The LUKS prize is an award for exemplary teachers, nominated and elected by students in each department at University of Konstanz.

This year, the award in the psych department went to Annika Tave Overlander from the iScience group! 🥳 Students appreciated her creating an open atmosphere and giving space to any (stupid) question. Some even mentioned having fun while learning to code in their psychology studies 💻

Anni has previously won another award for her teaching of statistics, the Karl-and-Charlotte-Bühler-Prize for excellent teaching (at TU Dresden). We are very happy that she is the first PhD student in the psych department to receive the LUKS! Fun Fact: In the last ten years the only postdoc to receive this award was also a member of the iScience group, Dr. Tim Kuhlmann in 2018. 🥂

We’re excited to share that Prof. Ulf-Dietrich Reips has been invited to deliver the opening keynote entitled “AI hires humans and humans ask AI: Challenges in methods of online data collection” at the International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2026)!

The conference took place July 1–3, 2026 in Valencia, Spain, and brings together researchers working on AI, big data, and computational methods in the social sciences.

CARMA is an international venue for cutting-edge work on topics like large language models 🤖, data science 📊, and digital transformation 🌐—making it a great fit for methodological research coming out of Konstanz.

Find more info about the conference here: https://carmaconf.org/

At the Association for Psychological Science‘s (APS) annual meeting Prof. Ulf-Dietrich Reips, who is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI), engaged in discussions about Open Science and joined an invited panel that provided advice to graduate students and researchers on publishing with APS journals and on publishing in general.

In line with APS’ intention of being a global society for psychological science the meeting took place May 27–30, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain – first time ever as the only annual meeting fully outside North America.

Gensichen, J., Schmidt, K. F. R., Sanftenberg, L., Kosilek, R. P., Friemel, C. M., Beutel, A., Dohmann, J., Heintze, C., Prescott, H. C., Reips, U.-D., Schauer, M., Lindemann, D., Brettschneider, C., Dreischulte, T., Zwißler, B., & Elbert, T. (2025). Effects of a general practitioner-led brief narrative exposure intervention on symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care (PICTURE): multicentre, observer blind, randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 389, e082092. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082092

For a quick english overview of the article, please see our news post from when it was published: https://iscience.uni-konstanz.de/2025/05/12/picture-this-new-article-in-the-bmj/