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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[Ilaria @Ila_a_a_ria]

"These people are much needed by Europe, I am told"
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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Harvest time in North East Fife. What an absolutely glorious morning. ☀️

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@becker_meister Eine tote Ratte ist eine gute Ratte.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@ellamuempert Guten Morgen ☕️

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@BlogAgrar Humor hat er 😃

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Ila_a_a_ria Wenn jemand wirklich gerechnet hätte, wäre wir jetzt nicht in dem Schlamassel.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Moriz13BW @vonderleyen

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Ila_a_a_ria @dystopianexp @M_Schaub @Gurdur @HeikoHeinisch @MollersPaul @seismaccabee Exactly. We don’t need more.

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@Moriz13BW @vonderleyen Sehr nett ausgedrückt. 😃

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@XyzFrau @CiupkaSandra @tagesthemen Das stimmt 😃

[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.