Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)

Welcome to 34 new fellows at AIAS Arriving from around the globe and from Aarhus University on 1 September, 34 new AIAS fellows have their first day at AIAS to embark on cutting-edge research projects, becoming a part of the transform...

🎉Welcome at AIAS today:3️⃣4️⃣ fellows start in either an individual fellowship, in a theme group or in a tandem fellowship. They arrive from diverse research areas with explorative projects to be hosted and transformed at AIAS in an #interdisciplinary, #international community
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🔊Up to 10 individual AIAS-AUFF FELLOWSHIPS are open for application by curiosity-driven and talented researchers from all over the world, from any research discipline & with 2-10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.
📆APPLY by: 28 October at 12:00 (noon, CET)
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3 people stand next to a totem pole, talking to each other. The totem displays 3 printed images and accompanying text.

Print of 5 drawings. On the left hand side, three smaller drawings of what individuals think the internet is like. On the right hand side, two larger drawings of what groups would like the internet to be.

5 drawings. On the left hand side, three smaller drawings of what individuals think the internet is like. On the right hand side, two larger drawings of what groups would like the internet to be.

Accompanying text that explains the preceding images. Title of the image: "Imagined internets". Author: Elisabetta Ferrari, AIAS-AUFF Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University. Explanatory text: "This composite image displays different drawings created by a group of activists and researchers in a “visual focus group” (Ferrari, 2024) held at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain, in 2019. On the left are drawings of what three participants thought the internet was like. Each drawing emphasizes different aspects, such as the role of corporations or nation states. On the right are two group drawings. After completing their individual drawings, participants in each group discussed what they wanted the internet to look like in the future. Values such as transparency and openness are highlighted."

Yesterday, at the wonderful @aiasdk.bsky.social Summer Gathering, we opened an exhibit of images that bridge science and art. My contribution is a composite of different drawings from my visual focus groups w activists, researchers and techies.
Read more about this work here: tinyurl.com/5bdb7upn

ERC Advanced Grant to AIAS-PIREAU Fellow Ciara Kierans AIAS-PIREAU Fellow Ciara Kierans has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her research project FILTERSCAPE that will examine how nature, technology and organisms filter in landscapes where contamina...

Great news🎉. ERC Advanced Grant by the @erc.europa.eu to AIAS-PIREAU Fellow Ciara Kierans for her FILTERSCAPE project that aims to develop new understandings of the relationship between pollution and health for solutions to more sustainable and habitable environments.
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Great to have you back at AIAS to continue collaborations across fields, universities and countries🎉

AIAS at Folkemødet 2025 AIAS is hosting a debate on Digital Health and Social Inequality at Folkemødet 2025, an annual democracy festival in Denmark.

😄 🤖 Can we live a healthy life in a digital society? Next week AIAS hosts an #interdisciplinary debate at Folkemødet, an annual democracy festival in Denmark. Join us to discuss how digital solutions affect our health.
📆 13 June at 18-19.00
📍Allinge Harbour, AURORA, H6
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Perfekt - så vil AIAS gerne byde sig ind som opvarminsgpanel kl. 18:00-19:00 med en debat om 'Et sundt liv i et digitaliseret samfund?' på forskningsskibet Aurora - så kan publikum sagtens nå jer, @m-b-petersen.bsky.social og @stinuslindgreen.bsky.social, og 'Tung forskning og metal' kl. 19:15👍

We are looking forward to host you at AIAS - and to get more insights into your very topical theme group project🎉

We are looking forward to host you here at AIAS and to learn more about your project - it's more than ever of great relevance🎉

Two cross-faculties collaborative theme groups selected to AIAS Following a successful year with four active cross-faculties 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups, the Interdisciplinary Taskforce at Aarhus University and AIAS have selected two new groups who will j...

