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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Making classical sociological theory more appealing to undergraduates. Like The Matrix, Sociological Theory is everywhere. @flaglercollege.bsky.social Fall 2026

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy to announce that I will be a consultant for the National Hellenic Museum’s Frank S. Kamberos’s Oral History Center this summer! I would like to thank the Greek American Restaurant Association for their generous support of this opportunity!

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In May, I will be conducting a research trip in New York where I will interview descendants of migrants from Asia Minor, Eastern Thrace, Imbros, Tenedos and the islands in the Sea of Marmara. If you or anyone you know is located in the cities we will visit please follow the link provided to sign up.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Many thanks to Theodora Patrona and the Laboratory of Narrative Research at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of English for this exciting opportunity!

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Disgusting! We should all be ashamed. Our tax dollars are being used to make some of the most vulnerable individuals among us suffer. Deportation is state violence. youtube.com/shorts/g-Dwd...

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Emmanuel and Maria’s story Part 2

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Fifty year mortgage? Is that like bailing out the banks who swindled people in 2008 with our tax dollars because “they are too big to fail”?

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

They caved now like they did in February, like they did in 2010 on single payer. @davidhogg.bsky.social is right. We need to primary them.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

One slice of pizza this time last year in St. Augustine, Florida was $4.25. Today it is $5.25. I’m curious, how many undocumented children do we need to deport and how many more Palestinians, Sudanese and Ukrainians do we need to see killed to return to last year’s prices?

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Happy to announce my upcoming presentation is just a little over two weeks away! In May of next year, Flagler College students and I will revisit Troy, as well as Albany and Buffalo, to conduct interviews with descendants of migrants from regions of the Ottoman Empire that constitute modern Turkey.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Every time I see a post about Kirk, all I think about are his kids, the kids who survived school shootings, and the families of kids who are victims of school shootings. Hopefully his death will be our turning point towards common sense gun regulations.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This is the cover slide of my introductory lecture for Sociological Research Methods. Throughout the semester I will use examples from Bluey to teach the various methods that Sociologists use, because this world needs more Healers. What are you teaching this semester?

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

On my way to Michigan for this year‘s research trip! The neck pillow courtesy of my daughter so that I won’t forget her during the two weeks that I’m away. #OttomanGreeksUS @flaglercollege.bsky.social

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The sun sets on another thought-provoking Southern Sociological Society Conference! Thank you, Charlotte, NC!

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Honored to be a presenter at the Southern Sociological Society’s annual conference. The title of my talk is, Ottoman Greek Mexicans?: Historical Lessons for Contemporary Immigrantion Advocacy. See you there!

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It was an honor to present at the Hellenic Museum of Michigan today. Many thanks to Evans Tasiopoulos, and George Verras for their support and hospitality.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

On my way to Detroit for tomorrow’s public program at the Hellenic Museum of Michigan!

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In May of 2026, I will lead a study away FlagSHIP program in New York State. FlagSHIP is a requirement for all second-year students at Flagler College.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We have a name for compilers of such lists in Greek, “dosilogoi.” Anyone who resisted the Nazi occupation was given up by traitors to the Nazis. These people would be led by the occupiers in black masks to pick the revolutionaries out of a line up. Those chosen would be executed by firing squad.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Massacres, displacement, trauma, we can do better than supporting settler colonialism. Deportation is state violence. lnkd.in/d2TwPVkQ

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It appears that we cannot rely on Democrats currently in power, and certainly not Republicans, to defend our right to free speech and peaceful protest. Still these fourteen deserve recognition for being on the right side of history. truthout.org/articles/onl...

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Only 14 House Members Sign Letter Calling for Activist Mahmoud Khalil’s Release

Lawmakers denounced the administration’s “assault on free speech” with Khalil’s detention.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

When your five year old daughter hates basil and controls you….

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I am happy to announce that in two months (between May 9 and May 23 of 2025), Flagler College students and I will visit the state of Michigan to conduct interviews with descendants of immigrants from Anatolia, Eastern Thrace, Imbros, Tenedos, and the islands in the Sea of Marmara.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

White supremacists should be opposed, chastised, and ridiculed at every turn. Now is the time to stand up and be counted. My grandfather didn’t die on the Albanian front and my father didn’t live through the Famine imposed by Nazi occupation for naught.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Mr. Hofstetter’s action here is a perfect example of interpersonal anti-White supremacist social activism. This is what Whiteness should be and what true White power should represent, the rejection and uprooting of White supremacy.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

White supremacist, racist, anti-immigrant, this is America. It always has been. But, It does not have to be this way. We can choose empathy and help the most vulnerable among us.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

White people need to uproot White supremacist Whiteness for it to wither and rot. This is our problem. We need to call it out and call on people to oppose it and for those participating in it to reject it. This episode was in New Haven, Connecticut. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/neb_...

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Neo-Nazis Gather, Shout, Salute, Disperse

A group of neo-Nazis showed up on State Street Saturday night. Their destination: Never Ending Books, the long-running free bookstore, arts and nonprofit…

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Game Over. Masterful composition of historical and contemporary symbolism that laid bare the US White Supremacist political and socioeconomic system. Drake is just a case study. youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?...

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Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

My grandparents were refugees to Greece. My parents, brothers and I, are immigrants to the US. Tomorrow, I stand in solidarity with this strike.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This reminds me of the countless examples of New York Times articles about “alien Greeks,” “alien Italians,” and “members of alien hordes” being deported for being over their quota for the month in the early 1920s. The law is just as immoral then as it is now. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/w....

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Inside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to Brazil

The Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Many thanks to Ms. Katie Kelaidis for organizing our upcoming online presentation! If you would like to learn more about the Ottoman Greeks of the US Digital History Project at Flagler College's Public History Program, please register below. www.eventbrite.com/e/online-the...

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ONLINE: The Ottoman Greeks of the United States

Come discover The Ottoman Greeks of the United States Digital History Project (OGUS).

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Deportation is state violence. Those who voted for this should be ashamed.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

From today’s protest in Thessaloniki about holding the government accountable over its responsibility in the Tempe train crash of 2023. www.facebook.com/share/v/19x7...

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Many thanks to Ms. Giota Argyropoulou for hosting me this past Wednesday to discuss the Ottoman Greeks of the US Digital History Project and my upcoming research visit to Michigan with Flagler College students. www.internetradiopros.com/panhellenicn...

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In solidarity with those who lost their loved ones due to the Greek government’s negligence. The upgrades to the safety systems of the railway that were missing and caused this tragedy have not been installed yet.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I am no longer surprised by the multitudinous ways we White people try to explain away White supremacy. Why can’t we simply say, “this is an example of a White supremacist action, I disagree with it. He needs to educate himself and do better things with his time and energy.”

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Remember, regardless of what happens over the next four years, the only moral justification for temporarily instating marshal law should be when another nation invades the US.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Sunday thoughts Sadly, on the commemoration of the birthday of one of the greatest human beings to ever live, we will witness the inauguration of a White supremacist and convicted felon to his second, and hopefully, last term.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sunday thoughts In an economy where people without any diplomas have to work 3-4 jobs to make $30,000 and many PhDs earn the same, the TikTok ban means food removed from people’s tables while Meta and its shareholders make another couple of million. This will not end well.

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Yiorgo Topalidis - digital sociologist, public historian @ytop.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sunday thoughts May the ceasefire become permanent. May every Palestinian who survived this ongoing genocide return to their homes in Gaza and may our tax dollars facilitate them to rebuild without one centimeter of land being ceded to Israel.

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