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How humans and AI work as a team
How can cooperation succeed between humans and AI? The FAITH focus area at Bielefeld University is researching the hybrid teamwork of tomorrow.
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Strategic links with Asia strengthened
The Rector of the University Professor Dr Angelika Epple and Professor Dr Michaela Vogt, Vice Rector for International Affairs, Diversity and Society, visiting partner institutions in China and Japan.
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‘We are the ones who reflect on science’
The new Institute for Studies of Science (ISoS) helps researchers to critically scrutinise their academic work.
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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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‘Understanding uncertainty as a driver of innovation’
Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS) establishes new research approach.
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Self-managed abortion
Feminist networks campaign for reproductive rights. A research group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) is investigating their role and impact.
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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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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 people without parents succeed in life
Heisenberg Professor Dr Daniela Schiek focuses on how parentless people shape their lives.
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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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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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70 per cent took substances to enhance cognitive performance
Data were analysed from more than 22,000 participants, making this the largest representative study to date on the prevalence of neuroenhancers in Germany.
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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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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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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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Top ERC funding in the millions for four researchers
The European Research Council has announced the awardees of the new Consolidator Grants. In Germany, Bielefeld University is one of the most successful in acquiring grants this time.
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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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Action plan for better data on migration and health
Health data on migrants and refugees is incompletely recorded in European countries. This is shown by Bielefeld Professor Dr Kayvan Bozorgmehr and his co-authors in a new study.
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The Ukrainian Past and Present at German Universities
Academics at Bielefeld University are dealing with the war in Ukraine in different ways. We provide updates on this.
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Using trust to counter uncertainty
Professor Dr Martin Kroh is studying social cohesion in uncertain times.
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How people make decisions in the face of radical uncertainty
The economist and psychologist Professor Dr Tuckett will visit Bielefeld to deliver an ‘Uncertainty Talk.’ He sees narratives as essential tools for making consequential decisions.
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‘The EU has responded to crises with deeper integration’
Dr Andreas Vasilache, political scientist and professor of European Studies, explains the role of the EU in the campaign against the Russian invasion
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