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cfmeyskens.bsky.social @cfmeyskens.bsky.social · 1d

We find that, against conventional wisdom, Global South publics do not discriminate against Chinese investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia
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Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South

Abstract. Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 2d

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

is pearl still the best intro to DAGs? Looking for something that assumes as little as possible (for a student but also me because I remember nothing TBH)

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

also discovered that many students could not yet distinguish between procedural and outcome-based notions of policy justification so that was a fun 20 minute detour I did not prep for

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

currently discovering how difficult it is to teach (contemporary?) college students the basic “is-ought”distinction and I get that I’m old but I don’t really remember it being this hard

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

the ones that live in my head

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

the energy of these articles is so much. look at that line plot. the table of evaluation metrics and methods!!

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

mods are asleep post Chinese experimental political reforms

mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

“改革干部选用制度的新尝试”（中共宁波市委组织部、宁波市人事局）

《中国人事管理》1987年第一期。

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 4d

“改革干部选用制度的新尝试”（中共宁波市委组织部、宁波市人事局）

《中国人事管理》1987年第一期。

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 4d

I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

my husband procrastinated by trialing several different painters tapes, definitely bought a few days

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

this will not stand

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

love this

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

vindicate me! this was a good joke!!!

a first chat says "happy taylor album drop day y'all" and the reply says "but can the new ones match the original banger" and posts a picture of a taylor series/taylor expansion

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

in an act of true epistemic violence, jeff refused my exhortation to expand data collection to other social scientists to assess comparative feline credit-assignment

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

some insider lore that the people truly crave: this paper was almost about people thanking their cats

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 6d

I just learned about the `truncate` argument in {lubridate} functions, which means NO MORE HACKY paste0(year, "-01-01") code to build dates when converting years to dates in #rstats

library(lubridate)

yr <- 2025

# This doesn't work
ymd(yr)
#> Warning message:
#> All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> [1] NA

#-------
# TIRED
#-------
# I've done this for *yeeeeears*
ymd(paste0(yr, "-01-01"))
#> [1] "2025-01-01"

#-------
# WIRED
#-------
# The truncated argument tells {lubridate} that it can
# ignore up to 2 (in this case) formats to look for.
# Ordinarily `ymd()` looks for three formats: a year,
# a month, and a day. `truncated = 2` means it can skip
# the month and day parts
ymd(yr, truncated = 2)
#> [1] "2025-01-01"

ymd(c("2025", "2025-10", "2025-10-02"), truncated = 2)
#> [1] "2025-01-01" "2025-10-01" "2025-10-02"

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 5d

genuinely an unhinged thing to think or write

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 6d

oof bud sorry to hear it

mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 6d

it’s research morning, time to clean some ocr results

an elderly woman in a pink sweater says " let 's roll "

ALT: an elderly woman in a pink sweater says " let 's roll "

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 6d

"Xi aims to establish China as the fulcrum of an emerging multipolar world, and he is advancing a new, more active diplomatic strategy to realize that goal." Jeffrey Prescott and @juliangewirtz.bsky.social write on shifting centers of gravity in a new article for @foreignaffairs.com.

China Goes on Offense

Beijing’s plans to exploit American retreat.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 6d

wait hi hello yes same

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 6d

why is 1980s graphic design going so hard

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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · 7d

jfc. v sorry to see this. being unable to describe anything as group conflict is a [deliberate?] death sentence to the social sciences

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