Antonia Waltermann 🟥
@amwaltermann.com
Legal theory & philosophy @ Maastricht University (NL). Interests: non-human agents and the social construction of (legal) reality, law & cognitive science. Also: plants, cats, food, hiking, mostly at @gardenandlibrary.bsky.social
📣 A little over a week left to get your abstracts in: the deadline is 16 October 📣
Antonia Waltermann 🟥@amwaltermann.com · 4w agoInterested in jurisprudence, political communities, the future, and visiting Maastricht? Submit an abstract for @um-foundations.bsky.social's 2027 Annual Conference on Future Normativities: The Foundations of Law and Political Community.
Für die Geschichtsbücher: Der AfD-Kandidat erhielt 48 von 82 Stimmen. Seine Partei verfügt im neuen Landtag über 39 Stimmen. Das bedeutet: Wenn AfD und BSW geschlossen gestimmt haben, gab es vier weitere Stimmen für die AfD. Historisch.
Join us tomorrow, 7 October in Maastricht or online as we host Martijn Hesselink to discuss his paper on revolutionary legal scholarship. @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence@um-foundations.bsky.social · 6d agoTomorrow, 7 October, 16- 18 h in Maastricht and online at @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social: Martijn Hesselink (EUI) on Revolutionary legal scholarship. Link for registration: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/fac...
What a fun experience it is when you get proofs for a chapter and 99% of changes are not marked as changes 😤 #academicsky
Next Wednesday, 7 October, we will host an exciting workshop on authority and normative powers, at the @ccj-udg.bsky.social - University of Girona. We have a fantastic fantastic line-up of speakers who will discuss a set of closely related topics and questions 👇
Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica@ccj-udg.bsky.social · 2w ago⚖️ Workshop Authority and Normative Powers - Live on YouTube: youtube.com/live/wejn0EW... On 7 October the Cátedra will host this international workshop featuring Kenneth Ehrenberg, Eline Gerritsen, Felix Koch and Claudio Michelon.
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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“[…] when I think of new fields in science that have been opened, I don't think of interdisciplinary teams combining existing skills to solve a defined problem—I think of single interdisciplinary people inventing new ways to look at the world.”
Paul Smaldino@psmaldino.bsky.social · 2w agoI just gave a talk on interdisciplinary yesterday that features a call for interdisciplinary people and not just diverse teams of disciplinary types. Today I read this essay with delight. Viva antedisciplinarity. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible
It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible
via Siska De Baerdemaeker: 2 #HPS #philjobs in Philosophy Dept @ Stockholm Uni: 1. #PhilSci w/ a focus on social epistemology, values & science: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 2. #HistSci or #DigitalHumanities: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: November 8, 2026.
Researcher in Philosophy of Science
The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University is the largest in Sweden, with vibrant research groups in a wide range of philosophical disciplines. The department has significant strengths in ph
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BREAKING NEWS: brain is actually two brains in a trenchcoat
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW BRAIN DROPPED
Ein Thema, das mir ebenfalls sehr am Herzen liegt: Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Ich könnte es mir auch hier einfach machen und sagen: Betrifft mich nicht. Neuronale Netze sind momentan sehr gefragt, u.a. wegen der KI. Und auch medizinisch gib es für Neurowissenschaft viele gute Gründe. 🧠🧪 1/9
Interested in jurisprudence, political communities, the future, and visiting Maastricht? Submit an abstract for @um-foundations.bsky.social's 2027 Annual Conference on Future Normativities: The Foundations of Law and Political Community.
Es kann dieses Mal keiner sagen, er hätte ja von nichts gewusst.
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide
A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple
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We kick off the new academic year with legal historian Mariken Lenaerts (Foundations of Law) and her paper 'The Collectivisation of Private and Family Life in Nazi Germany'. September 16, 16-18h. To register and to see all our upcoming events, go to lnkd.in/e3PpzT9t @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
"We don't record audio, which would legally require all-party consent in many places. Instead we're transcribing speech and storing the information as text." Cool. 💀
Yoel Roth@yoyoel.com · last mo.Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354
I wrote this before the AfD’s victory. It is even more relevant now – especially since early reactions indicate that Germany’s democratic politicians are hellbent on doubling down on these mistakes. Warnings from the Struggle Against Trumpism. Some thoughts from the piece, on the day after: 🧵
Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism
Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.
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The program is out! Looking forward to three days of great talks on the history of philosophy of technology! All welcome in Maastricht #philtech #histtech #sts #hopos #hopot2026
Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT)@hptsociety.bsky.social · last mo.The program for the conference of the History of the Philosophy of Technology is out! fasos-research.nl/history-of-p... Register for the conference here until September 18, join us also for our conference dinner on Tuesday the 27th: www.aanmelder.nl/178571
15-year-old bug 😐 in an industry that has the highest profit margins possible pretty much www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell
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Nick Brown@steamtraen.eu · 11mo agoOops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
Lots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵
It is official now: the new UN report finds we'll cross the 1.5 degree warming limit very soon. Now what? Two months ago we described the range of plausible climate trajectories ahead in this article (open access). In short: it's like we're stuck in quicksand, where only an active pull can free us.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene. Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000! Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Wir können alle nur hoffen, dass die Politik Lehren daraus zieht. Es wird immer schlimmer werden, bis die Welt klimaneutral geworden ist. Wir können das schaffen. Es braucht Taten - Reden nützen nichts, Herr #Merz. Fakten leugnen auch nicht, #AfD. www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...
Wetter und Klima: Sommer 2026: „Historische Hitze, verbreitete Trockenheit“
Rekordtemperaturen und anhaltende Dürre haben den Sommer in Deutschland bestimmt. Dabei spielt auch der Klimawandel eine entscheidende Rolle.
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