Mit seinen Globalen Initiativen verfolgt Peking eine Umgestaltung der internationalen Ordnung. Deutschland und die EU müssen ihren Blick auf China weiten, um darauf reagieren zu können, so @godehardt.bsky.social @swp-asia.bsky.social & @maximilianiras.bsky.social. www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

Entra China, sale Alemania... la nueva realidad

“They don’t want to give the image that the US and China are collaborating,” Wang Yifang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tells “Babbage” about a new rivalry in particle physics

Astonishing how fast Chinese science has "risen" (to use the current word) in just the last 15 years, let alone the last 46 since the start of "Reform and Opening." I only wish the discourse framed this more as a China success story and less as a US failure story. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Veit Braun publishes a well-informed and really entertaining history of the Bielefeld school of STS/Sociology of science: To add one point: All the major protagonists of this story are still there and active - with the exception of the premature death of Niklas Luhmann in 1998 /1

Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst starteten kürzlich ihre neue Publikationsreihe, "ChinaAHa – #China-Analysen und Handlungskompetenz,” als zentrales Element des WiWiKo-China P... weiterlesen

Korrektur Interview 'Die Welt': Das Interview zur amerikanischen Universität, das die 'Welt' publiziert hat, verwendet irrtümlich nicht die von mir korrigierte Fassung, sondern eine noch nicht durchgesehene Version. Anbei der richtige Text. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Die vollständige Online-Version des Interviews mit der "Welt" zur Situation amerikanischer Universitäten www.researchgate.net/publication/...

📖«Trump 2.0 and International Politics/Trump 2.0 og internasjonal politikk» special report published today by the new Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics. With @nupinytt.bsky.social as editor, researchers associated with several different leading institutions in Norway …

Herzlichen Dank @jungeakademie.bsky.social und @volkswagenstiftung.de für die tolle und wichtige Initiative und Glückwunsch allen nominierten Teams und Mit-Gewinnern! 🎊Voller Freude darüber, dass wir ausgewählt wurden, sowie Stolz darauf, dass wir als Team so ein Forschungsumfeld geschaffen … 1/2

„On its own, #China had become more attractive to scientists in recent years because of the huge investments the country has made in research.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

Our roundtable commentary on "The Crisis in American Science" has been posted online! At the moment you can access it only through your institution, but we are hoping that it will be available via open access in a few days. (1/5) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope | Science | "With its larger aperture, LOT’s discovery potential... would be about four times that of Keck’s telescopes, the largest in the United States." www.science.org/content/arti... #bigscience

🇨🇳 🌍 Die Lise-Meitner-Forschungsgruppe „China im globalen #Wissenschaftssystem“ am Max-Planck-Institut für #Wissenschaftsgeschichte (@mpiwg.bsky.social) ist mit 23 weiteren Teams im Lostopf für das „Beste Forschungsumfeld“. Mehr zum Preis und den Teams hier: 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...

Seems no mention of China in the actual letter sent to Harvard:

Among other things, for all contexts where people believe the United States is in a competition for the best talent with China and others, this is shooting the US in the foot and then destroying both weapons and first aid kits.

Research Group Leader @annalahlers.bsky.social was interviewed and cited in @spiegel.de on China and its role in the global system of science. 🔗 bit.ly/3ZlxUD (GER, Paywall) #HistSci #NaturalSciences #SciencePolicy #ScienceAndTechnology #Physics

China and Russia are deploying powerful new weapons: ideas – The Economist: ‘Many Western countries are winding down their efforts to broadcast to the world.’

How can we study Chinese multinationals ethnographically when access is restricted by geopolitics and tech rivalry? In this essay, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social draws on fieldwork in Switzerland to propose creative methods and a socio-technical lens for researching ICT firms in Europe and beyond.

