Antonia Waltermann 🟥

According to one recent study, in 2020 alone, academics globally spent more than 100 million hours peer reviewing papers for journals. For experts in the US, the time spent reviewing that year amounted to more than $1.5bn of free labour.

According to a recent analysis, between 2015 and 2018, researchers globally paid more than $1bn in open access fees to the big five academic publishers, Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley.

Article on peer reviewing in science specifically, but key points all too relevant for humanities too

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#MedievalSky

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Ofc we could add Australia ...

Thank you 🙏🏻 I've been using Firefox forever, but somehow Thunderbird passed me by. Will check it out!

Since M365 Copilot is now all up in my Outlook and I can't seem to get rid of it... does anyone have recommendations for alternative e-mail programmes that won't push AI on me?

Hitlergroeten, prinsenvlaggen, neonazi’s en ‘eigen volk eerst’-spandoeken bij het racistische protest in Helmond, waar Wilders tegen asielzoekers ophitste.

Heeft iemand Yesilgöz al gehoord over dit openlijke antisemitisme? Of is dat niet het juiste type Jodenhaat voor de VVD?

Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.

Good to see this publication on the role and space of legal history in a law curriculum published—with a contribution by a good friend and colleague from @um-foundations.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social, Mariken Lenaerts

Honestly, magnificent is a good word for getting to spend time with @jrabanos.bsky.social and having her comment on your (half-baked) ideas, lifting them to a higher level.

And no, I wasn't reciting Shakespeare in that picture, no matter what it looks like.

We’re Finding Out More About What Using A.I. for Writing Does to Your Thinking. The Timing Couldn’t Be Worse. Writers, teachers, and anti-fascists can tell you: Originality is the point.

A very smart, interesting piece on large language model prose from the perspective of a distinguished Shakespeare scholar: Robert N. Watson, “The Odd Over the Obvious.” Slate, June 26, 2025. slate.com/life/2025/06....

Philosophy of Mind The best philosophy of mind books, as recommended by distinguished philosopher, Keith Frankish.

"The modern study of mind – cognitive science – is a cross-disciplinary one, and many philosophers contribute to it without worrying too much whether they are doing philosophy or science."
fivebooks.com/best-books/p...

In het asieldebat gisteren verdedigde BBB een amendement waarmee iedereen die (uitgeprocedeerde) asielzoekers helpt, tot 12 maanden celstraf kan krijgen.

We glijden niet af richting jaren '30 Duitsland. We zijn er. De mestbruine laarzen zitten in kamer en regering.

"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "They're treated like a hostile force –no crowd-control measures...just live fire with...heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."

Heute wäre Marian Turski, Überlebender des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt und des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz, 99 Jahre alt geworden. Er fehlt.

Gefeliciteerd!

Powder the mini dachshund puppy wearing a blue bucket hat surrounded by grass and flowers

Powder da ween from the side

Embracing the sun

I know the world is burning but here’s Powder and her new hat 🌼

Session 2 of day 2 features two Sebastians - @sebreyes.bsky.social and Sebastian Lewis, on Augmented Justice and Raz's Revision of the Rule of Law respectively.

Sadly all too relevant👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

First session of day 2: Patricia Garcia Majado questions whether AI constitutes a normative order, @martamaroni.bsky.social presents plans for a critical analysis of EU digital sovereignty plans, and Francesco Bilancia considers digital content moderation as free speech protection

And just for @karpen.fi: that’s a wrap (for today)!

That should have gone here. I’m great at this, clearly 🫣

In the 3rd session of the day, Victoria Kristan develops a framework for restoring the rule of law after illiberal rule of law violations, and @jscholt.bsky.social gives us a mental map of European constitutionalism

All hail the industry that makes money by letting tax payers fund the authors, and by charging tax payers for accessing the work they had already funded in the first place

In the 2nd session, @ruthhoughton.bsky.social reflects on the relationship between constituent power and utopia, @massimofichera.bsky.social connects legitimate authority to communal constitutionalism, & Francesco Rizzi Brignoli discusses constitutional identity and future generations

Maybe now I’ll say it just to be contrary 🤓

The first panel has Cormac Mac Amhlaigh talking on the harm of populism, particularly to pluralism, Donald Bello Hutt asking what the role of citizens is in ensuring the rule of law, and @tomhickeydcu.bsky.social on how the Irish constitution exemplifies constitutions as a legitimacy pact

The Dopamine Trap: Why Typing Feels Productive But Really Isn’t The Cognitive Cost of Chasing Output

📄 New Respect the Marble post:

The Dopamine Trap: Why Typing Feels Good but Thinking Matters More

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/the-dopami...

For thinkers, writers and scholars who want to write to figure it out, not just to get it done.

On why word count ≠ breakthrough.

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Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Periodic reminder: metaphysical grounds should be composted, not washed down the drain.