lorenagbarberia.bsky.social
@lorenagbarberia.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo All views expressed are my own.
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Executive approval and accountability: the impact of global shocks in less developed democracies
This article offers an original theory which elucidates how voters in less developed settings evaluate macroeconomic performance and fiscal policies. We argue that voters face a critical challenge ...
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So excited to share our paper with
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...
Justiça para Marina, 5 anos.
Empresário que matou ciclista Marina Harkot vai preso
Justiça confirma condenação e manda prender empresário que atropelou ciclista Marina Harkot
José Maria da Costa Júnior foi sentenciado a 12 anos de prisão em regime fechado; cabe recurso
www1.folha.uol.com.br
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Justiça para Marina, 5 anos.
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🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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An analysis of scientific papers reveals a new threat. LLMs can rewrite studies using open data, creating redundant papers that pass plagiarism detection. This AI-driven approach risks flooding journals with low-quality, synthetic research. #AcademicSky
Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI
Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
An analysis of scientific papers reveals a new threat. LLMs can rewrite studies using open data, creating redundant papers that pass plagiarism detection. This AI-driven approach risks flooding journals with low-quality, synthetic research. #AcademicSky
Conversei com @luizacaires.bsky.social do Jornal da
@cienciausp.bsky.social sobre nosso artigo recentemente publicado em #Vaccine.
Para ler o artigo: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/mai...
@cienciausp.bsky.social sobre nosso artigo recentemente publicado em #Vaccine.
Para ler o artigo: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/mai...
Maioria dos pais brasileiros apoia que seus filhos sejam vacinados nas escolas
Nove em cada dez responsáveis por crianças em idade escolar no Brasil apoiam programas de vacinação na escola contra gripe, dengue e HPV, mostra pesquisa; contra a covid, número cai para oito em dez. ...
jornal.usp.br
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Conversei com @luizacaires.bsky.social do Jornal da
@cienciausp.bsky.social sobre nosso artigo recentemente publicado em #Vaccine.
Para ler o artigo: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/mai...
@cienciausp.bsky.social sobre nosso artigo recentemente publicado em #Vaccine.
Para ler o artigo: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/mai...
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Come spend the midnight hour with @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social. We have some great presentations from Africa and Asia, as we head into the second half of our 24 hour livestream to Save AIDS Research! saveaidsresearch.org.
September 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Come spend the midnight hour with @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social. We have some great presentations from Africa and Asia, as we head into the second half of our 24 hour livestream to Save AIDS Research! saveaidsresearch.org.
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Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🚨 LAST CHANCE!
EGAP PhD Lab closes applications TOMORROW
📍 GRADE, Lima
Apply now → buff.ly/5kOitOa
#EGAP2025 #DoctoralLab #PhD
EGAP PhD Lab closes applications TOMORROW
📍 GRADE, Lima
Apply now → buff.ly/5kOitOa
#EGAP2025 #DoctoralLab #PhD
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨 LAST CHANCE!
EGAP PhD Lab closes applications TOMORROW
📍 GRADE, Lima
Apply now → buff.ly/5kOitOa
#EGAP2025 #DoctoralLab #PhD
EGAP PhD Lab closes applications TOMORROW
📍 GRADE, Lima
Apply now → buff.ly/5kOitOa
#EGAP2025 #DoctoralLab #PhD
So excited to share our paper with
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...
Executive approval and accountability: the impact of global shocks in less developed democracies
This article offers an original theory which elucidates how voters in less developed settings evaluate macroeconomic performance and fiscal policies. We argue that voters face a critical challenge ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So excited to share our paper with
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...
Natália de Paula Moreira has just been published in the @Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, studying presidential approval dynamics in the context of exogenous shocks. #AcademicSky #polisky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZWHP...
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The mpox outbreak remains a global health emergency.
Complex challenges, limited vaccine access, and inadequate testing hinder mpox control—especially in Africa where resources are stretched thin.
Our latest Editorial highlights the need for urgent, coordinated action: tinyurl.com/rt4bpc4e
Complex challenges, limited vaccine access, and inadequate testing hinder mpox control—especially in Africa where resources are stretched thin.
