Not content with participating in Eurovision, Australia has now inched even closer to Europe by signing up to Horizon Europe! So do keep your Australian collaborators in mind for proposal partners! If you reach out to me for a collab though, just make sure it's for science, not singing.

European Union and Australia successfully conclude Horizon Europe negotiations

On 9 June 2026, the European Commission and Australia have successfully concluded negotiations on Australia’s association to Hori

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2025 Highlights from the RHAPS Group at @anufennerschool.bsky.social 🌏 What an exciting year it was! Here are some of our key achievements:

Completely unacceptable delays to grant announcements. Such delays undermine industry collaborations, abort promising academic careers (especially of junior researchers) and waste a massive amount of $.

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

International researchers: Curious if the normal open call from your national science funder allows you to apply for investigator salaries?

My group at @anufennerschool.bsky.social has made a website about our research! We've called ourselves Resilient Human And Planetary Systems (RHAPS). Check out our website www.rhaps.earth for details of our research on resilience, Earth systems, social-ecological systems and more!

🔊 Registration and the call for abstracts for the Global #TippingPoints conference 2025 @exeter.ac.uk (30 June-3 July 2025) is now open! View the full programme & register now via our website: global-tipping-points.org/conference-2... @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @maxplanck.de