🩸 Last call to sign up for the CEU Blood Drive! Austria’s blood reserves remain at critically low levels, and every donation helps hospitals save lives. Join us at CEU campus on Oct 21 and be someone’s hero. ❤️ Learn more and book your appointment here: events.ceu.edu/2025-10-21/b...

Yesterday, CEU's Budapest site served as the venue for the Hungarian launch of Angela Merkel's memoir Freedom. After the event, Julius Horvath (CEU's Executive Director for Budapest) had the honor of welcoming the former German Chancellor to CEU's historic campus. Thank you for the opoortunity! 👏

🥗 Rethinking Campus Food: Should CEU Go 100% Plant-Based? We invite you to the 2nd debate of our Topical Debate Series. Join us for a discussion on the benefits and risks of a fully plant-based campus. 📅 September 30 💻 events.ceu.edu/2025-09-30/r...

🔎 Why do we sustain misbeliefs, even against the evidence? On Sept 29 (17:00–20:00) join us at CEU Vienna for a roundtable with Ingrid Brodnig, CEU scholars & more. The event launches our new Center for Belief Updating & Debiasing. RSVP required 👉 events.ceu.edu/2025-09-29/w...

🚨 1 DAY TO GO! 🚨 Join CEU’s Virtual Open Day for Master’s & PhD programs — explore admissions, departments & student life in Vienna, all from the comfort of your home. Don't miss this opportunity to get to know your future better! 📅 Sept 18 | Register at www.ceu.edu/admissions/c...

Capitalism: Can We Fix Its Growth Dependencies? Join our first Topical Debate of the year on Sept 15. (Room D-002 & Zoom). With Diana Ürge-Vorsatz @dianaurge.bsky.social & Marc Kaufmann kicking things off, we’ll dive into capitalism, growth, and the environment. 🔗 events.ceu.edu/2025-09-15/c...

CEU Virtual #OpenDays are here! 🎓 📅 Master’s & PhD: Sept 18, 10:00–16:00 📅 Bachelor’s: Sept 24, 15:00–17:00 Discover our programs, learn about applications, funding, and meet our lovely community. Register now at: www.ceu.edu/admissions/c...

Earlier this year, Michael Mann gave the Gellner Lecture at our annual conference at @weareceu.bsky.social in Budapest on "Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria", now #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley.... (and you can see the lecture at www.youtube.com/watc...#openaccess

And we're off! Our conference Ryle on Knowledge, Sense, and Method at @weareceu.bsky.social starts today. Here's @timcrane.bsky.social with the conference opener 👇

🎉 Congratulations to CEU’s Robyn Dora Radway (CEU Department of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social) for winning the 2025 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize for her monograph Portraits of Empires! 📚 Read more: cla.umn.edu/austrian/new...

Today, we celebrate #WorldHumanitarianDay - a day dedicated to honoring the power of compassion and empathy. Being a humanitarian isn’t only about grand gestures; it’s about the cumulative impact of small, consistent actions. Let’s make compassion part of our everyday lives 🌍💙 #CEU

Watch the workshop “Art, Agency, and Testimony in the Work of Ceija Stojka” featuring insights from Paul Bernard-Nouraud, Lorely French, and Stefan Benedik. 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Ui... #roma #romani #minority #minorityrights #porajmos #art #stojka #ceijastojka #AcademicSky #academia #artist

👏🏆 Congratulations to Vojtech Pojar for receiving one of CEU’s Best Dissertation Awards! His research explores the history of eugenics in Habsburg and post-imperial East Central Europe, bridging eugenics studies and Habsburg history in a unique way. 📖: www.ceu.edu/news/2025-08...

