Why selfishness can lead to fairness

Physicists at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" confirm a 50-year-old hypothesis about why selfish behaviour leads to the formation of herds.

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Award-winning

Ines Mergel from the University of Konstanz and David Eaves from University College London (UCL) have been named Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellows for their project "Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age". The open access syllabus provides materials designed to teach required digital skills to students in public affairs master's programmes.

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Free research materials at a click

Open Science Spotlight opens the treasure chest of research: The University of Konstanz's new online section presents free and open data, publications as well as educational resources.

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Time makes the difference

About 18,000 physicians from Cuba came to Brazil between 2013 and 2018 during the "More Doctors for Brazil" project. The programme aimed at alleviating the public health emergency, however, initially met with surprising resistance, as Konstanz anthropologist Maria Lidola observed in Rio de Janeiro.

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When rescuing bats becomes a way of life

Biologist Alona Prylutska and her colleagues from the “Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center” in Kharkiv work hard every day to save bats. The war is making their work difficult – but they are keeping it up nevertheless. Since November 2022, Alona Prylutska has been continuing her work from Germany, within a research project at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

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