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Meng Ye
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https://yemeng-emma.github.io/ | Nonprofit Researcher, PhD Candidate in Public Policy at Georgia State University, lawyer enthusiastic about stats, Editorial Manager @ijpa2022.bsky.social
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andrew.heiss.phd
I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org
Geordi LaForge rejecting this code library(tidyverse) penguins |> mutate( nice = glue::glue( "{species} on {island} Island ({body_mass} g)" ) ) |> select(nice) #> nice #> 1 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3750 g) #> 2 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3800 g) #> 3 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3250 g) Geordi LaForge approving this code library(tidyverse) penguins |> mutate( nice = str_glue( "{species} on {island} Island ({body_mass} g)" ) ) |> select(nice) #> nice #> 1 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3750 g) #> 2 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3800 g) #> 3 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3250 g)
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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gsupmap.bsky.social
The AYSPS is excited to promote our doctoral students who are currently on the academic job market. Check out all their amazing research and hard work put in at Georgia State! 💙
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
The {sf} package continues to blow my mind with how easy it is to make maps with #rstats and ggplot (code for that map here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...)
Map showing points in Utah, North Carolina, Georgia, Jordan, Italy, and Egypt, with great circle paths plotted between them
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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flowingdata.com
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
Venn diagrams as jack-o-laterns showing trick/treat logicals: OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, and XNOR
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ijpa2022.bsky.social
📚 The IJPA Editorial Team had a great time at the ABFM Conference in Atlanta! 🎉 Grateful for the inspiring discussions and connections with colleagues across the public administration community. 🤝 #ABFM2025 #IJPA
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
mengye.bsky.social
Congratulations! The article has also been selected by the editors @ijpa2022.bsky.social to have free access until the end of October.
August 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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ijpa2022.bsky.social
🎉 Great news from Google Scholar Metrics 2025!
IJPA has climbed from #8 to #7 among all PA journals globally! 🔝📈Proud to see IJPA continue its leading role in the field.
See the full rankings here 👉 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
#PublicAdministration #ScholarMetrics
July 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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andrew.heiss.phd
I just discovered a new super easy way to constrain annotations to specific facets in {ggplot2} with at_panel() from @teunbrand.bsky.social's {ggh4x} teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/refere... #rstats #dataviz
A plot with an annotation in one facet A plot with an annotation in three facets library(tidyverse) library(palmerpenguins) penguins <- palmerpenguins::penguins |> drop_na(sex) ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = body_mass_g, color = species)) + geom_point() + guides(color = "none") + facet_wrap(vars(species)) + labs(title = "Labels in every facet :(") + annotate(geom = "label", x = I(0.5), y = I(0.25), label = "big penguins!") library(ggh4x) ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = body_mass_g, color = species)) + geom_point() + guides(color = "none") + facet_wrap(vars(species)) + labs(title = "Label in just one facet!") + at_panel( annotate(geom = "label", x = I(0.5), y = I(0.25), label = "big penguins!"), species == "Gentoo" )
July 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Newly published at NVSQ with @sch-ir.bsky.social and @marcdotson.com! A neat conjoint experiment (analyzed w/fancy multinomial Bayesian models) measuring the effect of anti-NGO crackdown on donor behavior!

Prepreint+code: www.andrewheiss.com/research/art...
Official version: doi.org/10.1177/0899...
Navigating Hostility: The Effect of Nonprofit Transparency and Accountability on Donor Preferences in the Face of Shrinking Civic Space Donors unhappy when states restrict NGOs— ’cept when transparent. Suparna Chaudhry, Marc Dotson, and Andrew Heiss, “Navigating Hostility: The Effect of Nonprofit Transparency and Accountability on Donor Preferences in the Face of Shrinking Civic Space,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2025), doi: 10.1177/08997640251348654 Navigating Hostility: The Effect of Nonprofit Transparency and Accountability on Donor Preferences in the Face of Shrinking Civic Space Suparna Chaudhry, Marc Dotson, and Andrew Heiss Abstract Governments across the world have increasingly used laws to restrict the work of nonprofits, which has led to a reduction in public or official foreign aid directed towards these groups. Many international nonprofits, in response, have turned to individual donors to offset the loss of traditional funding. What are individual donors’ preferences regarding donating to legally besieged nonprofits abroad? We conducted a conjoint experiment on a nationally representative sample of likely donors in the US and found that learning about host government criticism and legal restrictions on nonprofits decreases individuals’ preferences to donate to them. However, organizational features such as financial transparency and accountability can protect against this dampening effect. Our results have important implications both for understanding private international philanthropy and how nonprofits can better frame their fundraising appeals at a time when they are facing restrictive civic spaces and hostile governments abroad. Estimated marginal means and average marginal component effects for conjoint experiment results Estimated marginal means and average marginal component effects for the interaction between transparency and crackdown
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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aompnp.bsky.social
The PNP Division is pleased to announce the election results and 2025-2026 Executive Committee members.

