Udo Kier as Yuri will forever be one of the greatest video game villains. He elevated Red Alert to another level. RIP.

Dijital Teknolojiler, Eleştiri ve Toplum II “Hegel ve Büyük Dil Modelleri” Konuşmacı: Umut Eldem Saat: 15:00 – 16.30 Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi: akbanksanat.com/etkinlik/hegel…

We are hosting Prof. İpek Azime Çelik Rappas, who recently won a brilliant new European Research Council (ERC) Advanced project on 2 December noon. Find out more about her new project here: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101…

📸 Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesi'nde Vatikan Devlet Başkanı Papa 14. Leo'yu resmi törenle karşıladı. 📸 Turkish President Erdogan welcomed Pope Leo XIV, Head of the State of Vatican City, who is paying an official visit to Türkiye

Currently in FirstView: In “Codebook LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as Measurement Tools for Political Science Concepts,” Andy Halterman and Katherine A. Keith show how “off-the-shelf” LLMs have limitations in faithfully following real-world codebook operationalizations.

This is my favorite genre of post: “Hi my name is John Capitalist Regulationsarebad. Recently I’ve noticed everything in Europe is better, healthier, and I’m happier being here. However, they have more wealth distribution and a social safety net. Can someone explain this to me?”

Şehirli nüfusun 15 dakika içerisinde ne kadar fazla hizmet ve sektöre ulaşılabileceğini gösteren çok güzel bir proje. Türkiye'deki büyük şehirlerin çoğunda eğlence-kültür, kütüphane, sergi, tiyatro v.b. sektörlerinin ulaşması zor hale gelmesi ve genç öğrenci arkadaşların "hiçbir

“Türk Papa” 1934-1944 arası İstanbul’da görev yapmış Rahip Roncalli efendi. Şişli’de oturur Şeref Stadyumu’ndaki bütün Beşiktaş maçlarına giderdi. Sıkı bir Beşiktaşlıydı 🦅 77 yaşında beklenmedik bir şekilde Papa seçildikten sonra yine beklenmedik bir biçimde 2. Vatikan

Devastating @wsj report on the real Trump-Russia deal: betray Ukraine in exchange for privileged business benefits for Trump insiders. wsj.com/world/russia/r…

Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx

We are on the cusp of a profound change in the field of mathematics. Vibe proving is here. Aristotle from Harmonic just proved Erdos Problem #124 in Lean, all by itself. This problem has been open for nearly 30 years since conjectured in the paper “Complete sequences

Nato considers being ‘more aggressive’ against Russia’s hybrid warfare on.ft.com/4pGtdzo

Working paper. Runs ~500k Chinese graduate dissertations through plagiarism-detection software, then links them to 60k successful civil-service recruits (and controls). Individuals with high plagiarism scores substantially more likely to enter government + advance faster.

EXCLUSIVE: Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/heg…

This kind of advice is even more irrelevant for the academic job market. “I know someone that works in the athletic department. You should meet with them and let them know you’re interested in teaching there.”

Large quantities of German ammunition stolen from lorry bbc.in/48f0hIX

BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system:

latest visit by the pope and patriarch to nicea ended centuries' old dispute over the matter, once again turkish diplomacy saves the day #sorrynotsorry

Across 25 countries we surveyed earlier this year, trust in others varies widely. But it tends to be higher in high-income countries than in middle-income ones.