Anna L. Ahlers
@annalahlers.bsky.social
Head of LMEP research group “China in the Global System of Science”, MPIWG & professor II, University of Oslo | sociology of science + authoritarianism & democracy + China’s (local) governance | https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/LMRG-china-science
China Launches Ambitious Collaboration to Map Primate Brains—Including Ours -- „Tensions with China have deterred U.S. institutions from signing on, although U.S. scientists are among the more than 100 individual participants from 25 countries.“ english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas...
english.cas.cn
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
China Launches Ambitious Collaboration to Map Primate Brains—Including Ours -- „Tensions with China have deterred U.S. institutions from signing on, although U.S. scientists are among the more than 100 individual participants from 25 countries.“ english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas...
„Evans says the findings upend the assumption that the United States can shut China out of global scientific opportunities by not collaborating with its researchers.“
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Chinese scientists increasingly lead joint projects with the UK, US and Europe
Although China needs to strengthen its leadership in artificial intelligence, semiconductors and energy, say researchers.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
„Evans says the findings upend the assumption that the United States can shut China out of global scientific opportunities by not collaborating with its researchers.“
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Now reversed, but only after eight months of disruption, cancellation of some work, and threats of legal action. Appalling.
My former colleague @arthurkaufman.bsky.social interviewed @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her work in 2022:
My former colleague @arthurkaufman.bsky.social interviewed @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her work in 2022:
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Now reversed, but only after eight months of disruption, cancellation of some work, and threats of legal action. Appalling.
My former colleague @arthurkaufman.bsky.social interviewed @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her work in 2022:
My former colleague @arthurkaufman.bsky.social interviewed @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her work in 2022:
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Research Group Leader Anna L. Ahlers has been named by @tagesspiegel.de among Berlin’s top 100 researchers 2025! 👏
@annalahlers.bsky.social heads the MPIWG's Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science.”
🔗 bit.ly/4nRTGt2 (GER, paywall)
#SocSci #Sinology
@annalahlers.bsky.social heads the MPIWG's Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science.”
🔗 bit.ly/4nRTGt2 (GER, paywall)
#SocSci #Sinology
Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft: Sie erforschen, was den Markt regelt
Auch das Rechtssystem, die Verwaltung und die Mechanismen der Märkte wollen erforscht sein. Denn ohne Wissen, wie der Warenstrom fließt und der Markt funktioniert, stehen wir bald vor dem nächsten…
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October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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ihe.bc.edu/issue-124 🔎Geopolitics of Knowledge Security 💥
Issue 124
ihe.bc.edu
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
ihe.bc.edu/issue-124 🔎Geopolitics of Knowledge Security 💥
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Bit of a coup for Switzerland, and worrying signs for the US, as married Nobel prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, currently full-time professors at MIT, join the University of Zurich www.timeshighereducation.com/news/married... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
Married Nobel prize-winning economists move from US to Europe
Other recent departures from Trump’s America include expert on antifascism who fled to Spain after receiving death threats
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Bit of a coup for Switzerland, and worrying signs for the US, as married Nobel prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, currently full-time professors at MIT, join the University of Zurich www.timeshighereducation.com/news/married... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
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Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs
Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.
n.pr
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.
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The book also includes a chapter by MPIWG predoctoral researcher Yishu Mao: "Artificial Intelligence Governance Made in #China: Negotiating Imaginaries and Power" 🤖
🔗 brill.com/display/book...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SciencePolicy
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SciencePolicy
brill.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The book also includes a chapter by MPIWG predoctoral researcher Yishu Mao: "Artificial Intelligence Governance Made in #China: Negotiating Imaginaries and Power" 🤖
🔗 brill.com/display/book...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SciencePolicy
🔗 brill.com/display/book...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SciencePolicy
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#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Researcher Franziska Marliese Fröhlich presents her article "Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China," published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social 🛒🌱
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1ktRmHTFQ&t=1s
#HistSci #EnvHist #Sinology
Researcher Franziska Marliese Fröhlich presents her article "Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China," published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social 🛒🌱
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1ktRmHTFQ&t=1s
#HistSci #EnvHist #Sinology
MPIWG Research Reels: Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Researcher Franziska Marliese Fröhlich presents her article "Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China," published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social 🛒🌱
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1ktRmHTFQ&t=1s
#HistSci #EnvHist #Sinology
Researcher Franziska Marliese Fröhlich presents her article "Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China," published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social 🛒🌱
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1ktRmHTFQ&t=1s
#HistSci #EnvHist #Sinology
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Mit seinen Globalen Initiativen verfolgt Peking eine Umgestaltung der internationalen Ordnung. Deutschland und die EU müssen ihren Blick auf China weiten, um darauf reagieren zu können, so @godehardt.bsky.social @swp-asia.bsky.social & @maximilianiras.bsky.social.