Our latest Editorial highlights the need for urgent, coordinated action: tinyurl.com/rt4bpc4e
June 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The mpox outbreak remains a global health emergency.
Complex challenges, limited vaccine access, and inadequate testing hinder mpox control—especially in Africa where resources are stretched thin.
Our latest Editorial highlights the need for urgent, coordinated action: tinyurl.com/rt4bpc4e
Complex challenges, limited vaccine access, and inadequate testing hinder mpox control—especially in Africa where resources are stretched thin.
Our latest Editorial highlights the need for urgent, coordinated action: tinyurl.com/rt4bpc4e
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The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is now recruiting fellows for the Global Child Health (CGH) Fellowship training program!
The deadline to apply is June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Starting on or before July 2, 2026.
The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is now recruiting fellows for the Global Child Health (CGH) Fellowship training program!
The deadline to apply is June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Starting on or before July 2, 2026.
Our team at the Centre for Global Child Health is accepting applications for our fellowship program. This time we have broadened the scope of academic disciplines to include physics, mathematics and computer science applied to global maternal and child health. Applications due June 30, 2025.
C-GCH Fellowships and Student Opportunities | SickKids
SickKids Centre for Global Child Health offers a number of educational programs and training opportunities for students and fellows.
www.sickkids.ca
May 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Please share!
The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is now recruiting fellows for the Global Child Health (CGH) Fellowship training program!
The deadline to apply is June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Starting on or before July 2, 2026.
The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is now recruiting fellows for the Global Child Health (CGH) Fellowship training program!
The deadline to apply is June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Starting on or before July 2, 2026.
Importante escuchar este episodio sobre El Salvador del @elhilopodcast.bsky.social. Grave e preocupante.
#TenganDecencia
Eso fue lo que dijo Ruth López, jefa de la unidad anticorrupción de @cristosal.bsky.social cuando fue arrestada en El Salvador. Hoy, su frase es un grito colectivo contra las prácticas autoritarias de Bukele. 🎧 elhilo.audio/bukele
Eso fue lo que dijo Ruth López, jefa de la unidad anticorrupción de @cristosal.bsky.social cuando fue arrestada en El Salvador. Hoy, su frase es un grito colectivo contra las prácticas autoritarias de Bukele. 🎧 elhilo.audio/bukele
June 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Importante escuchar este episodio sobre El Salvador del @elhilopodcast.bsky.social. Grave e preocupante.
I am stunned to receive a peer review from a colleague using AI that was not caught by editors at a journal. Curious to know if others are experiencing similar violations of peer review conduct and how this is being addressed more systematically.
May 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I am stunned to receive a peer review from a colleague using AI that was not caught by editors at a journal. Curious to know if others are experiencing similar violations of peer review conduct and how this is being addressed more systematically.
Thoughtful piece by @emassard.bsky.social + her father on Brazil's avian flu emergency: theconversation.com/gripe-aviari...
Gripe aviária no Brasil: Uma política de Saúde Única não pode mais esperar!
Desconexão entre ministérios reforça a urgência de implementar uma estratégia de “Uma Só Saúde” (One Health), articulando Saúde, Agropecuária e Meio Ambiente, para evitar que surtos zoonóticos se tor...
theconversation.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Thoughtful piece by @emassard.bsky.social + her father on Brazil's avian flu emergency: theconversation.com/gripe-aviari...
Just out and for free download. With #nataliamoreira and #isabelseelander, we wrote a chapter on #jairbolsonaro's vaccine discourse and the politics behind it.
Congratulations to Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Katerina Hatzikidi and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/43Q4CjY #Brazil #Populism
The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil
Rather than looking back into Brazil’s authoritarian past, the Bolsonaro administration (2019–2022) provides an innovative case study through which to explore Brazil’s manifold and recurring expressio...
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May 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just out and for free download. With #nataliamoreira and #isabelseelander, we wrote a chapter on #jairbolsonaro's vaccine discourse and the politics behind it.
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The US helped ensure a world on the verge of controlling HIV as a public health threat. This could have cemented their legacy. Now, people may remember that the US pulled out.
