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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- Fall 2026 — Visiting doctoral fellow at Caltech (Alvarez Lab), working on Tech in Congress and some collaborations on auditing LLMs
- Sep 2026 — Essay: (Re)reading Sartori in another computer revolution · The Social Computist
- Sep 2026 — APSA 2026, Boston · “Stance Is Not a Construct”
- Sep 2026 — PaCSS 2026, Boston University · Network Shocks
- Aug 2026 — IC2S2 and NEMI · Political Geometry
- Jul 2026 — Back from PolMeth: a poster on “Stance Is Not a Construct,” and the revision it pointed me toward for APSA
- Jul 2026 — Guest lecture: “Anthropology of Machines: From Black Box to White Box” at SICSS-Istanbul, the institute I co-founded · slides
- Apr 2026 — Essay (in Turkish): Hesaplamalı Sosyal Bilimlere nasıl başladım? · The Social Computist
- Jan 2026 — 2026 conference season: working papers across ISA, MPSA, NetSci, PolMeth, IC2S2, APSA, and PaCSS — most now presented, APSA and PaCSS ahead this fall
- Dec 2025 — Invited talk: “LLM Classification Strategies for Political Text,” NULab Critical Forum, Northeastern University
- Aug 2025 — Poster, 18th Annual PolNet–PaCSS Conference, Harvard University