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Events
- The Postdoc Days of Jena University will
take place from 18 to 20 June. They offer a variety
of short online and on-site events on topics related
to everyday life as a postdoc at the University of
Jena, e.g. research transfer, science communication
or the question of postdoc representation. There
will also be an exclusive english-speaking tour of
the future Carl Zeiss AG high-tech campus. An
overview of all events can be found on this
website.
- The Centre for Applied Research in Jena is hosting
an event on the topic of "Securing
intellectual property" on 12 June. After
a general introduction, the focus is on technical
property rights, design and trade marks as well as
search options. The lecture will be held in German
with English-texted slides. It will be streamed
online. The Leibniz Association also offers three
detailed (German) tutorials
on the topic. (Illustration above:
Adobestock.com/jirsak)
- The Thuringian
RDM Days, an online conference on
research data management, will take place on June 18
and 19. The two-day event is aimed at all Thuringian
researchers, regardless of their level of
qualification. This year's motto is "Becoming
literate in the Data Universe".
- Outstanding researchers are invited to Jena as
part of the CZS
Honorary Guest Lecture. On 19 June,
microbiologist Pascale Cossart from the Institut
Pasteur in Paris will give this Honorary Guest
Lecture. She will talk about her research on the
Listeria bacterium which led her to develop a novel
model system. For her research, Cossart has received
several international prizes and was recently a
visiting professor at Harvard Medical School.
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Get
involved
- For our photo competition "Hats off!" we
have received photos of 16 creative doctor's hats.
You can find all the photos and descriptions here.
But it's not up to us to decide which hat is the
most beautiful! You can vote until 18 June. The
winners will be announced at the graduation
ceremony on Schiller Day (28 June).
- The Jena
Alliance calls for proposals for keynote
speakers who could be invited to give an Honorary
Guest Lecture in Jena. It is looking for
scientists with an outstanding international
reputation who are able to give an overview on a
scientific field in the area of the LIGHT-LIFE
profile lines that is of immediate interest and
societal relevance. The call is open and directed to
all scientists of the Jena Alliance graduate
schools. The engagement of the guest and the
inviting research group will be generously
financially supported. In addition, the inviting
research group may invite the keynote speaker to
spend some time as a guest at their institute in
Jena. To propose a speaker, please email maria.langhammer@uni-jena.de.
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Announcements
- The interdisciplinary Rowena
Morse Mentoring programme supports
female doctoral candidates (in the final phase of
their doctorate) and postdocs (in the orientation
phase) in planning their career. During the 12-month
programme, mentees network with each other, attend
workshops for further training and receive
individual advice from experienced professors of
Thuringian universities in group mentoring sessions.
Application deadline for the programme is 18 August.
- The Graduate Academy offers four certificate
programmes for which you can apply now.
The following programmes are offered: Leadership in
Academia, Leadership in Industry and Society,
Science Management and Start-up Management. To
obtain the certificates, you must complete six
workshops from the Graduate Academy's qualification
programme. Participants will be given preference in
enrolling in the courses. Applications are possible
until 19 June.
- The Jena
Alliance "Life in Focus" announces the Siegfried
Czapski Publication Prize for young researchers.
The prize, endowed with 2,000 EUR, recognizes an
outstanding interdisciplinary publication in an
internationally renowned journal that is located at
the interface of the university's LIGHT and LIFE
profile lines. Eligible are doctoral candidates and
postdocs. Applications can be handed in until 31
July.
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Qualification
offers
There are still vacancies in the following online and
on-site workshops:
- Graduate Academy:
- Lehre Lernen (in German):
- Service Centre for Research and Transfer (in
German):
- Competence Center Digital Research (zedif):
- Lichtwerkstatt Jena:
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This
may be of interest to you
- Working in academia is sometimes like surviving in
the jungle. That's why Kai Noeske, Benjamin Rott and
Katrin Hille have now written a "Survival Guide
Science: (survival) tips for academic
careers". The German book is divided into the
individual career stages and a research toolkit,
e.g. survival at conferences, in the publication
process or when writing proposals. The book can be
read online
free of charge. By the way: For all those who
are a little tired of the fight for survival, the
German podcast "Exhausted
Science" is available since February.
- In mid-May, the German public broadcaster ARD
launched a participatory campaign which is
scientifically assisted by Friedrich Schiller
University Jena: People across Germany were asked to
take photos of rivers and streams and to
answer questionnaires
about their condition. The situation is probably not
everywhere as idyllic as in the symbolic picture
above (Adobestock: Günter Albers). This has already
led to an interactive
map with over 1,000 streams. The results of
the participatory campaign will be broadcast in an
ARD documentary on 23 October.
