At the International Conference for Gender Studies held on April 10–11, 2025, in Porto, Portugal, Anita Thaler presented “Reimagining the Cyborg – How Queer-feminist STS can Contribute to Prostheses Research” in order to make queer-feminist theories useful for prosthesis research.

At this year's STS Conference Graz from May 5-7 in Graz, David Steinwender, Sandra Karner, and Anita Thaler presented results from the biodiversity research project PLANET4B and the empirical experiences of the Graz case study in “Gaia Gartenberg: Learning about perspectives on diversity and biodiversity in a garden for and by women*.” The transformative learning experiences of the garden community and the intersectionality perspective will soon be published in the magazine Erwachsenenbildung (issue 56).

The presentation by Anita Thaler and Jenny Schlager, “Can a diversity-sensitive human-centered approach make AI developments fairer?” addressed stakeholder involvement in AI research, a topic that will soon be explained in more detail in an article in the special issue “Breaking the bias: standardized methods, teaching, and governance for sex, gender, and intersectional analysis” of the Nature journal “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.”

On June 13, 2025, Anita Thaler was invited to give a keynote speech as part of the “In Focus” event series at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In her presentation, "Generating ‘robust knowledge’ through gender- and diversity-sensitive research - from successful individual examples to a practiced organizational strategy” Thaler explained the background to why gender has become an important category in European (and numerous national) research funding calls, how gender and intersectionality can be included in a wide variety of research areas, and how research organizations can move from individual good examples to a comprehensive strategy for generating socially robust knowledge.

On June 4, 2025, Thaler was invited to the symposium on 3D printing in orthopedic technology at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Villach to give a humorous and informative insight into the pitfalls of innovation research and the successful approach of gender- and diversity-sensitive, human-centered technology development with “Let's talk about sex... and gender in research.” In the concluding panel discussion (see photo, © Carinthia University of Applied Sciences), participants from research and orthopedic technology companies discussed trends in sensor integration as well as the possibilities and limits of current AI research.

From June 11-13, 2025, the Nordic STS Conference took place in Stockholm, Sweden, where the contribution by Anita Thaler, David Steinwender, and Sandra Karner on “Sowing change: A women*'s garden as queer-feminist intervention in biodiversity research” was positively discussed as part of the “Queer-Feminist Interventions in STS” session.

The European research network “VOICES,” in which Thaler co-leads a working group on “Gender in Research” with Clemens Striebing (Fraunhofer), is in its final year and will present the key findings of the four-year collaboration at the upcoming conference in Paris from July 9-11, 2025.