Congratulations to all and thank you to each candidate who ran for a position and thanks to everyone for voting!

(@marlenewalk.bsky.social, @professajay.bsky.social , @stevebholt.bsky.social)
2025-26 PNP Division Election Results Division Program Chair: **Emily Nwakpuda**, University of Texas, Arlington Fundraising Chair: **Dan Heist**, Brigham Young University Awards Chair: **Marlene Walk**, University of Freiburg Chair, Best Article Award Committee: **Jason Coupet**, Georgia State University Chair, Best Book Award Committee: **Stephen B. Holt**, University at Albany, SUNY 2025-26 PNP Division Election Results Chair, Keith G. Provan Award Committee: **Donna Sedgwick**, Virginia Tech Chair, Best Dissertation Award Committee: **Alexander Kroll**, Florida International University Chair, Best International Conference Paper Award Committee: **Rebecca Tekula**, Pace University Membership Committee: **Nicola Capolupo**, Università San Raffaele di Roma
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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ijpa2022.bsky.social
🎉 So glad we could all come together at IJPA’s Happy Hours for Asian Stories at #PMRC2025!
Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by — great conversations, new ideas, and warm connections.
@mengye.bsky.social @sethjmeyer.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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ijpa2022.bsky.social
🎉 Join IJPA’s Happy Hours for Asian Stories at #PMRC2025!

🗓️ June 26, 15:30–17:00
📍 Room 204, Building 57, SNU

How can we bring Asian voices to the global stage? 🌏
Scan the code & sign up now!

@pmra-1991.bsky.social @drspark0108.bsky.social @mengye.bsky.social @sethjmeyer.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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jocelynl.bsky.social
This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
June 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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billresh.bsky.social
Some personal/professional news...

news.gsu.edu/2025/04/25/a...
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Names William G. Resh Department Chair
William G. Resh will bring the Civic Leadership Education and Research (CLEAR) Initiative, integrating experiential learning, student research and community-engaged research, with him to Georgia State...
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April 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
all this work just to get add some pretentious/fun little quotes
Screenshot of a draft PDF titled "Clarifying Correlation and Causation: A Guide to Modern Quantitative Causal Inference in Nonprofit Studies" with these two epigraphs: Scientia et potentia humana in idem coincidunt, quia ignoratio causae destituit effectum. *(Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.)* —Francis Bacon, *Novum Organum*, part I, aphorism III Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. —Fyodor Dostoevsky, *The Idiot*, part IV, chapter 2
April 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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ijpa2022.bsky.social
🎥 Don’t miss the video abstract by IJPA Emerging Scholar Award winner @anadimand.bsky.social !
She unpacks key insights from her article “Understanding the Impact of Collaborative Governance on Sustainability”. 🌱🏛️
Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #IJPA #PublicAdmin #Sustainability
April 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
mengye.bsky.social
2025 Andrew Young School Honors Day
April 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
yessss native penguins dataset in #rstats 4.5

ALSO the ability to load single functions from packages!
# Namespaces! ## R 4.4 and earlier # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ### Handle it manually library(MASS) # load MASS first so that dplyr::select() takes over MASS::select() library(dplyr) model <- polr(...) ### Use {conflicted} library(dplyr) library(MASS) conflicted::conflicts_prefer(dplyr::select) model <- polr(...) ## R 4.5+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- library(dplyr) use("MASS", c("polr")) model <- polr(...)
April 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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vincentab.bsky.social
📚😅🎉

Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData
Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python
April 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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jaclynpiatak.bsky.social
Thanks so much for having me on the Fundraising School's First Day Podcast!! (youtu.be/x8zfph9fVZI?...)

Great to talk about my book with @sowa75.bsky.social - Volunteer Management: A Strategic Approach
www.routledge.com/Volunteer-Ma...

#Volunteer #VolunteerSupport #VolunteerManagement
Volunteers and Fundraising
YouTube video by The Fund Raising School
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April 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
we've got a stew going
Scatterplot of 500,000 points, with discontinuities at 200,000 in revenue and 500,000 in assets, with 5 different discontinuities to look at
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM