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Young people 2024: Worried, but pragmatic and optimistic
Young people remain optimistic: results of the new Shell Youth Study published. Bielefeld University has been in charge of the study since 2002.
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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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Borders – European and African perspectives
The university’s ZiF offers two scholarships for researchers from Africa every year: the Norbert Elias Scholarships are sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.
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New development: flexible but ultra-strong films
Until now, two-dimensional materials were considered brittle. An international research team, including physicists from Bielefeld, has now developed extremely thin structures that could be used for foldable computers, for example.
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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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Substitutes for the cooling miracle
How shall we cool things down in the future? Physicist Jürgen Schnack seeks materials to reach super-low temperatures.
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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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“We want to know the limits of the algorithm”
Dr Petra Bevandić and Dr Robin Chan are teaching computer vision systems to deal with something unknown.
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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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Special edition on occasion of the World Health Assembly
Migration and health are the subject of a new series in a Lancet journal. Three of the university’s health scientists are among the authors.
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Dealing with AI chatbots
Transregio on the explainability of artificial intelligence invites you to online lectures.
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When are children most receptive?
Lecture shows the influence of changing environments on learning. The recording is now online. The presentation was given at the JICE Symposium on Individualisation.
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‘Individualization is essential in both prevention and therapy’
How individual factors impact on everyday life, whether on performance or the distribution of risks. We interviewed two researchers from the JICE Institute.
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PortaBLe: New online portal for teacher training
Openly available teaching materials and research papers for educators – this is what the new service offers for all phases of education.
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Analysing deep-sea images with AI
Bioinformatician Tim Nattkemper uses AI to protect underwater biodiversity in the EU project ‘BioProtect’
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Gauss lecture on coin tosses, atoms and forest fires
Lecture by Fields Medal winner Professor Dr Martin Hairer now online. He was the main speaker at the event organised by the German Mathematical Society (DMV), which was recently held at Bielefeld University.
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When researchers have to pay for their publications
New project investigates the extent to which publishers’ new business models influence the evaluation of research. The interdisciplinary research is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
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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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‘Our epidemiological research still reveals gaps’
Four years ago, Germany went into lockdown. Health scientist Professor Alexander Krämer on learnings from the pandemic.
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