🎮 Are you a game developer? Join us in Vienna for the Truth, Lies & Democracy Game Jam! Work with others to create a game that helps people spot fake news and disinformation. 📅 Sept 26–28, 2025 📝 Apply by Aug 15 More info: events.ceu.edu/2025-09-26/c... @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social

Such an amazing and insipiring 2 weeks of @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at CEU. It was a blast having you all here on campus! 💛 #SeeUatCEU

🎶 On July 9, 120+ CEU alumni & Summer University participants gathered in Budapest for an evening of music, summer drinks & reconnection, featuring a live performance by kora player Lamine Siskora, introduced by faculty member Balázs Weyer. Thanks to all who joined us! 💛 #CEUalumni #LifeAtCEU

🎉 Congrats to Adriana Manna (PhD at CEU Dept. Network & Data Science) for winning a CEU's Best Dissertation Award! Her research shows how social inequalities impact epidemic spread using network science and modeling. 📖 Read our interview with her: www.ceu.edu/news/2025-07...

We’re excited to share that a new publication by Matt Dougherty (@weareceu.bsky.social), titled “Hyman, Ryle, and the Unity of Knowledge,” has just been published in the European Journal of Philosophy. You can read the paper here: buff.ly/AgKF2aq

We recently welcomed @civica.bsky.social master’s students to CEU for an intensive seminar on EU Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy, led by Mathias Möschel and Marie-Pierre Granger. A dynamic week of learning, debate, and cross-campus collaboration. Thank you to everyone who joined us! 👏

excited to return to my alma mater @weareceu.bsky.social for the @methodsnet.bsky.social summer school to teach Intro to R! 👨🏻‍💻📊

Having an amazing first two days of the #MethodsNET Summer School in Vienna! 😍 Welcomed our participants from all around the world 🌍 at CEU @weareceu.bsky.social, the atmosphere has been full of energy, curiosity, and meaningful exchange! Method fun begins! 🥳 Can’t wait for the rest of the week! 👀

What are some recent developments regarding opposing dynamics of economic globalization and the political sovereignty of the nation state? 🧐 Tune in to the latest Democracy in Question episode with Shalini Randeria and CEU Prof. Michael Ignatieff 🎧 tinyurl.com/diq-ignatieff @gvagrad.bsky.social

🌐 @weareceu.bsky.social plays a key role in @express2project.eu by coordinating #Intersections. 🧩 #CEU examines how #insecurity, #populism, #climatechange & more #disruptiveelements combine to threaten #Europe’s #socialcontract, guiding integrated #solutions. 🔗Details: https://www.ceu.edu/

Congratulations to our exceptional BA, MA, and PhD graduates, as well as our outstanding faculty and staff, who were honored at the 2025 CEU Excellence and Academic Awards on June 17! 👏🏆 Read more about it: www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Trump Following Orbán’s Playbook, Says President of Ousted European Institution @weareceu.bsky.social president Shalini Randeria believes universities must improve public outreach to fend off the rising impact of populism. Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ #HigherEd bit.ly/4jJWvtn

We're proud to share that CEU President and Rector Shalini Randeria was quoted in Time Magazine on the UN World Population Report 2025. In the article, she reflects on the shifting global conversation around population decline with the importance of social policy: time.com/7294161/fert...

What’s happening to universities as spaces of open debate? In the latest Democracy in Question episode, Shalini Randeria and Luiza Bialasiewicz discuss the EU’s rearmament and its impact on academic freedom. Tune in! 🎧 www.ceu.edu/article/2025... @gvagrad.bsky.social

We’re proud to see CEU featured in the @nytimes.com article. The piece reflects on CEU’s journey from Budapest to Vienna and its continued role as a global advocate for academic freedom and democratic values. 📰 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

This week we are at the Estoril Political Forum with a group of amazing students from @weareceu.bsky.social, @gvagrad.bsky.social, @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social, @upf.edu and St Andrews. Hear what St Andrews PhD student, Winifred has to say about what she has learnt so far about debating.

