@katalinsolymosi
Plant biologist at ELTE, Budapest, Hungary. Interests: plastids, science policy, science outreach, Arts & Science, gender equality. Mental health advocate. Outgoing Chair of the Young Academy of Europe. katalinsolymosi.elte.hu
Nagyon köszönöm, @Zsófia Végvári, Kántor Endre, és Réka Back - szerintem pörgős és változatos volt a beszélgetés, és sok fontos témát érintettünk a tudomány, a művészetek és a mesterséges intelligencia kapcsolatáról... #itbn
See you tomorrow at our ERC StG mentoring event with a focus on getting more information about the 2026 and 2027 ERC calls as well as about the oral interview process. Please meet the mock interviewees & panel.
For further details on the event & registration see here: yacadeuro.org/4th-erc-star...
"...the scientific system was never designed for equity. For people whose privilege stems from geography, institutional reputation and inherited networks, the system works perfectly the way it is." - How to get rid of privileges & unequity that are part of the system?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I need your help!
Our nephew Robin Groenewoud, www.robingroenewoud.nl, wants to go to #Paralympics 2028 in LA
This week the seat of his top-of-the-bill wheelchair broke and needs to be replaced, a 6000€.
Please help him if you can…
👇🏻👇🏻
steunactie.nl/actie/kapott...
#gift #talentsupport #donatenow
📷 The deadline for applications to join the Young Network TransEurope (YNT) has been prolonged – you still have 2 more days to apply! #YNT brings together early-mid-career scholars & artists who want to connect research, society & policy across Europe.
www.bbaw.de/files.../YNT...
Körber European Science Prize 2025 went to @Stephanie Wehner. Impressive award ceremony in Hamburg - inspirational to see a modest, young ethical hecker and female computer scientist with a small child being honored for her great contributons to the quantum internet! @koerber-ip.bsky.social
Looking very much forward to our talk with Zsofia Vegvari about 'AI as researcher' at the hashtag#itbn cybersecurity conference today! (Still need to prepare a bit for it... Plus correct some grant application for my PhD student before I can go to sleep)
itbn.hu
Would like to get more info about ERC StG (or CoG) oral interviews? Feel free to join us & our mock panels at the 5th ERC Starting Grant Mentoring Event of the Young Academy of Europe & the Academia Europaea Budapest Hub. More details and the link for free registration: yacadeuro.org/4th-erc-star...
Application deadline for new members of the Young Network TransEurope is 12th September, for further details please consult the call for new members here: www.bbaw.de/files.../YNT... or read the first publication of the network entitled 'Reclaiming Europe':
www.bbaw.de/files-bbaw/p...
Photo of the UK (near London) we took while on plane with my daughter coming back from the StrayKids concert...
Highly important to recognize the often unconscious behaviour even the slightest & unharmfully looking ones including jokes. You never know how much suffering, imposter syndrome, self-questioning & job quitting they can cause. Congrats CEC European Managers!
www.cec-managers.org/recognize-be...
Exact description of my situation - but please do not forget my kids/family. A third thing to feel sorry about if you want to work or rest instead... And my kids have a fantastic 2.5 month summer holiday period...
Shocking scientific results: the number of fake papers is doubled every one and a half year according to this statistical analysis/paper published in @pnas. “If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed" outlined one of the authors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
I should have bought a T-shirt with me to London for this FANtastic concert with text like: 'I am here only because of my daughter' (on a father) or rather 'I am here for my daughter, but also for Felix' (on a mother). Was a fantastic mother-daughter programme. SKZ and STAY forever!
Well, first, I am not convinced about the originality of the quote ;-), second, I am not sure I could solve differential equations, but I could for sure use this time for many other more important things.
Sadly seeing that botanists and especially plant biology education and thus knowledge is slowly going extinct in a self-enhancing negative spiral/circle - alarmin in times when human civilization is dependent upon plants for survival.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Proof about how large language models (like ChatGTP) have influenced biomedical paper writing - in some areas more than 40% of papers were written using such help...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Spending time with my two beloved kids at Lake Balaton I am wondering whether I should add a similar sentence to my next publication or thesis or not...
At the Hamburg Science Summit I'll moderate the Young Academy of Europe session dedicated to the role of AI in scientific publication with panelists representing publishers, AI tech industry and academia. Join us and register here: koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/....
@koerberscience.bsky.social
How to trick your AI-editors & reviewers? If and as AI gets more and more involved in manuscript evaluation, people intending to manipulate it for preferable review procedures will also appear... Bad practice - but indeed interesting. #HamburgScienceSummit asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
It’s not the career difficulty itself that leads to regret — it’s how we respond to it. People who actively engage in "repair strategies" (reclaiming, enriching, mobilizing) are better equipped to move forward without lingering regret. See below: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Registration is open to the 2nd Hamburg Science Summit! Really grateful to Körber Foundation & Markus Dressel - for inviting me again as a host of the Young Academy of Europe panel discussing this year whether AI is a promise or threat for science. koerber-stiftung.invitepeople.com/events/scien...
Last day of our conference ending by Bettina Ughy's great talk about redefining cell counting of unicellular organisms, + talks of the 4 poster prize awardees. (Also special thanks to her as she mentioned my talk & our data about plastids in buds.) Best conference ever. remedicon.hu/346/photosyn...
Just having our fantastic international Photosynthesis conference at Lake Balaton - I just finished my talk about "the life of a leaf", will chair a session soon and then be on the poster jury with Barry Bruce and Anja Krieger-Liszkay.
www.remedicon.hu/346/photosyn...
Old piece but still quite relevant! More than ever - when we see that there are too many doctoral candidates trained, most of whom will not find job in academia...
Registrations are open for the Hamburg Science Summit where the Young Academy of Europe (&me as its Outgoing Chair) will host a panel featuring publishers, AI company, researchers discussing the question whether AI is a promise or threat for science.
koerber-stiftung.invitepeople.com/events/scien...
Important questions and problems - with the solution being a reform in doctoral education to better prepare doctoral candidates for non-academic career prospects.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great THX to BSc students Lili Hanzmann, Nati Radványi & Máté Biczó & doctoral candidate Helga Fanni Schubert for joining me at the Museum's Nights event at ELTE TTK Természetrajzi Múzeum with plant, algal & environmental microscopic sample demonstration to lay people today. Science outreach rulez!
Finally some good directions towards sustainable solutions for the wellbeing of the parent and the child, of both partners and the family... There are no solutions for mothers in science without fathers who care! @mothersinsci.bsky.social #womeninscience
www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats
Honoured and thrilled to participate in a panel at this conference. More than ever before we need to rethink urban sustainability in a world where rural population is decreasing & urban migration prevails, all this in the frame of climate change.
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