Onur Varol

By the power bestowed in me, I declare this account as "not a bot."

He is a really great person if you know him :)

15.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OSF

New preprint on the global state of political polarization research 🎉

osf.io/preprints/os...

We discuss the many different ways polarization can be conceptualised, how it manifests very differently across countries and domains, and the problems with the dominance of US focused research.

22.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 43    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 1

View of Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch!
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
Please forward to interested scholars.

18.01.2025 05:28 — 👍 87    🔁 41    💬 0    📌 2

AI Revolution in Sports: Enhancing Fan Experience and Game Analysis Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are gaining popularity and are being applied in many different fields, such as education, sports…

From real-time insights like FIFA+ to platforms like DeepStrike analyzing combat sports, technology is revolutionizing fan engagement and game analysis. Explore the AI-powered future of sports. 🏀⚽🤖

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26.12.2024 11:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled to share that the Handbook of Computational Social Science manuscript was finally submitted to the publisher in full! Huge thanks to all the authors and reviewers who made this possible.
Check out the Table of Contents!

20.12.2024 12:58 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 2

Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity - EPJ Data Science Current practices of quantifying academic performance by productivity raise serious concerns about the psychological well-being of graduate students. These efforts often neglect the influence of resea...

That's what I like about this too. One of my first work on the subject looked PhD students will being by analyzing acknowledgement sections.
epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

07.12.2024 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Should we agree to disagree about Twitter’s bot problem? Bots, simply defined as accounts controlled by automation, can be used as a weapon for online manipulation and pose a threat to the health of platform…

That's why I was arguing even bot detection is a difficult task to agree
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

01.12.2024 16:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A cool discussion w/ some colleagues from the #NeuroSky community has triggered a new #ComplexityThoughts 👀

Regardless if you work w/ 🧠 or 🧬🧫, often we attack inverse problems in 🧪 w/ methods hiding tons of assumptions. I write about the case of #ComplexNetworks 👇

open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

22.11.2024 16:04 — 👍 116    🔁 34    💬 9    📌 5

i think this platform now has the critical mass. Sky will be blue :)

24.11.2024 09:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My favorite quotes of the founder of Turkish Republic.
I promise you the next 100 years of Turkiye will be even better!

"People have come into the world to live as much as they are destined to. To live means to be active."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

28.10.2023 18:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trust & Safety Tycoon Manage your team, set policies, make investments, and tackle the challenging world of Trust & Safety

Think you have what it takes to run Trust and Safety at a social media platform? Can you make the decision on what should and shouldn't be available for millions to see?

"Trust & Safety Tycoon," a new game developed by @dfrlab.bsky.social and @mmasnick.bsky.social puts you in control.

Good luck!

18.10.2023 14:15 — 👍 33    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 5

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

08.10.2023 19:49 — 👍 51    🔁 63    💬 0    📌 3

I read your post and decided to come :)

22.09.2023 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0