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The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, is an institute of advanced studies where scientists from all over the world meet to discuss and publish about the most-pressing science topics.

Visit us on www.issibern.ch
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This week, @miguelmahecha.bsky.social and international colleagues examine as part of the ISSI Forum how genetic information can enhance the prediction and management of forest futures under accelerating climate change. 🌲🌲
October 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Curious about Strong Gravitational Lensing? Dive into SSRev’s new open-access collection (resulting from an ISSI Workshop): link.springer.com/collections/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
ISSI Programme Manager, Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net, giving his #EPSCDPS2025 presentation about comets and what they tell us about the formation of the proto-solar disk. 🤩
September 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Come to the ISSI booth at #EPSCDPS2025 and sign up for our newsletter to receive updates about our scientific opportunities, open calls, and project submission deadlines.

It’s the first step to visit ISSI in Bern and increase the famous ISSI coffee machine counter:

255,000 coffees & counting. ☕️📈
September 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We are so happy to be at #EPSCDPS2025. 🌟

Already day 2!
Let’s keep the energy high and the science flowing. But do not to forget to hydrate and take a chocolate from time to time! ☝️

Come say hi, if you have not done so! 🔭
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Rumor has it, there is free Swiss Chocolate at #EPSCDPS2025.

Just look out for the blue.
🔭
September 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It is the word of the town.

ISSI is on tour again.

If you are too, come say hi during this week’s #EPSC2025 here in Helsinki! – You know where to go, just follow the blue.

@europlanetmedia.bsky.social
@spacemarschall.net @kokotanekova.bsky.social @fabiocrameri.ch

#EPSCDPS #EPSC-DPS2025
September 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🔭 We are looking for an additional Director to help steer the institute into its next chapter as part of the ISSI Directorate.

Based in Bern, Switzerland🇨🇭, the position is full-time, international, and inspiring.

Details & how to apply:
www.issibern.ch/director-ful...

#AcademiaJobs #ScienceJobs
July 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🌌 Our Universe — On One Wall 🌌

What happens when science, art, and storytelling come together? At ISSI, it looks like this: a stunning mural that brings space and space science to life.

Take a look behind the scenes and the full story here
👉 www.issibern.ch/our-universe...

#SciArt #ISSIBern 🐡
July 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
🔔 Today, 17:00 CET:
www.issibern.ch/special-event/ 🔭
June 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The SSSI Volume 93 "Earth's Changing Water and Energy Cycle" is now available and
- Provides up-to-date estimates of the Earth's water and energy fluxes based on satellite observations
- Offers a current assessment of Earth's water and energy fluxes using reanalyses and climate model simulations
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 ISSI is hiring!

We're seeking a motivated Accountant (50%) to manage our foundation’s budget and finances.

Start: 1 July 2025.
Strong English & Swiss nonprofit experience required.

Apply by 15 June 2025.

🔗 More info: www.issibern.ch/who-we-are/s...
May 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🌊 The ongoing ISSI Forum brings experts together to explore a global in-situ lidar network for validating ocean colour missions—including future lidar-based ones like LUCE (launch 2032).

A key step toward unlocking vertical ocean optics from space.

#oceancolour #lidar #ISSI
May 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
March 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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March 25, 18:30 CET, at @unibern.bsky.social
– Save the date!

#ISSI30 #proISSI
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Great Opportunity for European science and engineering students and graduates: Applications are now open for the Alpbach Summer School (8–17 July 2025)! 🔭
The topic is Small bodies in the Solar System
@esascience.esa.int
Details and Applications: www.summerschoolalpbach.at/index.php?fi...
February 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
‪What makes (radio) waves? 🔭
Tune into this 4-part French-language podcast on radio astronomy with ISSI Science Program Manager Mark Sargent
➡️ skach.org/radio-cosmos/
#RadioCosmos
February 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Save the date for the webinar "Star Clusters Near and Far 🔭"
Angela Adamo will present highlights of the revolution brought by #JWST in studies of the star formation process at parsec scales across cosmic times.
🗓️Thu, 30th Jan 2025 (17h CET | 11h EST)
Details: www.issibern.ch/results/game...
January 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Check out our short 3-MINUTE GUIDE TO PREPARING AN ISSI INTERNATIONAL TEAM PROPOSAL 🔭
➡️ www.issibern.ch/docs/3-minut...
Additionally, two virtual help desk sessions with Q&A for proposal preparation will be offered on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Registration: www.issibern.ch/call-for-pro...
January 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
You are all invited! 🤗

June 19, 2025
17:00 CET
University of Bern

Save the date! 🗓️

@saraseager.bsky.social @drthomasz.bsky.social

www.issibern.ch/outreach/spe...
January 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our first visitors are back in our Meeting rooms pondering open #SpaceScience questions, in our Common Area discussing over coffee, and on our rooftop, enjoying the view over wintery #Bern.

Your ISSI Staff wishes you a very collaborative, successful, and—most of all—happy 2025!
January 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
ESA Science Programme Missions - Contributions and Exploitation

by A. Parmar, RM. Bonnet, G. De Marchi, P. García-Lario, E. Kuulkers, G. Pilbratt, C. Sánchez-Fernández, M. Santos-Lleó, N. Schartel, J. Zarnecki

New open access Scientific Report #18 is released

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 9, 2024 at 11:36 AM
✏️Mark you calendars for the webinar: "The Rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Space Applications"
with Pierre-Philippe Mathieu (CSS implementation manager, European Space Agency)
🗓️Thu, 5th December 2024
(17h CET | 11h EST)
Details: www.issibern.ch/results/game...
December 2, 2024 at 9:50 AM
This is an open call and the submissions are assessed on a quarterly basis (March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1). Next deadline is: December 1, 2024.
Details and applications: www.issibern.ch/scientific-o...
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Just one of these ordinary mornings here in #Bern. ☃️🌄

The International ISSI Team of Alexander Kozlovsky and Renata Lukianova are getting ready to tackle #Meteors and other phenomena at the boundary between Earth's #atmosphere and outer #space.

Read more here: teams.issibern.ch/meteorsandph...
November 21, 2024 at 7:52 AM