xrkulik.bsky.social
health policy and political science PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, studying the politics of data in American institutions.
GEO steward. mixed race Chinese American. she/her
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I’ve walked from one end to the other of this protest a few times, crowd is fluctuating but at least 2.5 blocks, with people tight enough that moving around is challenging, spilling into cross streets and alleys
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Average age still older than in 2017 and 2020 but more younger people as well
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I’ve been looking forward to reading this since @scottlgreer.bsky.social mentioned it to me months ago! Ordered!
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The Chicago march has taken Lake Shore Drive.
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15% of people hit by these things are permanently injured. 3% die. they are so dangerous and they are used so recklessly!
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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Protest character matters, inc. presence of old/young, diverse groups, size, nonviolence. Can affect identification btw soldiers & protesters; makes it harder for pols to demonize protesters (note: these factors create incentives for pols to instigate protest violence; watch for this in U.S.) 8/
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fancy math can't fix silly/messy/bad decisions about data!
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oof, sorry to hear that. sometimes archiving sites (e.g. archive.ph) have snapshots saved that get around paywalls.
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As a cohort friend pointed out, this isn't a bad description of a PhD in general, just add "write at length about the stuff, rewrite it over and over, and share it with people whose job it is to critique it"
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how are these people whose job is it to understand politics so bad at it?
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"The passwords to those [social media] accounts were kept on a password protected Word doc," said one worker at the CDC. "And that Word doc was inaccessible for anyone left, because all of the people that could have opened that document were fired."
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The media is desperate to recast the pandemic as a "both-sides made mistakes" story. On one hand, Republicans killed hundreds of thousands of people though a herd immunity strategy and vaccine denial. On the other, Fauci issued an accurate recommendation without a specific citation.