www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
Chinas Anspruch auf eine neue Weltordnung
Das diesjährige Gipfeltreffen der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit (SOZ) in Tianjin war das bisher größte in ihrer Geschichte. Mehr...
www.swp-berlin.org
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mit seinen Globalen Initiativen verfolgt Peking eine Umgestaltung der internationalen Ordnung. Deutschland und die EU müssen ihren Blick auf China weiten, um darauf reagieren zu können, so @godehardt.bsky.social @swp-asia.bsky.social & @maximilianiras.bsky.social.
www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
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Entra China, sale Alemania... la nueva realidad
China joins the top ten
The world’s most innovative countries
China joins the top ten
econ.st
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Entra China, sale Alemania... la nueva realidad
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“They don’t want to give the image that the US and China are collaborating,” Wang Yifang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tells “Babbage” about a new rivalry in particle physics
JUNO: the hunt for the universe’s most elusive particles
Our podcast on science and technology. We visit the underground laboratory looking to shape the future of fundamental physics
econ.st
September 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“They don’t want to give the image that the US and China are collaborating,” Wang Yifang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tells “Babbage” about a new rivalry in particle physics
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Astonishing how fast Chinese science has "risen" (to use the current word) in just the last 15 years, let alone the last 46 since the start of "Reform and Opening." I only wish the discourse framed this more as a China success story and less as a US failure story.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator
A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Astonishing how fast Chinese science has "risen" (to use the current word) in just the last 15 years, let alone the last 46 since the start of "Reform and Opening." I only wish the discourse framed this more as a China success story and less as a US failure story.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Veit Braun publishes a well-informed and really entertaining history of the Bielefeld school of STS/Sociology of science: To add one point: All the major protagonists of this story are still there and active - with the exception of the premature death of Niklas Luhmann in 1998 /1
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
An expanded repost from Twitter/X
wondrousmachine.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Veit Braun publishes a well-informed and really entertaining history of the Bielefeld school of STS/Sociology of science: To add one point: All the major protagonists of this story are still there and active - with the exception of the premature death of Niklas Luhmann in 1998 /1
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Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst starteten kürzlich ihre neue Publikationsreihe, "ChinaAHa – #China-Analysen und Handlungskompetenz,” als zentrales Element des WiWiKo-China P...
weiterlesen
weiterlesen
July 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst starteten kürzlich ihre neue Publikationsreihe, "ChinaAHa – #China-Analysen und Handlungskompetenz,” als zentrales Element des WiWiKo-China P...
weiterlesen
weiterlesen
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Korrektur Interview 'Die Welt': Das Interview zur amerikanischen Universität, das die 'Welt' publiziert hat, verwendet irrtümlich nicht die von mir korrigierte Fassung, sondern eine noch nicht durchgesehene Version. Anbei der richtige Text.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Interview mit "Die Welt" zur gegenwärtigen Situation der amerikanischen Universitäten und dem Einfluss auf die Weltwissenschaft (Anfang Juni 2025, korrigierte Fassung)
PDF | On Jun 13, 2025, Rudolf Stichweh published Interview mit "Die Welt" zur gegenwärtigen Situation der amerikanischen Universitäten und dem Einfluss auf die Weltwissenschaft (Anfang Juni 2025, korr...
