🚀 Bei uns ist Einiges los im April: Von Tipps für die Konsistenz in KI-generierten Videos über ansprechendes Design mit Canva hin zur Bildgenerierung mithilfe von KI.

🤗 Außerdem eine herzliche Einladung zum Netzwerktreffen KI zur Frage: Wie können KI-Chatbots bei der Qualitätsförderung von offenen Bildungsmaterialien unterstützen.

Infos und Anmeldung 👉 https://www.twillo.de/veranstaltungen/

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@DenisMeuthen , PI of the @idealab , contributed to an opinion paper 📜 in Trends in Ecology and Evolution ( @TrendsEcolEvo ) . In this paper, we hypothesize that niche processes (niche choice, niche construction, niche conformance) and epigenetic variation are causally and bidirectionally linked. Studying this bidirectional causal relationship will deepen our understanding of the proximate mechanisms underlying individualization and elucidate how epigenetic variation arises, persists, and contributes to evolution. You can access the full paper here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0169-5347(25)00370-2

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Yesterday has been a great day: first, the referendum in Italy, then this landed in my inbox: "Proceedings Cumulus Nantes 2025 NOW ONLINE".
I have a short paper in it about a topic I hold dear: Ethics.

The title is "Information as an Experience: A Visual Design Approach to Ethics for Building Relationships between Researchers and Participants" and it's about design, research, and what "getting informed" actually means.

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Die Vermittlung von kompetenzorientierte Lehre ist wichtig im #Lehramtsstudium - aber wie prüfen? Unsere 💍 #OER-Perle umfasst ein 📑 Drehbuch, eine exemplarische Aufgabenstellung und einen Prüfungsbogen. In der Prüfung wird ein 🗣️ Gespräch zwischen Lehrkraft (=Prüfling) und Schüler*in (=Schauspieler*in) simuliert und anschließend theoriegeleitet reflektiert

👉 https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/collections?id=8afa20a7-f3e8-4c1a-929c-272b7933a1e8

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We’ve extended the Call for Proposals deadline for #OEGlobal26

⏱ The new deadline is Apr 7 ⏳

Been working on a proposal and needed a little more time, you’ve got it!
Been on the fence about submitting, this is your sign!

2026 OEGlobal Conference takes place Oct 7–9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts — and online.
Five tracks. All formats welcome. Global perspectives needed.

Submit by Apr 7 → https://twp.ai/ImxAiu

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Fiqh al-Tahawwulat — the "Jurisprudence of Transitions" — describes civilizational change as a 12-stage cascade. Each condition reinforces the next.
Moral legitimacy → elite detachment → knowledge fragmentation → economic injustice → cultural identity crisis → internal conflict → global order breakdown.

I've written an expanded analysis. It reads like a diagnosis of now.

https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-12-structural-predictions

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Until @altmetric.com starts tracking research output on Mastodon like it does on Bluesky, you're probably not going to see a big migration of researchers here. Just sayin'.

Then again, Altmetric doesn't track LinkedIn either, and on some days it feels like the most functional space for academics out of the three. 🤔

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