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Bilge Yesil

@bilgeyesil.bsky.social
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Professor. Author of Talking Back to the West. ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm co-chairing a search for a full professor in the area of "media entrepreneurship" (extremely broadly defined) at the University of Alabama. It comes with an endowment! Curious? Don't hesitate to reach out. careers.ua.edu/jobs/ccis-so...
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CCIS - Southern Progress Professor of Media Entrepreneurship, Journalism and Creative Media - 530646 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Department/Organization207451 - Journalism and Creative Media RankProfessor Position SummaryThe Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication & Information Scienc...
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New book of note — "Useful Cinema in State Socialist Europe." Out now on Routledge. Edited By Lucie Česálková, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, and Ana Szel. Congrats to the editors and all of the contributors! 📕 www.routledge.com/Useful-Cinem...
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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another faculty job at SMU Meadows! This one is to lead our growing Sports Media program in Journalism. Details in the link! apply.interfolio.com/191548
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson was a visionary. He imagined what I call a monstrofuturist utopia: a place where everyone's uniqueness was welcome.
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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"[E]ssential reading not only for historians of journalism but also for scholars of conservative politics and right-wing media culture." Kathy Roberts Forde reviews MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA in *American Journalism.* bit.ly/4xCg1z3 @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I curse the day I gave money to a Dem candidate years ago. Now I’m getting at least 4-5 text mssgs a day from all DS around the country 😡
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bianet English @bianet-eng.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How Turkey’s vague obscenity law is becoming a tool to criminalize LGBTI+ visibility 🗞️ İrfan Kovankaya bianet.org/haber/how-tu...
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How Turkey’s vague obscenity law is becoming a tool to criminalize LGBTI+ visibility
The obscenity law historically applied to pornographic content. Recently, judicial authorities have accused almost anything related to LGBTI+s of being obscene, ranging from verbal statements and phot...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2026
Revealed: How Russia use mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens
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Revealed: How Russia use mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device Over the past 18 months, tens of millions of Russians have been forced to install a new app on their phones – a violet-blue button designed for messaging and payments, called Max. Authorities have touted it as a patriotic alternative to Telegram and WhatsApp; Russian glitterati have promoted it in rap videos and comic routines. This summer, it became the country’s most-used messaging app. Continue reading...
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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New book announcement! New book announcement! Journalism as Resistance drops May 11 2027! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/854914...
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Journalism as Resistance by Lewis Raven Wallace: 9780807026700 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For young journalists and activists, a first-of-its-kind guidebook to movement journalism that sparks social change and transforms news media for the better Amid the shrinking of local news outlets, ...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wtf United????
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bianet English @bianet-eng.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Widespread police raids, online censorship target Turkey’s LGBTI+ community in new crackdown bianet.org/haber/widesp...
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Widespread police raids, online censorship target Turkey’s LGBTI+ community in new crackdown
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Shocking abdication of scholarly ethics by the American Historical Association which hired a Washington DC lobbying firm to ensure anticipatory obedience and quash a popular movement to condemn Israeli scholasticide in Gaza: www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
In the past, AHA executives have been quite content to let members pass popular resolutions against such events as the Iraq war, and to make official statements opposing events like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Regarding Palestine, though, they have decided that the AHA cannot take “institutional positions on an active geopolitical conflict,” lest the Trump administration take notice and find some way to revoke its congressional charter. Over the last 20 months or so, they have taken a series of what they have called “unusual steps” to quash every effort by the AHA membership to pass a resolution against the mass atrocities in Gaza, including vetoes of three separate popular resolutions acknowledging those atrocities as a genocide.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“American support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, particularly under President Joe Biden, swept away any residual moral authority the United States could claim. Trump’s debacle in Iran has shattered the illusion of American military omnipotence.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The End of the American Middle East
Iran and the last gasp of a failed order.
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026
The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW IN MER 319: "The Soundtrack of Dissent--The Music of Protest in Iran" by Nafiseh Sharifi. From the reformist 90s to Women, Life Freedom and this year's Dey Protests, popular music has threaded through Iran's protest movements. READ NOW buff.ly/BZN0VGE
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Soundtrack of Dissent—The Music of Protest in Iran
In February 2026, one month after mass protests in Iran led to a government crackdown killing thousands, Shervin Hajipour released a new song from inside the country. Hajipour had become…
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Been thinking about Jason Arday, Aaron Swartz and our broken systems lately
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said 97 per cent of cropland in the Gaza Strip is now damaged or inaccessible, according to an assessment carried out with the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) as of 24 June. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260819-fao...
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am hiring a Research Associate to join my team at Scholars at Risk: apply.interfolio.com/191007. Great way to get started in international human rights work, particularly if you have an interest in academic freedom
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From fire-benders to demon hunters, Asian-inspired fantasy has become a key component of Asian American mass culture. Nancy Carranza examines anti-colonial “retelling” fantasies (with lots of female rage and spectacular violence) through the lens of genre and fan studies. post45.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Violent World-Remaking of Anti-Colonial Asian North American Fantasy – Post45
Over the last decade, fantasy novels by Asian North American writers have consistently appeared on bestseller lists for both adult and YA fiction, won prestigious awards, and achieved their own fandom...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/08/2026
‘Gaza is a paradigm for the way that ceasefires prioritise kinetic violence, often leaving other forms – blockades, siege, starvation – in place.’ Zinaida Miller on meanings of ceasefire, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...
