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21 January 2022

GYA member Paulina Carmora-Mora (University of California-Davis, USA) and alumna Dilfuza Egamberdieva (National University of Uzbekistan) hosted the 1st Central Asia Genomics Symposium in December 2021. The symposium is intended to be a hub for genomics-related research in Central Asia,…

6 December 2021

In October 2021, GYA Global Health Working Group members, along with members of National Young Academies and similar early- to mid-career scientist networks organised and contributed to a New Voices in Global Health session at the World Health Summit in…

1 December 2021

Following the 2021 AGM theme of “Trust in Science”, the working groups “Trust in (Young) Scientists” and “Global Health” organised a webinar titled “Hardcore science skepticism – What can young scientists do?” The webinar was moderated by past Executive Committee…

26 November 2021

Two GYA members working in the social sciences – Alexandra Dmitrieva (Support, Research and Development Center, Ukraine) and Alma Hernández-Mondragón (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) – were selected to attend, participate and take…

25 November 2021

The need to protect and support academic researchers fleeing conflict zones and politically challenging circumstances around the world is urgent. These intellectuals are perceived as threatening to regimes and extremist groups and are targeted as a result. Their survival and…

23 November 2021

by Roula Inglesi-Lotz, GYA Co-Chair, University of Pretoria, South Africa 23 November 2021 “Early career researchers (ECRs)—PhD students, post-docs as well as recently-appointed principal investigators—constitute a large fraction of the scientific community”.[i] However, ECRs are often excluded from science decision-making…

3 November 2021

The GYA supports Open Science and Open Access in a variety of ways, including our collaboration with the Open Research Europe publishing consortium, our Open Science working group, and now also through our endorsement of the Statement titled “Article Processing…

2 November 2021

The Global Young Academy has published a full report on its 2021 online International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting on the topic “Trust in Science”. The report leads with a message from the GYA Co-Chairs, and includes…

2 November 2021

Together with the Inter American Institute for Global Change Research and the National Science Policy Network‘s Science Diplomacy Committee, the GYA hosted a joint learning opportunity and happy hour social event to explore the current challenges and experiences of early…

21 October 2021

by Felix Moronta Barrios, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ICGEB, Italy. 21 October 2021 During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, we have already seen terrorist attacks, financial crashes, new authoritarian governments, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, the…

20 October 2021

In 2020, the GYA became an Affiliate Member of the International Science Council (ISC). The ISC strives to be the global voice for science, and promotes science as a global public good. The online General Assembly (GA) in October 2021…

15 October 2021

The 2021 Tsukuba Conference took place in September 2021 as a hybrid event with more than 3,000 registered participants from over 60 countries. In cooperation with the Young Academy of Japan, GYA member and past Executive Committee (EC) member Yoko…