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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · Sep 4

Signe - congratulations!!! You are going to produce some very important research with this opportunity. :) I am thrilled for you!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 21

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 21

JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · Aug 20

Really cool, Cassandra. I have been wondering about trying something like this so it is encouraging to hear it is working well for you.

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just emailed you.

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · Jul 12

Where did you find this list of speakers? Thank you in advance! The youtube video list is pretty good. I want to make sure I am not missing a lot more though... www.youtube.com/@Inter-Parli...

Inter-Parliamentary Network

The Inter-Parliamentary network on Family, Sovereignty and Values affirms and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, encourages legislators to respect, protect and promote the Family, Sover...

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · Jul 12

Dr. Titeca, thanks for posting this poster. I see C-FAM and Family Watch Africa sponsored. Did you see any additional conference programs, websites, or posters? I am tracking the speakers and sponsors. I just see this: interparliamentaryforum.org/index.php?pa...

Home- Inter Parliamentary Forum

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · Jun 12

Scholars of political and cultural diffusion take note...this preprint and thread are important. Congrats to the authors on their massive amounts of data & analyses!

Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · Jun 12

Across policy domains:

📚 Some lean more on scholarly research, others on policy sources (think of lit on 'cultures of evidence').

Yet across all domains, 🌍 governments mainly cite knowledge from high-income countries.

Bottom line: origins of references stay stable despite domain differences.

Share of policy-based and scholarly references across policy domains.

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · Jun 12

Who's cited most across borders?

🇺🇸 The U.S. leads gov-to-gov refs by a wide margin. 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺 follow. Also, 30 countries—mostly Least Developed—were never cited.

📚 Same for academic refs: 17 of top 20 gov-cited countries also top in academia.

🤯 43% of scholarly works include a U.S.-based author.

Multipanel figure providing an overview of the distribution of reference metrics across the government-to-government citation matrix and to scholarly works.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · May 30

📊 Over 9,000+ studies rely on DHS data.

🗺️ The figure below shows decades of global data use. That’s what’s at risk if we don’t act.

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 27

With graduation this week, there are hundreds of Harvard students in their graduation regalia with their proud parents from all around the world. Taking photos on the library steps, getting a special dessert in town... I love seeing those parents every year, but especially this year. It's beautiful.

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 27

Looks awesome, Daniela. Congrats! Hopefully your findings on public opinion foreshadow changes in actual housework division in the decades to come. I'm optimistic! (At least I am when I ignore the world's existential threats...)

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 24

If I get around to this, I will share...but I desperately need a short and sweet video showing how to open finder on a mac, create a new folder and name it the title of the class. Then how to download a file from Canvas and move it from the downloads folder to the new class folder they created.

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 24

These are so great. Thank you!

Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 24

Very useful visualization. Thanks for making this! By chance is it posted on your website or another location online? I would like to use it in my course on Global Inequality (we currently read your team's World Inequality Report 2022!).

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · May 5

The Bukele govt sent the US a list of MS-13 leaders in US custody whom they want sent back, because they know about a gang deal with Bukele that Bukele wants to keep secret. Trump already sent one back. Here are the names, all based on Jose Olivares' reporting for @dropsitenews.com:

Secret Bukele Deal Lies Behind Trump’s El Salvador Deportations

Trump asked the Supreme Court Friday to lift the ban on renditions to Bukele’s torture chambers—and an update on the left wing comeback in Ecuador

www.dropsitenews.com

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · May 5

Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez (Vampiro de Monserrat Criminales). Another member of MS-13's ruling Ranfla Nacional, leader of the gang's Mexico Program and one of those named by DOJ, along with Cruger, of leading negotiations with the Bukele government.

MS13’s Mexico Program Key to El Salvador Gang Negotiations

US authorities have made several arrests that could strike a big blow to the MS13's Mexico Program.

insightcrime.org

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 22

Inequality and starvation is a choice.

The $16 billion to hire new ICE & CBP agents...

could instead be...

$16 billion to meet what the World Food Programme needs to "assist 123 million of the hungriest people in 2025."

www.wfp.org/news/wfp-req...

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you for the link.

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 21

Hmmm, I also think talking about these findings will be a really useful complement when I teach the novel "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" for my gender course...

A really great paper on an important topic!

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 21

Great new-ish article by Sang Won Han & Eunsil Oh. They use RCA with survey data to uncover three cultural profiles in East Asia about gender & family beliefs. Great way to measure shared vs. heterogenous "culture."

Now I am curious how these profiles change over time...

doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This study explores the complexity of how gender and family attitudes relate to each other in East Asia, paying particular attention to heterogeneity and the impact of cognitive structures...

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 21

Heeeey! Congrats Philip!

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 20

How to use google search without AI results.

I have used this "hack" for the past 5 months. No regrets.

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · Dec 13

Proud parental moment: the 13-year-old just soured on the Google AI summary and asked me to help him "just search for info, like you used to do."

(1) Add Chrome search engine setting: www.google.com/search?q=%s&...

(2) Make default

Old school search, sans AI.

Drawing: @chazhutton.bsky.social

Chaz Hutton's Googling Stuff Then and Now

Edit search engine to search at https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 19

Oh noooo, this is a big escalation

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · May 16

A really great, short interview with Jocelyn Viterna that gets right to the core of Bukele's political rise and popularity in El Salvador.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Closer look at ‘coolest dictator in the world’ — Harvard Gazette

Sociologist traces rise and career of Nayib Bukele, the Salvadoran leader some view as savior, others as authoritarian.

news.harvard.edu

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