The #OpenScienceFestival 2025 will take place in Vienna on September 8-9 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #zid #uniwien

First, those who are to be destroyed are called vermin and scum, then dehumanized, their extermination can be called for, so to speak, from the textbook of the “Prophets of Deceit. A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator”

"The Authoritarian Personality," see e.g., the F (Fascist) scale for traits, including conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intraception, superstition & stereotypy, power & toughness, destructiveness & cynicism, projectivity, & exaggerated concerns over sex.

Holy shit, absolute insanity: "In a news release, the Department of Homeland Security sent a stark message to Harvard’s international students: 'This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.'"

»Die Trump-Regierung hat der Elite-Universität Harvard die Berechtigung entzogen, ausländische Studierende aufzunehmen. Bereits eingeschriebene Studierende müssen die Universität verlassen.« Wenn es in den USA Frühjahr 1933 ist, wie spät ist es dann in Cambridge?

#WeareHarvard #DefendResearch @cornellasap.bsky.social @qualitative-forschung.de @chrischirp.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @ronaldhartz.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social @jeroenson.bsky.social @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social @giorgialodi.bsky.social

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.

CfP "Transitions on Rewind: #Videoanalysen von Übergangsphänomenen" auf dem 42. Kongress der #dgs @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Wir freuen uns über zahlreiche Einreichungen bis zum 30.4.25. #soziologie #interaktion #transition #video #emca #cfp

Beim DGS-Kongress im September richtet unser Forschungsprojekt eine Ad-Hoc-Gruppe aus: "Eine Verschiebung von Sagbarkeitsgrenzen? Über die soziologische Einordnung diskursiver Transitionsdiagnosen". Vorschläge können bis zum 30.4. eingereicht werden. kongress2025.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

Ab dem 2. April, 12h wird die Anmeldung für das 20. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung unter berliner-methodentreffen.de/bmt-2025-anm... freigeschaltet, s. für weitere Informationen berliner-methodentreffen.de/anmeldung-hi... und berliner-methodentreffen.de/bmt-25-gebue... #BMT2025

This!!

USAID is to be finally dismantled by July 1. This was announced to Congress by Rubio. That's murder.

Die #IDEepolis25-Tagung widmet sich am 24. Juni in #Stuttgart Fragen der #Bildung im Digitalen. Welche Wertekonflikte und Chancen bringt #KI an Schulen und Hochschulen mit sich? Wie kann eine menschenzentrierte Bildung der Zukunft aussehen? Infos + Anmeldelink: www.hdm-stuttgart.de/digitale-eth...

I would like to thank all the wonderful people I met over the last 5 months here at #BlueSky. And above all, it is you, my friends, who have accompanied and supported me 🌹 @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @dababa2025.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social @claynobles.bsky.social

Die Wissenschaften in den USA sind massiv bedroht, deshalb meine Bitte: Unterzeichnet www.defendresearch.org & verbreitet dies weit 🙏 @nataschastrobl.bsky.social @ardenthistorian.bsky.social @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de @volkerquaschning.bsky.social @guido-kuehn.bsky.social @volksverpetzer.de @djv.de

Pls. share widely and most important: Sign the Declaration #DefendResearch @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social @kschoenberger.bsky.social @paul-vierkant.bsky.social @pampel.bsky.social @wpk.bsky.social @janlause.bsky.social @georgrestle.bsky.social @dunjahayali.de

#StandUpForScience www.threads.net/@bangkok_noi...

This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Freue mich, dass unsere Ad-Hoc Gruppe "Transitions on Rewind: Videoanalysen von Übergangsphänomenen" (zusammen mit René Tuma und Ajit Singh) für den DGS-Kongress an der Uni Duisburg-Essen angenommen wurde. Mehr Infos in den nächsten Tagen... #dgs #soziologie #transition #interaktion #video #emca

Quo vadis Ostdeutschland(forschung)? #cfp #soziologie Wir (Hanna Haag & ich) freuen uns auf Einreichungen zur adhoc Gruppe auf dem DGS Kongress 2025 kongress2025.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

Update. "#nih Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of #Climate Change" https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-funding-climate-change-public-health "The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records […]

Die Declaration To #DefendResearch wenn irgend möglich bitte verbreiten und unterzeichnen @dfg.de @dgps.bsky.social @giz.de @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @gesvirologie.bsky.social @informatik.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @gtg-histtech.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @gesis.org @maxplanck.de

"Declaration To #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government Censorship," list of signatories is updated daily, please distribute widely 🙏🌹 @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social ‪ ‪ @claynobles.bsky.social @brunoamato.bsky.social @dababa2025.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Neue Workshops: #MAXQDA in der Forschungspraxis, 13.-16.1.26 (Online) qualitative-forschung.de/event/ws-max... #Konversationsanalyse, 22.-23.1.26 (Präsenz) qualitative-forschung.de/event/ws-ka-... Weitere Workshops, u.a. #GroundedTheory #Metaphernanalyse #QualitativeInhaltsanalyse

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Kann grade nicht anders, ach, TWA, was du fehlst 🌹

Das 20. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung wird vom 25.-26. Juli 2025 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social stattfinden. Anmeldung wird Anfang/Mitte April möglich sein, Informationen hierzu über lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/Ber... #BMT25

I just finished my 3rd starter pack. Pack 1 & 2 were actually for me, accounts that I didn't want to miss at all. This one contains many friends I have met along the way, all doing all they can to resist the dismantling of our democracies and all worth following. We should never give up ❤️

Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are being removed from Pentagon websites per Pete Hegseth’s order to scrub “diversity” content. Suicide prevention? www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/p...

This trend will continue, and the US index will gradually approach that of Russia, Turkey and Hungary, etc. Full report is accessible from academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca... #AcademicFreedomIndex #Science

I couldn't believe it at first, but yes, here is the source, really disgusting 😡

Question: Is Trump administration also targeting Columbia University because of its symbolic character? I don’t know many details about the US academic system but Columbia was the place where Horkheimer, Adorno, Pollack et al. continued their work after they fled the Nazi regime in Germany.

Fucking hypocrite

Horkheimer Fellowship 2025 – Call for Applications Application deadline: April 20, 2025 Postdoctoral fellowship Institute for Social Research (IfS) in Frankfurt am Main September 2025, duration of three months www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/ho...

Das Institut für Sozialforschung im Frühling 2025

"Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille University ready to welcome American scientists" www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

Hello 2025! A year of opportunities as we expand our team, re-establish #DOAJ in Europe, relaunch our #Ambassador programme and rebuild the heart of our editorial review system #ScholComm #OpenAccess #DOAJVolunteers #AcademicChatter blog.doaj.org/2025/03/13/2...

Australia’s top universities said the Trump administration had cut US funding to some of its researchers and asked others who receive US government financial support to prove their work was aligned with American interests reut.rs/421VM0Y

Organisation und Bewertung: Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf interne und externe Bewertungslogiken Call for Participation des Arbeitskreises „Organisation und Bewertung“ der DGS-Sektion Organisationssoziologie 4. – 5.12.2025, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Education department slashed in half after Trump administration mass firings

Bitte teilt den Appell von S4F auch in euren internen Projektnetzwerken und zeichnet ihn, wenn ihr in der Wissenschaft aktiv bzw promoviert seid. www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... Bis Donnerstag, 10:00 Uhr, ist die Unterzeichnung des Appell möglich.

Ich freu mich sehr für meine Leipziger Kollegin Monika Wohlrab-Sahr zur Wahl als Vorsitzende der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social. Auch cool: alle Mitglieder des neuen Vorstands und 14 von 16 Mitglieder des neuen Senats unserer Fachgesellschaft sind weiblich. #sociology soziologie.de/aktuell/news...

📣 New month, new chances! Expand your skills with 6 new #GESISworkshops! Dive into Grounded Theory, Advanced R, Decomposition Methods, Causal Inference, Web Tracking, or Qualitative Interviews—something for everyone! Find your perfect workshop! ➡️ gesis.org/workshops 🧵👇

We will dance in the streets, all over the world, when the time finally comes again. 💙💙💙

**SECOND #EMCA Starter Pack!** The 1st is full: go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX so the 2nd is linked below. If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below. Repost to keep building our community! go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ

Free to attend and open to everyone! For more info and to register, scan the QR code or follow the link below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qualitativ...

Publish in journals that are not so inexperienced with qualitative research. And as you mentioned afterwards that you received funding to publish #OpenAccess: Makes sense to look for #DiamondOpenAccess journals without article processing charges too ...