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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 14d

An analysis of scientific papers reveals a new threat. LLMs can rewrite studies using open data, creating redundant papers that pass plagiarism detection. This AI-driven approach risks flooding journals with low-quality, synthetic research. #AcademicSky

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

www.nature.com

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · 15d

Para ler nosso artigo na íntegra, veja este link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Caregivers' attitudes toward school-based vaccination programs: A comparison of COVID-19, HPV, influenza, and dengue vaccines in Brazil

There is limited data on adult opinions toward school-based vaccination programs, which can supplement clinic-based strategies in the Brazilian public…

www.sciencedirect.com

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · 15d

Conversei com @luizacaires.bsky.social do Jornal da
@cienciausp.bsky.social sobre nosso artigo recentemente publicado em #Vaccine.

Para ler o artigo: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/mai...

Maioria dos pais brasileiros apoia que seus filhos sejam vacinados nas escolas

Nove em cada dez responsáveis por crianças em idade escolar no Brasil apoiam programas de vacinação na escola contra gripe, dengue e HPV, mostra pesquisa; contra a covid, número cai para oito em dez. ...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22d

Come spend the midnight hour with @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social. We have some great presentations from Africa and Asia, as we head into the second half of our 24 hour livestream to Save AIDS Research! saveaidsresearch.org.

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 29

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!

The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).

If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 LAST CHANCE!
EGAP PhD Lab closes applications TOMORROW
📍 GRADE, Lima
Apply now → buff.ly/5kOitOa
#EGAP2025 #DoctoralLab #PhD

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Jun 27

We started this paper before COVID-19, and it our work since this paper continues to try to understand responsibility attribution in the context of exogenous and endogenous shocks in Latin American democracies

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Jun 27

So excited to share our paper with
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...

Executive approval and accountability: the impact of global shocks in less developed democracies

This article offers an original theory which elucidates how voters in less developed settings evaluate macroeconomic performance and fiscal policies. We argue that voters face a critical challenge ...

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · Jun 20

The mpox outbreak remains a global health emergency.

Complex challenges, limited vaccine access, and inadequate testing hinder mpox control—especially in Africa where resources are stretched thin.

Our latest Editorial highlights the need for urgent, coordinated action: tinyurl.com/rt4bpc4e

Promotional card for The Lancet's June 21, 2025 Editorial. Quote reads: The alarm has been sounded, repeatedly. It is an alarm we cannot afford to ignore.

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DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · May 15

Please share!

The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is now recruiting fellows for the Global Child Health (CGH) Fellowship training program!

The deadline to apply is June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Starting on or before July 2, 2026.

DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · May 14

Our team at the Centre for Global Child Health is accepting applications for our fellowship program. This time we have broadened the scope of academic disciplines to include physics, mathematics and computer science applied to global maternal and child health. Applications due June 30, 2025.

C-GCH Fellowships and Student Opportunities | SickKids

SickKids Centre for Global Child Health offers a number of educational programs and training opportunities for students and fellows.

www.sickkids.ca

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Jun 4

Importante escuchar este episodio sobre El Salvador del @elhilopodcast.bsky.social. Grave e preocupante.

El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · Jun 2

#TenganDecencia
Eso fue lo que dijo Ruth López, jefa de la unidad anticorrupción de @cristosal.bsky.social cuando fue arrestada en El Salvador. Hoy, su frase es un grito colectivo contra las prácticas autoritarias de Bukele. 🎧 elhilo.audio/bukele

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · May 28

I am stunned to receive a peer review from a colleague using AI that was not caught by editors at a journal. Curious to know if others are experiencing similar violations of peer review conduct and how this is being addressed more systematically.

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · May 17

Thoughtful piece by @emassard.bsky.social + her father on Brazil's avian flu emergency: theconversation.com/gripe-aviari...

Gripe aviária no Brasil: Uma política de Saúde Única não pode mais esperar!

