Yotam Shmargad
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Yotam Shmargad
@yotam.bsky.social
Computational social scientist and associate professor in the School of Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona. I research online influence and social norms. Website: www.yotamshmargad.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
TIL
June 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
In Ideology: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton makes what appears to me to be a similar claim about novels
May 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
no more malört jokes
May 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
March 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
March 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
he even makes a little phone screen with his hands when he says it youtu.be/-y9636UA1Z0?...
March 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
March 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We built an interactive visualization of the network pictured above yotamshmargad.com/primaries2018/ To build this network, we started from candidate accounts, identified their influential amplifiers, then collected their tweets and retweets to identify accounts they regularly retweeted
January 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
New article with Daniel Montez in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. We study influential amplifiers of 2018 US primary candidates and find that Democratic and Republican leaning amplifiers retweeted many of the same Twitter accounts journalqd.org/article/view...
January 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you'll be at #icwsm this year, come check out my tutorial on comparing collectivist and perspectivist approaches to studying toxicity in YouTube comments. You can find more information here: yotamshmargad.com/icwsm/
March 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM