Le prochain numéro de la @revue-theoremes.bsky.social sera mis en ligne au mois de décembre, il est particulièrement copieux : 10 articles consacrés à Michel de Certeau (dont c'est le centenaire) et 10 articles de W. E. B. Du Bois traduits et introduits par mes soins 📚

Congratulations @bilgeyesil.bsky.social

- L. Doğan Tılıç : www.birgun.net/makale/bir-s...

Tomorrow we finish Week 135 of our MENA Zoom solidarity group. This week, two new members joined our writing sessions. I post about this a lot because I want to make our community accessible to as many students and scholars from/working on MENA as possible. Please reach out/share if interested

AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!). Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.

Can't wrap my head around that one

I'm working with @pomeps.bsky.social to check in on papers presented in our workshops in the last 5 years. To brighten our feeds, and boost hope around studying the Middle East, I wanted to share some papers that early career scholars workshopped and then published. Three from Spring 2024 VRWs:

I thought that we already knew how to go back in time 85-90 years

This would be transformative. To invest in publicly developed and owned learning management systems at CUNY instead of extractive and shitty Brightspace, Blackboard etc.

I'm still waiting for the day they make a biopic where Kyle MacLachlan plays office supply magnate W.B. Mason in the same tradition of satires of capitalism as the Coens' Hudsocker Proxy or Orson Welles's Citizen Kane

My latest book, A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe? Racialized Minorities at the Centre, co-edited with Ilke Adam and Mariska Jung is now published!! AND open-access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We are doing it again-again. Mini-conference on Elites and Power Structures at the 2026 SASE July 1-3 in Bordeaux. Submit your abstract before December 16th It has been 3 great session at the past SASE meetings, so send us your best work! sase.org/events/2026-...

Très heureux de voir aboutir ce travail mené avec Elsa Génard et Mathilde Rossigneux-Méheust. Les contributions explorent sous des angles différents des épreuves d'autorité, à savoir des situations où des relations statutairement asymétriques sont construites, discutées ou rejetées.

Most self-confident imposter syndrome dream: legendary French nat team players were doing a talent showcase in a crowded stadium. I was a spy posing as Zidane, awkwardly kicking the ball around next to Mbappé fearing that the ONLY way my cover would be blown was if people knew my jersey was fake 🤣

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”

I teach a field natural history course that’s very analog—a hand-written field journal, hands-on skill sessions, hours in nature each week. This very much tracks. My evals for that class emphasize the class’s impacts on how they think, and their mental health.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Excited to see that the article "State Power and COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts" I wrote with my friends @russelldavid.bsky.social and Naomi Spence has been published online by the @bjsociology.bsky.social. There are a couple takeaways about state power and theories of the state I'm excited about.🧵1/5

Abstracts due Oct 15! Don't miss the deadline for our POMEPS Spring Virtual Research Workshop series. And please share with students+mentees working on MENA. VRWs are an excellent way to get feedback on papers, turn them into articles. and create lasting networks. Contact me with any questions!

By being tapped twice by Macron to serve as PM, Lecornu is fast becoming the political equivalent of the poor faculty member who doesn't know how to say no when asked to be Department Chair or when asked to take on interim admin positions Source: The Guardian share.google/kvJJCeHPa5ox...

It took me about thee minutes to realize that this was an actual headline and not @theonion.com making fun of the corn dog as a concept apnews.com/article/corn...

Every day!

With their 1-0 win over the behemoth PSG yesterday, my beloved Olympique de Marseille can hopefully shake things up this year. They looked good www.theguardian.com/football/202...

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

My AI problem is that when I read, a lot of my critical thinking goes to imagining the author and their position related to the text: why did this person write this? What are they thinking through, and how does it relate to their individual identity as well as their knowledge community?

Some wise advice on your academia.edu account. It's probably time to delete it.

Three excerpts from concerts, for no apparent reason besides the fact that they are men who died in the last 10 years who should be remembered fondly starting with Rashid Taha who allegedly the Clash dedicated Rock the Casbah for, followed by Bowie and Prince

Happy birthday, Fiona!

