Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD

Here's how three professors started a research academy - training undergrad students in research methods and then matching them to faculty mentors to apprentice as RAs for 10 weeks!

Ft. @dadakim.bsky.social & @ucrpolisci.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1017/S104...

#polisky #academisky

This is so cool. I think I’ll only ever be comfortable w/ AI up to a point. But I feel like THIS👇is the sort of thing AI in journalism was intended to create.

AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever.

More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves.

And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.

9) Good research takes time. Asking people to publish so much is often counterproductive.

10) Micromanaging academics is counterproductive. Providing freedom.

11) Requiring young academics and PhD candidates to ask for permission to go to international conferences kills their career.

You go into a store to buy a 2-litre bottle of milk at the supermarket and pay $3. But the person in front of you in line paid $3.50. And the person behind you paid $2.

Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

The Blurring What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.

What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.

On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

1. This has been the rule for non EU visa applicants in the #RestofTheWorld for a while.
2. We told you that the dragnet was only going to get smaller. The visa process in the UK has been a cash grab for years now.
3. Spain, Portugal and France have an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

EU rules on political ads enter into force: What will change? EU rules on political ads – aimed at countering information manipulation and foreign interference in elections – will take effect on Friday. But what exactly will change for users?

EU rules on political ads – aimed at countering information manipulation and foreign interference in elections are now in effect. Here's what will change for users. www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Forgot to update: Tried it, it is great. 5 minutes in the air fryer and çıtır çıtır simit. It is not some Americanized bagel wannabe. It is the real deal. So good. I hope it is a permanent product, not seasonal. Definitely give it a try.

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

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🇰🇷Check out this recent article, “Contested Identity and Prejudice Against Co-Ethnic Refugees: Evidence From South Korea,” published in Political Research Quarterly by Jae Yeon Kim and Taeku Lee👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!  

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

everybody should read alice miller. i haven't read this one (i read the drama of the gifted child (which is not about what you think at all)) but now it's on my list.

At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

🧵 Fellow academics in N. America if a Sudanese student has been admitted to your graduate program MA or PhD please please do your best to help them gather the necessary paperwork for their visa. So many are getting into great programs but (1/3)

America’s Zombie Democracy Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.

AI and authoritarianism are “two sides of the same coin,” George Packer argues. “We’re surrendering our ability to act as free agents of a democracy at the same moment we’re building machines that take away our ability to think and feel”:

Trader Joe’s, here I come!!! Hem de Ankara simidi!

(Although, I have to say, we need a Trader Osman or Trader Can label on this).

You mean things like both parents having to work full time and not being able to afford full-day daycare regardless? Or the ridiculous cost of healthcare and living? Or like having to worry for real about our kids getting shot to death at school? I could go on…

AI companies are about to become very *very* unpopular.

My article "Film-Making the Nation Great Again" with @draege.bsky.social is out in Perspectives!

Poli sci work on authoritarianism and populism largely overlooks audiovisual strategies.

Our multi-modal study uses a new dataset of 11,000+ regime YouTube videos in Turkey.

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

This is what you get with AI, not your perfectly tailored entertainment, but an endless pile of slop and shit produced for the minimum money possible. Just Adorno’s culture industry taken to its absolute extreme.

“We find that women report ethics more than men, women and men report on different dimensions of ethics, and these differences are starker at the intersection of gender and method. We identify a new dimension of gender-based inequality in the profession…”