Two new 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups selected to AIAS. The ‘Tracks and Footprints’ and ‘When Politics Meets Business’ groups bring together researchers across faculties and disciplines to transform perspectives, build bridges and understandings around one theme🎉
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AIAS Seminar: 'Don’t abandon each other: Mutual aid activism and the pandemic' Speaker: Elisabetta Ferrari, AIAS-AUFF Fellow

🧐Interested in digital technologies and activism such as grassroots mobilization? Join the next AIAS seminar w/ AIAS-AUFF Fellow @bettyferrari.bsky.social to get insights from her research on mutual aid and digital technologies in the US, Italy and the UK.
📆2 June at 11:00
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Four Science Diplomacy Theme Group Fellows selected to AIAS In a global world marked by changing geopolitical contexts, science diplomacy is more important than ever. Four AIAS-SD fellows have been selected to work together in a theme group to address ‘Science...

From 1 September, a Science Diplomacy Theme Group of fellows starts at AIAS. They will address issues from research security, the idea of ‘dual use’, the role of universities in science diplomacy to how AI and science diplomacy may reinforce inequalities between societies👇
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Looking forward to hosting you here at AIAS from September and to learn more about your research and project on 'Recreating historical non-synthetic plastics: relearning Victorian recycling for environmental good'🎉

We are looking forward to hosting you at AIAS and to know more about your research and project on Cultural Biology🎉

Nine international researchers selected in the AIAS-AUFF Fellowship programme Out of a record number of applications received in the second call in the AIAS-AUFF fellowship programme, nine talented researchers have been selected. From September, the fellows arrive from around t...

🌍Nine AIAS-AUFF Fellows selected from all over the world. They will explore novel research projects, from ocean & climate change, hybrid warfare, neurodiverse cooperation to plastics & recycling, and will bring new perspectives and methods together in one house at AIAS🎉
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The good, the bad and the ugly: the roles of different vascular cell types in premature aging In a new review article in the scientific journal Trends in Molecular Medicine, AIAS Fellow Magda R. Hamczyk and collaborators shed light on the roles of different vascular cell types in progeria, an ...

Get insights into the recent advances in understanding premature vascular disease and aging in a new review by Magda Hamczyk & colleagues. In her AIAS research project, Hamczyk further studies these mechanisms of cellular re-programming and their potential implications.
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Den digitale vildskab: Hvordan navigerer vi i den digitale hverdag? AIAS at the 2025 Festival of Research Cross-disciplinary debate (in Danish) with AIAS-SHAPE fellows Lene Aarøe, Maja Hojer Bruun & Peter Danholt, moderated by Andreas Roepstorff.

It's soon Festival of Research/Forskningens Døgn in Denmark. Join the #interdisciplinary AIAS debate to discuss 'Digital Craziness’ - how do we manage to navigate in our highly digital everyday lives, marked by algorithms, AI and digital platforms?
📆23 April at 16:00
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Six Carlsberg Monograph fellowship grantees at AIAS Six successful Carlsberg Monograph fellowship recipients have been selected for a research stay at AIAS, from 1 September 2025. The six fellows are funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and will carry ou...

📖Six researchers selected to carry out their @carlsbergfondet.dk Monograph Fellowship in an #interdisciplinary and #international research community at AIAS.
Their research span topic of the lymphatic vessels, minor tech and fear. Learn more about their projects here👇
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AIAS Seminar: ‘What is ‘alcohol harm reduction’ and how can we do it?’ Speaker: Gabriel Scott Caluzzi, AIAS Visiting Fellow & Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Australia

🧐What is ‘alcohol harm reduction’ and how can we do it? Get insights from AIAS Visiting Fellow @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social who will present his research on alcohol harm reduction from theoretical, policy and practical perspectives.
📆7 April at 11:00
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Interested in children and childhoods of the past? Come join us at @au.dk - in the fab facilities of @aiasdk.bsky.social - for this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference.

Abstract deadline is April 4th!

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Cross-disciplinary meeting on Cellular Plasticity for novel lines of thinking Cellular plasticity at the crossroads of the nervous and circulatory systems was at the agenda at AIAS, when an interdisciplinary group of researchers met to discuss cells and novel ways to address ho...

