@muunver.bsky.social - M. Utku Ünver

15 Jun 2026 01:35 +0000

Huge congratulations to Prof. Sezai Yılmaz and the team at İnönü University’s Liver Transplant Institute on a world first: 16 operations at once for the world’s first 8-way liver paired exchange.

10 Apr 2026 00:36 +0000

New draft of our paper: Over 70,000 US children are waiting for adoptive placements. We compare family-driven search (families respond to announcements) with caseworker-driven search (caseworkers proactively contact recommended families) using game theory, numerical analysis, and real-world data.1/4

20 Mar 2026 02:55 +0000

New revision of our paper w/ Xiang Han & Onur Kesten: "Flexible Multi-unit Exchange: Theory and An Application to Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors" In 55 countries, volunteer donations meet <22% of blood demand. We improve how replacement donor programs allocate blood.

11 Sep 2025 00:13 +0000

The BBS-Liver Exchange System today completed its 300th transplant in Malatya, Türkiye, with 102 of them completed this year. Breakdowns of all transplants, categorized by exchange sizes and the type of pairs involved, are provided below. When we launched this program in 2022.

15 Aug 2025 19:27 +0000

Prof Sezai Yılmaz's interview in Turkey related to the BBS-liver paired exchange program that Tayfun Sönmez and I founded with him and their other liver transplant achievements in Malatya, Turkey by their amazing team (use google translate) https://ankahaber.net/haber/detay/malatyada_4_binin_uzerinde_karaciger_nakli%E2%80%A6_prof_dr_yilmaz_capraz_karaciger_naklinde_dunyada_su_anda_oncu_lider_merkez_inonu_universitesi_256089

31 Jul 2025 15:30 +0000

Great article regarding Prof. Sezai Yilmaz, his great success in building a world-leading transplant center in Malatya, and the founding of our liver exchange system (Google Translate works reasonably well) https://www.fortuneturkey.com/malatyayi-dunya-haritasina-yerlestiren-hekim @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social

09 Jul 2025 13:11 +0000

Elon Musk likened the government to the DMV; this is an incorrect and horrendous analogy. Another reminder: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/texas-floods-nws.html?smid=bs-share

03 Jun 2025 02:35 +0000

Musk's DMV = government analogy is so wrong at so many levels, especially in regulation and solving the public goods provision problem in research funding and infrastructure building. DMV analogy can work if police, traffic law provision and DOT become part of DMV. Then decide how to optimize it.

16 Apr 2025 12:33 +0000

From the mayor of Istanbul to the world, opinion essay on FT: on.ft.com/4jxJrrj Why Turkey’s democratic future matters for the world https://on.ft.com/4jxJrrj

01 Apr 2025 01:00 +0000

If you are not already following @seanmcarroll.bsky.social's Mindscape, probably the best Science and Philosophy podcast out there, you are definitely missing big time. After so many years of following, he deserves a shoutout. At these trying times, the best refuge.

30 Mar 2025 16:40 +0000

I certainly agree with all points. Some are good for Europe clearly. But fur the US, the scary part is that this is a tipping point problem. Even if the wave turns back it will take generations to build normalcy with the allies. Brexit is a living example. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

30 Mar 2025 16:00 +0000

Is the US going to become the science backwater it once was? The current administration's love of the 19th Century certainly points in that direction. www.nature.com/articles/d41... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

29 Mar 2025 21:22 +0000

2.2 million people gathered to protest the recent arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Erdogan in the next presidential election. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jmku8w/22_million_gathered_in_istanbul_for_justice_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

05 Mar 2025 02:48 +0000

It feels like Adam Smith never wrote either "Theory of Moral Sentiment" or "Wealth of Nations" or even a pin factory was never opened. At least there will be many poli sci and econ PhD theses written in the next decade due to this bonanza.

22 Feb 2025 15:09 +0000

Thank you, Al, for promoting our collaborators' work. You can more learn about the background of how we initiated the Liver Paired Exchange Program in Malatya in Section 12.3 of the manuscript of @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00307#page194 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

30 Jan 2025 06:09 +0000

I am excited to share the new version of our paper "Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools" with @combeju.bsky.social, Umut Dur, Olivier Tercieux, and @camilleterrier.bsky.social

26 Jan 2025 14:02 +0000

On the amazing downfall of Alzheimer's research by widespread manipulations and the crooked incentive structure in science: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

04 Jan 2025 22:24 +0000

I am proud to announce that the BBS Liver Exchange System that I co-founded (along with Tayfun Sönmez and Sezai Yilmaz) just facilitated its 201st transplant. I am very proud to be helping such a brilliant and dedicated bunch of doctors and professionals. caprazkaracigernakli.inonu.edu.tr/en https://caprazkaracigernakli.inonu.edu.tr/en

12 Sep 2024 13:41 +0000

This is great news! Data Colada is one of the greatest services to science in the modern age. https://twitter.com/jpsimmon/status/1833976010192421244

10 Sep 2024 20:01 +0000

Congratulations go to Inonu University Transplant Institute for completing their 150th liver paired exchange transplant with the (third-ever) 6-way exchange conducted today; the following write-up highlights some of the recent developments: https://t.co/k5MfabYDV4

05 Jul 2024 10:27 +0000

A very untimely loss in any dimension :( https://twitter.com/fkojima79/status/1808819367637045468

21 May 2024 11:11 +0000

Indeed... https://twitter.com/tyfn_sonmez/status/1792629443116020169

04 May 2024 22:21 +0000

I cannot believe this was 20 years ago. While visiting HBS as an asst prof thanks to Al Roth's invitation, Al mentioned hearing about ad hoc exchanges happening. @tyfn_sonmez and I had a paper on a related model (based on Tayfun's paper w A. Abdulkadiroglu.). https://t.co/CL7v8Oeg5c