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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But what will happen to my Zotero collection when I pass ?

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I had reason to look at this report on income inequality from Bank of Canada researchers. www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u...

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@tammyschirle.bsky.social You might be interested in this, not sure!

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I delved into the guts of estimating gini coefficients from aggregated income data so that you don't have to!!! Reproducible code, explanations and visualizations!!!! sjkiss.github.io/posts/2026-0...

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Calculating Gini Coefficients From Binned Income Data – Simon Kiss

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This was really fun to dive into. The @ccpa published a report this year claiming a supply shortage could not explain the home affordability crisis. A close read suggests there is very much a shortage of family-appropriate housing.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I am very excited about these datasets that @rafaelgottardo.bsky.social and I have produce for the Consortium on Electoral Democracy. We assigned Canadian National Occupational Classification codes to each respondent in the 2019 and 2021 datasets. 1.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

@plagasse.bsky.social Is there any weirdness to expect with the process of supply in this Parliament given that the 7 NDP members vote in the full chamber but not on committees? My read is that the 7 NDP members will be decisive for getting the budget through, but they are not on committees.

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The Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy @lispop.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We break down the latest Trump approval numbers compared to other contemporary presidents from @gelliottmorris.com in the context of the 2026 midterm elections. lispop.ca/nexus/trump-... In sum, we find that this is exceptionally informative and gives us pause to evaluate the current situation. /1

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Trump In the Midterm Elections: Public Opinion as a Thermostat – LISPOP

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

From our study of Canadian voters in 2025. Probability of owning a home is noticeably lower than in a similar study in 1984. Not surprising, but always interesting. There will be more to come on this.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's a little bit tough to eyeball, but it sure seems like the Trudeau government *really* liked non-permanent residents. www.banqueducanada.ca/wp-content/u...

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

In 2021, Laurentian University in Sudbury declared bankruptcy; an unprecedented event for a public university in Canada. It came after years provincial post-secondary funding (by Liberal and PC governments) and university mismanagement. #onpoli @alexusherhesa.bsky.social 1.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"Of course there's an R package to make academic posters in Markdown". *chuckles, shakes head* #rstats github.com/brentthorne/...

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Use RMarkdown to generate PDF Conference Posters via HTML - brentthorne/posterdown

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Serious political science question here: Has support for free trade now become a left-coded position? Less than serious question: Is the dream of the 90s still alive in Portland?

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Me reading my own code after 2 months:

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Because you were wondering, @lispop.bsky.social has ginned up the closest electoral districts in 2018 and 2022 so you don't have to! These might be the ridings to watch on Thursday!! lispop.ca/nexus/swing-...

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Swing Ridings In Ontario – LISPOP

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The Ontario election is days away. Here's our list of the closest ridings in the 2018 and 2022 provincial elections. These might be some ridings to watch!

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Swing Ridings In Ontario – LISPOP

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Cutting Jordan and Saudi Arabia loose. What could go wrong?

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Pro-parenting tip for all you 40-something Canadian guys out there. The Odds’ Eat My Brain is a great entryway to 90s Cancon..

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am very excited to announce @lispop.bsky.social forum on housing and political conflict across generations in Canada, Thursday February 20th at Wilfrid Laurier University

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 30/12/2024

Have anonymous colleagues destroy my work and confidence

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Is there a written account of Jean's decision-making and advice provided to her somewhere? I recall hearing that someone like Prof. Hogg or Russell advised her.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Shout it from the goddamn rooftops.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I will echo this sentiment. And note also this amazing paper econreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/the-long-dec... which makes two points worth noting.

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The Long Decline of Global Interest Rates

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this but just use vtable::sumtable() for your descriptive statistics combining continuous and categorical variables. Psych::describe() doesn't do categorical variables. tbl_summary() looks great but it doesn't produce latex output. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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sumtable: Summary Statistics

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Is it possible to create a beamer presentation with notes in Quarto? Thank you. #rstats #quarto

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

why get exercise when you can fight with Github large file storage. amirite? Or amirite? #rstats

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

My wife was right, of course, *never* update your software. #rstats

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Nope. This (teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/index....) is a lovely package by (I think) @teunbrand.bsky.social that accomplishes that nicely! Thank you! I was able to do this all in one chain of commands. #rstats

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Pretty sure I have to resort to cowplot this time. Unless someone can tell me how to modify the x-axis labels only in the plot in the bottom right corner of a facetted 2x2 small multiple

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Public administration as mafia organization. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

I am diving into a paper after three collaborators have submitted their comments. Wish me luck.

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

I don't know who needs to know this but basically never use data %>% rowwise() %>% mutate(row_sum=sum(c_across(x:y)) in #rstats. *Way* too slow. data%>% mutate(row_sum=rowSums(across(x:y))) is a billion times better. Works for rowMeans as well. @andrew.heiss.phd

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I live in Waterloo literally across the street from Kitchener. I am still trying to figure out how a deindustrialized city like Kitchener is a Green bastion. #onpoli

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Simon Kiss @sjkiss.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Is there a blog post or site that compares the pros and cons of all the different ways of doing basic descriptive statistics in #rstats? Is summarytools better than DescTools? Does one play nicer with tidyverse syntax or markdown, etc. #rstats @ryancbriggs.net @andrew.heiss.phd

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