What does it mean to be human in the age of AI?
Join #BraveConversations at #WebSci26 (May 26–29, @tu-braunschweig.de) to explore technology, ethics, and society in a rapidly changing world.
🧠 Open dialogue
🤝 Interdisciplinary exchange
🌍 Human-centered futures
websci26.org?page_id=821
Workshops for #ACM #WebSci 2026 Submission deadline extended! #cfp #workshop
✨The Effects of the Adaptive Web on Society
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✨First International Workshop on Science-Related Discourse on the Web
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@websciencetrust.bsky.social @tu-braunschweig.de
📣 WebSci’26 Call for Workshop Submissions!
Upcoming deadlines for #WebSci26 workshops on topics including harmful content diffusion, online safety for women, adaptive web systems, and science-related discourse on the web. 🗓 Deadlines: March 15–24
websci26.org?page_id=705
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Join us for IRIS Insights #5 (Online): The Social Ecology of Ideas
Prof. Raphael Heiberger (Univ. of Stuttgart) presents new research tracing how ideas emerge and disappear across 1.3M patents & 36M papers.
📅 March 5, 2 pm CET
🔗 www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/event/IRIS-I...
@unistuttgart.bsky.social
🚨 Poster Deadline Extended! 🚨
Didn’t get your paper accepted? This is your chance to present at #WebSci26!
🗓 New Deadline: Feb 25, 2026
🔗 websci26.org?page_id=513
#callforposters #websci
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Zwei Kinder betrachten gemeinsam mit ihren Lehrern einen Computerbildschirm und lernen, Gefahren im Internet zu erkennen.
Interviewteilnehmende gesucht!
Für das Forschungsprojekt „Netz der Täuschung“ suchen wir Lehrkräfte und Eltern (Kl. 5–7) für ein 90-minütiges Online-Interview.
💻 WebEx · 💶 25 € Aufwandsentschädigung
📩 Interesse: nadine.koch@iste.uni-stuttgart.de
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📣 websci26.org/ #cfp Posters & PhD Symposium
⏳ Deadline: Feb 18!
We invite submissions for posters (work-in-progress + emerging ideas) and the PhD Symposium (feedback + discussion for doctoral research).
📍 Braunschweig, Germany | May 26–29, 2026
#Posters #PhDSymposium @websciencetrust.bsky.social
📣 Call for Poster – #ACM #WebSci26
Poster submissions are open!
This is a great opportunity to share work-in-progress, late-breaking results, and emerging ideas with the Web Science community.
🗓 Submission deadline: Feb 18!
🔗 More information: websci26.org?page_id=513
@websciencetrust.bsky.social
"Per Roboter mittendrin: Telepräsenz in der Wissenschaftskommunikation" via @wisskomm.de www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/per-roboter-...
For questions about workshops/tutorials at #WebSci'26, please contact: @eelcoherder.bsky.social
#WebSci2026 #CFP #WebScience
Final CfP: WebSci'26 Workshops & Tutorials
🗓 Deadline Jan 9
📍 Workshops Day: May 26 @tu-braunschweig.de
🎉 Theme: 20 Years of Web Science
Interdisciplinary proposals on Web, AI, society, methods & ethics welcome. websci26.org?page_id=79
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#WebSci2026 #CFP #WebScience
📢 Save the Date: May 26–29, 2026
We’re excited to announce the 18th ACM Web Science Conference (#websci26) at @tu-braunschweig.de Germany 🇩🇪
Join the global Web Science community for interdisciplinary research on the web, society, and technology—celebrating 20 years of Web Science.
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📣 #CallforParticipation — #WebSci’26
18th ACM #WebScience Conference, May 21–26, 2026
📍TU Braunschweig, Germany.
🌐 Theme: Managing Risks in the Era of Generative AI
📄 Paper submissions due today (Dec 17, AoE)
🛠️ Workshops & Tutorials: Jan 9, 2026
📌 Posters & PhD Symposium: Feb 18, 2026
🔗 websci26.org
Dr. Curtis Runstedler will give two lectures at IBA Karachi (8–13 Sept). His IRIS lecture applies a posthuman feminist lens to sex robots and artificial intimacy in speculative fiction, based on a new article co-authored with Dr. Sercan Hamza Bağlama, currently under review.