Interested in cellular plasticity? AIAS gathers researchers across disciplines to discuss cells and novel ways and methods to address how cells adopt, develop and renew.
#cells #plasticity #interdisciplinary #collaboration
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AIAS Seminar: 'Perceiving the imperceptible: A visual exploration of Bronze Age Aegean (emot-)icons?' Speaker: Ester Salgarella, AIAS-AUFF Fellow

🧐Did script-signs in Cretan hieroglyphic work as modern emoticons/emojis do, thus adding an emotional dimension to graphic codes? Get insights into #ideography and materiality and mind when AIAS-AUFF Fellow Ester Salgarella presents her research project.
📆31 March at 11.00
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We’re on our off! Thrilled to have the entire @integradiv.bsky.social project team gathered at @au.dk. Big thanks to our amazing host, @aiasdk.bsky.social! Get ready for two days filled with dynamic discussions as we map out the exciting next 1.5 years of our project. Let the adventure begin!

AIAS Seminar: 'Threads in a meshwork: A biosocial analysis of antimicrobial resistance in hazardous workplaces' Speaker: Jens Seeberg, AIAS-PIREAU Fellow & Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

🦠Is life always biosocial, so organisms are socially connected in ways that influence their situated biologies? AIAS Fellow Jens Seeberg presents research on how factory work environments influence the development and spread of antibiotics resistance.
📆24 March at 11:00
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🧠Art on the Brain at AIAS today. We celebrate that this week is Brain Awareness Week with an exhibition of #art works of the #brain in collaboration with colleagues and neuroscientists from @dandrite.bsky.social bringing scientists in conversation across disciplines.
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A sketch of me discussing the heart of the leopard gecko and its response to cryo injury

Christian Damsgaard on the avian eye

Leif Ostergaard on capillary responses to neuronal activity

Tobias Wang on the plasticity of the snake intestine.... and the cost of protein synthesis

Sketches from the @aiasdk.bsky.social workshop on cellular plasticity at the crossroads of ❤️ and 🧠 aias.au.dk/events/cellu...

#BlueSci #SciArt

AIAS Seminar: ‘Understanding Stress: Work, Life, and Social Support in Population-Based Analyses’ Speaker: Jes Bak Sørensen, AIAS-PIREAU Fellow & DEFACTUM, Region Midtjylland (Central Denmark Region), and the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University.

😓Should efforts to prevent harmful stress focus solely on the workplace, or should a more holistic approach address broader aspects of individuals' lives? Learn more about #stress & the data behind in the next seminar with AIAS Fellow Jes Bak Sørensen👇
🗓 17 March at 11:00
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‪🩺 ✏️ 🧫 ⚖️Happy International Women's Day. 30 curious & clever women scientists are hosted in the #diverse community of AIAS. They put their intellect & skills into research in evolutionary biology, labour economics, cardiovascular disease & much more for the benefit of us all🙏
🎨by @cjaw.bsky.social

ERC FRONTIERS Science journalist residency stay at AIAS Are you a science journalist who wishes to work closely with a frontier research environment with researchers from diverse disciplines? AIAS is a host institution of the ERC funded Science journalism ...

✍️OPPORTUNITIES for science journalists at AIAS @au.dk. AIAS is a host institution in the @erc.europa.eu funded @frontiersmedia.bsky.social fellowship program. JOIN an international and interdisciplinary environment with frontier research & engaging events.
📆APPLY by 6 May
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AIAS Seminar: 'Who adopts AI? Evidence from Danish firms' Speaker: Mariola Pytlikova, AIAS-PIREAU Fellow

🤖Little systematic evidence exists on AI adoption rates in firms. Who are they, and what are the determinants and barriers to AI adoption? Get insights into #AI adoption in Danish firms in the seminar w/ economist & AIAS-PIREAU Fellow Mariola Pytlikova👇
📆10 March at 11.00
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