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Onur Varol
@ovarol.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. at @SabanciU #networkscience, #datascience, #css

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Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social · Aug 15
By the power bestowed in me, I declare this account as "not a bot."

He is a really great person if you know him :)
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Max Falkenberg @maxfalken.bsky.social · Apr 22
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.
OSF
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Reposted by Stefan Neumann, Jana Lasser, Onur Varol

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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · Jan 18
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.
View of Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
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VERİM @su-verim.bsky.social · Dec 26
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. 🏀⚽🤖

medium.com/verimsabanci...
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…
medium.com
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · Dec 20
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!
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Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social · Dec 7
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....
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...
epjdatascience.springeropen.com
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Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social · Dec 1
That's why I was arguing even bot detection is a difficult task to agree
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social · Nov 24
i think this platform now has the critical mass. Sky will be blue :)
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Nov 22
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/...
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Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social · Oct 28
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
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DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · Oct 18
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!
Trust & Safety Tycoon
Manage your team, set policies, make investments, and tackle the challenging world of Trust & Safety
trustandsafety.fun
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Reposted by Matthew Salganik, Sandra González‐Bailón, Onur Varol

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Oct 8
Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
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Onur Varol @ovarol.bsky.social · Sep 22
I read your post and decided to come :)
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