Torsten Schwede
@torstenschwede.bsky.social
Computational Structural Biology @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch @sib.swiss | President of the Research Council of the @snsf-ch.bsky.social | Team Science 🧪
Thank you very much for your trust. I am very much looking forward to contributing to the Science Europe Governing Board.🧪
📢Congratulations to the newly elected Science Europe Governing Board, during the General Assembly in Oslo today!
🤝Thank you to the outgoing Governing Board and Member Organisations for their active participation and continued engagement in shaping our shared values
#ResearchCollaboration #ERA
🤝Thank you to the outgoing Governing Board and Member Organisations for their active participation and continued engagement in shaping our shared values
#ResearchCollaboration #ERA
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thank you very much for your trust. I am very much looking forward to contributing to the Science Europe Governing Board.🧪
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Google DeepMind was created to use AI for world-changing science, but the advent of LLMs raises deep questions about their future
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go.nature.com/4iceKsu
Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?
The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large language models raises deep questions about the future of DeepMind.
go.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Google DeepMind was created to use AI for world-changing science, but the advent of LLMs raises deep questions about their future
go.nature.com/4iceKsu
go.nature.com/4iceKsu
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❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
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#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
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Congratulations to five researchers @biozentrum.unibas.ch! @schierlab.bsky.social, @torstenschwede.bsky.social, @neher.io, Sebastian Hiller & Gabriel Studer have been recognized among world’s most highly cited researchers of the Highly Cited Researchers ranking 2024.
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Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Congratulations to five researchers @biozentrum.unibas.ch! @schierlab.bsky.social, @torstenschwede.bsky.social, @neher.io, Sebastian Hiller & Gabriel Studer have been recognized among world’s most highly cited researchers of the Highly Cited Researchers ranking 2024.
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🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
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No clear evidence to support any link between maternal acetaminophen (Tylenol) intake and autism or ADHD in offspring, a new umbrella, systematic review
@bmj.com
@bmj.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
No clear evidence to support any link between maternal acetaminophen (Tylenol) intake and autism or ADHD in offspring, a new umbrella, systematic review
@bmj.com
@bmj.com
#ECCB2026 European Conference on Computational Biology, Geneva🇨🇭:
Call for tutorials & workshops.
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Call for tutorials & workshops.
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📣 The call for tutorials & workshops at #ECCB2026 is now open! Share your tools, methods or expertise with the community.
🗓️ Deadline: 5 January 2026
👉 Submit: tinyurl.com/tw-eccb26
💡 ECCB will take place on 31 Aug–4 Sept in Geneva, gathering 1,000+ scientists from academia, industry, & healthcare.
🗓️ Deadline: 5 January 2026
👉 Submit: tinyurl.com/tw-eccb26
💡 ECCB will take place on 31 Aug–4 Sept in Geneva, gathering 1,000+ scientists from academia, industry, & healthcare.
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#ECCB2026 European Conference on Computational Biology, Geneva🇨🇭:
Call for tutorials & workshops.
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Call for tutorials & workshops.
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Pinker war mal ein wirklich prägender Denker. Jetzt hat er sich in seltsame anti-progressive Kulturkämpfe verstrickt und schimpft auf Klimaschutz. Hier ein schmerzhaft schlechtes WELT-Interview. Atmen wir tief durch und sehen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)
Steven Pinker: „Der Hass auf den Kapitalismus sitzt tief in der akademischen Kultur“ - WELT
Moralische Voreingenommenheit, Negativ-Verzerrung, Hass auf den Kapitalismus – der Kognitionswissenschaftler Steven Pinker erläutert im Interview, warum wir Risiken der globalen Erwärmung falsch einsc...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Pinker war mal ein wirklich prägender Denker. Jetzt hat er sich in seltsame anti-progressive Kulturkämpfe verstrickt und schimpft auf Klimaschutz. Hier ein schmerzhaft schlechtes WELT-Interview. Atmen wir tief durch und sehen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)
Sorbonne joins the growing list of top institutions opting out of university rankings.
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Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Sorbonne joins the growing list of top institutions opting out of university rankings.
sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Thanks to Science Magazine for the opportunity for our Secretary General, Lidia Borrell-Damian, to contribute an editorial on our view of the next framework programme for R&I supporting excellence, openness & collaboration at the heart of Europe’s research future.
#HorizonEU
bit.ly/4ny3gRb
#HorizonEU
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A view of Horizon Europe’s future
The European Union (EU) has the world’s largest funding program exclusively for research and innovation (R&I)—Horizon Europe—which is now preparing its 10th edition for 2028–2034. The good news is tha...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Thanks to Science Magazine for the opportunity for our Secretary General, Lidia Borrell-Damian, to contribute an editorial on our view of the next framework programme for R&I supporting excellence, openness & collaboration at the heart of Europe’s research future.
