Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”

Going to the US-backed aid distribution centre was the hardest day of my life. I’ve never felt humiliation like that

NATO chief Mark Rutte this week praised Donald Trump for talking tough to Iran and Israel, publicly commenting, “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language.” Rutte’s fawning is a cringeworthy display of European subservience to Trump.

YouTube video by TACO: Taming Complexity in Materials Modeling

Trump chiede la resa incondizionata dell’Iran, una pretesa che esclude ogni negoziato e può portare alla degenerazione anche nucleare della guerra con Israele

Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

For decades, the state has been tightening its rules so that fewer and fewer are eligible. This is a chance for Italians to change the narrative, writes Jamie Mackay

Oltre 2.000 ricercatrici e professori dell'università hanno firmato in pochi giorni il documento intitolato La ricerca è lavoro: i rapporti di lavoro nella ricerca abbiano diritti e tutele. Il documen...

Describing electron-phonon interactions in a solid requires knowledge of the electron-phonon matrix elements in the Hamiltonian. State-of-the-art first-principles calculations for the electron-phonon ...

Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Vienna

Polarons are crucial for charge transport in semiconductors, significantly impacting material properties and device performance. The dynamics of small polarons can be investigated using first-principl...

How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their “Worlds”?

New metric identifying “persistently disruptive” papers offers a “bright spot” amid signs of declining innovation

Continua la discussione sul preruolo.  Come tutte le discussioni sull'università, se queste arrivano con continuità ai quotidiani (e ai blog) mainstream, si deve agli interessi concretissimi di alcune...

In 2025, the MSCA will fund doctoral and postdoctoral programmes and collaborative research and innovation projects through various calls supporting around 10,000 researchers. ‘Choose Europe for Scien...

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Lo sciopero dei ricercatori precari italiani - Tutta la città ne parla - Sono 35mila in Italia i ricercatori precari e da mesi protestano contro il disegno Bernini, hanno scioperato e sono scesi in pi...

In the 1990s, Democrats adopted a neoliberal program to suit the needs of capital, driving many workers out. The party then adopted a political strategy meant to replace working-class voters with professionals — with disastrous consequences.

Chiedono contratti stabili e contestano i progetti del governo Meloni, che vuole superare gli impegni presi da Draghi: il problema è sempre lo stesso, cioè i soldi

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

We are proud to announce that Prof. Georg Kresse has been recognized for co-authoring one of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers of all time, according to a newly updated analysis by Nature.

Gli editori commerciali non producono conoscenza; ne gestiscono semplicemente il confezionamento e la reputazione, traendo profitti altissimi da un servizio che, nella sostanza, viene prestato dal sis...

Rosa Luxemburg on the roots of May Day.

Everything—literally everything, perhaps even the fate of our world—hinges on the necessity to assert the parallel between Ukraine and Gaza.

Basic science and methods development is essential to ensure that lifesaving advances and improvements to the human condition continue moving forward. Such research needs strong and sustained funding ...