“I hope I leave New Zealanders with a belief that you can be kind, but strong, empathetic but decisive, optimistic but focused. And that you can be your own kind of leader – one who knows when it’s time to go,”
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Opinion piece: A 360-degree review provides an opportunity to collect diverse, meaningful community feedback about the work of an institutional leader in relation to the everyday operations and strategic objectives of the university minnpost.com/community-voic…

My textbook with Kosuke Imai (Harvard University) is finally out!

Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics or coding and only minimal knowledge of math, DSS teaches the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference + how to analyze real-world data with R.

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Flowchart for selecting commonly used Statistical tests. #phd #research #AcademicTwitter #academia

Brilliant!
The New Yorker
Avi Steinberg

The people have spoken! We did an online poll to decide whether your colleague who was accused of harassment and abuse should be allowed back in the department! They won 52-48, so they are back! Isn’t online polling great?

Binnur OzkececiTaner presenting on the ‘getting your work published’ RT for #ISAMidwest2022 , discussing her journal JournalofGlobSecStud

Analysis by the very best in our field.

Four things that helped Ds close strong:
-Barack Obama's campaign swing.
-The attack on Paul Pelosi and the tone deaf & offensive response by the Trumps, other Rs & right-wing media.
-Trump's late campaign swing.
-President Biden's democracy speech (the wisdom of which I had questioned.)

Research proposal
#research #PhD #phdlife #Academia

“Urgent situations tend to arise even during holidays, and in academic and leadership roles it is difficult to delay dealing with them.”

Cover story: THE work-life balance survey 2022 – Thomas Williams reports on our survey of 1,200 university staff bit.ly/3Ehpl2L

awesome visualization of europe’s changing powers, 1500-2022
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Tell me about a nonfiction book that both (1) emotionally moved you as you read it, and (2) permanently changed the way you see the world? (And please tag authors, if possible. They appreciate these things!)

Only a handful of people will truly appreciate how horrifying this is.

This one comes from a Turkish recipe and is dedicated to Phil Rosenthal: “In Croatia, there's something called a burek, which is this savory pastry with either meat or cheese in it — sometimes both. It's delicious.”

You can buy Twitter followers? I had no idea! economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media…
Why? 'People will believe you have a lot of authority if you have a huge Twitter following...this improves the probability of them staying on your site for an extended period of time and also of following you.'

May you live in times that don't alarm historians.

What we just saw was the making of an All Xi's Men team, the breaking of decade-long rules, and the birth of an unlimited supreme leader. These are not entirely surprising, but Xi's grab of power is still beyond our expectation. He is now a truly modern emperor. 1/