Elif Sozer
@elifsozer.bsky.social
Aspiring manuscript writer and cooking enthusiast.
postdoc @ koc university, phd @ the new school for social research, ba @ bogazici university. İstanbul / Turkey
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TIrVX8gAAAAJ
postdoc @ koc university, phd @ the new school for social research, ba @ bogazici university. İstanbul / Turkey
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TIrVX8gAAAAJ
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Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And more below 👇
Presented my work on collective mental time travel at MiS Lab at MEF University. Hope to share the published version soon, and thanks to the wonderful audience!
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Presented my work on collective mental time travel at MiS Lab at MEF University. Hope to share the published version soon, and thanks to the wonderful audience!
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They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
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The New School for Social Research proves that quality trumps quantity. Despite its small faculty, it leads the world in essential, high-impact heterodox economic research and political economy. We must work to preserve this irreplaceable institution. (1 of 3)
@nssrnews.bsky.social
@nssrnews.bsky.social
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The New School for Social Research proves that quality trumps quantity. Despite its small faculty, it leads the world in essential, high-impact heterodox economic research and political economy. We must work to preserve this irreplaceable institution. (1 of 3)
@nssrnews.bsky.social
@nssrnews.bsky.social
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New School is cutting programs 😞 www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...
University to cut or pause 23 programs next fall amid restructuring - The New School Free Press
This story was updated on Dec. 4 at 5:45 p.m. More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year, according to information shared with faculty in an email from the provost’s office sent No...
www.newschoolfreepress.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New School is cutting programs 😞 www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I'm struck by this as well and it extends to most people I know over, say, fifty-five who don't have a special interest in the Middle East.
They learned a narrative as young people. No number of new data points seem to sway them from that narrative.
Of course, this isn't limited to Israel
They learned a narrative as young people. No number of new data points seem to sway them from that narrative.
Of course, this isn't limited to Israel
The highly educated 85+ years olds around me simply disbelieve that Israel has turned into what persecuted Jews 80 years ago. I spell it out for them, fact after fact, but it is too big to swallow. Lifelong othering of Arabs doesn't help. Changing attitudes towards Israel has to be generational.
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm struck by this as well and it extends to most people I know over, say, fifty-five who don't have a special interest in the Middle East.
They learned a narrative as young people. No number of new data points seem to sway them from that narrative.
Of course, this isn't limited to Israel
They learned a narrative as young people. No number of new data points seem to sway them from that narrative.
Of course, this isn't limited to Israel
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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Using open-ended responses to a question about your ideal political party to place voters on an ideological spectrum & how much they think ideologically
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Using open-ended responses to a question about your ideal political party to place voters on an ideological spectrum & how much they think ideologically
I added a Thanksgiving twist to a classic “gün” spread: apple crumble pie, cornmeal muffins, carrot & yoghurt dip (havuç tarator), potato salad, red pepper mezze and “kısır”.
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I added a Thanksgiving twist to a classic “gün” spread: apple crumble pie, cornmeal muffins, carrot & yoghurt dip (havuç tarator), potato salad, red pepper mezze and “kısır”.
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Americans are growing more socially isolated and politically divided.
Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Americans are growing more socially isolated and politically divided.
Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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I hereby apologize to Eyes Wide Shut for thinking it was hyperbolic
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I hereby apologize to Eyes Wide Shut for thinking it was hyperbolic
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We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
I can't tell you how surprised and proud this made me as an ex-New Yorker who used to take the M train.
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I can't tell you how surprised and proud this made me as an ex-New Yorker who used to take the M train.
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Mamdani is great for public education, a huge shout out to PSC CUNY for showing our union early on saw how important his win will be for us, for CUNY schools, and the city! Congrats to all!
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Mamdani is great for public education, a huge shout out to PSC CUNY for showing our union early on saw how important his win will be for us, for CUNY schools, and the city! Congrats to all!
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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
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On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
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If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.
i am determined to make this gardening indoors thing work. My kumquats are getting there, and the peppers I sprouted from grocery shop pepper seeds are insanely productive. There will be salads 🤤🧙♀️🌸
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i am determined to make this gardening indoors thing work. My kumquats are getting there, and the peppers I sprouted from grocery shop pepper seeds are insanely productive. There will be salads 🤤🧙♀️🌸
so so so excited for this (and sangria and tapas and gaudi architecture)!
Submissions are OPEN for the 2026 APS Annual Convention in Barcelona, Spain! #APS26BCN
Submit your research by 5 December
www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
Submit your research by 5 December
www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
so so so excited for this (and sangria and tapas and gaudi architecture)!
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A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know
What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know
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After Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist, was fatally shot from Israeli military positions in the West Bank in 2022, American officials “found no reason to believe that this was intentional.” But a U.S. colonel has now said that the findings were soft-pedaled to appease Israel.
U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials
A U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that official findings about the 2022 killing of a Palestinian American reporter were soft-pedaled to appease Israel.
nyti.ms
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist, was fatally shot from Israeli military positions in the West Bank in 2022, American officials “found no reason to believe that this was intentional.” But a U.S. colonel has now said that the findings were soft-pedaled to appease Israel.
Does anyone know of a paper abt turkish electoral trends comparing istanbul vs turkey in general?
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İstanbul’daki seçim sonuçlarının TC genelini anlamakta bir benchmark olduğunu/ trendlerin representative olduğunu bulan bir akademik makale var mıdır? RTE’ye referans vermek istemiyorum...
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İstanbul’daki seçim sonuçlarının TC genelini anlamakta bir benchmark olduğunu/ trendlerin representative olduğunu bulan bir akademik makale var mıdır? RTE’ye referans vermek istemiyorum...
October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Does anyone know of a paper abt turkish electoral trends comparing istanbul vs turkey in general?
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İstanbul’daki seçim sonuçlarının TC genelini anlamakta bir benchmark olduğunu/ trendlerin representative olduğunu bulan bir akademik makale var mıdır? RTE’ye referans vermek istemiyorum...
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İstanbul’daki seçim sonuçlarının TC genelini anlamakta bir benchmark olduğunu/ trendlerin representative olduğunu bulan bir akademik makale var mıdır? RTE’ye referans vermek istemiyorum...