Ayşe Akalın
@zittiribit.bsky.social
sociologist, news junkie, Wordle player, mom.
often posting stuff in Turkish.
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one day, everyone will have have always been against this..
often posting stuff in Turkish.
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one day, everyone will have have always been against this..
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Ayşe Akalın
@zittiribit.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Temasın İmkânları, Ayşe Akalın, Metis Yayınları
www.metiskitap.com
Madem bu seferki hesabı kendi ismimle açtım, biraz da reklamlar
www.metiskitap.com/catalog/book...
Kitapçınızdan ısrarla isteseniz ne güzel olur 🥰🥰
www.metiskitap.com/catalog/book...
Kitapçınızdan ısrarla isteseniz ne güzel olur 🥰🥰
Karşılaştırmalı siyaset çalışan birinin yaşanan tüm olayları kendi akademik çerçevesinden açıklayabileceğini düşünmesi çok acayip. Akademik tüm metodlar, dahil edebildikleri kadar hariç bıraktıkları unsurlar ile de tanımlanırlar. Bunun ortaya çıkardığı hata payı da metoda içkindir.
February 13, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Karşılaştırmalı siyaset çalışan birinin yaşanan tüm olayları kendi akademik çerçevesinden açıklayabileceğini düşünmesi çok acayip. Akademik tüm metodlar, dahil edebildikleri kadar hariç bıraktıkları unsurlar ile de tanımlanırlar. Bunun ortaya çıkardığı hata payı da metoda içkindir.
so next time somebody invites you to their private plane, maybe think twice?
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM
so next time somebody invites you to their private plane, maybe think twice?
Şemsa Hoca'yı kaybetmişiz. Çok üzgünüm.
February 3, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Şemsa Hoca'yı kaybetmişiz. Çok üzgünüm.
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When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
January 31, 2026 at 4:25 PM
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
This is an effect of digital witnessing
GoFundMe for Alex Pretti's family: $1,739,317.
GoFundMe for Renee Good's family: $1,499,557.
GoFundMe for Keith Porters's family: $302,423.
GoFundMe for Silverio Villegas's family: $57,642.
Even in death, some lives are less valued.
GoFundMe for Renee Good's family: $1,499,557.
GoFundMe for Keith Porters's family: $302,423.
GoFundMe for Silverio Villegas's family: $57,642.
Even in death, some lives are less valued.
January 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
This is an effect of digital witnessing
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Teaching exercise that is helpful with my policy students. Based on the solution, hiring this fella to a fancy position and giving him $$$ in this environment, what is the root of skepticism with higher ed that Yale is attempting to solve? Whose skepticism do they seek to assuage?
OH COME ON. Brooks knows fuck-all about "society at large".
January 29, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Teaching exercise that is helpful with my policy students. Based on the solution, hiring this fella to a fancy position and giving him $$$ in this environment, what is the root of skepticism with higher ed that Yale is attempting to solve? Whose skepticism do they seek to assuage?
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Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
nasıl tanıdık 🤩
On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:50 PM
nasıl tanıdık 🤩
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Insisting on the "right to defend themselves" after killing people. Blocking doctors from victims. Kidnapping kids. Lying straight to your face.
Taking billions of US tax dollars to do it all. And you're villified if you protest that.
Is this the Israeli military?
Or ICE?
Yes:
Taking billions of US tax dollars to do it all. And you're villified if you protest that.
Is this the Israeli military?
Or ICE?
Yes:
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Insisting on the "right to defend themselves" after killing people. Blocking doctors from victims. Kidnapping kids. Lying straight to your face.
Taking billions of US tax dollars to do it all. And you're villified if you protest that.
Is this the Israeli military?
Or ICE?
Yes:
Taking billions of US tax dollars to do it all. And you're villified if you protest that.
Is this the Israeli military?
Or ICE?
