Anna L. Ahlers

Chinas Anspruch auf eine neue Weltordnung Das diesjährige Gipfeltreffen der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit (SOZ) in Tianjin war das bisher größte in ihrer Geschichte. Mehr...

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.
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Entra China, sale Alemania... la nueva realidad

JUNO: the hunt for the universe’s most elusive particles Our podcast on science and technology. We visit the underground laboratory looking to shape the future of fundamental physics

“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

How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.

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.

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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...
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(PDF) Interview mit "Die Welt" zur gegenwärtigen Situation der amerikanischen Universitäten und dem Einfluss auf die Weltwissenschaft (Anfang Juni 2025, korrigierte Fassung) PDF | On Jun 13, 2025, Rudolf Stichweh published Interview mit "Die Welt" zur gegenwärtigen Situation der amerikanischen Universitäten und dem Einfluss auf die Weltwissenschaft (Anfang Juni 2025, korr...

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.
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(PDF) "Gelingt es den Unis nicht, sich zu wehren, müssen sie mit massivem Bedeutungsverlust rechnen." - Interview "Welt" zur Situation der amerikanischen Universitäten (Online-Version) PDF | On Jun 12, 2025, Rudolf Stichweh published "Gelingt es den Unis nicht, sich zu wehren, müssen sie mit massivem Bedeutungsverlust rechnen." - Interview "Welt" zur Situation der amerikanischen Uni...

Die vollständige Online-Version des Interviews mit der "Welt" zur Situation amerikanischer Universitäten
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Trump 2.0 og internasjonal politikk | NUPI I en ny spesialrapport fra Senter for geopolitikk har noen av landets fremste eksperter sett på hva Trump 2.0 betyr for verdenspolitikken.

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So far, the report is only available in Norwegian. My contribution reflects on“Is Trump’s war on science accelerating China’s scientific rise?” Working on a EN version that I will make available soon.

got together spontaneously to write short and pointed analyses, based on their empirical insights, on what Trump 2.0 already means for global politics in many different dimensions. Quite an achievement in a very short time. Would this also be possible in the German research/think tank landscape? …

📖«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 …

haben, trotz aller Umstände, die diese Entwicklung alles andere als einfach mach(t)en. Wir werden das Preisgeld enthusiastisch und mit Bedacht einsetzen und die Auszeichnung auch als fortdauernde Verpflichtung betrachten. 🙏 Auf viele weitere gute Forschungsumfelder - klein oder groß! 🌱

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

China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped.

„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...

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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)
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China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope Astronomers are puzzled by the silence over an instrument that could briefly reign as world’s biggest

#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

Das Foto der Forschungsgruppe zeigt 10 Personen auf einer Treppe in einem hellen, alten Gebäude. Bildrechte bei Wei Feng, LMRG 2024

🇨🇳 🌍 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:
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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.

(S+) Rasanter Aufstieg in der Forschung: Wie China die USA in der Wissenschaft überholen möchte China will zur Wissenschaftsnation Nummer eins werden. Das Land investiert massiv in Grundlagenforschung, zieht Großexperimente in Rekordzeit hoch. Geht die Strategie auf?

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 West is retreating from the battle of the narrative

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

Polymorphous Engagement with Global China: Researching Contested Chinese Companies in Western Europe This essay explores how we can ethnographically study contested Chinese multinationals when access is limited due to geopolitical sensitivities and technological competition. I argue that, despite the...

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.

Eine Hand, die einen türkisfarbenen Stift hält, schreibt oder zeigt auf ein aufgeschlagenes Wörterbuch, auf dessen Seiten chinesische Schriftzeichen und Übersetzungen zu sehen sind. Ein runder Blickfang zeigt den Titel „Chinesisch nebenbei lernen? Neue Publikation“. Bildquelle: © Hub/DAAD.

🇨🇳📚 Wie gut passt das Chinesisch-Angebot an deutschen Hochschulen zu den Bedürfnissen von Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden?

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(PDF) Science in an Authoritarian State. The Case of Prussia PDF | Presentation at the Symposium „Scholarly Knowledge in the Context of Epistemic Injustice and Authoritarian Censorship“, King‘s College, London,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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).
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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 innovation can kick-start recovery.

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...

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Letter of support: In solidarity with our colleagues at Columbia University A letter of support from faculty at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian, and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo.

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.
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Can China’s universities power it to victory in the global AI race? 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 polic...

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

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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.