Onur Özgöde

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they really think they’re so badass

My department is looking for someone who studies the politics of public policy, broadly defined. We are an interdisciplinary department with international and Turkish faculty with diverse backgrounds. Feel free to reach out.

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Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

If you refuse to reciprocate the gift when you transition from the position of receiving to gift-giving, you are the one violating the norm.

Honestly if you are senior faculty complaining about service work because it is “free”, it looks very bad. I am all for people getting paid better, but this doesn’t change the fact that academia depends on gift as much as money exchange. You got where you got bc of the gift of free labor of others.

Another reason @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to be ashamed of itself.

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.