Veit Braun
@toteraltermann.bsky.social
Property, biology & stuff. All opinions someone else's.
Out now: AT THE END OF PROPERTY @BrisUniPress.bsky.social
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/at-the-end-of-property
Out now: AT THE END OF PROPERTY @BrisUniPress.bsky.social
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/at-the-end-of-property
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Veit Braun
@toteraltermann.bsky.social
· Sep 27
More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I
An open-access grant application in German and English
wondrousmachine.substack.com
Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...
Bronwyn Parry at ANU in Canberra is looking for an experienced ethnographer who can supervise PhD ethnographies while conducting their own research on biobanking frozen specimens:
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Research Fellow, Social and Ethical Dimensions of Applied Cryobiology - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded)
This position is continuing (contingent funded...
jobs.anu.edu.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Bronwyn Parry at ANU in Canberra is looking for an experienced ethnographer who can supervise PhD ethnographies while conducting their own research on biobanking frozen specimens:
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
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More permanent postdoc-level positions would 1) reduce the amount of ECRs on the hunt of any position as long as it pays the bills and 2) give more time to evaluate and write coherent and deliverable funding proposal for third party funding (since you're not worried about stability and pay)
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
More permanent postdoc-level positions would 1) reduce the amount of ECRs on the hunt of any position as long as it pays the bills and 2) give more time to evaluate and write coherent and deliverable funding proposal for third party funding (since you're not worried about stability and pay)
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New Peoples & Things episode this week features Verena Halsmayer talking about her award-winning book, _Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact_, including how it relates to the economics of technological change.
newbooksnetwork.com/managing-gro...
newbooksnetwork.com/managing-gro...
Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New Peoples & Things episode this week features Verena Halsmayer talking about her award-winning book, _Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact_, including how it relates to the economics of technological change.
newbooksnetwork.com/managing-gro...
newbooksnetwork.com/managing-gro...
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This was covered in the previous T-shirt.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This was covered in the previous T-shirt.
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Look ma I'm on substack! (Courtesy of @toteraltermann.bsky.social)
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Look ma I'm on substack! (Courtesy of @toteraltermann.bsky.social)
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
This thread by @pengzell.bsky.social finally made me write down my thoughts on responsibility in academia and why so many things are going wrong at the moment.
Including the dubious honour of naming these types of problems after him ...
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
Including the dubious honour of naming these types of problems after him ...
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This thread by @pengzell.bsky.social finally made me write down my thoughts on responsibility in academia and why so many things are going wrong at the moment.
Including the dubious honour of naming these types of problems after him ...
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
Including the dubious honour of naming these types of problems after him ...
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default
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Ist es normal, dass Leute sich und andere in Forschungsanträgen privat entblößen (Familienstand, Krankheiten, zweiter Bildungsweg etc.), um zu erklären, warum sie für bestimmte Forschungsarbeiten, Karrierewege und Aufgaben ein, fünf oder zehn Jahre länger gebraucht haben?
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ist es normal, dass Leute sich und andere in Forschungsanträgen privat entblößen (Familienstand, Krankheiten, zweiter Bildungsweg etc.), um zu erklären, warum sie für bestimmte Forschungsarbeiten, Karrierewege und Aufgaben ein, fünf oder zehn Jahre länger gebraucht haben?
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Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
📣 Call for Abstracts!
Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.
🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.
s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.
🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.
s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
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Unsere neueste Ausgabe mit dem Titel Macht und Eigentum ist erschienen. Wir danken allen Einreichungen, die dieses Heft möglich gemacht haben
soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/soziologiema...
soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/soziologiema...
Soziologiemagazin
Das Soziologiemagazin ist unsere Hauptpublikation. Das Soziologiemagazin erscheint seit 2009 und seit 2011 immer halbjährlich Mitte und Ende des Jahres. Es handelt sich um eine Open Access-Publikation...
soziologieblog.hypotheses.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Unsere neueste Ausgabe mit dem Titel Macht und Eigentum ist erschienen. Wir danken allen Einreichungen, die dieses Heft möglich gemacht haben
soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/soziologiema...
soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/soziologiema...
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In seiner wissenschaftssoziologischen Analyse richtet Marc Strotmann den Blick auf die Zwischenräume, in denen sich die Neurotechnologie-Forscher:innen bewegen, und betrachtet deren komplexes Zusammenspiel in einer emergenten Wissenschaft.
📚 www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...
#velbrückwissenschaft
📚 www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...
#velbrückwissenschaft
In Zwischenräumen von Marc Strotmann
Seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten wird mittlerweile an Neurotechnologien mit dem Ziel geforscht, das zentrale Nervensystem des Menschen mit technischen Systemen zu verbinden. In seiner wissenschaftssozio...
www.velbrueck.de
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
In seiner wissenschaftssoziologischen Analyse richtet Marc Strotmann den Blick auf die Zwischenräume, in denen sich die Neurotechnologie-Forscher:innen bewegen, und betrachtet deren komplexes Zusammenspiel in einer emergenten Wissenschaft.
📚 www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...
#velbrückwissenschaft
📚 www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...
#velbrückwissenschaft
Ist es normal, dass Leute sich und andere in Forschungsanträgen privat entblößen (Familienstand, Krankheiten, zweiter Bildungsweg etc.), um zu erklären, warum sie für bestimmte Forschungsarbeiten, Karrierewege und Aufgaben ein, fünf oder zehn Jahre länger gebraucht haben?
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ist es normal, dass Leute sich und andere in Forschungsanträgen privat entblößen (Familienstand, Krankheiten, zweiter Bildungsweg etc.), um zu erklären, warum sie für bestimmte Forschungsarbeiten, Karrierewege und Aufgaben ein, fünf oder zehn Jahre länger gebraucht haben?
