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Episode 7 features GYA alumna and SLP-LAC Project Lead Paulina Carmona-Mora and SLP LAC fellow from Ecuador Xavier Chiriboga discussing the Declaration of Leticia “Transforming the STEM future: Visibilizing the social responsibility of young academics in Latin American and Caribbean”.
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Yensi Flores Bueso (United States)
With the GYA, I was not only able to co-lead the first global study on research assessment but also to serve as a steering board member of CoARA. GYA opened platforms for me as a researcher coming from a country without research infrastructure.
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Nova Ahmed (Bangladesh)
With a GYA WG colleague, Dr Shabana Khan, we wrote a grant and received the GDN Outstanding Research and Development Grant to address misinformation and fake news during disaster periods.
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Mohammad Hosseini (United States)
Through a Sasha Kaganski Grant, I was able to hire a talented student (who comes from a low-resourced area) to gain academic experience.
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Gregory A. Weiss (United States)
I met Prof. Colin Raston while travelling on GYA business. Based on our quick-to-develop collaboration, we won an Ig Nobel Prize for “unboiling the egg” and published about a dozen papers together.
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Paulina Carmona-Mora (United States)
Through GYA contacts, I identified researchers from Egypt to write a joint grant. Also, two years ago, my GYA «roommate» and I got a grant to organise the first Central Asia Genomics Symposium.
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Jane Yau (Germany)
Through the GYA, several opportunities to collaborate with international organisations including UNESCO, ISC and Smithsonian have been made available to me.
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Happening now - do join us for the GYA International Conference of Young Scientists Panel III "AI at the Core of Disciplinary Foundations in the Humanities and Social Sciences"This session will explore how AI is pressuring the foundations of different research disciplines. Each panelist will present one disruptive question that AI has raised for their field, such as whether long standing methods remain necessary or how AI reshapes the kinds of questions researchers can ask. Speakers include Vusumuzi Maphosa, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Zimbabwe, Fatima Roumate (PhD) , and GYA member Anina Schwarzenbach, Institute of Penal Law and Criminology, University of Bern.The moderator is GYA member Dr. Rima-Maria Rahal, Institute of Cognition and Behavior at Vienna University of Economics and Business.Livestream link here: www.youtube.com/live/dhJR6ACVTz8?si=IPm5ySa1QgmIXlH1 ... See MoreSee Less
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Our #gyagm2026 Gala Dinner was a festive evening that featured a Welcoming Speech by President Bettina Rockenbach of the Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, as well as an improptu speech by President-elect Robbert Dijkgraaf of the International Science Council. ... See MoreSee Less
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Happening now - do join us for the GYA's International Conference of Young Scientists Public Dialogue Session – The Hidden Cost of Knowledge: AI, Publishing Surveillance, and the Future of Open Research!This panel aims to have a critical discussion about the effects of AI on #OpenScience and scholarly publishing, and explore what the various ecosystem participants can do to ensure scientific communication is open and trustworthy, Speakers include Anita de Waard, Vice President of Research Collaborations at Elsevier Research Collaborations Unit, Nick Schockey, SPARC’s Associate Executive Director, Michaela Bilic-Merdes of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation, and GYA member Hanjo Hamann, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Germany.GYA Open Science Group Co-lead Oscar Xavier Guerrero Gutiérrez, Co-President of the Mexican Young Academy, will be the moderator.Join us here: www.youtube.com/live/dhJR6ACVTz8?si=yjg83dLVa8lev6YX ... See MoreSee Less
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