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The Meteorological Synthesizing Centre – East (MSC-E), a prominent research hub within the Jožef Stefan Institute's Department of Environmental Sciences, is currently seeking applications for two postdoctoral research positions. These positions are based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the forefront of innovative environmental research under the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution.

At the 35th Annual Meeting of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe in Seville, Spain, Eirini Andreasidou won 1st place in the SETAC Science Slam Competition, with the presentation entitled "Tomatoes of the Shire: A Fellowship's Quest through the Soil-Plant Continuum". Eirini received the most votes among the four contestants with an impressive 81%, in a competition attended by almost 700 people in the main auditorium.

The Food for Thought Festival, a series of interdisciplinary events, was organized by the Jožef Stefan Institute in collaboration with the University of Ljubljana and the National Institute of Chemistry between April 23^rd and April 25^th, 2024. The festival's menu had a sustainable theme, bringing together researchers, UL alumni, and students around a common table to discuss current societal issues and the challenges of creating sustainable food systems.

Euresearch is coordinating the NCP project MSCA-NET and within the frame of this project, they also wish to promote inspirational MSCA stories. Our FoodTraNet project has been selected and published as an inspirational story, and now it will be posted on their social media channels (LinkedIn, X, and Facebook).

Dr. Janja Vidmar and Prof. Dr. Ester Heath, both members of the Slovenian Chemical Society, Section for the Environment, recently published a paper in Acta Chimica Slovenica on the status of environmental education programmes in Slovenia.

Cathrine Terro from the Department of Environmental Sciences attended the recent Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference. This conference celebrated MCAA’s 10th anniversary held from March 14th to 16th, 2024, hosted in Milan.

The research work performed by Sreekanth Vijayakumaran Nair, Jože Kotnik, Jan Gačnik, Igor Živković, and Milena Horvat from JSI, was featured on Envirotech-online news for our focus on continuous emission monitoring (CEM).

Watch Ugriznimo znanost TV Show entitled Chemicals from the Environment in Our Bodies – Human Biomonitoring, today, January 4, 2024, at 5:15 PM on TV SLO1!

“Ugriznimo znanost”, a TV show from the Slovenian National Broadcaster that strives to explain science in a popular, relaxed, and witty way, hosted our colleagues dr. David Kocman and dr. Rok Novak, who presented the work done at the O2 department on the topic of Citizen Science. 

At the ARIS session titled "The Position of Citizen Science and Its Placement within the Framework of Funding Scientific Research Activities," Dr. David Kocman elucidated his perspective on citizen science and the evolution of work on citizen science projects over the years.

This is the first time that an ICP-QQQ-MS (Agilent 8900 triple quadrupole mass spectrometer) method met the accuracy and precision criteria for a proficiency test in the quantification of ⁹⁰Sr and ²²⁶Ra at an environmental level. 

As part of the EU MSCA ITN GMOS-Train project, coordinated by Prof. Milena Horvat from the Department of Environmental Sciences, an interesting study has been published, available in Nature Geosciences.