Anthropology with Historians: Ethnography, Ethics And Reflexivity | Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society | University of He... In his research for the WORK-IT project, Anwar Arifin examines how scholars of the Ancient Near East construct the past. In this post, he explores the ethics, moral dimensions and reflexivity of doing...

In the second part of our interview, our team member Anwar reflects on moral economy, reflexivity, and what it means to do anthropology with colleagues rather than about them.

🤓Read all about it on the blog!
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Anthropology meets Antiquity: How We Write the Ancient World | Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society | University of Helsink... Anwar Arifin shares how his interest in political and economic anthropology led him to Finland and the WORK-IT project.

Meet Anwar Arifin, a doctoral researcher who joined our team this autumn!

💭In the first part of his interview, Anwar reflects on his journey in anthropology, historiography, and questions of political economy.

📖 Read it now on our blog!

@erc.europa.eu #ERCAdG #universityofhelsinki #research

Let The Evidence Speak: On Reflexivity and The Study of The Ancient Near East | Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society | Univ... We asked our researchers questions about reflexivity in the study of antiquity and about how our own categories, assumptions, and positions shape the ways we think about the Ancient Near East. This bl...

What does reflexivity mean for us in studying the Ancient Near East?

We spoke with our colleagues and found our common troubles and solutions.

Read all about it on our blog!

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ERC grantee wins the 2025 Balzan Prize for atoms and ultra-precise measurement of time The 2025 Balzan Prize has been awarded to ERC grantee Christophe Salomon for 'his pioneering contribution in paving the way for the application of ultra-cold atoms to the creation of atomic clocks whi...

The ERC is pleased to have supported Christophe Salomon's research via two Advanced Grants.

Find out more about his work 👉 europa.eu/!XC4jR3

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#ERCAdG 🏆 | Découvrez le portrait de Scott Armstrong, directeur de recherche au LJLL, lauréat d'une ERC Advanced Grant 2024 👏

Son projet vise à développer des arguments rigoureux de groupe de renormalisation et à les appliquer à des problèmes fondamentaux.

➡️ www.insmi.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

While some countries scale back public research funding, it's encouraging to see the ERC attracting record interest. Shows what happens when basic science is treated as a priority. #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch

Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2025: Facts and figures The ERC Advanced Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 28 August 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:

In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year!

The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.

More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT

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#ERCAdG 🏆 | Découvrez le portrait d'Arnak Dalalyan, enseignant-chercheur et directeur du @crestumr.bsky.social, lauréat d'une ERC Advanced Grant 2024 👏

Son projet vise à analyser les propriétés mathématiques des algorithmes de modélisation générative.

➡️ www.insmi.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

Our WORK-ING Summer: Thoughts From Conferences and Meetings of Summer 2025 | Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society | Univers... The summer of 2025 turned out to be an active and productive season for our research group. Members of the team participated in several conferences and meetings across Europe, presenting our project, ...

From Uppsala to Berlin to Turku 🌍 It's been a summer of panels, presentations & new connections.

For the full story of a bright summer of meetings and conferences, visit our blog! ☀️📚

#ERCAdG #workit #workingthoughts #universityofhelsinki #research @erc.europa.eu

Duas cientistas portuguesas ganham 2,5 milhões em bolsa europeia Duas cientistas em Portugal estão a estudar soluções para problemas graves do sistema nervoso central. Por exemplo, a regeneração da medula para permitir que uma pessoa possa voltar a andar. O projeto...

#i3S researcher Mónica Sousa was awarded an #ERC Advanced Grant last month, worth 2.5M€, to pursue her work with the spiny mouse and understand the mechanisms that drive spinal cord regeneration.
Learn more about project CORDheal 📺👀👇
#ERCAdG #i3Sawards #i3Snews #peopleofi3S

👏🍾Congratulations to Hélène Morlon, winner of the ERC Advanced Grant 2024 for her project PlankDiv on Diversification of the Eukaryotic Plankton in the Sunlit Ocean.
🔗 www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....
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Our research group had the pleasure of attending the EABS Annual Conference at Uppsala University this June. We presented our project, shared ideas, and had great discussions with colleagues from across Europe. A great thank you to the organizers!

#EABS2025 #ERCAdG #WORKIT #UniversityOfHelsinki

Ezra–Nehemiah and the Blurred Lines Between Worship and Work | Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society | University of Helsink... Temple work in Ezra-Nehemiah goes beyond faith: it’s tied to social pressures, informal taxes, and forced labour under imperial rule. In our final blog post before the summer break, Daniele Soares ope...

In our final blog post before the summer break, Daniele Soares unpacks how temple labour in the Bible was shaped by social pressure, imperial systems, and economic obligation.

