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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So I sat down for an espresso at Cafe Trieste in Bratislava, and there it is right in front of me, the vacant hotel Kyjev

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What is going on with the EAHN site? eahn.org/lander

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Modernist Housing in Komiža hinterland

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Firemen saving a cat from a "Gesimse", Wachauerhof, Vienna. I came too late to actually see the cat or the rescue operation. Lots and lots of people watching and filming.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Everything you read about DB is true. I am returning from Regensburg and I hereby pledge not to return anytime soon.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I book a seat in the quiet zone. A man with headphones on starts talking loudly, as soon as the train starts rolling. I say to him: what part of the quiet zone concept was lost on you? He stops. Getting older, less willing to tolerate inconsiderate fellow passengers.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It is remarkable, that all of former YU (except Croatia) + Bulgaria + Albania use the same library information system: Cobiss. Which is, btw, more intuitive for users then the Ex Libris platform (by Clarivate) used in Austria and Switzerland. www.cobiss.net

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COBISS.net

COBISS.net – Library information systems and research information systems network

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Funders require open access for everything, including images, and often accept only CC BY. Archives, rights holders, and stricter EU copyright rules are limiting what can be reproduced. Researchers bear the brunt. This affects research that depends on historical images the most.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What is this supposed to be? A parade of widely touted big academic names and stararchitects that has absolutely nothing to do with the UIA’s humanist, and non-elitist traditions. At least the ticket price is reasonable. uia2026bcn.org/congress-ses...

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Congress Sessions schedue - World Congress of Architects. Barcelona

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So proud of myself. Converted djvu files into jpegs then into PDF. A book by Ignaz Felbiger from 1783. Used IrfanView batch converter (be sure to enable djvu add-on) and then Acrobat. (I am working on schools 1945-1979, but sometimes I just have to go down the rabbit holes of the 18th century)

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Everybody applauding Dario Amodei and Anthropic on not crossing the red lines. But then why is using Claude for mass surveillance of non-US citizens acceptable? This utilization seems OK for Anthropic.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

with regard to anthropic / US gov / OpenAI, maybe time to revisit Aramis www.bruno-latour.fr/node/106

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Aramis or the Love of Technology | bruno-latour.fr

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

And there is more. One of the authors published an earlier article, where most of the material was already discussed, this is why the second article is such an oddly puzzled-together piece. (also highlighting *Croatian" architects). hpa.unibo.it/article/view...

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Tracing the Non-Aligned Architecture: Environments of Technical Cooperation and the Work of Croatian Architects in Kumasi, Ghana (1961-1970) | Histories of Postwar Architecture

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... FFS: it was socialist Yugoslavia! Did these authors research the family trees of all the YU architects working in Africa? Otherwise solid scholarship

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A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia: Planning Perspectives: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Mischa Glenny "This is about regulation, about content,uh about what society thinks it's acceptable for people to engage in in terms of uh speech and so on and so on and so forth." That's called censorship, Mr. Glenny. youtu.be/fVFwiqZBz-4?...

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VĚRA JOUROVÁ: Democracies Under Stress

YouTube video by IWMVienna

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Mellon debate - it is important to see the flaws and unintended consequences of competitive grants (incl. EU-funded). Recommend Gerald Schweiger's research on this dilemma: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

ÖAW: classifying researchers into fixed-term and non fixed-term. This is just sad, Austrian Academy of Sciences! www.oeaw.ac.at/isa/team

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Over the years, I have bought many antiquarian books and magazines from platforms such as Willhaben, Leboncoin, ToddoCollectiones, Bolha, Njuškalo, and others. All the private sellers were very kind and delivered exactly what I paid for. Highly recommended. (see AA from 1933, my latest acquisition)

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...

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Obiski Rosalind Franklin v Sloveniji | Acta Chimica Slovenica

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I refuse to write Open Access with Capitals. Nothing to celebrate during this week for actual researchers. Different story for bureaucrats and publishers, particularly the big five.

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Ich weiss nicht, wieso ich euch so hasse, Fahrradfahrer dieser Stadt (Tocotronic), aber Leuven und nicht Freiburg

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Day 6. Tried Venturo spritz, a "novita", but not for me, a bit too sweet...

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Storm, not out of nowhere, day three

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

> 0:52: "I was too lazy to be an architect. It's so intense, you need to know so much..." 👍 youtu.be/cBIYH5QSUbM?...

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Inside Gustaf Westman’s Playful Small Stockholm Apartment, 30sqm/323sqft

YouTube video by NEVER TOO SMALL

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Austrian academic culture in a nutshell >Over half of all respondents reported observing violations of academic integrity, especially problems related to authorship.< Source link below

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Maja Lorbek @majalorbek.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

There will be a referendum on NATO membership in Slovenia, but the majority of mainstream news outlets are not covering this topic. www.politico.eu/article/slov...

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Slovenia’s risky referendum on NATO

Prime Minister Robert Golob’s bombshell referendum plan rocks coalition allies and experts in Ljubljana.

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