I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong. jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...

8. "How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn" by @berkesen.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Just published! Jan Kandiyali (@jankandiyali.bsky.social) and I writing, open access in *Political Philosophy*: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism " Hopefully of interest to both liberals and socialists! politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...

The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending. She cannot be freed soon enough.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

yarın!

Bluesky sansüründe son durum: • 63 hesabın, çeşitli hakimlikler tarafından erişime engellenmesine hükmedildi. • 19 hesap, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı. • 5 paylaşım, Bluesky PBC tarafından Türkiye'den görünmez kılındı. ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/b...

Seeing police snatch a Turkish PhD student off the street for writing an op-ed was horrifying. And familiar. With Turkey colleagues @heissenstat.bsky.social + @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social, we wrote about how repression functions by starting with minority groups. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We wrote a short piece on Turkey’s protests and how/why we arrived at this moment with Berk Esen for @jodemocracy.bsky.social We also discuss what may come next: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

An almost surreal video from Istanbul - watch until the very end. Police harshly attack protestors with plastic bullets and pepper gas. Suddenly, Ankaranin Baglari starts playing in the background. And then two attacked protestors start dancing oyun havası. Resisting with style!

I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney

Beauty may not save the world—but can perhaps redeem it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

In these difficult times, we find solace in the achievements of our partners in Malatya, Turkey, who performed their fifth 6-way liver exchange today 👏 Having performed 29 LE transplants in 2025 through the Banu Bedestenci Sönmez LPE system, they are on track to surpass their record of 122 in 2024 🥇

The first article from our 2025 volume is The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - cup.org/3Eqpgwp - @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social #OpenAccess

What if the farce and the tragedy can be simultaneous?

Sophie Smith at the LRB, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.” Iris Murdoch.

This puts department meetings into perspective:

Elizabeth Anderson is on a roll at Crooked Timber these past few weeks: crookedtimber.org/2024/12/24/p...

Started, going. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosu...

Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky

Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway. Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...

We're looking for a new colleague at Sabanci University, Istanbul working on AI ethics, data ethics, philosophy of AI. Further details can be found here: philjobs.org/job/show/27866 The application deadline is December 15. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me.

Regrettably, this framing is unsurprising, as @jkandiyali.bsky.social and I have argued in this paper: philpapers.org/rec/KURCAI-2

Those interested in Political Science as well as Philosophy of Science, have a look at this volume in the Philosophy of Political Science #philsci #polsci #philosophy academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Sat down with @brunoleipold.com to discuss his book "Citizen Marx". We talked about the influence of Republicanism in Marx's thought, and why the left must take the lead in the conversation on freedom—rather than leaving it to conservatives and liberals. Don't miss it! jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...

We're looking for a new colleague at Sabanci University, Istanbul working on AI ethics, data ethics, philosophy of AI. Further details can be found here: philjobs.org/job/show/27866 The application deadline is December 15. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me.

Most of the time the internet sucks, but then: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnxI...

“Without excellence it is not easy to bear gracefully the goods of fortune; and, being unable to bear them, and thinking themselves superior to others, they despise others and themselves do what they please.” Aristotle, Ethics 4.3

I’m so glad Aeon found a way to use this picture for my article. It’s of Kathy Wilkes, taken by the secret police. aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Weak autocracies are far more common than strong autocracies. They are also often far more dangerous and damaging than strong autocracies. Never take hope from an autocrat’s weakness. Instead, prepare for the worst. A 🧵 based on 2 of my books: (1/N)

👋Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows! Dr Faik Kurtulmuş @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social focuses on public trust in science and distributive epistemic justice. He finalises a book manuscript on Justice in the Distribution of Knowledge: t1p.de/w9tl4

Nobody does snide as good as Brian Barry.

The call for papers and symposia of the 5th East European Network for Philosophy of Science Biennial Conference is now officially published! See you in Krakow! Conference website: eenps2024.sciencesconf.org #philsci #metasci #philsky

Great to receive this fantastic new collection on philosophy and media ethics, edited by Carl Fox and Joe Saunders, which includes my co-authored essay with @mitomoti.bsky.social on ‘Class and Inequality: Why the Media Fails the Poor and Why this Matters’.

Here's how I turned down a recent request from a Wiley journal to write a referee's report for them.

"The crucial moral question is neither “who is worse?” nor “who started it?”, but “who has the power to stop it?”" My post on EJIL Talk about the moral and legal catastrophe of the #IsraelPalestineConflict www.ejiltalk.org/our-shared-h...

I wish someone had studied the change in the length of recommendation letters in economics after signalling theory was introduced; say before and after Spence (1973). (Change in other disciplines once the idea had crossed over would be a bonus.)