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Wednesday, 27. September 2023
People, cars and the elements
© Public domain.It contributed to a whole new perception of nature and yet soon became an environmental problem: How automobility changed people’s relationship to the environment and how this is reflected in American road literature is the subject of the ERC project of literary scholar Timo Müller, professor of Ame read more - © Erik Lucatero, Pixabay
Monday, 18. September 2023
Shadow profiles: the data of others
Shadow profiles in social networks contain information about people who are not members. At the moment, shadow profiles are almost impossible to prevent using technical means, pose a collective problem for society and are a matter that has gone virtually unregulated so far. read more
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Friday, 11. August 2023
Can music fight pollution?
© Sara Leigh LewisHow are concerns about ecological degradation, human poverty and hunger crises expressed through music in African countries? And how do artists use music as an instrument for climate justice? read more - © Christian Ziegler / MPI f. Verhaltensbiologie
Friday, 28. July 2023
Computer vision and AI count bats in Africa’s largest…
The method produced an overall estimate of between 750,000 and 1,000,000 bats in Kasanka National Park. read more
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Wednesday, 12. July 2023
What long-term negative impacts do colonial infrastructures…
© Tororo, Urganda, 2010, U.S. Army Foto von John Hanson. No changes made. "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)": https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.enThe Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) recently elected Timo Müller, professor of American studies at the University of Konstanz, as president. GAPS takes a critical look at European colonialism and its effects. read more -
Friday, 07. July 2023
Blackbuck mating heaven
© Vivek Hari SridharThe researchers Hemal Naik, Akanksha Rathore, and Vivek Hari Sridhar went to Rajasthan, India, to study the mating behaviour of blackbucks from a bird's eye perspective. Read what they encountered during six adventurous weeks in the field. read more -
Friday, 30. June 2023
Studying animal behaviour without markers
With a new marker less method it is now possible to track the gaze and fine-scaled behaviours of every individual bird and how that animal moves in the space with others. read more -
Tuesday, 27. June 2023
"Out of the box": play and research
© Marisa ScarpullaSciart project on game developing read more -
Wednesday, 14. June 2023
Research beyond the Arctic Circle
© Eva RiehleStudying the impacts of climate change where they are most apparent due to melting ice on sea and land. What seems like a charming plan from the armchair of your home office, actually demands a lot of organization ahead of time and energy to implement. read more -
Wednesday, 10. May 2023
Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to Konstanz students
On the occasion of Europe Day, 9 May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to students from across the European university network EUniWell. The University of Konstanz, too, took part in the live video call with Kyiv. read more