Jenny White
@whitejenny.bsky.social
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Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
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whitejenny.bsky.social
Fun to read!
burcukarahan.bsky.social
📯📯 One Thousand and One Kisses 💋 is now out from @tra-attached.bsky.social!
💫 Heartfelt thanks to @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social for 🎨 cover art; and Louis de Bernieres, @ratherserious.bsky.social, and @whitejenny.bsky.social for their generous support.
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Zelenskyy: Intelligence agencies have reported that the russians are using tankers to control drones launched against European countries. This is further evidence that the Baltic Sea and other seas must be closed to russian tankers.
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joestieb.bsky.social
Or, to put it another way, debate, in the sense of the formal or informal defense of largely fixed positions, comes quite low in my list of goals/priorities as a history teacher.

Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
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lmorgenbesser.bsky.social
My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies."

Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
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cplaisant.bsky.social
This morning, opposition circles in Turkey are discussing the possibility of the Turkish courts preventively removing the CHP leadership before the hearing on 15 September (allegations of fraud on the 38th Congress), in order to avoid counter-measures by the party.
yetkinreport.com/2025/09/05/a...
Ankara’da tehlikeli senaryolar: Mahkeme 15 Eylül’ü beklemeyebilir - Yetkin Report
Mahkeme 15 Eylül'ü de beklemeden CHP yönetimini görevden uzaklaştırabilir mi? Ankara'da konuşulan en tehlikeli senaryo bu.
yetkinreport.com
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financialtimes.com
Breaking news: Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats that the US would no longer fund programmes that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. on.ft.com/4mNocUo
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casmudde.bsky.social
This is a great (and rare) opportunity for senior scholars who work on democracy to move to a safer academic environment (by contemporary U.S. standards).
cwolbrecht.bsky.social
Notre Dame is investing in democracy research in lots of exciting ways, including these hires. Happy to talk to senior folks about working at Notre Dame and living in South Bend. (Spoiler: There are lots of good reasons I've spent my entire career here).
rachelporter.bsky.social
Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science is hiring *multiple* senior folks (assoc/full prof) working on democracy broadly (institutions, political behavior, CP, AP).

I’m not on the committee (hiding on research leave), but I'm happy to chat / answer questions!

👉 apply.interfolio.com/172986
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nateschenkkan.bsky.social
Taking the competitive out of competitive authoritarianism
bianet-eng.bsky.social
Court annuls CHP İstanbul congress, removes provincial leadership in critical verdict

The main opposition party is also facing annulment of its national congress held in Nov 2023, which could affect the position of the current party leader. bianet.org/haber/court-...
Court annuls CHP İstanbul congress, removes provincial leadership in critical verdict
The main opposition party is also facing annulment of its national congress held in Nov 2023. If that process is also annulled, it could affect the position of current party leader.
bianet.org
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
These are incredibly useful tips for all teachers and professors starting a new academic year...
adzebill.bsky.social
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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bachynski.bsky.social
The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”
More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.
www.insidehighered.com
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Obviously, a Russian attack on a US company deep into Ukraine's rear was deliberate and a clear signal of Russia's true attitude towards US and European peacemaking efforts.

Previously, Russia has launched deliberate attacks on Polish and Azerbaijani companies.

Conclusions must be drawn.
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The US electorate is used to thinking of partisan combat as a choice between two slightly different flavors of constitutional liberalism deal...vanilla vs. strawberry...rather than a choice between constitutional liberalism or authoritarian illiberalism...vanilla vs. arsenic. Messaging that is hard.
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lifesafeast.bsky.social
I don’t usually quote Al Jazeera, but this analysis of the Putin-Trump summit is the best and most accurate…”how a former intelligence officer uses his skills of manipulation on a self-centred narcissist.”

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
‘Feeding a narcissist:’ Ukraine reflects on Trump-Putin summit
Some wins for Russian president, Ukrainian analysts say – although nothing concrete comes out of the meeting.
www.aljazeera.com
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shashj.bsky.social
"Mr Witkoff favours striking a grand deal between America and Russia. His involvement in negotiations has usually been to the detriment of Ukraine. It has also been marked with extraordinary incompetence" www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
What Putin wants from Trump in Alaska
As the leaders prepare to meet, Russian forces break Ukraine’s defensive line
www.economist.com
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nkalamb.bsky.social
A New Zealand woman who works in Washington state and her six-year-old son have been abducted by ICE at the Canadian border, trafficked to Texas, and imprisoned for three weeks in abhorrent conditions.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A New Zealand woman who is being held at a US immigration centre with her six-year-old son after they were detained crossing the Canada-US border, is being wrongly “treated like a criminal”, according to her friend and advocate.

Sarah Shaw, 33, a New Zealander who has lived in Washington state for just over three years, dropped her two eldest children to Vancouver airport on 24 July, so they could take a direct flight back to New Zealand for a holiday with their grandparents.

When Shaw attempted to re-enter the US, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained her and her youngest son, in what was a “terrifying” ordeal, said Victoria Besancon, Shaw’s friend who is helping to raise money for her legal fight.

A younger woman with a large envelope in front of her
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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“Sarah thought she was being kidnapped,” she said. “They didn’t really explain anything to her at first, they just kind of quietly took her and her son and immediately put them in like an unmarked white van.”

Ice confiscated Shaw’s phone and transported the mother and son to the Dilley immigration processing center in south Texas, many states away from her home, Besancon said. Foreign nationals caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown have similarly been transported to centres far from their homes, support networks and legal representation.
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
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gwillow.me
Beloved Turkish cartoonist MK Perker and I have a new book out this week, and this one is special--it's set here in the Pacific Northwest. THE STONESHORE REGISTER is about a declining fishing village on the Washington coast that has secrets--and a newcomer who is determined to solve its mysteries.
Cover of the graphic novel THE STONESHORE REGISTER, featuring a stone giant crouching above a small town at night, and a young woman standing in a small boat.