Jelena Brankovic
@jelena3121.bsky.social
Sociologist | Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies | HU Berlin Current project: https://jelenabrankovic.net/datafying-universities/
The media machine will continue to harness clicks and engagement, whether it builds someone up or tears them down. Doesn’t matter: they are just a path towards profit. The machine won’t make our lives fairer or more equal. It will just make them monetizable assets to be bought and sold.
This was a lot of fun; thanks for the wonderful questions!
Jelena Brankovic@jelena3121.bsky.social · 7mo agoJoin us tomorrow for the last Jour Fixe lecture of the semester! We're happy to welcome Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), who will give a talk entitled "Model Transfer and Its Role in Awakening Sleeping Beauties in #Science" Feb 4 | 11 AM CET | Zoom Link and abstract on the event page 👇
Join us tomorrow for the last Jour Fixe lecture of the semester! We're happy to welcome Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), who will give a talk entitled "Model Transfer and Its Role in Awakening Sleeping Beauties in #Science" Feb 4 | 11 AM CET | Zoom Link and abstract on the event page 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ Model Transfer and its Role in Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Science
Catherine Herfeld (Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
rmz.hu-berlin.de
An important update on the latest accomplishment of the criminal organization known as the Serbian political regime.
hey dear history-of-science-community: is there an equivalent to the Solvay-conference on physics 1927 (Brussels) in other disciplines that can be regarded as forming moment of a research field? Any in the SSH? @jelena3121.bsky.social @martinreinhart.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
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You may think about diploma mills what you will, but a diploma in "Divine Healing"—obtained through <check notes> hard work "with God and angels" (how else!)—may as well be just what one sometimes needs.
Ok higher education students and adjacent people, what’s new to read?
It's 1928, and you're about to travel to the United States to study. Here's all you should know about its climate and food, such as that "salads in great variety are characteristic of the American table" and "obviously, clothing appropriate for zero out-of-doors is uncomfortable at 37° indoors."
did internet just kill the video star? hell no! #MTV
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Join us tomorrow for a talk by @willemhalffman.bsky.social & Serge Horbach: "The library and the database: two imaginaries for the #research literature" Jan. 7 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin More in the link below 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ The library and the database: two imaginaries for the research literature
Willem Halffman (Radboud University, Netherlands) & Serge Horbach (Radboud University, Netherlands)
rmz.hu-berlin.de
can't believe I'm writing this, but well done, Jared, good call
to all my English(men?) friends out there, greetings from 1918:
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Jelena Brankovic@jelena3121.bsky.social · 9mo agoInterested 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 👇
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 👇
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)
rmz.hu-berlin.de
Today in cool visuals from the past: A 1933 diagram of 39 National Commissariats of Public Instruction in the early Soviet Union, published in a British book on educational statistics.
#Italy: The EFJ joined its @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social partners in sending a letter to Agenzia Nova, demanding the immediate reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati. He was unfairly dismissed following a question deemed “inappropriate” to a representative of a political body. 🧵
Italy: Letter calling for journalist Gabriele Nunziati’s reinstatement following unjustified dismissal
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its partners from the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in expressing, in a letter to the Agenzia ...
europeanjournalists.org
A must read for anyone interested in the dynamics of social sciences in the Global South! Congrats @metacramer.bsky.social 👏
Meta Cramer@metacramer.bsky.social · 9mo agoVery happy to share that my monograph on the negotiation of global asymmetries of science has been recently published! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/colonial-leg...
Join us on Wednesday for a talk by @c-bz.bsky.social & Jie Xu: "The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China" Nov. 12 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin More in the link below 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and China
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (Département Informatique, Université Lyon, France) & Jie Xu (School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China)
rmz.hu-berlin.de
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
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In a remarkable act of solidarity, students at @humboldtuni.bsky.social have dedicated the entire November issue of their magazine #UnAuf to the student-led protests in #Serbia ✊ ❤️
Novi Sad, November 1, 2025. One year of impunity of the lying, violent, authoritarian, ghoulish regime. Руке су вам крваве 🩸🩸🩸
No amount of repression, however brutal and violent, can stop this force. #Sеrbia today.
Jelena Brankovic@jelena3121.bsky.social · 10mo agoMeanwhile, in #Serbia, the regime cancelled all trains to Novi Sad, in an effort to prevent people from reaching the city ahead of tomorrow's gathering to commemorate one year since the tragedy. But, worry not, tens of thousands of people are already heading there by other means—including on foot.
No amount of repression, however brutal and violent, can stop this force. #Sеrbia today.
Jelena Brankovic@jelena3121.bsky.social · 10mo agoMeanwhile, in #Serbia, the regime cancelled all trains to Novi Sad, in an effort to prevent people from reaching the city ahead of tomorrow's gathering to commemorate one year since the tragedy. But, worry not, tens of thousands of people are already heading there by other means—including on foot.
Meanwhile, in #Serbia, the regime cancelled all trains to Novi Sad, in an effort to prevent people from reaching the city ahead of tomorrow's gathering to commemorate one year since the tragedy. But, worry not, tens of thousands of people are already heading there by other means—including on foot.
Serbian Students March to Novi Sad to Mark Deadly Station Collapse Anniversary | APT
YouTube video by APT
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In two hours, our guest speaker @alexcsiszar.bsky.social will present his work on E. Garfield's global travels providing insight into how standards such as ‘peer review’ were exported beyond the USA and Britain. much looking forward to this global history of science talk - come & join (link below)
Jelena Brankovic@jelena3121.bsky.social · 10mo agoI am thrilled to invite you to tomorrow's (Oct. 29) lecture by @alexcsiszar.bsky.social: "Exporting publication standards: Eugene Garfield's global travels" We're starting at 11 AM (CET). You can join us on Zoom or, if you're around, at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin. More in the link below 👇
