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2025 PostdocNet General Meeting

  • Start: Nov 18, 2025
  • End: Nov 20, 2025
  • Location: Berlin
Save the Date: 6th Annual General Meeting [more]

2024 PostdocNet General Meeting

Join us as we celebrate PostdocNet's 5th anniversary! This year's General Meeting will be held in person at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, with an online option for those who cannot attend in person. [more]

2023 PostdocNet General Meeting

  • Start: Oct 9, 2023
  • End: Oct 10, 2023
Join us at our yearly general meeting! This year's meeting will be held in person at the MPI for Psychiatry in Munich. As well, there will be a virtual option for guests who cannot attend in person. [more]

Still a stigma? Social background and careers in academia

IDEA Seminar
A person's social background has a profound impact on their career prospects—especially in academia. Students from non-academic backgrounds face tougher challenges when they try to build a career at university. They often feel “stuck-in-between” their families, who do not understand their wish to continue on a path of financial insecurity and the university sphere that has many invisible rules and often feels unwelcoming. I will also talk about these challenges as well as the ways our non-profit organisation "Erste Generation Promotion"/ "First Generation Doctorates" advocates for more equity in higher education. [more]

Causality for ethical ML: Promises, challenges & open questions

IDEA Seminar
In this talk I will give an overview of the role of causality in ethical ML, and in particular, in fair and explainable ML. In particular, I will first detail how to use causal reasoning to study fairness and interpretability problems in algorithmic decision making, stressing the main limitations that we encounter when aiming to address these problems in practice. Then, I will introduce some technical solution to address these limitations in realistic scenarios where the causal knowledge is only limited. [more]

"Coded Bias" Film Screening and Discussion

IDEA Seminar
The film will be available to watch freely the last week November, and then we will meet for a panel discussion featuring several researchers currently working in the area of algorithm development. [more]

ASTROMOVES: Astrophysics, Diversity, Mobility

IDEA Seminar

Mental Health Awareness Week 2022

PREVAIL Meeting/IDEA Seminar - Family leave, parenting, law and practices

PREVAIL Meeting
This meeting will be a talk followed by an interactive discussion panel. We will look at an overview of the legal regulations on maternity protection and parental leave in Germany, and following this have time for questions and discussion. [more]

Compatibility & Work-Life Balance in the Scientific Context

IDEA Seminar

Postdoc Dinner - Third-party funding from the advisor's perspective

Microagressions in Research Spaces

IDEA Seminar

PREVAIL Meeting - WissZeitVG Update

PREVAIL Meeting

Postdoc Lunch - Topic TBA

Postdoc Dinner - Science Management

Unconscious bias in academia

IDEA Seminar

Institutional racism in higher education

IDEA Seminar

The challenging postdoc stage

IDEA Seminar

Doing Science Like a Woman

IDEA Seminar

How can we make home office more equal?

IDEA Seminar

Trans & Gender Diversity in Scientific Environments

IDEA Seminar

Diversity and Diversity Management @ Max Planck

IDEA Seminar
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