🇨🇳📚 Wie gut passt das Chinesisch-Angebot an deutschen Hochschulen zu den Bedürfnissen von Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden? Die neueste Publikation von WiWiKo-China analysiert: 👩‍🏫 Unterrichtsformate 💬 Sprachvermittlung 🌏 Interkulturelle Inhalte 💻 Digitales Lernen ➡️ static.daad.de/media/daad_d...

Presentation from a conference at King's College, London, April 25. The paper written on this basis is to be published in a book on the Merton thesis, edited by Anna L. Ahlers and me, early next year (Transcript, Bielefeld). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

China Research Spending Outstrips U.S. Despite Faltering Economy Tariffs and further economic barriers only likely to drive spending on science and technology higher, analysts predict, amid hopes... Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42zfVKP

My colleagues and I at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Uni Oslo) have written a statement of support for our colleagues at Columbia University. In solidarity with them - and others in the US who face censorship and oppression. www.khrono.no/in-solidarit...

China’s ambition to lead the world in AI is far from unique. Yet its resources, talent and coordination of higher education and industry could just give it the edge, especially as Donald Trump’s policies diminish the US’ allure to top talent #AcademicSky #EduSky

That‘s fast…

12. Like art, music, philosophy, and literature, science is literally part of humanity's heritage. My colleagues and I have had the amazing opportunity to be part of something vastly larger than ourselves, with meaning that transcends any state, regime, or generation. They can't take that away.

New article on "The Journal Attention Cycle: Indicators as Assets in the #Chinese Scientific Publishing Economy", by the brilliant Wang Jing et al., in Science, Technology, & Human Values [open access]. Great break-down of the whole (Chinese) publication system & its incentive dynamics! 💠

Deadline extended ⏩️ 25 March!

What slowdown? Xi Jinping says China must win the global tech race – The New York Times: ‘he wants nothing to hold back his plans for China to march past its rivals by becoming a technological superpower.’

💡Nature piece on foreign researchers in #China, featuring quotes by LMRG group members Andrea and Annina — «Data and security laws are affecting scientists who stayed in China after COVID — but for some it’s still a great place to do research.» www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"#China researchers need to develop new ways of working with the often patchy information at their disposal, such as through AI tools, an effort that would require concerted support from research foundations and, ideally, government funding." Y. Huang, NYT, 2 March www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

New article "Turning changes into chances in international academic collaboration: a case study of a joint Sino-German College in Shanghai" by Andrea Braun Střelcová (LMRG @mpiwg.bsky.social & U Tampere) and Gaoming Zheng (Tongji U & U Tampere) in Higher Education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New from me: DOGE is already causing chaos in Antarctica. Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has been disrupted, and scientists don’t know if their research will be able to continue, how US stations will be sustained, or what all of this might mean for the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

“Global scientific organizations must also show their support… We urge them all to speak up for their US-based colleagues — and the crucial work they do — just as they support researchers at risk elsewhere.“ Nature Editorial! Rubbing my eyes reading this… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ein Versuch einer politischen Soziologie des Klimawandels, die in Auseinandersetzung mit einem Buch von Helmut Willke auf funktionale Differenzierung und eine Pluralität von Weltproblemen blickt. Was folgt für die Lösbarkeit des Klimaproblems? www.academia.edu/127885418/Kl...

New Observations paper by X. Budian and E. Baark on „China’s Climate Change Research Contributions from a Global Perspective“ www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor...

🔔 PhD seminar "China and the Future of Geopolitics", U Oslo, 10-12 June '25. 🌏 Open to all academic disciplines. No fee, but students will need to cover their travel and accommodation expenses; some stipends for participants from ODA countries available. More: www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

In unserer neuen Podcast Folge lässt sich @annalahlers.bsky.social Vortrag zu China als neuer Wissenschaftsmacht nachhören - verfügbar, überall wo es Podcast gibt blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...

@issuesinst.bsky.social invited me to comment on Tommy Shih & Caroline Wagner’s important piece “The Trap of Securitizing Science", together with Li Tang and Denis Simon. 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇪🇺Thanks! See all here: issues.org/balancing-re...