Proud to say that Sophia Jex-Blake came to #Switzerland and got her medical degree at the University of Bern. Hope University of Bern International Relations is also honouring her birth #OnThisDay 1840 #WomenInMedicine Matthias Egger ISPM Bern Hugues Abriel @[email protected]

Amazing experience Stellenbosch University and
Centre for Epidemic Response & Innovation (CERI) with our wonderful colleagues of the #AfricaEuropeCoRE for #GenomicsforHealthinAfrica . Dedicated working groups, ambitious goals for the next months, exciting times ahead. Very special thanks to
Shahida Moosa #CeaseFireNOW and Tulio de Oliveira :-)

Exciting Step Forward! The Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Genomics for Health in Africa consortium gathered at Stellenbosch University for its first in-person meeting on Jan 16-17. A powerful collaboration in #genomicsresearch #CoREGHA

📢 Last chance to submit your abstract for #EGU24 ! Explore 20+ mountain sessions, including MRI-endorsed ones 🏔️ ⬇️

⏱️ Deadline: 13:00 CET on 10 January 2024
🔗 View the list and submit today: loom.ly/atZMHg4

#OurChangingMountains #CallForAbstracts EGU

Jean-Michel Benkert (Jean-Michel Benkert) and I are organizing a small workshop on the economics of startup acquisitions.

We welcome theoretical and empirical papers on killer acquisitions, acquihires, incentives to innovate, and other topics related to startup acquisitions.

Thrilled to share our new publication:

Constitutional design is now in the spotlight for its impact on democratic backsliding (e.g. Levitsky/Daniel Ziblatt). But how can maldesigned constitutions be altered? And what effects do different amendment rules have? academic.oup.com/publius/advanc…

📢Paper alert! Is the #synchrotron -based X-ray #fluorescence (XFM) and backscatter #diffraction #mapping (XBDM) the next step beyond SEM-based EBSD and EDX? Check out the new collaboration of Profs. Berger & Herwegh with Australian colleagues! Universität Bern
📎tinyurl.com/mrxu8m3h

New publication: “Current and Evolving Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in Managing Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy.”. Congratulations to the authors! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38099914/ Christoph Gräni #BernCVRC

An exciting start to 2024! Yesterday, the UK officially became an associated country to Horizon Europe🇪🇺 🇬🇧

🇨🇭 The Guild continues to urge for Switzerland's association to the R&I framework programme (@Stick2Science)

Read more about our advocacy here ➡️ the-guild.eu/resources/the-…

New publication: “Prognostic impact of cardiac damage staging classification in each aortic stenosis subtype undergoing TAVI”. Congratulations to the authors! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37946532/ Thomas Pilgrim #BernCVRC

Newly discovered #exoplanets dance around their sun, surprising study co-author Hugh Osborn Universität Bern. He and Rafael Luque The University of Chicago discuss its meaning for our solar system in The Guardian article. An image by Thibaut Roger NCCR PlanetS showcases the dance: buff.ly/3NJHoTR

'The #Heliosphere in the Local Interstellar Medium – Into the Unknown' the new volume in the Space Sciences Series of ISSI is now available: issibern.ch/sssi88/
also published open access in SSR: link.springer.com/collections/ee…
@springerastro

📢During an engaging 2⃣-day session in Brussels last week, The Guild Gender and Diversity Working Group gathered to address pressing issues, share insights, and chart a course towards a more inclusive future in academia 👏
Read our highlights from the meeting➡️…

New publication: “Changes in fasting plasma glucose and subclinical atherosclerosis: A cohort study from VIPVIZA trial”.
Congratulations to the authors! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37932189/ Dante Salvador Jr #BernCVRC

We are excited to announce the 1st Swiss Reproducibility Conference on June 10-11, 2024 in Zürich - join in discussing and promoting rigorous, transpartent and reproducible research. By Swiss Reproducibility Network together with Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF). More on: reproducibility.ch

It's great to see talks begin on Swiss association. Horizon Europe will be far stronger with Switzerland as a full associate member of the programme.

The UK will continue to advocate for our friends and colleagues in Switzerland.

#StickToScience Stick to Science

The Stick to Science campaign was hugely important in securing this announcement - making clear that there was support for UK participation from academia & business.

But S2S was never just about the UK. It's about securing full association for both the UK and Switzerland 🇬🇧🇨🇭

Lively discussion on #Indian #democracy with Prof. Arjun Appadurai, Amnesty International Lisa Majumdar, Nicolas Walder, @Anthropology_UniBern Sharib Aqleem Ali and audience in Bern, 'creating awareness of challenges to fundamental rights in Indian Constitution' (co-host Inst.of Federalism архангельская юлия)