Gabriel Rufián and Irene Montero have met April 9th ​​to hold a joint eventThe event, moderated by Xavier Domènech, aims to promote a united left-wing front in the lead-up to the next general elections. So far, the exact location has not been made public; organizers had only stated it would be in Barcelona. According to ARA, it will definitely not be held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), despite the organizers' initial wish. The UAB has rejected the request. The reason? The university does not lend its spaces for events that are not "academic," according to sources at the institution. Organizers are now exploring alternative venues and expect to announce the final location in the coming days.

The small Romanesque church of Santa Bárbara de Pruneres, in the Alta Garrotxa region, became a space dedicated to science and history. During a well-attended gathering held on a Sunday in mid-October, a piece of whale rib, approximately two meters long, was the object of veneration and analysis by a team of archaeologists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), while more than a hundred worshippers witnessed the scene. The immense bone was taken down from the side chapel where it has been displayed since 2004 and placed in the center of the altar, from where the UAB scientists ceremoniously extracted samples for analysis.

"They seek maximum notoriety with minimum argumentative effort." This is how political scientist and expert on the far right, Anna López, defines the acts. like the one that the agitator Vito Quiles tried to carry out this Thursday at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).The fact that profiles like Quiles or organizations like the Spanish nationalist entity close to Vox, Se ha Acabado – which supported the agitator – choose university centers to carry out these acts is not in vain. Whether they can carry them out or if there is a negative response to their presence and they have to cancel or modify them "represents a win-win"for them, says UPF political scientist Toni Rodon.

Far from where he wanted to be, half-hidden, and pressured to leave. This is how agitator Vito Quiles attempted to hold an event this Thursday at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), for which the school had warned him he was not authorized. The pro-Spanish group Se ha Acabado (It's Over), close to Vox, had announced an event at 12 noon in the Plaza Cívica—the epicenter of the campus—but for quite some time before, hundreds of anti-fascist protesters had filled the surrounding area to try to prevent the agitator from appearing. Likewise, a few dozen young people in favor of Quiles, with Spanish and Carlist flags, were positioned next to the Communications Library, a few meters from the large UAB plaza. However, Quiles did not appear where he had announced, but in the parking lot next to the rectorate, far from the plaza that is the epicenter of university activity.

The nightmare had only just begun. Two months after the first cases were reported After what appeared to be a new type of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, Julia Vergara and Karl Kochanowski, like so many other scientists around the world, began to research against the clock this new pathogen that threatened humanity. They were familiar with some coronaviruses, because years ago in the Animal Health Research Center (CReSA-IRTA) They had studied some that affect animals. And this, fortunately, allowed them to know some of the tricks of SARS-CoV-2.

Sonia Fernández-Vidal (Barcelona, ​​1978) holds a PhD in information and quantum optics from the UAB. She is also a writer and science communicator.

She grew up in Mataró, in the Palau neighborhood. She attended the Angela Bransuela School, where her father worked as a teacher. "I had a great time, I loved learning. I was one of those kids who loves school." She immediately became interested in science. "I remember waiting in the library for my father to finish work, and when I was very young, a book fell into my hands: Bibliography of scientists. It was for children and was illustrated by Pilarín Bayés, with whom I would later make a book when I grew up. These things of destiny... And I remember that it had a huge impact on me, because I thought, what important people. And from then on, I said: I want to be a scientist."

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By resolution of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​​​a position is being announced for a full professor position attached to the Department of Spanish Philology, but with a relative profile in the area of ​​knowledge of literary theory and comparative literature. However, this area would be much better located within the Department of Catalan Philology, and thus students would not be so bored; the degree program would perhaps be overflowing, supplying institutes with the much-needed teachers of Catalan language and literature (no adjective; which would have had to strengthen the teaching of foreign literatures, a point that would have enriched ours).