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Zinaida Miller | Meanings of Ceasefire
Unlike peace agreements – which require negotiation, compromise and (ostensibly) long-term commitment – ceasefires...
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🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you’re curious about how queen Elizabeth appears as a food blogger ranking Cairo’s best Koshari carts, or how Al-share’ beats Bashar Al-assad à la WWE style, check my latest article on AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch with @merip.bsky.social www.merip.org/2026/08/the-...
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Arab AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the subsequent regional war reshape the Arab internet, AI-generated slop has emerged as a new form of digital kitsch and political fantasy fueled by precarious labor.
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gutted by the news of Jayson Arday’s passing. May he rest in peace. Having lost my brother to suicide, my heart goes out to his family.
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Must read 👇
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A new essay in Journalism History on the role of redbaiting and ideological steering in the early field of communication. Used to "discipline the discipline," it left a lasting imprint on media research and is especially timely to reflect on today. Link to the PDF: victorpickard.com/wp-content/u...
An abstract of a new essay on early ideological steering in the field of communication research.
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited about this forthcoming chapter I wrote for the Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders
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Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our new book (Element) "Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality" is out! Free for a time: tinyurl.com/mgdpi26 Handy video trailer: vimeo.com/1203556992 + summary thread 👇 So fun to collab w/ Emilija Gagrčin & @yqpan.bsky.social - Big thxs to @snsoroka.bsky.social & team! @polcomm.bsky.social
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Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just in time for the new academic term, the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project new and improved Data Dashboard aims to make its trove of data as accessible as possible. gmicp.org/dashboard/
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
libraries have an absolutely unique aura. There’s nothing like the feeling of stepping into any library from a small public to a massive research library, there’s a palpable difference that feels like walking through an invisible bead curtain
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/
Screenshot of the website featuring a cubist image of three figures engaging in art experiments; title: Fall 2026: Public Study; text Our Fall course, “Public Study,” will examine the past, present, and future of popular, alternative, and radical education — particularly as they shape the intellectual, political, and cultural landscape of New York City; and as they’ve intersected with established cultural heritage and educational institutions. Applications are due August 7 at 11:59pm ET.
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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New episode 📚📚 Onur İnal (@onurinal.bsky.social) on the rise of late Ottoman İzmir. The conversation discusses his book “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” (Cambridge University Press) 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/08/04/o...
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Onur İnal on the rise of late Ottoman İzmir
Turkey Book Talk #275 – Onur İnal of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna on “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” (Camb…
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Academic flees Turkey abt a decade ago (bc of political pressures), settles down in New School, and now advocates the firings of his colleagues www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
These 25 Artifacts Explain America www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The 25 Objects That Explain America (Gift Article)
Want to understand this country? Look at our stuff.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
25 years after the tired American cliche of “why do they hate us,” helped instigate two forever wars (Afghanistan + Iraq), this is how @nytimes.com chooses to explain Iran’s political system:
Screenshot of text extract from NY Times article: “But in a political system premised on hatred of the United States, none show interest in a larger reconciliation with the United States.”
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Attention Coms & Media Studies scholars (and others, too). Designing your syllabi for the fall term? The @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project's data visualization tool and other resources available on our website make for great teaching tools.
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This new article by @robtoes.bsky.social looks really good: Ambient Extremism in Reactionary Digital Politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As if I didn’t receive enough fake book club emails, now it’s text messages 😡
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gift article “Eyal Weizman: the Strip was blanketed with “enormous dust clouds containing particles of the different materials that formed the building[s] & [their] environment—concrete, plaster, paint, glass, metal, sand, soil—some of which are synthetic & toxic.” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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Gaza’s Deadly Soil | Helen Epstein
Long before October 2023, Gaza’s people suffered international sanctions, a humiliating occupation, and periodic Israeli bombardments. Few could leave the
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Israeli army has set fire to vast olive groves in the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon 🇱🇧
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Next up Oval Office address (ht @arifekose.bsky.social)
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Whenever I place an order, I tell them my name is Billy just bc I don’t wanna spell Bilge three times. Anyway, over the years I’ve seen Billy turn into Milly and Lilly but this is a first 🤣
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🚨How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (ht @allisonvandev.bsky.social)
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Rosemary Pennington @rompenni.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reminder my department is hiring! We're looking for an assistant teaching professor for the Journalism program. This is a teaching intensive position, not a research-based, tenure track job. A PhD or MFA is required at time of appointment. #academicjobs #journalismjobs
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Assistant Teaching Professor
Job Title Assistant Teaching Professor Department Media, Journalism and Film Department Worker Type Regular Pay Type Salary Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and e...
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William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Michigan premiere of Who Killed Alex Odeh? will be at the Arab American National Museum on Thursday, August 6th. Film starts at 7 pm. Make sure to get tickets beforehand. I hope to see you there!
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you are papermaxxing with AI and swamping academic journals with claude- or chat-prompted scholar-like content, then you are taking the time and labour of editors and reviewers that others who actually put the work in deserve instead.
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Govt’s arguments here are eerily (but not surprisingly) similar to those used by Erdogan to jail activists, dissidents, academics
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