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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 3d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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eh @hendov.bsky.social · 3d

Street graffiti "Halid je hip hop" photo credit Edin Hajdarpasic

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 7d

‼️ Note the power of #laborunion #unions 👀

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 10d

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.

Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11d

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 18d

Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 18d

Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 24d

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

www.aaup.org

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Ahmet Erdogdular @ahmeterdogdular.bsky.social · 28d

Mimar Sinanin Selimiyesi kendini devletin üstünde sanan bir gurubun tehdidiyle yüz yüze. Solda Orjinaline sadık kalınarak restorasyonu bitmiş hali ve sağda defalarca devlet birimleri tarafından reddedilmiş yapılmaya diretilen projesi. #unesco #turkey #selimiyecami #arthistory #cumhurbaskanligi

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 29d

Clean link to report (in Turkish): drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...

EDİRNE SELİMİYE CÂMİİ’NİN SIVAÜSTÜ KALEMİŞİ HATLARI VE TEZYİNATI HAKKINDA.pdf

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 29d

drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...

EDİRNE SELİMİYE CÂMİİ’NİN SIVAÜSTÜ KALEMİŞİ HATLARI VE TEZYİNATI HAKKINDA.pdf

drive.google.com

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 29d

A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey 🗃️ what’s history #ottoman #arthistory

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Sep 6

A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey #menasky 🗃️ #ottoman

Current restored dome and a proposed restitution.

Current restored calligraphic panels and proposed restitution erasing them

Current restored dome and ceiling and proposed restitution

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Aug 28

SALE!
50% off my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe until September 8!
www.sup.org/books/histor...
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
#bosnia #habsburg #ottomanempire #menasky #balkansky #whatishistory 🗃️

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe | Stanford University Press

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominen...

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Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social · Aug 25

Um, ok. Thanks, GPT-5.

A very bad map of the Ottoman Empire in 1735, drawn by ChatGPT. The map includes Iran (which is labeled as Arabia) but not Bosnia, Moldavia and Wallachia, the Cuban, Crimea, Southern Ukraine. For some reason the map adheres to the modern-day borders of some countries, including Eritrea, Yemen, Oman, and the UAE. But Egypt includes part of Cyrenaica. The map labels Libya as Egypt and Sudan as Arabia, while also calling Yemen "Amabia." Turkmenistan is labeled as "Persia."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 23

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ah evet. En kötülerden biri Eminönü. Sonra Üsküdar’daki meydan.

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Aug 20

@istanbulbuyuksehir.bsky.social‘den de aynısını bekliyoruz 😍 #istanbul #beton #concretejungle

Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · Aug 19

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some great material here in time for the start of new semester. Check out this site by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social against-a-i.com/short-readin...

Teachable Readings - AGAINST AI

(persuasion is a good classroom tool; below are several - not all - important problems with the alleged promise of AI and short pieces from news media,

against-a-i.com

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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · Aug 18

Istanbul, the capital of Austria-Switzerland, is located right on the border with Slovenia-Hungary...

Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · Aug 18

... London, in this AI-generated map, has done something similar:

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Aug 16

The gist of the #Serbia issue in a thread.

Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · Aug 16

It is not only absurd but also sad to witness how some protesters in #Serbia resort to “šiptari,” the ethnic slur for #Albanians, as an insult against Serbian gendarmerie or Vučić’s hooligans.

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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some good news. #UWS @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

www.ilovetheupperwestside.com/popular-pale...

A Palestinian restaurant called Ayat has announced it will be opening on the Upper West Side, right near Columbia University.

www.ilovetheupperwestside.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jul 28

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.

shorturl.at/InI5Q

AI integration initiatives are spearheaded by administrations with little input from faculty members and other campus community members, including staff and students. High levels of concern arose around AI and technology procurement, deployment, and use; dehumanized relations; and poor working and learning conditions.

Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, and many respondents described administrators exerting great effort to introduce AI into research, teaching, policy, and professional development with little meaningful input from faculty members, staff, or students. Examples include the development of institutional AI tools, workshops on teaching and detecting plagiarism, and subscribing to AI tools for students (such as Grammarly, marketed as an “AI writing partner”) without involving faculty members or students in the decision-making process. One respondent noted that “admin doesn’t seem to care about or value faculty input on this or any other topic” and hoped for “more faculty involvement in determining how AI and tech generally are used.”

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