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Jelena Subotic

@jelenasubotic.bsky.social

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I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at# .. more

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Jelena Subotić is a political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is known for her research on memory politics, human rights, and transitional justice. She has expertise in the politics of the Western Balkans. Her 2019 book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism won the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the best book award of the year by the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association. .. more

Political science 46%

Sociology 18%

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h

"The first written mention of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas Day comes from 1935, when, according to The New York Times, a man named Eng Shee Chuck brought chow mein and toys to a New Jersey Jewish orphanage." fortune.com/2025/12/24/w...

American Jews, Chinese food and Christmas: The first connection was a 1935 gift of chow mein to a New Jersey orphanage | Fortune

Elena Kagan was asked where she was on Christmas during her Supreme Court confirmation: “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.”

fortune.com

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more Nandita Sharma, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Lesley A. Hall, Jelena Subotić, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Martin S. Flaherty

Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 1d

screenshotting this exchange for my Tisch freshman who is like "I can take WWI but as musical class?" thank you for your service!

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

“Like Prime, but with human beings.”

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”

Reposted by Jelena Subotić

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2d

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 2d

I also had questions about the bangs

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem’s DHS posted an AI video showing Santa as an ICE agent rounding up immigrants.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 2d

To accompany this latest absurdity, let me introduce you to an article on the ontological security of US naval ship museums by me and Brent Steele, which can perhaps shed light a bit on why this pathetic obsession with big things that shoot guns. Open access here: academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

Trump Announces New ‘Trump Class’ of Warships

www.nytimes.com

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 2d

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 3d

Cannot think of a better metaphor for America than this crane dangling two portapotties from hundreds of feet up. One door has already opened and I am waiting for all that shit to come crashing on my house.

Reposted by David S. Cohen, Jelena Subotić

CB @cryptopitcher.bsky.social · 4d

AI is not going to go away

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael H. Whitworth , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael H. Whitworth, Jelena Subotić, Klaus Oschema

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d

It also robs students of learning *how* to research.

Reposted by Jelena Subotić, Adele Perry

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d

It also robs students of learning *how* to research.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Jelena Subotić, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

Ian Bicking @ianbicking.org · 5d

What about this is controversial? Beginning an inquiry by using AI to survey material is a very normal and appropriate use.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I don't think we can blame the use of AI on rush to productivity. There's been publish or perish paradigm for decades. This just makes me think a lot of academics don't actually enjoy their jobs and are just phoning it in. Which makes me so mad considering how many junior people can't get jobs.

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 5d

yes same and same!!!

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 5d

I wake up in the morning, scream about this until the end of the day, then start again the following day. This is my life now. We have to make this stop.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Reposted by Ian Miles, Steve Peers, Carlos Nunes Silva , and 4 more Ian Miles, Steve Peers, Carlos Nunes Silva, Michael H. Whitworth, Michiel van Meeteren, Mark Robinson, Jelena Subotić

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 6d

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 6d

nothing but respect

Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 7d

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Reposted by Jelena Subotić, Seth Masket

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 6d

it's really hard to watch my only solace is that it's worse for them to wear it than for me to see it so there's that

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 6d

Spotted a 60-something man on the beach reading Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto.” His wife is nearby. She has Mar-a-Lago face and is wearing a trucker hat that says “Sun. Yoga. Champagne.” She’s been watching a live cam feed of her front door on a comically large tablet for the last 20 minutes.

Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 7d

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 7d

the neediness of that pathetic dude my god

Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 7d

the fuck is this kelly

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 7d

It's going to feel so good "renaming" the Kennedy Center and demolishing the "ballroom" when he's gone.

Reposted by Jelena Subotić, Andrew Rudalevige, David Darmofal

Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 7d

on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Tom Clark, Seema Jayachandran , and 5 more Anna O. Law, Tom Clark, Seema Jayachandran, Samantha Brennan, Jelena Subotić, Arlene Stein, Daxton R. Stewart, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

Opinion column from David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.

I have been especially startled to see Ro Khanna, a House Democrat and one of the most impressive politicians in America, use the phrase “the Epstein class” in his public statements. In an interview with my colleague David Leonhardt this week, Khanna explained that he had gotten the phrase from voters who asked him if he was on the side of “forgotten Americans” or “the Epstein class.”

Photo of David Brooks at dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, from files released by the House Oversight Committee.

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