📅 15 October, 3.00pm 📍 Florence & online It’s a Match! Jiangtao Harry Gu and Kylie Thomas on Resistant Objects Organized by Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. ➡️ t1p.de/w2123

Still not sure I understand how this works - often I see multiple posts and reposts of the same thing plastering my feed, while missing entire discussions about other stuff. Hints?

Newsflash from Germany’s international connectivity. It is much faster to fly to Frankfurt to get to the city near Stuttgart than to fly to Stuttgart. Find the mistake.

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.

@deutschebahn.com always lovely to get on a the ICE610 starting in Munich and it is NOT cleaned whatsoever. Overflowing tradh, dirty toilets - nice!

“‘If this is the price to pay for me to be able to work and my students not to go and sell shoes at Walmart, I think I can live with that,’ Gerard Karsenty, chair of [Columbia’s] genetics department, said.” I wonder how they think about entitlement, honor, dignity, etc., in the genetics department.

Next week, I'm starting a new project called "Algorithmic Kitchen" with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social a project that weaves disability design with health tech. I'm ready to grow new networks with direct engagement with a touring kitchen! wellcome.org/research-fun...

Looking so much forward to forging new connections with and between my groups with new international postdocs - stay tuned! @khiflorenz.bsky.social @kit.edu @maxplanck.de

Die @humboldt-foundation.de hat Professorin Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social, Institut für Entwerfen, Kunst und Theorie des #KITKarlsruhe, zum Scout im Henriette Herz-Scouting-Programm ernannt. 📸 Alona Antoniadis

The fellows will also spend part of their fellowship in my Lise-Meitner-Group #CodedObjects in Florence in cooperation with @kit.edu @khiflorenz.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

@thisamericanlife.org brings an episode of #TheRetrievals on the question of interoperative pain during cesareans and one aspect missing so far is that #generalanaesthesia can also be traumatic for a birth which is another reason why OBs might try to avoid it.

Racism live as it hapens. Radio commentator of BR24 for the women’s soccer EM quarter final Germany vs France says about the German’s (Hendrich) foul by pulling Mbock’s hair: “the German didn’t do it on purpose” but rather Mbock had “such mighty hair (!!!)” that Hendrich “had to grasp it” (!!!!)

2020 ist Jens Spahn von ihrem Ehemann Hubertus Gersdorf massiv kritisiert worden, weil er das Urteil des Verfassungsgerichts zur Sterbehilfe ignoriert hat. Irgendwie kriege ich Fantasien, dass es jetzt auch um Rache geht. www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Shannon has been such a support & lodestar for me over the past decade; a brilliantly inventive scholar and astonishingly generous human. So much of what she writes so beautifully here is resonant, of being (a woman) in arts/humanities academia, and of carving weirder paths through the green 🌿

Denkt bitte dran bei dem Wetter eine Schale pünktliche Züge mit funktionierender Klimaanlage für die Pendler_innen rauszustellen

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Sie ist überall: die Rede vom #Spitzenforscher. Nur: Was soll das überhaupt sein? Über einen Begriff, der das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig degradiert & einem Geniekult zuarbeitet, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich ist. ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWiss

Wie wäre es denn mal mit einer Existenzinitiative für Hochschulen statt einer Exzellenzinitiative?

How…utterly surprising

Does not everyone see better with less noise? And hear better with their glasses on?

We wrote something apropos the Mexican pavilion at the Venice Biennale. www.platformspace.net/home/chinamp...

Ich: Vielleicht wird der Montag ja gar nicht sooo stressig. 😌 Der Montag: LOL 😈

What the hell is happening @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Spargelzeit ist Ausbeutungszeit

AI-assisted search suffers from the classic "we’ll deploy the beta and let usage smooth out the rough edges” problem, run amok. It’s a category problem. It’s never going to be fixed through training alone. Believing otherwise is essentially an article of faith backed by monetary incentives.

The land of the formally known as free

…and the biggest joke is that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social didn’t even get their money back… in a world full of Columbias, for once be @harvard.edu…

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Harvard weigere sich, seine „liberale Haltung“ aufzugeben. Nein, Tagesschau, sie weigern sich ihre #Wissenschaftsfreiheit aufzugeben.

Harvard's revamp of their research landing page is excellent--not only does it make their stance crystal clear (that is, not just an email sent to alums and current affiliates), but it makes a broader claim about the significance of American higher education (rather than just Harvard)

It’s real!

So damn unsurprising

Take note law firms and universities.

Organizing is a ton of work that never shows up on a CV. Writing emails, strategizing calls and responses, coordinating people across time zones, mobilizing and motivating and creating community: it is essential work.

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

Irony is dead when a questionnaire asks you whether you‘re stressed (yes) and how a „health initiative“ should be implemented to counter that. I do not need an initiative, I need less decentralized admin, more coordination and responsibility taken by central admin, NOT MORE INITIATIVES

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u.... Imagine if all these universities had the backbone to defy Trump all at once, in unison? Why sell your soul to “protect” a gutter carcass? He’s going to suck them all dry anyway. Get all the alumni, students, faculty to protest 1/2

The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?

If only there were a group of prestigious universities that could coordinate. A "league" of sorts. Given the classic ivy draping buildings on college campuses maybe we could use that type of symbol to unite them.

We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

Let’s see EBSCO respond to this emergency the way many publishers did during COVID: make the databases free to users in Mississippi.

Proud to be part of the UC At a special meeting today, the Academic Council unanimously endorsed The Defense of the University, a statement reaffirming UC’s public mission amid growing national threats to higher education. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom

2025 budgets of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services COMBINED was $691million, or $2.03 / capita a staggering .018% of europe’s smallest, poorest allocation (greece at $111 / capita). AND THIS IS PRE DOGE

policy people! apropos the minuscule budget for NEH, whose theft is nonetheless devastating: looking for sources (academic, perhaps journalistic) that array data for internationally comparing state funding for media, arts, and culture grateful for links, citations, names, graphs!

A 2-year postdoc within the project EIDA at the Observatoire de Paris. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team exploring historical astronomical diagrams. Project's languages: Chinese, Sanskrit, Byzantine, Arabic/Persian, Hebrew, or Latin: eida.hypotheses.org/postdoc-call...

Just one example of what happens to data if there is no long term institutional and democratic commitment maintain and archive…