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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time…

Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 4d

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Trader Joe's - Wikipedia

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 4d

And both owned by the same family.

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations!

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 10d

Looks like the entryway to Dark!

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 11d

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Barcelona Is Made of Math (Gift Article)

A virtual tour of the architecture in a city where mathematics and exploration meet.

www.nytimes.com

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 12d

Visiting Portbou and the Walter Benjamin Memorial this past summer was quite an experience, and a very sad one indeed.

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 13d

Coming soon! I am so excited about this piece, which recently got accepted for publication in Space Policy!

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 14d

Just picked up this book on a recent trip, and Tony Zee is killing it again. Only 30 pages in— but I am going to recommend it anyway!

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 26d

Isao Takahata is so brutally straightforward--you are guaranteed to cry bucketloads after seeing this movie.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27d

Damn I started thinking about Grave of the Fireflies and now I am sad. Just the basic message re: these children couldn't possibly be responsible for the scenario they found themselves in, adults created a world that condemned them to a slow and lingering death, and what could possibly justify it?

Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 27d

I see--need to read the 7000-word version, then. Thanks.

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · 27d

Q: what is the indicator that leads you to suspect that some are gaming the system here? That # of non-UK > # of UK? (If that is the case, what should one think of Imperial College?)

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Sep 8

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Blame #Shifting in #Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from #Turkey

By @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social & Fulya Apaydin

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Sep 9

And here is a short summary video, if you'd like to take a quicker look:

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Sep 9

And here is a short summary video, if you'd like to take a quicker look:

Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Sep 9

Publication day! 📢 Our new article with @edwardgoldring.bsky.social and @jonaswschmid.bsky.social
is online @poppublicsphere.bsky.social !

Click on the link below to read it (open access), and here is a summary video of the main argument, if you'd like to have a quicker look.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 8

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey - cup.org/4ggTyAv

- @edwardgoldring.bsky.social, Jonas Willibald Schmid & Fulya Apaydin

#FirstView

Image of a smoky industrial landscape with the text "Perspectives on Politics" and the hashtag "OpenAccess" overlaid on a blue banner.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢2026 Fellowship applications are OPEN!📢
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you!
Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 29

huh

fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling

Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Aug 28

Programs will probably be more interested in candidates who already have an MA/MS degree in data science or some adjacent field (which is already happening). Outcome: greater homogenization of CVs and the output the field delivers due to the risky, expensive or time consuming nature of some RQs. 2/2

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Aug 28

In my field, this means no funding for fieldwork-based research for international students. Possibly, the trend will move towards more quant-oriented work (which has been the case for some time anyway) using existing datasets or some AI-incorporated data collection that speeds up the process. 1/2

Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cuneiform is massively important to the argument over the history of money, with direct relevance to the question of money as debt or a commodity, which has bearing on monetary policy today.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Aug 27

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Aug 27

Looks like there is now a study that shows no major productivity gains with AI: fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

fortune.com

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Aug 27

I also recommend House of Huawei by Eva Dou--pretty amazing story.

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