University of Geneva

Researchers suspect they formed from a disk remnant left over from the supernova that produced the pulsar.

The first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star occurred on October 6, 1995, when Michael Mayer and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the detection of 51 Pegasi b, an exoplanet around 51 Pegasi.

The catalog of Kepler candidate planets consists mostly of planets the size of Neptune and smaller,

down to smaller than Mercury.

And Catherine called me and she was writing a thesis at the time.

She had gone back to the University of Geneva to do a specialized master's in some kind of structuring and corporate thing.

And I had never spoken to her about anything to do with watchmaking in my whole life.

every single time I've spoken to her.

And all the way from Tokyo, Japan, I'm also joined by Alma Jeftic.

She's a research fellow at the International Christian University there, and as well, a scientific collaborator at Geneva University.

So I'm having them both on today because they've been involved in big team science projects.

And as researchers outside the West, I think they really have a unique perspective on how these large international data collections go and how they could be done better.

Yeah, I agree with Sergio, but I would also add that it is related to when he was saying we all have PhDs, we are all based at universities.

It's also always have to think about that bias that exists unconsciously and that we are not really aware of.

So if I now send an email with my research idea and I add, I don't know, Geneva University or Copenhagen University where I was, So very often, like, it's perceived slightly differently if I was adding, like, University of Sarajevo or even University of Belgrade.

So it is, like, always that small, like, bias that happens in, like, let's say millisecond unconsciously where we think, okay, she's based there.

Wow, that's impressive.

Graduate of Université de Genève.

Sister of Rene Eliyahu Mezi.

And Neely Hero.

So as the time stretches out longer... that could mean a little bit of a longer delay.

There was a paper led by Giovanni Frisoni at the University of Geneva where he compared the benefit and the risk of these new Alzheimer's drugs to drugs that are approved and used to treat other diseases like cancer, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, sorry, and what he found was that the Alzheimer's disease drugs stacked up pretty well against drugs that we use for cancer, for autoimmune conditions, in terms of their benefits and also in terms of their risk profile.

So why do we think about Alzheimer's and dementing disorders in a different way? It's hard for me not to think that some of these regulatory agencies are biased in how they're thinking about older adults, how they're thinking about mental health.

because they're clearly using a higher bar than they're using for other devastating diseases.

Now I'm going to list these predictions in order of shock value, from the least shocking to the most shocking.

Number 10, according to Nadia Thalman, computer graphic scientist at the University of Geneva, CGI will replace most extras and actors in movies.

Only the main characters in A-list top stars of the movies will be live actors.

Now this has already started to happen for example in the movie Avatar.