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Anna-Maria Meister

@tweetissima.bsky.social
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Architect, historian, writer, mother, traveller between worlds. Currently reading, writing, researching and mentoring @khiflorenz.bsky.social and @kit.edu.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📅 15 October, 3.00pm 📍 Florence & online It’s a Match! Jiangtao Harry Gu and Kylie Thomas on Resistant Objects Organized by Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. ➡️ t1p.de/w2123
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Still not sure I understand how this works - often I see multiple posts and reposts of the same thing plastering my feed, while missing entire discussions about other stuff. Hints?
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Newsflash from Germany’s international connectivity. It is much faster to fly to Frankfurt to get to the city near Stuttgart than to fly to Stuttgart. Find the mistake.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”
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More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.
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Sam @very-simple.com · 07/08/2025
This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
@deutschebahn.com always lovely to get on a the ICE610 starting in Munich and it is NOT cleaned whatsoever. Overflowing tradh, dirty toilets - nice!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“‘If this is the price to pay for me to be able to work and my students not to go and sell shoes at Walmart, I think I can live with that,’ Gerard Karsenty, chair of [Columbia’s] genetics department, said.” I wonder how they think about entitlement, honor, dignity, etc., in the genetics department.
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July 28: Is Columbia once again King’s College?
Who gets to negotiate federal regulations? College president lands on gubernatorial ticket. A financial warning for public colleges. And more.
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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Next week, I'm starting a new project called "Algorithmic Kitchen" with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social a project that weaves disability design with health tech. I'm ready to grow new networks with direct engagement with a touring kitchen! wellcome.org/research-fun...
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Algorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design - Grants Awarded | Wellcome
Algorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Looking so much forward to forging new connections with and between my groups with new international postdocs - stay tuned! @khiflorenz.bsky.social @kit.edu @maxplanck.de
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) @kit.edu · 28/07/2025
Die @humboldt-foundation.de hat Professorin Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social, Institut für Entwerfen, Kunst und Theorie des #KITKarlsruhe, zum Scout im Henriette Herz-Scouting-Programm ernannt. 📸 Alona Antoniadis
Die Architekturtheoretikerin Anna-Maria Meister vom KIT
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The fellows will also spend part of their fellowship in my Lise-Meitner-Group #CodedObjects in Florence in cooperation with @kit.edu @khiflorenz.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
@thisamericanlife.org brings an episode of #TheRetrievals on the question of interoperative pain during cesareans and one aspect missing so far is that #generalanaesthesia can also be traumatic for a birth which is another reason why OBs might try to avoid it.
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Racism live as it hapens. Radio commentator of BR24 for the women’s soccer EM quarter final Germany vs France says about the German’s (Hendrich) foul by pulling Mbock’s hair: “the German didn’t do it on purpose” but rather Mbock had “such mighty hair (!!!)” that Hendrich “had to grasp it” (!!!!)
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Herr Superintendentin @uwerumberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
2020 ist Jens Spahn von ihrem Ehemann Hubertus Gersdorf massiv kritisiert worden, weil er das Urteil des Verfassungsgerichts zur Sterbehilfe ignoriert hat. Irgendwie kriege ich Fantasien, dass es jetzt auch um Rache geht. www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...
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Sterbehilfe: Spahn boykottiert Recht
Kaum ein Thema wird so intensiv und emotional diskutiert wie die Sterbehilfe. Nur vom zuständigen Minister Jens Spahn hört man so gut wie nichts dazu.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bar chart titled "Matters of Scale" comparing proposed US research budget cuts to the European Union's €500-million (US$571-million) "Choose Europe" fund. The chart shows:

* National Institutes of Health (NIH): $8 billion in cancelled grants and $18 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (long orange bar).
* National Science Foundation (NSF): $5.1 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (shorter orange bar).
* EU's Choose Europe fund: $571 million (very short blue bar).

