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Science Is Not a Lonely Path but a Conversation with Colleagues, Society, and Oneself: The Academic Journey of Diaspora Researcher Anna Žabicka

Social anthropology plays a crucial role in understanding people, societies, cultural diversity, and habits. Anna Žabicka, a PhD candidate living abroad, is a social anthropologist specialising in the anthropology of ageing, care, kinship, death and dying, medicine, and health. The science communic…

Getting Ahead of Disinformation

To significantly strengthen the fight against disinformation and develop new, practical tools for debunking it, a four-year research initiative "Artificial Intelligence for Debunking Disinformation" (Participative Assistive AI-powered Tools for Supporting Trustworthy Online Activity of Citizens and…

What Do Healthy Breakfasts, a Latgalian Digital Dictionary, and an Antibacterial Sink Have in Common?

The correct answer – science! Science is not something abstract; it permeates our daily lives even where we don’t notice it. For each of us, it means something slightly different. To help us understand it better, we can turn to such rescuers as the Latvian-developed "Tēzaurs" or the internationally…