Vural Özdemir

@criticalpolicy
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Systems medicine│Social and political theory of health

‘The university is a critical institution or it is nothing’ (Stuart Hall)

Master of arts│I read and write through a postcolonial queer-feminist lens

Culture & Theory│Materiality & Theory│Queer ways of seeing

Sürüden ayrılanların hikayeleri🦉🎈kuir görme biçimleri

#BlackLivesMatter ✊🏾 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Vegan 🚲

Toronto, Ontario

Biohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vuralozdemir/
Biopolitics in Science and Medicinehttps://mehmetvuralozdemir.academia.edu/
Critical Innovation Studies (CIS)https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00011
Vural Özdemir4d ago

Independent artisan #bookstores are vital #public goods

#commons #democracy #arts #publics

Vural ÖzdemirOct 29
#autumn #maple 🍁
Vural ÖzdemirOct 29

Suzanne Vega - Live on Tour

📌 "Flying With Angels Tour 2025 - 2026"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9p1y53biuw

Tour info and tickets:
https://www.suzannevega.com/tour

Upcoming:
London, England
3 November 2025

Los Angeles, CA
Feb 15, 2026

#SuzanneVega #MyNameIsLuca #music #indie

Suzanne Vega - Live on Tour

YouTube
Vural ÖzdemirOct 25
ArtunOct 24

#Heteronormativity and cisgenderism in medical training: A scoping review

Social Science & #Medicine, Volume 370, April 2025

📌 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625001510

"LGBTQ+ issues were lacking in the formal medical curriculum, with very little consideration beyond strictly biomedical concerns."

Vural ÖzdemirOct 18

📌 New study published on October 13, 2025

On Large Language Models (LLMs) and Contextual Reasoning

"Our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria.

We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification."

👇🏾
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122

Vural ÖzdemirOct 18

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

"What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None. On the contrary, .."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10

#CriticalTheory #Critical_AI_Literacy

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

Project Syndicate
Vural ÖzdemirOct 16

#October #cityscape #Toronto #Ontario

#north #autumn

Vural ÖzdemirSep 27

Autumn #book sale
#UofT St. George campus

A selection of thousands of used and rare books; fiction and literature, non-fiction, history, philosophy, poetry & more
https://alumni.utoronto.ca/events/uc-book-sale

Vural ÖzdemirSep 11

The Art of Critique | Op-ed 10 Sept 2025

As we draw closer to the end of 2025, we are marking the end of the first quarter of the 21st century.

For equitable science & healthcare, we need a departure from narrow technocratic models & mindsets to account for political determinants, the causes-of-causes, of planetary health—the elephants in the room that we need to face for an incisive, just, and robust #art of #critique in the second quarter of the 21st century.

📌 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/15578100251379395

Vural ÖzdemirSep 11
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ArtunOct 24

#Heteronormativity and cisgenderism in medical training: A scoping review

Social Science & #Medicine, Volume 370, April 2025

📌 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625001510

"LGBTQ+ issues were lacking in the formal medical curriculum, with very little consideration beyond strictly biomedical concerns."

Show threadArtunOct 24

"LGBTQ+ issues were lacking in the formal medical curriculum, with very little consideration beyond strictly biomedical concerns.

Importantly, this paper debunks the idea that Asia is uniformly negative and conservative on LGBTQ+ issues, highlights the importance of regionally and culturally specific factors in understanding the medical training environment, and provides suggestions for practice and further research."

#queerhealth #queer #medicaleducation #kuir