Maria Leptin @mleptin Twitter profile

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Maria Leptin

@mleptin

3 years

Thanks to those who put forward my name, thanks to the selection committee and ERC Council for shortlisting me, and thanks to Commissioner @GabrielMariya for selecting me. I look forward to working for the research community in Europe!

Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches

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@mleptin

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Finally!!! A huge and warm welcome back to all researchers in the UK to @ERC_Research

Joint Statement by the European Commission and the UK Government on the UK’s association to Horizon...

The European Commission and the UK Government have reached an agreement in principle on the association of the UK to Horizon Europe and Copernicus.

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@mleptin

2 years

Congratulations to all 397 new grantees! Satisfying to see that the share of women among the awardees continues to rise steadily and rapidly, up to highest ever; 43% this year. ERC is thrilled with the results - I’m sure Commissioner @GabrielMariya and @EU_commission are too.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

🎉ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! Over €619 million for the best ideas of young leading researchers - and the 1️⃣st set of grants awarded under 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU . Find out who, where and why 👉 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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@mleptin

2 years

Thank you @RoyalSociety - it is a big honour.

The Royal Society

@royalsociety

2 years

Professor Maria Leptin ForMemRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her leadership in European science – currently as President of @ERC_Research – builds on her research contributions across fields from immunity to genetics. @mleptin #RSFellows

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3 years

I cannot underline enough how crucial it is for Europe to keep investing in top researchers driven by sheer scientific curiosity, which Giorgio Parisi’s achievement illustrates perfectly. Nobel Prize today is great news and so well-deserved!

ERC grantee Giorgio Parisi wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

Giorgio Parisi, grantee of the European Research Council (ERC), has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics. The other half of this year’s award is shared by Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann.

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@mleptin

2 years

on behalf of all in fundamental research and of @ERC_research , I quote Bertozzi: the freedom to pursue an unlikely observation made [this] discovery possible...if I stumbled into this and put out an NIH grant, we’d get laughed out of the study section. Congrats, @CarolynBertozzi !

Angel Kuo

@AngelKuo9

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Congrats to our fearless leader @CarolynBertozzi !! @NobelPrize

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@mleptin

3 years

Hearing ‘I’m humbled’ in response to an award: You mean you’re not wishing the bullies at school were seeing his? Or your in-laws, who might then finally stop asking why you’re not in banking and earning a decent living? It’s OK to be proud! Scientists, please simply be truthful!

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@mleptin

3 years

Who ever said that posting preprints is too risky because you'll get scooped? The opposite is true @ReviewCommons @ASAPbio_

EMBO

@EMBO

3 years

Extended scooping protection: @ReviewCommons will require manuscripts to be posted on a preprint server before transfer to a journal. In return 17 partner journals offer scooping protection from the date of posting the preprint. Details at the new RC blog

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@mleptin

1 year

Why does this 8th c BC Syrian person have a huge Golgi apparatus on his table? (tiny gold plate from Sam'al at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin)

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@mleptin

3 years

Another ERC grantee wins Nobel, Ben List! The @ERC_research can be proud to have placed trust in and backed him. The number of ERC grantees who go on to win Nobel prizes shows that giving researchers the freedom to pursue their scientific dreams truly pays off.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

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3 years

Thrilled to be attending @ERC_Research Scientific Council plenary for the first time today – great discussions and wonderful to see the shared commitment of this inspiring group of top researchers. Today was an appetiser before I join this great team fully as of November.

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@mleptin

1 year

Congratulations to all the new ERC Consolidator grants winners! Glad @ERC_research can support them at a crucial time of their careers, strengthening their independence, reinforcing their teams and helping them establish themselves as leaders in their fields.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

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📢 The results of the 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out: €657 million for 321 researchers. Who has been offered funding? What topics they will investigate? Where will they do their research? Discover the details ➡️ 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #ERCCoG

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@mleptin

2 years

Fervently hoping, as all scientists I know, UK-EU negotiations will result in association so UK colleagues can receive their ERC grants. We were obliged in our letter last week to mention the option for ‘portability’ of the grant, but no one here wishes to entice anyone to leave!

Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere

@fetzert

2 years

And here it is -- communication from @ERC_Research to UK-based #ERC starting grant grantees... UK awardees will have two months time to move their grant to the EU proper, otherwise they will lose their STG. Thank you #Brexit #BrexitReality .

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@mleptin

1 year

This is really a great honour, and I thank my proposer , and also all friends and colleagues who have sent their congrats.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

Congratulations to our President, Maria Leptin, on being elected as international member to the US National Academy of Sciences! Very well-deserved recognition! 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 @theNASciences @MLeptin #NASmembers

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@mleptin

2 years

The ERC Scientific Council will be needing new members. Get your institution or organisation to nominate candidates. Trusted, wise, thoughtful colleagues wanted!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

The Scientific Council of ERC needs new members. Research organisations are encouraged to nominate outstanding candidates by 6 May 2022. Find out more ➡️

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Enthusiastic agreement with Swedish research minister Mats Persson @matsperspektiv on topics like the importance of funding fundamental research and value of international mobility for young researchers' careers. And thanks for hosting @ERC_Research in Stockholm!

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Maria Leptin

@mleptin

10 months

With fellow Foreign Member and good friend Ron Vale of @HHMIJanelia at the @royalsociety induction. Note his muscle tie!!

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@mleptin

8 months

Great news - a new round of @ERC_Research Starting Grants that will give starting PIs the independence to pursue ambitious curiosity-driven research. Congratulations! And, this call saw one of the highest shares of female grantees!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

8 months

🎉 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! 400 bright minds have been awarded over €628 million to fund ideas at the frontiers of science & scholarship. Find out who, where and why 👉 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @HorizonEU

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2 years

Happy to quote Anton Zeilinger who wants to encourage young researchers to do fundamental research: “My advice would be: Do what you find interesting, and don’t care too much about possible applications.” This could be the motto for @ERC_Research . Congrats, Anton!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

Congratulation to the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics! The ERC is proud to have funded Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger 🏅 #EUfunded

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@mleptin

2 years

Fellows of the ⁦ @royalsociety ⁩ 2022: Drosophila rules! Irene Jordan Alex Maria Eileen Mike

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Maria Leptin

@mleptin

6 years

Roche CEO Severin Schwan: CH funding has no culture of public subsidies for applied research in companies. And that is good. Public funds should be reserved for the research we could never do here but upon which we rely for our own work'. This from a major pharma CEO, bravo!!

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@mleptin

2 years

Congratulations to the new ERC Advanced Grant winners! I trust you will explore new avenues and push the frontiers of knowledge. Happy to see the gender balance is improving - not satisfactory yet, but the strong trend seen for the younger cohorts is also reaching the Advanced!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

📣 The results of the 2021 ERC Advanced Grants competition are out. More than €624 million in funds were allocated to leading researchers in the European Union and #HorizonEurope associated countries. All info 👉 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCAdG

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@mleptin

2 years

At long last! Meeting for the first time with the Scientific Council in person in Brussels. It’s been a long time coming because of the pandemic. Good discussions on research assessment and more.

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@mleptin

2 years

Wonderful news! Award for profound insights from purely fundamental research. This is true 'frontier' stuff. Congratulations!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

Congratulation to ERC grantee Prof. Svante Pääbo on winning the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! #EUfunded

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1 year

Today I listened (here an unsolicited and unauthorised photo!) to some of the new Starting Grant winners - congrats to all of them! (). They reported on their super research and had VERY useful advice for future applicants - listen below (from 4’)!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

Did you just miss our Twitter Space? You can catch up here 👇

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@mleptin

1 year

I'm always so happy when countries have accomplished scientists as science ministers. Met today with (ex-)biologist Arturo Luna @arturolunat from Colombia to learn about their government's ambitious R&D plans and get cooperation with @ERC_Research underway,

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@mleptin

2 years

More bright minds funded with ERC Consolidator Grants. Hats off to you all!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

📢 The results of the 2021 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out. €632 million for 313 researchers. Who has been offered #ERCCoG funding❔ What topics and questions they will investigate❔ Where will they conduct their research❔ Find out ➡️

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@mleptin

2 years

So good to see clear-sighted politicians at the top emphasizing the vital role of basic research. Thank you, EC Vice President @Vestager for your strong support!

