#scienceawards — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scienceawards, aggregated by home.social.
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'Soiled' undies and vicious friends research honoured at Ig Nobels
By Jacinta BowlerEach year, the Ig Nobel prizes celebrate research that makes you laugh, then makes you think. This year's winners include an "underwear index", a cumbersome kissing definition and why we want friends that will happily stab someone in the eye.
#ScienceAwards #ScienceandTechnology #ScientificResearch #JacintaBowler
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🚀🔍 Wow, a rock hit a house in Jersey and now suddenly we're all experts in alien chemistry! 🏠🪨 The article is basically a who's who of science awards and acronyms, but spoiler: no little green men were found. 👽🤦♂️
https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/ #alienchemistry #houseimpact #scienceawards #Jerseyrock #extraterrestrialinvestigation #HackerNews #ngated -
Wildcards from Whyalla return to win grand prix after earlier heartbreak
By Arj GanesanA year after a devastating technical disqualification snatched victory from five South Australian teens at a hydrogen-powered engineering race, they returned as wildcard entrants to the 2026 H2 Grand Prix Finals in Switzerland.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-06/whyalla-teenagers-win-h2-grand-prix-world-finals/106875492
#AwardsandPrizes #ScienceAwards #HydroEnergy #HydrogenFuel #RenewableEnergy #RegionalCommunities #Engineering #Science #ArjGanesan
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Wildcards from Whyalla return to win grand prix after earlier heartbreak
By Arj GanesanA year after a devastating technical disqualification snatched victory from five South Australian teens at a hydrogen-powered engineering race, they returned as wildcard entrants to the 2026 H2 Grand Prix Finals in Switzerland.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-06/whyalla-teenagers-win-h2-grand-prix-world-finals/106875492
#AwardsandPrizes #ScienceAwards #HydroEnergy #HydrogenFuel #RenewableEnergy #RegionalCommunities #Engineering #Science #ArjGanesan
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Are you an early career bioinformatician already making your mark in your field? Apply now to the international Early Career Award!
🔗 More info: https://www.sib.swiss/bioinformatics-awards?mtm_campaign=Mastodon&mtm_source=social&mtm_medium=organic#early-career
#Bioinformatics #SIBawards #Innovation #ComputationalBiology #ScienceAwards #DataScience
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✍️ New Bioconductor blog post on the inaugural Bioconductor Athena Award winner, Beatriz Calvo-Serra. Check it out here: https://buff.ly/3YnFAWx
#BioconductorCommunity #Bioinformatics #RStats #ComputationalBiology #ScienceAwards
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TIL about the Finkbeiner test, which requires that an article about a female scientist avoid gender bias by not mentioning several irrelevant aspects of her life, *including* that she is the "first woman to...". An unsharable FB post pointed out that if "..." is winning some award, that says more about the prize committee than about the woman.
#ScienceJournalism #ScienceAwards
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The Breakthrough Prize is now accepting public nominations for the 2024 awards in Fundamental #Physics, #LifeSciences, & #Mathematics 🔬💊🏆
As a proud partner, ALLEA encourages the nomination of deserving individuals and teams from the #European scientific community. Let's recognise and showcase the outstanding contributions of European scientists to these fields 🌟
👉 https://allea.org/breakthrough-prize-opens-public-nominations-for-2024-prizes/