Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

I literally cannot imagine answering a question about the attractiveness of someone I was recommending for a job, much less proactively including that information I guess this is why I work in local government and not eLiTe InStItUtIoNs?

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

I think LLMs are useful, also I think whoever has been in charge of marketing LLMs that past two years needs to be punished in some way proportionate to their crimes

BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register

I was an undergrad exchange student at Uppsala 20 years ago. It’s a wonderful place and these look like great opportunities

Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.

Did the indoor cat sneak out via the janky kitchen door into the 15 degree weather and disappear, or is she asleep inside in a weird place You’d like to think it wouldn’t be the former, wouldn’t you? And yet…

I knew the origin of this phrase was not what folk etymology sometimes suggests, but learning the actual etymology was interesting for its own sake, at least to me:

Doo do doo

My fellow parks data people, hope you are getting your NRPA annual survey submissions in today!

This Is A Music Thread: 1) Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Tiny Desk Concert I know this album, but why didn’t I know about this performance, whoa

I’m going to try to start using this account again The first go-round I found it hard to keep it from becoming another place where everything is takes on current events, and the world’s too harsh right now to subject myself to that daily So if I unfollow/mute you to avoid that, it’s not personal

I have a joke about tidyverse but you’ll need to look on the other side of the %>% for the punchline

Hey, quantitative geographers! Heading to Detroit for @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 and looking for a home for your paper? Our "Interesting Data and Methods Session" might be just the session you've been looking for! #geosky

The NYT graphics team is looking for a cartographer — come work with us :))) nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/jo...