Check out PWH postdoc @shanascogin.bsky.social's insight on Nepal's youth uprising here ⬇️

Re: protests in Nepal. Restrictions on social media platforms may be part of the story, but that is not all this is, not by far. Nepali youth are tired of what they see as failures of governance, corruption, and the lack of opportunities. This is a tragedy.

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

Millions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal.

Officially official!

The title is a bit cheeky (you cannot predict earthquakes precisely understood, though it *is* true that another earthquake in Nepal is certainly a 'when' and not an 'if'), but very cool to see our lab mentioned in the Nepali Times-and by a fellow Kenyon College alum! nepalitimes.com/here-now/yes...

Submitting an article to a journal is, as a non-parent, how I imagine folks feel sending their kid off to school on the bus in the morning. Hoping they'll be lovingly looked after and well regarded by their peers. Secretly ok with the idea they might not be back home for quite a while...

Many thanks to all the great people I spent time with at #isa2025.

Beyond polarised narratives, district level factors influence the way Republican House candidates discuss climate and energy. Really happy to share this working paper.

Details below on our "Perspectives on Politics" team's first call for papers! We seek research applying political science tools & theories to investigate "The University," broadly understood. Led by three great guest editors, this special issue will probe the politics of higher education & much more

Ending my 2024 with good news! I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington SPEA (O'Neill School) in August 2026. I'm beyond excited to join the amazing folks at SPEA and continue my work on environ governance & disasters in Nepal and beyond.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research, in Nature Climate Change: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - w/ @julianagyeman.bsky.social, @pkashwan.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, Stacia Ryder, @dschlosberg.bsky.social & @farhanasultana.com #climatejustice

I need bluesky to add bookmarks so I have a place to put things I'll never look at again

Check it out: States sometimes unhelpfully instrumentalise their climate pledges as foreign policy documents. A piece I wrote on this phenomenon with my colleague Bill Kakenmaster has just been published on @duckofminerva.bsky.social www.duckofminerva.com/2024/12/clim...

Literally the first real thing I learned in python and I was absolutely here for it.

WOAH! @fossheim.bsky.social has just published the single-best piece I've *ever* seen on how to apply principles of accessibility to data visualization. My jaw is on the floor. Seriously, if you only ever read a single thing for accessible visualization, let it be this: fossheim.io/writing/post...

Woohoo, our paper is live! This haiku summarizes it best: Raw model results? Stop! Hard to understand! Use {marginaleffects}

Hi, new skies. I'm a postdoc at the Perry World House policy institute at Penn, and I've published on emissions & democracy and women & reconstruction & out migration in Nepal. I write R packages, and my claim to fame in the old place was a tweet where I geeked out about my first package.

Great thread! I realize the disaster lit is vast and wide (and I had a whole pandemic to get into it after I was evac'ed), but I wish poli sci would engage it more as the field (rightly) turns to the pols of climate and the environ. There is so much critical work here. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Did you know that scientists no longer use the Richter Scale to measure earthquake magnitude? Now, we tend to use the “Moment Magnitude (Mw)” scale, which was built off of the tenets of the Richter scale. 🧪 ⚒️

It feels strange to be here - new algorithm is nice, but I can't seem to find some of my fav twitter-verses (esp Nepal twitter). Is this going to be an academic vs rest of world type of thing?

Had a blast teaching this today! All the #rstats materials are available at talks.andrewheiss.com/2024-11-13_u...

RIP all of my bookmarks from the other place with books and articles I was convinced I'd read.