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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#FileninSultanları The Turkish volleyball team has done it again! Back to back European Champions!!🎉 3-2 Against Italy in Istanbul 😎

Filenin Sultanları at the Sinan Erdem Dome

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Congratulations to #FileninSultanları for winning the gold medal in #VNL2026 in an epic match against Brazil! Turkey lifted the trophy for the second time since the beginning of the tournament in 2018. 📷 volleyballworld

Elif Şahin, Melisa Vargas, and Zehra Güneş celebrate their VNL win against Brazil

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And a lot of that story is quite global. I feel like most of higher ed news tend to ignore the local and certainly the international besides a few campuses that regularly show up in the headlines.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What a nail-biter game! #VNL2026: 🇹🇷 3️⃣-2️⃣ 🇩🇪 FROM 0-2 TO VICTORY! 🤯🔥 So many experiments from the European teams in this VNL to prepare for the European Championship coming up in a couple of months. When Ebrar and Zehra return to the team , it'll be so much more fun www.youtube.com/watch?v=vexc...

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Türkiye 🇹🇷 vs. Germany 🇩🇪 - Highlights | Week 2 | Women's VNL 2026

YouTube video by Volleyball World

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Impressionen von der Demo #UnisRetten

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I don't think they realize how condescending that email sounds.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Agreed. Putting the content of the petition aside, denying the institutional process of membership input in the name of "unity" is a slippery slope for democratic governance, the likes of which are used by autocratic leaders' discourse to justify executive overreach.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Looking for timeline cleanse? Here you go.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Cat of the day, sleeping at a café in Istanbul

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Rubén García del Horno @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

‼️📆 Call for papers – The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies (AECPA, Granada, 9-11 Septiembre) Con @asanchezgarcia.es @aldeleon.bsky.social @juanperezrajo.bsky.social te invitamos a que nos envíes tu propuesta antes del 31/03 👇 www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center.
STORY TK”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So he's saying that he knew Israel was going to attack Iran and he believed Iran would retaliate by attacking US bases, so we had to strike first since Israel was going to get US forces attacked.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

In case the scam here isn't obvious - Grammarly is, without permission, creating little LLM agents based on the work of academics and then claiming this is the same as their "expert opinion" - using their names and reputations for free without consent.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Outside the US cases, higher ed structures and gov. orgs can lead to different paths. In my experience though, such analyses are often published outside peer-reviewed journals and depending on context not necessarily in English :/ Interested to hear suggestions here.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/02/2026

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Love it when nerdy table top RPG references meet political commentary 😎

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I am thinking this through, so genuine question re: #2. To me, a customized AI app does not automatically mean it is better than ChatGPT because it can easily be sold to companies like OpenAI or scaled up with similar intent. IRB should still have oversight since it's done as academic research.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 06/01/2026

The replies here, with multiple scholars noting that U Chicago’s IRB seemingly approved a study that violated copyright and subject consent, points to a serious failure at that university and the supervising professor on the research. It may not seem so from the outside, but this is a big deal.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I wouldn't use the word collapse here. That brings in too much passive tense. Just like "sunsetting". What is going on is a tragedy though, I agree. With global implications.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is a terrible blow to the social sciences and humanities at UNC-Ch. I don't think anybody would buy the officially stated reason for "sunsetting", given the amount of money the university spends on sports.

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Mark your calendars! Our online panel is coming up next Monday!

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Please join us ! Online Panel on Global Youth Mobilization in Times of Polycrisis December 8th (Monday), 11 am Central/ 12.00 EST Register at [bit.ly/3K1ZUIi]. We will discuss youth mobilization across diverse political contexts—including Indonesia, Morocco, and the United States.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social

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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

📚 In our Collection on #Polarisation in #Turkey Political #Polarisation on Social Media: Competing Understandings of Democracy in Turkey 🆓Read the #FreeAccess article by @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social, M. Odabaş, D. Tunaoglu & @mustafa-yavas.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Sorry for my ignorence but isn't that a door security camera thing? At least it seems so when I google it, so totally confused.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

sometimes there's just Too Much World, isn't there

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Now that #NoKings 2.0 is behind us, here's a quick 🧵 into the data we collected in DC on Saturday to start thinking about what the day-of-action can tell us about this wave of Resistance to Trump2.0 and its policies. The day turned out millions across the US in over 2700 locations across the US:

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This fantastic map by Francis Galton shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881.

This is an isochronic passage chart for travelers created by Francis Galton. The Princeton library catalog has this description "Landmasses and oceans colored according to travel time (in days) to those points from London, ca. 1881. Includes explanation of colors, showing days journey indicated by each color. Includes note: "showing the shortest number of days journey from London by the quickest through routes and using such further conveyances as are available without unreasonable cost. It is supposed that local preparations have been made and that other circumstances are favourable." From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography."

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Katherine Carroll @katherinecarroll.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Revisions can be overwhelming, and I often encourage authors to rank revisions from "critical" to "if-there-is-time." I also tell authors to write down three parts of the manuscript that make them proud because every manuscript has fantastic parts, too. #AcademicSky #amediting #academia #writing

Tree trunk with autumn leaves on the ground around it.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📢 Submit your paper for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference (@bjsociology.bsky.social) by Monday 20 October - three weeks today. There is no predetermined theme. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts relating to any aspect of sociology. Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Calling political sociologists and political scientists! Submissions are open for the 2nd People-ing Politics Mini-Conference at ESS! This year's theme is "Bringing the People Back In." To submit a paper, please use the ESS conference portal and be sure to choose our mini-conference. www.essnet.org

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Next ECSR conference will take place 15-17 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract deadline 11 January 2026. If you're wondering if this conference is for you, have a look at the kind of work we publish in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Submissions: col.eventsair.com/ecsr-2026/su...

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Turkish women's volleyball team lost the world championship golden medal in a nail-biting game against Italy, but they definitely aced against the Turkish Internet trolls and their negative campaigns throughout the tournament (esp. on the other site). Congrats for the silver #FileninSultanlari

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Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Turkey will face Italy at the volleyball world championship final tomorrow. Both of them had a though semi-final match today. I expect tomorrow's match to be full of fire and drama 😎

Turkish volleyball team celebrating the semi-final match point against Japan

Italian volleyball team celebrating the semi-final match point against Brazil

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