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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Currently reading this, it is exactly about how that clustering comes to be.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who here remembers the Facebook Beacon fiasco? Facebook cannot be trusted, period.

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Proud to work at the @inquirer.com, where today our entire five-page Opinion section is about the many ways Trump’s White House has become a house of corruption. The Inquirer is keeping Freedom of the Press alive in the city where it was founded. But that’s not all! 🧵

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This took me down a rabbit hole that ended up me being grateful I am very far from being mistaken for the “most beautiful woman in the country [Turkey].” Too many nut-jobs have money and power.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pretty sure Tarkan’s Kuzu Kuzu and some other videos would land him in trouble today.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My feminist take is: I don’t feel sympathy for women who have knowingly and willingly internalized patriarchy to a level that they have become patriarchy’s mouthpieces. Feminist sympathy better be directed at women who were oppressed into internalizing patriarchy. Sisterhood has its limits.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is this how they wanna profit off of the betting markets?

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today I found out that my Ek$i Sözlük nick was cited in a book. They translated and block-quoted one of my entries. Made me chuckle.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is a Black nation, these racists probably levied high tariff rates to Wakandan goods too.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“Honestly if I were in her shoes I don’t know what I’d do… at some point we need a different kind of politics.” Ta-Nehisi Coates to @timmiller.bsky.social on Dems who won’t break with 🇮🇱 (like all Republicans) asking for the votes of folks who lost family in 🇵🇸 Full: youtu.be/z11IP4ze7bM?is

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My teenager is finally in her Hamilton era. I’ve been waiting for this since the days with endless wheels on the bus repeats.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’m going with a Turkish meme in response to the Senator’s death: Allahım sen meseleyi biliyorsun, amin!

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And the results say your boobs are too dense for mammogram to detect accurately and you have to come back for an ultrasound or MRI. I’m no radiologist, but why not do the ultrasound first?

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Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Suçu, kasten güldürmek. Görsel: Hıdır Murat Doğan #DenizGöktaşSerbestBırakılsın

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And of course… bsky.app/profile/enge...

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I learned to read right after a military coup, practiced reading with humor magazines like Gırgır. Political humor was in TV shows, movies, the stage and in print under military rule or conservative parties. Tolerance was not 100% but largely there. Self censorship of this era is at peak levels.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The show is recorded at Harbiye and complete with a cat that visited the stage and seagulls that can be heard when they got loud above.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Comedian Deniz Göktaş is pretty much daring the Turkish establishment to arrest him with his new show. Turkey lost so many things under Erdogan; political humor is one I miss from my childhood/youth. I hope Deniz does not get targeted for revisiting it so courageously. youtu.be/ksaVzHyClto

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Deniz Göktaş - Ölü Deniz (2026)

YouTube video by Deniz Göktaş

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hahahaha, this level of ignorance… the demagoguery, the fervent appeal to primordial values… Tragicomic 🙃 bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

bsky.app/profile/jare... Northern Ireland, of course, has its own history of political violence but what is happening in Belfast is pretty global.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Twitter was a strong tool for pro-democracy protests, X has become a tool for organizing pogroms/race riots targeting minorities. This weird manosphere-white supremacist-Musk fanboi nexus isn’t going anywhere. Hopefully remaining sane people in power see the danger in that.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I would say, at least in Turkey, most households would not want a dog (or cat) inside the house but that is related to conceptions of cleanliness, same as not wearing shoes inside. That’s very different from hating dogs.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This person would be so surprised in Istanbul where community cats and dogs are everywhere. Why would Muslims hate dogs?

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

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This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.

This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Scholars at Risk is offering two new tracks of fellowships for early-career researchers on academic freedom! We have one track for scholars working on the US and one for scholars on global/comparative/other countries: www.scholarsatrisk.org/the-network-...

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Call for Applications: 2026-27 Scholars at Risk (SAR) Academic Freedom Fellowships | Scholars at Risk

Scholars at Risk (SAR) is pleased to invite early-career researchers to apply for remote research fellowships focusing on academic freedom and related higher education values.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

bsky.app/profile/theb... Complementary reading. If you’re sure to lose, cancel/postpone/invalidate/imprison. Desperate measures, but if they work, they work.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is an interesting development to watch. Once authoritarians get in power, elections are either fragile or meaningless. Orban and Russia at it. Thinking about midterms in the US and wrongfully imprisoned political party leaders in Turkey.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

And how many of them pronounced Iran as “I ran”?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Person of Interest is such a great show. I won’t count the reasons why except noting that it is consistently good through the end. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It is even more relevant now in the age of AI and federal government scaring school kids at school bus stops.

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a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says i wanna hold out hope but hope is painful .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says i wanna hold out hope but hope is painful .

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Local elections matter. It’s not all about who the president is.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Fotoğraf görmeden inanmam 😸

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

She was an Istanbul street cat in a previous life #2. (No, she did not get any.)

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Some movies and series do it really well. My problem with them is, in most cases, defeating authoritarianism requires a “hero”.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is a great list. I taught a course on identity politics with a film component once; my list has some overlaps with this. My favorite genre sci-fi has many movies/series that tackle authoritarianism in imagined worlds/futures, that’d be a separate list.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 brought many new things into my life and these babies were the best of them. Hoping for a 2026 where we can at least maintain our sanity. May the new year be as sweet as these kittens for all of you!

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It is a disgrace we have normalized the expectation and preparation for school shootings in this country.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Because I work in education, I had to participate in an in-person active shooter training. I’m a generally calm person but the training was difficult emotionally. Our children do these trainings regularly again and again. They carry emotional burden of shootings even when they are not targeted.

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In our district former English Learners (those who gain proficiency in English and exit language support) outperform other students. Maybe low scores for immigrants are due to language barriers. 🤷‍♀️

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Ebru Erdem 🧿 @eerdem.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Bir önceki hayatında İstanbul sokak kedisiymiş. #caturday

Tabby cat looking at a plate that has simit and cheese

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