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NIAS Fellows Community Stands up for Science

While the US administration is targeting federal scientists and scientific funding, firing thousands, attempting to freeze research funding, and proposing future cuts, NIAS Fellows from the US are deeply concerned about the impact developments may have on their personal lives, those of their loved ones and their country.

What can go wrong if politics starts acting as the boss of other pillars of democracy.

Fleeing Ukrainian scientists on their country's future: ‘Values suddenly don't count’

Brush up on Academic Freedom: What's At Stake? (And Who Cares?)

NIAS Podcast: Why many diversity programs backfire

Watch the Freedom Lecture by NIAS Safe Haven Fellow Amal Helles

Michael Ignatieff on Academic Freedom: What’s At Stake? (And Who Cares?)”

The Academy as a Pillar of Liberal Democracy - Jan Willem Duyvendak

The Academy and the Rule of Law by Tamar de Waal

L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Fellowships at NIAS

Poet Maria Barnas explores the role of cleaning and leaving traces in visual art

NIAS podcast: Room to explore

Listening as resistance

What is recognition?

Exploring colonial histories: fellowship opportunity for researchers

Olga Tokarczuk receives European Literature Prize 2024

Francesco Battaglia awarded Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellowship for innovative brain research

Apply as early as possible for the next NIAS open call

Statement of academies of science in Europe: academic freedom and cooperation under pressure in the US

Anja Vink will work on 'Teachers for the Working Class' as NIAS Journalist in Residence 2025

Apply Now for a Summer Stay

‘When I finally start to write, I realize there are few finer places to do so than at NIAS.’

Moving Beyond Welfare Chauvinism

NIAS and Equal Rights for all Scholars  

In Praise of Doing Nothing by NIAS alum Costică Brădăţan

In Memoriam: Anton Blok, 1935–2024

The Danger of Conflation in Light of the Israel-Hamas War