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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D.

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Political Science Lecturer | UNT PhD | Comparative Politics & International Relations | #COYG | RTs ≠ endorsements | she/her/hers

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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just got IRB approval for a survey I started during the last year of my PhD! Original research here I come!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.
The conservative majority has learned to use anti-discrimination language as the vehicle for preserving discrimination. Justice Kavanaugh’s suggestion that remedies for racism must have an “end point” inverts the logic of the Reconstruction Amendments. They were written to empower Congress to act against racial domination, not to set an expiration date on equality. This will be the Roberts Court’s legacy: using the Constitution not to expand freedom, but to protect established hierarchies. The Court has simply found a new minority to protect—not racial or religious minorities, but a political party whose power endures through structural advantage, even when it commands fewer votes.Where the Court has shown the greatest deference is to power itself, culminating in the decision granting Donald Trump sweeping legal immunity for “official acts”—a ruling that defies global democratic norms, where dozens of presidents and prime ministers have been prosecuted and convicted of crimes in recent years. The Court is thus working on two fronts: shielding the leader of the anti-democratic movement from accountability while simultaneously dismantling the electoral rules that allow the majority to vote his party out.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“Demographers and their sponsors extended the interwar eugenic project of family planning to developing countries… They received intellectual support from a younger generation of biologists, most notably Paul Ehrlich, who published The Population Bomb in 1968,”
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There never was a "population bomb"
Society incorrectly blamed a "population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.
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Max Flugrath🗳️ @maxflugrath.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New Veep deleted scene: Kristi Noem makes up fake George Orwell quote as she's fired by Trump via Truth Social Post.
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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 27/02/2026
Daron @DAcemogluMIT uses his language and authority to weigh in pointing out to the possibility of a breakdown of knowledge transmission and the reduction of the stock of skill as consequence of AI. In some societies, this has already happened in the world of "physical skills"...
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Please read this & speak out. Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
🏅In one of this week's most read articles, "Making Women Visible" Jessica Kim & Kathleen M. Fallon use multilevel modeling on 87 countries to test what impact gender quotas have on beliefs about women in politics. Available 🌟#OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/txfaIpi
Research article titled "Making Women Visible: How Gender Quotas Shape Global Attitudes toward Women in Politics" by Jessica Kim and Kathleen M. Fallon.
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Learning to discuss protests on Duolingo is aligned with a high A2 level of the CEFR.
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I feel somehow more ahead of my autumnal conferencing season than I have ever felt. Have I made it as an academic? Or am I delusional? 🤔
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Happy UN Day to all who celebrate! I was happy to chat with @erikvoeten.bsky.social at @goodauth.bsky.social about this 80th birthday for a hot mess doing its best goodauthority.org/news/united-...
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As the United Nations turns 80, what’s next?
A Good Chat with Anjali Dayal on the challenges and the promises ahead for the U.N.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/10/2025
The US Administration has explicitly chosen to make it much harder to build a career in research in the United States. This policy of hollowing out our future innovation capacity will ultimately harm every Conservative and Liberal American.
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PNWfreedom @kalidurga7.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Exactly! Our seed library has triggered a master gardener to share her planting calendar for our locale. And the 'share a row' harvest fed 24 families with fresh produce at our food bank.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/10/2025
Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.
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Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87
As a host of “All Things Considered,” she was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in the United States.
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
4.9/5 on my latest teaching evaluation. Let’s gooooo!
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Definitely getting my COVID-19/flu vax combo shot next week before any of this changes in Texas.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Texas during a legislative is so fun. Going to have to explain this in class soon.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
There are many assessments that suggest PragerU "is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United States today." One is available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The kids are alt-right: an introduction to PragerU and its role in radicalization in the United States
With an annual budget of nearly fifty million dollars and over five billion views on social media, PragerU is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United Sta...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In goose meme form.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Reps. Darrell Issa (CA), and Rob Wittman (VA), and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have all voted for cuts to the CFPB. Yet collectively, they’ve routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints about financial products and services to the agency. By @joeljacobs.bsky.social @propublica.org
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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.
Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I really like @cstross.bsky.social on similar issues. crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/r...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Assistant Professors teach courses that are significantly/substantively closer to the boundaries of knowledge that tenured and non-tenure track professors. (This difference is equivalent to 19% of a syllabus’s content.)