Julien Chicot

@ChicotJulien

2 years

At @EP_ScienceTech , Vice-President @vestager made a strong plea to protect 🇪🇺 #Research & #Innovation budget. She warned against focusing investments in applied research with immediate economic impacts: "some of the most #BasicResearch has produced the most amazing innovations"

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@mleptin

2 years

Greetings from my winter gardening: the hellebores (‘Christrose’ in German) doing their timely thing, and the ground cleared, ready for next year’s new life, as I’m ready for next year’s actions. Thanks to those who worked with me this year and best wishes to all!

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@mleptin

1 year

Met Irish ERC grantees (~50% women) this morning, inspiring and cheerful. interesting work on all sorts of topics, e.g. interactions of animals and people in bronze age. Held in Literature Museum - good to see a country so proud of its poets and writers!

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@mleptin

2 years

No rocket science in the advice I give here for grant applicants - but the thing is, there is no rocket science in it: just be honest and clear. Happy the excellent interviewer Jenny @siliconrepublic conveyed this.

Silicon Republic

@siliconrepublic

2 years

ERC president Maria Leptin shares her top advice for researchers

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10 months

What started as a simple write up of some pretty data, turned out to be a full blown paper with very nice reviews, please check them out! Not quite yet our lab's very last publication, a few more in the pipeline, but a very good start for the final run:

The Opto-inflammasome in zebrafish as a tool to study cell and tissue responses to speck formation...

Manipulating cell death in situ with the temporal and spatial precision of optogenetic tools opens up new avenues for studying inflammation, death and related phenomena, revealing, for example, that...

elifesciences.org

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@mleptin

5 months

Fantastic to see the value of the fundamental research (and the core philosophy of the ERC) promoted so explicitly by @EP_President Metsola! Hopefully that signals good times ahead for research in Europe!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

5 months

‘Only when scientists are free to pursue their work can they fully contribute with ground-breaking findings that help society grow.” @EP_President R. Metsola speaks up for #AcademicFreedom . “Science & knowledge are hope; without them European democracies wouldn’t survive.”🎥👇

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Maria Leptin

@mleptin

1 year

Vijay and our (respective) sons Bruno, Varun and Jakob (first met @NCBS_Bangalore more than 20 years ago, brief stint at school together) together in London this week. So sad I missed the occasion!

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@mleptin

4 years

very proud of Parisa's paper that explains the method she used to immobilize Drosophila larvae for longterm in vivo imaging.

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@mleptin

2 years

Did anyone say politicians don't understand the need for fundamental science? Meet the living proof to the opposite @MEP_Ehler - strong words on the above plus the crucial role of universities for democracy and freedom of thought. Here with D. Breimer, @LERUnews founding member

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@mleptin

2 years

Huge privilege being given in-depth overview of science on James Webb by @ERC_research grantee Ewine van Dishoeck here at #ESOF2022 who 25 years ago designed one of the instruments now looking into space. ⁦ @ESOF_eu ⁩

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@mleptin

1 year

I hate rankings, but one's paper appearing in one (see entry 7 here ) can make you feel differently - well, for a moment at least. Congrats Carlo and Juan!! And thank you @embl for the support over the years.

The 10 biggest science stories of 2022 – chosen by scientists

From moon missions to fast-charging batteries and AI-sourced antibiotics, in no particular order, the year’s significant scientific developments

www.theguardian.com

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@mleptin

1 year

Looking forward to speak to some of the successful candidates of new Starting Grants announced today. Join us on our Twitter Space - starting at 16:00.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

Hear first-hand from some of the successful candidates of #ERCStG grant competition, learn about their amazing science, and maybe even get application tips!

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@mleptin

2 years

Honour to (re)-meet former EU Commissioner Ph. Busquin, instrumental in getting the @ERC_Research oof the ground. He deserves deep gratitude of the scientific community! Here at the Chemistry Solvay Conference 100th anniversary together with former ERC President JP Bourguignon.

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@mleptin

1 year

Exception from my 'never selfies' rule with Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina from Center for Civil Liberties #NobelPeacePrize . We discussed at #Davos how @ERC_Research can help rebuild research in Ukraine. And read this account by ERC team member from UA!🇺🇦

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

"I fled Russia’s bombs in #Ukraine , now I’m in Sweden researching a cure for infertility. This is my story." Nataliia Petryk found employement @karolinskainst after the ERC appealed to its grantees. Just out on @WEF 👇 #WEF23 #WEF @Davos 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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@mleptin

2 years

Agree!! And will defend blue sky research forever. But also remember, exciting innovation emerges from it - and Europe must invest in both. The balance works well between @ERC_Research and @EUeic . BOTH need good funding, together we rock, so let's fight together for more funds!

The Guild

@guildeu

2 years

This year’s @NobelPrize awards, including to Anton Zeilinger from @univienna and Svante Pääbo, alumnus of @uppsalauni , demonstrate the necessity for Europe to invest in excellence across the entire #research pipeline. Read more➡️ #NobelPrize

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@mleptin

3 years

Would you commit to having your referee reports posted alongside your preprint?

Will refereed preprints transform scientific communication?

The pandemic has shown how preprints accelerate the dissemination of research findings, but it also highlights the crucial importance of peer review.

www.reviewcommons.org

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@mleptin

1 year

Some important changes made by the Scientific Council of the @ERC_Research , with the interests of the research community and potential applicants in mind.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

What to expect in the upcoming ERC grant competitions: 🔸Research assessment: focus on the project 🔸Broad assessment of the applicant 🔸Lump sum funding in Advanced Grants More details⬇️

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@mleptin

6 years

Photo by Catarina Carmo from Leptin and Texeira labs used for this year's EMBL Christmas card - congratulations Catarina!

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@mleptin

2 years

One of the great pleasures of academic life and “side effects” of being ERC President: being shown treasures of the Bodleian library; here a Florey lab notebook with the bacterial streaking technique we still use today. Thank you @bodleianlibs and @richove 1/2

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@mleptin

2 years

Congratulations to you all! I know some think ERC shouldn't deviate from its 1 PI per grant principle - but from my own 2018 experience as Very Sceptical panel chair for SyG, I find this type of collaboration (still PI-driven! no strings attached!) not only useful but inspiring.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

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📣 The ERC's 2022 Synergy Grant competition results are out! 29 research groups received #ERCSyG funding, enabling their scientists and scholars to combine complementary skills & address frontier research challenges. Info 👉 🇪🇺 #EUfunded @EUScienceInnov

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@mleptin

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Thanks to the Polish @NCBR_pl for hosting me at today’s #BrusselsTalks . Impressive to see Poland’s strong performance in the latest Starting Grant competition. Years of research investment, good research policies and support to applicants pay off. It sets a good example.

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Tomorrow Mon 13 Dec, listen to two of my great predecessors: • 11AM @HelgaNowotny , @ERC_Research seminar on "In #AI We Trust": • 5.30PM Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, @ERCGrantees seminar on the scientific method. Registration:

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@mleptin

2 years

Please support the drive to include science in the discussion on the future of Europe. Instruction below, sign-up link here: Image

ISE

@ISE_news

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We encourage all #EU citizens to endorse this petition within the #CoFoE :

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@mleptin

2 years

On this last day of the year, time for some farewells at the ERC Scientific Council. A warm thank you to parting members Manuel Arellano, Margaret Buckingham, Michael Kramer, Barbara Romanowicz for their dedication to the ERC. We owe you a lot. And to all - a Happy New Year!

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6 months

A warm welcome to our new Council member and new Vice-President, and happy about the extension of the terms of our current colleagues!

New ERC Scientific Council member and new ERC Vice President

The European Commission has today appointed Professor Torsten Persson, a distinguished economist, as new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council....

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@mleptin

2 years

@NobelPrize Congratulations! A prize for truly fundamental, curiosity-driven research!

