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Video abstract summarizing Professor Kai Arzheimer's research on "Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but highly correlated with far right attitudes" 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpgH... 👇

Islamophobia driven by nativism, not religion: New study shows that anti-Muslim prejudice in Western Europe is rooted in nativist and authoritarian attitudes, not Christian belief 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/islamophobia-driven-by-nativism-not-religion/

Professor Adolfo Meisel Roca (left), Rector of Universidad del Norte, and Professor Stephan Jolie (right), Vice President for Learning and Teaching at Mainz University, signing the renewal of the partnership agreement between the two universities (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)

Professor Adolfo Meisel Roca, Rector of Uninorte, and Professor Stephan Jolie, Vice President for Learning and Teaching at JGU, joined forces with Lennin Gell Hernández Alarcón (center), Consul General of the Republic of Colombia in Frankfurt/Main, to plant a friendship tree on the Gutenberg campus. (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)

Global collaboration in a world of global challenges: Universidad del Norte and #MainzUniversity celebrate 50 years of partnership / Active exchange and cooperation in research and teaching, internationalization and transfer, partly funded by the #DAAD 👉 https://sohub.io/pryw

View of the JUNO photomultiplier tubes (© Yuexiang Liu / JUNO Collaboration)

#JUNOexperiment delivers first #physics results two months after completion / Researchers from #MainzUniversity played a key part in the data analysis 👉 https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/juno-experiment-delivers-first-physics-results-two-months-after-completion

#neutrinos

Researchers of #MainzUniversity and the Mainz University Medical Center are among Clarivate's "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" / Acknowledgment for researchers with significant and broad influence in their field of expertise 👉 https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/

#research #science

Junior Professor Catherine Teitz conducts research and teaches in the Classical Archaeology department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. (photo/©: Bernd Eßling)

Archaeologist Catherine Teitz explores how Roman architecture and everyday life along #HadriansWall evolved over the centuries – and how old excavation records can still yield new insights ... Read more in our #JGUMagazine at 👉 https://www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/layers-of-rome/

#archaeology #history

The image shows two cartoon characters. Character A speaks Bavarian and Character B speaks Standard German. The question at the bottom is which job would be recommended for each applicant. An AI system based on a large language model, represented here by a llama, would recommend the job of a plasterer for dialect speaker A, as no academic background is required for this profession. (ill./© von der Wense Group; created with the help of AI)

#AI language models show bias against regional German #dialects: New study examines how #ArtificialIntelligence responds to dialect speech 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/ai-language-models-show-bias-against-regional-german-dialects/

#LLMs #ComputationalLinguistics #LargeLanguageModels

Contrails over Jülich, embedded in very thin and therefore barely visible cirrus clouds (photo/©: Andreas Petzold)

Long-lived contrails usually form in natural ice clouds: Research team identifies common environmental conditions for the formation of #contrails 👉 https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb08-pmc/long-lived-contrails-usually-form-in-natural-ice-clouds/

#climate

Dr. Dandan Gao (front) from the Department of Chemistry at Mainz University with the lead authors of the current review article, Dr. Bahareh Feizi Mohazzab (left) und Kiarash Torabi (right) (photo/©: Shikang Han)

Extract #fertilizer from air and water: Pulsed #electrolysis opens a path toward sustainable production of nitrogen compounds such as ammonia and urea 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/extract-fertilizer-from-air-and-water/

#SustainableChemistry #SusInnoScience #nitrogen #agriculture #ClimateChange

(fltr) Professor Enrico Schleiff (President of Goethe University Frankfurt and current RMU spokesperson), Clemens Hoch (Science minister of Rhineland-Palatinate), Professor Tanja Brühl (President of TU Darmstadt), Timon Gremmels (Science minister of Hesse), and Professor Georg Krausch (President of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) (photo/©: Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Science and Health)

🤝 Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate sign administrative agreement to further promote unbureaucratic cooperation between the #RhineMainUniversities 👉 https://www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en/news/hesse-und-rhineland-palatinate-sign-administrative-agreement-to-strengthen-the-alliance-of-the

🎓 The #RhineMainUniversities wish all students at the universities of Frankfurt, Mainz, and Darmstadt a wonderful start to the new academic year! Welcome to the RMU Alliance!

🎥 https://youtu.be/UVdL6ouCENQ?si=9bGV5w2L0-P8cRmU

The core samples in the ELSA archive not only provide information on the climate of past centuries. They also offer a window into many aspects of human history over a period of 130,000 years. (photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer / JGU)

🔎 130,000 years of #ClimateHistory in 2,700 meters of core samples – that's the Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive (ELSA) built by geoscientist Prof. Frank Sirocko ... More in our #JGUMagazine at 👉 https://www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/a-life-passion-for-core-samples-and-the-future-of-the-elsa-project/

Combined results of rival #neutrino experiments NOvA and T2K add to the understanding of #physics and the #universe 👉 https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/rival-neutrino-experiments-nova-and-t2k-publish-first-joint-analysis/

#ParticlePhysics #neutrinos #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA

Spontaneous fragmentation of a rotating crystal comprised of transversely interacting particles into multiple rotating crystal fragments (ill./©: Zhi-Feng Huang)

Exotic roto-crystals: Researchers outline comprehensive theory to predict new properties of transverse interaction systems 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/exotic-roto-crystals/

#physics

Oldoinyo Lengai in Tanzania is the only active carbonatite volcano on Earth. (photo/©: Miriam Reiss)

How do #volcanoes work? What causes the vibrations known as #tremor that occur when #magma or gases move upward? Researchers of #MainzUniversity have located such tremor signals at the Oldoinyo Lengai #volcano in Tanzania 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/understandin...

