Emrah Karakilic
@emrahkarakilic.bsky.social
human, all too human…
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250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️
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Lancaster University - following the same rule book (and opaque internal logics) as other UK unis - is seeking to impose mass redundancies. The impact on staff, students, staff's families, and the region, would be immense.
To protest against this, please please share/sign: chng.it/CyRHLRgrmb
To protest against this, please please share/sign: chng.it/CyRHLRgrmb
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Lancaster University - following the same rule book (and opaque internal logics) as other UK unis - is seeking to impose mass redundancies. The impact on staff, students, staff's families, and the region, would be immense.
To protest against this, please please share/sign: chng.it/CyRHLRgrmb
To protest against this, please please share/sign: chng.it/CyRHLRgrmb
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A crisis of leadership’s making and staff pay the price.
Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU
www.lep.co.uk/education/la...
Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU
www.lep.co.uk/education/la...
Lancaster University defends plans to cut 400 jobs as staff call for alternatives
A Lancaster University boss has defended plans for possibly over 400 job losses but university staff have disputed the arguments and, instead, called for alternatives, such as top management pay cuts.
www.lep.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A crisis of leadership’s making and staff pay the price.
Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU
www.lep.co.uk/education/la...
Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU
www.lep.co.uk/education/la...
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Spotted in the wild.
July 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Spotted in the wild.
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Seyahat literatürüne 3 bin sayfa kazandıran Murat Belge'yle önce İstanbul'u, sonra dünyayı gezdik.
Gidelim Serv-i Revanım web sitemizde tüm podcast platformlarında!
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Gidelim Serv-i Revanım web sitemizde tüm podcast platformlarında!
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July 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Seyahat literatürüne 3 bin sayfa kazandıran Murat Belge'yle önce İstanbul'u, sonra dünyayı gezdik.
Gidelim Serv-i Revanım web sitemizde tüm podcast platformlarında!
🎧 apacikradyo.com.tr/podcast/gide...
Gidelim Serv-i Revanım web sitemizde tüm podcast platformlarında!
🎧 apacikradyo.com.tr/podcast/gide...
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An independent report finds serious leadership failings at the top. Now over 600 staff face the axe. @ducuuo.bsky.social
£35 million black hole at Dundee University.
Senior mismanagement created this crisis.
Staff shouldn’t be paying the price.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
£35 million black hole at Dundee University.
Senior mismanagement created this crisis.
Staff shouldn’t be paying the price.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
How Dundee University went from boom to bust
The former principal Iain Gillespie had claimed that the university was on an upward trajectory, but a scathing report showed this was not the case
www.thetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An independent report finds serious leadership failings at the top. Now over 600 staff face the axe. @ducuuo.bsky.social
£35 million black hole at Dundee University.
Senior mismanagement created this crisis.
Staff shouldn’t be paying the price.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
£35 million black hole at Dundee University.
Senior mismanagement created this crisis.
Staff shouldn’t be paying the price.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
@hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social i do know you do not do such things. But, I would love to hear an episode on “what Marx would say about gen AI”.
June 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social i do know you do not do such things. But, I would love to hear an episode on “what Marx would say about gen AI”.
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How does it feel to be made redundant?
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?
This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.
Out next week.
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?
This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.
Out next week.
June 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
How does it feel to be made redundant?
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?
This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.
Out next week.
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?
This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.
Out next week.
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Policing Higher Education - New book by Eve Darian-Smith (Open Access)
'If academic freedom is attacked on a global scale,
who will be left to train future generations to think critically
and ask hard questions that challenge antidemocratic regimes
at home and abroad?'
muse.jhu.edu/book/126855
'If academic freedom is attacked on a global scale,
who will be left to train future generations to think critically
and ask hard questions that challenge antidemocratic regimes
at home and abroad?'
muse.jhu.edu/book/126855
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Policing Higher Education - New book by Eve Darian-Smith (Open Access)
'If academic freedom is attacked on a global scale,
who will be left to train future generations to think critically
and ask hard questions that challenge antidemocratic regimes
at home and abroad?'
muse.jhu.edu/book/126855
'If academic freedom is attacked on a global scale,
who will be left to train future generations to think critically
and ask hard questions that challenge antidemocratic regimes
at home and abroad?'
muse.jhu.edu/book/126855
Hi. I wrote this :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Knowing-without-reaction in the face of climate change: Minor-art as a model for political subjectivization - Emrah A Karakilic, 2025
Despite broad public awareness of climate change as a critical issue, we paradoxically observe public inertia as a social pattern, particularly in the wealthy-i...
journals.sagepub.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Hi. I wrote this :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Union members have voted to walk out over Cardiff University’s plans to axe 400 academic roles and close several programmes
#AcademicSky #EduSky
#AcademicSky #EduSky
Cardiff staff vote to strike as axe hangs over 400 academic jobs
Welsh university faces mounting criticism over job cuts and course closures
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Union members have voted to walk out over Cardiff University’s plans to axe 400 academic roles and close several programmes
#AcademicSky #EduSky
#AcademicSky #EduSky
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Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
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Dear Friends, we have recently moved from X. MayFly Books publishes the most exciting contemporary theorising concerned critical and radical social sciences, social movements, environmental philosophy. Always #openaccess and #nonprofit. Pls kindly consider circulating (repost). #AcademicSky #EduSky
March 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Dear Friends, we have recently moved from X. MayFly Books publishes the most exciting contemporary theorising concerned critical and radical social sciences, social movements, environmental philosophy. Always #openaccess and #nonprofit. Pls kindly consider circulating (repost). #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
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🚨📰 Union members at Newcastle University have become the latest to vote in favour of strike action, seeing them join a growing wave of unions announcing industrial action across UK higher education
@newcastleucu.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...
@newcastleucu.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...
Newcastle University staff vote to join wave of strike action
Newcastle University votes in favour of industrial action, joining Dundee and East Anglia in achieving successful ballots
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🚨📰 Union members at Newcastle University have become the latest to vote in favour of strike action, seeing them join a growing wave of unions announcing industrial action across UK higher education
@newcastleucu.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...
@newcastleucu.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...
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The UK Higher Education funding model is broken. Sign this petition to add pressure to change it: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Open Letter: Save Higher Education – A Call for Urgent Action Higher Education is in Crisis
docs.google.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The UK Higher Education funding model is broken. Sign this petition to add pressure to change it: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
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Somebody told me that this fantastic book was free for download. #openaccess mayflybooks.org/unemployed-n...
Unemployed Negativity: Fragments on Philosophy, Politics, and Culture | MayFly Books
mayflybooks.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Somebody told me that this fantastic book was free for download. #openaccess mayflybooks.org/unemployed-n...
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Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off
January 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off
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I visited @RogerHallam.com in prison today. He’s serving a 5-year prison sentence for organising a peaceful protest against climate collapse. That’s the longest sentence for nonviolent action since WW2.
Here are my takeaways. /1
Here are my takeaways. /1
January 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I visited @RogerHallam.com in prison today. He’s serving a 5-year prison sentence for organising a peaceful protest against climate collapse. That’s the longest sentence for nonviolent action since WW2.
Here are my takeaways. /1
Here are my takeaways. /1
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'without an unrelenting commitment to radical democratic ideals, universities risk not only forfeiting their own relevance but also imperiling the very future of democracy at a moment when the specter of fascism looms with renewed force' (Henry Giroux, Nov 2024)
www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/04/u...
www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/04/u...
Universities in Dark Times: Beyond the Plague of Neoliberal Fascism
In an era marked by unprecedented threats to democracy from rising authoritarian forces, universities—once celebrated citadels of democratic learning and public service—now find themselves caught in a...
www.counterpunch.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
'without an unrelenting commitment to radical democratic ideals, universities risk not only forfeiting their own relevance but also imperiling the very future of democracy at a moment when the specter of fascism looms with renewed force' (Henry Giroux, Nov 2024)
www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/04/u...
www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/04/u...