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2 years

Looking forward to my first public session at Davo’s. I will say that science is international and collaborative by nature, but that this relies on mutual trust, weather at the level of individual scientist or at the level of nations

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting @Davos starts on 22/5. Important to bring the latest scientific insights to the debate! ERC President @MLeptin & ERC grantees @jRockstrom , Jeremy O'Brien, @MartinVetterli take part. Find out more: #wef22 #EUatDavos

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3 years

Looking forward to taking part in @FallingWalls discussion on translating science into medical application with great minds like Ugur Sahin and Emmanuelle Charpentier. Join us online at 9AM today ⬇️

Falling Walls

@Falling_Walls

3 years

Uğur Şahin, the Co-Founder and CEO of @biontech_group , will among other high level speakers from various fields address opportunities and risks in the battle for improved global health. 🗓 NOV 8, 09.00 - 09.50 Berlin Time 🌍 Livestream👉

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so good to wake up early in the US @HHMIJanelia Can get all your emails done before breakfast starts. Here for meeting on #RecognizingPreprintReview with @EMBO and @ASAPbio_ and Ron Vale (not before breakfast but last night after long flight...).

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@mleptin

2 years

Congratulations to @EvaKaili - a long-standing supporter of science and friend of @ERC_research - on her election as one of the European Parliament’s Vice Presidents! Looking forward to our cooperation.

STOA Panel

@EP_ScienceTech

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Congratulations to our #STOA Chair @EvaKaili for her election as Vice-President!

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7 years

This toilet in George seems to be expressing what one sometimes suspects would be some referees' dream phrasing

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4 years

so happy: our last manuscript reviewed journal-independent via @ReviewCommons ! super fast, constructive reviews, very competent. Reviews public now @biorxivpreprint - blue tab at right margin. In press now @embojournal

Transcytosis via the late endocytic pathway as a cell morphogenetic mechanism

Plasma membranes fulfil many physiological functions. In polarized cells, different membrane compartments take on specialized roles, each being allocated correct amounts of membrane. The Drosophila...

www.biorxiv.org

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@mleptin

2 years

Congratulations to all 166 of you. Great geographic spread and range of areas - not just the usual suspects of biomedicine or engineering, but also social sciences and humanities. And proportion of female awardees rising for these grants, too!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

2 years

How will the new #ERCPoC funding be used? 🔸Tackling harmful adolescent behaviour @haskolinn 🔸Using bubbles for sustainable wastewater treatment @FSLjubljana 🔸More precise DNA sequencing for disease detection @cui_unihh 🔸Making music together @ceu 👉

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Interesting consensus at #FallingWalls roundtable on most important impact of medical innovations: need more equitable access to them! Kudos to Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci for @BioNTech_Group investing in capacity building for local vaccine production in Senegal and Rwanda.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

3 years

“We need to trust the best minds and convince people of the need for science” also science that may appear “useless”, said ERC President Maria Leptin at #FallingWalls . She agreed with Ugur Sahin who cited Pasteur on that there is no clear boundary between basic & applied research

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@GabrielMariya @ERC_Research And we @ERC_Research look forward to working with Commission VP @Vestager as she takes over the research file at a crucial time ahead of the next framework programme. She has stressed in the past that Europe needs blue sky science - this bodes well.

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

4 years

“I don’t want to in any way support the idea that you only want applied research - it is in basic research that you have the real breakthroughs.” Commission Vice President Margrethe @Vestager stressed Europe needs blue sky basic science at #RiDaysEU 🇪🇺 👏🏼

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Happy New Year to all! 2023 begins with five new members joining the ERC Scientific Council. Warm welcome to @HarrietBulkeley , Thomas Henzinger, Leszek Kaczmarek, Luke O’Neil @LAOneill111 and Björn Ottersten. Looking forward to working with you!

Distinguished scientists and scholars to join the ERC Scientific Council

The European Commission has today appoi

erc.europa.eu

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@ERC_Research

1 year

🎉 Happy New Year from the European Research Council! Many thanks for all your support in 2022 - we wish you the very best for 2023.

