Baris Cayli Messina
Assoc Professor / Author of
📙A SLOW REVOLUTION - Cornell University Press
📘THE MORAL TRAP - University of California Press
📕VIOLENCE & MILITANTS - McGill-Queen's University Press
A gay man 🏳️🌈
www.bariscaylimessina.com
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaThis is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaMany university researchers (& many social scientists) have no idea that the 'Sullivan Review' (named after its lead author, sociologist Sullivan) exists nor of its potential potency. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I wanted to set the Review in context rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaAcademics who appear in the Epstein files deserve their own file: "Another category of Epstein associate: researchers who thought Epstein could either fund their work or help push their careers to the next level." #AcademicSky www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
- Reposted by Baris Cayli Messina📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaWe know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
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- The Epstein files offer a case study in how crimes of the powerful operate. Famous names; all aware what was going on. Elite harm needs only a system where accountability is permanantly deferred so the powerful remains powerful by escaping justice. #AcademicSky www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...
- This isn’t new. It is patterned and systemic. I analysed it 4 years ago in my #OpenAccess British Journal of Sociology article When men kill women, they shift blame and manufacture excuses to avoid punishment. #AcademicSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaI’m really pleased the Council of Europe has voted to pass @kateosbornemp.bsky.social's resolution for a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy. Now it’s time for our government to follow suit.
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaLeft: Labour's Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, "Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’" Right: PM of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, "Yes, my country has offered a path to regulate half a million undocumented migrants" "This is the path we choose. Dignity, community and justice"
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaThe First Amendment fully protects our right to record ICE agents, police, FBI, National Guard troops, and other government officials performing their duties in public. Know your rights while filming, how to protect your digital privacy, and what to do if you're stopped or arrested for recording.
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaNoodling around the new Epstein releases; as before it’s interesting to see the concentric rings of academics (esp. Physicists, Philosophers, and Cog Sci types), from direct ongoing connection to JE, to grubbing for money/clout, to chattering-class brokerage via eg the Brockman/Matson hype channel.
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaA new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaSo Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein “Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year …”. Working right on across the edge, he then became obsessed with the idea that only Muslim men in the UK operate child grooming gangs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaNobel Peace Prize committee member Asle Toje allegedly met with Steve Bannon in 2018. A further meeting was planned with Bannon, Toje, and then-deputy leader of Norway’s right-wing Progress Party Sylvi Listhaug. Possible MAGA ties raise questions about the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s credibility.
- Reposted by Baris Cayli Messina"Compared to the original 669-page textbook, the new version is just 267 pages. ... the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- Somewhere in #Afghanistan, a girl who dreamed of becoming a doctor just learned that dream is now illegal permanently. And a state announced this on camera, proudly. Many states issued a statement and moved on. #Afghanwomen are not a footnote and we mustn't let amnesia do the work of complicity.
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaWe need more of this in Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Holocaust Remembrance Day. When we say #NeverAgain, it was a vow made over ashes. For Jews then. For Palestinians, Iranians, and Ukrainians now. For refugees caged and criminalised in America today. Grief doesn't check passports. Neither should our solidarity.
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaAnother Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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- Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Green party leader advocates leaving Nato and says Britain should wean itself off its reliance on the US. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- If an LLM could have written your paper, ask what you actually contributed. I am editing a major journal. The submissions that thrill me now? The ones that AI can't produce! This is the reason #ethnography #interviews #archivalresearch matter more than ever in the age of AI. #AcademicSky
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- "Trump is a business buffoon. His companies have gone bankrupt six times and he failed to launch an airline, a university and lost his shirt in casinos. He is also ignorant of basic economics." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaThey didn’t want a university without cancel culture. They didn’t want to be criticized for their retrograde views so they created a pretend school funding by their rich friends. The only people surprised that this failed were credulous enough to believe the fairy tales these folks told.
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- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaFor those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks. ✊🏾🌈at://did:plc:2nsrap435xzcgzjh443bngcw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3latgtj25j72h
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- Great to see how seriously a university press treats its authors. Just received a remarkably detailed and thoughtful marketing questionnaire from @cornellupress.bsky.social for my forthcoming book: A Slow Revolution This level of care and strategy stands out. #UniversityPress #ReadUP #AcademicSky
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- #Europe is waking up to a bitter truth it has spent decades avoiding: it stands alone. This is my new article that cuts through the comfortable narratives to examine what strategic isolation means for #sovereignty, #democracy, and the future of #Europeanpolitics. #AcademicSky My analysis 👇
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- Even worse, some sources note that more than 12,000 people were massacred! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
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- #ICE functions as organised brutality against #immigrants. The Minneapolis killing shows what research confirms. This agency operates through terror, criminalises survival, deploy #racialisedviolence and kills with impunity. Institutions built on dehumanisation must be abolished. #AcademicaSky
- The UN headquarters is in New York. To host an institution you are destroying is absurd. This is autocratic nihilism. American exceptionalism is now American isolation, and autocrats worldwide are now probably celebrating this. Trump just handed Putin, Xi and every other autocrat another gift.
- A Prime Minister who studied law and knows exactly what the UN Charter is and why it exists, now speaking as if it were optional. This is nformed consent to illegality that chooses alignment over law, power over principle, and calling it the national interest. A sad statement for all British people.
- Reposted by Baris Cayli MessinaIt's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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