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Philosophical Engagement with Biology and Medicine
In an interview, philosopher of science Alkistis Elliott-Graves describes the special features and challenges of the ZiF workshop “Philosophical engagement on biology and medicine”.
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Return of the Elephants Seals: From a Few to Thousands
A new international study led by Bielefeld University has revealed the genetic impact of hunting on northern elephant seals.
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50 years of Laborschule and Oberstufen-Kolleg
The experimental schools invite to an anniversary week in September. They research and develop learning structures and content together with their respective research units at the university.
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Covid-19: migrants globally at higher risk
Study led by Bielefeld University shows 84 per cent higher risk of infection among migrants compared to the general population based on data from over 53 million people.
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Using atomic analyses to recycle plastics efficiently
In the InCamS@BI transfer project, physicists are using high-resolution microscopes to look into the atomic lattice of plastics. Their findings should contribute to boosting circular economy.
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DataNinja presents innovations for trustworthy AI
The Research Training Group takes stock after three years of research, during which the team of doctoral students and established scientists worked on trustworthy AI systems and their embedding.
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Entanglements of illegality, legality and violence
At the ZiF, researchers discuss the links between illegality and violence in the drug trade in the Americas.
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“The relationship between body and environment has changed”
How people’s perception of themselves has changed since early modern times. Three questions to historian Malte Wittmaack.
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Conference on the technology of argumentation machines
Ratio-24 at the university shows how technical systems can recognise argumentative structures using large language models. This can help to make opinion-forming more transparent.
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‘Out of the spheres of the private and the moral’
Social anthropologist Minh Nguyen analyses how care is organized under market socialism. Care, she states, must be analysed as public and political.
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Neuroinformatician Helge Ritter honoured with symposium
150 guests look back on the work of the long-standing coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence CITEC. After 33 years at the university, the Faculty of Engineering bids farewell to the researcher on his retirement.
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The Sounds of Science
A workshop at the university’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) is working on sonification as a new way of presenting data.
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How social should AI be?
Professor Johanna Seibt from Aarhus University is an expert in “Robophilosophy”. She gives an insight into her research in a lecture at Bielefeld University, which is now available as a video recording.
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Understanding individualisation through modelling
Mathematician Dr Olena Orlova studies individualisation in complex interdisciplinary problems such as forest protection.
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Anna Oksuzyan studies impact of long commuting on health
Commuting between home and work by car or public transport has an impact on health.
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Finding the best route as quickly as possible every day
Doctoral students Elias Schede and Jasmin Brandt want their research to boost user confidence in AI.
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Talking about borders and their effects
Europe’s external borders are being increasingly reinforced and monitored, including by force. This has an impact on the people who are turned away and changes the societies in Europe themselves.
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From the behaviour of species to individual behaviour
Animal behaviour research at Bielefeld University was founded 50 years ago, marking the beginning of a cutting-edge international research programme.
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How healthcare systems withstand uncertainty
A new graduate school at Bielefeld University is dedicated to studying the effects of uncertainty on health policy and healthcare.
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The Future of Evidence-Based Policy
International research group at the ZiF is now presenting its findings and developing proposals for the future of evidence-based policy together with experts and practitioners.
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When labour markets cross national borders
The German Research Foundation is funding a new Research Training Group. It investigates how cross-border labour markets are embedded in their own network of transnational organizations, infrastructures, and institutions.
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Understandable insights into AI research
In a new research podcast, the researchers of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 318 give an insight into their work and explain why explainable AI is an important step into the future of AI research.
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The aesthetics of numbers – and the beauty of application
Professor Dr Christiane Fuchs loves mathematics. She can spend hours immersed in formulas, but she also likes to work hands-on.
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New CITEC profile for broader research perspective
With a new research profile and a new organisational structure, CITEC will now work even more efficiently on future-oriented technologies.
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