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Robert Chung

@rchung.bsky.social
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Anti-social social scientist with low amusement threshold. When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 12h
Yeah, I even did a quick blog post about it. charlesgaba.substack.com/p/one-more-t...
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One More Thing about that Kansas Senate campaign ad...
Fun with compound interest.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 14h
My stepdad and I were diametrically opposed on capital punishment but we both agreed that it should never be a circus.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remembering and understanding this is important.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt was questioning Jack Smith the right way. by Ezra Klein
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670rv @670rv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/noth... Face of Alabama Senator!
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No NBA fan would've forgotten if they'd attended the Hawks-Warriors game where Steph scored 60 in an OT loss.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next up: Schmitt accuses Fani Willis of being at that Hawkeyes-Terps game.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Administration seems to think the only use for Census data is redistricting. They want to change procedures to boost their power. Arguably, the most important use is to get a consistent reliable time series to calculate changes. Changing procedures screw that up. Not that they care.
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.
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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 For those working with Brazilian Census data, some good news: the R package censobr has been updated. Version v1.0.0 is now available on CRAN. ipea.github.io/censobr/inde... This release includes:
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
❗Big update on our French GIS data ❗All historical railways, stations, rivers, canals, all administrative units and population back to 1790s now available on Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.3727273. Check out the data papers (more to come soon) here: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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Cambridge Data Papers in Economic and Social History
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, that was unexpected but pleasant.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a very cool analysis of last weekend's men's elite TT. escapecollective.com/why-watts-ar...
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Blinded by power: Why watts is cycling's McNamara Fallacy
An Escape member's analysis of Bruno Armirail’s baffling Worlds TT exposes a fallacy in our collective obsession with power.
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JBV @jverheul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@adammyerson.bsky.social pointed it out during the race, as did Caley Fretz later in his EC article (gift link).
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How Ashlin Barry went off script and won U23 Worlds on his 19th birthday
Barry went up the road on lap two, against his team's plan, and stayed there.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 2002, Dede Demet-Barry won a race with 12 circuits of Mont Royal. It was those race data, a natural experiment with 12 repeats, that first made me think it could be possible to estimate CdA from field data. Today, Ashlin Barry won a rainbow jersey on circuits of that same course.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GB of scholarly papers from JSTOR to make knowledge free. He was charged with 35 years in prison and died by suicide in 2013. Sam Altman sets hacking robots loose to steal information, speaks at Davos and the UN, and become crazy rich. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
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United States v. Swartz - Wikipedia
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“A traveling bookmobile displaying copies of the Jeffrey Epstein files stopped in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood Wednesday as part of a national campaign to educate the public on the 3.5 million declassified federal documents” Hadn’t heard about this until now Gift 🔗
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Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile stops in Chicago
A traveling bookmobile displaying the Jeffrey Epstein files stopped in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood Wednesday as part of a national campaign to educate the public on the 3.5 million declassifi...
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Photoonist @photoonist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sam Altman and his pals are begging, pleading for government to stop them before they kill everyone, but just not before their IPOs.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this might be the single worst thing ever uttered at a UN General Assembly certainly the worst thing said by the leader of a purported democracy
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Holy cow.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I want white folks to understand is when you let your friends, business partners, elected officials, consultants talk about us this way, we don’t trust you either. So ask Walmart & Hewlett Packard about the ppl they pay as lobbyists.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've been thinking that ICE is out of control but, on reflection, maybe they're in control and doing the things they were intended to do.
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Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This may sound like beaucratic paper shuffling but it's actually a five-alarm fire. When allocating the nation's resources among competing research projects, replacing scientific experts with political apparatchiks is a recipe for waste, abuse, and slower progress. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He wants all research findings to be labeled, "presented by Donald J. Trump."
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In Montreal for the Worlds, completely jet lagged, and already overslept the elite women's race. $*#&*!.
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am very much looking forward to the next FemQuant seminar by Signe Svallfors on exposure to violent crime and pregnancy outcomes. More information and the sign up link below 👇
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Patrick Heuveline @patrickhvl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Introducing PDR special issue, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, Mathis Ebbinghaus, Liliana Andriano & I ask how to build cumulative knowledge from heterogeneous findings on the effects of conflict on demographic outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
Political conflict and violence shape the core demographic processes of mortality, migration, and fertility, while also influencing union formation, health, and kinship networks. Existing studies hav....
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here's my 1-month alert: applications to join us in the Demography Department at UC Berkeley are due in 1 month. This is a great department in a great place with collegial people doing cool things. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05488
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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Demography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Applicant: "That damn sheep made me do it." Kash Patel: "I know. That lanolin has power in it."
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah, but I'm sure the press is actively asking every GOP pol whether they support Rawson and Herrera, so there's that.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Those were --> jokes <--.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. www.npr.org/2026/09/12/n...
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A cancer survivor hoped to work — then she lost her Medicaid disability coverage
As state governments grapple with how to determine who's sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some families are already struggling with what illnesses guarantee health covera...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is a crazy story.
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/09/2026
Now, that wasn't so difficult, was it. 🙏🏻
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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"the gays were really polite and normal about it" no see what's happening here is that being gay feels normal to you now, so their activism seems reasonable in hindsight. trans activism feels egregious because you think trans people are grotesque
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026
New statement from the American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social www.amstat.org/policy-and-a...
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Little Fury Fellah @elnosnusk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
how about we judge a man by the content of his character as expressed by his own words?
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some say yes, but the President disagrees.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
275 million adult Americans * $5K = 1.4 T.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Woah. Seems like the OpenAI proof, even if right, is ethically sketchy AF. And it also cost $22 million, which could have been better spent as a donation to basic math research.
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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We're hosting our 2nd annual CenSoc Users Conference on December 4th, remotely. Please consider joining us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CenSoc Users Conference 2026
2026 CenSoc Users Conference Hosted by the CenSoc Project Organizer: Casey Breen We invite submissions for our second annual CenSoc Users Conference. The conference will be held remotely on Decem...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happening today at noon (PT)!
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In 2023, I nearly died when an ectopic pregnancy burst, taking out a corner of my uterus and one ovary with it. I bled 2 liters out internally, and the whole time kept asking am I dying because it FELT like I was dying bc I WAS. It was excruciatingly painful. That's how these people are dying.
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