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Cem Mert Dallı @cemmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Such a lovely conference: warm, welcoming, and full of great conversations. It was great to meet the community around the dataset, and huge thanks to everyone who made it happen!

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Cem Mert Dallı @cemmd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I started building this for myself to get better AI feedback on political science research. After seeing @claesbackman.bsky.social’s econ-focused repo, I pushed it further into PoliSci Review: a journal-aware, LaTeX-first skill for political science drafts.

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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

FastRerandomize unites batched candidate generation, key-only storage & design-respecting inference, while using the SoTA in accelerated computing (T/GPU). That design delivers order‑of‑mag speedups & enables tighter covariate balance in high-dim experiments⇢more precise causal estimates, lower cost

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Cem Mert Dallı @cemmd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Beyond being a Marxist critic of capitalism, the Vietnam War, and U.S. anti-communism, Michael Parenti was one of the rare political scientists who directly critiqued the discipline’s depoliticisation from the inside, in leading venues like APSR and PS since the 1970s. Thread ⬇️

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions in 14 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, & Yemen. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’ These life-saving programs, some of the last humanitarian aid to these countries, were being canceled “for the convenience of the US Government”

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The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a 'death sentence'

The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them stru...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Professor Avi Rubin of Ben Gurion University, on Harvard's shameful removal of Professor Cemal Kafadar from his role as head of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. (Statement from Facebook).

This morning, I was shocked to read the news from Harvard—the university where I completed my doctorate and which once felt like home. The director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies was removed from his position amidst a political purge led by the Trump administration. That director is one of my doctoral advisors, Professor Cemal Kafadar.
Professor Kafadar is a distinguished scholar, a true intellectual, and a kind and generous person. As his former student and a current colleague, I can say that I never once heard him say anything that made me feel uncomfortable as an Israeli—quite the opposite. He always spoke with great respect about his Israeli colleagues and consistently made sure to avoid engaging in “sensitive” political topics, both in class and in personal meetings.
Three years ago, the Israeli Historical Society invited Professor Kafadar to deliver a lecture series at the prestigious Stern Forum in Jerusalem, and I had the privilege of interviewing him for History, the journal of the Israeli Historical Society.

I’ve been familiar with the vile crusades led by some Jewish and Israeli individuals against anyone who dares utter a word of criticism about Israel. In my Harvard years I first encountered the cynical manipulation of the term “antisemitism,” stripped of all meaning and weaponized for right-wing agendas. Now some group of Harvard alumni (I have no idea who they are) published a report that cites an anonymous student who claimed Professor Kafadar expressed a pro-Palestinian sentiment. In the twisted conceptual universe of these antisemitism hunters, most of my posts and opinions would earn me the label of “antisemite.”
This is how autocracies—and autocracies in the making—operate. Everyone is a target, even those who think they’re safe because they’ve always made sure to stay outside the danger zone.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My today's Substack: Trump, the state and the revolution branko2f7.substack.com/p/trump-the-...

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Trump, the state and the revolution

To say that Trump in his new incarnation is different from the Trump No.

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