Before the summer holiday I had the pleasure of spending a few evenings working on a contribution to the debate over the moral limits of markets. A nice opportunity to revisit this part of my book shelf 😅😊 #morallimitsofmarkets #bioetics

Received proofs for article: They removed my co-author and changed 'we' to 'I' throughout. Great job! #academia

My university email is no longer accessible now that six months have passed since my contract ended. A somewhat strange feeling, but last time I checked, emails were very much slowing down. And people have started using my regular email instead.

New article! Andersen, Bech, Wadmann, and I argue that there are egalitarian reasons to prioritize rare diseases. People with rare conditions are, in the relevant sense, unlucky that their diseases are expensive to treat/research. #bioethics #rarediseases onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Size Does Matter! Prioritizing Rare Diseases for Luck Egalitarian Reasons

Rarity provides a challenging case for contemporary priority setting. On the one hand, many philosophers and economists argue that rarity has no inherent moral value, and thus that rare diseases meri....

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1/ A brief professional update. A few weeks ago, I started a new position with Odense Municipality, where I am helping develop a new Centre for Health Equity in collaboration with the Region of Southern Denmark

🎉Excited 🎉 to share the publication of another paper written during my PhD, co-authored with @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social In this paper, we explore whether pandemic policies disadvantaging the unvaccinated count as wrongful discrimination. Read more here: jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

No jab, no access? Is differential treatment based on vaccination (wrongfully) discriminatory?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries introduced policies that disadvantaged unvaccinated individuals, including fines, restrictions on access to public spaces, and lower healthcare priority. T...

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Excited to share the special issue co-edited with Garzia, Tromborg and Marschall: "Voting Advice Applications: Methodological Innovations, Behavioural Effects, and Research Perspectives". Published in Politics and Governance (@CogitatioPaG)! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg... #OpenAccess

Voting Advice Applications: Methodological Innovations, Behavioural Effects, and Research Perspectives

Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

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Moved closer to creating a personal WordPress site yesterday. Will be nice to have my published articles visible again.

My article on Danish organ donation legislation has just been published in Transplantation. It describes the new Danish system and briefly compares it with the active opt-out models used in England and the Netherlands. #Organdonation #Transplantation #Bioethics

🥳 Accept decision on a journal article🥳

Happy that my reply on organ markets and the limits of the best option argument has been accepted in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The piece clarifies why appeals to “best options” do less justificatory work under unjust background conditions than is often assumed. #organmarkets #bioethics

New book chapter out in this edited volume on organ markets. My chapter discusses theories of justice and controversial markets, focusing on how economic inequality shapes which markets are problematic. Thanks to the editors James Stacey Taylor and Marc Cherry. #bioethics #morallimitsofmarkets

That's it for my university webpage. Luckily, people can still see my work at ResearchGate, Google Scholar, etc. And good people have already suggested ways of creating my own website.

Now that I don't have an institutional affiliation, I am going to set up a website to share the work I've published over the years. Any suggestions for tools to build a simple website? #academicchatter

As the year ends, so does my contract at Aarhus University. Sad to leave after 14 years as a PhD student, postdoc, and temporary associate professor at the Department of Political Science.

Just submitted a piece on the moral limits of markets that me and two co-authors have been working on all year. Pouring a huge whisky to celebrate.

Excellent article on political equality by Jens Thaysen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unequal Turnout and Political Equality - Res Publica

Electoral turnout is socially unequal. The better off an elector is—in terms of wealth, income, and education—the more likely that elector is to exercise her right to vote. Empirical evidence indicate...

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What are the moral limits of markets? Many people balk at the idea of markets for votes, kidneys, surrogacy, or sexual services. But why are some markets morally troubling while others are widely accepted? 🧵 #morallimitsofmarkets

I've been editing a special issue on voting advice applications (with Tromborg, Garzia, and Marshall), and the first article has now been published. This has been a really smooth experience, and the articles are great! #VAA #votingadviceapplications www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Low Education, Low Impact? The Effects of Voting Advice Applications on an Underexposed Segment of Users | Article | Politics and Governance

L. Constantin Wurthmann, Daniel C. Hagemann, Stefan Marschall

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Today I was reviewer 10! The next time an editor can't find reviewers, they should ask Journal of Institutional Economics if they have a spare! #academicchatter #peerreview #academia

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

Got to present my paper on luck egalitarianism and the moral limits of markets at our Political Theory Section today. Great comments as always

www.biomedcentral.com/collections/... Submission deadline: 19 December 2025 #bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism

Very happy to wake up to the news that Transplantation has accepted my article on Denmark’s introduction of opt-out legislation for organ donation 🥳 #organdonation #bioethics

Great to see another reply to my article on justice and organ markets! Very happy to see this kind of engagement with my work. philarchive.org/rec/HENOMA-5

Lukewarm take: Journals shouldn't have reference limits. But reviewer and editors should push back against people who cite too much or too little! #academicchatter

Passed 600 Google Scholar citations! Happy and proud that people read, use, and challenge my work. That’s the best part!

A fellow philosopher wrote me that I’m the philosopher he disagrees with the most, and that he hasn’t read a single paper of mine he agrees with. I suppose I won’t get a plaque for my office for this achievement, but it does show remarkable consistency.

Very happy to see my article (with Knight) on anti-homeless hostile design published in @bjpols.bsky.social

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 9mo ago

From September 2025 - Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination - cup.org/45JxUBl - @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social & Carl Knight #OpenAccess

This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever! #ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

AI peer reviewers are fine with AI-fabricated papers

Study finds artificial intelligence reviewers accept AI-generated scientific studies 4 out of 5 times

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