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Sara Chatfield @poliscisara.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If you are teaching Intro to US Politics/American Government at the college level this coming year and would like a place to share resources, ideas, and questions, please join our Slack! Email me at sara.chatfield @ du.edu for the link. Polisky Gendersky PolScience
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
My quadriceps to my other leg muscles after the barbell squats I did yesterday.
Image of actor Idris Elba who plays Stringer Bell in “The Wire” saying “I want you to get the word out there that we back up.”
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning. But that time is over." www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
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(1981) Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism"
In June 1981, Audre Lorde gave the keynote presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Storrs, Connecticut. Her presentation appears below. Racism. The belief in the inherent ...
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/07/2025
Darren Beattie — who was fired as a speechwriter during President Trump’s first term after CNN revealed that he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists — will now serve as the acting president of the US Institute of Peace, according to a senior State Department official.
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Top State Dept. official who once attended conference with White nationalists picked to lead US Institute of Peace | CNN Politics
Darren Beattie — a top State Department official who was fired as a speechwriter during President Donald Trump’s first term after CNN revealed that he spoke at a conference attended by White nationali...
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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Do you teach undergrad pol sci research methods? Do you assign journal articles to your students? I'm building a sharable tagged library of student-friendly articles, tagged by methods and other features. Please share your syllabus to help me build. Email leanne at leannecpowner dot com
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
i just did this for $10/month. worth every penny.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This first-person account of bring swept away by the Texas floodwaters is harrowing & an incredible piece of writing.
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Currently moving out of my apartment and it is really fun (read: scary) to see the damage of an hour and a half long commute one way/three hours commuting total for one year and a 5/5 course load for another year does to a person.
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Blush blindness meets bronzer blindness.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"I'm not on Medicaid! I'm on [BadgerCare/Apple Health/TennCare/AHCCCS/Health First CO/KanCare/MaineCare/Medi-Cal/MassHealth/MS Health Benefits/etc.]!"
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isamidwest.bsky.social @isamidwest.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Sunday Workshops at ISA-Midwest! 🚨 Two fantastic professional dev sessions on Nov 23: 🧠 VIRP w/ Patrick James (diagram your research!) 📊 Text-as-Data w/ Leah Windsor (turn words into numbers!) Free w/ conf reg. Sign up by Aug 1 to be in the program! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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isamidwest.bsky.social @isamidwest.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚺 Calling all women-identifying grad students & jr faculty! Join our Pay-it-Forward mentoring workshop at ISA-Midwest! 🗓️ Register by July 1 🍸 Thu reception | 🥗 Fri lunch + mentoring Space limited! Details in your inbox or ask us! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Apply to Pay It Forward at ISA Midwest
Apply now to the Pay-it-Forward mentoring workshop held during the ISA Midwest Conference. This event is designed for female-identifying graduate students and junior faculty and offers them a chance t...
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I may have solved a data issue with a manuscript for which I have been trying to get better data! Very happy with the preliminary results!
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If you are a shop cat in a garden center I *will* find you.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is incredible
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/06/2025
Twitter right now
Lobster fight meme, but it's all The Worst Person You Know
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Crash out of the century happening on The Other App. Got my Aperol spritz (sun+heat=spritz time) ready for this!
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Excited to see this new paper building on my work on respectability politics and Black attitudes toward social control—using my respectability measure to explore views on punishment & the justice system. Congrats to Alexander Goodwin & Tony Carey on the new paper! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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With All Due Respect: Respectability Politics and Black Support for Police Defunding and Abolition - Political Behavior
This study explores whether respectability politics, the notion that marginalized groups should adhere to mainstream social norms of behavior and comportment to gain public acceptance, are associated ...
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Important work.
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Existing rigid discipline boundaries punish interdisciplinary researchers, especially women, even though interdisciplinary researchers who actually get hired have higher long-term productivity.
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Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Submitting paper ideas to the ISA or APSA annual conference gives me a brief existential crisis. As in, do I truly *do* migration research, or am I researching something else in the grand scheme of things?
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Chris Belasco @someclevername.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I told my students in November: now is the time to start reimagining the thing you care about cause after they tear it down, you’re gonna need to rebuild it.
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