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Julieta Rabanos @jrabanos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The line-up in short: ▪️Kenneth Ehrenberg (Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy) ▪️Eline Gerritsen ( @elineg.bsky.social - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) ▪️Felix Koch (University of Zurich) ▪️Claudio Michelon (@legaltheoryed.bsky.social)

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Julieta Rabanos @jrabanos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 👇

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I signed the contract today, so it must be true: starting October I'll be a Postdoc in PPE at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Super pleased I'll get to develop my work on social norms in the brand new PPE research group!

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some films feel like they should have gotten a couple more redrafts before being made, and it's a shame Gentle Monster is one of those. Description made me think it could be very interesting - after seeing it I still think it *could* have been interesting.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/09/2026

A cartoon by Joseph Dottino and Alex Pearson. See more toons from this week's issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On the other side: I got my first job offer while waiting for my pasta in a gorgeous old Italian town

A picture of old buildings with towers in Urbino, the bricks looking orange in sunset.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The algorithm gave me a clip where after every line spoken, there was a *ding* sound and the name of the character's current emotion put on the screen. I feel so *ding* _sad_ at the stupidification pushed onto humanity by the way content works now.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm a Meta-Effective Altruist™️ I believe that Effective Altruism needs to be redistributed from where it is least effective (Silicon Valley sex cultists) to where it would be most effective (British pensioners who leave their life savings to the Donkey Sanctuary).

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two things I learned in the past two weeks: 1) You can get a 2nd degree burn just from grabbing a plate of leftovers out of the microwave 2) Fingerprints are kind of useful to have and you will miss it if you lose one

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm rereading the Odyssey in preparation for watching the film. I knew there was a lot of feasting, but forgot how much of it involves sobbing and sleeping arrangements. Somehow I'm not expecting to see those elements represented in the cinema

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Somehow the election result feels even more serious after hearing they CANCELLED TATORT this evening over it

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After a period of mainly spending my time writing job applications + project proposals, it's almost hard to believe that I get to switch to DOING my research again instead of just writing about it.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I gave a public lecture in German for the first time last week, and the most German thing about it - aside from being introduced as Frau Dr. Gerritsen - was that the water they gave me to drink while speaking was sparkling.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Quite frustrating that Mubi Go is giving me a ticket to see The Odyssey *next* week, when his is my last week before travel. The good news is that I'm pretty confident I could see the film unsynchronised in a Slowakian cinema

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I saw Tuner and was enjoying the warm interactions in the piano tuner family so much that I didn't want the crime part to start - but in the end the criminals *also* cared about our guy in a weirdly touching way. Might watch again just for the pleasant vibe.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In German class we had to practice academic phrases by formulating a definition for a few things, like 'poodle' and 'artificial intelligence'. The teacher didn't grasp why this exercise seemed impossibly difficult to me for reasons that had nothing to do with my German skills.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

On my way to the Swedish Congress of Philosophy to give a talk on righteous incivility. Very pleased that there is now a direct train to Stockholm and so the Swedish announcements started right as we left Hamburg Central Station!

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Richard Joyce's Myth of Morality played a big part in shaping my initial PhD topic, so it was a nice full-circle moment to get invited to write a review of the sequel. My review of Morality: From Error to Fiction is forthcoming in Philosophical Review, preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/GERROR-3

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Merriam-Webster website informs me that the currently most searched word is 'duck'. I have questions.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hamburg is having a referendum on whether we want to try to bring the Olympics here. I really don't have an opinion on this question, but still I get so frustrated that I don't get a vote just because I'm not a German national. How can that actually be argued to be relevant?

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A while ago I heard the waiters at the Italian restaurant around the corner exclaim 'Pizza pasta ristorante!' in a stereotypical accent and decided they're faking being Italian, but today they spoke fluently (non-food words!) with an Italian customer, so now I don't know what to think anymore.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I sometimes get random pre-feature shorts in the cinema and last night's one was GREAT but I can't even tell people to go see it because it's not playing or streaming anywhere. On the other hand, I thoroughly recommend NOT watching Rosebush Pruning.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I watched Past Lives for the second time and realised that part of why I love it is that it has one of the best on-screen relationships I've seen - and it's not even the relationship the story is about.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This photo I took at a graveyard has the same vibe: while we stand in awe of humanity and reflect on our destiny as mortals, we also still need to know where the toilet is.

A large rock with the letters WC and an arrow painted on it. Behind it stands a large stone monument with an image of a winged hourglass, around which a snake bites its own tail.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Dutch government wants to allow universities of applied science to award doctorates too, with the new title of 'Professional Doctor'. Not loving what that name implies about current PhDs

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

LinkedIn presented me with a post of an "academic ghost-writer" who complains that the students she writes papers for no longer like her human writing style, they want it to seem more AI-written. Won't someone think of the real victims of AI!

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We may think that the point of giving gifts is showing thoughtfulness. This point is lost when we buy from wish lists - yet this is often the social expectation. So do good manners require following the practice, or acting on the underlying value? Blogpost: elinegerritsen.com/2026/02/23/t...

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Thanks, You Shouldn’t Have

On the meaning of a gift and the nature of manners.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hamburgers don't usually talk to strangers in public - *unless* you carry a cake. I had multiple conversations sparked by the jealousy of other people on the subway, and then the dönerman even tried to get my cake as payment

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I've published my first new blogpost in a while: elinegerritsen.com/2026/02/23/t... I look at etiquette advice about gifts to reveal the complex relations between social norms, good manners, and the underlying point of our practices.

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Thanks, You Shouldn’t Have

On the meaning of a gift and the nature of manners.

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Thanks, You Shouldn’t Have

On the meaning of a gift and the nature of manners.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I have to give duolingo some credit. When I started years ago, my aim was that language wouldn't be an obstacle if I ever ended up wanting a job in Germany. This week I had my first job interview where German is a requirement and could confidently say that my level is good enough.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Unexpected outcome of teaching a session on gamification (reading @add-hawk.bsky.social of course): when I asked the students in the final digital ethics class what practical changes they planned to make, they ended up making *me* promise *them* I would quit Duolingo.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I can't believe how often the German government sends me documents that are not only incomprehensible to me (advanced German learner), but also nearly incomprehensible to my native German person with a PhD. What public do they think they're writing for?!

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

As someone who loves the book and disliked Saltburn... should I make use of my free ticket to see Wuthering Heights tomorrow?

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

On Saturday, I gave a talk on social norms where some international audience members were surprised to hear my example that Germans must not cross a street when the light is red. On Sunday I was in a city centre completely blocked off from traffic for carnaval and still saw people waiting for green.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This bot showing random restaurants all over the world is definitely my favourite thing on bluesky

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thanks to a typo these pans are advertised as having a "rough surface for a special beard experience". Not sure which interpretation of that is the most abhorrent.

Ad for two pans with text: mit rauer Oberfläche für ein besonderes Barterlebnis.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This whole thread is an astounding representation of current online culture. Why am I still here?

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Kenner van de héle Aziatische cultuur? Indrukwekkend. nos.nl/artikel/2598...

"Het is heel slim gemaakt", zegt NPO 3FM-dj en kenner van de Aziatische cultuur Mai Verbij. "Bij de jongere generatie was K-pop al enorm populair en in de film zitten nummers die enorm catchy zijn en choreografieën die kinderen kunnen nadansen".

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I'm seriously considering making 'stop doing duolingo' one of my new year's resolutions. It would be easier if I could somehow continue my streak with real-world language exercises...

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It is the time to sit, reflect, and ask yourself - where my background singers? youtu.be/z84QdJlPpHE?...

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Patti LaBelle- Where My Background Singers?

YouTube video by Ryan Bloomquist

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Interesting case for thinking about privacy: anonymous sperm donor has 197 kids across Europe, turns out he has a mutation giving some of his kids a 80-90% risk of cancer. Sperm bank refuses to reveal his case number or trace the families, because of donor's right to privacy. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/co...

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Deense donor met ernstige genetische afwijking verwekt 197 kinderen in Europa

Donorkinderen die de mutatie erven, lopen een grote kans op het krijgen van kanker.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I've been binging the German version of The Office to prepare for watching the new film (for which I was allocated a ticket to help with my integration). Given the general state of German television, I am shocked to report that it is clearly better than the US version!

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I got an ad for a true crime podcast for kids. Are we all OK? Happy with the direction our collective entertainment preferences have taken?

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I signed up for a regional vegetable subscription and am genuinely excited to receive my first delivery today. It's getting hard to deny my identity as a woman in her thirties. (The excitement is combined with a worry about how many recipes for cabbage and carrots I'll need this winter)

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

To break my streak of negative academia posts: I currently get to do teaching prep on an interesting topic I wouldn't otherwise think about (ethics of adblockers), with a great snack.

A chocolate stroopwafel (Dutch cookie) on top of a mug with the print 'Truth conquers all'

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

In reality my paper did not get rejected after 7 months - instead I've found out at the 8 month mark that no one has agreed to review it yet. So I'm stuck in limbo, waiting to improve my situation on the job market, because the few people with a job are too busy to review my paper. Perfect.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It's a shame that when I achieve the thing we're all supposed to do it all for - my paper gets published in a journal - the publisher makes it feel like a scam event. Do I want to buy a poster with the paper title to celebrate?? Do I want to pay €300 for prints (of my own paper, not the journal!)???

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

omg guys they're advertising a job in philosophy *and AI*!!!

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