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2 years

Missed ⁦ @JEPaquetEU ⁩ farewell party in Brussels, so having an (almost) private farewell here at ⁦ @ESOF_eu ⁩

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2 years

Brilliant time with the grad students and postdocs at the @Dunn_School . Thank you @catcvicente for hosting me, and @joanaverissimof and Vicky for the superb session. Your generation is the future, and so inspiring! @ERC_Research will be awaiting your grant applications!

Dunn_School (and @DunnSchool.bsky.social)

@Dunn_School

2 years

We are delighted to welcome our Visiting Professor (and President of @ERC_Research ) Maria Leptin @mleptin to the Dunn School today! Engaging and insightful session this morning with our students and postdocs. Excellent work by chairs @joanaverissimof and Vicky!

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Remember it was *scientists* who identified and understood the greenhouse effect (1820s-60s), measured and modelled changes in the atmosphere (late 18th and early 19th c) and who first warned society about the dangers of global warming (1936, 1988) More of this at 10.30👇

European Research Council (ERC)

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Don’t miss the discussion today at 10.30 AM: With ERC President @MLeptin , @EdBrinksmaEUR , @antoine_Petit_ , @AndersatLife . Part of @SciBus conference on “Sustainable horizons: Does our future depend on science?” 🌎 🌱 Register to follow online👇

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Happy that ERC helped at least some researchers who had to flee Ukraine find positions in @ERC_Research teams. Looking forward to the day when we can help all of them rebuild their research in UA.🇺🇦🇪🇺 Here's one of them, Nataliia Petryk @bjorkstrom_lab

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Preceding the great event marking 1500 ERC grantees based in France last week, I met Minister @sRetailleau and found we share a vision for innovative and independent research. On a side note: all 6 attendees were female; physicists, lawyers, political scientists ( #6 taking pic).

Sylvie Retailleau

@sretailleau

1 year

En célébrant son 1 500e lauréat du conseil européen de la recherche (ERC), la recherche française confirme son excellence et l'importance de ses coopérations européennes. Vive la recherche, vive l’Europe ! 🔬🇪🇺🇫🇷 👉

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3 years

@GabrielMariya @ERC_Research I look forward to work with the commissioner and the great team at the ERC!

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2 years

blue skies, I believe! but we will need the support from the entire community to convince our governments to provide the funding

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@ERC_Research

2 years

“Do blue skies or dark clouds lie ahead for fundamental science?" Tune into the debate with ERC President Maria Leptin and other speakers at the @SciBus annual conference on “Horizon Europe: the first assessment”. 🕰 Tomorrow 9 Feb. 10.15 CET #HorizonAssessment

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so pleased: “I really like building things” said @CarloBevil . "Studying development like this, in real time and in the whole volume ... rather than just the surface, can reveal many new and interesting biological mechanisms” said @_Pulzar . @Prevedel_Lab

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2 years

Bye bye Hamburg: brilliant 36h hosted by enlightened Senator @fegebanks with meetings with inspiring research institutions @desynews @EuropeanXFEL @UKEHamburg @CSMC_Hamburg as well as individual @ERC_Research grantees. The life of the mind at its best (and Hamburg, too!!)

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7 months

It was a delight and honour to have Commissioner @Ili_Ivanova open this great event. I’m sure not only the ERC grantees but also policymakers in the room were glad to hear her strong commitment to EU research - not least frontier science. Thanks also @MEP_Ehler & @MarcAngel_lu

Iliana Ivanova

@Ili_Ivanova

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I was glad to open today a joint @EP_ScienceTech and @ERC_Research conference on science-based solutions for sustainable food. Curiosity-driven research often addresses our global challenges. It can also provide best evidence for informed decision-making. #STOA

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Strong and clear words from European Parliament President @RobertaMetsola . Excellent to have that kind of vision and insight right at the political top.

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@ERC_Research

1 year

"This EU Parliament will lead the political fight for the protection of #AcademicFreedom ; we will do this together with you, with academics steering.” Powerful speech by inspirational European Parliament President @RobertaMetsola . Here with ERC’s @mLeptin . 🎥Listen from 1’15’👇

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2 years

I fully concur that science is the way forward to reach the SDGs! I look forward to speaking at the #UNGA77 Science Summit on Monday.

