We all change roles in different life situations. This is not different in science, as the Covid-19 situation shows particularly clearly with regard to the role of scientists, for example as communicators and advisors of politicians. But role changes are also omnipresent as an object of science. Issue 27 of JAM approaches the topic from different perspectives.

Unser neuer Kalender „2021 – Vom Guten im Schlechten“ mit zwölf wissenschaftlichen Betrachtungen und einer Werkserie von Julian Charrière ist erschienen: ein Plädoyer für die Wissenschaften, die Kunst und ihre Verbindungen zur Gesellschaft.

What would the sciences be without controversy - after all, science is also a competition of theses, methods and ideas. This is the starting point for the new issue of the JAM, which is devoted to dissent between various disciplinary perspectives. To this end, we have compiled strategies for effective debates from a wealth of historical disputes in science. There is also room for controversy over the redesign of the JAM, which is being published in this issue, for the first time, as a poster.

Die Freiheit, die wir meinen – zur Wissenschaftsfreiheit

The Research Group ‘Sustainability’ has decided to focus more on the topic of food and agricultural practices.

Editorial decisions are subject to their own laws. When we decided on “borders” as the focus of the dossier for the Junge Akademie Magazin, we had no way of knowing what a hot topic it would become by the time we went to press. And so, in light of border fences, border controls and maximum limits, our magazine is practically as current as a daily publication.

What is new? What can be new? How do we want to shape the new or adapt the old?

Have you ever thought of turning poetry into DNA? And then letting it mutate?

Time and our perception of time is the theme connecting the texts in the Dossier of this Junge Akademie Magazin (JAM) on Ennui and Ecstasy.

What do you take with you when you travel? What do you bring back with you? And, above all, why do you travel in the first place?

If you fail, you have been unsuccessful, not fulfilled the expectations you or others had of you, have not reached your goal or have had to forego your wishes or dreams. Usually, failure has a negative connotation. But why is that?

In this issue of the Junge Akademie M agazin, we take a look at how closely the universe and academia are linked: The dossier examines bonds of almost all kinds – social, transnational, alien.