Would you like to participate in the Women´s Leadership Symposium taking place in Oxford this summer? Check all the information in the website: https://www.oxford-womens-leadership-symposium.com/ Next session will be held 1, 2 & 3 August Registration is open now for all 2018 sessions Would you like to participate in the Women´s Leadership Symposium taking place … Women’s Leadership Symposium in Oxford
The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) publishes a new statement with their members’ concerns and proposes measures to mitigate the effects of Brexit. For researchers living in the UK, the uncertainty focuses on changes in the immigration policy and the access to European research funds. In Spain, the number of researchers … Half way through the negotiations, Brexit makes the United Kingdom a less attractive country for researchers
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Despite President Trump’s denial, climate change is real and we need to act. Decarbonizing our productive model (i.e., minimizing our greenhouse gases emissions or even suppressing them) has become one of the biggest challenges that scientists, technologists and policy makers are facing. Lately, low carbon technologies for power generation (mainly solar and wind) are starting … Biorefineries: turning biomass into the future oil
From the approximately 129,000 Spanish nationals live in the UK [1], 3,500 are researchers working in universities [2]. This figure rises to 5,000 when considering Spanish scientists working in other R&I public institutions, companies and administration [3]. With over 640 members, the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK) represents a large proportion … Time for Science and Innovation to remain at the heart of the Brexit process
CONTENT AVAILABLE ONLY IN SPANISH Científicos del Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute (CRUK-MI, Reino Unido) descubren que el mecanismo de actuación del fármaco inhibidor de la demetilasa LSD1 es independiente a su actividad catalítica. En la búsqueda de nuevos tratamientos para la leucemia mieloide aguda, la demetilasa especifica de lisina LSD1 (también conocida como KDM1A), … Descubierto el mecanismo de acción de un nuevo fármaco frente la leucemia mieloide aguda
El Faro de Vigo
Tapping All Our Talents Review 2018: Event organised by the Royal Society of Edimburgh to facilitate an increase in both the proportion of women in the STEM workforce and the number who rise to senior positions in universities, research institutes, government, business and industry
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Links of interest related with the Wo/Men Equity and Science Committee: Request a woman scientist: ”500 Women Scientists initiative” aims to build an inclusive scientific community dedicated to training a more diverse group of future leaders in science and to use the language of science to bridge divides and enhance global diplomacy. Women scientist: Spanish … Links of interest
For the last six decades, humans and human activities have been moving from rural settlements to cities in a process called urbanization. Since 1950, the world’s urban population has grown rapidly, from 746 million to 3.9 billion in 2014. At the same time, population density in some of those areas has been increasing at a … Using maths to predict and prevent urban pollution
A contest of short scientific stories for children The North West constituency of the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK/CERU) would like to invite you to participate in our very first contest of short scientific stories for children, Science me a story. This initiative, sponsored by the Lilly Foundation, aims to promote the … Science me a story
The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) announces the third “SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award”. The objective of this award is to recognize and support a young Spanish researcher with an outstanding professional trajectory in the UK, as well as to facilitate the dissemination of the prize-winner´s research to both Spanish and British … OPEN CALL: SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award 2018
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease considered the most common adult onset motor neuronal disorder. Sadly, this disease affects many patients around the world (1 to 3 patients per 100,000 people). These patients develop muscle weakness due to the progressive death of motor neurons (the cells responsible to connect muscles and central nervous … CineScience III: Jason Becker and ALS; from basic research to general public
SRUK took part of the Brexit Science and Innovation Summit, organised by the Science and Technology Committee (S&TC) and held in London on the 22nd February. This Summit was the round up event of an inquiry launched by the S&TC with the aim to identify actions needed now to mitigate risks and make the most … At the heart of the Brexit debate
The 11th of February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. As many other institutions, the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom Society (SRUK) joined the commemoration activities prepared for this day. At the Oxford constituency, we organized a tour around this historical city visiting emblematic places where female scientists … Women Scientists who opened doors in Oxford
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El País
Microorganisms are barely seen by the naked eye. Under this name we found different types such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or unicellular fungi. They are “extraordinary bugs” including organisms able to metabolise complex compounds such as petroleum or to live in extreme environments like the waters of Tinto River in Spain.
The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) is pleased to announce the launch of the first UAM/SRUK Summer Studentships. The goal of these studentships is to support the visit of undergraduate/masters students from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) to research groups in the UK. Funding is limited and awards will be … UAM/SRUK SUMMER STUDENTSHIPS
It has been around one year since I wrote the post about how the fourth industrial revolution (aka digital revolution) is affecting our lives. The digital transformation of the diverse sectors on which the society depends is changing the rules of the game. The development of storage technologies and big data analytics open new horizons … The role of the Natural Language Processing in the digital revolution of railway safety
El Independiente
«After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of […] life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter». —Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley (1818) In 2018, we will celebrate 200 years of the first edition of “Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus”, … When matter activates itself
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