Last spots available, register now! 👇

@martonkarsai.bsky.social (Professor and Head of Department at DNDS @weareceu.bsky.social) presented as a keynote speaker at #NetSci2025

What if participation isn’t enough to protect democracy?🎙️ In the latest Democracy in Question episode, Shalini Randeria and Samuel Bagg unpack how participation can sometimes serve elite interests and what’s really needed to strengthen democratic systems. 🔗 tinyurl.com/diq-bagg @gvagrad.bsky.social

📢 The Data Stories poster gallery is out! 📢 Come explore 16 eye-catching visualizations that turn data into stories — spanning science, the arts, and sports. 👉 bit.ly/43xT8zH #DataStories #DataViz #ScienceCommunication #NetworkandDataScience #SeeUatCEU

Congratulations to Prof. Martin Kahanec, who has been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission. 👏 As part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism, he will help shape EU policymaking with insights over the next three years. Read more: www.ceu.edu/article/2025... #CEU #publicpolicy

Is Russian dominance fading? Join Dr. Stefan Meister tomorrow, May 27 at CEU, for a talk on shifting power in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus & Central Asia. Registration & more details: events.ceu.edu/2025-05-27/e...

It was lovely and lively! to have @rjuhasz.bsky.social over for a talk on industrial policies. Cheers Réka. @weareceu.bsky.social

Still full of impressions from #reforc2025 at @weareceu.bsky.social , which the video shows. A huge word of thanks to everyone who contributed to the organization, scholarly contributions, reflections, and the warm and fruitful personal contacts! youtu.be/-7da4_n1BmQ?...

🎓 It’s still not too late to start your international studies this September at CEU! Choose one of our bachelor's or master's programs with a worldwide academic reputation and join us. ⏳ Apply by July 1, 2025. Only for EU and US citizens. More details at www.ceu.edu/seeyouatceu

A big thank you to all participants of the 3rd International Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference @univie.ac.at & @weareceu.bsky.social for your contributions, and to our audience for their vivid participation. Your insights & enthusiasm made this a truly inspiring experience!

Three days to go! ⏰ We can't wait seeing all the #earlymodernchristianity scholars at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna on May 22, 2025. Have a good trip!

Tonight at the Pint of Science Festival in Vienna, @weareceu.bsky.social postdoc, Phyllis Pearson, will give a talk on "Gaslighting and Epistemic Agency", exploring how gaslighting undermines a person's epistemic agency. More here:

New study by Elisa Omodei @elisaomodei.bsky.social & @isifoundation.bsky.social co-authors finds that only 4–6.5% of links in Reddit climate discussions cite scientific sources, raising questions about the role of science in online climate discourse. 🔎 Read more: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Last seats available! 💺

A new episode of Democracy in Question is out! 🇷🇸 Explore the student-led protests in Serbia, their distrust in political parties, and how EU accession could shape the country’s democratic future. With Shalini Randeria and Ivanka Popović. 🎧 tinyurl.com/diqivanka @gvagrad.bsky.social

🎉 Data Stories is almost here! Join us next Tuesday, May 20 at 16:00 for an inspiring event exploring the power of data through keynote talks by data visualization experts, interactive discussions, and a poster exhibition! 📍 RSVP: events.ceu.edu/2025-05-20/d... @weareceu.bsky.social

Last week, CEU hosted economist Elhanan Helpman (@harvard.edu) for a public lecture on global trade. He spoke about the impact of the pandemic, rising protectionism, and the growing divide in the world economy. A timely and insightful talk! 🎤 Watch the lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqSp...

🎉 Congrats to Prof. Federico Battiston on receiving the Erdős-Rényi Prize from the Network Science Society! His groundbreaking work on multilayer networks and complex systems continues to shape the field. A well-deserved recognition of research excellence!👏 @netsciconf.bsky.social #CEU #proudmoment

What led to the current U.S.–China standoff? 🌏 Join us on May 12 for a timely talk by renowned China expert Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at @asiasociety.org. Read more and join us next Monday ⬇️

What’s it like to take classes inside a museum? 🏛️ MA students in CEU and Wien Museum’s Museum Studies program are blending theory with hands-on practice - learning from museum professionals, curating exhibits, and exploring the past in real time. Read more: www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Less than one week! 🤩