The age at which scientists or inventors achieve their moment of genius increasing: Half of all pioneering contributions in science now happen after age 40, it used to be younger.

Why? There is much more to master before making a contribution to a field. nber.org/papers/w19866

In the US, there were 121 measles cases so far in 2024 and it is recognized as a problem that needs to be addressed.

Austria had 385 so far in 2024 (according to AGES).....

US population: 330 million
Austrian population: 9 million

Eine neue Studie zeigt: Deutschland und Österreich sind die europäischen Spitzenreiter in der 'Zermürbung' (attrition) von Frauenkarrieren in der Wissenschaft (MINT-Fächer). Niemand zermürbt Frauen noch schneller!🇦🇹🇩🇪 #IchbinHanna Unterbau Uni Wien

Update: currently 49 UK universities making cuts: qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Submit your manuscript to our Article Collection on vaccination attitudes Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (co-edited with Filip Viskupic & Dave Wiltse)! Open for interdisciplinary submissions until July 11, 2024: nature.com/collections/ac…

The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral | Goldsmiths, University of London | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2024…

🖥️ Not all #ConspiracyTheories that spread on social media remain popular over time.
🕸️ Today, Courtney Blackington & Frances Cayton🇺🇦 argue that conspiracy theories which map onto salient cleavages are more likely to persist and spread online
bit.ly/3VPnuLV

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Heute startet in Wien die AK Österreich #AKWahl in den Betrieben und den öffentlichen Wahllokalen.
Der Stadtsender W24 hat einen Bericht 'So funktioniert die #AKWahl 24' gebracht.
w24.at/News/2024/3/So…
#DeineStimme für #Gerechtigkeit

“The politicization of vaccines has led to this vaccine not being utilized as much as it should be.“
COVID Vaccination during Pregnancy Protects Newborn Babies | Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/covid-…

Peter Higgs ist tot. Mit Mitte 30 hatte er die Idee für das Higgs-Teilchen. Mit 82 bekam er den Nobelpreis.
Eine richtig gute Idee im Leben ist mehr als genug. Seine Biographie lässt uns vielleicht darüber nachdenken, wie sehr Wissenschaft zum Publikations-Wettlauf geworden ist.

Free access until the end of April 2024 from our latest issue -

Anchoring Vignettes as a Diagnostic Tool for Cross-National (in)Comparability of Survey Measures: The Case of Voters’ Left-Right Self-Placement - cup.org/4cyQ7mj

- Nick Lin (中央研究院 Academia Sinica) & Seonghui Lee

Die Daten zur Studie von Austrian Academy of Sciences, Universität Wien & Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg und weitere Daten aus dem Generations & Gender Programme GGP gibt's bei AUSSDA zur wissenschaftlichen Nachnutzung🎓
➡️ data.aussda.at/dataverse/ggp

orf.at/stories/335383…

Academia: 'what do you want?'

Academics: 'a permanent job'

Academia: *creates Resilience and Wellness in an Age of Impermanence Officer*

Academics (all gender!), watch out!
Universität Wien, do we have numbers about the distribution of work at our university?

Net support for strikes by…

Nurses +27
Jr doctors +15
Teachers +10
Takeaway drivers +4
Post workers +1
Bus workers ±0
Sr doctors -7
Border force -10
Uni staff -11
Rail workers -12
Civil servants -12
TfL workers -12
Driving examiners -15
Train drivers -18…

Heute ⬇️

Interesse mehr über CRISPR zu erfahren? Diese Methode revolutioniert gerade die Lebenswissenschaften, die erste Therapie ist zugelassen, und die EU diskutiert die Anwendungen in Nutzpflanzen.

Chancen? Risiken? Zukunft? Verstehen, ausprobieren, mitreden!

crispr-whisper.de/2024/03/22/die…

Our open access🔓 article explaining how #disinformation affects perceptions of election fairness now has an issue number in Comparative Political Studies. Thought I'd re-share it here. Thanks to the brilliant Marlene Mauk for this collaboration.
doi.org/10.1177/001041…

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