The thing I wish members of the general public understood about academia is that it is so competitive that there are literally thousands of very talented people who've spent years researching a topic who will never get to teach full time or be invited to present their work in a university setting

My comments in FT “What the government seems to want to do is not destroy the CHP but to take it over; not to eradicate it, but to neuter it..." Turkey could then become like the joke about the Shah’s Iran “where there is a ‘Yes’ party and a ‘Yes, Sir’ party.” www.ft.com/content/423f...

Grammarly and various essay "writing" (generating) tools are like organized crime: they help create plagiarized assignments and then turn around and try and force me to create an account before I can use their AI detectors. They then go to students and offer them protection from being detected

Whenever the start of the semester and getting everything ready for the first classes of the semester seem hectic, I always like to remember that there are people whose first day on the job is more chaotic www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

US media outlets have a lot on their plates these days and they traditionally have limited space for international news, but surprised that the likely vote of no confidence of French PM isn't getting coverage. Consensus around another PM unlikely, protests against austerity planned for Wednesday

In Turkey, "the rapid increase in the number of unqualified universities, the decline in the quality of education, and the proliferation of schools that produce thousands of graduates every year have only created a ring that has further widened unemployment" birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12155...

Bianet's excellent interview with Seren Selvin Korkmaz provides some background to the dismissal of the CHP leadership in Istanbul. In particular, this event shows 1) the construction under way in Turkey of a hegemonic authoritarian regime, where elections have lost + bianet.org/haber/chpnin...

Thousands turned out in blazing heat to protest the militarization of DC and much more. Multiple contingents uniting their grievances, lots of humor, atmosphere of care and solidarity. Reminded me of Gezi.

For no apparent reason (except maybe to remember we live with nice people), we all sometimes need a post-fascist era, post-Franco , Spanish punk banger followed by current day Catalan and Mexican hits. 9mm followed by Rosalia and Peso Pluma (aka feather weight) youtu.be/GFjjBLAxjRc?...

Question. Did anyone else on here born in the 1970s born outside of the US start to play basketball after watching this show? If so please post more context. After it aired on Turkey's single state run channel, I was hooked and there were multiple makeshift hoops going up everywhere. I

"adopted universally by the 71 UNELECTED members of transitional legislative assembly" "Le projet de loi a été adopté à l’unanimité par les 71 membres non élus de l’Assemblée législative de transition (ALT), qui fait office de Parlement depuis la prise de pouvoir de la junte, il y a près de 3 ans."

As a mere sociologist who researches capitalist interest, this does not seem to be a great way to create the kind of business friendly environment that would create jobs for Americans

Americans rushed to import "Gold, equipment for AI data centers and other products" before tariffs kicked in . Wait....!!!?? Why is wine not explicitly on the list? What have I been missing ?

🚨We're in an era marked by cuts to global health financing & threats to multilateralism/international cooperation In many nations, women & children disproportionately bear the burden How can $ be mobilized? Join us next week for a panel hosted by @pmnch.bsky.social pmnch.who.int/news-and-eve...

Human Rights Funders Network estimates official development assistance (ODA) will decline by $62B, or 28% globally, through 2026 www.hrfn.org/wp-content/u...

Gladwell has made a career claiming to explain very complex social processes by using just one vaguely sociological sounding concept. Surely, he also can explain people's basketball prowess using a vague, dubious connection to a single country

Jennifer Hattam is an outstanding journalist and writer. She's particularly good at keeping a finger on the cultural pulse of her environments. And communicating why cultural issues/events/voices matter to varied audiences. 10/10 would recruit/hire/work with/read!

This penultimate point being one I’ve been mining for… quite awhile. repository.upenn.edu/server/api/c...

This special issue of the European Journal of Turkish Studies features a section called “Le Meurtre et la Langue,” co-authored by Emmanuel Szurek and me, which explores how early republican popular educators discussed the genocide in 1930s Turkey. journals.openedition.org/ejts/8382

We invite submissions for the Autumn 2025 Turkish Politics Online Workshops co-convened by @aykutozturk.bsky.social @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social The series provides an opportunity for feedback on working papers with the aim of supporting junior scholars See 👇 psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/09/01/c...

Perfect example of why media is fucked