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Prof. Atkinson an DFG Sonderforschungsbereich beteiligt

Die meisten technischen Systeme arbeiten heute software-basiert, zum Beispiel Autos oder Produktionsanlagen. Diese so genannten cyber-physikalischen Systeme werden immer komplexer. Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) fördert ihre Weiterentwicklung. Am neuen Sonderforschungsbereich „Konsistenz ...

Änderung der Regelung zum Freiversuch

Wichtige Änderung der JAPrO zum Freiversuch seit dem 11.02.2023!

Capital vom 27.06.2023

Zitat/Beitrag von Prof. Spengel im Artikel “Cum-cum-Geschäfte: Der nächste Betrug mit Aktiendeals”

Hand mit Setzling, grüner Kasten mit Text: Sustainable Impact Contest

Bild: Rike Allendörfer

Sustainable Impact Contest der Business School – Jetzt bewerben!

Erstmals seit 2019 wird der Wettbewerb für sozial oder ökologisch nachhaltige Projekte wieder ausgeschrieben.

Erasmus + Working Placement opportunities (Nova University of Lisbon)

At NOVA, they have been accepting Undergraduate students, in order to complete working placements at Nova University of Lisbon sports’ department, since 2018 and it has been a really enthusiastic experience for all of them. The position is ideal for sport lovers with high interest in social media, ...

We did it! Third biggest team yeah😍🤝 Everyone who joined can be very proud of oneself ✨ We hope you enjoyed the whole event as much as we did! Maybe some of you decided to give running a first chance and from now on want to keep going!💪

Action Camp: You love adventures in the nature, action and fun? Then this activity is the right one for you! Base Camp: Besides the eventful Action Camp there is also an alternative where you can experience the wonderful nature of South France. 🧗🏼‍♀️🪨

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Wie bringt man Kindern die Grundregeln von IT-Sicherheit bei?

SuperCyberKids heißt ein von der EU im Rahmen von Erasmus+ finanziertes Projekt, das ein innovatives pädagogisches Spiel zum Thema Cybersicherheit für Kinder im Alter von 8 bis 13 Jahren bieten soll. Ein Wirtschaftspädagoge von der Universität Mannheim hat das dem Spiel zugrunde liegende ...

Bild: Anna Logue

Erholung am Vorabend verbessert die Arbeitsstimmung am Folgetag

Neue Studie zeigt, dass die Stimmung bei Arbeitsbeginn mit der Qualität der Erholung am Vorabend zusammenhängt.

WDC Block: A large Blocking Benchmark released

We are happy to announce the release of Web Data Commons Block (WDC-Block), a large Blocking Benchmark. WDC Block is based on product data that has been extracted in 2020 from 3,259 e-shops that marked up product offers within their HTML pages using the schema.org vocabulary. The benchmark is ...

Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes...

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!