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Andreas Albertsen

@andreasalbertsen.bsky.social
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Political Science PhD. Consultant at Odense Municipality in Denmark, developing a Center for Health Equity. Published research on: distributive justice, health care priority setting, controversial markets, discrimination, and organ donation ethics.

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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New publication 🎉 An egalitarian argument for giving priority to rare diseases #Bioethics #rarediseases #prioritysetting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Received proofs for article: They removed my co-author and changed 'we' to 'I' throughout. Great job! #academia
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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/...
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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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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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
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Lydia Tsiakiri @lydiatsiakiri.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🎉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...
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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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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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
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Voting Advice Applications: Methodological Innovations, Behavioural Effects, and Research Perspectives
Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Moved closer to creating a personal WordPress site yesterday. Will be nice to have my published articles visible again.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
🥳 Accept decision on a journal article🥳
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Excellent article on political equality by Jens Thaysen link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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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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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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
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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨 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 ‼️
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Got to present my paper on luck egalitarianism and the moral limits of markets at our Political Theory Section today. Great comments as always
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Elisabeth Langmann @elangmann.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
www.biomedcentral.com/collections/... Submission deadline: 19 December 2025 #bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Passed 600 Google Scholar citations! Happy and proud that people read, use, and challenge my work. That’s the best part!
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Very happy to see my article (with Knight) on anti-homeless hostile design published in @bjpols.bsky.social
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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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
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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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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The new journal EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY will soon be accepting submissions!
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Great workshop in Aarhus. Thanks Eli Feiring and Ben Davies for great discussions! Eli talked about non-attendance fees, Ben about basic needs and I presented about rare diseases and priority setting.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Dear fellow academics, Please stop using reply all when you get annoying emails. Best, My inbox
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My review of Jordan Parsons' excellent book on opt out organ donation is now published in the American Journal of Transplantation #organdonation #biethics www.amjtransplant.org/article/S160...
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American Journal of Transplantation
Opt-out systems for organ donation change the approach to consent. Whereas opt-in systems expect would-be donors to register their willingness, opt-out systems assume consent unless individuals explic...
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🧵 New study: How does the Danish Medicines Council (DMC) actually set priorities? We interviewed 17 members and observed 3 meetings to understand how decisions about new medicines are made — and justified.👇 #bioethics #prioritysetting
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
As a reviewer I really appreciate journals that notify me about their decisions. I also learn from reading how others evaluated the paper. #peerreview
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Submitted my report for our research project on the moral limits of markets to Independent Research Fund Denmark. A pleasure to work alongside Jens Thaysen, Simone Degn, and Jørn Sønderholm. An honour to lead such an excellent research group! #morallimitsofmarkets
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Mood: Cranking up the volume on an old Neil Young concert and writing away on a draft.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New paper out! Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is central to health-care priority setting. But when does it unfairly disadvantage people with disabilities? Nielsen, Hallsson, and I tested participants' views in a vignette-based survey (N = 1100, UK). 🧵#bioethics #discrimination
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Attended the annual CEPDISC conference on discrimination on Friday. Lydia Tsiakiri did an excellent job presenting our paper on differential treatment based on vaccination status. Thanks to the organisers. Great to see new and familiar faces!
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It was a lot of fun talking about ethics, organ donation and the Danish opt-out law. The interview is for the show 'Supertanker' on P1. #bioethics
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Doing proofs for a book chapter. understood the hate for doing proofs
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When cities exclude the homeless, it is wrongful discrimination! In @bjpols.bsky.social Knight and I argue that hostile design (anti-sleep benches, spikes on window ledges) should be understood as discriminatory, and wrong for the same reasons as more familiar forms of discrimination. Very proud🥳
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Such a joy to lecture medical students at Aarhus University today on the ethics of organ donation — from opt-out systems to priority for registered donors and even payment for organs. Fantastic questions and an inspiring discussion! #bioethics
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The main reason Researchgate is, as the ad tells me, 'Better on the app' is that on the website I have to close the banner advertising the app #academia
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Really happy to be part of this wonderful book project! 'Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention' is coming to a bookstore near you in the fall! #bioethics #organmarkets www.routledge.com/Markets-in-H...
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Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention
This volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics' most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from ...
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
NEW - Anti-homeless Hostile Design as Wrongful Discrimination - cup.org/45JxUBl - @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social & Carl Knight #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the wrongful aspects of hostile designs in public spaces, such as anti-homeless spikes, and the ethical implications of such designs on marginalized communities.
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New article published in @JME_BMJ I argue that priority rules in #organdonation may discriminate. But even if so, they’re not necessarily wrong. If wrong it’s for contingent reasons like demeaningness problematic motivations. #Bioethics #Discrimination jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Priority for registered organ donors: unfair discrimination against non-donors?
Priority rules give priority to registered organ donors in the allocation of organs. Such rules might directly discriminate against non-donors or indirectly discriminate against those whose religious ...
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Andreas Albertsen @andreasalbertsen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Our article is online: The Moral Justifications of Disability Discrimination in Health Care Allocation: An Experimental Assessment #bioethics #xphi #experimentalphilosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Moral Justifications of Disability Discrimination in Health Care Allocation: An Experimental Assessment - Health Care Analysis
Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a mainstay of contemporary health care priority setting. However, priority setting in reference to cost-effectiveness may discriminate against people with disabili...
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