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Friday, 10. May 2024

"Z'sämme!"

Swiss-German culture of academic collaboration on a firm foundation: Perspectives from the conference "Z’sämme | Zusammen!" hosted by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.

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Friday, 12. April 2024

‘Turing test’ for animal systems

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What advantages do robots offer in the study of collective behaviour? How is robotic research influenced by biological systems? And what robot experiments are planned in the Imaging Hangar at the University of Konstanz?
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Thursday, 04. April 2024

Pacing for the long game

© Lisa Mende, University of Konstanz

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 – from writing, to undergoing the review process, to a final copy-editing stage.
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© Christina Zuber

Wednesday, 03. April 2024

Migration: threat or opportunity?

How do regions that are home to national minorities respond to immigration? Christina Zuber studied this topic in a comparison of Catalonia and South Tyrol and found an unexpected explanation.

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Tuesday, 02. April 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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Thursday, 14. March 2024

Doors open for dialogue

It’s not (just) about the money: The literary scholar Juliane Vogel talks about everything winning the Leibniz Prize made possible and how the NOMIS Foundation has provided her with unexpected interdisciplinary insights.
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Friday, 01. March 2024

Eating together in humans and bonobos

Behavioural biologist Barbara Fruth and health psychologist Britta Renner from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour provide insights into the importance of eating together for humans and animals in a new episode of the German podcast "Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle"
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© Natalia Borrego

Thursday, 29. February 2024

In the realm of lions: insights from the field

“Contrary to ‘The Lion King’ there is no king or queen in lion societies. No single individual gets priority access to resources, whether that be access to mates or access to food after participating in a hunt”, says Konstanz researcher Natalia Borrego.

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Monday, 26. February 2024

A behind-the-scenes look at research

© Kathrin Binner

Working at a university, developing and implementing an idea for a project, responding to challenges and gaining new insights: What exactly does this look like ? How does it work? What is research all about?
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Monday, 26. February 2024

Taking risks with research

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How do you investigate serious administrative failures when authorities set up barriers and refuse to provide information?
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