Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD
@fulyafelicity.bsky.social
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Political scientist by training, kosmopolitês at heart I study what happens when emigrants exit, but states won’t let go, thinking & writing about emigrants, authoritarianism, and transnational politics. https://www.fulyafelicityturkmen.com/
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poscresearch.bsky.social
🇰🇷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....
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austinkocher.com
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!  
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
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 👀
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amyhoy.bsky.social
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.
sorayanadiamcdonald.com
From THE BODY NEVER LIES by Alice Miller
Highlighted text from THE BODY NEVER LIES by Alice Miller:
The fact is that an unscrupulous tyrant mobilizes the suppressed fears and anxieties of those who were beaten as children but have never been able to accuse their own fathers of doing so. Their loyalty to these fathers is unswerving, despite the torments suffered at their hands. Every tyrant symbolizes such a father, the figure whom abused children remain attached to with every fiber of their being, hoping that one day they will be able to transform him into a loving parent by remaining blind.
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donguyenmai.bsky.social
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!)
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
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...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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nisrinelamin.bsky.social
🧵 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)
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theatlantic.com
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”:
America’s Zombie Democracy
Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.
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eerdem.bsky.social
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).
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bibireisdorf.bsky.social
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…
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darinself.com
AI companies are about to become very *very* unpopular.
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liselhintz.bsky.social
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...
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cogitoergodoom.bsky.social
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.
fulyafelicity.bsky.social
“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…”
fulyafelicity.bsky.social
One of the most genuine insights I’ve had into the messy realities of research design, case selection, and fieldwork, and into what it means to truly feel a sense of belonging in the field and academia.
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dadakim.bsky.social
How do authoritarian regimes keep power over people who have left their countries?

@fulyafelicity.bsky.social's job market paper “Remote Control: Authoritarian Diaspora Engagement Policies and Emigrant Political Behavior” (and the dissertation from which it draws) answers that question! 🧵
dadakim.bsky.social
💫Thrilled to support two amazing @ucrpolisci.bsky.social PhD students on the market this year: Felicity Turkmen @fulyafelicity.bsky.social & Eun-A Park @kafei0220.bsky.social. Their exciting projects bridge Comparative Politics & IR, and writing letters for them made me want to spotlight their work.
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billfrelick.bsky.social
The human toll of European externalization efforts to contain migrant and refugee movements in Africa. A new @hrw.org report on migration control abuses in Mauritania.
laurenseibert.bsky.social
🚨 New @hrw.org report documents years of serious abuses by security forces in #Mauritania against West & Central African migrants, while those same authorities received equipment/support 💰 from the EU & #Spain to bolster border control & prevent irregular migration
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www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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simongandrew.bsky.social
All in stock @stanfordpress.bsky.social books, including their wonderful Middle East Studies list, are 50% off from now until September 8!
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
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