Generative AI raises ethical questions? Dr. Hagendorff, research group leader at IRIS3D, has taken this question seriously and systematically. With his interactive Ethics Tree, he has created one of the most comprehensive overviews of ethical problem areas in generative AI: lnkd.in/ebzZYaU7
At IRIS, we see Public Engagement not as an extra, but as a central part of interdisciplinary AI research.
In this short film, we share a glimpse into our approach.
The IRIS Summer Symposium 2025 is live! Join us at Uni Stuttgart to explore AI & society: from ethics of generative AI to human-AI teaming, digital psychology & public engagement. Still time to join! Info: [www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/event/IRIS-Summer-Sympos... #IRISStuttgart #AIandSociety
Now, Thilo Hagendorff presents his work on the Ethics of Generative AI. Check out his most comprehensive mapping of ethics issues, comprising more than 300 issues thilo-hagendorff.github.io/ethics-tree/...
@unistuttgartiris.bsky.social presents its work to our wonderful advisory board - @vdignum.bsky.social, Bob Williamson, and Jens Birkholzer. @csindermann.bsky.social gave a great about the biases of people when seeking information from large-language models.
Join us for the next IRIS Insights on June 26 at 2 PM (CEST)! Prof. Monilola Olayioye will talk about “Tumors in Dishes” & how lab-grown tumor models help advance personalized cancer therapy.
Webex link: unistuttgart.webex.com/unistuttgart...
We like to highlight the following event:
Engineering Safe Systems with AI
June 5, 2025, 15:45, Room U32.101, Universitätsstr. 32
Dr. Reinhard Stolle (Fraunhofer IKS) on how to engineer safe AI-enabled systems without compromising innovation.
Join us for Brave Conversations: Stuttgart 2025 – July 5, 10:00–16:00 @Aquarium, Uni Stuttgart. Explore how tech shapes society in a day of dialogue, led by global and local facilitators. Free food & open to all. Register now: eveeno.com/270644239
SAVE THE DATE: 24. Mai, 13-19Uhr, Campus Vaihingen.
#TDW25: Einmal im Jahr öffnet die #UniStuttgart ihre Labortüren und zeigt euch ihre spannenden Forschungsthemen. Für alle Schülerinnen und Schüler gibt es gleichzeitig den #BachelorInfotag. Kommt vorbei.
Infos: www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet...
Baden-Württemberg has set up a postdoc program for researchers whose research is obstructed by politics if the project relates to an existing research focus.
If you are affected by researching AI and Simulation (www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de) or Ethics and AI (www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de), DM me.
IRIS Insights I Nico Formanek: Are hyperparameters vibes?
April 24, 2025, 2:00 pm. This talk will discuss the role of hyperparameters in optimization methods for model selection (currently often called ML) from a philosophy of science point of view. lnkd.in/eJNiUQKV
New Publication: Toward an Integrated Psychological Model of Violent Extremism
March 31, 2025
Milan Obaidi, Robin Bergh, Simon Ozer and our IRIS research group leader Cornelia Sindermann have published an article in the journal European Review of Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/1046...
We cordially invite all interested parties at the Universität Stuttgart to our IRIS Colloquium on March 26, at 2 p.m., in Room 101 at Universitätsstr. 32. Mara Seyfert will give her lecture, „Uncertainty and robustness against persuasion in large language models.“
On Febr. 27, 2025, 2:00-3:00pm, we are launching our new series IRIS Insights. Prof. Zamira Daw is our first guest. Everyone is cordially invited to this WebEx talk: "Human-AI Teaming in Cockpit Systems (HAITICS)". Please follow this link to join the talk:
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🎺Join in May 2025 for this conference on "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" that Agnieszka Faleńska (IRIS3D group leader @unistuttgart.bsky.social and Mark Wittek are organizing at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Abstract (max. 750 words) to wittekm@ceu.edu
Deadline: 01.03.25
