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Tanushree Rao 
@tanushrao
PhDing • aid, displacement, emergencies, food security • #rstats + map nerd • moving to mastodon, find me at trao@sciences.social
Joined July 2014
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Departments don't only need to teach qualitative methods. They need to also teach non-positivist logics. Canton explains why.
(tl;dr for political scientists: if your research methods course centers KKV, you're marginalizing an enormous chunk of the field.)
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The constant pressure for “representativeness,” “generalizability,” “comparison groups,” and “sample size” are irrelevant for a great deal of qualitative work.
Even many senior scholars seem to misunderstand this.
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Name a fictional character who would pay for Twitter Blue.
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Name a fictional character who would pay for twitter blue. twitter.com/AKMcKeever/sta…
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People have a hard time defining woke without accidentally saying they want to be able to hate minorities and not face any consequences.
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"Research on borders around the world finds that enhancing borders does not stop movement, it funnels people into more dangerous journeys, increasing the chance of death."
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I find the language of 'crises to watch this week' so unsettling. The spectacle of conflict is really something.
"My country only emits 1% of global emissions. What it does makes no difference".
It's a common claim.
But add up the emissions of countries that emit less than 2% each (a 'negligible amount') – they emit more than China.
Imagine if they all decided to do nothing.
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African and Asian students who were studying in Ukraine are being asked to return at great risk to their safety and rights - petition to the universities:
Whenever I say that I’m not a fan of the term ‘ally’ someone invariably asks what term I prefer instead… not everything needs a label, just don’t be racist.
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New article by Johan Brosché (Co-authors Desirée Nilsson & Ralph Sundberg) on Conceptualizing Civil War Complexity is out now in Security Studies: doi.org/10.1080/096364
#securitystudies #internationalrelations
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How’s everyone’s Twitter love/loathe metre lately? I haven’t regretted deleting the app, but I am missing the interaction and networks with people who do cool research.
Countries whose National Day celebrates independence from Britain:
USA, India, Sri Lanka, Malta, Myanmar, Pakistan, Tanzania, Malaysia, Bahamas, Iraq, Barbados, Nigeria, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Fiji, Ghana and *dozens more*
Countries who celebrate British settlement:
Australia
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Lack of social sciences and humanities in climate knowledge due to the domination of natural sciences, including modelling, has resulted in science that has not been implemented. Bypassing detail and contextual knowledge in the search for reductionist, simple messages...
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Back for a moment after deleting the Twitter app in November and enjoying some time away, what'd I miss?
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Guilty of sharing the previous thread. Please read this one. Activists are certainly at risk of execution and it's horrifying, but accurate reporting matters. ohchr.org/en/press-relea
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The widely shared claim that the Iranian regime has committed to executing 15,000 detained protesters is not true. Please stop sharing it. The Iranian regime is horrific, brutal and ruthless as it actually is. There's no need to make up stories.
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Academic twitter, are you on Mastodon? Looking at you critical IR / pol sci / peace & conflict people + quant and geospatial soc sci folks
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Someone paid for Twitter verification and used it to pretend they were a pharma company. They tweeted that insulin was now free and that company's stock tanked. Delicious breakfast this morning ☕
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Calling my non-Saami followers, non-Finnish followers, #NativeTwitter, any and all journalists, anyone watching.
Prime minister has, in spite of the pleads from the indigenous Saami people, not yet brought the Saami Parliament Act to parliament.
Please help us. 🧵
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“We were the ones whose blood, sweat and tears financed the industrial revolution.Are we now to face double jeopardy by having to pay the cost as a result of those greenhouse gases from the industrial revolution?”
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"the Arctic is now shifting towards a state not seen in 3 million years" but big emitters need their extra pocket money 🙃
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I (regrettably) read through the entire article and what an incredible example of how in elite academic research you can pick and choose data to suit your unbased narrative and still make it past ethics and to publication
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THREAD. Two Harvard professors published an academic article calling for 500,000 more armed cops, who they say will arrest 7.8 million more people per year. The article reveals alarming flaws in elite academia at a time of rising fascism. This is one of my most important posts.
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Some stranger gifted me this message on my way home. So I’ll accept his gift and use it to talk a little about anti-Saami hatred in Finland, this nordic human rights paradise.
T/W: violence, sexual violence, death, racism
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Morning with baby, afternoon seminar at and a book delivery make for a nice lil Tuesday 🤩 I can't remember who recommended the migration studies book but it was one of you, thanks Twitterverse!
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"Sweden faces hardly any backlash from its backward-looking biodiversity policies. Its administrative culture of consensus does not value dissent and the country historically benefits from its reputation as a moral superpower."
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Blackfullas will always be in the “Wrong place at the wrong time” in this racist country. #justiceforcassiusturvey
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A short 🧵on the UNFCCC's synthesis report.
Or: why global climate action is **not enough** but also **not nothing**.
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There is no good reason why we should accept fossil fuel sponsorship in sports
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This is like that time #swedengate went viral and the state psychological defence agency literally conducted an investigation to check if it were a foreign influence operation rather than assume people might have something negative to say about Sweden
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Asian-American woman makes a thread about racism in Sweden. Instead of acknowledging that yes, there's racism in Sweden, Swedes are suggesting she's hired by the Chinese government to make Sweden look bad 
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After 35 years the Swedish Ministry of Environment is closed down by the new government. It is a clear signal that environmental policies are being de-prioritized.
#climateemergency
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Sweden having no Ministry for Environment for the first time in 35 years has major 2022 energy
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“Special young offenders prisons” is the most chilling phrase so far in my read through of the new statement of government policy in Sweden
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i don’t think young ppl realize just how hard it is for millennials of a certain age to refrain from posting song lyrics as cryptic emotional status updates
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The West is still trying to understand #iran ‘s Feminist Revolution happening in real time because it is confined by colonial paradigm of what feminism is—yet in Iran Kurdish & Iranian women are showing the world what feminism is. A thread 🧵
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Why are billionaires
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Other than the usual warm gear, clear glasses/goggles, winter tyres etc, this is my top tip
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Replying to @curious_founder
A handlebar rear mirror is my best thing. It gets difficult to look to the side and over your shoulder when you're wearing a large winter jacket hood.
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