Yes:
When I fist landed in the US many moons ago, the very book I was assigned to read as a graduate student was Tocqueville's Democracy in America. I often think of that experience as a metaphor to learning "how to read America". And yet, whenever there is a major political crisis there,
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM
When I fist landed in the US many moons ago, the very book I was assigned to read as a graduate student was Tocqueville's Democracy in America. I often think of that experience as a metaphor to learning "how to read America". And yet, whenever there is a major political crisis there,
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The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month. Neither victim appeared to be the target of immigration enforcement.
Man Feds Killed in Minneapolis Was an Observer, Eyewitness Says
The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month.
interc.pt
January 24, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month. Neither victim appeared to be the target of immigration enforcement.
One thing I haven't come across in the analysis is how much of the Donroe doctine should be read a move within the authoritarian turn? Would the US government pursue a move back in time in terms of their geopolitical agenda if their formidable opponents had a more liberal program?
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 AM
One thing I haven't come across in the analysis is how much of the Donroe doctine should be read a move within the authoritarian turn? Would the US government pursue a move back in time in terms of their geopolitical agenda if their formidable opponents had a more liberal program?
hegemonya tartışmasına kesin bir karşılık veriliyor sanki?
Ünlülere uyuşturucu operasyonu
Oktay Kaynarca, Emel Müftüoğlu, Neda Şahin, Ali Sert, şarkıcı Rabia Karataş ve Selen Çetinkaya gözaltına alındı
www.birgun.net/haber/unlule...
Oktay Kaynarca, Emel Müftüoğlu, Neda Şahin, Ali Sert, şarkıcı Rabia Karataş ve Selen Çetinkaya gözaltına alındı
www.birgun.net/haber/unlule...
January 13, 2026 at 9:08 AM
hegemonya tartışmasına kesin bir karşılık veriliyor sanki?
was there not another time in history when they stopped reading Plato? I'm trying to remember when that was 🤔
“A research university that censors Plato abandons its obligation to truth, inquiry, and the public trust — and should not be regarded as a serious institution of higher learning.”
— AAUP Texas A&M
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@texasaaup.bsky.social
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
— AAUP Texas A&M
@nytimes.com
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:24 AM
was there not another time in history when they stopped reading Plato? I'm trying to remember when that was 🤔
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
Adolescence gerçekten ne kadar şahane bir dizi imiş.
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Adolescence gerçekten ne kadar şahane bir dizi imiş.
I loved it when @emmavigeland.bsky.social said to @gianmarcosoresi that having an argumentative stance on an issue is like uttering words of endearment to her bec she has lawyer parents and so that’s 2nd nature to her. That line would have saved me so many relationships if I had it 20 years ago.
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I loved it when @emmavigeland.bsky.social said to @gianmarcosoresi that having an argumentative stance on an issue is like uttering words of endearment to her bec she has lawyer parents and so that’s 2nd nature to her. That line would have saved me so many relationships if I had it 20 years ago.
Even before AI, I curiously traced back a reference to a paper I had published and found out that the prof citing it was using my paper for the exact contrary point to what I was arguing. what would be her laziness and stupidity (sorry not sorry) back then is now becoming the system itself. Omg
a fair number of folks posting their shock that citing without reading is a common practice & welp—yeah, it is
Does it happen more often in some fields than others? I think yes—there are disciplinary differences in the rhetorical purpose of citation that do shape the actual practice significantly
Does it happen more often in some fields than others? I think yes—there are disciplinary differences in the rhetorical purpose of citation that do shape the actual practice significantly
December 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Even before AI, I curiously traced back a reference to a paper I had published and found out that the prof citing it was using my paper for the exact contrary point to what I was arguing. what would be her laziness and stupidity (sorry not sorry) back then is now becoming the system itself. Omg
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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White House announces Kennedy Center will be renamed to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
White House announces Kennedy Center will be renamed to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
White House announces Kennedy Center will be renamed to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
www.independent.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
White House announces Kennedy Center will be renamed to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Annesi üretim zincirleri çalışır, kızı okulda yerli malları haftası kutlar. Çünkü Turkiye 😄
December 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Annesi üretim zincirleri çalışır, kızı okulda yerli malları haftası kutlar. Çünkü Turkiye 😄
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There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
December 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
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Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj