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Join our #webinar on August 7 (1-3 PM CEST) & explore #PhD opportunities at Max Planck's IMPRS in NRW, Germany! 🇩🇪
Gain insights into groundbreaking research & register here: https://events.gwdg.de/e/PhDatMaxPlanck2026

#MaxPlanck #Research #Germany #Science @maxplanckgesellschaft

Whoa, stop the presses! 📰 Italians and Dutch use *gestures* for teaching? What's next, a groundbreaking study revealing that fish swim? 🐠 Bravo, Max Planck, for uncovering the obvious with the flair of a mime convention. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.mpi.nl/news/italians-and-dutch-share-same-gestural-instinct-teaching #HackerNews #MaxPlanck #Gestures #Teaching #ObviousResearch #MimeConvention #HackerNews #ngated
Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching | Max Planck Institute

Researchers discover that giant viruses can lie dormant within a multicellular host genome, reactivate on cue, and be inherited like a super-gene. For more details: https://tinyurl.com/2s5kd2ft #MaxPlanck @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social‬.

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/05/18/sleeping-giants-how-hidden-viruses-wake-up-inside-seaweed-and-pass-on-to-future-generations

Sleeping Giants: How hidden viruses wake up inside seaweed, and pass on to future generations

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the genome of a multicellular host, lie dormant for generations and then wake up on demand. The study challenges fundamental assumptions about how giant viruses operate and establishes a powerful new model for studying viral latency in complex organisms.

Shifting gears: the last day of meeting will be all about the Max Planck alumni management. Stay tuned for exciting announcements this coming October!

#IMPRS #MaxPlanck #Alumni

There's a new IMPRS in town, and they are hiring with a deadline of June 1st: https://www.mpi-sp.org/95286/Apply-to-IMPRS

PhD positions at the International Max Planck Research School for Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Digital Society @maxplanckgesellschaft @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

#phd #phdposition #hiring #privacy #security #itsecurity #digitalsociety #imprs #maxplanck #bochum #rub

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Fisica Quantistica spiegata semplice: Cos’è e perché cambia il nostro modo di vedere la realtà

Se vi dicessero che una particella può trovarsi in due posti contemporaneamente, probabilmente pensereste a un film di fantascienza. Oppure a un paradosso impossibile. Eppure, nel mondo infinitamente piccolo degli atomi, degli elettroni e dei fotoni, tutto questo non solo è possibile, ma accade davvero. La Fisica Quantistica nasce proprio da qui: dal tentativo di comprendere un universo nascosto ai nostri occhi, dove la materia può comportarsi come un’onda, l’osservazione può […]

https://www.psicospace.it/fisica-quantistica-spiegata-semplice/

Today we welcomed Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Indian Embassy in Germany, and representatives from Göttingen International at the University of Göttingen to MPS. It was a wonderful opportunity to present our research and discuss collaborations between scientists from India, Göttingen, and within the Max Planck Society. Thank you very much for visiting!!!

In the photo, from left to right: Netra Bhandari (Director of the India Office, University of Göttingen), Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Indian Embassy in Germany, Prof. Dr. Laurent Gizon (Director at MPS), Prithwitosh Dey (MPS doctoral researcher).

@unigoettingen @thegoecampus @mpsgoettingen @maxplanckgesellschaft

#India #Germany #ResearchPartnership #UniGöttingen #GöttingenInternational #MPSGöttingen #MaxPlanck #GöttingenCampus #Göttingen #IndianEmbassyinGermany

🎂 Happy Birthday, Max Planck! 🎂
 
168 years ago, #MaxPlanck was born. He is the namesake of the @maxplanckgesellschaft, to which our MPL and MPZPM belong.
 
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Physics in 1918 for his discovery of energy quanta, he fundamentally changed how we understand the nature of light and matter. Inspired by his legacy of curiosity and discovery, we carry his name and spirit forward. With that in mind, we wish him a very happy birthday!
 
#Science #Research #QuantumScience
Tune in tonight for a new episode of York Universe LIVE! Join us as we discuss fascinating astronomy history and the latest space news, including physicist Max Planck!
If weather permits, we’ll have Online Public Viewing where we show you live views from our 1m telescope!
Date: Monday, April 20, 2026
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 PM ET
Location: www.youtube.com/@YorkUObservatory/live

#MaxPlanck #SpaceExploration #Space #Astronomer #Astronomy #Radio #Show #Podcast #YorkU #Observatory #AllanICarswellObservatory #Stargazing #YorkUniverse #Telescope #Planets #Stars #Science #Physics #Toronto #YorkUObservatory #AICO

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir diese Woche unsere Türen für den bundesweiten @girlsday – und zum allerersten Mal auch für den @boysday öffnet.

👩‍🔬 Mädchen tauchen in die Drosophilaforschung ein und lernen, wie man mit den Fliegen umgeht, Experimente entwirft und Daten auswertet.

🧪 Jungen erfahren mehr über das Berufsbild der Biologisch-Technischen Assistenz – Pipettieren und Plasmidpräparation mit professionellem Laborequipment.

https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/zukunftstag

#MaxPlanck #Freiburg #boysday #girlsday