🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
22.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 295 🔁 110 💬 4 📌 10
München: LMU sagt nach heftiger Kritik Nahost-Veranstaltung ab
Jüdische Wissenschaftler und die Landtags-CSU befürchteten eine antisemitische Vortragsreihe. Nun hat das LMU-Präsidium reagiert.
Aufgewacht und wieder drei Eingriffe in die grundgesetzlich verbriefte Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Kunstfreiheit gesehen.
Wer das toleriert - immer noch, seit über zwei Jahren fortlaufend und sehenden Auges -, veräußert jetzt und in diesem Moment die eigenen Rechte.
archive.is/2RGEj
18.11.2025 07:44 — 👍 100 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 2
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline
The Steady State | October 16, 2025
Here's a report written by 100s of former members of the US intelligence community, assessing the US now the way that they used to assess other countries to determine their political trajectories. Sober, fact-filled analysis that reaches alarming conclusions. open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
08.11.2025 07:51 — 👍 70 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 1
"Das ästhetische Versprechen ist klar: Authentizität durch Überwältigung. Erinnerung als Nacherleben. Gewalt wird nicht kontextualisiert, sondern affektiv reproduziert."
25.10.2025 10:07 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
This is a promotional poster for International Open Access Week, scheduled for October 20-26, 2025. The poster features the Open Access logo (an orange unlocked padlock symbol) in the top left corner, with the event title "International Open Access Week" and dates in the top right, along with the hashtag #OAWeek.
The central theme question "Who owns our knowledge?" is displayed prominently in multiple languages including English, Arabic, Hindi, Ukrainian, French, Japanese, and Spanish.
The main visual element consists of six circular photograph cutouts arranged in a 2x3 grid each showing the unlocked padlock symbol:
1. Top row, left: A hand reaching toward prison bars or vertical lines
2. Top row, center: A silhouette of a person against a large circular sunset/sunrise with mountains
3. Top row, right: A library interior with bookshelves and a person walking through a circular opening
4. Bottom row, left: A person in outdoor/hiking gear reading or writing in what appears to be a natural setting with rocks
5. Bottom row, center: A graduate in cap and gown smiling at the camera
6. Bottom row, right: Computer server racks with colorful network cables (blue and yellow)
Who defines the "scholarly" in Open Access? 📚⚖️ In January we were removed from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). We believe this isn't just one decision about one publication – but raises questions related to this year's #OAWeek theme on knowledge ownership & control. Lets unroll it🧵
24.10.2025 07:53 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
but does Cem Özdemir use a bicycle to carry water for rightwing demagogues
21.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Book Talk: Publishing Beyond the Market
Join author Samuel Moore in conversation with Heather Joseph as they reimagine open access through collective, scholar-led publishing.
On December 4th I'll be in conversation with @hjoseph.bsky.social about my new book Publishing Beyond the Market. Part of the @authorsalliance.bsky.social and @archive.org book talk series.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
18.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
For ease here is a mod list of them:
18.10.2025 14:14 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
Vorlesungsreihe im WiSe 2025/26:
„Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien“
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
30.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 56 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 5
Sudan siege: War crimes alert as el-Fasher runs out of food
Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.
“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege."
War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan
15.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 87 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 3
📣 Im Wintersemester 2025/26 befasst sich die interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe des Instituts für Rechtsextremismusforschung mit Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungen der extremen Rechten in der Gegenwart. @unituebingen.bsky.social
Weitere Infos gibt es hier: uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
15.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Und es gibt Hochschulleitungen, die diese Anfragen tatsächlich an die Fachbereiche weiterreichen (Halle) und beantworten (Merseburg). Und offenbar viele Kolleg:innen, die ganz brav (oder ganz doof oder ganz freudig) selbst Meldung erstatten.
15.10.2025 06:34 — 👍 152 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 3
Zitat aus dem Interview mit Robert Brockhaus: "Auch das Rädchen im Getriebe kann sich strafbar machen."
Die Bundesregierung bringt afghanische Schutzberechtigte in Islamabad durch verweigerte Visa in Lebensgefahr – das ist Aussetzung, ein Verbrechen.
Wie sollten sich BAMF-Mitarbeiter*innen nun verhalten?
