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majalorbek.bsky.social
Architect and architectural historian. Vienna. History of educational & architectural ideas, Austria, socialist Yugoslavia, postwar internationalism Research project on the UIA Commission des Constructions Scolaires https://transnationalarchitecture.org
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Just to be clear: Taylor & Francis, like Palgrave Macmillan, which is owned by Springer Nature, a company heaquartered in Cham, canton of Zug, Switzerland, is part of a global tax evasion racket. Taylor & Francis is a subsidiary of an entity called "Informa". And, of course, Informa is, as

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If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further. The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic. This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

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Omiš

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Split, Riva

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A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculations.

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Wagner, Stadtpark Wien

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Spenadl, Prater

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Took me a while, but my review is finally out. Looking back, I wouldn’t phrase it as “after 1992, as Yugoslavia dissolved amid both peaceful secessions and violent conflicts” — not that many peaceful ones, really. I highly recommend Horvat's book.

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What Wolfgang Streeck says about B. Anderson deeply resonates with me. jacobin.com/2025/02/stre...

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The exhibition’s probably interesting/beautiful. But every time I see that polished red kiosk, I can’t help thinking how hypocritical Western academia is—especially when it comes to appropriating the Second and Third Worlds qua interpretation.

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Professorship architectural theory, Innsbruck: www.uibk.ac.at/media/filer_...

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Timely LSE blogs article on plagiarism: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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A bombshell investigation shows how  scientific misconduct and fraud may have stalled treatments for Alzheimer's disease. In today's episode,   the troubling state of Alzheimer's research. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3EBNpAb

submitted 129 days ago • 36 comments

My late friend Iris Meder was right—when using secondary sources in architectural history, it's essential to double-check everything.

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks to @patthomson.bsky.social, I finally found out about my affiliation. I am self-funded contract researcher (w. prev. & ongoing affiliations to TUWien, Angewandte and LeibnizIOER) Highly recommended for those struggling with writing and their place in academia: patthomson.net/2025/01/27/a...

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Love this type of authorship/contribution/acknowledgments.

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'Building Modern Scotland: A Social and Architectural History of the New Towns, 1947–1997': a reminder of this important new book which is available open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

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Seestadt, as always, a bit of tristesse...

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Leopoldstadt/Mazzesinsel

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The writing phase. Goodbye, conferences & goodbye trips to archives. 😢😭

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This is the way! Thank you @adrianasoaita.bsky.social ! I hope we meet again beyond ENHR!

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Just stunned at the sheer unbelievable number of modules offered within TUWien's Master programme Architecture. tiss.tuwien.ac.at/curriculum/p... (>scroll down)- To me, this is a sign of higher education becoming dysfunctional ...

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CoalitionS is limiting my freedom as a researcher on fixed-term contracts. My funder’s mandatory policy + my uni’s lack of transformative agreements force me to publish in obscure journals, while tenured staff don’t bother w. available OA funding or even green open access. #UnintendedConsequences

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Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht (second publication right), for those publishing with Swiss, Austrian and German presses and affected by mandatory OA by their funders, a very useful resource in German, www.swissuniversities.ch/en/themen/op...

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It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat).

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📢 Neue Studie zu prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnisse an österreichischen Universitäten ist online! @schnizzl.bsky.social fasst die Ergebnisse in diesem Thread zusammen 👇 Danke an alle die mitgemacht haben! 🧡 #ichBinHanna #FristIstFrust #BildungBrennt Mehr Infos: www.nuwiss.at/nuwiss-studi...

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