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We are pleased to release a new version of the #MercuryProject Research Framework. Currently used by 18 teams globally, the framework is designed to help funders, researchers & policymakers coordinate on effective interventions to ⬆️vaccine uptake. https://t.co/0BQnqZCJ4x 🧵👇
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.@NIH Acting Director Larry Tabak recently said, "We'll have to have the discipline to stop supporting underpowered boutique studies." Read our proposal to @NIH_CommonFund to ⬆️ the chances of finding replicable policy solutions using “master protocols”: https://t.co/TOKnklrn0a
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund supports “bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research.” NIH programs supported by the Common...
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My short piece on the 2019 Piatúa River protests (Ecuadorian Amazon) is out in @SSRC_items. In the essay I focus on the gap between formal rights protections vs. their actual exercise on the ground, & highlight the key role of local Indigenous organizing. https://t.co/OFTCNhhLCT
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In September 2019, hundreds of people gathered at the headquarters of the local Indigenous organization, PONAKICSC,[footnote]PONAKICSC refers to Pueblo Originario de la Nacionalidad Kichwa del Cantón...
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READ Our latest research review on #heritage, #prevention of violent conflict, and #MassAtrocity ( https://t.co/iC7NH5Ppnf). Complements our earlier essay series ( https://t.co/riG4G8e3W0). Thx to our own @bolinresearch!
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Tangible things like artifacts, monuments, and sites are all forms of cultural heritage, but heritage is also a process through which people construct and use the past in the present....
A new literature review, Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict, from SSRC's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, written by @bolinresearch, explores the current state of knowledge in the field. Please read & share with colleagues: https://t.co/ajUs1cHh5q
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Happy Birthday @ssrc_org !! 🥳
It's our 100th birthday! 🎂 In 1923, social and behavioral scientists from @AEAinformation @APSAtweets @ASAnews @AmstatNews founded @ssrc_org to support policy-relevant social and behavioral science aimed at advancing human well-being. #SSRC100
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Two years after the storming of the US Capitol, we revisit @ChristinaKulic2 and @bethiamswellman’s essay unpacking the infamous incident through the lens of democratic erosion scholarship.
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The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 was a jarring, almost surreal event; the attack, by US citizens, on the nation’s symbol of democracy sent shockwaves throughout the...
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This nice article from @snopes quotes my 2018 @SSRC_items article, https://t.co/DZ1kVG1dEI
@WebSciDL @oducs #WebArchiveWednesday (ht: @lesley_elis)
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Web archiving has received increased attention in the popular media over the past few years. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which can replay past versions of web pages, has been...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY | We are hiring a Program Officer for the Arts Research with Communities of Color program.
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The Social Science Research Council fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary...
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"True success means a public health infrastructure that doesn’t have to claim success from recovering from predictable tragedy" SSRC #MercuryProject grantee @NeilLewisJr, w/@DraCoquiMD & @ChomiloMD, examine narratives vs reality of Covid-19 inequalities https://t.co/qA43jDUHcx
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It is worth celebrating the tenacity of community champions who fought for equitable access to vaccines by Black and Hispanic people. But fixing injustice requires fundamental changes in systems and...
Important piece from @NeilLewisJr @ChomiloMD & @DraCoquiMD about the many health inequities that #covid19 exacerbated. Any narrative that suggests otherwise just isn’t true.
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“The feeling of abandonment that permeates the history of favelas was so amplified during the pandemic that civic leaders stopped making demands of the state and instead focused on dealing with the crisis themselves.”
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Brazil’s dying democracy On November 1, 2021, Foreign Affairs published an article entitled “Democracy is Dying in Brazil.”[footnote]Oliver Stuenkel, “Democracy Is Dying in Brazil,” Foreign Affairs,...
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🚨New paper out! "The Blind Spots of Sociotechnical Imaginaries: COVID-19 Scepticism in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States". 🌎 https://t.co/T7E78x4r9l 🧶 @SAGEPubIndia
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During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, experts and policymakers mobilised various slogans to compel the public to help defeat COVID-19. By c...
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The mobilization of civic organizations in favelas in response to Covid-19 exemplify how democracy can be reinvented when government fails to provide support to these communities, explain @AnjuliFahlberg and her coauthors.
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Brazil’s dying democracy On November 1, 2021, Foreign Affairs published an article entitled “Democracy is Dying in Brazil.”[footnote]Oliver Stuenkel, “Democracy Is Dying in Brazil,” Foreign Affairs,...
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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowships, in partnership with @FetzerInstitute. Fellows will receive 12 months of support for their research projects. https://t.co/1qEZHOlnND
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“Accustomed to fending for themselves, residents pulled together their resources and activated networks of civic associations to provide food, masks, and other basics.”
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Brazil’s dying democracy On November 1, 2021, Foreign Affairs published an article entitled “Democracy is Dying in Brazil.”[footnote]Oliver Stuenkel, “Democracy Is Dying in Brazil,” Foreign Affairs,...
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NEW FORUM | The forum on "Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right" examines the rise of far-right movements and actors globally with Hindutva and the Hindu right at the center of this inquiry. Read the introduction from Supriya Gandhi (@Yale):
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A multitude of images featuring the prime minister, Narendra Modi, routinely emanates from the digital and print platforms of the ruling Hindu right in India. In some of these, Modi...
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In Alabama, immigrant-serving organizations collaborated with other minority groups to provide support to immigrant voters, @HajYazdiha & @BlancaArRamirez found.
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“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.” —John Lewis.[footnote]Ari Berman, “John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack,” Mother Jones, July 18, 2020.[/footnote]...
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In light of the Brazilian state’s retreat during the pandemic, local civic organizations have mobilized to provide aid to low-income neighborhoods, particularly favelas, @AnjuliFahlberg and her coauthors find.
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Brazil’s dying democracy On November 1, 2021, Foreign Affairs published an article entitled “Democracy is Dying in Brazil.”[footnote]Oliver Stuenkel, “Democracy Is Dying in Brazil,” Foreign Affairs,...
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Focusing on immigrant-serving nonprofits in the US South, @HajYazdiha & @BlancaArRamirez investigate how the rollback of voter protections reshaped immigrant advocacy.
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“Immigrant rights organizations across the South were building deep networks that would only bolster their resistance during the onslaught of anti-immigrant executive orders during the Trump presidency.”
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“By livestreaming their participation in popular mobilizations and company negotiations, digitally fluent peasant leaders are increasingly claiming control over how they are represented in narratives around extraction.”
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English | Spanish The police shot at those livestreaming first. More than four thousand meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, overlooking one of the world’s largest open-pit copper...
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