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Pete Hausler @petehausler.bsky.social · Jun 24

this is the most powerful and cogent argument I’ve read on why not to rank Cuomo. simply: he hates NYC. Read this thread.

Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social · Jun 24

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you.

Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Jun 10

This looks so interesting! Cannot wait to read!

Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · Jun 10

Bit of an impulse buy from @dukepress.bsky.social but how can anyone resist a book that is, in part, about “Ottoman debt and finance” — certainly not this guy! www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic...

Cover of Julia Elyachar’s *On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo” (Duke University Press, 2025)

Back Cover of Julia Elyachar’s *On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo” (Duke University Press, 2025)

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Jun 6

I can’t believe I could just walk to the Süleymaniye on bayram and then have this little creature come sit in my arms in one of the most beautiful places in the world.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Nice böyle tatlı anlarla dolu bayramlara

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · May 25

Can we please find a way to write articles so we don’t have to cite everything ever written on the topic, and struggle to find ways to nicely say why they’re wrong.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · May 23

Canceled all my plans to work on an article and I have one (excellent) introductory paragraph to show for it.

Am still doing life wrong.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · May 20

Levels of ridiculousness I can’t deal with. Now we need people to assign them so AI can make up “book reports” for students who don’t read and professors who don’t grade.

Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · May 18

Love to see my book reviewed in the company of great books by Will Smiley and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky.
Thank you, @mcerovic.bsky.social for your engagement and framing in terms of transimperial history.

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · May 14

Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales

'Pluraliser la #modernité politique. Actualité de l’histoire #transimpériale russo-ottomane (note critique)'

par Masha Cerovic (@mcerovic.bsky.social)

Une note critique à propos de trois ouvrages récents

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Will Smiley : From Slaves to Prisoners of War

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 24

I struggled to divide student into groups to discuss four themes yesterday. I could not do the math. That’s how tired I am.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 22

This man then got on the subway and made jokes involving knight puns for two stops. As a pun-averse person in academia, I don’t think I deserved any of this.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 21

Teşekkürler! Yaşlandığım için artık “cümlemize” gibi şeyler diyesim geliyor :-)

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 20

Turned a thousand years old today and walked 12k steps after throwing myself a dinner and can definitely say I feel my age.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Just googled “how do you know if your headache is an aneurysm.” Current stress level.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 7

Ice cream truck? Police helicopter?

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 7

Have been screaming inside all day thinking about the kind of person who goes to talks and steals ideas. Then they write - and because no one writes critical book reviews - they get away with it again and again.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · Apr 6

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 5

100% this. I can’t imagine studying languages, doing research, or writing my book without FLAS, Fulbright-Hays, NEH, and the defunct SSRC humanities fellowships. It kills me that grad students and junior scholars don’t have these opportunities.

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · Apr 5

Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 5

Wondering if I should order a case of Campari — or let tariffs make me into a better Muslim.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Apr 4

Race to the bottom

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · Dec 21

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Dec 20

I feel like they should be flanked by horses or the robot dogs (?) they wasted millions of dollars on.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Dec 18

Congratulations!

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Dec 9

One of the most poignant, beautifully crafted and shot films I have watched this year.

mubi.com/en/us/films/...

Watch Crossing (2024) on MUBI

Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul ...

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Dec 9

I was in Seoul in 2016 (?) for an SSRC Inter-Asian connections workshop. Maybe you could look up the program and see if there might be any contacts there who are useful. Cemil Aydin was involved.

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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · Dec 9

I will!