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Making Better, More Explainable Medical Diagnoses with AI
Can artificial intelligence work side by side with doctors to help them make better diagnoses? A research team at Bielefeld University is dedicated to answering this question.
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Counting with uncertainties
The theory of imprecise probabilities is the focus of ISIPTA 2025 at the Bielefeld ZiF.
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Unexpected Animal Partnership Discovered in the Amazon
Researchers from Bielefeld University documented a puzzling relationship between ocelots and opossums in the rainforest for the first time – potentially an unknown cooperation between these two species.
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The many nuances of involvement
Prof’in Dr Christina Morina researches Bystanding in the Holocaust using diaries.
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New EU Project: Trustworthy AI for Better Decision-Making
Bielefeld Project Linking Operations Research and Machine Learning Receives Over €4.6 Million in EU Funding.
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Looking at Explanations of AI in Context
How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld.
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Can football fever be measured?
Researchers at the university are analyzing the pulse of Arminia Bielefeld fans during the DFB Cup final in Berlin. The study, conducted in cooperation with the Bielefeld Wissenswerkstadt, uses smartwatches to measure heart rate and stress levels—both before and during the match.
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How reliable are behavioural tests with insects?
Research team from Bielefeld, Münster and Jena finds evidence that behavioural experiments with insects are also affected by the ‘reproducibility crisis’.
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How the past can help understand the climate
Interview with Dr. Franz Mauelshagen about climate, society, and the new graduate school IMPRS-ModA.
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Meta-analysis questions assumptions about egg hormones
Do maternal hormones in bird eggs influence reproductive success? A new study shows surprisingly small effects. Dr Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar explains why previous assumptions need to be questioned.
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50 years after the end of war: Voices from global Vietnam
Academics, a writer and an artist come together for a symposium at Bielefeld University – most of them belong to the Vietnamese post-war generations.
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‘Basic principles of nature preserved in marine sponges’
Bielefeld physicists and international colleagues discover ‘evolutionary toolbox’.
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Individualisation in Change
How do humans and animals navigate life transitions? The Individualisation Symposium 2025 explores biological, psychological, and social turning points – on March 25 at ZiF Bielefeld.
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‘We translate chemical reactions into maths’
Combined with biology and chemistry, mathematics offers new ways of modelling the microbiome and thus better understanding obesity: a key to targeted therapy.
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Why Scientific Results Vary
Different analytical methods have a significant impact on the results of scientific studies. This is demonstrated by a study conducted by an international research team, which includes researchers from Bielefeld University.
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‘Development of new interactive decision-making systems’
Bielefeld University has set up an independent research group to investigate explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) and its influence on human trust in AI. In this interview, its head Dr David Johnson talks about its aims and methods.
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‘Understanding uncertainty as a driver of innovation’
Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS) establishes new research approach.
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How common are means of increasing mental performance?
In a research_tv interview, sociologist Dr Sebastian Sattler talks about the prevalence of neuroenhancement.
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ERC Consolidator Grant: 4 million euros to Bielefeld sociologists
Professor Dr. Minh Nguyen and Professor Dr. Carsten Sauer have both received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). They are studying, respectively, financial risks in Asia and wage differentials in Europe.
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Bielefeld doctoral student competes in FameLab world final
Fingers crossed for Julian Neugebauer on Friday. He is competing in the world final of FameLab, the championship in explaining scientific questions in an understandable way.
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How the Holocaust narrative is appropriated and distorted
The Swiss author Alexander Estis analysed the instrumentalisation of historical memory in his lecture at the Collaborative Research Centre 1288. The recording is now online.
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How narratives influence behaviour
In the latest research_tv episode: study on dealing with strategic narratives.
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How people without parents succeed in life
Heisenberg Professor Dr Daniela Schiek focuses on how parentless people shape their lives.
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‘Our approach can serve to bring more objectivity to debates’
Research Centre investigates how practices of comparing shape power structures and influence historical developments.
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