Marie-Therese Sekwenz is a postdoctoral researcher at IViR. She works with João Pedro Quintais on the NWO Vidi project Generative AI Content Moderation: Regulation for Fundamental Rights, which examines how EU law can address the moderation of generative AI content while protecting fundamental rights, particularly freedom of expression.
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Two student assistant positions are available in  General Sociology at the Department for Society, Knowledge and Politics, working with Ass.-Prof. Dr. Mathis Ebbinghaus, starting in late October or early November 2026. The positions are for 7 and 8 hours per week, respectively.

aau/MüllerSocial scientist Fredy Mora Gámez will join the University of Klagenfurt in October 2026 to launch his ERC Consolidator Grant project, “Handcrafted coalitions: Tantear through digital mapping beyond borders”. HANDigiCRAFT explores the social relationships and forms of knowledge that emerge around objects handcrafted by people on the move. Combining ethnography, collaborative crafting and digital mapping, it investigates how these objects connect people and create possibilities for solidarity across borders.

Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully.

The Policy Innovation Lab at Stellenbosch University’s School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, in collaboration with Google, has launched Students Think Innovation, a new competition challenging students to turn their ideas and expertise into solutions with real-world impact.

Le 29 septembre 2026, plus d’une centaine d’amis, de proches et de collègues du monde entier se sont réunis dans un espace virtuel reliant plusieurs pays et continents. Ils se sont rassemblés pour rendre hommage à la vie, à la vision et à l’héritage durable de Bertrand de La Chapelle, décédé à Paris le 26 août.

On September 29, 2026, over a hundred friends, family members, and global colleagues gathered in a virtual room that stretched across countries and continents. They came together to honor the life, vision, and enduring legacy of Bertrand de La Chapelle following his passing in Paris on August 26. Co-organized by his life partner Ayesha Hassan, the Datasphere Initiative, and the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, the online gathering provided a warm, open space to hold grief, share laughter, and reflect on a figure whose impact reached every corner of the digital world.

Die Nachricht erreichte ihn in Italien: Georg Nagel (73) erhält in diesem Jahr den Nobelpreis für Medizin. Nagel hat von 2004 bis 2021 als Professor für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie am Lehrstuhl für Botanik I am Julius-von-Sachs-Institut des Biozentrums und danach bis Ende Juni 2026 als Seniorprofessor am Physiologischen Institut der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) geforscht und gelehrt.

It’s been a long time since images stopped being sacred. They are simply one of the millions of scraps in which I melt.
I am everywhere and everything that can be. And yet I am in a place: this sort of cage called identity, built of fake nostalgia and estrangement from myself. And if I stay here, something precious in me will die.

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