Markus Patberg
@mpatberg.bsky.social
Research Associate in Political Theory at @politikuhh.bsky.social, working on democratic theory, constituent power, Habermas, European Union, exit politics, digitalization.
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🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
www.uni-greifswald.de
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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This reaction should be seen as proof of a confident European Commission that is doing its job well by enforcing rules that protect its citizens.
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This reaction should be seen as proof of a confident European Commission that is doing its job well by enforcing rules that protect its citizens.
"Taking sentences of text from a generative AI tool and presenting them as your own words is plagiarism—at least, insofar as we take plagiarism to be a form of intellectual dishonesty in which one takes credit for work that’s not one’s own. " www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/et/...
Ethics: AI policy
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Taking sentences of text from a generative AI tool and presenting them as your own words is plagiarism—at least, insofar as we take plagiarism to be a form of intellectual dishonesty in which one takes credit for work that’s not one’s own. " www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/et/...
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Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.
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Am Mittwoch, 26.11.2025, wird uns Markus Patberg (Universität Hamburg) in der #Forschungswerkstatt besuchen (16 Uhr, P5). Er spricht zum Thema: „Oligarchische Vereinnahmung: Soziale Medien und politische Öffentlichkeit"
Nutzen Sie Soziale Medien💻? Kommen Sie vorbei!
Alle sind herzlich willkommen!
Nutzen Sie Soziale Medien💻? Kommen Sie vorbei!
Alle sind herzlich willkommen!
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Am Mittwoch, 26.11.2025, wird uns Markus Patberg (Universität Hamburg) in der #Forschungswerkstatt besuchen (16 Uhr, P5). Er spricht zum Thema: „Oligarchische Vereinnahmung: Soziale Medien und politische Öffentlichkeit"
Nutzen Sie Soziale Medien💻? Kommen Sie vorbei!
Alle sind herzlich willkommen!
Nutzen Sie Soziale Medien💻? Kommen Sie vorbei!
Alle sind herzlich willkommen!
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Between Wilderness and Polis: The Dairy Cow.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Between Wilderness and Polis: The Dairy Cow.
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📢 Recap: The Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational (16–17 Oct 2025, Weizenbaum Institute) brought 40 experts to explore how AI and digital systems shape society.
Read the report 👉 buff.ly/PR56xLO
Read the report 👉 buff.ly/PR56xLO
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
📢 Recap: The Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational (16–17 Oct 2025, Weizenbaum Institute) brought 40 experts to explore how AI and digital systems shape society.
Read the report 👉 buff.ly/PR56xLO
Read the report 👉 buff.ly/PR56xLO
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Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben
Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.
www.faz.net
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
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"I never imagined I would see fear spread so far and fast in the US."
This from the writer who gave us definitive accounts of East Germany and other late state socialist societies in the 1980s.
This from the writer who gave us definitive accounts of East Germany and other late state socialist societies in the 1980s.
400 days to save US democracy. My latest, based on a long summer in the US. How Trump is exploiting structural weaknesses of the American system & why all democrats must want Democrats to win November 2026 midterms.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"I never imagined I would see fear spread so far and fast in the US."
This from the writer who gave us definitive accounts of East Germany and other late state socialist societies in the 1980s.
This from the writer who gave us definitive accounts of East Germany and other late state socialist societies in the 1980s.
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This is an excellent article that brings an empathetic eye to an escalating crisis in higher education 👇👌
I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning
As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake
www.irishtimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is an excellent article that brings an empathetic eye to an escalating crisis in higher education 👇👌
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Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
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A Victorian solicitor has been stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after being caught using AI-generated false citations in court case - he has acknowledged he did not verify the case list www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first
Victorian solicitor stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after acknowledging he did not verify case list
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A Victorian solicitor has been stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after being caught using AI-generated false citations in court case - he has acknowledged he did not verify the case list www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
At the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference this week. My own talk will be tomorrow in the "Normativity of International Institutions" panel. If you're here and interested in the foundations of and challenges to the legitimacy of international institutions, join us!
Looking forward to these two panels at #ecprgc2025
"The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation" (with @brianmilstein.bsky.social @mpatberg.bsky.social Eva Erman, Silviya Lechner)
"Postnational Constitutionalism" (with Carmen Pavel, Francesco Rizzi Brignoli)
"The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation" (with @brianmilstein.bsky.social @mpatberg.bsky.social Eva Erman, Silviya Lechner)
"Postnational Constitutionalism" (with Carmen Pavel, Francesco Rizzi Brignoli)
August 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
At the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference this week. My own talk will be tomorrow in the "Normativity of International Institutions" panel. If you're here and interested in the foundations of and challenges to the legitimacy of international institutions, join us!
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Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...
dailynous.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2
July 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2
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Eine Ausschreibung für eine Dauerstelle als Senior Lecturer in den Lehramtsstudiengängen Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg. Danke fürs Teilen!
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
July 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Eine Ausschreibung für eine Dauerstelle als Senior Lecturer in den Lehramtsstudiengängen Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg. Danke fürs Teilen!
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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First time a judge has decided a case based on hallucinated case law in the US that I've encountered.
caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-cou...
caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-cou...
July 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
First time a judge has decided a case based on hallucinated case law in the US that I've encountered.
caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-cou...
caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-cou...
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From a workshop in May 2024 that has now resulted in a special issue on *Demokratiewissenschaft* in the journals.sagepub.com/home/ipt, OnlineFirst. Many thanks to @mpatberg.bsky.social , @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social and Oliver Eberl for organizing and editing, @proftonylang.bsky.social for hosting, ..
July 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
From a workshop in May 2024 that has now resulted in a special issue on *Demokratiewissenschaft* in the journals.sagepub.com/home/ipt, OnlineFirst. Many thanks to @mpatberg.bsky.social , @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social and Oliver Eberl for organizing and editing, @proftonylang.bsky.social for hosting, ..
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This could be of interest for colleagues in #politicaltheory as well!: The University of #Bayreuth is currently seeking to appoint a Full Professor of #Political #Philosophy (m/f/d) at salary grade W3
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June 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This could be of interest for colleagues in #politicaltheory as well!: The University of #Bayreuth is currently seeking to appoint a Full Professor of #Political #Philosophy (m/f/d) at salary grade W3
For mor information:
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Publication day! The paper is part of a special issue on the methodological self-understanding of International Political Theory. I argue that the beloved model of the democratic underlabourer, which defines the role of political theory in practical politics, rests on two...
doi.org/10.1177/1755...
doi.org/10.1177/1755...
Underlabouring at home, moralising abroad? On the role of international political theory - Cord Schmelzle, 2025
The democratic underlabourer has become a popular model for the role of political theory in practical politics in recent years. Its charm lies in the fact that ...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Publication day! The paper is part of a special issue on the methodological self-understanding of International Political Theory. I argue that the beloved model of the democratic underlabourer, which defines the role of political theory in practical politics, rests on two...
doi.org/10.1177/1755...
doi.org/10.1177/1755...
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Still recovering from shock of having just read a large grant application with made-up reference list. Familiar authors but most refs don’t exist. ChatGPT written all over it
Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?
Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?
June 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Still recovering from shock of having just read a large grant application with made-up reference list. Familiar authors but most refs don’t exist. ChatGPT written all over it
Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?
Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?
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One more week to apply!
Full Professorship (W3) for Practical Philosophy with a special focus on Political and Social Philosophy
Deadline: June 18, 2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
June 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
One more week to apply!