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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sofia and I have a new article out about Civil War era monetary policy and architecture, as understood by Stephen Colwell. Colwell is an interesting figure I wrote about in my AHR article as well. In some ways very conservative, in others radical...

read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

Central Monetary Services Without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century US Monetary Architecture | History of Political Economy | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 8

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.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Aug 6

Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation

h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

he Stanford Daily covers news related to Stanford University, publishing short- and
long-form articles along with editorials. Since the October 7, 2023, attack, The Stanford Daily has
included coverage of student opinions and campus protests related to the conflict in Gaza. Since
March 2025, fearing Secretary Rubio will revoke their visas under the Revocation Provision or
Case 5:25-cv-06618 Document 1 Filed 08/06/25 Page 4 of 36
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VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF CASE NO. 5:25-cv-06618
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render them deportable under the Deportation Provision, many of the paper’s noncitizen writers who
are lawfully present in the United States have self-censored by declining to cover pro-Palestinian
student protests at Stanford, refraining from covering topics related to the conflict in Gaza, and
seeking removal of their previous articles about it

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David Hengsbach @davidhengsbach.bsky.social · Jul 30

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-...

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

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 16

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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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...

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks for the mention, Miche.

@isabellamweber.bsky.social: I actually have a paper I never published. Happy to share.

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · Jul 8

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

I am sitting in front of flower garden holding a copy of my new book, BORN IN FLAMES.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks. Next time hopefully!

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jul 7

I was supposed to be part of the elites mini-conference but had to cancel bc of my partner’s health problems.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.

El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jul 2

People who advocate such anti-immigration policies must be mentally ill.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Jul 2

Restore Britain "net negative migration" policy is "annual departure of legal migrants must at least double" & "significantly more must leave than enter"

*Annual* emigration target of > 880,000 legal migrants (440k foreign nationals emigrated, 2024). Needed > 950k to meet Lowe second rule in 2024

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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · Jun 20

Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

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.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jun 19

No wonder the chocolate in airport was so expensive.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jun 19

Swiss central bank cuts rates to zero https://on.ft.com/4kgLMqR

Swiss central bank cuts interest rates to zero

Surge in value of Swiss franc amid US-driven trade war and lagging inflation has complicated policymaking

on.ft.com

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jun 19

Anyone who has gone through college and learned writing should know this. At least we now have hard proof.

Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · Jun 18

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jun 19

My first viral tweet. Wasn’t expecting it at all tbh. 😁

Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jun 14

How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · Jun 14

These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Jun 14

How does one call a political movement that assassinates its opponents to take control of the state?

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · Jun 14

These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · Jun 14

Local media reporting that the victims appear to be two Democratic state lawmakers and a spouse. No word on injuries.

This is really, really dark news to wake up to.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · May 28

They will arrest and deport legal persons, and the criteria will be skin color.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 28

In the first 100 days of the Trump admin, ICE averaged 665 arrests a day. 3,000 a day, a 450% increase, is an INSANE number for them to demand now; genuinely, truly, the stuff of madness.

In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · May 27

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.

George Pearkes @peark.es · May 27

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting

The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.

www.politico.com

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Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · May 24

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.

archive.ph/3vvOi

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · May 24

Must read on the crisis of the (UK) university from @unsocialtheory.bsky.social

janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...

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…

janabacevic.net

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · May 23

that took what, three hours?

Christian Mott @cjmott.bsky.social · May 23

Harvard just got a TRO against the SEVP decertification.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 23

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration from blocking Harvard from enrolling foreign students.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...

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.

www.cnn.com

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