Ronald Hartz
@ronaldhartz.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | alternative forms of organization | higher education | he/him
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It is possible that this is where I reach the end of my patience with the British obsession with superficial 'manners' over substantive work/truth.
“exiting the market”
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It is possible that this is where I reach the end of my patience with the British obsession with superficial 'manners' over substantive work/truth.
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We remember a time when we were called doomthinkers for mentioning that the collapse of a university would be bad in and of itself, and additionally have bad knock-on effects.
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We remember a time when we were called doomthinkers for mentioning that the collapse of a university would be bad in and of itself, and additionally have bad knock-on effects.
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
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‘Risk exiting the market’
what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
‘Risk exiting the market’
what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
"Es kommt darauf an, das Hoffen zu lernen."
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Es kommt darauf an, das Hoffen zu lernen."
"Of course the case for their value and importance needs to be made. But it needs to be made in appropriate terms, and these terms are not chiefly, and certainly not exclusively, economic. They are intellectual, educational, scientific, and cultural." (Stefan Collini: What Are Universities For?)
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"Of course the case for their value and importance needs to be made. But it needs to be made in appropriate terms, and these terms are not chiefly, and certainly not exclusively, economic. They are intellectual, educational, scientific, and cultural." (Stefan Collini: What Are Universities For?)
'higher education providers at risk of exiting market' 🤷♂️
I'm old enough to remember that higher education was seen as a public good.
I'm old enough to remember that higher education was seen as a public good.
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
'higher education providers at risk of exiting market' 🤷♂️
I'm old enough to remember that higher education was seen as a public good.
I'm old enough to remember that higher education was seen as a public good.
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
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I'm just a line manager, standing in front of every bit of university guidance on every imaginable scenario, asking for the answer not always to be 'ask/tell/speak to your line manager' when there is zero advice, guidance or support for line managers expected to shoulder/support/fix everything 😩
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm just a line manager, standing in front of every bit of university guidance on every imaginable scenario, asking for the answer not always to be 'ask/tell/speak to your line manager' when there is zero advice, guidance or support for line managers expected to shoulder/support/fix everything 😩
"a world without anger would be, possibly, a compliant and quiescent world but not a just world" (Lindebaum/Gabriel, 2016)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Anger and Organization Studies: From Social Disorder to Moral Order - Dirk Lindebaum, Yiannis Gabriel, 2016
In this essay, we oppose current conceptualizations of anger as, at least, a temporary individual psychological disorder and as the cause of a social disorder. ...
journals.sagepub.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"a world without anger would be, possibly, a compliant and quiescent world but not a just world" (Lindebaum/Gabriel, 2016)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Interesting article, not just for translingual scholars
#HigherEd
#AcademicWriting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#HigherEd
#AcademicWriting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Genre of Power: Writing, Language, and Epistemic Borders in European Academia
For translingual scholars, writing in English involves navigating tacit genre expectations that are widely enforced yet rarely made explicit. Conflict…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Interesting article, not just for translingual scholars
#HigherEd
#AcademicWriting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#HigherEd
#AcademicWriting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interested in the history od scientific #publishing?
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications
Marco Seeber (Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Interested in the history od scientific #publishing?
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
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A highly educated society is a better society. Everyone with the desire & ability should be able to go to university. Individuals & society benefit, whatever the subject, so education costs should be subsidised. Public research is a common good. That, apparently, is a controversial take.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A highly educated society is a better society. Everyone with the desire & ability should be able to go to university. Individuals & society benefit, whatever the subject, so education costs should be subsidised. Public research is a common good. That, apparently, is a controversial take.
What are universities for?
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
What are universities for?
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"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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"initiative was rolled back following complaints about inaccuracies, data privacy risks, and increased workload"
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"initiative was rolled back following complaints about inaccuracies, data privacy risks, and increased workload"
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
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Current status: wondering how many people you could employ to go round turning off heating for the price of one (1) Assistant Deputy Director of Strategic Change Enhancement Management Excellence.
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Current status: wondering how many people you could employ to go round turning off heating for the price of one (1) Assistant Deputy Director of Strategic Change Enhancement Management Excellence.
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The framing here is limited; language literacy provides many useful functions, including to help reduce conflict. But the diagnosis is not wrong. We are becoming a sad, little isolated island, with ever less meaningful ways of engaging with the world. To reverse this we need investment, not cuts.
Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The framing here is limited; language literacy provides many useful functions, including to help reduce conflict. But the diagnosis is not wrong. We are becoming a sad, little isolated island, with ever less meaningful ways of engaging with the world. To reverse this we need investment, not cuts.
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The American academy has to ask whether it is ethical to have any in-person conference under Trump
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains University of Oklahoma professor with H-1B visa, colleague says
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington DC.
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The American academy has to ask whether it is ethical to have any in-person conference under Trump
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
Nottingham and Leicester "are just the latest to put language teaching in the cross hairs, following in the bloody footsteps of Cardiff, Sheffield, Lancashire and Aberdeen universities."
#HigherEd
#UKHE
#HigherEd
#UKHE
Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
Books about the state of #HigherEd, no.30: “Socratic questioning is unsettling, and people in power often prefer docile followers to independent citizens able to think for themselves. … So we should not be surprised that the humanities are under assault, now as ever.” (Martha C. Nussbaum)
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Books about the state of #HigherEd, no.30: “Socratic questioning is unsettling, and people in power often prefer docile followers to independent citizens able to think for themselves. … So we should not be surprised that the humanities are under assault, now as ever.” (Martha C. Nussbaum)
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Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
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At an event in Nottingham. Nottingham Trent @jennywustenberg.bsky.social reminds us that as well as our sector as a whole, languages in particular are under attack. So important to remember this while attempting to conduct business as usual in academia.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
At an event in Nottingham. Nottingham Trent @jennywustenberg.bsky.social reminds us that as well as our sector as a whole, languages in particular are under attack. So important to remember this while attempting to conduct business as usual in academia.