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📢 Out now: the new issue of #Horizons We’re all biased, aren’t we? 🤔🤔🤔 Reconciling personal experience and objectivity in #research 👉 buff.ly/V6yFzal

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🧠 💻 From cancer diagnosis to the history of the Enlightenment: As part of the second #Swiss contribution to selected #EU member states, the SNSF is collaborating with partner organisations to provide CHF 29.1 million to 29 international research projects. Learn more ⤵️

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🩸🚑Type 1 #diabetes – lifelong treatment but no cure, for now... #FacesOfScience – Ekaterine Berishvili, researcher at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine, is developing bioartificial #pancreases to finally cure this disease. Read her portrait ➡️ sohub.io/maj3

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🚀 Are you about to begin your postdoctoral research with the support of the SNSF, or are you considering your next #career move? 📆 Join us on 30 June for the Summer Meet to exchange ideas with SNSF representatives and fellow grantees. 👉 sohub.io/85ur

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🌊 ❄️ In the phenomenon of #marine snow, dead microorganisms gradually drift toward the seabed. However, natural #bacteria gels impede their descent. This is detrimental for the #climate because it releases more #CO2 into the atmosphere. Read more 👉 sohub.io/l3i1

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🔎 Katrin Milzow and Thomas Werder Schläpfer have been the new co-directors of the #SNSF since 1 April. Their priority is to ensure effective, innovative and agile Administrative Offices that work in partnership with the Research Council to promote #research excellence (1/2) ➡️ buff.ly/yTeIDYT

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🖥️ #Quantum #Computers could become faster by measuring entangled particles. Researchers from the University of Geneva, supported by the SNSF, have developed a new method that could achieve this in the future. 🚀 ➡️ buff.ly/bppaoZG

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📣 #Call for proposals: As part of the bilateral programmes, the SNSF and the #Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development are launching a call for Joint #Research Projects on the topic of “Inflammaging”. 📆 Submission deadline: 1 July 2025. More info ➡️ buff.ly/gUB27O4

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🎗️ The winners of the SNSF Scientific Image Competition received their prizes at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, where their images will be on display till 25 May. Five students of the Swiss Literary Institute read texts that they wrote inspired by the winning images.➡️ buff.ly/3lGMv1R

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🤝 From 22-25 April, the SNSF hosted a delegation from the National Research Foundation of #Ukraine ( #NRFU ) to discuss how our agencies operate. The meeting provided an opportunity to strengthen scientific cooperation and share best practices. ➡️ buff.ly/E2eeEaT

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🌍#Research thrives on openness and global cooperation. 🔎 Laure Ognois, Head of International #Cooperation at the SNSF, discusses how policymakers must balance openness and security to keep #Swiss researchers connected while safeguarding research integrity. 👉

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🧠 #Politics courses for #researchers (English session) If you want to inform political decisions with your research, then learn how to bridge science and policy with our courses! 🗓️ 16 June in Bern 📌 Register here: buff.ly/YbCuerY More info ⤵️ : buff.ly/FWbKFal

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📣 #Call for #Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 12 May 2025. ➡️ buff.ly/Q2KkBWd 📆 Submission deadline: 5 August 2025

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🎥 Film was the defining medium of the 20th c.! Now, millions of hours of analogue film are lying in archives – almost inaccessible to the public. Thanks to #BRIDGE , #Scan2Screen has developed a digitisation approach that provides unique access to this cultural heritage. ➡️ buff.ly/rxnEL4a

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#SH2025 👊 Today is Sexual Harassment Awareness Day – the SNSF supports the aims of this initiative. For example with our #Leadership Programme. Relaunched this February, it offers workshops on creating #safe working environments to early-career researchers with an SNSF grant. ➡️ buff.ly/6WIBsOf

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🔍What did we achieve in 2024? The SNSF #AnnualReport provides graphics, facts and figures.💡 Click on the link below for further information on our research funding, a summary of our activities and an overview of our organisation and strategy. ➡️ buff.ly/aKb9I0z

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🚀 Take part in the joint #COST info session ‘Science without borders – Insights from Austria, Germany and Switzerland’. 📅 7 May 2025, 9:30-12:00 📍 Online 👉 For more information and to register for the event: buff.ly/hWBthx9

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The three-year study of a Geneva neighbourhood park showcases exemplary self-governance of urban diversity. A key element is “creating the conditions allowing people to orchestrate their own inclusion naturally”. 👇

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🌴📃Most #palmoil plantations in #Malaysia have a #sustainability certificate. However, a study supported by the SNSF shows this can have negative outcomes. ⤵️ www.snf.ch/en/pvxHV12oI...

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📣#Call for proposals: As part of the bilateral programmes, the SNSF and the #Japan Agency for #Medical Research and Development are launching a call for Joint Research Projects on the topic of “Inflammaging”. 🗓️Submission deadline: 1 July 2025. ➡️ buff.ly/XvbB9Hv

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📷 #SwissScienceImage — A record 20 submissions won over the jury of the SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2025. 💡 Interplanetary collisions, expeditions to the equator, cellular choreography and aerial ballet - all fascinating visions to discover. For more info ➡️ sohub.io/9zvk

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📣 #DLRL Summer School 2025 – Apply now! From 21 July to 1 August in Edmonton, #Canada. 🔬 Focus: #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning & #ReinforcementLearning 🇨🇭 Highlight: Thanks to the SNSF-#CIFAR partnership, costs will be covered for participants from Switzerland! Apply here 👉 buff.ly/rrPld2u

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❗Serious consequences for the Swiss economy and society – the SNSF urges the abandonment of the proposed cuts to research funding in "Relief Package 27," as they threaten the country's innovative capacity and competitiveness. ➡️

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The SNSF welcomes #Switzerland’s retroactive association to #HorizonEurope from 1 Jan 2025, enabling researchers to join nearly all calls following the Federal Council’s approval of the EU Programmes Agreement. Find out more here ➡️

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📢 Discover the lesser-known symptoms of #Parkinson's disease and find out what #physics and #cooking have in common. The SNSF is supporting 33 new projects as part of #Agora to bridge the gap between scientists and society.