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@ERC_Research

2 years

“Taking stock of the #SDGs is simply not enough. We need to have more science by our side if we want to realise the Goals by 2030” UN General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi highlights “solidarity, sustainability & science”. More at #UNGA Science Summit.

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1 year

About another courageous Ukrainian: Nataliia Petryk fled to Sweden and found a job via the ERC's matchmaking initiative: Today @ERC_research relaunches the appeal to our grantees to host refugees in their teams. #StandWithUkraine

I fled Russia’s bombs in Ukraine to research a cure for infertility

Before Russia invaded, Nataliia Petryk helped women have children in Ukraine. Now she's using her medical knowledge to help a team of Swedish researchers.

www.weforum.org

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1 year

commenting my comment: meant to say that I consider 'gatekeepting' or 'filtering' important, and appreciate the work that journals (like Elife) do on this. 'publishing without gatekeeping' would not be my aim. And trust in the output comes from trust in the gatekeepers.

Michael Eisen

@mbeisen

1 year

I'm not sure exactly what @mleptin meant by this quote, but I would like to push back hard against any implication that @eLife 's new model means we are no longer a "trustworthy source". If you considered us one before, you should consider us MORE of one now, not less.

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2 years

Did I really say 'ruthlessly bottom-up'? Well, I guess I meant it. Interview with @LERUnews :

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9 years

#TimHunt was in charge as Council Chair and member of selection board that appointed the first female EMBO director (full disclosure: me)

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1 year

@ColleauMorgane I actually said "the Scientific Council is looking for ways in which contributions such as services to the research community can be taken into account". I don't think I talked about 'societal impact'

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11 months

A great privilege and pleasure to meet Croatian Prime Minister @AndrejPlenkovic and discuss the future of cutting-edge science in Europe and how it has proved to be key for tackling crises. His support for EU science has been crucial and surely will be in the future too. 🇪🇺🇭🇷

Andrej Plenković

@AndrejPlenkovic

11 months

Sastao sam se s predsjednicom @ERC_Research Mariom Leptin. Prioritet nam je ojačati suradnju i osnažiti istraživačke kapacitete Hrvatske, uz veća ulaganja u istraživanje i razvoj iz nacionalnih i europskih sredstava te podršku mladim istraživačima.

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3 years

please sign:

Sign the emergency appeal for climate action

Greta, Vanessa, Mitzi, and Dominika are taking this bold call to world leaders

secure.avaaz.org

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1 year

Make that: why ALL investment in research is good for all of us (remember, researchers are citizens, too!). Good research, whether basic or applied, has a huge economic benefit, and also trains the next generation of experts. This is big time pro-society.

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@ERC_Research

1 year

Useful exchange between Rector @Wijmenga_Cisca , @JanPalmowski and a @univGroningen delegation with @mLeptin on how the scientific community can join forces and use powerful arguments to explain to politicians and the public why frontier research is a good return on investment.

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2 years

It was a pleasure to meet representatives from the EU & associated countries for the first time in the "Programme Committee". Important to hear from them and a chance to update them on the ERC and what’s in store. Looking forward to continuing this exchange!

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9 months

Juan's @_Pulzar big paper now submitted for review at @ReviewCommons

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@mleptin

3 years

@ERC_Research @GabrielMariya @EU_Commission @EUScienceInnov @vestager @dubravkasuica @VeraJourova @JHahnEU @CristianSBusoi @Moedas And huge thanks from his successor for the superb handover preparation! All the best!

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7 months

Lots of interesting encounters @STSforum in Kyoto. Here with @EUAmbJapan and @RatsoSi - we were waving the flag for EU research together

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@mleptin

7 months

So good to meet so many fly friends @EMBO , and sad to have missed all those who attended @EDRC2023 (and the apparently amazing party). Next time???

Fly-EDS

@Fly_EDS

7 months

Congratulations to the amazing newly elected #Drosophila @EMBO members: @BartDeplancke , @katjaroeper , @epiddin , Stephan Sigrist, @HongyanWang9 , @CHR_lab , @FlorenceBesse , @MagaliSuzanne , @MarcoMilanIRB , pictured with a proud @mleptin !!!🥂🍾

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My warm thanks to @GabrielMariya for her solid support to science and to @ERC_Research during her mandate as EU Commissioner. I have appreciated our good collaboration. I wish her all the best in her new role in her home country.

