Ezgi Siir Kibris

Lecturer @RITtigers, PhD in Political Science, MS in Data Science @UofR

[Ezgi Siir Kibris @siir_ezgi]

🧵1/12 What do judges wear? Here are some examples:

Canadian Supreme Court judges wear Santa Claus robes in ceremonies. To see judges with different attires: https://t.co/ixLazXU9jf

[Ezgi Siir Kibris @siir_ezgi]

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[Ezgi Siir Kibris @siir_ezgi]

🧵1/12 What do judges wear? Here are some examples:

Canadian Supreme Court judges wear Santa Claus robes in ceremonies. To see judges with different attires: https://t.co/ixLazXU9jf

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

We created a dataset of 11,000+ YouTube videos to study how populist autocrats instrumentalize history.

In analyzing leaders' media legitimation strategies, we also sought to audio-visualize the political science toolkit -- with stellar RA work from @DidemSeyis and @siir_ezgi

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

I am awed and honored that Film-Making the Nation Great Again, with @JonasDraege, received the 2026 Alexander L. George Article Award from the APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section.

[Jonas Bergan Draege @JonasDraege]

My article "Film-Making the Nation Great Again" with
@LiselHintz is out now in
@PoPpublicsphere ! https://t.co/zgDupFlnWR

We show how Turkey’s ruling party instrumentalizes history through emotionally evocative videos to legitimize the authoritarian incumbent

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[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

Lots going in US media. Those speaking on media and authoritarianism in Turkey kept hearing "censorship wouldn't happen in the US." Well.

Authoritarians don't just proscribe media content. They also produce it to justify their own rule.

Our new study: https://t.co/f1Ts1zmbjk

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

@PoPpublicsphere @JonasDraege Because we emphasize the narrative power of audiovisual content, we're thankful
@PoPpublicsphere let us include 9 screenshots.

We're also grateful to @DidemSeyis
and @siir_ezgi for RA work, and to @ipc_ipm for space to share our work early

İyi okumalar! https://t.co/f1Ts1zmbjk

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

Our participants presenting the results of their hard work. Thanks everyone! Another wonderful event, and definitely the highlight of the year! @siir_ezgi @jeffleal #SICSS #Day9

[Ari K @arikuschnir]

WE CAN TALK! I spent 2 hours playing with Veo 3 @googledeepmind and it blew my mind now that it can do sound! It can talk, and this is all out of the box...

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

In Part II of today’s talk by Timothy Loftus, we are introducing our students the @roboflow platform and its capabilities. We are training an object classification model to differentiate between pictures of toy lizards and real lizards. #SICSS #Day3

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

#Day3 at #SICSS started with an interesting discussion by Timothy Loftus. We are learning how to create Python packages.

[Ezgi Siir Kibris @siir_ezgi]

@CantayCaliskan https://t.co/cEqOA7purf

[Ezgi Siir Kibris @siir_ezgi]

@CantayCaliskan @roboflow https://t.co/cEqOA7purf

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

Timothy Loftus is introducing our new Python package #flagsense #SICSS. The package has been created with the help of the @roboflow platform and is the most comprehensive object detection package for national flags.

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

And more great presentations! #SICSS #Day1.

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

We are very excited to have new and familiar faces together. #SICSS #Day2

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

#Day2 at #SICSS Our participants continue with their introductory research presentations.

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

#SICSS #Day1 has started with an exciting keynote talk by Prof. Gourab Ghoshal from @UofR. @UofRDataSci

[Cantay Çalışkan @CantayCaliskan]

We are excited to host the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at the University of Rochester from May 12–23, 2025! For more details and to apply, visit: https://t.co/TkAIPfhdJg.
The application deadline is March 28, 2025.