Research that stays inside journals never reaches the people it describes. When the findings have something to say to the public — about disasters, recovery, and how communities hold together — I write for the public.
Commentary & Op-Eds
- Disaster Survivors Need Connection — and Mental Health Care — with Daniel P. Aldrich · The Conversation · February 2023 The Conversation Recovery runs on more than rebuilding: staying connected to friends, family, and neighbors shapes who recovers, alongside access to mental-health care. Grows out of my disaster-recovery research at the Aldrich Resilience Lab.
In the Media
- BBC Türkçe’s 2020 — the news year, in data — BBC News Türkçe · December 2020 BBC News Türkçe Hired by BBC as the data scientist behind the newsroom’s year-in-review: computational text analysis of a full year of BBC Türkçe’s output, distilled into six themes and animated visualizations of how the agenda moved — Covid-19 above all, then Trump, the economy, femicides, and the İzmir and Elazığ earthquakes. (read on BBC, in Turkish)
Essays
Longer reflections live on Substack, The Social Computist. Start with the origin story: Hesaplamalı Sosyal Bilimlere nasıl başladım? — how I came to computational social science, told through the libraries where it happened (in Turkish). Shorter, more frequent notes are on the Now page.