If you teach or are interested in international human rights law, check out the fully open-access textbook put together by my wonderful colleagues, with a couple of contributions from me!

University of Leeds - School of Law@lawatleeds.bsky.social · last wk.

The newly published ‘Open Access International Human Rights Law,’ is the culmination of a huge, award-winning collaboration between academics, post-graduate researchers, LLM and undergraduate students at the School of Law. The book is accessible to all and free of charge. 👇 tinyurl.com/4rbpuvhz

If opposing remigration makes you a traitor, I’m going to trait on.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

First train: delayed so much that all connections are no longer possible. Alternative connection acquired. First train of the alternative connection: delayed so much that all connections are no longer possible. I have acquired yet another alternative. Wish me luck, please. #traintravel

Miotto & Bhakuni on Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action Lucas Miotto (University of Surrey - Centre for Law and Philosophy) & Himani Bhakuni (University of York) have posted…...

Miotto & Bhakuni on Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action

Lucas Miotto (University of Surrey - Centre for Law and Philosophy) & Himani Bhakuni (University of York) have posted In the Shadows: Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action (Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, volume 2, issue 1, 2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Open access activists and shadow libraries violate laws that restrict access to academic research.

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Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Vandaag 70 jaar geleden, op 14 juni 1956, werd de ‘Wet handelingsonbekwaamheid’ afgeschaft. Getrouwde vrouwen mochten voortaan werken, een bankrekening openen, verzekeringen aangaan en zonder toestemming van de man op reis. Zo kort geleden nog.

⚖️ 🌍 ⚡ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 🇳🇱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, @milieudefensie.bsky.social et al. v. Shell. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCaseShell 🧵 ⬇️ analysis in thread below

Periodic reminder of the starter pack with the most thought provoking people in bsky. (And the periodic reminder to suggest people to add. Especially bsky newcomers.) go.bsky.app/H61xswq

Yet another good text by my former colleague Lisa Herzog: "The text is not the product"

This International Worker's Day, let's once again recall that commercial academic publishing runs on unpaid labour (by multiple people, not just authors). But also: "For the Dutch universities alone, the amount paid to commercial publishers is estimated to be about €50 – 60 million annually." 🤯

Berend van der Kolk@berendvdkolk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do publishers extract money, free labor, and data from universities? Read it in this open-access blog: socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/how-... Based on chapter 9 of this open-access book: doi.org/10.66742/VPY...

Die Zeiten sind ernst und die deutsche Wissenschaft sollte sich ihnen gezielt stellen. Der Aufruf "Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus", schlägt vor, vom 1.-7. Juni explizite Beschäftigung mit Faschismus und Faschisierung in Lehre und Forschung einzubauen. Machen wir mit! wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

Es ist ein krasser Widerspruch, einerseits Deutsche zu mehr Arbeit aufzufordern, und andererseits zu versuchen, hunderttausende Beschäftigte aus dem Arbeitsmarkt loszuwerden. #Syrien #Bundeskanzler #Exodus 1/n

Some first-rate science writing: For this story, @jdrakephd.bsky.social carefully read our recent paper and then we spent a very fun 90 minutes or so talking on zoom. His article that gets right to the heart of our model, explains it clearly, and then explores why it will matter in the future.

The System That Decides What Science Gets Published Is Breaking Down

The peer review system that validates scientific research is trapped in a self-defeating cycle. A new mathematical model shows why—and what comes next.

forbes.com

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous

An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

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Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

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Using teaching evaluations for selection and promotion, despite all the empirical evidence showing how they negatively impact the career prospects of scholars from underrepresented groups in academia, is a political choice.

Was für eine Timeline to be alive 🙁

Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb

wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

Next Tuesday, 27 January (16-18h, on site and online), we will host @ingovenzke.bsky.social (UvA) at our Maastricht Foundations of Law Colloquia. Title: "Fossil Sovereignty: The Struggle for the Law in the Climate Crisis." Register here: www.aanmelder.nl/169090/subsc... @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

"Key to all of this is understanding that US companies are explicitly going to be used to enforce US national security interests. And that includes the US technology companies that are at the heart of our national infrastructure and embedded into our everyday lives."

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times. But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Heute wäre ein guter Tag um mit den Beschwichtigungen aufzuhören & ein Programm für eine souveräne EU aufzulegen. Mit mehr Integration & Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien, gemeinsame Sicherheit & eine eigene digitale Infrastruktur - um uns von den Trumps dieser Welt unabhängig zu machen.

Merz: "Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex. Dazu nehmen wir uns Zeit." Man muss kein Völkerrechtler sein, um zu wissen, dass hier gar nichts komplex ist - außer der Angst von Friedrich Merz klare Worte für diesen illegalen Angriff auf ein souveränes Land zu finden.

“I don’t need a machine, I have a community” is such a lovely way of putting what academia is, can and should be

This thread! 👇🏻 With genAI, I keep coming back to two questions: 1. What are we outsourcing? 2. Who are we outsourcing to? The answers to either don’t make me inclined to use it…

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 8mo ago

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.