Desconexão entre ministérios reforça a urgência de implementar uma estratégia de “Uma Só Saúde” (One Health), articulando Saúde, Agropecuária e Meio Ambiente, para evitar que surtos zoonóticos se tor...

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · May 17

Just out and for free download. With #nataliamoreira and #isabelseelander, we wrote a chapter on #jairbolsonaro's vaccine discourse and the politics behind it.

UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · May 15

Congratulations to Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Katerina Hatzikidi and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/43Q4CjY #Brazil #Populism

The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil

Rather than looking back into Brazil’s authoritarian past, the Bolsonaro administration (2019–2022) provides an innovative case study through which to explore Brazil’s manifold and recurring expressio...

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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · Apr 25

The US helped ensure a world on the verge of controlling HIV as a public health threat. This could have cemented their legacy. Now, people may remember that the US pulled out.

Read @jasongale.bsky.social on the HIV miracle that wasn't because the US pulled the plug.

bit.ly/444ERwm

A ‘Miracle’ HIV Drug May Not Reach the Women Who Need It Most

Lenacapavir could be a gamechanger in the fight against infection. But US funding cuts have thrown the rollout of the twice-yearly injection into doubt.

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Apr 25

No @senado.leg.br, o Senador Márcio Bittar apresenta uma ementa que "Proíbe as escolas de exigirem de crianças comprovante de vacina covid-19". Como parte do projeto de e-cidadania, ha como opinar sobre esta ementa. www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividad...

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Apr 18

Important piece by #NataliaPires on the right to health of individuals detained in US prisons. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/18/t...

The Constitutive Contradictions of Prison Health Care in the United States - Petrie-Flom Center

From forced labor on plantations, roads, and industrial plants to extracting blood, fines, and fees, incarcerated peoples’ bodies have been a known site of capitalist exploitation. Yet, they are also ...

petrieflom.law.harvard.edu

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Apr 2

Esperamos vocês!

Red de Politólogas - #NoSinMujeres @redpolitologas.bsky.social · Apr 2

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Must read

Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social · Mar 24

Here is the update through Week 6, early because I am traveling. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/diary

Diary

I decided to keep a record of my thoughts as events transpire, a diary.

adamprzeworski.substack.com

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El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · Mar 16

A network that included doctors, judges, and religious figures facilitated illegal adoptions in Chile. Years later, the state still refuses to recognize it as a crime against humanity. Will there be justice? Listen to the story in our latest episode. 🎧 elhilo.audio/adopcion-chile

El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · Mar 15

Una red que incluía médicos, jueces y religiosos facilitó adopciones ilegales en Chile. Años después, el Estado sigue sin reconocerlo como un crimen de lesa humanidad. ¿Habrá justicia? Escucha la historia en nuestro episodio más reciente: elhilo.audio/adopcion-chile

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Mar 9

To use the DDRLA, here is the dataverse: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Mar 9

We also demonstrate the utility of the DDRLA by replicating studies recently published in the @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Our results show that studies conflate authoritarian and democratic regimes in their analyses of Latin America, and findings change with better measurement.

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Mar 9

The DDRLA also introduces a democratic transition variable (two-turnover transitional democracy). We show that whereas in only 53.5% of episodes did democracy endure after a single turnover, democracy endured in 21/24 of the two-turnover democratic transitions in Latin America.

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Mar 9

In the DDRLA, we also seek to deepen understanding of the significance of initial elections and how they can be used to measure political regime dynamics in Latin America more precisely. From 1946 to 2022, 37 initial elections took place. In 86.5%, a democratic transition occurred.

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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · Mar 9

The Democracy-Dictatorship Reprise for Latin America (DDRLA) shows that a noticeable wave of reversion to authoritarian rule occurred in last two decades, as can be seen in the figure below, which also compares to alternative measures. #polisky @lapislasa.bsky.social @lasabluesky.bsky.social

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