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CSS Newsletter | June 2020

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Dear Visitor

We hope you have been holding up well during this crisis and that you and your loved ones are healthy physically, mentally and finacially.

CSS had to postpone its planned eventseries on technofixing and climate change. We have used the time in corona crisis not only to organise five webinars on gene drives (more info below) but as well to implement a fresh look to our Newsletter and to implement a CSS Newsfeed newsfeed on agriculture and climate crisis (for which you can register below).

We wish you good health and a good time

The CSS secretaries

Andreas & Tamara

Table of content
Genedrive Webinars | CSS Newsfeed on agriculture and climate crisis | Discussion Round on Critical Science | Paper on GMO regulation by A. Hilbeck | Statement on Corona signed by some of our members | Interview with E. Mitchell on chlorothalonil

1. Gene Drive Webinars

4 June | 10 June | 12 June | 16 June.

Almost exactly one year ago CSS organized a symposium and published a report on Gene Drives together with ENSSER and VDW. Together with Sciences Citoyennes, the old partners organize five webinars on that important topic for free. 

Please spread the invitation in your circles.

2. CSS Newsfeed

Main focus agriculture & climate crisis | every Saturday

Daniel Langmeier, agronomist by training, has been publishing already for a long time a newsfeed for his friends and other peers. We are very grateful that Daniel has started a few weeks ago to publish this newsfeed together with CSS. It is written mainly in German and is sent out every Saturday. For a preview of already sent newsfeeds press the archive button below.

If you would like to receive those selected news and scientific papers on the above topics, you can either register here or send us an email. For a preview you can check the Newsfeed Archive.

If you stumble upon interesting papers and the like or if you want to start your own CSS Newsfeed with a different main focus you can write a mail to newsfeed@criticalscientists.ch

4. Trainee Position (60%) & Master’s Program Plant Breeding

If you know any students, who want to do a Master in plant breeding, you can send them this interesting program. 

5. Critical Science Discussion Round

via Zoom on "Wissenskulturen" by Knorr-Cetina

In the week of June 22, the discussion group will meet either digitally or in Zurich to further discuss Knorr-Cetina's book "Knowledge Cultures". If you want to participate please send us an E-Mail

7. Publications by our members

Papers | Interviews | Statements

The next pandemic is foreseeable

It is time to take the ecological crisis seriously

A collective of 120 scientists, including our chair, Prof. Rasmann (UNINE), our board member Dr. Hilbeck (ETHZ) and several other CSS-members, signed a statement pointing out the relationship between pandemics and the destruction of ecosystems.

The statement has been published in

• Le Temps (French) and in
• eawag.ch (German)
  

Statement‍

GMO regulations and their interpretation

How EFSA’s guidance on risk assessments of GMOs is bound to fail

20 April 2020 | Hilbeck, Wynne et al. in Environ Sci Eur 32, 54 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-020-00325-6

A new publication by CSS and ENSSER members has been published by the open access journal Environmental Sciences Europe. The article explains why and how EFSA’s GMO panel fails to satisfy the objectives of the EU’s GMO regulation and outlines a more inclusive and comprehensive approach to risk assessment.

Paper

Chlorothalonil pollution in Swiss groundwater

12 May 2020 | RTS interview with Prof. Edward Mitchell (UNINE) | French

The fungicide chlorothalonil is prohibited in Swiss agriculture since 2020. The Federal Office for the Environment has found that the concentrations of several chlorothalonil metabolites exceed the maximum threshold value of 0.1 microgram/liter in the groundwater over a large area of the Swiss Plateau and thus lead to considerable contamination. RTS asked CSS member Prof. Edward Mitchell (UNINE) in an 4min interview about the consequences of this contamination.

Video Interview

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