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This year, our entire lab is attending the FENS 2026 meeting in Barcelona.

This is an English translation of my original German contribution to the Merkur Blog in response to the contributions by Gehring and Tautz.

Retractions of scholarly articles are a rare event, affecting only about 0.02-0.04% of articles in total (but yearly rates are going up dramatically).

How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies.

Due to political developments, the US have become a much less welcoming and hence dramatically less attractive place for academic conferences.

I have been involved in the open science movement for nearly 20 years now.

Ever since Werner Heisenberg formulated the uncertainty principle, physics has been grappling with the unsettling realization that the universe does not function like clockwork—a metaphor Newton introduced and which held sway for centuries.

We are looking for two PhD students interested in the regulation of habit formation.

Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promote democracy, human rights, and digital participation?

For 14 years, the main research funding agency in Germany, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has stated in its guidelines that submitted grant proposals will be assessed primarily on the basis of their content, rather than counting the applicants’ prev…