Some of what I write is for the public rather than for journals. The record: op-eds, work with the press, and blogging.
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.
Media
- BBC Türkçe’s 2020 — the news year, in data — BBC News Türkçe · December 2020 BBC News Türkçe A one-time commission: the newsroom asked me to build its year-in-review with computational tools. I analyzed a full year of BBC Türkçe’s tweets and distilled them 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)
Blogging
Longer essays live on Substack, The Social Computist:
- The Anthropology of Machines That Talk · July 2026 — a lecture turned essay on why the future of AI needs more social science.
- Hesaplamalı Sosyal Bilimlere nasıl başladım? · April 2026 — 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.