I'll be at @uvahumanities.bsky.social 3 Nov for the data launch of our @deconspirator.bsky.social FIMI Event Dataset. Drop by if you are around.
Akin Unver
@akinunver.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of International Relations at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. Data Science, Emerging Tech, War, TechnoPolitics. P.I. of DE-CONSPIRATOR (HorizonEU). Associate Editor; @gsqjournal.bsky.social Fellow; Carnegie Endowment Fellow. (akinunver.org)
Today, DE-CONSPIRATOR releases two critical research instruments developed over nearly three years of work on foreign information manipulation and interference: the FIMI Attribution Event Dataset and the DisInforMeter. You can access Attribution Dataset here: fimi-event-dataset.deconspirator.eu
FIMI Attribution Event Dataset · DE-CONSPIRATOR
fimi-event-dataset.deconspirator.eu
New paper with Dr. Ahmet Kurnaz. Geopolitical bias attributed to LLMs may be a result of the linguistic properties of training data rather than political biases of countries that operate them ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
Can We Trust LLMs? Inter-model Reliability and Geopolitical Bias under Zero-Shot Classification
This study analyzes the classification consistency of Large Language Models (LLMs) using geopolitical texts collected from social media. Data gathered under the headings of the United States, Russia, ...
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Our department is growing. We are accepting applications for the rank of assistant professor, open specialisation. The deadline is pretty far out - 15 December 2026 - good news for those defending in Fall. www.ozyegin.edu.tr/en/announcem...
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 is a go. This year's general theme is "Social Sciences in the Age of Large Language Models! sicss.io/2026/istanbu...
💻 The recording of our online event 'Unlocking Innovative Research Techniques: Exploring Computational Analysis Potential in International Studies Research' is now available on our YouTube channel! 🔗 Watch and subscribe here: bit.ly/3H0PZkx
A new study analyzing 10,800 science-related TikTok videos found that White male science communicators consistently received higher engagement than female communicators and communicators of color, even after adjusting for audience size and other factors. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Navigating intersectional expectations: a computational multimodal analysis of the effects of identities and communication styles on public engagement with science on TikTok
Communication research has long established the impact of the communicator's social identity on persuasion. However, few communication studies have applied an intersectional lens to examine identit...
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A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"
Top University in Iran Bombed - Daily Nous
Early this morning, Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s leading technical university, was bombed. As of the writing of this post, it was unclear whether the bombing was carried out by the United S...
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The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Computational social science is a huge deal in Turkey and great to finally have a Turkish language compendium of some pioneering social data science works produced by Turkish scholars. Took more than two years to build and out today! bilgiyay.com/kitap/sosyal...
Computational social science is a huge deal in Turkey and great to finally have a Turkish language compendium of some pioneering social data science works produced by Turkish scholars. Took more than two years to build and out today! bilgiyay.com/kitap/sosyal...
in Brussels for the EEAS FIMI conference - anybody want to talk disinfo and DECONSPIRATOR, let me know
EUvsDisinfo@euvsdisinfo.eu · 8mo agoThe 4th EEAS Threat Report on FIMI is out and shows the scale of information warfare targeting the EU and its partners in 2025: - 540 incidents - 10,500 channels - 90 targeted countries - 35% of detected incidents linked to Russia and China. 1/3
My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
Poetic Justice
Today’s collection is a set of Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye (The Journal of Justice), a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Turkey in the mid-1920s.
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Check out past SICSS_Istanbul curricula: lnkd.in/dNAKTMqJ Learning materials from SICSS_Istanbul 2023: lnkd.in/g6Bwyqd Help us spread the news!
📍Application deadline approaching: 2 March Not much time left to wrap up statements of purpose and reaching out to your professors for a recommendation. Looking forward to hosting you at SICSS_Istanbul this summer.
Akin Unver@akinunver.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back! Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY Application deadline: 2 March 2026 Announcement of decisions: Mid-April 22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp' 6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
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FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back! Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY Application deadline: 2 March 2026 Announcement of decisions: Mid-April 22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp' 6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back! Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY Application deadline: 2 March 2026 Announcement of decisions: Mid-April 22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp' 6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 başvuruları açıldı! Son gün 23 Ocak 2026. Detaylar ve başvuru formu bağlantıda. bilimakademisi.org/bagep-2026-b...
BAGEP 2026 başvuruları açıldı! - Bilim Akademisi
Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 Son başvuru: 23 Ocak 2026 – 18.00 BAGEP yönergesi ve protokolünü buradan, BAGEP Etik Beyanı’nı buradan görebilirsiniz. Bilim Akademisi t...
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As our world descends further into chaos, I have three new lecture videos geared towards data science newcomers. In three videos, I show you how to: Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...
Interesting. "Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge" "[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"
"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
NEW - Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx "undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace" - @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen #OpenAccess
Data science people; which free APIs do you use to teach students how to use them? I'm searching for some free (can be registration-based) APIs I can use to teach students how to get and use API keys to get some good online open data. 😇
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’ A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests. Robby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August as an adviser by Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other tech platforms – in an August lawsuit settlement. Continue reading...
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