Jenny White
@whitejenny.bsky.social
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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Wow.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.
For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.
For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Wow.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.
For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.
For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
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We have a vacancy at UCL for a new permanent lecturer in British and Comparative politics, working as part of the Constitution Unit
Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit!
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
@uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities.
Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD.
Apply 👇
Job opportunity: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
The UCL Department of Political Science and Constitution Unit are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics. The successful candidate will join the senior team at the Unit.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We have a vacancy at UCL for a new permanent lecturer in British and Comparative politics, working as part of the Constitution Unit
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France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
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This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
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Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!
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Contesting Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective
Edited By Bilge Yabanci, Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Kerem Öktem
Available for pre-order now.
www.routledge.com/Contesting-A...
Edited By Bilge Yabanci, Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Kerem Öktem
Available for pre-order now.
www.routledge.com/Contesting-A...
Contesting Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective
While authoritarianism continues to gain ground globally, this book offers a global and nuanced perspective into how, when, and where autocratisation may be contested and sometimes reversed. Drawing o...
www.routledge.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Contesting Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective
Edited By Bilge Yabanci, Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Kerem Öktem
Available for pre-order now.
www.routledge.com/Contesting-A...
Edited By Bilge Yabanci, Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Kerem Öktem
Available for pre-order now.
www.routledge.com/Contesting-A...
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When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Please repost:
We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Please repost:
We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
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Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.
Deadline Oct. 22.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Deadline Oct. 22.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants
Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.
Deadline Oct. 22.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Deadline Oct. 22.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Fun to read!
📯📯 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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💫 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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October 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Fun to read!
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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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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/
Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
September 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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/
Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
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📉 Religion’s decline in stages
A global study finds secularisation often follows three steps: less public ritual, then weaker personal belief, and finally loss of religious identity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪 #Religion
A global study finds secularisation often follows three steps: less public ritual, then weaker personal belief, and finally loss of religious identity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪 #Religion
The three stages of religious decline around the world - Nature Communications
Religious decline is happening around the world. Here, the authors show that countries are at different stages of a common global sequence of decline in religious participation, personal importance of...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
📉 Religion’s decline in stages
A global study finds secularisation often follows three steps: less public ritual, then weaker personal belief, and finally loss of religious identity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪 #Religion
A global study finds secularisation often follows three steps: less public ritual, then weaker personal belief, and finally loss of religious identity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪 #Religion
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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...
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...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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...
Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
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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...
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
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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...
yetkinreport.com/2025/09/05/a...
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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
September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9
“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9
As with stanza 1:8, the next quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the fleeting character of political glory, and of life in general. It continues to introduce English-speaking audiences to Iranian kings and heroes, the Persian equivalents of Agamemnon and Achilles: IX. But come with old Khayyam, and […]
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September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9
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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).
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).
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
I’m not on the committee (hiding on research leave), but I'm happy to chat / answer questions!
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172986
September 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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).
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Taking the competitive out of competitive authoritarianism
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-...
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
September 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Taking the competitive out of competitive authoritarianism
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These are incredibly useful tips for all teachers and professors starting a new academic year...
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
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
These are incredibly useful tips for all teachers and professors starting a new academic year...
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WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...
Universitair docent sociologie
Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.
www.uu.nl
September 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...