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      Virtual Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium: Networks for a post-Covid era

      What role will science play as a catalyser for progress in the post-Covid-19 era? What research topics will drive our work? These are the questions that will be examined by top researchers from the African network at the Humboldt Foundation’s Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium being held on 30 and 31 March 2022. Here, we present four outstanding individuals and their work.

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      “It takes the entire network”

      Andrea Löther led a study commissioned by the Humboldt Foundation to analyse the potential and needs of female scholars and scientists around the world with regard to whether they could be persuaded to become internationally mobile and undertake a research stay in Germany. A conversation about access, barriers and opportunities for more excellence through diversity.

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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      What line does the law take on antisemitism, Ms Paz?

      Time and again, Jewish people in Germany are confronted with hostility and attacks. Politicians promise to tackle antisemitism with all the tools of a constitutional state.

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      What line does the law take on antisemitism, Ms Paz?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      How do planets come from dust, Ms Pinilla?

      Stars, dust and baby planets are the orbit of astrophysicist Paola Pinilla’s research. With the help of high-performance telescopes on Earth, she regularly visits delivery rooms in the cosmos, observing protoplanetary discs of gas and dust that rotate around young stars.

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      How do planets come from dust, Ms Pinilla?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      You can’t calculate it

      A conversation with communication scientist Hektor Haarkötter on the rules of online communication – and how best to respond to a shitstorm.

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      You can’t calculate it
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Overhasty science

      Never before have scientists been in greater demand as soothsayers. But half-baked publications harm their reputations. They have to do something about it themselves.

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      Overhasty science