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Wednesday, 20. September 2023

Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement

In his open access book "Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement", Wolfgang Seibel analyzes the failure of administrative authorities to protect the physical safety of people and asks what we can learn from past events.

Monday, 10. July 2023

3D-POP – using AI to study animal behaviour

Artificial intelligence (AI) can automatically analyze animal behaviour in videos. To make this possible the AI needs to be trained with reliable data. Konstanz researchers now provide an open training dataset on pigeon behaviour.

Tuesday, 06. June 2023

How coral reefs can survive climate change

© Planes & Allemand; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38896-6; Lizenz: CC BY 4.0

The Tara Pacific Expedition traversed the Pacific Ocean to study coral reefs. The full data set is publicly available from the largest genetic inventory conducted in any marine system to date.

Monday, 08. May 2023

EmbryoNet: automatic detection of developmental defects

© Daniel Čapek and Patrick Müller

EmbryoNet analyzes images and automatically classifies developmental defects in animals. It works faster and more accurately than human experts do. The Software, created by Patrick Müller from the University of Konstanz and his colleagues, is freely available and open source.

Thursday, 20. April 2023

Crisis as an opportunity for climate protection?

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Two crises have dominated the headlines over the past months: COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. University of Konstanz researchers Sebastian Koos and Adrian Rinscheid investigated how the perception of these crises has impacted people's support of climate protection measures.

Wednesday, 01. March 2023

Simulating molecular dynamics without having to compromise

© Simon Hunkler, Teresa Buhl, Oleksandra Kukharenko und Christine Peter

Can the possible spatial arrangements of proteins be simulated without having to choose between the level of detail and simulation duration? Konstanz chemists recommend using Back-Mapping Based Sampling (BMBS) and freely share the corresponding scripts and sample data.

Monday, 27. February 2023

The effectiveness of sanctions

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Do international sanctions work? And what effects do they have? In order to examine these and similar questions, Konstanz political scientists Gerald Schneider and Patrick M. Weber compiled an extensive data set, which is now freely available.

Wednesday, 01. February 2023

Physics in video: watch standing waves and jumping rings

© Universität Konstanz / Fachbereich Physik (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Over 200 experiments from physics – as videos to watch online or to download. Reuse permitted! The Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz makes videos of its lecture experiments available as open educational resources (OER).

Monday, 30. January 2023

How does language change over time?

© The British Library: Extract from "Beowulf", Cotton MS Vitellius A XV manuscript

How a language's syntax evolves over time is the focus of contributions in the Journal of Historical Syntax (JHS). The University of Konstanz publishes this open access journal.

Thursday, 26. January 2023

Social obligations rob baboons of their sleep at night

© Mike Costelloe for the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0)

What do baboons living in the wild actually do at night? This is the focus of an open access article published by Konstanz-based researchers Meg Crofoot, Carter Loftus, Roi Harel and Chase Núñez.

Monday, 23. January 2023

Public administration in the digital age

Necessary digital skills, acquired through an Open Access curriculum with free teaching material for public administration & management study programmes – co-initiated by Ines Mergel, professor of Public Administration and Digital Governance.

Wednesday, 18. January 2023

COVID-19 and social inequality

© Daniel Schmidtke

How do people in Germany respond to the social and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic? This topic was the focus of a large-scale survey conducted by the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz. The research data is freely available.

Friday, 13. January 2023

ReLive: Data analysis on the desktop and in virtual reality

Evaluating data from mixed reality studies synchronously on the desktop and "on site" in virtual reality?

Tuesday, 10. January 2023

Branching space-times in theory and application

© Daniel Schmidtke

Are there space-time events with real alternative outcomes that, even with the best knowledge, cannot be clearly predicted? "Yes!" is the clear answer that Thomas Müller, Nuel Belnap and Tomasz Placek give in their open access book.

Thursday, 05. January 2023

Analyzing animal movements without programming skills

Movement data tell us much more about the lives of animals than their mere whereabouts. To make it possible to analyze them without programming skills, Andrea Kölzsch from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and her colleagues provide the open source platform MoveApps.

Tuesday, 03. January 2023

Competitive advantage for invasive juvenile sticklebacks

© Dietmar Straile

Do invasive juvenile sticklebacks and native juvenile whitefish compete for food in Lake Constance? Freely available data on this question was collected in the context of a comparative open access study by Žiga Ogorelec, Lars G. Rudstam and Dietmar Straile.