Byline: Valentine Delrue
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Echoes of the Convent: Report of the 9th History of Science and Humanities PhD Conference, 2023
On a sunny Thursday morning in April, it was finally happening again. The bi-annual PhD conference on the history of the sciences and humanities brought together twenty-five young researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands at the beautiful Soeterbeeck Abbey. After the 8th edition in 2021 was held online, we were very happy to be greeted…
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The far-side of scientific funding: why you should publish your rejected grant application
When the astronomer Tycho Brahe gifted his book Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica (1598) to the Republic of Venice, he strongly hoped that it would move the city to write out a decree supporting his travels for astronomical observations. Tycho had left his motherland Denmark after the new ruler Christian IV withdrew his patronage of the research…