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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Microbial Biotechnology

Professional Academies: The Duty to Lead

  • Kenneth Timmis
  • Paul Rainey
  • Purificación Lopez-García
  • Ines Mandić-Mulec
  • Stipan Jonjić
  • Roberto Kolter
  • Anna Karnkowska
  • Chantal Abergel
  • Pablo Ivan Nikel
  • Juan Luis Ramos
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Abstract

Scientific academies are not prize clubs. They are public institutions with independence, expertise, and convening power. In a period of climate instability, widening inequality, and declining trust in science, these attributes carry a duty to lead. This is not leadership as authority or control, but as stewardship: setting standards, shaping policy with evidence, mobilising networks to deliver practical solutions, and assessing impact in the public interest. Academies exist because of public investment in their members; their obligation is to apply collective expertise to the most pressing and serious societal challenges of the time.

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@article{timmis2026professional,
  title = {{Professional Academies: The Duty to Lead}},
  author = {Kenneth Timmis and Paul Rainey and Purificación Lopez-García and Ines Mandić-Mulec and Stipan Jonjić and Roberto Kolter and Anna Karnkowska and Chantal Abergel and Pablo Ivan Nikel and Juan Luis Ramos},
  journal = {Microbial Biotechnology},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  doi = {10.1111/1751-7915.70388},
  url = {https://amu.hal.science/hal-05829029v1},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Professional Academies: The Duty to Lead
AU  - Kenneth Timmis
AU  - Paul Rainey
AU  - Purificación Lopez-García
AU  - Ines Mandić-Mulec
AU  - Stipan Jonjić
AU  - Roberto Kolter
AU  - Anna Karnkowska
AU  - Chantal Abergel
AU  - Pablo Ivan Nikel
AU  - Juan Luis Ramos
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/07
JO  - Microbial Biotechnology
DO  - 10.1111/1751-7915.70388
UR  - https://amu.hal.science/hal-05829029v1
AB  - Scientific academies are not prize clubs. They are public institutions with independence, expertise, and convening power. In a period of climate instability, widening inequality, and declining trust in science, these attributes carry a duty to lead. This is not leadership as authority or control, but as stewardship: setting standards, shaping policy with evidence, mobilising networks to deliver practical solutions, and assessing impact in the public interest. Academies exist because of public investment in their members; their obligation is to apply collective expertise to the most pressing and serious societal challenges of the time.
SN  - 1751-7915
ER  -