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🎯 🔎 A closer look at the SNSF’s new #evaluation procedure and #CV format and how they impact proposal evaluations. Key findings and recommendations from CultureBase, SIRIS Academic and Different Angles in the final report! 📃the report -> buff.ly/bejntIt 🔗 buff.ly/sXFoEkM

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Call launched with the United Kingdom - The SNSF and the National Institute for Health and Care Research are funding clinical trials for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. Outline applications must be submitted by 9 September 2025. buff.ly/YRV8QcB

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SNSF #Swiss #Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2024: The SNSF has received 744 applications, which are being evaluated by experts from various disciplines. ⏳ Researchers will find out in June whether their project will receive support from the SNSF. ➡️

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📣 #Call for proposals: As part of the bilateral programmes, the SNSF and the #Japan Society for the Promotion of Science are launching a joint call open to all disciplines. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. ➡️ buff.ly/TZKVrNQ

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⚔️🏛️🗳️ "#Polarisation stops political parties from cooperating and poisons relations between individuals." Political scientist Frederico Ferreira da Silva and his colleagues at UNIL have studied the increase in what he describes as a "threat to #democracy." ➡️ buff.ly/MP03kp1

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The SNSF and CIFAR are hosting the first Radical #Interdisciplinary Symposium for #EarlyCareer Researchers from 25 to 28 March. President of the SNSF Research Council, @torstenschwede.bsky.social , reinforced our commitment to international and interdisciplinary research during a panel discussion.

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Want to nominate the next winner of the Swiss Science Prize Latsis? 🏆 ⏰ Nominations for researchers in humanities and social sciences are open until 24 April 2025. 🗺️ 🏺 ⚖️ ➡️ buff.ly/vTH2Pra © Carmela Odoni

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ℹ️ After 17 years with the SNSF, Director Angelika Kalt is retiring. She has played a key role in shaping the SNSF and guiding it through many challenges. "These achievements are the fruit of teamwork in the service of #scientists and #research", she emphasises. 👉 buff.ly/0kNZzqY

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#OpenCall — Collaboration with #Japan: researchers with projects already funded by the SNSF can connect with their Japanese colleagues under the JST Alignment #Call. 📆 Submission deadline: 12 May 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/kUBsHe8

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🔬⚡🦠 #Biologists have observed the proteins that generate #cellular energy with unprecedented resolution directly within the cell. The SNSF-funded study was conducted by @florentwaltz.bsky.social and his colleagues from the @unibas.ch and featured on the front page of #Science. ➡️ buff.ly/aUR6uf6

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📢 📆 the SNSF Starting Grants call 2026 will be open from 1 February 2026 to 5 May 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Find more information on our website:

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#Research knows a lot about nothing. Huh? 🤔 That's right! Plus, we scientifically analyse #EmptySpace, disappearing texts and artworks, and the erasure of the self in #death. Jump into #nothingness with Horizons ➡️ buff.ly/GNe0ABB

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In November 2023, the SNSF launched a call for National Centres of Competence in Research (#NCCRs). This selection process is now entering the decisive phase - 38 research consortia have applied, and evaluations will be completed by autumn 2025. 🔬 📚

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#Malaria🦟keeps on killing. Up to half a million people every year. Existing #vaccinations💉 are not very effective. SNSF-funded researchers are now developing a #livevaccine that may knock out the pathogen.👊 📌 For more info : buff.ly/4ijLVJt

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📣The #IICT #call for proposals is aimed at researchers who wish to conduct an investigator initiated clinical trial. 🗓️Submit your letters of intent and PPI preparatory grant applications by 27 May 2025. ➡️ https://buff.ly/433BhlM

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💡🌱 🚗 #ElectricCars: "Doing more with the same amount of money, or the same while spending less." Economists propose incentive policies that could expand the electric vehicle fleet and replenish state finances. ➡️ https://buff.ly/3ELq5zY

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📣 Congratulations to the three #PROMYS grantees whose projects were selected for funding and started in December 2024! #research #science ↪️

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🆕 Following a trial period, we are now reporting all SNSF news on Bluesky! Information shared on this account is in English. 💡 For news in French and German, follow us on this account: bsky.app/profile/did:... ➡️ www.snf.ch/en/Un0gtuyAx...

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📢 CHIST-ERA 2025 call for proposals – Science in your Own Language (SOL). Submission deadline: 15 April 2025 ➡️https://buff.ly/4hY9zuI

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📣🚀From sustainable windows to the early detection of natural hazards thanks to AI: with the #BRIDGE funding programme, the SNSF and #Innosuisse invested over CHF 25 million in 51 innovative projects in 2024. ➡️https://sohub.io/3vck

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⏰🗓️ 7 days left: Nominations for the Marcel Benoist Swiss Sciences #Prize 2025 close on 24 February. Don't miss out on the chance to propose researchers from #MINT disciplines! 🤖 More info ➡️ https://buff.ly/4b1QxkK 📷 Carmela Odoni

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📣 #Call for proposals: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 This programme enables researchers based in Switzerland to do a research stay in #Japan for 12 to 24 months. 📆 Submission deadline: 30 April 2025 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3EByN3E

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