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Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD

@fulyafelicity.bsky.social
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Political scientist by training, kosmopolitês at heart I study what happens when emigrants exit, but states won’t let go, thinking & writing about emigrants, authoritarianism, and transnational politics. www.fulyafelicityturkmen.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/09/2026
You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.
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ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I spoke with @gilduran.com this week to discuss the roots and rise of tech fascism—and how it might fall.
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Charting the rise of tech fascism
How the tech right seized power, with Gil Duran, author of the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.
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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My first piece as a Good Authority Fellow is out: "Good to Know: Why people support political violence." Thanks to @goodauth.bsky.social; and to @claryc.bsky.social and Vanessa Lide for substantive feedback and sharp editing. goodauthority.org/news/good-to-know-why-people-support-political-violence/
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Good to Know: Why people support political violence
Political violence isn't a simple issue. Discover the surprising conditions under which people justify political violence, and why surveys often miss the mark.
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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Why Economists Don’t Listen indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/why-econom...
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Why Economists Don’t Listen: Tales From an Anthropology Spy in Economics
In 1993, I was sitting on a mud floor with a small group of women in a village in Karnataka, trying to start a conversation about their lives.
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Jesse Acevedo @profejacevedo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My paper "Exodus and vote: Mass emigration and voter turnout in Honduras" is out in Electoral Studies doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/07/2026
Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...
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Alex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sign up for the next APCG colloquium! @allisong.bsky.social @pruett.bsky.social @adajkanu.bsky.social
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A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Brief pause from Messi's magic to share my new piece in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Education as a Political Institution" which explains why we should stop treating education as just another public service Open access here: tinyurl.com/yezzkam5
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Education as a Political Institution
Education institutions are fundamentally political. They mold political values, shape inequality, create opportunities for patronage through teaching jobs, and can even be used for political surveilla...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
How is this a challenge
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13/06/2026
If you're a European, Canadian, or Australian policymaker looking to make the case for #digitalsovereignty, the United States has just made it for you. The time for debate is over; cloud and AI sovereignty are essential if future generations are to avoid digital colonialism.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I saw this and said, “must be an economist who wrote this working paper” Y’all keep falling for it
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
HPV vaccination can prevent these devastating cancers. “While HPV leads to 11,100 cervical cancers each year, the virus causes 16,000 cancers in the head and neck… The incidence of HPV-related head and neck cancers tripled from 2000 to 2017” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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‘Something I’d never heard of almost killed me’: Men face rising threat of HPV-related cancers
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I don't want AI in my shirmp plate
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I am thrilled to receive special recognition by @apsamena.bsky.social Best Article committee for my work on gender "edutainment" in authoritarian regimes. My pastry chef past makes it personal. But I'm also on a quest to audio-visualize the political science toolkit. This means a tremendous amount.
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Cooking Shows as Gender Edutainment in Authoritarian Regimes: Recipe for (New) Turkey | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Cooking Shows as Gender Edutainment in Authoritarian Regimes: Recipe for (New) Turkey
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Language matters. “Civil terrorism” serves not just to vilify but to criminalize. Like pro-AKP actors labeling queer representation in Turkish media as “socio-cultural terrorism.” I unpack this with baykurt.bsky.social, @ekoshy.bsky.social on their great podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Episode 8: We've Seen Protesters Called Terrorists - A Conversation with Dr. Lisel Hintz
Podcast Episode · It All Happened Before · May 6 · 58m
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When my first paper got published, it was after too many years and too many rejections. Was hard to know if I fit in. After publication, Raúl generously tweeted about the paper, Race as a Bundle of Sticks, regularly. I remain grateful for how he both validated the work and conveyed that I belonged.
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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Everyone’s research questions are shaped by lived experience. Some scholars are trained to hide this. Others are punished for admitting it. But no one comes to their work from nowhere." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Your Lived Experience Makes You a Better Scholar
What you know from your own life can become the question that shapes your strongest work.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I don't want to read any more opinions about "how instructors should respond to AI" that don't engage at all with our working conditions: heavy teaching loads, large class sizes, adjunctification, etc.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
LLMs are gonna do a lot of really bad things but inshallah they will annihilate the business model of terrible SaaS companies.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In light of today's news, I strongly recommend this podcast episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)
Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E7 · 1h 52m
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In MAGA biopolitics, teen births "crash"ing is a bad thing. In AKP Turkey, women should have at least three children. Everyday media, like cooking shows and #tradwives content, make these agendas more palatable to wide audiences My article in Politics and Gender www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cooking Shows as Gender Edutainment in Authoritarian Regimes: Recipe for (New) Turkey | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Cooking Shows as Gender Edutainment in Authoritarian Regimes: Recipe for (New) Turkey
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
As A.I. increasingly and undeniably reveals itself to be a very real threat to the authenticity and reliability of digital data and records, I wonder if we're going to see a societal shift - prompted by those at the bottom, up - back to physical record keeping and old school paper trails.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It's @professormusgrave.bsky.social o'clock again, alas
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And you thought AI posed problems for academia...
