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Shea Swauger

@sheaswauger.bsky.social
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Senior Policy Analyst at @futureofprivacy, PhD student researching school shootings. www.sheaswauger.com

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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
100% real
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Come check it out!
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We built the whole thing ourselves, which is either impressive or a cry for help depending on how you look at it. There’s stuff for everyone! Vintage sci-fi book covers, botanical illustrations, a collection of butts, the usual.
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Aside from our day jobs, my partner and I recently launched a small art print shop called Motley. It started out as an antique booth, morphed into an online store, and will soon be in every home worldwide. Probably. motleyprints.com
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The Future of Research Is Mixed, Messy, and Human: www.sheaswauger.com/post/the-fut...
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The Future of Research Is Mixed, Messy, and Human
When people talk about "research, " they usually imagine something related to computers, numerical data, and instruments buzzing and blinking with importance. They're not wrong, but while this mental ...
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Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...
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Ethical Use of Pervasive Data for Research | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University
The IDDP Council for Pervasive Data Ethics - Next Steps for the U.S convened to chart a set of actions to advance ethical practices in computing research.
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
First base: sharing your Spotify Second base: sharing your location Third base: sharing your calculator history
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
writing is just a process of realizing you forgot all the words you used to know and learning them again, one by one, in a thesaurus
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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The internet becomes more tolerable once you realize that 99% of the people who are being assholes to you online have never actually engaged with your work and have no plans to.
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is a misunderstood documentary about people with allergy-induced migraines
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When we demanded that politicians listen to scientists, that probably should have included social scientists
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Max Schrems implies the existence of Min Schrems (I'm sorry)
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A dating app, but it matches researchers looking for collaborators on a project: "Mixed methods education researcher seeks coders for inter-rater reliability. Willing to trade SPSS analysis for a literature review"
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The NIH cuts are being spun as a way to eliminate bloated university bureaucracy. And looking at the sheer numbers, I get it. But in fact the story is the exact opposite. The federal research grants system is highly efficient. And it super charges American innovation. 🧵 1/
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If you rely on federal data for research, download everything you need now
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
MIT Libraries has a Checklist for USA Federal Data Backups, which provides instructions for downloading and archiving federal data for research purposes: libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...
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Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management
Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab has begun backing up data from data.gov, and you can email them to nominate data to save (lil@law.harvard.edu)
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Data.gov Home - Data.gov
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative web crawling project that saves data at the end of presidential administrations. You can nominate data you think is important to be saved: eotarchive.org
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End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Researchers and students at the Chan School of Public Health ran a “data preservation marathon” to save as much federal research data as possible and upload it to the Harvard Dataverse or the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: dataverse.harvard.edu web.archive.org
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Harvard DataverseDataCite-Logo
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Public Environmental Data Project focuses on federal environmental data and is accepting volunteers: screening-tools.com
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Data + Screening Tools
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Data Liberation Project operates a suggestion form, which identifies data that should be saved for public use: www.data-liberation-project.org/about/
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The Data Liberation Project — About
The what, why, how, when, where, and who of the Data Liberation Project.
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In response to critical research data being deleted or modified across federal agencies, several orgs are leading campaigns to save what they still can or locate deleted copies and host them on non-federal servers. Some are even taking suggestions for what to save or enable volunteers to help 👇
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Finished a book about the US electrical grid (nerd) and I realized I know nothing about electricity. The more I learned, the less I understood it. Electricity is so weird and magical and I’m in awe
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was asked what my taste in music was and the only thing I could think of was "whatever sad lesbians listen to" and it's very accurate
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
whispering "treat yo self" as I take 2 ibuprofen before bedtime
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
another student DURING our online Zoom class is getting a tattoo and now I have a new goal
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Introduction to Astronomy gave me more existential anxiety than all my philosophy classes combined. 10/10 would recommend
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
They can have a little prosciutto as a treat
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Parents who break the school pickup rules should be given extra children as a consequence
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
this week is just me trying to remember how to do my job December Shea: experienced professional with a plan January Shea: confused baby learning Slack
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Watching Alien Romulus with my dad is just a series of him saying “well, that’s not good”
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25/12/2024
I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me. When will we pass privacy regulations
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I talked to my therapist about this, and she said they get SO MUCH training for it and that some professions like EMTs are starting to. It's a little funny that my program is in the School of Education and Human Development, which trains therapists, but still has so little crossover in this skill
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Something I've never been taught in a research methods class is how to emotionally protect myself when researching traumatic subjects. I proactively started therapy again and limit my exposure to only what I need for my work, but it's tough sometimes. Any recommendations are welcome
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Some reflections on the school shooting in Madison and my role in gun violence research www.sheaswauger.com/post/no-comf...
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No Comfort But Truth
Two days ago, there was a school shooting at a small private Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. I've been thinking about what, if anything, I want to say as someone who spends a great deal of tim...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In my experience researching gun violence, we someone pulls out the “violent video games made them do it” argument, it means 1) they don’t what they’re talking about, and 2) they’re afraid
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I talked with David Riedman about what it was like growing up in Littleton when Columbine happened. I still live in the same town today and research school shootings for my PhD. Listen in here: k12ssdb.substack.com/p/ep-20-bein...
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Ep 20. Being a 7th grader five miles away from Columbine High in 1999
Shea Swauger, a PhD student at University of Colorado, talks about growing up in Littleton, CO and raising kids today in a community that has been profoundly impacted by gun violence.
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
My university just announced it's shifting to fully remote operations in response to protesters on campus www.ucdenver.edu/demonstratio...
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Demonstration on the Auraria Campus
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
One thing you get joining the Ethics and Data in Research Working Group is a newsletter with updates on new legislative proposals, programs, and opportunities that impact research. If any of this looks cool, sign up! fpf.org/join-the-eth...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Taking a qualitative methods class and I'm 100% convinced at least one autistic person should be on all qual observation teams to teach everyone how to describe social interactions without projecting meaning into them
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Had a great conversation about privacy, ethics, and technology with Larry Magid on "Are We Doing Tech Right?" 👇👇👇 www.spreaker.com/episode/priv...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
The surprising truth about School Resource Officers, school shootings, money, and public policy: www.tiktok.com/@shea_swauge...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Professional achievement unlocked: ✅ Conference speaker photo with a chicken cybersecurity.illinois.edu/2024-privacy...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Forget data or information literacy. What about scrub literacy? A whole generation of people today can't accurately identify a scrub, what he's also known as, or if they should want one
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Check out @yoyoel.com and @rc123.bsky.social at @futureofprivacy.bsky.social's most recent Ethics and Data in Research working group! We talked about: -Mis/Disinformation and the role of research -Platform regulation styles and history -The future of trust and safety www.youtube.com/watch?v=6799...
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Data Sharing & Ethics Working Group: Combating Misinformation and Disinformation in Research
The capacity to discern fact from fiction and truth from falsehood is more critical than ever, especially for researchers. Misinformation and disinformation ...
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Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
🚨 New Leg Update dropped from @futureofprivacy.bsky.social Ethics and Data in Research WG🚨 1. Ethics guidelines on Chinese research 2. RFI to Support a Federal Environmental Justice Science, Data, and Research Plan 3. Executive Order on AI All Leg Updates Here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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