Eine Handreichung in fünf Fragen an brockhaus.bsky.social.
verfassungsblog.de/die-dunne-ro...
11.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 96 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 1
Cover: Animal Rights: The Role of the EU Charter
Out now! 🐛🐖🐶
The Verfassungsbook “Animal Rights: The Role of the EU Charter” (edited by ESTER HERLIN-KARNELL & MATILDA ARVIDSSON) asks whether fundamental values like dignity, freedom or solidarity are for humans only, or if they should be extended to animals, too.
👉 verfassungsblog.de/books/
09.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Disziplinäre Realitäten
Mein Ex-Kollege Lasse Ramson vom Projekt VEStOR und @openrewi hat die Causa Verfassungsblog vs DOAJ kommentiert: https://open-access.network/blog/disziplinaere-realitaeten
CC @verfassungsblog
10.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Limits of FAFO
It’s hard to separate the suffering of Trump voters from the suffering of everyone else.
wrote about watching leopards eating the faces of some who voted for trump, and why that’s not really all that cheering. (for one thing it’s hard to harm one the deserving without also harming the undeservering; we’re all neighbors.) www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-limits...
09.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 260 🔁 39 💬 10 📌 1
Logo der Uni Wien
Text:
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Für eine Studie der Universität Wien suchen wir Personen, die gelegentlich Romane/Erzählungen als Hörbücher hören.
Kontakt: lesestudie.germanistik@univie.ac.at
+43-1-4277-42180
Aufwandsentschädigung: 35€
Termine: Okt-Nov 2025
Alter: über 18 Jahre
Dauer: max. 135 Minuten
Ort: Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Wien
Die Uni Wien sucht für eine Studie Personen, die gern Hörbücher (Belletristik) hören.
Termine: Oktober - November 2025
Alter: über 18 Jahre
Dauer: max. 135 Minuten
Ort Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Wien
Aufwandsentschädigung: 35€
Bei Interesse an lesestudie.germanistik@univie.ac.at schreiben
09.10.2025 07:24 — 👍 34 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 0
Wirtschaftsministerium: Reiche berät Reiche
Bei Treffen mit der Stiftung Familienunternehmen gaben Ministerin Reiche und ihr Staatssekretär Tipps, wie die Superreichen-Lobby Steuersenkungen erreichen könne. Das zeigen interne Unterlagen.
NEU: Die Wirtschaftsministerin persönlich hat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen Lobby-Tipps gegeben. Ihr Ministerium könne das Vorhaben dann "flankieren". Und ihr Staatssekretär hat die Milliardärslobby gebeten, Druck auf die SPD auszuüben.
@fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
09.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 1898 🔁 965 💬 71 📌 117
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
07.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 994 🔁 454 💬 14 📌 19
This is important.
09.10.2025 02:52 — 👍 1114 🔁 302 💬 9 📌 4
“Bucking tradition and legal precedent.” Lol.
I guess according to the sanitizing standards of mainstream media’s neutrality-theater journalism, you can “buck tradition and legal precedent” so hard that you end democratic self-government and the constitutional order altogether.
08.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 171 🔁 51 💬 13 📌 3
A race to the bottom now. All three (!) parties committed to shrinking the university sector. Because nationalist racism hates people being educated and thinking. Disgusting.
07.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly
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07.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 1481 🔁 687 💬 41 📌 121
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
at Freie Universität Berlin • conflict & violence • justice & accountability • research ethics & safety
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Gemeinsam mit über 280 Frauenhäusern & 285 Beratungsstellen im Einsatz gegen geschlechtsbasierte Gewalt!
I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also […]
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Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness
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Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law @USCGouldLaw; Mother of Dragons; Liberty's Glam-Ma; Queen of obscure const’l text; Helping people vote since '09; Still trying to make fetch happen
punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
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Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA. Civil rights, police accountability, civil procedure. Author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Learn more at: joannaschwartz.net
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Publishing empirically grounded & experimental open access books within relational research on science, technology and society
Representing a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship, we work to support open access becoming the predominant model of publication.
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Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
Associate Professor @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
SALC’s lawyers and staff discuss, track and analyse current legal human rights and rule of law issues in Southern Africa.
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