic in curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan & Cortina. We’re proud of her dedication, balancing elite sport with studies, and outstanding representation! 🥌

We have 4 new fully funded PhD programs available in our group in Prague @sciencecharles.bsky.social! Join us for cutting-edge research into nanomaterials using state-of-the-art Machine Learning approaches, with international collaborations. Details on the projects below! 👇

🏆 Great success for young scientists from the Faculty of Science, @unikarlova.cuni.cz ! At the Werner von Siemens Awards, our researchers won 4 awards, including Best Master’s and Best Doctoral Thesis, plus two more top-10 placements. Congratulations to all awardees! 👏🔬🎓

🎓 Jiří Zima, former Dean of Faculty of Science, was inaugurated as the new Rector of @unikarlova.cuni.cz. He got the rector’s insignia in the Great Hall of Karolinum. We wish him lots of success! 👏