Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterKunsthistorisches 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 021
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Still 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? 262
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Newsflash 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. 000
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23/08/2025The 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…”insidehighered.comMore UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause AdmissionsThe 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. 9439248
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterSam @very-simple.com · 07/08/2025This 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. 1285107
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! 010
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterShannon 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.chronicle.comJuly 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. 5214
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterLouise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Next 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...wellcome.orgAlgorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design - Grants Awarded | WellcomeAlgorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design 34010
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Looking 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 120
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) @kit.edu · 28/07/2025Die @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 173
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 28/07/2025The 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 030
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. 000
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Racism 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” (!!!!) 020
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterHerr Superintendentin @uwerumberg.bsky.social · 12/07/20252020 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...ndr.deSterbehilfe: Spahn boykottiert RechtKaum ein Thema wird so intensiv und emotional diskutiert wie die Sterbehilfe. Nur vom zuständigen Minister Jens Spahn hört man so gut wie nichts dazu. 12371135
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/07/2025If 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... 531104400
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterGeorgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Shannon 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 🌿 192
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Denkt bitte dran bei dem Wetter eine Schale pünktliche Züge mit funktionierender Klimaanlage für die Pendler_innen rauszustellen 313421
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this 8096337214278
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Sie 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. ⬇️ #ArbeitInDerWissarbeitinderwissenschaft.substack.comKeine 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... 1319864
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterDr. Lutz Böhm @drlutzboehm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Wie wäre es denn mal mit einer Existenzinitiative für Hochschulen statt einer Exzellenzinitiative? 618138
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Does not everyone see better with less noise? And hear better with their glasses on? 010
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterElis Mendoza @lizzanka.bsky.social · 13/05/2025We wrote something apropos the Mexican pavilion at the Venice Biennale. www.platformspace.net/home/chinamp...platformspace.netPLATFORM: Chinampa Veneta: A Scenography of Extractivism at the Venice BiennaleIn 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... 131
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Ich: Vielleicht wird der Montag ja gar nicht sooo stressig. 😌 Der Montag: LOL 😈 4913
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/05/2025What the hell is happening @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Anna-Maria Meisterneutral @neutral.zone · 23/04/2025AI-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. 14010
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… 020
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterMalinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Harvard 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.eduharvard.eduHarvard UniversityHarvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally. 11269491487
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAndrea Geier / Bademeisterin der Debattenkultur @andreageier.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Harvard weigere sich, seine „liberale Haltung“ aufzugeben. Nein, Tagesschau, sie weigern sich ihre #Wissenschaftsfreiheit aufzugeben. 563612821
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAnnie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Harvard'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)harvard.eduResearch FundingThe 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... 182
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterTofuNYG 🏈🏳️🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025 219119523696
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Take note law firms and universities. 8163861191
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Organizing 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. 040
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025NEW: 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) 2634201170
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Irony 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 130
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterDavid Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025www.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 1/2nytimes.comTrump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for NorthwesternThe funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges. 316058
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The 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? 301618453
Reposted by Anna-Maria Meister🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 09/04/2025If 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. 1154962
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond. 421869512
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterA. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH @susanaramirez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Proud 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 310423
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/04/20252025 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 25825
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025policy 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! 73112
Reposted by Anna-Maria MeisterCommission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 08/04/2025A 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...eida.hypotheses.orgPostdoc call 2025DHAI 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... 075
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Just one example of what happens to data if there is no long term institutional and democratic commitment maintain and archive… 040