Dual BA Program Between Columbia University and Sciences Po 

1) Backdoor to Columbia University.

2) Program for students rejected from Ivy League Institutions, and more generally top tier universities, as admission to this dual degree is relatively high.

3) Group of privileged and self-referential rich kids hanging out between themselves and not doing much in their first two years of college.

4) Four year, direct entry program with the two first years in France at one of Sciences Po's regional campuses, and the two final years in the United States at the undergraduate college for non-traditional students of Columbia University, the School of General Studies. Upon graduation, students are awarded the Sciences Po Bachelor of Arts and the Columbia School of General Studies (GS) Bachelor of Arts.

Friend from high school: How did you get into Columbia? Congrats!
Dual BA student: I got in through the Dual BA Program Between Columbia University and Sciences Po procedure.

Friend from high school: Oh, okay. Never mind.

Dual BA Program Between Columbia University and Sciences Po by WallyNY December 4, 2016

Social Sciences of Pop Culture

An interdisciplinary field that studies popular culture—television, music, film, comics, gaming, memes, fashion—using the tools of sociology, anthropology, political economy, and cultural studies. It examines how pop culture is produced (industries, labor, intellectual property), how it circulates (platforms, fandom, algorithms), and how it is consumed (identity, community, resistance). The social sciences of pop culture reject the high/low culture distinction, treating pop culture as a central site where meaning, power, and belonging are negotiated. It also studies phenomena like meme wars, stan culture, and the political economy of streaming.

Example: “Her social sciences of pop culture research traced how K‑pop fan communities organized mass purchasing and streaming campaigns not just out of devotion, but as a strategic response to platform algorithms that rewarded volume over depth.”

Sociology of Pop Culture

A subfield that applies sociological frameworks to analyze popular culture as a social phenomenon—how it reflects and shapes class, race, gender, and generational identities; how it is produced and distributed through industrial systems; and how audiences use it to construct meaning and community. The sociology of pop culture draws on theories of taste (Bourdieu), subcultures (Hebdige), and audience reception (Hall). It examines everything from the representation of social issues in television to the role of pop culture in political campaigns, treating pop culture as a serious object of sociological inquiry.

Example: “His sociology of pop culture research showed that the rise of ‘sad girl music’ on streaming platforms correlated with algorithmic playlists that rewarded emotional vulnerability—not just a cultural shift, but a structural one.”

Social Sciences of Pop Culture by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 16, 2026

Posthumanist Sciences

The study of the new forms of physics, information, and society that emerge after humanity. This is the science of posthuman entities and their environments. It might involve the mathematics of subjective time in simulated realities, the sociology of minds that can copy and merge themselves, or the physics of virtual universes with different fundamental constants. It's the knowledge system built by intelligences unfettered by biological brains, asking questions humans haven't even learned to formulate.

Example: "The leading text in posthumanist sciences is 'Ontological Topology and the Ethics of Recursive Self-Iteration.' It's written in a language that describes concepts through multi-sensory data clusters. The human translation reads like a fever dream crossed with a calculus textbook."

Posthumanist Sciences by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Theory of Postmodernist Sciences

A framework applying postmodern critique to the plurality of sciences—questioning grand narratives about scientific unity, exposing power relations embedded in disciplinary boundaries, deconstructing hierarchies among sciences, and attending to marginalized sciences excluded from the canon. Postmodernist Sciences doesn't deny that sciences produce knowledge—it denies that the current configuration of sciences is natural, inevitable, or complete. It studies how disciplines form, how boundaries are drawn, how some sciences become prestigious while others are marginalized, and how excluded knowledges haunt the scientific field.

Theory of Postmodernist Sciences "You think the current sciences are just natural categories. Postmodernist Sciences asks: why physics at the top? Why is some knowledge 'science' and other knowledge 'tradition'? These aren't natural; they're historical, political. Postmodernism doesn't reject sciences—it asks why they're arranged this way, who benefits, and what's been excluded. The questions are uncomfortable; that's the point."

Theory of Postmodernist Sciences by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Science-politics 

When a scientist disagrees with the other one's theory because he wants to be more famous.

Person a: Why he disagree with Einstein theory?

Person b: He's playing science-politics, wants to be more famous.

Person a: hahahahaha!

Science-politics by Another edit November 4, 2009

Science Power Struggle

The often-hidden political and economic battle over who controls the direction, funding, and narrative of scientific research. This is the dark underbelly of pure inquiry: tenured professors blocking rival theories, corporate funders shaping study outcomes, governments weaponizing research for prestige, and publishers charging outrageous fees. It's the realization that the "marketplace of ideas" is a rigged game with gatekeepers, investors, and propaganda.

Example: "His groundbreaking paper on a cheap battery was buried because of the science power struggle. A senior reviewer with ties to a lithium-ion company sat on it for a year, then recommended rejection based on a minor methodology quibble. Truth doesn't win; it needs a lobbyist." Science Power Struggle

Science Power Struggle by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Science Power Struggle

The hidden political and economic battle that determines which science gets done, by whom, and for what purpose. This is the dark underbelly of the paradigm struggle: the fight over grants, tenured positions, journal editorships, and prestige. It's where corporate funding shapes research agendas to favor profitable outcomes, where senior scientists block rivals' work, and where governments weaponize research for geopolitical advantage. Truth may win in the long run, but in the short term, power decides which truths get the microphone and the money.

Example: "His groundbreaking paper on a cheap renewable energy storage method was buried for a decade due to a Science Power Struggle. A powerful reviewer with ties to the fossil fuel industry sat on it, called it 'not sufficiently rigorous,' and fast-tracked his own graduate student's competing, weaker paper. The better science lost because it threatened the wrong people's kingdoms."

Science Power Struggle by AbzuInExile February 1, 2026