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The Excellent Science pillar aims to increase the EU’s global scientific competitiveness. It supports frontier research projects defined and driven by top researchers themselves through the European Research Council, funds fellowships for experienced researchers, doctoral training networks and exchanges for researchers through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and invests in world-class research infrastructures

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Nanopore sequencing of DNA barcodes succeeds in unveilling the diversity of fungal mock communities

Authors: Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Fergus Guppy, Lucas Bowler, Joao Inacio

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Alfonso Benítez-Páez, Christoph Ammer-Herrmenau, Henrik Nilsson, Laurence Delhaes

Published: July 17, 2023
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Open Science Training in TRIPLE

Authors: Lottie Provost, Francesca Di Donato, Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, Suzanne Dumouchel, Emilie Blotière, Yin Chen

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Amelia Sanz Cabrerizo, Paola Masuzzo, Vera Heininga

Published: June 5, 2023
Research Article

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Investigating the effect of cardio-visual synchrony on prosocial behavior towards a social robot

Authors: Katie A. Riddoch, Emily S. Cross

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Alejandro Galvez-Pol, Francesco Bossi

Published: February 21, 2023
Brief Report
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Investigating immersion and migration decisions for agent-based modelling: A cautionary tale

Authors: Jakub Bijak, Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, Philip A Higham, Toby Prike, Martin Hinsch, Sarah Nurse

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Anne Goujon, Bruce EDMONDS, Melania BORIT, Puyang Li

Published: October 29, 2024
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Chemotherapy use and outcomes in patients with stage III or IV small-cell lung cancer in relation to age: An analysis of the English Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT) dataset

Authors: Sophie Pilleron, Eva JA Morris, David Dodwell, Kevin Franks

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Anke Richters, Charles Gaber

Published: February 20, 2023
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The self-reflexivity in transnational literature: Re-writing the migration in female migrant writers

Authors: Maria Luisa Di Martino

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Anne-Iris Romens, Lucia Miranda

Published: July 31, 2023
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OLEAtool: An open-source software for morphopalynological research in Olea europaea L. pollen

Authors: Gabriel Servera-Vives, Cristina Ricucci, Grant Snitker

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Sandra Garcés Pastor, Sebastián Pérez-Díaz

Published: March 11, 2024
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The rise of gemination in Celtic

Authors: David Stifter

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Anders Jørgensen, Elisa Roma, Karin Stüber, Martin Joachim KÜMMEL

Published: February 8, 2024
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Staging enmity: reading populist productions of shame with Jelinek’s On the Royal Road

Authors: Juliane Prade-Weiss

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Bécquer Seguín, Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio, Paolo GERBAUDO

Published: July 26, 2023
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A primer for choosing, designing and evaluating registered reports for qualitative methods

Authors: Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Peter Branney, Miia Siutila, Moin Syed

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Bogdana Huma, Corina Logan

Published: July 10, 2023
Research Article

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A psychological symptom based machine learning model for clinical evaluation of irritable bowel syndrome

Authors: Noman Haleem, Astri J. Lundervold, Gülen Arslan Lied, Eline Margrete Randulff Hillestad, Maja Bjorkevoll, Ben René Bjørsvik, Erica Sande Teige, Ingeborg Brønstad, Elisabeth Kjelsvik Steinsvik, Bharath Halandur Nagaraja, Trygve Hausken, Birgitte Berentsen, Arvid Lundervold

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Alexandre Denadai-Souza, Shah Nawaz

Published: January 27, 2023
Research Article

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Particle physics facing a pandemic

Authors: Adam KARDOS, Sven-Olaf MOCH, German RODRIGO

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), COST Actions

Peer reviewers: Avik Roy, Janusz GLUZA

Published: January 19, 2023
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Unraveling the secrets of plant roots: Simplified method for large scale root exudate sampling and analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Authors: Harihar Jaishree Subrahmaniam, Camilla Lind Salomonsen, Simona Radutoiu, Bodil K. Ehlers, Marianne Glasius

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Mònica Escolà Casas, Paul Weston, Sophie Alvarez

Published: October 20, 2023
Open Letter

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When science meets entrepreneurship

Authors: Dara Satrio, Vanessa Rijkeboer, Angelica Reitsma, Edo Roos Lindgreen, Katja C. Wolthers, Dasja Pajkrt

