Any responsible conduct of research should be based on honesty, accuracy, efficiency, and objectivity. The workshop Good Scientific Practice focuses on these scientific standards of international research. It raises awareness of the subject matter by providing doctoral candidates with a set of professional values and ethical norms as well as required competencies and skills to pursue scientific integrity. The content of the course follows the…

Save the Date: Writing retreat led by Andrea Karsten The Writing Retreat offers exactly what its name suggests: You can withdraw from everyday academic hustle and have lots of time to write (and read, think, conceptualize, analyze,...). At the core of the Writing Retreat are "shut-up-and-write" phases in which we all write together at individual desks in a shared room. To inspire writing and working in a concentrated and productive fashion, the…

Online, via Zoom 

Designing sound and meaningful experiments: Principles and ideas from Psychology Experiments are an important approach within empirical research, because they, in Principe, allow to pin down causal influences, and many research questions aim at causal theories. While their basic structure is easy to understand, there are many pitfalls in designing experiments. We will look at these pitfalls and discuss how to be aware of them and avoid them. …

The TRR 318 is once again participating in the GENIALE 2026 Science Festival. With the motto “How are we doing?”, this year’s festival focuses on health.On October 28, researchers Prof. Dr. Hanna Drimalla, Prof. Dr. Stefan Kopp, and Dr. Helen Beierling will be at the Wissenswerkstadt to present their research on “AI as a Medical Assistant.” The focus will be on how diagnoses, treatments, and other medical decisions can be better explained to…

Qualitative Research on Quantitative Scale? Opportunities and Pitfalls of LLMs as Annotators Many TRR researchers had the experience of having to painstakingly annotate a long transcript by hand. Due to the time needed to perform such deep and detail-oriented work, such kind of analysis is not easily applicable to larger data sets. Large language models now seem to enable us to do just that: prompting an LLM with an complex annotation guideline…

Save the Date: Writing Day led by Andrea Karsten.  In the morning, we meet and set our personal goals for the day. The rest of the Writing Day is built around several "shut-up-and-write" phases in which we all write together at individual desks in a shared room. To inspire writing and working in a concentrated and productive fashion, the silent writing phases are introduced by short inputs or exercises in which you are encouraged to reflect on…

Save the Date: Workshop on reading & writing led by Andrea Karsten. More coming soon…

Members of TRR 318 are organizing the 3rd TRR 318 Conference "Scaffolding Social XAI". The Call for Abstracts is open until November 1, 2026.