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Shana Scogin

@shanascogin.bsky.social
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Assistant professor @IUONeill 2026 | Prev postdoc @perryworldhouse @penn, PhD @NotreDame polisci, & @fulbrightnepal | governance, environ, disasters, #rstats | github.com/ShanaScogin | shanascogin.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A touching memoriam about Raul Pacheco-Vega jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...
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In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega - Jo VanEvery
Raul had been conscious of his mortality for a long time. Many years ago he came to terms with his workaholism and took serious steps to change his behaviour for the sake of his health. I know he stil...
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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Check out PWH postdoc @shanascogin.bsky.social's insight on Nepal's youth uprising here ⬇️
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Re: protests in Nepal. Restrictions on social media platforms may be part of the story, but that is not all this is, not by far. Nepali youth are tired of what they see as failures of governance, corruption, and the lack of opportunities. This is a tragedy.
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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 02/06/2025
Millions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal.
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From period pain to heart disease, the gender health gap is real – here’s how to close it
Millions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal.
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Officially official!
Three people in their regalia, one in red (for Cornell) on the left, one in blue (for Notre Dame) in the middle, and one in light blue (for UNC-CH) on the right. The middle person is holding a certificate for her graduation.A graduate being hooded by her two advisors.People in regalia waving to their friends and family in the stands.New grad in dapper blue phd robes looking at her spouse in front of department of political science sign.
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The title is a bit cheeky (you cannot predict earthquakes precisely understood, though it *is* true that another earthquake in Nepal is certainly a 'when' and not an 'if'), but very cool to see our lab mentioned in the Nepali Times-and by a fellow Kenyon College alum! nepalitimes.com/here-now/yes...
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Yes, quakes can be forecast
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Ben Francis @benfrancis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Submitting an article to a journal is, as a non-parent, how I imagine folks feel sending their kid off to school on the bus in the morning. Hoping they'll be lovingly looked after and well regarded by their peers. Secretly ok with the idea they might not be back home for quite a while...
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Colin Kuehl @profkuehl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Many thanks to all the great people I spent time with at #isa2025.
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Ben Francis @benfrancis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Beyond polarised narratives, district level factors influence the way Republican House candidates discuss climate and energy. Really happy to share this working paper.
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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Details below on our "Perspectives on Politics" team's first call for papers! We seek research applying political science tools & theories to investigate "The University," broadly understood. Led by three great guest editors, this special issue will probe the politics of higher education & much more
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Ending my 2024 with good news! I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington SPEA (O'Neill School) in August 2026. I'm beyond excited to join the amazing folks at SPEA and continue my work on environ governance & disasters in Nepal and beyond.
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research, in Nature Climate Change: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - w/ @julianagyeman.bsky.social, @pkashwan.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, Stacia Ryder, @dschlosberg.bsky.social & @farhanasultana.com #climatejustice
A screenshot of the article "Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research" on the website of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I need bluesky to add bookmarks so I have a place to put things I'll never look at again
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Ben Francis @benfrancis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Check it out: States sometimes unhelpfully instrumentalise their climate pledges as foreign policy documents. A piece I wrote on this phenomenon with my colleague Bill Kakenmaster has just been published on @duckofminerva.bsky.social www.duckofminerva.com/2024/12/clim...
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Climate Pledges as Vehicles for Political Posturing
Under the Paris Agreement, states submit Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) outlining their commitments to reducing emissions. These documents are important window in the international poli…
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Literally the first real thing I learned in python and I was absolutely here for it.
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 03/12/2024
WOAH! @fossheim.bsky.social has just published the single-best piece I've *ever* seen on how to apply principles of accessibility to data visualization. My jaw is on the floor. Seriously, if you only ever read a single thing for accessible visualization, let it be this: fossheim.io/writing/post...
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Dataviz accessibility principles, demonstrated by the 2024 presidential election dashboards. by Sarah L. Fossheim
I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong (including lots of demos).
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 02/12/2024
Woohoo, our paper is live! This haiku summarizes it best: Raw model results? Stop! Hard to understand! Use {marginaleffects}
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hi, new skies. I'm a postdoc at the Perry World House policy institute at Penn, and I've published on emissions & democracy and women & reconstruction & out migration in Nepal. I write R packages, and my claim to fame in the old place was a tweet where I geeked out about my first package.
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Great thread! I realize the disaster lit is vast and wide (and I had a whole pandemic to get into it after I was evac'ed), but I wish poli sci would engage it more as the field (rightly) turns to the pols of climate and the environ. There is so much critical work here. No need to reinvent the wheel.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Did you know that scientists no longer use the Richter Scale to measure earthquake magnitude? Now, we tend to use the “Moment Magnitude (Mw)” scale, which was built off of the tenets of the Richter scale. 🧪 ⚒️
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It feels strange to be here - new algorithm is nice, but I can't seem to find some of my fav twitter-verses (esp Nepal twitter). Is this going to be an academic vs rest of world type of thing?
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 13/11/2024
Had a blast teaching this today! All the #rstats materials are available at talks.andrewheiss.com/2024-11-13_u...
Go beyond OLS!
An introduction to Poisson, Beta, and zero-inflated Beta Bayesian distributional regression

While ordinary least squares (OLS) regression is an important method for modeling relationships, it’s not always well-suited for outcome variables that are proportions (bounded between 0–100%) and counts (limited to whole numbers). In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use Bayesian regression techniques to get richer and more detailed information from more specialized types of data. Using R, Stan, {brms}, and {marginaleffects} you’ll learn how to (1) correctly model counts and proportions and (2) process, plot, interpret, and communicate the results.

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Andrew Heiss  

Affiliation
Georgia State University

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November 13, 2024

Workshop presented at the Département de science politique at the Université de Montréal

Plot showing the predicted count of anti-LBGT-discrimination laws across a range of urbanness in Democratic, Republican, and swing states, using Bayesian Poisson regressionPlot showing the predicted proportion of protected-at-birth tetanus vaccination rates across a range of GDP per capita and 6 different global regions, with vertical lines showing the slopes of the predicted lines for some typical/hypothetical countries, all using Bayesian Beta regressionPlot showing multiple Beta distributions across two different parameterizations (shapes and µ+φ)
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Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
RIP all of my bookmarks from the other place with books and articles I was convinced I'd read.
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