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📢 ICYMI! 📢 SKAPE Seminar: Topic modelling UK science advisory committees during Covid-19 23 Oct, 1-2pm VLR, Chrystal Macmillan Building / Online via Zoom More info and registration: edin.ac/46uJMGn

Our new paper with @cbarrie & @aliaelkattan is out in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media! We present a multimodal dataset capturing how candidates campaigned on X during the 2024 UK General Election. Check it out👇👇 🔗 journalqd.org/article/view/9…

Is social media still a political echo chamber? In our new ICWSM25 paper "Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter" we analyzed 3M replies from 2020 and find that 34% were directed to users from opposite political alignment. However these interactions are more likely to be toxic🧵

The X account of Istanbul’s twice-elected mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has been blocked in Turkey. After failing to silence him through imprisonment, Erdoğan’s government now resorts to digital censorship. A striking example of how Turkey’s authoritarian turn has accelerated by exploiting the illiberal international climate.

Volkan Konak’ın bugün sahnede hayatını kaybetmeden önceki son sözleri: “Volkan abi sivri konuşma içeri atarlar seni diyorlar. Ya bırak. Sen bilmez misin devrimciler korkmaz?”

Check out our new preprint👇🏼 We measure attention to political content online using a clone social media environment. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Even Pikachu was not spared from police violence in Turkey this week.

❗️❗️ Deadline extended to 31st of March ❗️❗️

After forcing Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu out of politics, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is getting closer to establishing an autocratic system with no real opposition—and with no electoral surprises, writes @gonultol. foreignaffairs.com/turkey/turkey-…

Turkish politics have an endless creativity. It seemed far fetched but now it's real. Istanbul University has revoked the diploma of @ekrem_imamoglu that it conceded 35 years ago in what can only be seen as a politically driven manoeuvre to impede his presidential candidacy. Sad.

We are organising the SICSS summer school on computational social science in Edinburgh this summer! We offer a two-week intensive course to learn and practice how to use data science for understanding/analysing social phenomena. Apply soon #ICWSM #CSCW

We are running a summer school in Computational Social Science at Edinburg this year - 3 days left to apply!

What are the social dynamics behind the resilience of today’s elected authoritarian regimes? In order to answer this question, I develop the concept “democratic autocracy.” This regime type is a populist update to fascism under neoliberal conditions. 1/6 brill.com/view/journals/…

Ekopolitik Akademi devam ediyor! Doç. Dr. Uğur Özdemir [@UgurOzdemir_TR] ile "Siyasi ideolojiler, Kimlikler ve Aidiyet Psikolojisi" dersinde buluşuyoruz.

We are back😎 Application deadline is March 21st. Don’t miss out this great opportunity to connect peers and learn more about computational social science!

🚨 SICSS-Edinburgh is back! 🚨 We’re excited to announce that applications for SICSS-Edinburgh 2025 are now open. 📅 Dates: May 26 - June 6 Apply now 👉 sicss.io/2025/edinburgh/ #SICSS2025 #SICSSEdinburgh

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Presenting a poster today at the Digital Research Conference: digitalresearchservices.ed.ac.uk/digital-resear… Thanks to @TVGsociologist from @uoessps for sharing the dataset created by himself and @aybukeatalayy You can play with the data here: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/… @DRS_UoE

Co-authored with @ozanahmetcetin, our new @InsightTurkey article "Artificial Intelligence in National Security: Strategic Priorities of Türkiye and the UAE" is now available in early view. insightturkey.com/early-view/art… #AI #NationalSecurity #Türkiye #UAE

I’m thrilled to announce that I passed my PhD viva yesterday at the @EdinburghPIR ! I am deeply grateful to my outstanding examiners, @silviowaisbord and @prof_vaccari, supportive chair, @WilfriedSwenden, and brilliant supervisors, Kate Wright, Benjamin Martill and @jf_daoust.