👏🏽 Brilliant summary & analysis of the recent discourse around #IchbinHanna (mostly on that platform formerly known as Twitter), a hashtag used to highlight the systemic and highly-precarious employment situation in German academia,

penned by Ahmadou Wagne, Florentine Frantz, @ElenLeFoll and @janalasser

"We conclude that the #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan movement has succeeded in foregrounding systemic problems that have long existed in German academia. While debates are still ongoing, we are hopeful that the issues and potential solutions highlighted by the movement will precipitate into changes to academic working conditions in Germany."

Highly recommended for anyone considering a position at a German HEI ...

Wagne, A., Le Foll, E., Frantz, F., & Lasser, J. (2025). Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan. Information, Communication & Society, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273

Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵

#PhD #ECR #Wissenschaft

You can install Windows 11 without the third-party bloatware in two clicks

Installing Windows 11 without third-party bloatware like Candy Crush in just two clicks is possible, and all it takes is setting your region to English (World). No, we’re not kidding, and Microsoft said it’s aware and looking into the reports after we asked the company about the situation

https://www.osnews.com/story/136644/you-can-install-windows-11-without-the-third-party-bloatware-in-two-clicks/

#Windows

German news website @heiseonline has been very active on the #fediverse, now the second largest news account. Editor @mho has extensively documented the process.

Findings compared to their (6x sized) Twitter account:

Way higher engagement than Twitter
Website traffic slightly below Twitter

Valuable information for any news organisation that is debating whether to leave Twitter, and which platform to join instead!

@fediversenews @spreadmastodon

Read it all at: https://fediversereport.com/news-outlets-twitter-and-the-fediverse/

Please boost this if you want to see a 1-line (or truncated) bio/description in your follow notifications.

Why? Merely seeing names and avatars is just not very useful in deciding who to follow (or explore further).

This was something Twitter always got right (shown on the right):

#featurerequest

Upcoming presentation!

On Fri 21 Apr Noemie Aubert Bonn, Serge Horbach and I will present our recent preprint on "Interpretative flexibility and hidden criteria in research(er) assessment" at the @cwts seminar series.

Register to attend online here! https://www.cwts.nl/seminars/announcements?article=n-s2y244&title=interpretative-flexibility-and-hidden-criteria-in-researcher-assessment

Preprint here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/e5uyv