The #ERC has just announced a new, very special and ambitious grant: ERC plus grants that will be 7 Million € for 7 years to do really ground breaking research that requires such an effort (and that is worth it). Only 30 will be given across all fields and you can have it only once in your life, so they are extremely competitive, but you could do exciting things if you have a great idea. It is open for all career stages.

https://youtu.be/SrR0GPktH74?si=mKko9jt186Wb-UVo

The #ERC has just announced a new, very special and ambitious grant: ERC plus grants that will be 7 Million € for 7 years to do really ground breaking research that requires such an effort (and that is worth it). Only 30 will be given across all fields and you can have it only once in your life, so they are extremely competitive, but you could do exciting things if you have a great idea. It is open for all career stages.

https://youtu.be/SrR0GPktH74?si=mKko9jt186Wb-UVo

#MariaLeptin, president of the European Research Council (#ERC, @ERC_Research), spotlights two threats to #AcademicFreedom. One is the kind of direct ideological pressure from heads of state like Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. The other is a more insidious "web of incentives" self-imposed by academics themselves, including pressure to publish in "high-impact journals".
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/international-news/web-incentives-research-funding-limit-academic-freedom

#Academia #DefendResearch #Incentives #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

#MariaLeptin, president of the European Research Council (#ERC, @ERC_Research), spotlights two threats to #AcademicFreedom. One is the kind of direct ideological pressure from heads of state like Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. The other is a more insidious "web of incentives" self-imposed by academics themselves, including pressure to publish in "high-impact journals".
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/international-news/web-incentives-research-funding-limit-academic-freedom

#Academia #DefendResearch #Incentives #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Success rate for the #EU Postdoctoral #grants MCSA is now lower (10%) than for #ERC starting grants (12%), and even lower for the ERC advance grants (8%). The UK funding not much better, UKRI grants at 18%, down from a 36% back in 2017.

And I'm expected to get the same amount of funding that people 10 or 15 years ago if I want to keep my job... What a mess.

#academia

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03119-z

Success rate for the #EU Postdoctoral #grants MCSA is now lower (10%) than for #ERC starting grants (12%), and even lower for the ERC advance grants (8%). The UK funding not much better, UKRI grants at 18%, down from a 36% back in 2017.

And I'm expected to get the same amount of funding that people 10 or 15 years ago if I want to keep my job... What a mess.

#academia

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03119-z

Implicats en la #corrupció de la #DGAIA:

- #ERC va gestionar el Departament de Drets Socials (abans Treball, Afers Socials i Famílies) en diversos períodes, especialment entre 2016 i 2021.
- #PSC implicat per la seva gestió del Departament en etapes anteriors (especialment durant el Tripartit, 2003-2010) i per la seva influència en algunes fundacions beneficiades.
- #Junts i predecessors, van tenir el control del Departament en diverses legislatures, incloent-hi el període 2010-2015.

Pere Aragonès renuncia al sou d'expresident un any després.

Queda clar que deu guanyar més calés amb l'imperi hoteler.

https://www.3cat.cat/324/pere-aragones-renuncia-al-sou-dexpresident-un-any-despres/noticia/3369804/

#ERC #president #catalunya

Pues de todos los eurodiputados a los que les reenvié el mail contra chat control, solo ha contestado Vicent Marzà de Compromís. Ni siquiera las aguerridas y combativas podemitas. Supongo que no habrán visto votos aquí.
Se vota en Octubre, si sale adelante las autoridades podrán leer tus mensajes personales sin necesidad de orden judicial.

Es buena idea entrar en la web de @chatcontrol y reenviar el email a los eurodiputados pidiéndoles posicionarse en contra.

#chatcontrol #fightchatcontrol#Europe#EuropeanUnion #privacy #xmpp #signal #whattsapp #compromis #europarliament
#podemos #sumar #psoe #bildu #erc

Pues de todos los eurodiputados a los que les reenvié el mail contra chat control, solo ha contestado Vicent Marzà de Compromís. Ni siquiera las aguerridas y combativas podemitas. Supongo que no habrán visto votos aquí.
Se vota en Octubre, si sale adelante las autoridades podrán leer tus mensajes personales sin necesidad de orden judicial.

Es buena idea entrar en la web de @chatcontrol y reenviar el email a los eurodiputados pidiéndoles posicionarse en contra.

#chatcontrol #fightchatcontrol#Europe#EuropeanUnion #privacy #xmpp #signal #whattsapp #compromis #europarliament
#podemos #sumar #psoe #bildu #erc

Last week, I made a tough decision: I gave up applying for the #ERC grant -- the One Ring of all research grants, €1,000,000 over five years -- because I realized it was putting me in a state of constant stress, eating into my nights and weekends. I knew I wouldn't be able to enjoy the summer holidays with my family in that condition. (1/4)

Update. "Impacts of Restrictions on Federal Grant Funding in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Programs."
https://ww2.aip.org/statistics/impacts-of-restrictions-on-federal-grant-funding-in-physics-and-astronomy-graduate-programs

"37% of the responding department chairs [in #physics and #astronomy] said they expect to enroll fewer first-year graduate students in the fall of 2025 than they did the previous year…The number of first-year graduate students in physics and astronomy is anticipated to decline by about 13%. This is a projected decline of about 600 first-year graduate students."

#DefendResearch #Funding #ERC #Trump #USPol #USPolitics