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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 · 25/09/2026

+ Costs of a professional website

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Publishing open access, extended research visits, work set up (I got myself a standing desk and better mouse). Laptop if that's not provided to you anyway.

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

This is the first time I've heard of someone else having had this problem... Aaand now I'm aware of having to swallow

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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

I hoped this would repeat when I was travelling through several beautiful places this summer. In fact I heard about my new job right after I had returned - but I did the interview while facing the green Slowakian mountains.

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

Or the whole video is under a minute so you see it again after seconds! We should feel collectively insulted at all these new outrageous attention-grabbing techniques

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

It's already healed up, just printless!

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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 · 15/09/2026

Now that I think about it, this was one of my favourite classes - I assigned each student one section beforehand, so they could have 'expertise' and explain the details to those who had focused on the other claims. Worked perfectly, for a group partially new to ethics.

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've found David O. Brink, ‘A Puzzle About the Rational Authority of Morality’ good for teaching. No false conclusion, but rather a set of plausible but jointly inconsistent claims where we have to choose which one to reject.

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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 · 01/09/2026

Congratulations! That's an interesting project! Also, I'm sorry to tell you that we don't really have good bread.

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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 · 14/08/2026

Since the film is mostly shots of toilets, it's good that they are at least nice ones! (And that none of them actually look dirty)

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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 · 14/07/2026

Congrats on the job! And my sympathies for leaving Scotland...

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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 · 10/07/2026

I went from never cooking cabbage to having to think of a use for one every week this winter and my favourite discovery was cabbage curry: rainbowplantlife.com/cabbage-curry/ I even found myself desiring cabbage pasta again this week. Just fried cabbage and cheese sauce, quite comforting

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Creamy Cabbage Curry

Cabbage melts into silky sweetness in this nourishing yet creamy Indian-spiced cabbage curry. You won’t even realize you’re eating cabbage!

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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 · 12/05/2026

I got the advice to have a healthy weight, which at that time in my life clearly meant gaining rather than losing, and I still wonder if that was said just because they tried to apply the standard advice of weight loss.

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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 · 27/04/2026

My recent worst experience was with one of those journals, so there definitely seems to be a big difference in availability or efficiency of reviewers! Maybe I should write some more on error theory...

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

What are these secret quick journals you speak of??

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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 · 13/04/2026

Can confirm this is the crockery in my grandparents' kitchen!

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

I'm another philosopher missing what twitter once was, would be happy to be added!

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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 · 07/04/2026

Oh no! Well I liked it's vibe from the start, but also realised that might be specific to me, so I won't say that it gets worth it if you stick it out.

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

It made me laugh that the big career achievement everyone is aiming for is going from part time to full time professor - like they'd heard about the precarity and competititon and stuff but didn't *quite* get how academic careers work. I loved the film though!

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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 · 13/03/2026

Oof, that sounds more important than my stupid itch

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Eline Gerritsen @elineg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Same in Germany (or Hamburg at least) - was very glad that when I was stupidly out of allergy medication on a Sunday, I could still cycle to a pharmacy that was open.

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