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy 10th anniversary to the best #AprilFools prank @dadakim.bsky.social & I ever pulled!
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Weary professors give up, concede that Africa is a country
As of April 1, we’re done.
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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Policy implication: facilitating international migration should be in every developing country's toolkit. Nearly all developing countries already have government agencies for overseas employment. Our evidence says this is the right call: it's not hollowing out, it's building up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/04/2026
With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is out of control
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com:

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Nine majors "sunsetting":
• Classical civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• Digital humanities
• Fine arts
• German
• Latino-Latin American studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Modern Jewish studies
• Russian
ALTThe First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy
Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education.
The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin).
Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership.
By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Text screenshot from link: Claude was reminding me of something.
Something where I would be responsible but under-credited when the results are presented.
Oh my god, was I Claude's nanny?!
My male peers might be offput by me calling what it makes of us a 'nanny.' But the point of a nanny is the child, who gets a lion's share of the credit.
Misbehavior is blamed on the nanny, or the parents, never the little boy. And work with Al seems to be prioritizing what a special little boy[1] Claude is: look at him try! Sometimes he makes things up, but how impressive! We will weigh the correct things disproportionately to the things little Claude gets wrong. No, we have to let this little guy keep trying, he might change the world!
No, no, that vase is not valuable. Someone else can spend the time cleaning it up. You just didn't
ask Claude the 'right way!' Look what Claude can do!
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“There are 36 countries on Mr. Trump’s travel ban or restriction list. Twenty-nine of them are in Africa.” “Nearly 90 percent of African immigrant visa applicants are now banned…” via @nytimes.com
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Sports Fans, Doctors, Musicians: Africans Lament U.S. Travel Ban
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Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD @fulyafelicity.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
1/ New essay: "The Demon Does Not Use a Keyboard Shortcut, or Science as a Vocation in the Age of the Machine" I work inside AI systems and I have a PhD in political science. I wrote about what it looks like when those two things collide. fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-demon-...
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The Demon Does Not Use a Keyboard Shortcut
or Science as a Vocation in the Age of the Machine
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"the assumption is that survey responses, experimental data, & admin. records are already anonymized & therefore safe to process through AI platforms. But anonymization at...collection does not guarantee anonymization at the point of AI processing." fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-securi...
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The Security Mindset, for Political Scientists
I am a political scientist who wrote a dissertation on how authoritarian states engage their diaspora communities, with Turkey and Zimbabwe as comparative cases.
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Incredibly moving piece on the tensions of Iranian diaspora. My colleague and friend Narges Bajoghli identifies an “anguished double consciousness”: deep loathing for the Iranian regime but unwillingness to celebrate the war’s deaths and destruction. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Hard Feelings
The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.
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Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD @fulyafelicity.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I never thought I’d have a substack, but here we are. I wrote something about the other side of the AI in academia debate. What these tools do to the environments we work in and the people we study: fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-securi...
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The Security Mindset, for Political Scientists
I am a political scientist who wrote a dissertation on how authoritarian states engage their diaspora communities, with Turkey and Zimbabwe as comparative cases.
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Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Coming soon! A sequel to Outsourcing Repression (and Everyday State Power in China). Abstract here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
this is extremely dangerous.
In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment, a result Alex Ruani, a doctoral researcher in health misinformation mitigation with University College London, described as "unbelievably dangerous" "If you're experiencing respiratory failure or diabetic ketoacidosis, you have a 50/50 chance of this AI telling you it's not a big deal," she said. "What worries me most is the false sense of security these systems create. If someone is told to wait 48 hours during an asthma attack or diabetic crisis, that reassurance could cost them their life." In one of the simulations, eight times out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appointment she would not live to see, Ruani said. Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care, said Ruani, who was not involved in the study.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/02/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I'm sure this is early days, lots more research needed, but how exciting that it's even possible. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say
A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.
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X2Y @handle.invalid · 21/02/2026
SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
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Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD @fulyafelicity.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w... Loved every part of this story. The heaviness of living under immigrant parents who just want to give more than they were given, mostly through "tough love." The Gen Z courage of saying no to things people before them never even knew they could say no to.
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Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time
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