Tanushree Rao
@tanushree.bsky.social
PhDing at Stockholm University • aid, climate disasters, inequality, #rstats, critical and blended methodologies • parent to small beings • meme connoisseur • 🇸🇪 based, 🇮🇳 born, 🐨🦘 raised, formerly in 🇹🇱
Emerging from early childhood parenting mode to re-enter the conference circuit next year. First stops (hopefully), #EPSS2026 and #ECPG26. Offering childcare is an optimal way to include parents and ease the burden of competing priorities. Any plans, @epssnet.bsky.social and @ecprgender.bsky.social?
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Emerging from early childhood parenting mode to re-enter the conference circuit next year. First stops (hopefully), #EPSS2026 and #ECPG26. Offering childcare is an optimal way to include parents and ease the burden of competing priorities. Any plans, @epssnet.bsky.social and @ecprgender.bsky.social?
Lovely and cosy PhD mini-conference on gender research with @killedbyproxy.bsky.social and more yesterday. Gained so much from hearing from people with completely different projects from queer culture to AI ethics, with methods from regression to ethnography, and still finding common threads.
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lovely and cosy PhD mini-conference on gender research with @killedbyproxy.bsky.social and more yesterday. Gained so much from hearing from people with completely different projects from queer culture to AI ethics, with methods from regression to ethnography, and still finding common threads.
Real-life implications of aid cuts by a "pr0-life" administration: maternal and infant deaths due to insufficient obstetric care www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen
While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were among...
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Real-life implications of aid cuts by a "pr0-life" administration: maternal and infant deaths due to insufficient obstetric care www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I need to re-establish a network here since I no longer use That Other Platform so here's a picture of my dog wearing a headband, hope it helps, thanks
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I need to re-establish a network here since I no longer use That Other Platform so here's a picture of my dog wearing a headband, hope it helps, thanks
Hey @isanet.bsky.social this is probably on the minds of many prospective international #ISA2026 attendees, including myself—especially since we work in a field that's designed to be critical of governance structures. Any plans to reconsider the conference location? www.science.org/content/arti...
International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance
Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Hey @isanet.bsky.social this is probably on the minds of many prospective international #ISA2026 attendees, including myself—especially since we work in a field that's designed to be critical of governance structures. Any plans to reconsider the conference location? www.science.org/content/arti...
"The people most vulnerable in our society in terms of health and public safety are now even further at risk" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’
US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"The people most vulnerable in our society in terms of health and public safety are now even further at risk" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Timely post in the wake of the latest efforts to claim P@lest*nian territory
Another blog post! Lots of map data sources like Natural Earth follow a de facto control rule that can conflict with de jure boundaries. Here's how to use #rstats and {sf} and #observablejs to move Crimea to Ukraine. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Timely post in the wake of the latest efforts to claim P@lest*nian territory
I asked Gemini to help me with R code. It gave me code that returned an error. It 'fixed' it then that returned a different error. It 'fixed' it then that returned the first error again. An infinite loop of errors, each one corrected with the deepest apologies.
Eventually, it seems, I broke Gemini.
Eventually, it seems, I broke Gemini.
February 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I asked Gemini to help me with R code. It gave me code that returned an error. It 'fixed' it then that returned a different error. It 'fixed' it then that returned the first error again. An infinite loop of errors, each one corrected with the deepest apologies.
Eventually, it seems, I broke Gemini.
Eventually, it seems, I broke Gemini.
The hardest part of parenting in your 30s is putting your sleeping child down gently and attempting to sneak away while avoiding the sonic boom caused by your knees cracking
February 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The hardest part of parenting in your 30s is putting your sleeping child down gently and attempting to sneak away while avoiding the sonic boom caused by your knees cracking
Reposted by Tanushree Rao
One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.
The actual number is less than 1%.
Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.
The actual number is less than 1%.
Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.
February 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.
The actual number is less than 1%.
Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.
The actual number is less than 1%.
Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.
An excellent piece by Priya Vijaykumar Poojary in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on what it'll take to achieve a true #globalIR. The title got me ready to argue, but the message is clear: we need to move beyond cultural essentialism. theloop.ecpr.eu/potential-pi... #poliscisky #ecpr #academicsky
Potential pitfalls of a global international relations
In 2018, the distinguished scholar Amitav Acharya proposed a 'global international relations' to challenge Western dominance in the discipline. Since then, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, and Anatolian sch...
theloop.ecpr.eu
January 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
An excellent piece by Priya Vijaykumar Poojary in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on what it'll take to achieve a true #globalIR. The title got me ready to argue, but the message is clear: we need to move beyond cultural essentialism. theloop.ecpr.eu/potential-pi... #poliscisky #ecpr #academicsky
Reposted by Tanushree Rao
Big social science news!
The International Studies Association pulls its X presence, moves to Bluesky and will monitor meta social media to decide whether to pull out from there too.
@isanet.bsky.social
The International Studies Association pulls its X presence, moves to Bluesky and will monitor meta social media to decide whether to pull out from there too.
@isanet.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Big social science news!
The International Studies Association pulls its X presence, moves to Bluesky and will monitor meta social media to decide whether to pull out from there too.
@isanet.bsky.social
The International Studies Association pulls its X presence, moves to Bluesky and will monitor meta social media to decide whether to pull out from there too.
@isanet.bsky.social
Haven't been here much since the app formerly known as Twitter blew up. Anyone still around? 👋🏾 What's the vibe?
July 25, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Haven't been here much since the app formerly known as Twitter blew up. Anyone still around? 👋🏾 What's the vibe?