Onur Özgöde

Remembering crises: the making of monetary distrust in Argentina Abstract. Money, the paramount contract of market societies, relies on our collective belief in its enduring value. Yet we still know little about the soci

A new article by my colleague Guadalupe Moreno just got published. She shows how monetary distrust has evolved in Argentina and discusses implications for central banks' governability. Must read for central bank scholars and folks interested in the sociology of money academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Bloomington goes a year without telling residents it can’t fluoridate drinking water The city where fluoride toothpaste was invented has been unable to reliably add fluoride to its drinking water for years—and Bloomington officials never notified the public, even after they decided to...

This story is wild. The water in Bloomington, Indiana hasn't been consistently fluoridated since 2020, but the public wasn't notified. Even the Mayor didn't know. It only became public knowledge when IU chemist Dr. Katherine Edmonds* read a footnote in a report.
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Thanks for the mention, Miche.

@isabellamweber.bsky.social: I actually have a paper I never published. Happy to share.

I am sitting in front of flower garden holding a copy of my new book, BORN IN FLAMES.

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

Thanks. Next time hopefully!

I was supposed to be part of the elites mini-conference but had to cancel bc of my partner’s health problems.

I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.

People who advocate such anti-immigration policies must be mentally ill.

Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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No wonder the chocolate in airport was so expensive.

Anyone who has gone through college and learned writing should know this. At least we now have hard proof.

My first viral tweet. Wasn’t expecting it at all tbh. 😁

How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?

They will arrest and deport legal persons, and the criteria will be skin color.

GOP is trying to sabotage the entire higher education sector, because they see universities’ power to produce truth as a major threat to their fascist agenda. It is that simple.

Former Israeli PM Olmert in Haaretz, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza “intentional annihilation” and “war crimes.” Say that as a U.S. politician and AIPAC will spend $5 million to end your career.

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Three ghosts of British higher education [These are the more-or-less unedited notes for my speech at the event Multiple Crises of Higher Education, held on 20 May 2025 at Queen Mary’s Mile End Institute, and organised by the fantast…

Must read on the crisis of the (UK) university from @unsocialtheory.bsky.social

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that took what, three hours?

Federal judge halts Trump administration ban on Harvard’s ability to enroll international students | CNN A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration from blocking Harvard from enrolling foreign students.

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Met him when he came to Northwestern to give a talk on gaming of academic metrics. He seemed like a kind, humble, and caring person. RIP to one of the greats of STS.

Gestapo

This seems like the crux of the issue. Harvard produced the data. DHS demanded more. Harvard produced more. DHS still said it was insufficient without saying how and revoked SEVP. It's just coercion.

Case 1:25-cv-11472 Document 1 Filed 05/23/25 Page 2 of 72 1. For more than 70 years, Harvard University ("Harvard" or the "University") has been certified by the federal government to enroll international students under the F-1 visa program, and it has long been designated as an exchange program sponsor to host J-1 nonimmigrants. Harvard has, over this time, developed programs and degrees tailored to its international students, invested millions to recruit the most talented such students, and integrated its international students into all aspects of the Harvard community. Yesterday, the government abruptly revoked that certification without process or cause, to immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders. 2. This revocation is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and the "ideology" of its faculty and students. The government's actions are unlawful for other equally clear and pernicious reasons. They disregard the government's own regulations-under which Harvard should remain certified to host F-1 and J-1 visa holders. They depart from decades of settled practice and come without rational explanation. And they were carried out abruptly without any of the robust procedures the government has established to prevent just this type of upheaval to thousands of students' lives.

REQUEST FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Harvard respectfully requests the following relief: A. Declare that Defendants' actions to revoke Harvard's SEVP certification through 69 Case 1:25-cv-11472 Document 1 Filed 05/23/25 Page 71 of 72 B. D. the Revocation Notice are unconstitutional and/or unlawful because they violate the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the APA; Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving effect to the unlawful revocation of Harvard's SEVP certification; Preliminarily and permanently enjoin Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from giving any force or effect to the Department of Homeland Security's May 22, 2025 Revocation Notice; Permanently enjoin Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from issuing a NOW or otherwise initiating proceedings to withdraw Harvard's SEVP certification in retaliation for Harvard's exercise of its rights under the First Amendment, or because of the viewpoint of Harvard's First Amendment protected speech, or because of Harvard's refusal to comply with the April 11 Demand Letter.

Here is Harvard's new lawsuit, over the international student revocation, filed by the same team of lawyers behind the first lawsuit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Unbelievable

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

She is lucky they didn’t egg her.

US university system is kaput as we know it.

Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music.

Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Heritage Foundation begs to differ.