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Pacing for the long game

After developing a theory to explain her research findings, Christina Zuber still had a long way to go before she could hold the book in her hands – f

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Fri, 15-03-2024

A good first impression and a broad perspective

A collaborative research environment is key for establishing a new research group: insights from bioinformatician Andreas Gruber, funded within the fr

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Too new for the scientific community

What do you do when no one believes your scientific discovery? Physicist Alfred Leitenstorfer describes how a new approach met with great scepticism

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© Christina Zuber

Fri, 05-04-2024

Migration: threat or opportunity?

How do regions that are home to national minorities respond to immigration?

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Ethical considerations in conflict and development research

"An essential ethical requirement for any survey is, for example, that participation is voluntary, uncoerced and can be terminated at any time.&q

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Mon, 08-04-2024

We choose to study what we understand least

How does a new research topic take shape? Does the idea originate from past research? Or does it arise from a completely different question?

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Fri, 15-03-2024

Arriving in Konstanz – interview with chemist Lena Barra

What's it like to be an early career researcher at the University of Konstanz?

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Coincidences and what you make of them

Professor Rudolf Schlögl, now retired, researched and taught for two and a half decades as a professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz

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© Dr Hannah Williams

Tue, 24-05-2022

Freigeist Fellowship for Dr Hannah Williams

Why a young scientist is on the search of the Optimal Movement Theory

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© Axel Giersch, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie

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Like animal, like man

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize laureate Iain Couzin talks about research for which he will use the prize money of 2.5 million euros

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The “Information War” in Russia

Can Russia's control of national media be successful? Interview with political scientist Professor Nils Weidmann

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Mon, 18-07-2022

Hosting the first-ever TEDxKonstanz

Students from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior overcame the difficulties of a pandemic year to host the firs

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"To remember the past is to work on the future"

8 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – In an interview, Aleida Assmann, Konstanz professor for cultural studies, e

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Mon, 04-05-2020

“There’s no such thing as the ‘one’ Africa’”

Africa is at the focus of the latest report by the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration.

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What about educational equity?

We run the risk of regressing in terms of educational and gender equity, says Professor Axinja Hachfeld, educational researcher in Konstanz.

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Mon, 30-11-2020

Inequality and the coronavirus

Doesn’t the coronavirus pandemic make us all equal? Where will society stand after the crisis?

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Judging disinformation and misinformation on Covid-19

What role do disinformation and misinformation play in our dealings with the virus? How dangerous are they and how do they spread via social media?

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Coronavirus and the EU

What role has the European Union (EU) played so far in the coronavirus crisis? What role can it play?

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Thu, 09-07-2020

The University of Konstanz in the European Universities Initiative

An interview with Professor Silvia Mergenthal, Vice Rector for International Affairs and Equal Opportunities at the University of Konstanz, about the

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© Einat Couzin-Fuchs

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“I couldn’t imagine the scale until I saw it with my own eyes”

Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz has just retu

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