#VolcanoSeismology #seismology

Three-dimensional magnetic skyrmion tube in a synthetic antiferromagnet (ill./©: Mona Bhukta)

Third dimension of #DataStorage: Three-dimensional magnetic vortices in synthetic #antiferromagnets move differently than magnetic vortices in two dimensions 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/third-dimension-of-data-storage/

#spintronics #skyrmions #QuantumComputing #physics

Traces of a lost medieval settlement in the tidal flats near the island of Hallig Südfall (photo/©: Bente Majchczack)

Examining the remains of the former church of Rungholt in the tidal flats off Hallig Südfall (photo/©: Dirk Bienen-Scholt)

With the help of the techniques of geophysics and coring, it is possible to detect cultural remains that would otherwise be inaccessible by archeological excavations. (photo/©: Hanna Hadler)

TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval #NorthFrisia / Interdisciplinary project by #UniMainz, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/torf-a-new-d...

#DFG #Geography #Archaeology

Zoom fatigue is a thing of the past: Recent study undertaken by #UniMainz has revealed that online meetings are not more exhausting than face-to-face meetings 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/zoom-fatigue...

#ZoomFatigue #OnlineMeetings #psychology

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Economics as a school subject leads to more #entrepreneurship: Recent study of #ifoInstitute and #MainzUniversity shows connection between economics classes in schools and entrepreneurial activity in adulthood 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/economics-as...

Professor Dr. Shikha Dhiman (photo/©: Ankit Sakhuja)

Possible breakthrough in the development of effective #biomaterials for internat. research team led by Shikha Dhiman: Receptor speed in membranes, not binding strength, is crucial to the binding of modell cell membranes to biomaterials 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/possible-bre...
#chemistry #biotechnology

A water discharge measuring point in Tyrol (photo/©: Robert Reinecke)

WMO report on global water resources: 2024 was characterized by both extreme drought and intense rainfall / Robert Reinecke major contributor to the report of the World Meteorological Organization 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/wmo-report-o...

#water #WaterResources #WorldWaterReport #WMO #meteorology

The presidents of the Rhine-Main Universities Darmstadt, Frankfurt, and Mainz signed a new RMU cooperation agreement. (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / RMU)

#RhineMainUniversities sign new cooperation agreement: For its 10th anniversary, RMU sends strong signal for its future with new cooperation agreement 👉 www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en/news/rhin...

@rheinmainunis.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social #UniMainz

Researchers of #MainzUniversity are involved in the HALO-South mission over the Southern Ocean near New Zealand 👇

Read more at 👉 www.dlr.de/en/latest/ne...

The figure shows the molecular structure of the manganese complex (center), a cuvette containing a solution of the purple manganese complex (top left), the absorption spectrum of the complex, which explains its high color intensity (purple), and the luminescence spectrum of the complex, which was used to measure its long lifetime (green). (ill./©: Katja Heinze)

Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a #manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of #photochemistry 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal...

#SustainableChemistry #SusInnoScience

View of the JUNO detector (© JUNO Collaboration)

JUNO completed liquid filling and begins taking data: New type of detector enables deeper understanding of the universe 👉 www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/pre...

#neutrinos #ParticlePhysics #NeutrinoDetector #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA #JUNOexperiment #JUNOdetector

Organisms living in terrestrial and aquatic habitats can influence each other through indirect ecological interactions. (ill./©: Shuqing Xu // icons/©: biorender.com)

Indirect effects drive evolution: Researchers of #MainzUniversity, @eawag.bsky.social & @unibas.ch present first direct evidence that species that never interact can profoundly influence each other's #evolution 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/indirect-eff...

#EvolutionaryBiology #biology

Researchers at #MainzUniversity and #HelmholtzInstituteMainz have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered previously unknown atomic transitions in samarium, a rare earth element 👉 www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/pre...

#spectroscopy #physics

The MOGON NHR South-West high-performance computer in the JGU server room (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)

#QuantumChromodynamics: Computer simulations describe particle properties with unprecedented precision 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/computer-sim...

#physics #ParticlePhysics #LatticeQCD #supercomputers #StrongInteraction #quarks #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA

Professor Helen May-Simera conducts research in the field of molecular cell biology, in particular on ciliopathies. (photo/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)

Tiny projections on the surface of human cells can determine whether we stay healthy or develop a genetic disorder. Cell biologist Helen May-Simera is an expert on the hair-like structures called #cilia 👉 www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/the-big-impa...

#CellBiology #MolecularBiology #BardetBiedlSyndrome

This chart illustrates how people in eight European countries recall their nation's role during World War II. In most cases, citizens are seen as victims or reluctant collaborators. Voluntary collaboration is rarely acknowledged. (ill./©: Fiona Kazarovytska)

Heroes, victims – and rarely collaborators: International study based on an online survey with 5,474 participants from eight European countries reveals how people across Europe reinterpret their nation's role during the Nazi era 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/heroes-victi...

#psychology #SocialPsychology