Your EDI policy doesn't travel. Your research does Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world

Last week on Wonkhe: Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

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was tun angesichts der massiven Herausforderungen für die demokratischen Grundlagen freier Wissenschaft? Vor allem das Risiko auch für Deutschland ernst nehmen!
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US targets former EU commissioner, activists with visa bans over alleged censorship The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation campaigners it says were involved in censoring U.S. social media platforms, in the...

US issues visa ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton as well as Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German nonprofit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).

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Muky is dangling along…

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There will be entire PhD theses written about the genius of this as a pro-democracy collective action strategy.

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Just sending some good vibes to anyone who might need it on today’s #caturday

Remnants of children’s university at Goethe University Frankfurt. Always good to know where you are after a long working day :)

I would, if I had one…

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Während sich die ganze Rhetorik der Regierung Merz auf die Verteidigung der Demokratie nach AUSSEN konzentriert, wird sie im INNEREN geschliffen. Rechter Kulturkampf ist auch ein Angriff auf die Demokratie
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Just listened to it today. Timeless.

cat is halfway under the coach and next to her is a load of toys that have been pulled out from under the coach

Involuntary inventory on #caturday

NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not buff.ly/D7hmHQP

The Mediterranean sea with a Sailboat and the full moon near sunset.

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In Hessen auch bekannt als “Peter Feldmann-Syndrom”.

sleepy white cat sun shining at its face

Weekend mood #caturday

somewhat less stretched… but happy to shake paws

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration The sudden move followed a reported demand by federal officials that James Ryan step down to resolve a Department of Justice investigation into diversity, equity, and inclusion on the campus.

This is 2025.

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Judge Blocks a Trump Effort to Prevent International Students at Harvard The decision came after a hearing where a lawyer for Harvard accused the Trump administration of McCarthy-like tactics and irregular and improper treatment.

Breaking News: A judge sided with Harvard University and temporarily blocked a Trump administration effort to rescind its right to host international students.