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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We were there 3 years ago for a conference, and we loved it! Bruges was nice too, but Ghent was really underrated.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Has anyone written about infrastructural translation as a coherent, self-contained concept? I found some STS papers that use it in passing but wondering if I’m missing anything.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Has anyone written about infrastructural translation as a coherent, self-contained concept? I found some STS papers that use it in passing but wondering if I’m missing anything.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Ottomans didn’t control Iran?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is a pogrom

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

newrepublic.com

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is what the US did in the war on terror —— scores of people imprisoned on the flimsiest pretext

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"Jews control… the colleges, the nonprofits, the movies, Hollywood, all of it." - Charlie Kirk, 2023 “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If this is what a broad based Dem party looks like, no but no thanks.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My university used to incessantly tell students that they weren't engaging sufficiently with "difficult" ideas (90% of those "difficult" ideas? That some of those students weren't human.). This year it got rid of student commencement speakers, lest those students raise a particular difficult idea.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/12/2025

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

Homeland security twitter screenshot - “all America wants for Christmas is remigration”

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.

forbes.com

Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research

Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

What an interesting coincidence.

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Trump's stupid FIFA peace participation trophy

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Also I never understood the appeal of Ben Lee. Why are some academics making +300k? Like what’s the marginal value retaining them provides to the institution?

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Of course they did! I also recall maybe it was way more expensive than it was supposed to? Didn’t the president fuck up the initial plans?

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Why am I not surprised? It was obvious this was bound to happen when they built that ugly flagship building—there was some controversy but can’t remember what exactly.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

they really think they’re so badass

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My department is looking for someone who studies the politics of public policy, broadly defined. We are an interdisciplinary department with international and Turkish faculty with diverse backgrounds. Feel free to reach out. stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...

stars.bilkent.edu.tr

Faculty Position in Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Public Policy) | Applications for Faculty Positions

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/08/2025

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you refuse to reciprocate the gift when you transition from the position of receiving to gift-giving, you are the one violating the norm.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Honestly if you are senior faculty complaining about service work because it is “free”, it looks very bad. I am all for people getting paid better, but this doesn’t change the fact that academia depends on gift as much as money exchange. You got where you got bc of the gift of free labor of others.

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David Hengsbach @davidhengsbach.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A new article by my colleague Guadalupe Moreno just got published. She shows how monetary distrust has evolved in Argentina and discusses implications for central banks' governability. Must read for central bank scholars and folks interested in the sociology of money academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

academic.oup.com

Remembering crises: the making of monetary distrust in Argentina

Abstract. Money, the paramount contract of market societies, relies on our collective belief in its enduring value. Yet we still know little about the soci

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/07/2025

This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report. bsquarebulletin.com/bloomington-...

bsquarebulletin.com

Bloomington goes a year without telling residents it can’t fluoridate drinking water

The city where fluoride toothpaste was invented has been unable to reliably add fluoride to its drinking water for years—and Bloomington officials never notified the public, even after they decided to...

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Thanks for the mention, Miche. @isabellamweber.bsky.social: I actually have a paper I never published. Happy to share.

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

I am sitting in front of flower garden holding a copy of my new book, BORN IN FLAMES.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I was supposed to be part of the elites mini-conference but had to cancel bc of my partner’s health problems.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

People who advocate such anti-immigration policies must be mentally ill.

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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

No wonder the chocolate in airport was so expensive.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Anyone who has gone through college and learned writing should know this. At least we now have hard proof.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My first viral tweet. Wasn’t expecting it at all tbh. 😁

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

They will arrest and deport legal persons, and the criteria will be skin color.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

GOP is trying to sabotage the entire higher education sector, because they see universities’ power to produce truth as a major threat to their fascist agenda. It is that simple.

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