Read the full piece on our blog! 👇

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🔬 L’URCA participe au projet BONEREPAIR, récemment distingué par une prestigieuse bourse ERC Advanced Grand #ERCAdG

Objectif : soigner les fractures ostéoporotiques en stimulant la régénération osseuse via les propriétés électriques de l’os.

@erc.europa.eu

Plus d'infos 👉 lc.cx/XvCCkr

Richard Friend in the lab

close up of a material glowing red under a blue laser

Congratulations to Richard Friend, who has received a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant (@erc.europa.eu)🎉
The BRIGHTS project will create materials with luminescent properties and quantum spin behavior, potentially transforming quantum science and optical technologies.
#ERCAdG

Between Text and Theory: Daniele Soares on Reading the Ancient World | Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society | University of... In this WORK-ing thoughts post, doctoral researcher Daniele Soares shares her journey from economics in Brazil to theology and biblical studies across continents. She explores how ancient texts like E...

How can modern tools help us read the ancient world? In this week's blog post, Daniele Soares explores theory, theology, and why texts like Ezra and Nehemiah still matter for power, labour, and community today.

Read the full piece on our blog! 👇
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#workit #ERCAdG #blog #universityofhelsinki

This time last week the results of the ERC 2024 Advanced Grant call for proposals for funding were announced. €721 million for 281 researchers.

Next year, could you be one of them?

The 2025 #ERCAdG call is accepting applications until 28 August 2025. 👉 europa.eu/!8xnrqK

Ana García-Sáez Awarded Prestigious ERC Grant

This is Ana’s third ERC grant! We’re proud to celebrate her success and groundbreaking work here at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social. #ERCAdG Read more here: imprs-cbp.mpg.de/139225/garci...

Congratulations to our faculty member Ana García-Sáez for receiving an ERC Advanced Grant! 📣 Her work on mitochondrial membranes continues to push the frontiers of biophysics and cell biology 🧬 #ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu

E schéinen Nationalfeierdag Lëtzebuerg 🇱🇺!

A great day to check out a newly-funded ERC Advanced grant project from @majben.bsky.social @uni.lu 👇

#FrontierResearch #ERCAdG

With this new funding, we’re hiring PhDs and #postdocjobs

Our #ERCAdG studies on the role of #RQC #ribosome #ubiquitin in #neurodegeneration will include using iPSCs, i-neurons, mammalian TC. The lab also has ongoing projects on #mitochondria and bacterial RQC.

Thrilled and honored to receive the #ERCAdG! This will fund us for the next 5 yrs for groundbreaking research.

My project SuTra focuses on the Surveillance of Translation, from sensing #ribosome stalling to #RQC. We aim to learn how defective surveillance causes neurodegeneration.

#postdocjobs

Valuable Funding for Five Researchers at Universität Heidelberg

Congratulations to Claudio Joazeiro @labjoazeiro.bsky.social being awarded an ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu. He is one of five scientists from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social who were successful in this round.

www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...
#ERCAdG #uniheidelberg #Universität #heidelberg

🔝BSC researcher Leo Wanner receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to understand the grammar of lexical collocations with #AI

➡ bsc.es/Zv4

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Trois lauréats ERC Advanced Grants 2024 pour le site d'Aix-Marseille ! | Mission Europe pour la Recherche La Commission européenne a publié les résultats de l’appel ERC Advanced Grants 2024, l’un des instruments les plus prestigieux de financement de la recherche en Europe. Parmi les 255 projets sélection...

#ERCAdG 🇪🇺 | Félicitations aux 3 lauréats du site d'Aix Marseille🏆@erc.europa.eu

👉Christian-George Bénar, INS
👉Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, IBDM @ibdm.bsky.social
👉Arietta Papaconstantinou, LA3M

📣 mission-europe-recherche.fr/fr/actualite...

My colleague Prof. Frank Würthner @uni-wuerzburg.de received an #ERCAdG aiming at synthesizing #Schwarzite carbon materials. Super cool! Heartfelt congratulations!

🇪🇺 ERC Advanced Grant 2024 : bravos aux deux lauréats de la circonscription Paris-Centre du CNRS. #ERCAdG
👉 www.paris-centre.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

An ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to Prof. at ICFO Adrian Bachtold for the pioneering research project QTube.

Congratulations Adrian! 👏

ICFO News 👉 www.icfo.eu/news/2523/er...

#ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu

Very happy for my fabulous colleague @evrop-anka.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at @ifswien.bsky.social who was just awarded #ERCAdG for her project on regulating loneliness in modern societies

Congratulations to Ana García Sáez on receiving an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for her pioneering research on mitochondrial membranes! 🎉

#ERCAdG #CECAD #LifeScience #Biophysics #WomenInScience