#Italy: The EFJ joined its @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social partners in sending a letter to Agenzia Nova, demanding the immediate reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati. He was unfairly dismissed following a question deemed “inappropriate” to a representative of a political body. 🧵

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A must read for anyone interested in the dynamics of social sciences in the Global South! Congrats @metacramer.bsky.social 👏

Join us on Wednesday for a talk by @c-bz.bsky.social & Jie Xu: "The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China" Nov. 12 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin More in the link below 👇

New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...

In a remarkable act of solidarity, students at @humboldtuni.bsky.social have dedicated the entire November issue of their magazine #UnAuf to the student-led protests in #Serbia ✊ ❤️

In a remarkable act of solidarity, students at @humboldtuni.bsky.social have dedicated the entire November issue of their magazine #UnAuf to the student-led protests in #Serbia ✊ ❤️

Novi Sad, November 1, 2025. One year of impunity of the lying, violent, authoritarian, ghoulish regime. Руке су вам крваве 🩸🩸🩸

#NoviSad on November 1st 2025 #Serbia

No amount of repression, however brutal and violent, can stop this force. #Sеrbia today.

No amount of repression, however brutal and violent, can stop this force. #Sеrbia today.

Absolutely breathtaking sight, thousandsof students walking through the night. Route from Belgrade to Novi Sad. #Serbia #Student #Light

Respectfully to rail folks posting about the "upcoming" Belgrade to Budapest and Vienna services "coming soon", until the political situation re Novi Sad tragedy is resolved I don't see how we can expect those connections to materialize and actually function if Vučić can just cancel trains like this

Meanwhile, in #Serbia, the regime cancelled all trains to Novi Sad, in an effort to prevent people from reaching the city ahead of tomorrow's gathering to commemorate one year since the tragedy. But, worry not, tens of thousands of people are already heading there by other means—including on foot.

In two hours, our guest speaker @alexcsiszar.bsky.social will present his work on E. Garfield's global travels providing insight into how standards such as ‘peer review’ were exported beyond the USA and Britain. much looking forward to this global history of science talk - come & join (link below)

Interested in the history of scientific journals? Or curious why journals became more similar in format over time? We're starting in about 2 hours 👇

I am thrilled to invite you to tomorrow's (Oct. 29) lecture by @alexcsiszar.bsky.social: "Exporting publication standards: Eugene Garfield's global travels" We're starting at 11 AM (CET). You can join us on Zoom or, if you're around, at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin. More in the link below 👇

Excellent piece - it's really hard to "follow the data" in education and it should not be so "We often talk about transparency in higher education, yet the private actors that are in the business of university data collection operate almost entirely in the dark."

The secret life of university data? In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

SO wurden gerade die Student*innen aus Novi Pazar in Kraljevo (Ort mit ca. 57 000 Einwohner*innen), einer ihrer Etappen auf dem Weg nach Novi Sad, empfangen. #Serbien

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Next Wednesday, October 15 (11 AM CET), we're kicking off the fall semester Jour Fixe lecture series! The first speaker will be Christian Greiffenhagen, with the talk "Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review.” Join us in Berlin or on Zoom!

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport ✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

I don't know about the "modernness" of universities in Frankfurt and Hamburg, but the rest of it...

Rankings, now coming after your children too.

I was pleasantly surprised to read in this text that @timothysnyder.bsky.social traveled to Serbia in July, where he followed the student-led protests. I look forward to the longer chronicle. Also - today marks 10 months since the student blockades started. The fight goes on. ✊

I was pleasantly surprised to read in this text that @timothysnyder.bsky.social traveled to Serbia in July, where he followed the student-led protests. I look forward to the longer chronicle. Also - today marks 10 months since the student blockades started. The fight goes on. ✊

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

I just had a fascinating conversation with Suzana Sudar for Radar magazine, #Serbia. We delved deep into how societies choose to remember—or forget—their past, drawing from Making Monuments from Mass Graves, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. radar.nova.rs/kultura-rada...

We're super excited to announce the programme for our Jour Fixe in the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, guest speakers will present their current work on science and we are thrilled to welcome fantastic colleagues! Everyone is welcome, zoom links on our website. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

I've co-organised our bi-weekly lecture series for the upcoming winter semester together with @jelena3121.bsky.social and could not be more excited about the wonderful speakers who will present their work! :) Come and join - participation always open both in person in Berlin and via zoom!

today in how it started how it's going

No words. Btw, these are all young people, students and high schoolers. Some are minors, some reportedly under 14. Some had nothing to do with protests, but were picked up randomly in the streets last night. All that so that they could be filmed like this as an "example" to intimidate the public.

No words. Btw, these are all young people, students and high schoolers. Some are minors, some reportedly under 14. Some had nothing to do with protests, but were picked up randomly in the streets last night. All that so that they could be filmed like this as an "example" to intimidate the public.

Yes, this happened in Novi Sad last night, but clashes between protesters and regime-organized thugs+police happened last night in many other places too. Would Vučić rather drag the whole country into a civil war than call general elections that he would likely lose? I have no doubts about that.

Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia. #protest #novisad #belgrade #serbia #police

You may laugh, like I have, but "Digitale Schiene Deutschland" is a thing. Also, Deutsche Bahn has its very own <checks notes> “Data Factory”

How do you people studying the latest technologies, in whatever field, keep up with... anything?!

"Serbia is in crisis" reports The Lancet in a recent editorial (I didn't see that one coming yet here we are) Full text here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Content warning: Extreme violence, sexual violence This is an awful account of extreme forms of sexual violence that both Ethiopian and Eritrean forces committed in Tigray. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This morning I woke up and discovered I own a university. Job, anyone?

Maybe you think that there are too many journals and too many articles published, and I would say to that, yes, you are right. But then, something like the Journal of Global Higher Education appears, and you go, yep, this totally makes sense.

Google, Palantir, Amazon named in Albanese’s UN report on Gaza genocide. Now the US wants her silenced. 🤐 Top economists back her. Speaking up is a right. 🚨📢 🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Wut?! Is this true, did the Dutch just ruin carrots because what... too beautiful? Someone explain this to me please thank you

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime. Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

As I'm waiting to board the plane to go back to the UK, I've written a few impressions on the last weeks in Serbia. janabacevic.net/2025/07/03/r...

Listen to Eric Gordy explaining what civil disobedience in the form of street blockades in Serbia looks like these days and why police repression won't work.

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime. Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

Hier findet sich aktueller Thread zu #Serbien, der im Laufe des Tages ergänzt wird, um ein paar Einblicke in die Geschehnisse und ein Gefühl zu bekommen, was sich abspielt. An sich ist die politische Entwicklung sehr komplex. Daher sind das alles nur Bruchstücke und nur als solche zu verstehen.🤝 1/x

"Due to the lack of manpower to combat the protests, the dictator (name not worthy of writing) has released murderers and rapists from prisons and put them in police uniforms to senselessly beat own people." I wish I'd disagree with this. Please read the whole post. Thank you. #serbia #protests