- Just like Columbia
University in New York, a pro-Palestinian
protest camp at the Free
University in Berlin was also closed down
after a short time. In an open letter, more than 300
academics from the FU Berlin took a stand against
the eviction. Federal Education Minister
Stark-Watzinger said
that this left her "speechless". Another protest
camp was
closed down at Berlin's Humboldt University
shortly after it had been set up – however, the
eviction was ordered by local Berlin politicians,
while the university was more interested in
dialogue. The relationship between politicians and
university management is currently tense.
The German Rectors' Conference is
calling for more respect for university
management. It seems that it has become
difficult to discuss the Israel-Palestine
conflict constructively.
- The
reform of the Academic Temporary Employment Law
will soon be discussed in the Bundestag. The
proposal introduced by the FDP-led Federal Ministry
of Education would have allowed an initial
fixed-term contract of four years after the
doctorate and an extension of the contract by two
years, under the condition that there is a permanent
contract following. The Council of the federal
states has
now commented on this 4+2 rule: It demanded
that the current 6-year rule should continue to
apply for researchers who intend to do a
habilitation. However, even if the approval of the
Council is not required for changing the law, the
statement is regarded as an indicator of the
changing positions of the coalition parties.
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Short
query: Hostility towards academia
Hate speech,
hostility towards academia and populist campaigns
against researchers have rarely been investigated to
date. A recent
survey has now analysed forms, extent and
experiences of anti-academic hostility. 70% of the
researchers see an increase in hostility towards
academia in recent years. 45% have experienced at least
one form of hostility towards science. The most common
forms were derogatory remarks, doubting competence
through belittling and hurtful criticism (35%) and
inappropriate reactions to academic findings (28%).
In this context, we are interested in the situation at
the University of Jena. We would be delighted if you
would take part in a short survey to give us an insight
into whether you are also affected by hostility towards
academia. Participation is possible until 21 June.
To our query
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News
from University of Jena
- At the top end of
the botanical garden you will find the so-called inspector's
house (picture: Uni Jena). This historic
building has been extensively renovated in recent
years. It will be reopened as the "Goethe
Laboratory" with an event on 2 July (starting at 6
pm in the auditorium in the main university
building). From 4 July, an exhibition on Goethe's
scientific activities in Jena will
be presented in the building.
- How reliable are
the statements of eyewitnesses? According to
research, this depends on many factors (e.g.
lighting conditions, presence of a weapon, time
interval to the incident). Ulrike Kruse, a
psychology doctoral candidate in Jena, has now produced
several videos in which (theft) offences are
re-enacted. She has also collected images of the
offenders and seven other similar-looking people.
The videos and images are available
online in the Open Science Framework and are
intended to provide the basis for further (global)
research into the reliability of eyewitnesses.
- A new website
on the use of artificial intelligence in
teaching has been launched by the university. On the
website,
lecturers can find information on how to use AI
applications in examinations, about events on this
topic as well as general tips for the use of AI in
teaching and studying.
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Latest
news from Jena city
- The municipal and mayoral elections in
Jena took place on 26 May. You can find the results
of the elections here.
Kathleen Lützkendorf (Greens, 15.4%) and incumbent
mayor Thomas Nitzsche (FDP, 25.3%) reached the
run-off election for the office of Lord Mayor. You
can find information on both of them in detailed
(german) interviews on JenaTV (Lützkendorf,
Nitzsche).
The run-off election will take place together with
the European elections on 9 June.
- The Jena University Sports Department is
organising a yoga
and music festival in Paradise Park on
15 June (picture from last year: Tobias Findeis).
The festival offers the opportunity to learn the
basics of yoga philosophy, gain insights into forms
of meditation and discover different styles of yoga.
The festival will be accompanied by live music on
handpan and harmonium.
- Short news about the upcoming Thuringian state
election:
The Initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen is organizing
so-called local
talks in various towns and villages +++
Starting in summer, there will be a Weimar art
project for the state election in Thuringia
+++ The Verfassungsblog is investigating
what effects an extremist party in the Thuringian
state government could have and will publish the
final results in summer +++ The German lecture
series "Democracy
under attack – findings and antidotes" looks
at the possible reasons for the success of the
right-wing party AfD
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