Antonia Waltermann 🟥

The effort isn’t some unfortunate tax we pay before producing knowledge. A lot of the knowledge is acquired through the effort itself. If we automate away every difficult part of intellectual work, we may eventually discover that we’ve also automated away the process that makes us experts. 7/fin

Lynda Barry's basically perfect definition of How To Art thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/1447676...

“AI use proliferates in higher education because decades of neoliberal reforms have baked into universities a certain way of thinking, entirely compatible with algorithmic models.” The commercialisation of universities continues to erode thinking and learning. We should resist corporate automation.

Een soort hartenkreet van Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social: 'Kunstmatige intelligentie als de ultieme Verelendung van het onderwijs'. Leestip. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/10/kuns...

Nice post by @sophie.huiberts.me - I very much endorse the idea of "evaluate on best three papers" as a way to find a new equilibrium sophie.huiberts.me/blog/2026/me...

🚨🚨 Schocking betrayal but there it is. Sources confirm that the order to limit #starshield for #ukraine's battle operations came from inside the #whitehouse and by logical extension from #trump himself. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

📣 A little over a week left to get your abstracts in: the deadline is 16 October 📣

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

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 👇

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...

“[…] 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.”

Every day we get closer to this:

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 old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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.

BREAKING NEWS: brain is actually two brains in a trenchcoat

Calvin and Hobbes ➛ more ★ via

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...

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. 💀

Dit is ook een burgerschapsvraagstuk

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: 🧵

It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those

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

15-year-old bug 😐 in an industry that has the highest profit margins possible pretty much www.theguardian.com/science/2017...

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.

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...

Philosophy FAQ 1. How do I know others don’t see green when I see red? 2. If humans are merely physical objects then are all our actions predictable by scientists laws? 3. What are numbers? 4. What is the basis of morality? 5. If God is all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing, why is there evil?

Mit der @taz.de habe ich über die Auswirkungen eines möglichen AfD-Siegs in Sachsen-Anhalt, die Ursachen für deren Erfolg in strukturschwachen Regionen sowie Möglichkeiten, diesen Teufelskreis zu durchbrechen, gesprochen. taz.de/Oekonom-Frat...

Reminder dat de strijd van politici tegen buitenlandse studenten nooit om de economie ging maar pure vreemdelingenhaat is. Met -ook hier- een kwalijke hoofdrol voor Pieter Omtzigt nos.nl/artikel/2629...

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Wallonia's remarkable lack of a far-right party is attracting international attention, so I was invited to summarise my thesis in @fesonline.bsky.social's IPS journal! 👉 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...

"What would happen if the APA were to set guidelines for the maximum number of pages on which a tenure decision should be based? Suppose, for example, it were 100 pages—or even 175—of what the candidate takes to be his or her best work..." New technology gives us a reason to revisit this idea.

Biskup on Legal Artefacts Bartosz Biskup (European University Institute — Department of Law; Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy; Jagiellonian University in Cracow) has posted…...

NWO koos zelf voor Microsoft Azure als nieuw integratieplatform en draagt zelf de risico's. SURF meldt dat het collectieve contracten regelt met meerdere cloudleveranciers, ook Europese, maar niets voorschrijft. NWO wil niet zeggen of het vooraf Europese of opensource-alternatieven onderzocht.

This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...

The company that literally began as an online bookstore is now in the business of destroying old and rare books.

BPSP Open has released its fourth book: The Multiverse: A Philosophical Introduction by Jeremy Butterfield! Download your copy: ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/the... BSPS Open is our open access monograph series: www.thebsps.org/bsps-open/ #ucalgarypress #bspsopen #philosophyofscience #openaccess

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/