Tom Pepinsky

@TomPepinsky

I teach comparative politics, political economy, and SE Asian politics . Director of , Fellow at

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  1. 7 hours ago

    Why is Interstate Love Song such a good song? It is not classic pop song form at all, yet it is the most poppy STP song off of the first two albums

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  2. 13 hours ago

    Big caveat is that we don't know if the cases (still largely among college students) are leading to hospitalizations back at home rather than in Ithaca, so they can't show up in these data. But I feel like that would be news, and I haven't heard it. So, cautious optimism. 3/3

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  3. 13 hours ago

    And exploratory multivariate time series analysis tells us that lagged hospitalizations are much better predictors of current hospitalizations than, say, lagged cases (with the caveat that time series with unit roots are hard to conclude anything about) 2/3

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  4. 13 hours ago

    The divergence between active cases and hospitalizations in Tompkins County, NY is very reassuring 1/3

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  5. 17 hours ago

    Voltron also had advanced cat skills: fetching little balls of paper, torturing mice at 3am, and mashing his forehead into your hand as you poured his food into his bowl to make sure you spilled some on the floor. As they say, ginger cats need the most attention

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  6. 17 hours ago

    My own Jorts was named Voltron (2002-17). Last pick of his litter of 6, born under a dumpster, with time he learned all the basic cat skills: eating crunchy beetles, drinking from leaky faucets, and meowing at the radiator

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  7. Dec 16

    Don't give up on Myanmar MUST READ: an outstanding and urgent new essay by visiting scholar just out at . The world needs to know just how close Myanmar is to open civil war.

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  8. Dec 15

    Here's our Mad Men moment

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  9. Dec 15

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  10. Dec 15

    If not everyone has to follow it, is it really a mandate?

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  11. Dec 15

    Remember when that asshole Kushner was in charge

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  12. Dec 15

    Federalism. Cause of -- and solution to -- all of America's problems

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  13. Dec 15

    LOL

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  14. Dec 15

    Chapter 3 oughta come with a got-damn trigger warning

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  15. Dec 15

    The editor will decide if "caps locked" needs to be hyphenated

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  16. Dec 15

    Lipset and Rokkan come to America

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  17. Dec 15

    A teaser thread for (forthcoming 2022 from ). These are my favorite turns of phrase from my coauthors , , and me. 1/n

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  18. Dec 14

    Félicitations, de vos amis à et SEAREG!

    I am absolutely thrilled, humbled, and honored to announce that I will be joining the Department of Political Science at Laval University as an assistant professor in January 2022. I couldn't be happier to work with such talented and welcoming colleagues and students.
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  19. Dec 14

    COVID-19 in Tompkins County, NY

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    Dec 14

    Once supply increased and the bottleneck of demand cleared, politics tells the story of vaccination

    Here is a hell of a graph: the daily correlation between Trump's two-party vote share in 2020 and total vaccinations administered per 100 people, January - December 2021.
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