Zerah Lamorena
@zerahlamorena.bsky.social
PhD-ing @UCLAPolisci | previously @YaleEconomics and @SBUEconomics + Business | interests in Philippines 🇵🇭 (and broader Southeast Asia) politics
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Breaking my silence: Coffee might be one of the worst beverages to ever exist.
Smells heavenly, tastes like hell.
Smells heavenly, tastes like hell.
February 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Breaking my silence: Coffee might be one of the worst beverages to ever exist.
Smells heavenly, tastes like hell.
Smells heavenly, tastes like hell.
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Thanks to the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, the Data.gov Archive is now available. This 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thanks to the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, the Data.gov Archive is now available. This 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
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if i text you this just know you’re cooked
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
if i text you this just know you’re cooked
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January 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Wham did not have to go so hard on “Last Christmas”
December 18, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Wham did not have to go so hard on “Last Christmas”
Gonna start using this method to retain the info from all the papers im reading 😭
I love my Gen Z employees so much lmao
One just told me about her study method, she said she turns it into gossip
Ex:
"Omg did you hear what this sociologist believes in? He's so canceled for that"
One just told me about her study method, she said she turns it into gossip
Ex:
"Omg did you hear what this sociologist believes in? He's so canceled for that"
December 14, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Gonna start using this method to retain the info from all the papers im reading 😭
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Reintroducing ourselves now that bsky is a thing: DSP aims to help answer questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics by providing high-quality, publicly available, cross-national data describing the intersection between politics and social media. 1/5
Digital Society Project
digitalsocietyproject.org
December 14, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Reintroducing ourselves now that bsky is a thing: DSP aims to help answer questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics by providing high-quality, publicly available, cross-national data describing the intersection between politics and social media. 1/5
Submitted my last project for the quarter!!! Can't believe I just finished my first quarter in a PhD program 😭 many more to go, but for now time to bake some cookies and catch up on some kdramas 😂
December 14, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Submitted my last project for the quarter!!! Can't believe I just finished my first quarter in a PhD program 😭 many more to go, but for now time to bake some cookies and catch up on some kdramas 😂
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HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!!
EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics.
Due Feb 1, 2025
www.egenpolisci.org
#gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics.
Due Feb 1, 2025
www.egenpolisci.org
#gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
EGEN
The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group
www.egenpolisci.org
December 12, 2024 at 9:16 PM
HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!!
EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics.
Due Feb 1, 2025
www.egenpolisci.org
#gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics.
Due Feb 1, 2025
www.egenpolisci.org
#gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
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A working paper from associate professor of business administration Mark Ma and colleagues found that prominent technology and finance companies who implemented return-to-office (RTO) mandates lost their most skilled and senior employees.
Return-to-office mandates are associated with an exodus of high performers, research finds
When S&P 500 companies discouraged remote working, skilled employees quit—leaving hard-to-fill vacancies for employers.
fortune.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM
A working paper from associate professor of business administration Mark Ma and colleagues found that prominent technology and finance companies who implemented return-to-office (RTO) mandates lost their most skilled and senior employees.
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So many remarkable numbers in this new chart from Pew Research, looking at the % of teens who use various platforms.
What numbers stand out most to you?
What numbers stand out most to you?
December 13, 2024 at 3:55 AM
So many remarkable numbers in this new chart from Pew Research, looking at the % of teens who use various platforms.
What numbers stand out most to you?
What numbers stand out most to you?
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Your Academic 2024 Wrapped is here:
- You downloaded 249 article PDFs onto your desktop, but only read 3 of them
- Your reviews were late by an average of 6 days
- You attended 48 meetings that should've been an email
- You wrote the word "lacuna" 11 times
- You should've been writing more
- You downloaded 249 article PDFs onto your desktop, but only read 3 of them
- Your reviews were late by an average of 6 days
- You attended 48 meetings that should've been an email
- You wrote the word "lacuna" 11 times
- You should've been writing more
December 11, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Your Academic 2024 Wrapped is here:
- You downloaded 249 article PDFs onto your desktop, but only read 3 of them
- Your reviews were late by an average of 6 days
- You attended 48 meetings that should've been an email
- You wrote the word "lacuna" 11 times
- You should've been writing more
- You downloaded 249 article PDFs onto your desktop, but only read 3 of them
- Your reviews were late by an average of 6 days
- You attended 48 meetings that should've been an email
- You wrote the word "lacuna" 11 times
- You should've been writing more
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Social media posts containing misinformation evoke more moral outrage than posts with trustworthy information, and that outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation, a new Science study finds.
📄: scim.ag/4f6WzRF
📄: scim.ag/4f6WzRF
Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online
We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...
scim.ag
December 9, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Social media posts containing misinformation evoke more moral outrage than posts with trustworthy information, and that outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation, a new Science study finds.
📄: scim.ag/4f6WzRF
📄: scim.ag/4f6WzRF
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🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09).
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
Conferences, 2025
docs.google.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:33 PM
🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09).
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
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Chinese state media is concerned by the exodus of X users to Bluesky. "State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on X — including by buying ads, deploying bots, & hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau." www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor
State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
www.semafor.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Chinese state media is concerned by the exodus of X users to Bluesky. "State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on X — including by buying ads, deploying bots, & hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau." www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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When academics regularly express their political opinions online, it under undercuts their credibility with the public.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
December 6, 2024 at 4:36 PM
When academics regularly express their political opinions online, it under undercuts their credibility with the public.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
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Dear friends: The ESOC (Empirical Studies of Conflict) is coming to Taipei next June! Renard and I are helping organize the conference this time around, and there will be “lots of” cool people (no spoilers!) attending it and presenting their newest research on conflict.
November 21, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Dear friends: The ESOC (Empirical Studies of Conflict) is coming to Taipei next June! Renard and I are helping organize the conference this time around, and there will be “lots of” cool people (no spoilers!) attending it and presenting their newest research on conflict.
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New paper in @science.org finds across 8 studies & multiple platforms, time periods, & definitions of misinformation that (a) misinfo evokes more outrage than trustworthy news & (b) people are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinfo without clicking on it
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 28, 2024 at 8:42 PM
New paper in @science.org finds across 8 studies & multiple platforms, time periods, & definitions of misinformation that (a) misinfo evokes more outrage than trustworthy news & (b) people are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinfo without clicking on it
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
November 23, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
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Highly recommend!
I had a Twitter list that I pointed people towards in my "breaking into civic tech guide" for a long time—finally updating and replacing with a link to Cyd's civic tech starter pack!
www.chriskuang.com/civictech
www.chriskuang.com/civictech
November 20, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Highly recommend!
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Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
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I held a class on doing research that I thought I would share. The slides contain writing tips, using ChatGPT, advice for non-native speakers, editing, and my biggest advice: Be hard on the writing, not on yourself. Self-worth is not at stake. claesbackman.github.io/Papers/Claes...
claesbackman.github.io
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 PM
I held a class on doing research that I thought I would share. The slides contain writing tips, using ChatGPT, advice for non-native speakers, editing, and my biggest advice: Be hard on the writing, not on yourself. Self-worth is not at stake. claesbackman.github.io/Papers/Claes...