Robert Chung
@rchung.bsky.social
Anti-social social scientist with low amusement threshold.
When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge » Events
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.
Well, to be fair, he claimed that US elections were rife with fraud and he was right.
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Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Well, to be fair, he claimed that US elections were rife with fraud and he was right.
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I've realised what "See it, say it, sorted" is advertising: driving
I'm at a station and there's a constant barrage of announcements about danger. *See it say it... Transport Police... Mind the gap... For your own safety..." You know what doesn't constantly tell me I'm in danger? My car
I'm at a station and there's a constant barrage of announcements about danger. *See it say it... Transport Police... Mind the gap... For your own safety..." You know what doesn't constantly tell me I'm in danger? My car
"See it, say it, sorted" is annoying because it's obviously a marketing slogan. I'm just not sure what they're selling. Fear of public spaces?
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I've realised what "See it, say it, sorted" is advertising: driving
I'm at a station and there's a constant barrage of announcements about danger. *See it say it... Transport Police... Mind the gap... For your own safety..." You know what doesn't constantly tell me I'm in danger? My car
I'm at a station and there's a constant barrage of announcements about danger. *See it say it... Transport Police... Mind the gap... For your own safety..." You know what doesn't constantly tell me I'm in danger? My car
How long before MTG shows up on Dancing With The Stars?
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
How long before MTG shows up on Dancing With The Stars?
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Yes, we are trying to finish up a paper doing exactly that…(what we find is consistent with what Amanda describes; tracking a synthetic cohort over time we see impossible changes in the newest wave)
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, we are trying to finish up a paper doing exactly that…(what we find is consistent with what Amanda describes; tracking a synthetic cohort over time we see impossible changes in the newest wave)
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Especially with nonresponse only rising...
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Especially with nonresponse only rising...
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
By the way have you seen now bananas the newest NSFG data are? Impossible changes within cohorts from the last wave (way more than between waves before) - doubling rates of rareish time-invariant traits, reversals of monotonic increasing experiences, etc.
The WH has had to clarify that the President doesn't really want to execute Democratic members of Congress. Anymore.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The WH has had to clarify that the President doesn't really want to execute Democratic members of Congress. Anymore.
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Rescheduled! On Dec. 10, our panel of social scientists will discuss birth rate trends and how policy incentives like tax credits and paid family leave affect decisions to start families. Timely discussion due to recent interest in boosting national birth rates.
U.S. Birth Rate Trends: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications for American Families
Consider joining us on Wednesday, December 10, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 2075 Rayburn House Office Building for ice cream and engaging presentations about U.S. fertility trends and related policies.An…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Rescheduled! On Dec. 10, our panel of social scientists will discuss birth rate trends and how policy incentives like tax credits and paid family leave affect decisions to start families. Timely discussion due to recent interest in boosting national birth rates.
Swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags? Potentially divisive. DEI? Actually divisive.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags? Potentially divisive. DEI? Actually divisive.
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📉 Many countries are seeing falling birth rates—but can rising gender equality reverse the trend?
A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality.
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality.
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
New Study Finds Gender Equality Linked to Modest Fertility Rebound – But Not Enough to Reverse Long-Term Decline
A new study from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science reassesses whether rising gender equality can help reverse falling birth rates, a long-standing theory in demography. The research, publi...
www.demography.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📉 Many countries are seeing falling birth rates—but can rising gender equality reverse the trend?
A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality.
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
A new study from our centre revisits a major debate in demography and finds a modest fertility rebound at high levels of gender equality.
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
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Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks!
This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .
Applications due Dec. 15!
Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .
Applications due Dec. 15!
Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Application
Application to the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences taking place from May 25th to June 19th, 2026 in Toulouse, France Application deadline: December 15th, 2025 Applicants will be...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks!
This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .
Applications due Dec. 15!
Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .
Applications due Dec. 15!
Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
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Oooookay, well, here you go if you're wondering the politics of the dissent:
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oooookay, well, here you go if you're wondering the politics of the dissent:
I'm sure judges love that.
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm sure judges love that.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
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I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
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I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️
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November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️
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Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies.
Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social
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Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social
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Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method
Abstract. Reliable estimates of death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies are critical for assessing the severity of a crisis and for effectively all
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November 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies.
Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
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Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
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How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
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November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
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My newsletter.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
Larry Summers is deeply ashamed that you found out about him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Larry Summers is deeply ashamed that you found out about him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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Important essay by @stanfordaaup.bsky.social colleague Jessica Riskin. The three lessons that universities must learn:
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
AAUP | Academic Freedom on the Line
In a new column from Stanford's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, history professor Jessica Riskin offers three lessons for universities facing pressure from the federal go...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Important essay by @stanfordaaup.bsky.social colleague Jessica Riskin. The three lessons that universities must learn:
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
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So, Trump is asking the DOJ to investigate Epstein's connection to prominent Democrats. But wasn't Trump himself a "prominent Democrat" for a big chunk of that time?
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So, Trump is asking the DOJ to investigate Epstein's connection to prominent Democrats. But wasn't Trump himself a "prominent Democrat" for a big chunk of that time?
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content