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Danny Soetanto, James Dzisah, NOORLIZAWATI ABD RAHIM, SILA KAYA-CAPOCCI

Published: January 13, 2023
Open Letter
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Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment: an open issue, an open discussion

Authors: Mark D. Wilkinson, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Eva Méndez, Romain David, Richard Dennis, David Hecker, Mari Kleemola, Carlo Lacagnina, Anastasija Nikiforova, Leyla Jael Castro

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Francoise Genova, Luiz Gadelha, Mark Leggott, Sheeba Samuel

Published: September 6, 2023
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Vortex Circular Dichroism: An experimental technique to assess the scalar/vectorial regime of diffraction

Authors: Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Francesco De Angelis, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Alejandro Martinez, Andrew Forbes

Published: May 22, 2024
Data Note
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Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe

Authors: Annika Tjuka, Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Gemma Boleda, Thanasis Georgakopoulos

Published: May 24, 2023
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Synthesis and physical characteristics of narrow bandgap chalcogenide SnZrSe 3

Authors: Rokas Kondrotas, Remigijus Juškėnas, Arūnas Krotkus, Vidas Pakštas, Artūras Suchodolskis, Algirdas Mekys, Marius Franckevičius, Martynas Talaikis, Katri Muska, Xiaofeng Li, Marit Kauk-Kuusik, Victor Kravtsov

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Hao Zeng, Yiyang Sun

Published: May 17, 2023
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bacto_tracker: a method for single-cell tracking of M. xanthus in dense and multispecies colonies

Authors: Sara Rombouts, Jean-Bernard Fiche, Tam Mignot, Marcelo Nollmann

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Andreas Gahlmann, Dobromir Szadkowski, Patrick Curtis

Published: December 9, 2022
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Phylogeny-wide analysis of G-protein coupled receptors in social amoebas and implications for the evolution of multicellularity

Authors: Grant Hall, Sarah Kelly, Pauline Schaap, Christina Schilde

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Jeffrey Hadwiger, Xuehua Xu

Published: February 15, 2023
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Are the cyst nematode hatching factor eclepins rhizosphere signalling molecules? Solanoeclepin A regulates gene expression in plants

Authors: Lieke E. Vlaar, Marc Galland, Lemeng Dong, Mehran Rahimi, Harro J. Bouwmeester

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Danuše Tarkowská, Minoru Ueda, Noel Blanco Touriñán

Published: October 21, 2022
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Ultrastructure and stability of cellular nanoparticles isolated from Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Dunaliella tertiolecta conditioned media

Authors: Darja Božič, Matej Hočevar, Marko Jeran, Matic Kisovec, Apolonija Bedina Zavec, Anna Romolo, David Škufca, Marjetka Podobnik, Ksenija Kogej, Aleš Iglič, Nicolas Touzet, Mauro Manno, Gabriella Pocsfalvi, Antonella Bongiovanni, Veronika Kralj Iglič

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Nadica Ivosevic DeNardis, Seppo Vainio

Published: October 20, 2022
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Carbon and nitrogen uptake through photosynthesis and feeding by photosymbiotic Acantharia

Authors: Joost Samir Mansour, Per Juel Hansen, Cédrix Leroux, Fabrice Not

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Haruka Takagi, Joaquim Goes, Ramon MASSANA

Published: March 9, 2023
Essay
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Humanizing science: seven actions for PhD students to become next generation, future-proof scientists

Authors: Ingrid Valks, Dara Satrio, Angelica Reitsma, Katja Wolthers, Kris Dierickx, Kim Benschop, Dasja Pajkrt, OrganoVIR

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Basil Cahusac de Caux, Kim Brown, Liezel Frick, Sara Cotterall

Published: October 23, 2023
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Real-time quality control of optical backscattering data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats

Authors: Giorgio Dall'Olmo, Udaya Bhaskar TVS, Henry Bittig, Emmanuel Boss, Jodi Brewster, Hervé Claustre, Matt Donnelly, Tanya Maurer, David Nicholson, Violetta Paba, Josh Plant, Antoine Poteau, Raphaëlle Sauzède, Christina Schallenberg, Catherine Schmechtig, Claudia Schmid, Xiaogang Xing

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Carolina Amadio, Gianluca Volpe, Griet Neukermans, sandy thomalla

Published: May 30, 2023