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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 7h

More info, including the Zoom link (no registration needed), here:

www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/news-and-...

Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 7h

Next Wednesday, October 15 (11 AM CET), we're kicking off the fall semester Jour Fixe lecture series!

The first speaker will be Christian Greiffenhagen, with the talk "Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review.”

Join us in Berlin or on Zoom!

RMZ Jour Fixe lecture series, winter semester 2025/26

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 4d

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 8d

this book

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know about the "modernness" of universities in Frankfurt and Hamburg, but the rest of it...

A quote on universities in Germany, from a 1950 book.

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 15d

Madness!

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 15d

Rankings, now coming after your children too.

Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 15d

Each year I see a lot of 17 year olds cry out about university rankings on Reddit, worrying they got into one ranked 73 in their topic rather than the one ranked 67.

Honestly, it'd be much healthier to let rankings die a quiet death. Fewer kids giving themselves anxiety.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15d

'If you plunge into the subject tables you will find more that may surprise you. The only people that really care about individual placings are university senior managers and marketing teams.'

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 18d

I was pleasantly surprised to read in this text that @timothysnyder.bsky.social traveled to Serbia in July, where he followed the student-led protests. I look forward to the longer chronicle.

Also - today marks 10 months since the student blockades started. The fight goes on. ✊

Youth Protest in Serbia

And some thoughts for America

snyder.substack.com

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 18d

I was pleasantly surprised to read in this text that @timothysnyder.bsky.social traveled to Serbia in July, where he followed the student-led protests. I look forward to the longer chronicle.

Also - today marks 10 months since the student blockades started. The fight goes on. ✊

Youth Protest in Serbia

And some thoughts for America

snyder.substack.com

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Daniel Palacios González @danielpalacios.bsky.social · Sep 9

I just had a fascinating conversation with Suzana Sudar for Radar magazine, #Serbia. We delved deep into how societies choose to remember—or forget—their past, drawing from Making Monuments from Mass Graves, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social.
radar.nova.rs/kultura-rada...

Brisanje i skrivanje antifašizma osnov je za mnoge konflikte

Danijel Pelasios Gonsales, istraživač kulture sećanja

radar.nova.rs

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wo-hoo!

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RMZ HU @hu-rmz.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're super excited to announce the programme for our Jour Fixe in the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, guest speakers will present their current work on science and we are thrilled to welcome fantastic colleagues! Everyone is welcome, zoom links on our website. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

a poster announcing the programme of the upcoming Jour Fixe at the RMZ Berlin

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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've co-organised our bi-weekly lecture series for the upcoming winter semester together with @jelena3121.bsky.social and could not be more excited about the wonderful speakers who will present their work! :) Come and join - participation always open both in person in Berlin and via zoom!

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 19

today in how it started how it's going

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 15

No words.

Btw, these are all young people, students and high schoolers.

Some are minors, some reportedly under 14. Some had nothing to do with protests, but were picked up randomly in the streets last night.

All that so that they could be filmed like this as an "example" to intimidate the public.

Admirim @admirim.bsky.social · Aug 15

Serbia in the year 2025.

A regime that has been consistently coddled by the EU.

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 15

As per usual, the EU officials are "concerned."

European Democrats @europeandemocrats.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yesterday in Serbia — a candidate country for EU membership — students and peaceful citizens demanding freedom, rule of law, transparency, and an end to corruption were met with brutal police violence. 1/2

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 15

No words.

Btw, these are all young people, students and high schoolers.

Some are minors, some reportedly under 14. Some had nothing to do with protests, but were picked up randomly in the streets last night.

All that so that they could be filmed like this as an "example" to intimidate the public.

Admirim @admirim.bsky.social · Aug 15

Serbia in the year 2025.

A regime that has been consistently coddled by the EU.

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes, this happened in Novi Sad last night, but clashes between protesters and regime-organized thugs+police happened last night in many other places too.

Would Vučić rather drag the whole country into a civil war than call general elections that he would likely lose? I have no doubts about that.

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 14

Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia.

#protest #novisad #belgrade #serbia #police

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 11

From the recently published "Urban futures in the mirror of technology? The politics of urban digital twins" (New Media & Society) by Sophia Knopf, Hadrien Macq, and Alexander Wentland

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 11

AHAHAHHAHA

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 11

You may laugh, like I have, but "Digitale Schiene Deutschland" is a thing.

Also, Deutsche Bahn has its very own <checks notes> “Data Factory”

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 11

How do you people studying the latest technologies, in whatever field, keep up with... anything?!

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Serbia is in crisis" reports The Lancet in a recent editorial (I didn't see that one coming yet here we are)

Full text here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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