Read @jasongale.bsky.social on the HIV miracle that wasn't because the US pulled the plug.
bit.ly/444ERwm
Read @jasongale.bsky.social on the HIV miracle that wasn't because the US pulled the plug.
bit.ly/444ERwm
A ‘Miracle’ HIV Drug May Not Reach the Women Who Need It Most
Lenacapavir could be a gamechanger in the fight against infection. But US funding cuts have thrown the rollout of the twice-yearly injection into doubt.
bit.ly
April 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The US helped ensure a world on the verge of controlling HIV as a public health threat. This could have cemented their legacy. Now, people may remember that the US pulled out.
Read @jasongale.bsky.social on the HIV miracle that wasn't because the US pulled the plug.
bit.ly/444ERwm
Read @jasongale.bsky.social on the HIV miracle that wasn't because the US pulled the plug.
bit.ly/444ERwm
No @senado.leg.br, o Senador Márcio Bittar apresenta uma ementa que "Proíbe as escolas de exigirem de crianças comprovante de vacina covid-19". Como parte do projeto de e-cidadania, ha como opinar sobre esta ementa. www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividad...
April 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
No @senado.leg.br, o Senador Márcio Bittar apresenta uma ementa que "Proíbe as escolas de exigirem de crianças comprovante de vacina covid-19". Como parte do projeto de e-cidadania, ha como opinar sobre esta ementa. www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividad...
Important piece by #NataliaPires on the right to health of individuals detained in US prisons. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/18/t...
The Constitutive Contradictions of Prison Health Care in the United States - Petrie-Flom Center
From forced labor on plantations, roads, and industrial plants to extracting blood, fines, and fees, incarcerated peoples’ bodies have been a known site of capitalist exploitation. Yet, they are also ...
petrieflom.law.harvard.edu
April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Important piece by #NataliaPires on the right to health of individuals detained in US prisons. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/18/t...
Esperamos vocês!
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Esperamos vocês!
Must read
Here is the update through Week 6, early because I am traveling. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/diary
Diary
I decided to keep a record of my thoughts as events transpire, a diary.
adamprzeworski.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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A network that included doctors, judges, and religious figures facilitated illegal adoptions in Chile. Years later, the state still refuses to recognize it as a crime against humanity. Will there be justice? Listen to the story in our latest episode. 🎧 elhilo.audio/adopcion-chile
Una red que incluía médicos, jueces y religiosos facilitó adopciones ilegales en Chile. Años después, el Estado sigue sin reconocerlo como un crimen de lesa humanidad. ¿Habrá justicia? Escucha la historia en nuestro episodio más reciente: elhilo.audio/adopcion-chile
March 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A network that included doctors, judges, and religious figures facilitated illegal adoptions in Chile. Years later, the state still refuses to recognize it as a crime against humanity. Will there be justice? Listen to the story in our latest episode. 🎧 elhilo.audio/adopcion-chile
Together with Kelly Senters Piazza and George Avelino Filho, we recently published a study, "The Cycle Continues: An Assessment of Democratic Transitions in Latin America with New Data and Indicators" in the Journal of Politics in Latin America. #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Together with Kelly Senters Piazza and George Avelino Filho, we recently published a study, "The Cycle Continues: An Assessment of Democratic Transitions in Latin America with New Data and Indicators" in the Journal of Politics in Latin America. #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Vera Paiva, de 'Ainda Estou Aqui': Luta não acabou
Nossa luta contra violência na ditadura não acabou, diz Vera Paiva, retratada em 'Ainda Estou Aqui'
Primogênita de Eunice e Rubens Paiva diz que 'não é fácil lidar com as memórias' diante da repercussão do filme e critica demora para retomada de comissão federal
www1.folha.uol.com.br
March 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Vera Paiva, de 'Ainda Estou Aqui': Luta não acabou
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Here a summary of what @mbarber.bsky.social flagged yday. Data from the report she shared and a link to the interactive viz public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Here a summary of what @mbarber.bsky.social flagged yday. Data from the report she shared and a link to the interactive viz public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
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MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis'
The John D
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February 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
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