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What do academic degrowthers work on - a lot of stuff.
Bit worrying that CO2 is so isolated.
Keywords co-citation from the Nexus-Nexus work.
Bit worrying that CO2 is so isolated.
Keywords co-citation from the Nexus-Nexus work.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What do academic degrowthers work on - a lot of stuff.
Bit worrying that CO2 is so isolated.
Keywords co-citation from the Nexus-Nexus work.
Bit worrying that CO2 is so isolated.
Keywords co-citation from the Nexus-Nexus work.
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My personal view on how the EU could address the concerns about patents in the proposed regulation on NGT plants:
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The breeder's exemption as the route to agreement in the EU debate on NGT plants
The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.
ipkitten.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My personal view on how the EU could address the concerns about patents in the proposed regulation on NGT plants:
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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This 👇
Railways are large capital intensive infrastructure with very significant market failures - few things manage to be both natural monopolies and public goods with extensive externalities.
Ownership doesn't really change the fundamentals. Private monopolies and public monopolies same same..
Railways are large capital intensive infrastructure with very significant market failures - few things manage to be both natural monopolies and public goods with extensive externalities.
Ownership doesn't really change the fundamentals. Private monopolies and public monopolies same same..
Essentially the best way to run a railway is for it to be owned by a development corporation, and then frankly whether that corporation is state owned or privately owned is sort of a much of a muchness:
The missing piece in Labour’s rail renationalisation scheme
Whether trains are public or private is not the deal-breaker for a well-functioning service — it is about a better delivery model
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This 👇
Railways are large capital intensive infrastructure with very significant market failures - few things manage to be both natural monopolies and public goods with extensive externalities.
Ownership doesn't really change the fundamentals. Private monopolies and public monopolies same same..
Railways are large capital intensive infrastructure with very significant market failures - few things manage to be both natural monopolies and public goods with extensive externalities.
Ownership doesn't really change the fundamentals. Private monopolies and public monopolies same same..
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Ich habe mitbekommen, dass es nun schon zwei Lesekreise zu „Totalität“ @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social gibt. Das freut mich selbstredend sehr. Sagt gern Bescheid, wenn Diskussionsbedarf besteht, ich komme gern vorbei!
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ich habe mitbekommen, dass es nun schon zwei Lesekreise zu „Totalität“ @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social gibt. Das freut mich selbstredend sehr. Sagt gern Bescheid, wenn Diskussionsbedarf besteht, ich komme gern vorbei!
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My article on "The Eco-Marxist Problematic" just became open access through the Taverne-Amendment. Free for anyone to read!
research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...
research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...
July 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My article on "The Eco-Marxist Problematic" just became open access through the Taverne-Amendment. Free for anyone to read!
research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...
research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
yawak.jp
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
Is the world granular or smooth? Is the universe a raster or vector file? Will history be repeated, and if so will the second performance be a comedy? Will the fascism of tomorrow once more don the brown shirts and eagles or will it introduce itself as anti-fascism? It seems the jury is still out.
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Is the world granular or smooth? Is the universe a raster or vector file? Will history be repeated, and if so will the second performance be a comedy? Will the fascism of tomorrow once more don the brown shirts and eagles or will it introduce itself as anti-fascism? It seems the jury is still out.
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I have an analysis (in German) of the Dutch election campaign and results for the Zentrum Liberale Moderne
libmod.de/liberaler-si...
libmod.de/liberaler-si...
Liberaler Sieg in Zeiten der Krise - Was die niederländische Wahl für den europäischen Liberalismus bedeutet
Die niederländischen Wahlen brachten der linksliberalen D66 einen historischen Sieg – doch dahinter steht ein Land im Spannungsfeld zwischen nativistischen Tendenzen, geschwächter Linker und einer unt...
libmod.de
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I have an analysis (in German) of the Dutch election campaign and results for the Zentrum Liberale Moderne
libmod.de/liberaler-si...
libmod.de/liberaler-si...
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Out now! Die Soziologinnen Stefanie Graefe, Irina Herb und Susanne Lettow haben einen Sammelband über eigentumsbezogene Probleme in reproduktiven Ökonomien herausgegeben. Eine Vorschau auf die Beiträge ist anbei. Als Paperback und frei verfügbar unter:
www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Out now! Die Soziologinnen Stefanie Graefe, Irina Herb und Susanne Lettow haben einen Sammelband über eigentumsbezogene Probleme in reproduktiven Ökonomien herausgegeben. Eine Vorschau auf die Beiträge ist anbei. Als Paperback und frei verfügbar unter:
www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
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Nächsten Dienstag, am 18. November, zeigen wir im Rahmen unserer Filmreihe den Animefilm »Prinzessin Mononoke«. Die Einführung erfolgt durch unser SFB-Mitglied Nadia Abd El Hafez, Soziologin an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt im Bereich Allgemeine Soziologie/ Soziologische Theorie.
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Nächsten Dienstag, am 18. November, zeigen wir im Rahmen unserer Filmreihe den Animefilm »Prinzessin Mononoke«. Die Einführung erfolgt durch unser SFB-Mitglied Nadia Abd El Hafez, Soziologin an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt im Bereich Allgemeine Soziologie/ Soziologische Theorie.
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My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.
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Whoever would like to hear about the link between political theory and legall/patent law theory -here is a recording of the talk I gave last month: "After Patent Republic"
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
Here is the recording of the first ISHTIP online seminar of the series: "After Patent Republic".
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Whoever would like to hear about the link between political theory and legall/patent law theory -here is a recording of the talk I gave last month: "After Patent Republic"
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...