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Hamit Basgol
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kahrolsun istibdat, yaşasın hürriyet | phd r. at tübingen/gtc | cogs ma at boun, 2021 | psy ba at hü, 2016 | arousal, uncertainty, pupillometry
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Biz adalete susamış Türk gençliğiyiz.

Tüm Beylikdüzülü komşularımı ve İstanbulluları yarın Genel Başkanımız Sayın Özgür Özel’in katılacağı buluşmaya davet ediyorum.

16 Nisan Çarşamba
Beylikdüzü Yaşam Vadisi
April 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Best sign I saw all day.
April 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Ufak bir not... Yerinizde olsam burada haber sitesi görünümlü hiçbir hesabı henüz takip etmem. Haber kaynağı dünya kadar yer var zaten. Bunlar Twitter'daki (...)holder vb. sayfaların muadili. Ya bir iktidar aparatı olarak kuruluyorlar ya da takip sayesinde güçlenip bunlara satılıyorlar.
April 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Free speech elon musk's platform X bans the accounts supporting opposition in Turkey
19 Mart ve sonrasında yaşananlara dair bilgi paylaşan ve eleştirilerde bulunan X hesaplarına erişim engeli getirilmeye başlandı. Erişime engellenen 26 gençlik örgütününe ek olarak, en az 50 X hesabı daha erişime engellendi. ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/s...
March 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A huge anti-Erdoğan protest tonight in Istanbul, defying a four day national ban on protests, to denounce the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.
March 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“Errors are a natural and unavoidable part of scientific process” (Nahum Kipnis, 2011)
Errors in Science and their Treatment in Teaching Science - Science & Education
This paper analyses the real origin and nature of scientific errors against claims of science critics, by examining a number of examples from the history of electricity and optics. This analysis leads...
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I think it is so important that scientists (and all scholars) work towards some greater vision. Whether that is knowledge for its own sake or curing a disease, it is vision that keeps us true and avoids the pitfalls of the careerism disease.
October 7, 2023 at 9:14 AM
Indeed, our most precious resource, whether as individuals or as a society, is our attention. Harari captures our attention with a well-structured narrative, though it lacks a solid scientific, logical foundation.

www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-...
The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
<p>The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.</p>
www.currentaffairs.org
October 4, 2023 at 4:14 PM
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"Here’s the problem, as I see it: the scientific credentials accrued by the journal publications give the researcher a sort of license to make large claims unsupported by evidence."

I like how Gelman gets to the core of the issue without moralization.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/10/02/h...
How did some of this goofy psychology research become so popular? I think it’s a form of transub...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
October 2, 2023 at 9:53 PM
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Oooh, a hint of dimethyl sulfide has been found by JWST in an exoplanet atmosphere! This molecule is only produced by life on earth, so if verified is a huge result. The planet in question is likely an ocean world. Cool stuff! 🧪🔭 www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
Nasa says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean and possible hint of life
Space agency said potential finding of dimethyl sulfide on K2-18 b, produced only by life on Earth, is yet to be confirmed
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2023 at 6:09 AM