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Young Academies from all over Europe met in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-12 May 2022. The meeting, organised and hosted by the Belgian Young Academy, brought together representatives from 21 young academies and academy initiatives; some representatives joined online. The GYA…
by GYA Executive Committee member Anna Harris (University of Maastricht, Netherlands) (Note: Many thanks to GYA Senior Communications Officer Jim Curtiss for his collaboration on this post.) Facing a paywall A few years ago while I was precariously positioned…
The 2022 call for applications for the GYA Sasha Kagansky Interdisciplinary Grant is now open! Applications should be submitted by Sunday, 3 July 2022. This grant scheme, introduced at the GYA’s 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM), seeks to support…
Since 2014, more than 200 young scholars and scientists have taken part in GYA-supported capacity-building science leadership programmes or workshops. These Science Leadership Programmes (SLPs) and Workshops aim to nurture future science leaders, offering training in collective leadership skills and…
The GYA’s Science Advice Working Group recently unveiled the the Science Advice Resource Centre, a platform that features peer-reviewed articles on governmental science advice, science policy, science diplomacy, and science communication by and for early-career researchers (ECRs). The platform is…
2022 Arab-Germany Young Academy membership call The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) Call for Membership Applications 2022 is now open. The AGYA promotes research cooperation among outstanding early-career researchers (3-10 years after PhD) from all disciplines who…
Early-career researchers beware! Minimise your risk of using predatory journals and conferences. In March, the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) launched their report on Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences. GYA alumnus Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq (Bangladesh, University of Rajshahi) acted as…
I was born 35 years ago in a rural community of just a few dozen inhabitants in Michoacán, Mexico. I was fortunate that my parents encouraged me to be curious, and read books, many books! When I was a child,…
It is nice to be a woman and a scientist, but it is really hard. I am a mother of two beautiful kids, a girl, and a boy. That little girl in the picture is me (at 4 years old)…
Imagine a little girl of five, in a verandah full of stuffed toys, scribbling on the wall and talking to herself. That would be my daughter, five years ago. When I caught her at this game the first time, I…
The world has changed so much in recent weeks. With events unfolding as they are in Ukraine, it seems more important than ever to bring science closer to society. This was the motivation behind a recent discussion between GYA member…
I was very lucky to be born in a place where I had great role models. When I was growing up, my mom was a biologist and a professor at university, while my dad was a university student so our…