TOP STORYWe live in the big data era, where digital communication and machine learning hold promise in many fields – if they are properly managed. In the symposium “Data Analytics, Social Media and Sustainability”, supported by the Elsevier Foundation at the 28th TWAS General Meeting in Trieste, Italy, experts explored important challenges: the pros and cons of artificial intelligence, the social changes triggered by digital communication and the applications for sustainable development. How should developing countries take part in this global revolution? More
OPPORTUNITIES
Arab scientists under 40 can build science diplomacy skills at a Bibliotheca Alexandrina-AAAS-TWAS workshop this June in Egypt. Deadline: 17 March.
A new report from IAP and its partners evaluates the complex governance issues required to assure that life sciences are not used for harmful purposes.
Postdocs from sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa should apply for cooperation visits to German institutes under TWAS-DFG programme. Deadline: 1 April.
"Science in Exile", a film from TWAS, explores the stories of four scientists displaced by war. If your organisation would like to screen it, please email scienceinexile@twas.org.
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and 2017 recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication
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