Exciting news! @raewynconnell.bsky.social and my new book, Gender: In World Perspective is officially out and fully available @politybooks.bsky.social. Request an exam or desk copy here. Paperbacks under $25 USD. We're so excited to share it with everyone. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Gender: In World Perspective

Gender: In World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And h...

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[turning on a world cup match] oh wow, cape verde, i wonder where that is [55 minutes later] if cape verde wins it will be the greatest day of my life

mentions to this feel like heaven

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

english lit and culture studies people from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?

On 12th June, 10 am–5 pm. Despite never having been charged with or found guilty of terrorism, Pro-Palestine activists will be sentenced for terrorism. A first in UK history.

#Bosphorus #solitude

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

#academicsky hello world! Seeking the Third Space: Orhan Kemal’s Social Realism in Cold War Turkey www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Seeking the Third Space: Orhan Kemal’s Social Realism in Cold War Turkey

This article challenges polarised Cold War literary historiography by positioning Orhan Kemal, the second most translated writer of Turkey after the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, as a pivotal agent. ...

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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter

The lawsuit claims that the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.

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Is this our future?

Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

He told ChatGPT he was a nazі іncel who wanted to dіe, then asked how many people you’d have to shoot at his school to get on the news. ChatGPT helped him pick his ammo, pick his target, pick the best time for the massacre, and then told him how to use the gun. Then he did. youtu.be/IbG-JGdGniY

Ya

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hell is other people on Bluesky.

❤️‍🔥

“Joe Rogan of the left?” 🙄

Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 3mo ago

jacobin.com/2026/04/hasa...

I realized that I’m the reviewer of an article with a hallucinated reference, what do I do now? #academicsky

25 April marks the end of fascist rule in Italy. Today it matters to remember because power still flirts with fear. It sells order by dividing people and it still tests how much silence it can buy. Ordinary Italian people refused to kneel fascism and that refusal matters today again. #AcademicSky

have some Turkish coffee Bard!

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist. Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :) news.sky.com/story/human-...

a while ago, Bolsonaro was fearing for his imprisonment he sneaked into the Hungary Embassy near his home and spent a couple of days there hiding. so this has sweet taste to us in Brazil.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4mo ago

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

The ICE official "noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House. The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported."

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oh my God. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I just went to a screening of this and they didn’t mention Palantir once. Probably a good thing my parents wanted to leave before the Q&A.

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

Wtf?

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Someone sent me this.

Hi there!

Dr. Skylar Grayson@skylargrayson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

The Infinity Machine, a new book by CFR expert Sebastian Mallaby, follows DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis and the quest for superintelligence. Out now:

The Infinity Machine | Council on Foreign Relations

A landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company

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US researchers are advising students not to enter academia. "More than two-thirds of the researchers in Massachusetts... who responded to a survey conducted by The Boston Globe recommend their students consider careers outside academia." #AcademicSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-rese...

US researchers are advising students not to enter academia

A survey of NIH-grantees in Massachusetts reveals delayed hiring in labs, layoffs, careers being pursued abroad and research scope reductions

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"opportunity cost" = a chance someone might mildly criticize a thing I believe

Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🤡^2

Make it stick.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses"

On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

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Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.