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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      “Climate change will affect us all!”

      The agricultural economist and climate activist Adenike Oladosu is the founder of Fridays for Future Nigeria and an alumna of the Hamburg-based New Institute’s Black Feminism and the Polycrisis Programme. She is currently an International Climate Protection Fellow working with the political scientist Claus Leggewie on the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

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      “Climate change will affect us all!”
    • News

      “Diversity of perspectives makes all the difference”

      With its #ProgressDiversity campaign, the Humboldt Foundation is working to boost diversity in science and in the support it provides for outstanding, talented researchers. Interview with Judith Wellen, head of the Humboldt Foundation’s Strategy and External Relations Department, on the search for international talent, the power of diversity and the Foundation’s network of excellence.

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      “Europe must invest in AI – now”

      Humboldt Professor Holger Hoos is one of the signatories to an open letter from the Future of Life Institute in which AI experts call for a six-month moratorium on the development of artificial intelligence. In this interview he explains his motivation and his hopes for the future of AI research in Europe.

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      “Europe should have acted sooner”

      Interview with the Ukrainian scientist Dmytro Leontyev about the current situation, further options for international cooperation and the West’s naivety

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    • “Everybody’s star”

      Whether as a discoverer, Romantic, Atlanticist, climate prophet or working class hero: there isn’t just one Humboldt, but lots of them. Historian of science, Nicolaas A. Rupke, has investigated how the various images of Humboldt have come about.

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    • “Humboldt had this ruthlessness towards himself”

      Researcher, globetrotter, networker and discoverer – Alexander von Humboldt was a real high-flyer. But who was Alexander, the private person? An interview with journalist and author Dorothee Nolte about the life and loves of an immortal genius.

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      “Humboldt had this ruthlessness towards himself”