Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺

Professor Plant Biotechnology. A founder of 3 Excellence Clusters & 1 Company. #Takakia #Physcomitrella #Sphagnum Profile:

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

Over 10 years of work on the roof of the world & in the laboratory, 61 scientists from 20 labs in 6 countries, 1 publication in Cell @CellCellPress on a #moss you probably never heard of: #Takakia.
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[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@CiupkaSandra @tagesthemen Das ist alles so ermüdend dumm. Und diese Floskeln ändern sich seit Jahrzehnten nicht. Bekommen die nichts von den geänderten Realitäten im Nahen Osten mit?

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@vonderleyen How about minding your own business?
Don’t we have enough problems here in Europe?

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Birgit_Kelle @bettina_CLB Nathan Cofnas ist Postdoc und nicht Professor. Damit ist er noch vulnerabler.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Shoot them down.

[Nevin Climenhaga @NevinClimenhaga]

Academics who, like me, are concerned about Ghent's suspension of @nathancofnas in apparent retaliation to his whistleblowing against Cambridge may want to consider contacting the Rector, Vice-Rector, Chair of the Raad van Bestuur (Board of Governors), and Flemish Government Commissioner (whose role incluides oversight of the legality of university decisions). Their contact information is below:

Petra De Sutter, Rector — [email protected]
Herwig Reynaert, Vice-Rector — [email protected]
Geert Bourgeois, Raad van Bestuur Chair — [email protected]
Karla Van Lint, Flemish Government Commissioner — [email protected]

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Seipenbusch Ja, unglaublich.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

I can’t believe that Ghent University is going to shoot the messenger.

[Europa.com @europa]

🇧🇪 Nathan Cofnas, the researcher who exposed plagiarism by Cambridge professor Jason Arday, has been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium.

Cofnas says "they will almost certainly fire me". The decision was taken by rector Petra De Sutter, a former Green Party leader.

Follow: @europa

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

A strong statement in protection of the messenger. Consider your next steps wisely, Ghent University.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@MaskeAn_300Bar Wo und wann soll das gewesen sein?

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

A strong statement in protection of the messenger. Consider your next steps wisely, Ghent University.

[U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White @USAmbToBelgium]

The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.

The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University.

Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired.

The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@USAmbToBelgium Well said. Thank you.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@rosenbusch_ @_kittypunk Shooting the messenger. What could possibly go wrong?

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@MogensStrunge Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[Mogens Strunge Larsen 💛 ⚛️ ✡️ 🇺🇦 🇩🇰 🇮🇱 @MogensStrunge]

💜 Good afternoon to #FlowersOnFridays 🙂

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@dystopianexp @M_Schaub @Gurdur @HeikoHeinisch @MollersPaul @seismaccabee @SunlightsDust Evil people.

[Ruud Koopmans @Ruud_Koop_mans]

The scandal at Ghent university gets bigger by the hour:

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@dystopianexp @Gurdur @schnellenbachj @stefanolix @M_Schaub @MollersPaul @HeikoHeinisch @seismaccabee Bitter reality.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@dystopianexp @M_Schaub @Gurdur @HeikoHeinisch @MollersPaul @seismaccabee I don't want such people here.

[Andrew Hammel @AndrewHammel1]

One of the most sinister letters I've read in quite a while.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

Double standards erode academic integrity.

[Dirk Van Damme @VanDammeEDU]

Zeer verontrust en diep beschaamd over mijn alma mater @ugent. Dit is niet langer de universiteit van het vrije denken, van 'durf denken', waar generaties studenten bevrijd werden van hun intellectuele ketenen, maar de universiteit van het verstikkende deugdelijke denken.