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@matsperspektiv @ERC_Research @Vetenskapsradet Very special guests at reception for @ERC_Research : Dan Brändström and Michael Sohlman, driving forces in the ERC's creation starting 2001. And all on Dan's 82nd birthday! Special treat by @OrpheiDrangar plus ERC's own Josefina! Great hosts these 2 days @Utbdep @Vetenskapsradet

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@mleptin

2 years

Congratulations to @RobertaMetsola as the new President of the @Europarl_EN ! We at @ERC_Research look forward to continuing our great collaboration with the European Parliament, which has been a champion of research and science.

Roberta Metsola

@RobertaMetsola

2 years

I am humbled by the responsibility entrusted to me today as the President of the European Parliament. I want to thank my colleagues for their support and fellow candidates Alice Bah Kuhnke & @sirarego You can count on me to represent the European values our House stands for. 🇪🇺

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91st @ERC_Research Scientific Council meeting @pompeii_sites with an amazing tour of recent digs and explanations of unexpected discoveries that tell us about how all levels of society lived and interacted in Roman times. True blue-sky research in social sciences & humanities

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5 years

Britain hopefully celebrates their (own? homegrown?) young researchers receiving ERC Consolidator grants. What will they and their labs do after Brexit?

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1 year

What an amazing and inspired group of colleagues. It is a delight and privilege to work with them and take on their critical and informed input for shaping the @ERC_Research

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

The Scientific Council is having its first meeting of the year - this time in Brussels. Very happy to welcome our new members of the governing body that sets the ERC’s strategy!

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1 year

Off to Davos tomorrow. Very important to have science in the discussions. I will take part in sessions on the pandemic, science coordination and this (regrettably highly topical!) climate session at #WEF23 . Some livestreamed:

ERC at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting 2023 in Davos

At this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from 16 to 20 January, President of the European Research Council (ERC) Prof. Maria Leptin, will be a speaker in...

erc.europa.eu

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

1 year

At next week’s @WEF annual gathering @Davos , the worlds of politics and business but also science will meet. From ERC, President @MLeptin and top scientists @jRockstrom , @MartinVetterli , Joyeeta Gupta will bring insights to livestreamed debates👇 #WEF23

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@mleptin

1 year

Riveting talk on this 24 Feb by @ERC_research grantee Anastasia Piliavsky on how language is weaponised in #Ukraine against internal political unity and social peace, as well as how EU can support Ukraine recovery and ensure it remains socio-politically liberal, tolerant, stable.

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@mleptin

9 months

Eva's gorgeous images of skin cells with their amazing actin ridges.

BPoD

@BPoD_s

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Inflammasomes – protein structures that activate #inflammation – induced by #optogenetics in individual #cells of the skin of #zebrafish model to study cell death responses. Image & research by Eva Hasel de Carvalho et al @mleptin lab @embl in @eLife . On

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@mleptin

5 years

my son is filling out his visa application for the USA (all of our family have to, because we spent a summer holiday in Iran several years ago; goodbye ESTA, goodbye global entry), and this is what he is being asked. Big Brother is right here.

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@mleptin

1 year

Congratulations to @LindaDoyle as new Chair of @LERU . And let me also congratulate @KurtDeketelaere on his reappointment as LERU Secretary General! I’m glad to see that LERU is in good hands. Thanks for LERU’s unwavering support to the ERC.

LERU

@LERUnews

1 year

LERU governance news! The LERU Rectors appointed Dr @LindaDoyle of @tcddublin as new LERU Chair, and Prof. @HenWeg of @koebenhavns_uni & Prof. Peter Mathieson of @EdinburghUni as new BoD members. Prof. @KurtDeketelaere was reappointed as Secretary-General. 👇

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2 years

amazing discussion - both Claudio's and Alex's points. I find DevBio exciting and VERY painful to leave behind. But why are there so few applications to the ERC? It's now one of the smallest fields in LifeScience - not in terms of awards but in applications.

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