I would love to be on campus 5 days/week, but 4 decades of NIMBYs and an administration that does not provide faculty housing means I live too far away to commute daily. Wen I am on campus, though, it is surprising how few doors are open. www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Obviously, if we don't help the students who need help, then they don't need help. QED. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Basically a rant about Harden: zacharyst.com/2026/02/05/2...

zacharyst.com/2025/12/28/s... "No wine buyer wants to taste any flavor not from the grape. Yet somehow the same desecration is performed to world-class coffee, and we are supposed to accept it. I do not."

The earliest known documentation of industrial production is for beer 😆 www.schoyencollection.com/24-smaller-c...

My school is hiring a new Dean. Share the news and apply if you are a good fit: evcp.ucla.edu/executive-se...

Does anyone have access to this article and can get it for me? medium.com/@kmaurinjone...

Los Angeles' ED 1 has led to more approved middle-class housing than the 10 years before it combined. A majority of Angelenos in a super majority of Council districts support it. Not shown due to space: neighborhoods that opposed it are those least impacted. www.briefingbook.info/p/los-angele...

Many thanks to my much more popular buddy for sharing this work. Whoulda thunk that a city of renters paying too much for rundown effluence from the 1920-70s would want more housing?

Really happy to see this paper in print. It address an important topic in a way that one could not do with experiments, surveys, or case studies. Even better, the coauthor is a recently graduate undergraduate.

In a new report just published with the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Studies, I show that 65% of Angelenos support apartment construction on single-family home streets, and a majority of respondents do in every single council district save one. Report: www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...

We're hiring! The @au-spa.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor specializing in political violence and terrorism. Deadline: September 22nd. Feel free to reach out if you have questions! See below for the job ad and application. american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

Excited and honored to be part of the great team receiving recognition for this paper.

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS! Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

Good for them: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Very cool: blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-te...

Curious about how Twitter's popularity has changed over time and across countries? Wish you had your own data with which to study Twitter? Then download my new paper, "THIS Was Twitter: Introducing the Twitter History and Image Sharing v1.0 Datasets" and its data: journalqd.org/article/view....

May 13th 8 p.m. PST, come to an online info session to learn more. Registration here: ucla.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

In grad. school we are often shown a figure that represents research. The center is a big circle, it is surrounded by smaller and smaller rings, and thenin the top right is a small bump representing your research. I don't know what to google to find it. Any help?

UCLA Luskin and UCLA Extension are happy to announce the Data Analytics in Public Affairs certificate! If you want to learn about data and policy, the ethics of large datasets for policy design and evaluation, visualization, or improve your programming, this certificate is for you.

We have great articles by @gregoryeady.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, @devincaughey.bsky.social, @stefan-scholz.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social, @small-schulz.bsky.social, @pedro-rodriguez.bsky.social, @carlislerainey.bsky.social, and more!

On a $10k grant w/ a community partner, I have to pay $750 for them to purchase UCLA insurance for 1 meeting held on campus. Almost 10% of my grant for 4 people to sit in a conference room. What a joke.

In defense of government services: zacharyst.com/2025/03/05/i...

A bit late to this but worth knowing about: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

The @insna.bsky.social working group's Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials are now published in #NetworkScience. You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Anyone know of any event datasets about Cambodia in the '90s? Bonus points if those include the '80s and '00s as well.

Rejected from NSF MMM with good/fair, good, very good, good, very good/good, excellent, excellent, and fair ratings. How do I interpret that?

There are only people. lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

Do I know anyone in Seattle with toddler snow pants and gloves to lend? 2.5 year old.

The celebrities my wife and I saw in 2024: zacharyst.com/2024/12/30/w.... Highlights: Nathan Fielder and Seth Rogen.

Looking for good books to read and bad ones to avoid? Then check out my reviews of the 18 I read in 2024 for ideas. If any sound appealing, please buy via the affiliate links ;). zacharyst.com/2024/12/30/w...

I just submitted to a polisci journal that requested replication material _at initial submission_. NO NO NO NO NO! The emotional abuse of peer review is the worst part about this job and I refuse to go along with this new development. I asked the editors nicely for an exception.

Protest in Damascus today calling for a democratic, secular and civil state

I guess it makes sense that Republicans' favorite foreigner is an Afrikaner.

Super cool!

📢 We’re hiring! PhD and Postdoc Positions Available! Come join the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich and be part of our Transparency in Content Moderation project, with Molly Roberts & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: Feb 1. portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

Nice to see the final final version out. Always great to work on a great team. Don't forget to check out the free demo and API!

New paper forthcoming in PA, w/ @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on images are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786

Has anyone tabulated which protest waves are studied the most? For example how many papers there are about 1989-1991, the US Civil Rights, Arab Spring, etc. Bonus points for a distinction between qualitative and quantitative.

The original Institute of Advanced Studies is at Princeton. There are now IAS all over the world, I know of at least Aarhus, Paris, and Vienna. The Princeton IAS' website does not mention them. Are they related?

Me to ChatGPT: What is the code to give other users read-only access? ChatGPT: use -rx Me: Doesn't that mean read and execute? ChatGPT: Oh yes, you are right. ChatGPT is great if you know what you are doing but dangerous if you don't.

Things are bad, real bad in the CAR. undark.org/2024/01/24/c...

Oh god just shut up with this junk. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/u...

51% (Iowa) and 54.5% (NH) of the vote are not large victories. Don Don runs as an incumbent and has the best endorsements, so his results should be stronger. If an incumbent won by that little, media would flip a s**t. The race is far from over, and he looks weak. Wrong?

Fridays are for complaining about your "research" university, more specifically about how difficult it is to get a new server working. zacharyst.com/2024/01/19/t...

Wow, one of those papers that changes how you see the world: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... "We find that 72–76% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked [...]. We also find that 21–30% of transport and energy vessel activity is missing from public tracking systems."

The 6 celebrities I saw in 2023 were Michael Keaton (well, my wife did), Alia Shawkat, David Choe, Josh Altman, Nathan Fielder, and Kristen Schaal. The last two, in the neighborhood, were the highlights. Details here: zacharyst.com/2024/01/02/w...

The 22 books I read in 2023: zacharyst.com/2023/12/26/w.... Highlights: The Pleasure of my Company, The Woman Warrior, I Am a Cat, Paul Revere's Ride. Lowlight: The Life of Dad.