Onur Özgöde
@ummodern.bsky.social
Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press
Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science
Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science
Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
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they really think they’re so badass
October 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
they really think they’re so badass
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/staffapp/POL...
Faculty Position in Department of Political Science and Public Administration (Public Policy) | Applications for Faculty Positions
stars.bilkent.edu.tr
October 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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/staffapp/POL...
Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!
Sofia and I have a new article out about Civil War era monetary policy and architecture, as understood by Stephen Colwell. Colwell is an interesting figure I wrote about in my AHR article as well. In some ways very conservative, in others radical...
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
Central Monetary Services Without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century US Monetary Architecture | History of Political Economy | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
August 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!
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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.
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.
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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.
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.
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.
August 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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.
Another reason @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to be ashamed of itself.
Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
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August 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Another reason @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to be ashamed of itself.
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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-...
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
academic.oup.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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-...
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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.
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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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July 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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-...
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First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.
July 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.
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I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.
People who advocate such anti-immigration policies must be mentally ill.
Restore Britain "net negative migration" policy is "annual departure of legal migrants must at least double" & "significantly more must leave than enter"
*Annual* emigration target of > 880,000 legal migrants (440k foreign nationals emigrated, 2024). Needed > 950k to meet Lowe second rule in 2024
*Annual* emigration target of > 880,000 legal migrants (440k foreign nationals emigrated, 2024). Needed > 950k to meet Lowe second rule in 2024
July 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
People who advocate such anti-immigration policies must be mentally ill.
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Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.
June 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.
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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
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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
t.co/JXeTALBPds
No wonder the chocolate in airport was so expensive.
June 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No wonder the chocolate in airport was so expensive.
Anyone who has gone through college and learned writing should know this. At least we now have hard proof.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Anyone who has gone through college and learned writing should know this. At least we now have hard proof.
My first viral tweet. Wasn’t expecting it at all tbh. 😁
How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?
These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
My first viral tweet. Wasn’t expecting it at all tbh. 😁
How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?
These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).
Local media reporting that the victims appear to be two Democratic state lawmakers and a spouse. No word on injuries.
This is really, really dark news to wake up to.
This is really, really dark news to wake up to.
June 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?
They will arrest and deport legal persons, and the criteria will be skin color.
In the first 100 days of the Trump admin, ICE averaged 665 arrests a day. 3,000 a day, a 450% increase, is an INSANE number for them to demand now; genuinely, truly, the stuff of madness.
May 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
They will arrest and deport legal persons, and the criteria will be skin color.
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.
*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO
Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting
The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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Former Israeli PM Olmert in Haaretz, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza “intentional annihilation” and “war crimes.” Say that as a U.S. politician and AIPAC will spend $5 million to end your career.
archive.ph/3vvOi
archive.ph/3vvOi
May 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Former Israeli PM Olmert in Haaretz, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza “intentional annihilation” and “war crimes.” Say that as a U.S. politician and AIPAC will spend $5 million to end your career.
archive.ph/3vvOi
archive.ph/3vvOi
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Must read on the crisis of the (UK) university from @unsocialtheory.bsky.social
janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...
janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...
Three ghosts of British higher education
[These are the more-or-less unedited notes for my speech at the event Multiple Crises of Higher Education, held on 20 May 2025 at Queen Mary’s Mile End Institute, and organised by the fantast…
janabacevic.net
May 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Must read on the crisis of the (UK) university from @unsocialtheory.bsky.social
janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...
janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...
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that took what, three hours?
Harvard just got a TRO against the SEVP decertification.
May 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
that took what, three hours?
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A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration from blocking Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
Federal judge halts Trump administration ban on Harvard’s ability to enroll international students | CNN
A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.
www.cnn.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration from blocking Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
Met him when he came to Northwestern to give a talk on gaming of academic metrics. He seemed like a kind, humble, and caring person. RIP to one of the greats of STS.
So sad that a dear friend and colleague, Mario Biagioli, died a few days ago, far too young. I find it hard to believe: Mario seemed always so vital, so full of energy and enthusiasm, a true intellectual. A great loss
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
Mario Biagioli (1955-2025) – ISHTIP.org
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May 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Met him when he came to Northwestern to give a talk on gaming of academic metrics. He seemed like a kind, humble, and caring person. RIP to one of the greats of STS.
Gestapo
ICE wrestled Alabama worker to the ground & detain him for hours—he is a U.S. citizen.
Young man was begging & shouting, "I am a U.S. citizen"—but that didn't stop ICE agents from dragging him off to a detention center.
Young man was begging & shouting, "I am a U.S. citizen"—but that didn't stop ICE agents from dragging him off to a detention center.
May 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Gestapo