Events

This week, IANUS project partners have met in Rotterdam to join the global discussion on science communication at the Public Communication of Science and Technology PCST Conference 2023. The PCST network has been bringing together practitioners, educators, and researchers in science communication since 1989, with previous conferences taking place in countries such as South Korea, […]

On 23th of February, 2023 the Research Council of Lithuania and Office of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures organized the webinar on how to hear lay people’s voices with integrity in research practice. In this webinar, participant learn about the PRO-Ethics project and its outcomes, including what ethical challenges emerge when involving participants

Figure-Ground Shifts in Cognition: How the brain became embodied and our environment became the extended mind Brain-centrism has dominated studies of mind since secular, materialist scientific study eclipsed the classical understanding of the psyche as a metaphysical soul. We somehow flipped from thinking consciousness and intelligence was wholly a metaphysical property, to believing it was

The call to communicate and engage as scientists with society is getting louder and louder from, amongst others, politics, society and scientific funding agencies. The current crises – climate, inequality, Covid19 – urge for involvement and engagement of scientists. Like during the Covid19 pandemic, when science was at the heart of it all. At the

The IANUS project completed the first kick-off meeting at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam on the 13th -14th of June. On the first day, on the 13th of June, was organized the Trust in Science Conference at the Theil Building of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Fascinating talks and panels conducted at this conference allowed