Franek from our group is coorganizing interesting seminar in English on Polish socilogist Zygmunt Bauman. It will help to understand better not only a single biography but also a difficult history of Polish sociology

Federicon Vasen from our group published recently a new preprint on issues in research evaluation system in Argentina with going beyond evealuation of papers and asessing technological activities and products You can read it here: osf.io/download/6j3nh

📣 Special seminar on 'Perspectives on the evaluation of science', with Emanuel Kulczycki, @alesiazuccala557.bsky.social, and Jochen Gläser. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 31.10.2025 🕐 1:00-3:00 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS More information 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Don't forget about the seminar tomorrow!

Next week, on Thursday at 14:00 CET, we host another exciting seminar! Göran Therborn will talk about Marxism, class and international science: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Don't forget to check out our latest newsletter! We are sharing information about next seminars, recent conferences and our publications mailchi.mp/00020a45b9ad...

Last time we discussed more about Australia, and next week we will look closer at India! Join us for a seminar with Sujata Patel on 2nd of October at 2:00 PM CET Registration: bit.ly/SCRGPatel

I wrote a blog post about my great experience as a postdoc at @tcddublin.bsky.social ! Thanks @agtgibson.bsky.social , for help and seminars on Hegel A part of European Research Night Event - we need to talk accessibly about work we do www.start-ern.org/franciszek-k...

Don't forget to register for our seminar taking place in two days at 12:00 CET! Famous Raewyn Connell (@raewynconnell) will talk about "The global economy of knowledge and its dynamics" Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

@franekkra.bsky.social from our group took part in "CGHE Autumn School 2025: Epistemic injustice, policy repair" in Department of Education at @cghe.bsky.social It is importnat to create such spaces for training and collaboration of early career researchers!

Earlier this year I got to share some ideas about digital research infrastructures and their effects in the circulation and discoverability of other-than-English scholarly publications. Go check it out and many thanks to the @scholarlycommrg.bsky.social for the invitation! 🌟 #AcademicSky #ScholComm

We are returning to the seminnars on sciecne and (semi)peripheries! On Thursday 4pm CET we will listen to the talk by George Steinmetz - author of brilliant "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What history is behind discours of research exellence? Learn more from recordings of our seminars: youtube.com/watch?v=O8e_...

If you are looking for readings on scholarly communication or higher education, you can always check out the list of publications of our group on our website! sc.amu.edu.pl/publications/

@franekkra.bsky.social published a paper on interpreting discussion on centers and periheries through critical cycle! Check out how philosophy, high ed studies, and ideas for alternative organization of science comes together Work of our group is also present in the book reviews!

Our group does not stops in developing marxist critique of higher education. You are all welcome to read Luis' critique of the theory of knowledge rents #marxism #highereducation

Will machine translation overthrow the hegemony of English in science? For now, the literature suggests that this is not happening. Learn more from a recent publication by Philip, Emanuel, and @bowkerl.bsky.social

Thank all for attending this season of our seminars on (semi)peripheries of science! If you missed any you can chceck our youtube channel where we are adding the recordings of the talks

This Thursday at 14:00 on Zoom we will have fascinating seminar with @lucyces.bsky.social exploring materiality of knowledge production in peripheral positions: „The Tower and the Library: the Role of Infrastructures in the Circulation and Discoverability of Non-Anglophone Scholarly Publications”

On Thursday at 14:00 CET we will have another seminar! Franek will talk about „Developing Oligopolies Through Hegemonic Cycles” - so how can we apply methods developed by Wallerstein and Arrighi to analyse the rise of the oligopoly of academic publishers described by @lariviev.bsky.social ?

