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What is going on at LMU? Everything at a glance in the LMU Newsroom — news, events, interviews, backgrounds, stories.
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An eye on the present
Since March 2023, Erika Thomalla has been conducting research into literary production, collaboration and digital book culture at LMU’s Centre for Book Studies.
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Barrier-free access: “A new perspective!”
A service that benefits everyone: The next round of training for inclusion tutors begins in April 2024. LMU student Nini Sturm takes part in inclusion trainings.
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How butterflies choose mates: gene controls preferences
In a first, LMU evolutionary biologists have identified a gene that influences visual preferences in tropical butterflies.
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11 April 2024 | DFG Proposal Writing Workshop
This workshop by the LMU postdoc program #EXCELLerate aims to coach researchers at an early career stage on how to prepare high quality applications to the German Research Foundation.
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until 5 April 2024 | Travelling Back
A critical perspective is presented on the narratives and collections Bavarian scientists Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) brought from Brazil in the 19th century
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until 12 April 2024 | Black Art
This latest exhibition at the University Library offers a fascinating insight into the world of incunabula, typical cradle books and how they evolved – from the very earliest printed materials to the post-incunabula era.
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Polyglot machines
How artificial intelligence learns the rich variety of human languages: Hinrich Schütze, computational linguist at LMU, researches multilingual software that can do small languages. From the research magazine EINSICHTEN
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From the steppe to the city
A social transformation is underway in Mongolia, as many nomadic pastoralists move to urban areas. Geographer Lukas Lehnert investigates what this means for the environment and ecosystems. From the research magazine EINSICHTEN
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“When success dictates self-worth”
When does wanting to do well become unwell? Barbara Cludius researches the propensity for perfectionism. In our EINSICHTEN interview she explains how a harmful thought construct is related to various mental disorders.
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