{"id":25139,"date":"2025-04-22T17:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=25139"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:37:50","slug":"german-science-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/04\/german-science-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"German science ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just some context for non-German readers \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The last science ministry here Bettina Stark-Watzinger was preparing a list whether they could strip funding from academics who had <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.net\/news\/universities\/german-science-official-steps-down-row-about-pro-palestine-protest\">supported a pro-Palestinian protest camp<\/a> in Berlin. Here are the links<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25151\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ernstvall.bsky.social\/post\/3l44oad7zxy2p\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25151 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.22.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.22.36.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.22.36-489x500.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ernstvall.bsky.social\/post\/3l44oad7zxy2p<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25152\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/zoecmiller.bsky.social\/post\/3lkbypmxtak2e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25152 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.23.15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.23.15.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.23.15-508x500.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/zoecmiller.bsky.social\/post\/3lkbypmxtak2e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately, even after premature termination of her position, 82% of German scientists still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/bildung\/wissenschaft-prekaere-beschaeftigung-in-der-forschung-a-f8d0dba9-50b0-4abb-a19e-3a05a8a56b8c#ref=rss\">have only short-term contracts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming new minister Dorothee B\u00e4r had doubts on man-made climate change and believes in technology neutrality as we have &#8220;nuclear fusion and alike&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25154\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:taiqyb7mkoptx7mxc6zzkmlw\/post\/3lmjngyephs2n\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.26.41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.26.41.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.26.41-532x500.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:taiqyb7mkoptx7mxc6zzkmlw\/post\/3lmjngyephs2n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25155\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:pev2u5swr6ztpu4jtpj64nys\/post\/3lhuaelh3k22k\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-04-13-um-09.28.18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:pev2u5swr6ztpu4jtpj64nys\/post\/3lhuaelh3k22k<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 25.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some context for non-German readers \u2026 The last science ministry here Bettina Stark-Watzinger was preparing a list whether they could strip funding from academics who had supported a pro-Palestinian protest camp in Berlin. Here are the links Unfortunately, even after premature termination of her position, 82% of German scientists still have only short-term contracts. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/04\/german-science-ministers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">German science ministers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4884,5041,5042,1275,1045,218],"class_list":["post-25139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","tag-bmbf","tag-bettina-stark-watzinger","tag-dorothee-bar","tag-germany","tag-politics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}