Our newsletter is out! More information about our recent achievements and our seminar series. Our next seminar with Sari Hanafi just in two days: Thursday, 12th of June 2025 at 14:00 CET

Don't forget to register on our seminar next week! We are thrilled to listen to Sari Hanafi, former president of ISA, who will discuss recent changes in the Arab social sciences: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

We have a next fascinatign seminar this week! Our featured speaker will be Tomás Koch, who will give a talk on Chilean nation-state imaginaries of science! 29th of May at 14:00 CET Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@scholarlycommrg.bsky.social has an open call for a postdoc looking at the role of IOs (the OECD, World Bank, IMF, and European Commission) shaping academic capitalism in Poland's higher education and science systems - no Polish required and a great team to work with! sc.amu.edu.pl/open-competi...

Attention, folks looking for a post-doc and interested in how international organisations—such as the OECD, World Bank, IMF, and European Commission—shape higher education. There's a great opportunity within a project at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, which could be just for you 👇

Our next Newsletter is out! Besides more info on our seminars there is an importatn annoucment about open post-doc position in our project on Academic Capitalism in Poland. You don't have to knwo Polish, just be intersted in developing critique of capitalism in academia!

Tommorow is our next seminar, everyone is welcome!

Next week we will have another seminar discussing academic geopolitics - this time from Kazahstanian perspective! 15th of May, 16:00 CET - see you on Zoom! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

Next week we will have another seminar discussing academic geopolitics - this time from Kazahstanian perspective! 15th of May, 16:00 CET - see you on Zoom! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

Tomorrow we are launching our new season of our seminars! 14:00 CET, register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are excited to announce that we are launching a new season of our seminar series! On 8th of May (14:00 CET) Jakub Krzeski will discuss how the idea of excellence is used in capitalist transformations of academic periphery Ivan Kislenko will summarise the discussion

What is critique? How marxism can help us to fight for better university? Why do we need read Marx and not only read "postcritical" scholars? Krsytian Szadkowski and Jakub Krzeski anwsered all those questions in their new book!

Franek from our group is chairing interesting seminar at the 28th of Aptril!

Our Group co-organize conference on scientometrics that started yesterday in Poznań! International panel of experts started the conference with engaging discussion on problems and challenges of research evaluation in Central and Eastern Europe @coarassessment.bsky.social

We are continuing our series of internal seminars on Bernal's "Social Function of Science". It is an inspiring and strongly multidisciplinary approach to science. Simultaneous study of economics, politics and science is practised in many research in our Group

Want to learn more about the geopolitics of knowledge? Ontology of universities? A reminder that on our YT channel, we have recordings of 27 seminars on those topics! Intresting discussions with inspiring scholars from various parts of the world

A reminder that informed about the very interesting postdoc opportunity from our colleague @bowkerl.bsky.social : postdoctoral fellowships in Metascience and AI sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: sloan.org/programs/dig...

Despite the J.D. Bernal Prize in #STS, his pioneering works often go unrecognized. We believe his insights into the collective nature of science remain profoundly relevant. We started a series of seminars discussing in-depth Bernal's "Social function of science"! @kszadkowski.bsky.social

Our group continues studying the phenomenon of predatory publishing! Despite of crticism new lists of predatory journals are still updated. Newest list is studied by @zehrataskin.bsky.social and Emanuel in their study submitted to ISSI 2025 (osf.io/gjfyw_v1)

Our new newsletter is out, and with it, our great new group photo! It is easy to see how quickly we are growing Read more about our new projects and publications and subscribe: sc.amu.edu.pl/newsletter/

The division on center & periphery of HE is often criticized. However, did you know that often this discussion conflates two radically different theoretical traditions? @franekkra.bsky.social is starting in March project at @tcddublin.bsky.social to explore this More: sc.amu.edu.pl/is-trinity-col

For years, philosophers from our group have been active in @PaTHES_Society. It is a vibrant space for new ideas and critical reflection on nature of Higer Ed. This year, we’re bringing our creativity to Dublin! 🇮🇪

Our Group is on Bluesky now! Interested in research on: scholarly communication, higher education, bibliometrics or geopolitics of science? Follow us! Some scholars from SCRG are already here (@kszadkowski.bsky.social @zehrataskin.bsky.social @franekkra.bsky.social ) Our website: sc.amu.edu.pl