Sampada KC
@sampskc
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@UBCPoliSci via @WZB_Berlin.🇳🇵
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Our paper "Local knowledge, formal evidence, and policy decisions" (with @AidanCoville and @sampskc) is out at the JDE. Many people have the intuition that policymakers prefer evidence from their own context. To what extent is this true? 1/ 🧵
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"The ties between a university campus and the violence propagated by capital investment are close and tangible." @LPEblog #longreads
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Law students at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and Yale explain the demands behind the ongoing anti-war protests and offer their reflections from the encampments.
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This book w/ @maqartan – on how to integrate theory with data from diverse empirical strategies – has been many fun years in the making. We're excited to finally have it out in the world! See ⬇️ for links to the book at CUP, an open access version, software, and many thank you's!
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Moral bankruptcy of the present Indian regime cannot bring itself to back calls for even a “humanitarian truce”.
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Reran a discrete choice experiment with @AidanCoville and @sampskc in which policy professionals were asked to pick between different studies - but we also had them forecast the effects of different programs. 1/
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Great mentors, brilliant minds, fun company, excellent city, what's not to like? Apply!
🚨Jobs alert🚨 Please share (and do apply)! Our energetic, inclusive unit at @WZB_Berlin is hiring for up to three positions. 2 postdocs: https://t.co/kgZtMB0Sei 1 predoc: https://t.co/o2FWyUEmO8 Deadline: **Jan 9, 2023** Political inequality, social cohesion, and more!
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Did you use COVID-19 Model Challenges ( https://t.co/ErCXE0CtDe) in statistics/data teaching? The COVID-19 team @diazcayeros @evavivalt @alex_scacco @maqartan @sampskc @dadakim asks @chadhazlett @StatModeling & all others to send us instructional materials for future pedagogy.
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Very happy to share a new paper out today in Nature Medicine, looking at vaccine attitudes across 10 LMICs, the USA and Russia.
nature.com
Nature Medicine - Survey data collected across ten low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa and South America compared with surveys from Russia and the United States reveal...
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Hello, PM @JustinTrudeau, Ministers @AnitaOakville, @karinagould & @PattyHajdu, please donate the 17 million excess doses of AstraZeneca vaccine not needed in Canada to NEPAL, currently experiencing the worst surge of #COVIDEmergency2021 in the world. https://t.co/YlnUJdsEwI
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Ontario and Alberta paused use of the shot last week amid both a decline in supply of AstraZeneca and amid questions about a very rare form of blood clots.
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Twitter friends -- For the Covid Model Challenges project, we collected dozens of models predicting cumulative COVID-19 mortalities across and within countries, as of Sept. 2021. Dozens of social scientists submitted models. Which models do you think will be most informative?
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Join us for another virtual session of the Berlin WGAPE @WZB_Berlin on June 18, 10 am to 4 pm (CEST): We’ll discuss working papers related to African political economy. If you would like to attend, please send an email to chantal.pezold@wzb.eu by May 15! @maqartan @alex_scacco
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Ambassador Randy Berry: Get CoVID Vaccines to Nepal ASAP and prevent a humanitarian disaster - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/sxIjXOSHiD via @Change
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Get CoVID Vaccines to Nepal ASAP and prevent a humanitarian disaster
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Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
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The long read: It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain
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Excited to be working on @SajagNepal project w colleagues @soscbaha, Durham, Northumbria and beyond. If you are based in Nepal, have a MA and are looking for a research position please apply!
We are currently recruiting 4 research associates @soscbaha to work on @SajagNepal project. If you have a soc sci master's & research experience in disasters, climate change, development, social &/or political transformation in Nepal see: https://t.co/ZcPqGvTTqb Deadline 21/02
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