What I’m working on right now — talks, conferences, and short reflections along the way. This page is hand-written and deliberately lean: a digest, not a feed. The more frequent updates live on LinkedIn; the longer essays on Substack.


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Recent

  • Jul 2026Back from PolMeth: a poster on “Stance Is Not a Construct,” and the revision it pointed me toward for APSA
  • Jul 2026Guest lecture: “Anthropology of Machines: From Black Box to White Box” at SICSS-Istanbul, the institute I co-founded · slides
  • Jan 20262026 conference season: working papers across ISA, MPSA, NetSci, PolMeth, IC2S2, APSA, and PaCSS — most now presented, APSA and PaCSS ahead this fall
  • Dec 2025Invited talk: “LLM Classification Strategies for Political Text,” NULab Critical Forum, Northeastern University
  • Aug 2025 — Poster, 18th Annual PolNet–PaCSS Conference, Harvard University