Julia Schubert (@juliaschubert.bsky.social)

@juliaschubert.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:46 AM

There will be lots of interesting people to meet and listen to!

More info and a detailed program of the conference: fixingfutures.eu/2026/08/fixi...

@cominsitu.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 12:09 PMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

Demokratie im Klimawandel
Gespräch mit Jacob Blumenfeld | Morten Paul | Daniela Russ

Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2026, 19:30 Uhr
diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie
Crellestraße 22 10827 Berlin

diffrakt.space/de/events/39...

@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 11:05 AMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

📚 Passend zum Semesterstart: @annekkrueger.bsky.social hat gemeinsam mit Jan-Felix Schrape, @cschbrt.bsky.social und @juliaschubert.bsky.social ein neues Lehrbuch zur Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung herausgegeben – erschienen bei @degruyterbrill.bsky.social.

@wisstechdgs.bsky.social

@olebogner.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:21 AMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

Veranstaltungshinweis: Am 5.11. organisiere ich an der Uni Frankfurt a. M. ein Symposium zum Thema: „Lesen und Schreiben in der Krise? Das Handwerk der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften im Zeitalter Künstlicher Intelligenz.“ Eine Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Kommt vorbei.

@vkluzik.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 7:43 AMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

Happy birthday Risikogesellschaft!

@julianhamann.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 5:29 AMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

Happy to share our new article on academic freedom. @paulita.bsky.social, Christiane Thompson and Gregor Fabian examine how academic rank shapes experiences, expectations and perceptions of restrictions on academic freedom, based on a survey of 9.083 academics in Germany.
doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Screenshot showing abstract: This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full-time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research. Although precarious employment conditions and professional hierarchies may suggest otherwise, our findings show that doctoral candidates and postdocs on fixed-term contracts do not report experiencing restrictions on their academic freedom significantly more often compared to tenured professors. However, distinguishing between experienced restrictions, on the one hand, and expectations of restrictions as well as broader perceptions of academic freedom on the other, we find that non-tenured academics report more often to expect or perceive their academic freedom to be restricted compared to professors. We explain these rank-based differences with a chilling effect generated by a polemical and polarized discourse on ‘cancel culture.’ Academics on fixed-term contracts are more likely to be receptive to often polemical debates on ‘cancel culture’ and for the concerns that come with it. This suggests that structural employment insecurity plays a key role in shaping how academics assess their academic freedom. Our results challenge simplified accounts of ‘cancel culture’ by showing that discourse and institutional hierarchies intersect to produce differentiated vulnerabilities within academia. Although based in Germany, the findings speak to broader international concerns about restrictions on academic freedom and precarious academic labour.

@ueberdruss.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 10:18 AMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

Thomas Hughes once described grid operators and planners as 'historians' as they consulted past weather records and load diagrams to plan the future grid. Now, grid planners need to become 'futurists' and engage with 'rising temperatures and changing winds' as specified in climate models.

Szenariorahmen zum Netzentwicklungsplan Strom 2040/2045, Version 2027, p. 117.

@ueberdruss.bsky.social Aug 31, 2026, 4:28 PMReposted by @juliaschubert.bsky.social

you can find me talking about this in the following places: Sep 21, CHESS, Yale University, 4-6pm Sep 23, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 6-8pm Oct 19, IfS Frankfurt, 6-8pm Oct 21, HIS Hamburg (with Dietmar Dath), 6-8pm Nov 5-8, HM London Nov 17, KTH Anthropocene History Institute, 1-3pm

@juliaschubert.bsky.social Aug 7, 2026, 10:06 AM

Das Buch ist da!

Ganz vielen Dank an unsere Autor*innen, die das möglich gemacht haben.

Ich freu mich riesig, dass die schönen Beiträge pünktlich zur Semesterpause aus der Box sind!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...