Nothing quite like casually referencing a movie you saw “not that long ago” only to realize it’s old enough to buy its own drinks now. We watched Frankenstein (2025) by Guillermo del Toro and told my “bebe” I liked Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) better. “ancient times” he said

happy birthday to me!

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

I clicked and they’re looking for humanities professors to evaluate AI outputs—so if you need a side hustle or just, you know, a day job when your uni closes your department, there’s always AI quality control, at least til they don’t need us for that either

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

dialectics of endorsing

Oh yes!

Let’s be clear. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.

Let’s see ☺️

The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning. Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.

oh yes, coming in April from Verso

Tebriks @stevenhseggie.bsky.social

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

“This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.” If the students of Harvard want to show the world how “elite” they are, a mass walkout of his lectures would be a start 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don’t have energy for this

Cold war studies 🥰 www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Chomsky 🙄

Emails? All of a sudden emails are of no concern to MAGA?

university level education will have to change ok but to what, sustainable entertainment?

misspelling Nietzsche is a sin

Sayonara

RIP to the great Tatsuya Nakadai

This thread!

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

This is a poem to my ears.

Imamoglu faces 2352 year sentence Turkish prosecutors sought up to 2,352 years' imprisonment for Istanbul opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was jailed in March on corruption and organized‑crime charges. With posts by 🎓Sebastián Roché, 🎓Bessma Momani, 🎓Steven H. Seggie.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

I recommend checking out this documentary: Ordinary Men, on Netflix. It’s bleak, but a fascinating look at the psychology of the men in Germany’s murder battalions. I was surprised it’s been out since 2022. It’s pretty clear how so much of this directly maps to 2025 America.

It took two years to see this piece by Cangül and Alp published, but it was worth waiting www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... open access!

Department of Pretend Studies

and make the password smt else but not Louvre, this is precious!

The name is Zohran Mamdani

making a full circle and coming back

What the

Dutch liberals, together with the Dutch center-right, fight back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

anti-sycophantic action

upskilling myself with sonbahar in Ankara #happyplace @thebiaankara.bsky.social

I like how his oxygen mask doesn't cover his nose. How MAGA can you get?

James Cameron in #istanbul

Cuomo vs. Zohran? Or Hasan?

#Employment The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, invites applications for two positions in Turkish Politics (open rank) and Public Policy (Assistant Professor). mesana.org/resources-an...

Old me: no wikipedia it is not reliable New me: no AI it is not reliable This aint my first rodeo 🐐

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

technofeudalism, incels, far-right extremism, digital nationalism 🚹 we need MORE gender literacy in these research!