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One of the main reasons why in recent years there has been an attempt to make university entrance exams the same – or as similar as possible – is that in the State the universities operate with the so-called "single district". The regulations allow a student to access any university in the country, regardless of the autonomous community to which the institution belongs and the place where the applicant completed high school and university entrance exams. The single district also opens the door to greater competition in certain territories that offer degrees that in other parts of the State have fewer places or that have better-rated universities. The clearest example of this dilemma in Catalonia can be seen in the degree of medicine.

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Iberian culture remains a great mystery, as it disappeared without leaving any written trace that we can interpret. Their language died out and no bilingual text has been found that could document what they believed in, the role of women or whether there was a great Iberian city in Barcelona. However, archaeology continues to provide new clues. and the latest research, in the field of isotope analysis, helps to understand why the Iberians cut off heads and nailed them to walls.

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The perpetrators of the cyberattack that disabled the computer services of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) 30 days ago have once again shown signs of life. A few hours ago, the dark web page of PYSA, the group responsible for the ransomware (digital kidnapping software) used to carry out the cyber attack, published a list of companies and organisations they threaten to make public the information obtained in their latest cyber attacks. The UAB is on the list, and they warn that "coming soon" they will publish the information they have. The list also includes a date: Wednesday 10 November, which could indicate when the publication will take place, if the threat is real.

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The ransomware attack that has ripped through the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a type of malicious software that restricts access to affected files until a ransom is paid, which in this case would be €3m in cryptocurrencies. What has happened at the UAB is really very serious, but it is not a novelty nor a surprise. It has been suffered by other large organisations before. Just remember that five months ago the US pipeline Colonial was the victim of one, which caused petrol to become more expensive on the east coast of the United States until the company paid the hackers $5m in bitcoins. More recently, in late June, the world's leading meat producer, JBS, also from the United States, suffered an attack that severely affected its production. Cyber insecurity, associated with cryptocurrencies – the difficulty in tracing them is what gives cybercriminals impunity – has become a global problem, both in terms of privacy and economics. If global action is not taken, the trickle of attacks will increase and may endanger global stability.

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The ARA newspaper has been able to access a list of the documents affected by the computer attack at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) which contains more than 650,000 folders and files. The attack has been perpetrated with a ransomware - a malicious software that encrypts the victim's documents and demands a ransom to be able to access them again - called PYSA. According to the computer security consultant José Nicolás Castellano, and as the ARA has been able to contrast, the attackers are demanding 60 bitcoins (about three million euros) to release the hijacked files, but UAB sources say they have no record of this because, following the recommendations of the Cybersecurity Agency of Catalonia, they have not contacted the attackers and have no intention of paying.

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A computer attack has left the internal services of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) without service this Monday and has forced the suspension of classes, at least in the Communication Faculty. According to UAB sources, this could be a ransom attack: cybercriminals restrict access to files on the infected system and request a ransom in order to make them accessible again.

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For the first time since the ranking QS Quacquarelli Symonds exists, three Catalan universities are among the top 250 positions. The list, which is one of the three most important in the world (along with the Times Higher Education and the University of Shanghai), was published on Tuesday and ranks 1,300 universities according to the academic works published and cited and the opinions of 130,000 academics and 75,000 professionals who work in them. The three Catalan universities are among the 20% of the best in the world.

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Pollen and covid-19 infections have a direct relationship. A worldwide study published in the scientific journal PNAS, in which the Institute of Science and Technology (ICTA) of the UAB participated with data from Catalonia, relates the increase and decrease of pollen concentration in the air with the increase and decrease of SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. According to the research, pollen grains can affect the immune system of people, and not only those who have a respiratory allergy, making them more vulnerable to catching covid-19.

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An outbreak of covid-19 at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has so far infected 24 students and 20 more are waiting for the result of their PCR test. As ARA has learned and university sources have confirmed, the Department of Health has informed the university that an outbreak of coronavirus has been detected in UAB's University Village, a residential complex of shared flats which usually houses 2,000 students.

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