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   Ottoline Leyser announced as new CEO at UK Research and Innovation

   26.05.20 | Eminent plant biologist and long-time science policy advisor will take over from Prof Sir Mark Walport.

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   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded to Dagmar Schäfer

   21.05.20 | Historian of Chinese science and technology to receive Germany’s highest research accolade.
   

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   Eve's Achilles Heel

   14.05.20 | Researchers at our funding organisation Max Planck Society found out that for women, stress and competition is a bad combination.

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   Neuroscientist Erin Schuman granted 2020 Louis-Jeantet Prize

   07.05.20 | Prof Schuman received the prestigious prize for her work on the neurophysiology of memory.
   
   

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   «We want to improve the visibility of women researchers»

   28.04.20 | The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has been managing AcademiaNet since January 2020, when it took over from the Robert Bosch Stiftung (RBS). Simona Isler, gender equality representative of the SNSF, talks about ideas and plans for the future.
   

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   SNSF will run AcademiaNet

   05.12.19 | More women in scientific leadership positions - this is the goal of AcademiaNet, the European database listing outstanding women researchers. As of January 2020, it will be run by the SNSF.

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   AcademiaNet at a crossroads – a look back and future perspectives

   18.12.18 | The Robert Bosch Foundation (RBS) has founded AcademiaNet and funded the platform from the beginning. They now have to end the funding at a time when AcademiaNet starts to gain momentum. We spoke with Dr Katrin Rehak-Nitsche, Senior Vice President for Science and Research at the RBS, about the situation.

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   "We are missing out on a lot of potential…”

   17.12.18 | Interview with AcademiaNet member Eva-Maria Feichtner

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   Narcissism: not only an individual failing

   14.12.18 | Interview with AcademiaNet member Agnieszka Golec de Zavala

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    Film and television tell children who can be scientists

    26.11.18 | Roles on the screen largely reinforce the message that scientists are white men.

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