Today, I got the teaching award of the Media and Communication Science Department at FU Berlin for the very first seminar I taught! It's great to see that you are rewarded for doing your job with passion and dedication! Thanks to my great students 💙

The introductory chapter I wrote together with Barbara Pfetsch on theories and conceptualization of conflict and space is finally out! doi.org/10.4324/9781... We explore how spatiality is shaped by social conflicts and conflicts shape space building on the great work at @sfb1265.bsky.social !

First, in a chapter together with B. Pfetsch, @zozanbaran.bsky.social and @anniewald.bsky.social, we conceptualize how lines of both conflict and solidarity in contemporary climate justice (and really, most other types of) social movements are spatially structured. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines. Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us. NYT gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

@isa-sociology.org Forum is fun thanks to the incredible volunteers, attentive colleagues and beautiful Rabat! I was lucky to present my papers and had constructive feedback and intriguing discussions. Now I will enjoy the rest!

Der neue #SFB1265 Schnittstellenfilm ist da! Linda Hering, @dstoltenberg.bsky.social und @zozanbaran.bsky.social sprechen mit Janin Walter über das Spannungsverhältnis lokaler und globalisierter Räume anhand ihrer SFB Forschung zu Protestbewegungen und Warenketten📺⬇️ sfb1265.de/einblicke/vi...

On Wednesday, 16 April, at 17:00 I am delighted to co-organize a presentation with Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social about his and Petter Törnberg's new book Seeing Like a Platform at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. Please register here: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...