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

The citizens of #Serbia are, as we speak, showing how civil disobedience is done and it's beautiful.

The citizens of #Serbia are, as we speak, showing how civil disobedience is done and it's beautiful.

That moment when... Serbia becomes the gravitational centre of Europe for like the fifth time in as many decades youtube.com/shorts/PsPBP...

Bravo, Budapest, for showing today what courage and beauty look like 💪 🏳️‍🌈

We have a press coverage of the planned student mass demonstrations in Beograd from the Danish newspaper Information, @jelena3121.bsky.social I hope that you can use translate to read the article.

Starting in 25 minutes! @devezer.bsky.social: "Claims about scientific rigour require rigour"

Flemish universities are asking the European Union to immediately suspend the Association Agreement with Israel. They also request from the European Commission to develop a new human rights framework for evaluating all international partnerships under Horizon and other EU programs.

Maybe it would not occur to you that the well-known English eugenicist Francis Galton would have opinions about tents, yet here we are.

No one knows you like LinkedIn does.

OpenAI's clearly stated strategic aim to become "core infrastructure" of universities is a good example of what I've been calling a "re-infrastructuring of higher education" by value-seeking big tech, edtech and academic publishers - this from last year iyi journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Oh, you thought you were writing so that other *people* would be able to *read* what you have to say? That's sweet.

If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further. The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic. This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

Maybe it would not occur to you that the well-known English eugenicist Francis Galton would have opinions about tents, yet here we are.

This week I attended (somewhat by coincidence) the symposium "European Universities Initiative 5 Years On" and am blown away by all the research being done around European University Alliances. If you're also doing research on this or smth similar, but you didn't hear about the event, check it out.

Few images from my latest protest. We went to block the main bridges in #Belgrade #Serbia. Students called, we answered.

If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further. The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic. This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

Our Rectors and Presidents exchanged views on the ongoing developments in Serbia, particularly at the University of Belgrade. Circle U. reiterates its support for the academic community and the Rector of the University of Belgrade in their efforts to foster democracy and defend academic freedom.

Voices of Resistance: The Role of #Student Protests in Shaping Serbia's Future A conversation between students from the University of Belgrade and professors from @circleu.bsky.social June 6: 10:00–11:30 AM (Belgrade/Berlin time), hybrid (there will be live streaming) Join!

If academic freedom is suppressed in one country (here, Serbia) and we continue to ignore it, there is no guarantee that it will not be suppressed elsewhere. Read their statement and support the freedom of Serbian academics. cc: @jelena3121.bsky.social

Starting in less than an hour:

Interested in platforms, data integration, and scientific infrastructure? This Wednesday at RMZ, at 11:00 AM (Berlin time), Amelia Acker will present her research on the topic. It's hybrid! Details below 👇

Interested in platforms, data integration, and scientific infrastructure? This Wednesday at RMZ, at 11:00 AM (Berlin time), Amelia Acker will present her research on the topic. It's hybrid! Details below 👇

Authoritarianism and corruption are inseparable. Here, politics is nothing more than an elaborate cover for criminal behavior. As it happens, criminals in power—like Trump in #USA and Vučić in #Serbia and those around them—like to make deals with each other. Sometimes, these deals don't work out.