www.researchgate.net
June 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Korrektur Interview 'Die Welt': Das Interview zur amerikanischen Universität, das die 'Welt' publiziert hat, verwendet irrtümlich nicht die von mir korrigierte Fassung, sondern eine noch nicht durchgesehene Version. Anbei der richtige Text.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Die vollständige Online-Version des Interviews mit der "Welt" zur Situation amerikanischer Universitäten
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) "Gelingt es den Unis nicht, sich zu wehren, müssen sie mit massivem Bedeutungsverlust rechnen." - Interview "Welt" zur Situation der amerikanischen Universitäten (Online-Version)
PDF | On Jun 12, 2025, Rudolf Stichweh published "Gelingt es den Unis nicht, sich zu wehren, müssen sie mit massivem Bedeutungsverlust rechnen." - Interview "Welt" zur Situation der amerikanischen Uni...
www.researchgate.net
June 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Die vollständige Online-Version des Interviews mit der "Welt" zur Situation amerikanischer Universitäten
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
📖«Trump 2.0 and International Politics/Trump 2.0 og internasjonal politikk» special report published today by the new Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics. With @nupinytt.bsky.social as editor, researchers associated with several different leading institutions in Norway …
June 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📖«Trump 2.0 and International Politics/Trump 2.0 og internasjonal politikk» special report published today by the new Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics. With @nupinytt.bsky.social as editor, researchers associated with several different leading institutions in Norway …
Herzlichen Dank @jungeakademie.bsky.social und @volkswagenstiftung.de für die tolle und wichtige Initiative und Glückwunsch allen nominierten Teams und Mit-Gewinnern! 🎊Voller Freude darüber, dass wir ausgewählt wurden, sowie Stolz darauf, dass wir als Team so ein Forschungsumfeld geschaffen … 1/2
🏆 Die 10 Gewinnerteams des Preises „Bestes #Forschungsumfeld 2024“ stehen fest! Aus fast 300 Bewerbungen wurden sie aus einer beeindruckenden Shortlist per Los gezogen. Wir gratulieren gemeinsam mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de! 🎉
Wer gewonnen hat? 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/be...
Wer gewonnen hat? 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/be...
June 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Herzlichen Dank @jungeakademie.bsky.social und @volkswagenstiftung.de für die tolle und wichtige Initiative und Glückwunsch allen nominierten Teams und Mit-Gewinnern! 🎊Voller Freude darüber, dass wir ausgewählt wurden, sowie Stolz darauf, dass wir als Team so ein Forschungsumfeld geschaffen … 1/2
„On its own, #China had become more attractive to scientists in recent years because of the huge investments the country has made in research.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...
China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
„On its own, #China had become more attractive to scientists in recent years because of the huge investments the country has made in research.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...
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Our roundtable commentary on "The Crisis in American Science" has been posted online! At the moment you can access it only through your institution, but we are hoping that it will be available via open access in a few days. (1/5)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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May 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Our roundtable commentary on "The Crisis in American Science" has been posted online! At the moment you can access it only through your institution, but we are hoping that it will be available via open access in a few days. (1/5)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope | Science | "With its larger aperture, LOT’s discovery potential... would be about four times that of Keck’s telescopes, the largest in the United States." www.science.org/content/arti... #bigscience
China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope
Astronomers are puzzled by the silence over an instrument that could briefly reign as world’s biggest
www.science.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope | Science | "With its larger aperture, LOT’s discovery potential... would be about four times that of Keck’s telescopes, the largest in the United States." www.science.org/content/arti... #bigscience
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🇨🇳 🌍 Die Lise-Meitner-Forschungsgruppe „China im globalen #Wissenschaftssystem“ am Max-Planck-Institut für #Wissenschaftsgeschichte (@mpiwg.bsky.social) ist mit 23 weiteren Teams im Lostopf für das „Beste Forschungsumfeld“. Mehr zum Preis und den Teams hier:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...
May 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🇨🇳 🌍 Die Lise-Meitner-Forschungsgruppe „China im globalen #Wissenschaftssystem“ am Max-Planck-Institut für #Wissenschaftsgeschichte (@mpiwg.bsky.social) ist mit 23 weiteren Teams im Lostopf für das „Beste Forschungsumfeld“. Mehr zum Preis und den Teams hier:
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...
👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...
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Seems no mention of China in the actual letter sent to Harvard:
May 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Seems no mention of China in the actual letter sent to Harvard: