Hjalmar Newmark
@hjalmarnewmark.bsky.social
Sociology of Law, Rechtssoziologie, Sociología del Derecho
Traductor, Übersetzer,Translator
Independent Scholar
Bipolar2, Bipolares2
*former-lawyer/philosopher*
Traductor, Übersetzer,Translator
Independent Scholar
Bipolar2, Bipolares2
*former-lawyer/philosopher*
Pinned
Rogue State:
A) External Hegemonic worldview undermining global peace
B) internal totalitarian government undermining rule of law
A) External Hegemonic worldview undermining global peace
B) internal totalitarian government undermining rule of law
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Last week, our colleagues @davidkosar.bsky.social & @katarinasipulova.bsky.social spoke at a Supreme Court seminar on judicial decision-making in times of deep societal polarization. David discussed political & ideological pressures on judges; Katarína the impact of public opinion & social media.
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Last week, our colleagues @davidkosar.bsky.social & @katarinasipulova.bsky.social spoke at a Supreme Court seminar on judicial decision-making in times of deep societal polarization. David discussed political & ideological pressures on judges; Katarína the impact of public opinion & social media.
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Chers et chères collègues, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du numéro 121 (2025/3) de la revue Droit et Société : droit.cairn.info/revue-droit-... Au sommaire ⤵️
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Chers et chères collègues, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du numéro 121 (2025/3) de la revue Droit et Société : droit.cairn.info/revue-droit-... Au sommaire ⤵️
The Totalitarian Regime (!)
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The Totalitarian Regime (!)
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✍️"It has undoubtedly been triggered by the financial difficulty that UK higher education finds itself in, but it is also indicative of unresolved issues in academic publishing."
#AcademicSky #ScholComm
#AcademicSky #ScholComm
Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? - LSE Impact
Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 23, 2026 at 8:26 AM
✍️"It has undoubtedly been triggered by the financial difficulty that UK higher education finds itself in, but it is also indicative of unresolved issues in academic publishing."
#AcademicSky #ScholComm
#AcademicSky #ScholComm
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« Les politistes ont identifié sept catégories pour caractériser les idées d’extrême droite : défense de l’identité nationale, de la tradition, de l’autorité, promotion du mérite individuel, de l’ordre, rejet de l’immigration et de l’égalité » @lemonde.fr https://tinyurl.com/56txd9ww
January 25, 2026 at 10:01 AM
« Les politistes ont identifié sept catégories pour caractériser les idées d’extrême droite : défense de l’identité nationale, de la tradition, de l’autorité, promotion du mérite individuel, de l’ordre, rejet de l’immigration et de l’égalité » @lemonde.fr https://tinyurl.com/56txd9ww
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Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)
January 20, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)
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If this is crisis - whether of capitalism or of American hegemony - then it certainly seems conceivable that elites resort to wishful thinking as compensatory psychological defence against anxieties. But the irrationality seems clearer than its explanation. Are there historical precedents here?
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 AM
If this is crisis - whether of capitalism or of American hegemony - then it certainly seems conceivable that elites resort to wishful thinking as compensatory psychological defence against anxieties. But the irrationality seems clearer than its explanation. Are there historical precedents here?
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Gift link:
#momsky
About time people stopped dancing around the word.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
#momsky
About time people stopped dancing around the word.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Gift link:
#momsky
About time people stopped dancing around the word.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
#momsky
About time people stopped dancing around the word.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I remembered and anecdote told by an ex classmate: “when us citizens come to Europe they use a Canadian flag on his luggage”
I wonder, why?
I wonder, why?
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I remembered and anecdote told by an ex classmate: “when us citizens come to Europe they use a Canadian flag on his luggage”
I wonder, why?
I wonder, why?
Most uncommon word used in politics: “accountability”
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Most uncommon word used in politics: “accountability”
Every time I remember “Handmaid’s Tale” is fictional I also began to doubt about what’s real and what’s not… either dystopic future is the present.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Every time I remember “Handmaid’s Tale” is fictional I also began to doubt about what’s real and what’s not… either dystopic future is the present.
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What would happen if John Rawls ran into Nietzsche’s demon while shopping at a grocery store for breakfast cereal? I try to answer that question with a little parable that tells us something about the problem of existential meaning and aesthetics for liberalism.
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
Fear and Fair. Nietzsche, Rawls, and the Eternal Recurrence of the Other
A parable about liberalism and the search for existential meaning
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
What would happen if John Rawls ran into Nietzsche’s demon while shopping at a grocery store for breakfast cereal? I try to answer that question with a little parable that tells us something about the problem of existential meaning and aesthetics for liberalism.
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
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Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.
January 20, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.
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One thing is to erase your debt through currency devaluation and other very different to grow (GDP). Even IF exports grow you’re receiving less, so in reality the net grow is less than when the currency was strong.
January 23, 2026 at 5:41 PM
One thing is to erase your debt through currency devaluation and other very different to grow (GDP). Even IF exports grow you’re receiving less, so in reality the net grow is less than when the currency was strong.
Sell
America
Trade
Again
America
Trade
Again
January 22, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Sell
America
Trade
Again
America
Trade
Again
Hey academia where are thou?
Business as usual. Nothing happens!
Business as usual. Nothing happens!
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Hey academia where are thou?
Business as usual. Nothing happens!
Business as usual. Nothing happens!
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The quality of your methods is meaningless if the quality of your theory is lacking. Put another way - if your basic assumptions are wack your methodological rigour is wasted effort. More in Ch8 here: www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The quality of your methods is meaningless if the quality of your theory is lacking. Put another way - if your basic assumptions are wack your methodological rigour is wasted effort. More in Ch8 here: www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....
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« La fabrique du sale boulot. Pourquoi les médecins n’aiment pas pratiquer les avortements », Raphael Perrin (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) @rfs-revue.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...
January 21, 2026 at 8:21 AM
« La fabrique du sale boulot. Pourquoi les médecins n’aiment pas pratiquer les avortements », Raphael Perrin (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) @rfs-revue.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...
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“Unequal academic cultures reify Global North scholarship, set punishing demands to publish in western journals, and undervalue dissident voices of minority scholars.”
Editor Sweta Rajan-Rankin reflects on The Sociological Review journal’s internationalisation and EDI agendas.
buff.ly/V2Gl4UQ
Editor Sweta Rajan-Rankin reflects on The Sociological Review journal’s internationalisation and EDI agendas.
buff.ly/V2Gl4UQ
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
“Unequal academic cultures reify Global North scholarship, set punishing demands to publish in western journals, and undervalue dissident voices of minority scholars.”
Editor Sweta Rajan-Rankin reflects on The Sociological Review journal’s internationalisation and EDI agendas.
buff.ly/V2Gl4UQ
Editor Sweta Rajan-Rankin reflects on The Sociological Review journal’s internationalisation and EDI agendas.
buff.ly/V2Gl4UQ
And academia?
Business as usual… (nothing is happening…)
Business as usual… (nothing is happening…)
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
And academia?
Business as usual… (nothing is happening…)
Business as usual… (nothing is happening…)
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✍️ "Novelty has become elastic — sometimes even hollow — and originality increasingly defined by aesthetics rather than ideas."
#AcWri #STS
#AcWri #STS
Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences
A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM