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Robin Sudanan Turner

@rsudananturner.bsky.social
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Transdisciplinary PhD candidate working with queerness, discourse & Montreal. ลูกครึ่ง // สายกิน // ทาสแมว // นักเรียน

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
1. This is terrible. 2. This is such a BS claim from a university: “We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think.” No! We do, in fact, commit to teaching you what to think. You sign up for a psych course, you have to learn psychology. You can ignore it later if you choose.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
My students' essays for GWS 250 were AMAZING! A true joy to read!! What an incredible experience to end my career as a TA. So grateful to all of them and their wonderful work!
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Winter bear 🐻
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École de technologie supérieure @etsmtl.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
En cette veille du 6 décembre, on se souvient des 14 femmes tuées à Polytechnique en 1989. À l’ÉTS, le Fonds Barbara-Daigneault — en mémoire de notre auxiliaire d’enseignement — soutient des étudiantes en génie et l'initiative «Les filles et les sciences». www.etsmtl.ca/actualites/c...
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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What do you know about anti-gender movements? How do they communicate? Are they Catholic? This, and much more, in my newest publication: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...
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Ben Says Abolish ICE @justanotherben.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"I wonder why everyone comes out of college thinking we're evil scum? Surely it's the woke professors" - Republicans, in the process of destroying students' beloved programs and projects, presumably twirling a mustache
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Rob @robmkeefe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Thoughts on the post-47th world: [Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.] @hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
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American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We spent the last full week of GWS 250 exploring our campus museums (Spurlock Museum of World Cultures and Krannert Art Museum). We had excellent conversations with our guides focused on scales (and chronotopes!) of representation and thinking about ethical decolonial practices in the museum.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I dislike being woken up by an asthma attack (this cold front has me feeling so screwed up! 🥲) but also sort of appreciate being “rescued” from dream me’s dilemma of figuring out toll roads while driving a haunted mini van in the ocean 😟🤨😅
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My chapter has stumbled into poli sci approaches to news media and I am scared. 😱
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Ah, what a relief--the "You would have been better off as a real doctor" discourse has entered the family chat...as justification for the fat-shaming that preceded it.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Now available! NATIONS WITHOUT NATIONALISM reflects a passionate commitment to enlightenment and social justice. As ethnic strife persists in Europe and the United States, Kristeva’s humanistic message carries with it a special resonance and urgency. buff.ly/F6LGtrJ
Promotional graphic for Julia Kristeva's Nations Without Nationalism. It includes the book's cover, a blurb, and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu
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Alex S @alexsavard.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Comment les médias l'échappent? Dans l'image ci-dessous "Appels à l'armée à désobéir aux ordres" : Inexact. Le message était de désobéir aux ordres ILLÉGAUX. Nulle part on ne mentionne qu'un appel à la peine de mort pour ses opposants et en fait pas mal plus fou que le message démocrates.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Quite an opening.
 Introduction
In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort
judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large
language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally
similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20
manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an
average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with
some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI,
Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly
single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering.
Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A president can’t even call for the execution of the elected officials trying to stop his assault on the law anymore, because of woke. Just kidding, he can and did call for their execution
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Now available! Throughout PROUST AND THE SENSE OF TIME, Kristeva draws on Proust’s notebooks and manuscripts, pointing out significant variations in the different versions of his work. buff.ly/7PPdbOV
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The entire post is beyond stupid, divorced from facts, and a parody of "the immigrant stole your cookie"-ism," but I want to call out "groceries cost too much" as one particular stupidity. Over 40% of farmworkers picking crops are undocumented! Deport them and prices go UP!
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 20/11/2025
A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance "We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world." xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
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I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The baristas at your local café may be able to know your order on sight when you come in. Can you say the same about your pharmacists? Because I can ✨ Love my local support systems ☕️💊🙏😂 💁🏻‍♀️
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Media seem obsessed with framing a story with someone “breaking their silence” It’s not an exiled whistleblower…it’s Sophie Trudeau mentioning her ex’s relationship with the woman who sings about being a plastic bag drifting through the wind.
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swan 🍃 @pandersera.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Teaching a course with students from all years and so many disciplines: 1st and 2nd years: I am terrified of this paper—I’ve never written 5 pages before. 4th years: omg we are doing worksheets? I forgot how cute these are. All of them: NEVER write their names on their assignments, EVER. 🥹😂🥲
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Juan Carlos Mezo @jcmezo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
My book with @dukepress.bsky.social is now available for pre-order! Use coupon code E26JCMGZ to save 30%! www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In "Gay Print Culture," Juan Carlos Mezo González @jcmezo.bsky.social investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada through the 1970s-90s. #LGBTQStudies Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/LdyHSFV
Cover of Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America by Juan Carlos Mezo González. Cover features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers. The title is in verlaid text in a large white font with the subtitle in a smaller cream font below it. The author's name is at the bottom right in yellow font. There is a faint overlay of typed text across the entire image.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Buying this “laws aren’t real” tee that conveniently articulates my support of abortion *and* psychoanalysis shoutyourabortion.com/product/laws...
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LAWS AREN’T REAL Tee — Shout Your Abortion
Normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality.
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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 15/11/2025
Great backgrounder from the Advocate on how a small group of more or less professional detransitioners and rare stories of regret are being weaponized by Reps to drive policy and drown out local voices. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Detransition is rare, but it’s driving anti-trans policy anyway
Political rhetoric doesn’t capture the complexity of detransitioning — or what taking away health care means.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/11/2025
This is one of the most recent things Alice did. It was, as ever, a clear, trenchant, messy, and powerful exploration of not just her own experiences but also society's expectations around disability.
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Women in ICE detention are being sterilized, and then deported if they speak out about it. This is 100% Nazi-style eugenics. www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9... 1/?
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Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
At the point where I almost didn’t check because it’s that believable…le sigh.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I feel like I am betraying my generation of millenials in saying this, but I think I prefer the Microsoft Copilot corner floatie to Clippy; I just feel less judged.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Wow, my personality in my notes app is much more well-spoken. And definitely more unapologetic. Will these notes ever see the light of public spaces of engagement? Let me get my student debt paid off then we can ~circle back~
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/11/2025
Stop waiting for the 'right time' to transition - a lesson from King Arthur 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/stop-waiting-f…
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Stop waiting for the 'right time' to transition - a lesson from King Arthur
Instead of waiting for the ‘right time’, let's use the agency and self-determination we do have
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
May I ask Americans to learn something from this moment of shame? STOP BEING RACIST TOWARD OTHER NATIONS The emperor has NO CLOTHES
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Patriarchal white supremacy has never been about “protecting women and girls.” Rather it’s a social system that empowers privileged white men to do what they want to women’s bodies while simultaneously claiming migrants are sexual abusers of “their” women. This racist misogyny is painfully ordinary.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today was a good day for Linguistic Anthropology at UIUC! Lots of excellent discussions and discovered that many folx are united in their displeasure for the infinite scroll (aka the driving force of my daily brainrot 😅)
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I feel like people should know: People who repeat (literally) “I am trying to be an ally” are never, EVER an ally. * Talk Valentina…Ally! *.gif
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/11/2025
“Quebec remains a truly exceptional place,” writes @francinepelletier.bsky.social “Politically and culturally, this quasi-country has a complexity that is unique within Canada.” Here, she explores how that uniqueness has both sustained and divided it: thewalrus.ca/the-generation-t...
On the left: a photo of a crowd waving Quebec provincial flags. On the right: text that reads “The generation that outgrew Quebec nationalism. A province obsessed with preserving its culture faces a reckoning with young people who no longer see borders."
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#Newblogpost!!! Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity. folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
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Racialised Un(belonging) within and beyond the University: The threads of a concept
Still seeking the university that is ours
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
Hardback book with a green cover and pink, stencilled writing, reading LANGUAGE AND LGBTQ+ YOUTH: ANALYSING MARGINALISED IDENTITIES THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL LENS by Lucy Jones. The cover picture is an abstract image with shapes in various rainbow-like colours.
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
“How we’re going to survive is taking care of each other and being in community,” -Taylor Morgan, worker-owner at Red Emma’s @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/11/11/i...
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Indie bookstores merge activism and literature for collective care
Charis Books, Red Emma’s, and other booksellers serve as intellectual and cultural hubs during rising authoritarianism
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/11/2025
"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers." LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
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Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani
A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Sometimes, I ponder at what I do as an instructor. Today, I consider how much perpetual chaos my students wake up to every day as well all are. The stress, the unknowns, the suffering, the politics—all of it. 1/2
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Ridiculous. So maddening. Yes, complex. But there is NO doubt that antivaxx misinformation big part of problem. Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
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Robin Sudanan Turner @rsudananturner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
So last time any of us need to hear anything about Kim Davis? Agreed? Way too much going on that require more urgent attention to have that keep popping back up.
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