#HorizonEU
bit.ly/4ny3gRb
#HorizonEU
bit.ly/4ny3gRb
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For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up.
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
By Nektarios Tavernarakis:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
By Nektarios Tavernarakis:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up.
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
By Nektarios Tavernarakis:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
By Nektarios Tavernarakis:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Nicht verpassen: „Kipppunkte im Klimasystem.“ Die Forum Basiliense Lecture 2025 mit Ricarda Winkelmann. Diesmal im Gehry Large Auditorium auf dem Novartis Campus. Eintritt frei!
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Nicht verpassen: „Kipppunkte im Klimasystem.“ Die Forum Basiliense Lecture 2025 mit Ricarda Winkelmann. Diesmal im Gehry Large Auditorium auf dem Novartis Campus. Eintritt frei!
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🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Le partenariat entre le FNS et le CIFAR offre aux chercheuses·eurs en Suisse de nombreuses possibilités de collaboration au niveau international et interdisciplinaire. Le 20 octobre 2025, un webinaire vous présentera ces opportunités. Inscription ici ➡️ https://sohub.io/erfl
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Le partenariat entre le FNS et le CIFAR offre aux chercheuses·eurs en Suisse de nombreuses possibilités de collaboration au niveau international et interdisciplinaire. Le 20 octobre 2025, un webinaire vous présentera ces opportunités. Inscription ici ➡️ https://sohub.io/erfl
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🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Die Partnerschaft des SNF mit CIFAR bietet Forschenden in der Schweiz vielseitige Möglichkeiten für die internationale und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. Am 20. Oktober 2025 stellen wir die Möglichkeiten in einem Webinar vor. Zur Anmeldung ➡️ https://sohub.io/d6z9
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 Die Partnerschaft des SNF mit CIFAR bietet Forschenden in der Schweiz vielseitige Möglichkeiten für die internationale und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. Am 20. Oktober 2025 stellen wir die Möglichkeiten in einem Webinar vor. Zur Anmeldung ➡️ https://sohub.io/d6z9
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+++ Eilmeldung +++ Physik-Nobelpreis geht an Donald Trump www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/phys...
+++ Eilmeldung +++ Physik-Nobelpreis geht an Donald Trump
Stockholm, Washington (dpo) - Der Nobelpreis für Physik geht in diesem Jahr in die USA: Für den Nachweis, dass es keinen CO2-Fußabdruck gibt und die K
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October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
+++ Eilmeldung +++ Physik-Nobelpreis geht an Donald Trump www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/phys...
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📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging
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#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging
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#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging
September 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging
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#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging
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#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging
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Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg that vaccinations have been so successful that "there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers." #TAF25 bit.ly/46a5DUE
September 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg that vaccinations have been so successful that "there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers." #TAF25 bit.ly/46a5DUE
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"How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do? An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective." | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @gretchentg.bsky.social for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do?
An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do? An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective." | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @gretchentg.bsky.social for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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📢 The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 270 million Swiss francs. The SNSF rejects these cuts. However, in order to be prepared, it has decided to cut costs in consultation with all partners.
➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1
#research #science #CHParl
➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1
#research #science #CHParl
Federal budget cuts: impact on the SNSF
The SNSF rejects the cuts but is preparing for them. Together with its partners, it has decided to cut costs across several funding schemes.
www.snf.ch
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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“Scientific cooperation with Europe and continued access to the #HorizonEurope programme are essential to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of research and innovation,” emphasised Torsten Schwede, President of the SNSF Research Council, during a round table organised by Foraus. ➡️ buff.ly/BJEcZ7P
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“Scientific cooperation with Europe and continued access to the #HorizonEurope programme are essential to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of research and innovation,” emphasised Torsten Schwede, President of the SNSF Research Council, during a round table organised by Foraus. ➡️ buff.ly/BJEcZ7P
2025 Latsis Swiss Science Prize 🏆 🧪
Dr Saskia Stucki has been awarded the Latsis Swiss Science Prize for her in-depth contributions at the interface between animal, human and environmental law.
Congratulations!
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@snsf.ch
Dr Saskia Stucki has been awarded the Latsis Swiss Science Prize for her in-depth contributions at the interface between animal, human and environmental law.
Congratulations!
www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/Z-...
fondationlatsis.org/en/
@snsf.ch
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
2025 Latsis Swiss Science Prize 🏆 🧪
Dr Saskia Stucki has been awarded the Latsis Swiss Science Prize for her in-depth contributions at the interface between animal, human and environmental law.
Congratulations!
www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/Z-...
fondationlatsis.org/en/
@snsf.ch
Dr Saskia Stucki has been awarded the Latsis Swiss Science Prize for her in-depth contributions at the interface between animal, human and environmental law.
Congratulations!
www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/Z-...
fondationlatsis.org/en/
@snsf.ch