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How are societies changing as a result of immigration, aging, and new forms of work and social relationships? And what opportunities, but also challenges, arise from these changes? The new Einstein Center Population Diversity aims to answer these questions. It brings together researchers from various Berlin institutions to study demographic change through the lens of the family.

The 2023 Einstein Foundation Award Winner, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Berkeley, CA, June 5-7, 2024.

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The ‘Boundaries of Cosmopolis’ project, led by Einstein BUA/Oxford Visiting Fellow Prof. Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford), held its first workshop at the Centre for British Studies on 15 March 2024.

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Kallol Ray's UniSysCat group receives prominent support from Korea: Einstein Visiting Fellow Wonwoo Nam visits the group at Humboldt-Universität Berlin for a four-year research stay to work on green catalytic systems.

Portrait of Yves Moreau sitting on a sofa

AskDifferent #31 – If you ask Yves Moreau, we are drunk teenagers losing control of the car we are driving – at least when it comes to artificial intelligence. The 2023 Einstein Foundation Individual Award winner studies biomedical DNA data and describes himself as a “concerned scientist.” In this metaphor-packed episode of #AskDifferent, he describes the cultural shift he would like to see regarding the way we deal with artificial intelligence, how he helped push prestigious scientific journals to retract articles, and what the future holds for ethical standards in technological engineering.

The exhibition portraits gender struggle in trade unions in German, Turkish, and Kurdish language. It was co-developed by Einstein Fellow Handan Çağlayan and will be on display between March 15th and April 15th 2024 before moving on.

Beklebter Laternenpfahl mit Schriftzug "Big data is watching you"

Watch the video of the panel discussion with 2023 Einstein Foundation Award winner Yves Moreau et al on March 14, 2024.

The "STEM Passion" exhibition, opened by Einstein Fellows Maike Sander and Kathrin Zippel, among others, runs through March 12 at the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine.

Porträt Yves Moreau

The 2023 Individual Award winner, who campaigns for ethical standards in the use of human DNA data in research, talks about unethical data gathering in China on the BBC's Science in Action programme from 7'56" to 15'22".

Until 30 April 2024, the annual €500,000 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research is inviting applications and nominations again. Find out more and apply!

Porträt Stefan Flasche

Following a funding recommendation by the Einstein Foundation and a decision by the Board of Directors of the Berlin University Alliance, Prof. Dr Stefan Flasche took up the Einstein-BUA Professorship for Infection Dynamics and Global Health at Charité Berlin on 1 January 2024.

In December, the Einstein Foundation Berlin's Executive Board approved funding among others for Oya Cingöz and Christoph Sander as the first Einstein Starting Researcher.