The graphic highlights that the EU fund is much smaller in scale compared to the US budget cuts. Text above the chart explains the EU’s intention to attract US researchers in response to policy decisions by the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.
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Georgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Shannon has been such a support & lodestar for me over the past decade; a brilliantly inventive scholar and astonishingly generous human. So much of what she writes so beautifully here is resonant, of being (a woman) in arts/humanities academia, and of carving weirder paths through the green 🌿
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Denkt bitte dran bei dem Wetter eine Schale pünktliche Züge mit funktionierender Klimaanlage für die Pendler_innen rauszustellen
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sie ist überall: die Rede vom #Spitzenforscher. Nur: Was soll das überhaupt sein? Über einen Begriff, der das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig degradiert & einem Geniekult zuarbeitet, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich ist. ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWiss
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Keine Spitze ohne Berg: Zum Begriff des „Spitzenforschers“
Der Begriff des Spitzenforschers degradiert das Gros der Wissenschaftler_innen als zweitklassig und stützt einen Geniekult, der der Arbeitsrealität in der Wissenschaft weder angemessen noch zuträglich...
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Dr. Lutz Böhm @drlutzboehm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Wie wäre es denn mal mit einer Existenzinitiative für Hochschulen statt einer Exzellenzinitiative?
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
How…utterly surprising
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Does not everyone see better with less noise? And hear better with their glasses on?
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Elis Mendoza @lizzanka.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We wrote something apropos the Mexican pavilion at the Venice Biennale. www.platformspace.net/home/chinamp...
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PLATFORM: Chinampa Veneta: A Scenography of Extractivism at the Venice Biennale
In the run-up to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) has announced the Mexican pavilion, "Chinam...
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Ich: Vielleicht wird der Montag ja gar nicht sooo stressig. 😌 Der Montag: LOL 😈
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
What the hell is happening @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Spargelzeit ist Ausbeutungszeit
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/04/2025
AI-assisted search suffers from the classic "we’ll deploy the beta and let usage smooth out the rough edges” problem, run amok. It’s a category problem. It’s never going to be fixed through training alone. Believing otherwise is essentially an article of faith backed by monetary incentives.
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The land of the formally known as free
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
…and the biggest joke is that @columbiauniversity.bsky.social didn’t even get their money back… in a world full of Columbias, for once be @harvard.edu…
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Andrea Geier / Bademeisterin der Debattenkultur @andreageier.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard weigere sich, seine „liberale Haltung“ aufzugeben. Nein, Tagesschau, sie weigern sich ihre #Wissenschaftsfreiheit aufzugeben.
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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard's revamp of their research landing page is excellent--not only does it make their stance crystal clear (that is, not just an email sent to alums and current affiliates), but it makes a broader claim about the significance of American higher education (rather than just Harvard)
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Research Funding
The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government...
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It’s real!
Me holding a copy of “Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture,” edited by Volker M. Welter and myself
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So damn unsurprising
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Take note law firms and universities.
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Organizing is a ton of work that never shows up on a CV. Writing emails, strategizing calls and responses, coordinating people across time zones, mobilizing and motivating and creating community: it is essential work.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)
We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Irony is dead when a questionnaire asks you whether you‘re stressed (yes) and how a „health initiative“ should be implemented to counter that. I do not need an initiative, I need less decentralized admin, more coordination and responsibility taken by central admin, NOT MORE INITIATIVES
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u.... Imagine if all these universities had the backbone to defy Trump all at once, in unison? Why sell your soul to “protect” a gutter carcass? He’s going to suck them all dry anyway. Get all the alumni, students, faculty to protest 1/2
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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 09/04/2025
If only there were a group of prestigious universities that could coordinate. A "league" of sorts. Given the classic ivy draping buildings on college campuses maybe we could use that type of symbol to unite them.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
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A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Proud to be part of the UC At a special meeting today, the Academic Council unanimously endorsed The Defense of the University, a statement reaffirming UC’s public mission amid growing national threats to higher education. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom
Screenshot of text document on UC Academic Senate letterhead: Academic Council Statement: The Defense of the University
April 8, 2025
Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. Deliberate and systemic shifts in the federal government’s approach to higher education—which include defunding crucial research, intervening in academic affairs, and policing expression—will have profound downstream consequences, threatening the integrity of knowledge production and the public role of universities in a democratic society. The mission of the University of California is thus existentially at risk.
Unity will be critical in the weeks, months, and years ahead, as the University of California fights to preserve its capacity to prepare the next generation of the workforce. These graduates will be leading health care providers, educators, authors, entrepreneurs, and innovators. Given the opportunity, they will conduct the research leading to breakthroughs in science and technology, new treatments for disease, new forms of creative expression, and new insights about the world we inhabit. Let us remember that our university played a foundational role in the development of the Internet, satellite communications, nuclear energy, biotechnology, agronomy, and many other domains that have substantially improved our collective well-being. If our research and teaching mission is compromised, what future discoveries will be lost, and at what cost to the public health
and welfare of all Californians?

The Academic Senate is one of the pillars of shared governance of the University of California, along with the Regents and the administration. Policies and practices of shared governance have served the institution well during previous crises, and we will have even greater need of them as we move forward. The urgency and complexity of the problems we confront necessitate collaborative efforts. We need to stand, speak, and work together—informed by our shared, fundamental principles—i…2/2 screenshots of letter from UC Academic Senate.
We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly.

While current events may seem shockingly unprecedented, there are historical parallels. From these we learn that the future is contingent upon how we respond now. We must come together as a community to strengthen our ability to fulfill our institutional mission and uphold our commitment to the state of California. These collective efforts extend to working together with colleagues at other universities to envision and implement plans for preserving higher education’s ability to contribute to the common good.

Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.

The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge. That obligation, more specifically, includes undergraduate education, graduate and professional education, research, and other kinds of public service, which are shaped and bounded by the central pervasive mission of discovering and advancing knowledge.
Fiat Lux.
University of California
Systemwide Academic Senate Council, 2024-2025
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
2025 budgets of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services COMBINED was $691million, or $2.03 / capita a staggering .018% of europe’s smallest, poorest allocation (greece at $111 / capita). AND THIS IS PRE DOGE
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
policy people! apropos the minuscule budget for NEH, whose theft is nonetheless devastating: looking for sources (academic, perhaps journalistic) that array data for internationally comparing state funding for media, arts, and culture grateful for links, citations, names, graphs!
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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A 2-year postdoc within the project EIDA at the Observatoire de Paris. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team exploring historical astronomical diagrams. Project's languages: Chinese, Sanskrit, Byzantine, Arabic/Persian, Hebrew, or Latin: eida.hypotheses.org/postdoc-call...
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Postdoc call 2025
DHAI for the history of astronomical diagrams Postdoc call   In the context of the PRAIRIE cluster the History of astronomy team of the LTE laboratory in Paris Observatory is offering a two year postd...
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Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Just one example of what happens to data if there is no long term institutional and democratic commitment maintain and archive…
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