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The new global race is for digital skills
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest” said Benjamin Franklin, to whom we owe the invention of the lightning rod and bifocals, among other things. More than two centuries later, the...
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Cybersecurity: a growing concern
Ruby Rose is the most dangerous celebrity on the net. The star of the TV series Orange Is the New Black and scientist facing off against a prehistoric shark in The Meg is a peaceful person offline, but...
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iNerd quiz: one out of two Europeans scores as a digital Mr. Bean
Big data, AI, social media, the Internet of things and cybersecurity are transforming our work environments as well as our life as citizens and consumers but more than 56% of Europeans is still lacking...
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Communicating science in a complex world
Social developments triggered by digitalisation, big data or artificial intelligence, curing diseases by modifying the genome of organisms and developing high-tech solutions to slow down climate change...
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Science Together – Contributing to Citizen Science Projects around the World
Citizen science (CS) is a freely accessible and meaningful way to explore measure and experiment with the world around you. Also known as community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science,...
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Tracking the movement of all plastic litter in the ocean is crucial
At the end of October the European Parliament approved EU’s plans to ban, by 2021, throwaway plastics, which make up over 70% of the marine litter. This is part of the newly launched EU’s plastics...
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Integrity is not a component of ethics, integrity is much more
Academic and research integrity cannot be a side project or an afterthought. Integrity and ethics must be central to everything we do and every decision we make. We must work to ensure that we are...
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Big Data is so large, it’s raising privacy & ethical issues
Maybe it was inevitable in hindsight, but the accumulation and monetization of human data is now an industry — a commodity — of its own. As the internet’s precursor technologies were being refined, the...
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Male elementary school teachers in extinction. The gender gap and the...
Gender discrimination and stereotyping issues have taken an appreciable attention the last decades by media and research, leading to policy reformations and even to legislation amendments in respect to...
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Applied mathematicians in the service of pressing global issues
Nowadays there is a diffuse border between pure and applied mathematics. The pure mathematician – an atypical scientist inclined toward the abstract – – is capable of switching at any time to the role...
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