Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #czechacademyofsciences, aggregated by home.social.
Deadly poisons in wolfsbane and larkspur linked to pain relief, malaria and cancer therapy
Wolfsbane and larkspu…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #aconitine #Aconitum #atisinium #AU #Australia #biosyntheticpathways #CzechAcademyofSciences #Delphinium #diterpenoidalkaloids #ethanolamine #GreenGoodNews #HealthNews #larkspur #MedicalGoodNews #medicinalplants #MichiganStateUniversity #naturalproductchemistry #Nicotianabenthamiana #plantbiotechnology #research #wolfsbane
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/847416/
Giant ice sheet reached the Netherlands 1.3 million years earlier than thought
New evidence suggests the Eurasian ice sheet may have reached the area that is now the Netherlands about…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #coarsegravel #CzechAcademyofSciences #glacialdeposit #icesheet #KalebWagner #WesternEurope
https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/28717/
#CfP Gläubige aus Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa in Bewegung. Religiöse Migrationsregime und Diasporapolitik (1930er bis 1960er Jahre)
📌 #Jahrestagung des #CollegiumCarolinum | 12.-16. November 2026 | in #Fischbachau | in Kooperation mit #DHIRom und #CzechAcademyOfSciences
📅 17. April 2026
Radio Prague International: Czech Academy of Sciences launches a digital archive of 15,000 folk songs. “Nearly fifteen thousand songs from all regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are now freely available through a new online library… The project was created by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, whose archives hold most of this unique collection.”
Results of the project briefly described. Conversion of a scanned text to structured data ( #Wikidata ), using #HTR ( #eScriptorim ) and #text2text #transformers
Funded by #Wikimedia.
#CzechAcademyOfSciences
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_versus_traditional_biographical_encyclopedias
Come to work with us at #CzechAcademyOfSciences in #Prague
We're inviting Expressions of Interest for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to collaborate on a digital research database of Czech folk songs.
📅 Deadline: 31/05/2025
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/MSCA-PF-Expressions-of-Interest/
#Musicology #DigitalHumanities #MusicTech #Folklore #FolkMusic #Ethnomusicology #MusicScience #ComputationalMusicology #MSCA #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope
2 x ethnologist / anthropologist
@ The Institute of Ethnology, #CzechAcademyOfSciences
"2 positions of ethnologist/anthropologist for the four-year project OP JAK "Land gone wild: archaeological and transdisciplinary research of resilience strategies in 20th century." The project focuses on the research of #archaeology, #materiality and individual, collective and landscape #memory of 20th century #Czechia
Come to work with us!
Deadline: 15/01/2024
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Applications-for-2-positions-of-ethnologist---anthropologist-invited/
#CfP #conference
#Wikimedia / #Wikidata vs. Traditional Biographical Dictionaries
#CzechAcademyOfSciences #Prague 2024-03-31 and 2024-04-01
Researcher in Ecological Anthropology
@ Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
"The position is offered as a three-year contract, with the possibility of conversion to a permanent position, contingent on a positive performance evaluation in line with the Institute’s guidelines."
Come to #Prague to work with us!
Deadline: 15/11/2024
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/Researcher-at-the-Department-of-Ecological-Anthropology/
#Anthropology #EcologicalAnthropology #CzechAcademyOfSciences
A. hydrillicola is the first cultured cyanobacterium producing dolastatin derivatives, which allowed uncovering biosynthetic gene clusters of this compound family in collaboration with Jan Mareš from the Biology Centre of the #CzechAcademyOfSciences. 8/
The #largest #genome of any insect, seven times the size of the #HumanGenome, was recently #discovered in a grasshopper. In a #study published in #PLOSONE, researchers from the #GermanLeibnizInstitute for the #Analysis of #Biodiversity Change & #CzechAcademyOfSciences #prove wrong the idea of #insect genomes being comparatively small/less complex.
Speckled buzzing #grasshopper (#BryodemellaTuberculata ).
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-giant-insect-genome.amp
#Entomology #NewDiscovery #science #biological #nature #Europe