Omar Wasow

@owasow

Transitioning from nerd to wonk. See: or Asst Prof, Princeton Dept of Politics. ’s partner in crime.

Princeton, NJ
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    8 Dec 2017

    While making her first film, folks encouraged not to aim too high. She had a different vision, though, and last night was selected for the Oscars documentary shortlist.

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  2. 23 hours ago

    Yesterday, I received the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching award. A student of Kelley’s said, “One measure of a life is the impact it’s had on the lives of others.” I’m very grateful to my colleagues & hope I’m able to give my students a fraction of what they’ve given me.

    Professor Omar Wasow was awarded the Department of Politics' Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching award. Congratulations, !
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  3. May 7

    “Year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer”

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    May 2

    Science tells us ME affects men & women, young & old, and people of every race & ethnicity, yet those who are diagnosed are overwhelming white. It's a problem of medical education and healthcare access, for which communities of color are paying the HIGHEST price

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    May 1

    How do I know so many made-up stories about how the Enigma code was cracked and didn't know until yesterday how interesting the real story is? A volunteer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park just casually blew my mind with a bit of the story. /1

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    Apr 24

    🤭🤭🤭🤭

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    May 3

    Hey folks: if isn’t on tour radar, maybe it should be. Seems there’s some pretty exciting data science happening across Africa.

    We are thrilled to be involved in running the 5th Data Science Africa, , workshop this year. Events will take place in Ethiopia & Ghana and we are preparing a fantastic lineup of speakers and teachers. Take a look:
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    May 2

    Important to note: Private prisons make $300 M-as-in-Madness Million in profits. That's their financial incentive. Public sector guards make $30 B-as-in-Breathtaking Billion in wages. That's THEIR financial incentive. The public sector has FAR more at stake in the status quo.

    Replying to @JohnFPfaff @cleansweep42
    As for prisons, make private for profit prisons illegal...the incentive to use more taxpayer $ to give to the wealthy owners will be gone and you'll also cut the incentive for longer prison terms....
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    May 1

    In honor of National Foster Care Month, and I decided to use a bit of our time to write about something important to us (and personal) rather than our research. If folks have questions, we are happy to answer them or send you to folks who can.

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  10. Retweeted
    Apr 30

    Some thoughts about what happened in Venezuela earlier. First, DISCLAIMER I speak only for myself and not my employer. I have no knowledge of what the USG is doing here. TLDR: Either this was a really crappy coup attempt or Guaidó is trying to do something else. (1)

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  11. Apr 27

    “Landscapes of tall buildings, concrete & traffic-clogged streets—are the most environmentally friendly places for human life on earth. Economist Ed Glaeser calculated CA’s core cities use ~1/4th less carbon per year than residents of surrounding suburbs.”

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  12. Apr 27

    “California needs 3.5 million more homes by 2025 — as much as the other 49 states combined.”

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  13. Apr 27

    “A study produced by Paul Barreira, director of Harvard’s University Health Service, found that ‘the prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms among economics Ph.D. students is comparable to the prevalence found in incarcerated populations.’”

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  14. Apr 23

    A good plot is worth a thousand tables.

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    Apr 21

    Interesting experiment on quadratic voting in the CO state House.

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    1 Apr 2018

    Irish abolitionist Richard D. Webb on the "kind of Christianity" in the United States that upheld slavery (1852)

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    Apr 19

    Interspecies crown shyness is just as mysterious as it is gorgeous. Decades after it was first considered, botanists still don't fully understand why adjacent tree stands don't interdigitate. Is it light sensing? Mechanical abrasion? Chemical signaling? All of the above?

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    Crown shyness, the phenomenon in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, is usually shown from below. This is what it looks like from above [source of the gif and full video: ]
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    Apr 20

    The last letter from my great-grandparents to my grandfather, before they were sent to die in the concentration camps, on April 20th, 1944, exactly 75 years ago today:

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    Apr 20

    Using administrative data from Rhode Island to measure the impact of early-life interventions for low birth weight newborns on later-life outcomes, from Eric Chyn, Samantha Gold, and

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    Apr 20

    This is the most incredible statistic about accessory unit production.

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    Apr 19

    🙌 From choosing charts ⇨ R examples and code… "From data to Viz" 📊

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