As a Turkish academic whose passport is as valuable as a wet towel, I strongly agree. I don’t even consider attending conferences in Europe anymore as getting a Schengen visa takes up more time than writing a paper. Make it make sense.

I accept my faith.

This reminds me the time I spent an entire day designing my mail signature in Illustrator just to realize MacBooks do not recognize images as signatures and show them as ATTACHMENTS! My Luddite brain was startled.

1/2 "Offices for Visiting and Travel Affairs" in West Berlin staffed by GDR employees. So if you wanted to make a visit to the east, you went to such an office (one was at Zoo station in Jebenstraße)

157 earthquakes in the last 10 hours... two of which were 7.7 and 7.5 magnitudes. The extent of the disaster is immense in Türkiye. I made below charts to show the scale. It is very cold, winter time. Please consider donating to relevant campaigns.

Şu anda Antakya için enkaz halinde olduğundan emin olduğumuz, teyide muhtaç olmayan, binalar için "mahalle-apartman adı" şeklinde bir veritabanı hazırlıyoruz. Antakyalılardan emin oldukları enkaz bilgilerini bahsettiğim formatta bana dm atmalarını rica ediyorum.

For anyone who wishes to donate for emergency care in the earthquake zones in Turkey: Support to Life is an incredible organization who is currently seeking donations for winter tents, blankets, stoves and basic hygiene products. For info, visit: supporttolife.org

I wrote an article on Uplotnenie and ephemeral communal rooms of Moscow! It is published by sITA and can be accessed here 👇🏼 sita.uauim.ro/article/10-16-…

I wrote a review for this amazing book by Sara Blaylock for Visual Studies! Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here’s the statement from New York City’s three library systems about Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed budget cuts: “We would need to suspend Saturday service at a number of locations… and completely eliminate Sunday service.”

I can confirm than no amount of education in Russian Studies can prepare you to understand Russian studies.