#SHIFT

Bobby Blanchard

bobbycblanchard

1/ Today was @catlikeDanimal’s last day at the @TexasTribune as an Engagement Fellow. We were so lucky to work with her this Fall. HEY hiring managers: She's job hunting. Cat

C Thi Nguyen

add_hawk

I've got a new paper forthcoming: "How Twitter Gamifies Communication". Games are appealing because they offer us clear, simple goals. Twitter is so thrilling because its goals have been artificially

Dan Runcie

RuncieDan

Travis Scott's Astroworld Tour 2018-19:• 58 live shows• 4+ months of travel• 850K fans• $64M grossTravis Scott's Fortnite concert 2020:• 4 virtual shows• one weekend, no travel• 28M fans• $20MI

Josh Shifrinson

shifrinson

I have a new article in the new issue of @TWQgw assessing the nascent US-China competition. Sort of my COVID project. A short thread - a copy can be found

Dave Harden

Dave_Harden

1. [THREAD] Yemen, Middle East Watchers, NatSec Pros: A few thoughts regarding Biden’s major news regarding the Yemen war in the past few days. 2. Biden visited the State Department

Jake Sherman

JakeSherman

PlaybookHAPPY MONDAY MORNING. TODAY marks the beginning of the post-TRUMP era in American politics. To the extent that he still has political currency, it dwindles every day as Jan. 20,

Paul Campbell

WayToGoPaul

The Dryden article in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/02/hockey-goalies-are-too-big-now/618021/ is as interesting to read (Ken knows how to lay out a poetic case) as it is confused in its observations. I invite

Austan Goolsbee

Austan_Goolsbee

A thread on new work Syverson and I just released looking in depth at the impact shutdown orders (and repeals). Short version: they don't do much. Of the 60% drop

DisInfo Lab

DisinfoLab

The #toolkit dropped by @GretaThunberg had many key players but the name of the foreign expert Pieter Friedrich was dramatic as he was the part of a true story we

Girmay Zahilay

GirmayZahilay

MAJOR: I and @CMUpthegrove put forward Ordinance 2020-0253, a proposed charter amendment that allows @KCCouncil to decrease the duties of the County Sheriff’s Office and redirect public safety functions to

Dave Wasserman

Redistrict

The risk of a huge shift towards absentee voting isn’t fraud that hurts the GOP. It’s administrative dysfunction & voter inexperience that leads to millions of (disproportionately Dem) ballots not

Omar Wasow

owasow

For 15 years, I’ve been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters.

Mark Galeotti

MarkGaleotti

#Putin Accuses West of Using #Navalny to 'Contain' #RussiaVVP: "Our opponents or our potential opponents... have always relied on — and used — ambitious, power-hungry people"A short thread on this

teona | crip gossip girl ♿👩🏾‍🦼🦓

tee_spoonie

me seeing the videos about the woman getting dressed in late 18th century style clothes and resisting the urge to drop all the trivia about historical fashion bc it's a

Ahmed Saddique

ahmedsaddique7

Are we really learning?We consume so much information from the internet, books, videos, etc.But what’s the point of consuming all this information if we can’t leverage it? I made a

Amy Miller

ThatAmyMiller

Half of this is...actually terrible advice?https://twitter.com/nymag/status/1327721445741432832 It avoids key questions, like, "who have you spoken to about this? Are you venting to your coworkers, or have you scheduled a meeting

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