Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld

2026 NBA Trade Deadline Hot Takes It’s the second most exciting time of the NBA season, the trade deadline. While I hate how much time podcasts spend discussing hypothetical trades – just analyze basketball – I al…

Basically a rant about Harden: zacharyst.com/2026/02/05/2...

‘There are rivers of blood’: The true horror of Iran’s protest massacres Doctors tell of overflowing morgues and mass gunshot wounds as regime’s crackdown intensifies

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Stop Co-fermenting Coffee In the last year, my street finally had a third wave coffee shop open. They serve very high quality roasts. I love having them down the street. One day, I was short on beans, so I dropped in. The o…

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"No wine buyer wants to taste any flavor not from the grape. Yet somehow the same desecration is performed to world-class coffee, and we are supposed to accept it. I do not."

YouTube video by Tube Cody Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)

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MS 1717 - The Schoyen Collection MS in archaic Sumerian on clay, Uruk, Sumer, 31st c. BC, 1 tablet, 6,8x7,2x1,9 cm, 1 compartment of text in an expert pictographic script Uruk III.

The earliest known documentation of industrial production is for beer 😆

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Job Announcement: Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites inquiries, nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs (UCLA Luskin). One of UCLA’s 12…

My school is hiring a new Dean. Share the news and apply if you are a good fit: evcp.ucla.edu/executive-se...

Thank you!

Accelerating Home Building Code Research with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) By Kai Maurin-Jones

Does anyone have access to this article and can get it for me? medium.com/@kmaurinjone...

Los Angeles Shows That the Private Sector Can Develop Affordable Housing Survey data from Los Angeles also show that a majority of residents support new building in their neighborhoods

Los Angeles' ED 1 has led to more approved middle-class housing than the 10 years before it combined. A majority of Angelenos in a super majority of Council districts support it. Not shown due to space: neighborhoods that opposed it are those least impacted. www.briefingbook.info/p/los-angele...

Many thanks to my much more popular buddy for sharing this work. Whoulda thunk that a city of renters paying too much for rundown effluence from the 1920-70s would want more housing?

Really happy to see this paper in print. It address an important topic in a way that one could not do with experiments, surveys, or case studies. Even better, the coauthor is a recently graduate undergraduate.

57% support apartments in their own neighborhoods, and a majority of respondents in 12 council districts do. Angelenos want more housing now and everywhere. It is time for our city's policy to reflect this change, and it is time for us to let our representatives know that NIMBYs are the minority.

A Large Majority of Angelenos Want More Apartments — Even on Single-Family Streets This brief aims to shed light on the preferences of L.A. residents regarding building affordable multifamily housing. Mayor Bass has constantly scaled down ED1 due to 'pushback' but has yet to take a ...

In a new report just published with the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Studies, I show that 65% of Angelenos support apartment construction on single-family home streets, and a majority of respondents do in every single council district save one.

Report: www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...

Job Description: The Department of Justice, Law & Criminology in the School of Public Affairs at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position beginning in Academic Year 2026-2027. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor. For this position, the department is seeking a scholar with substantive expertise in political violence and terrorism. The search is open regarding specialty, but the Department is especially interested in a scholar whose research and teaching interests include terrorism, political violence, radicalization, extremism, or cybersecurity.

We're hiring!

The @au-spa.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor specializing in political violence and terrorism.

Deadline: September 22nd.

Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

See below for the job ad and application.

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Excited and honored to be part of the great team receiving recognition for this paper.

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS!

Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: ‘He can do anything to anyone’ Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan

Good for them: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Japan’s Yoroi Reactor Ushers In a New Era of Micro-Nuclear Power <p>Key Takeaways: Japan has quietly taken a radical step in nuclear energy innovation with the deployment of the Yoroi Reactor — a compact, self-contained nuclear power unit designed to operate autono...

Very cool: blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-te...

The paper demonstrates applications to digital censorship, event detection, and national elections. The data are available here: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/.... Download, explore, and enjoy!

The paper analyzes 4 datasets of metadata created from my corpus of 10 yrs. of geolocated tweets. See new user registrations since Mar. '06; # of users, tweets, and tweets by language starting in Sept. '13; & images shared + still available. Covers 246 countries & territories, 81 languages.

Curious about how Twitter's popularity has changed over time and across countries? Wish you had your own data with which to study Twitter? Then download my new paper, "THIS Was Twitter: Introducing the Twitter History and Image Sharing v1.0 Datasets" and its data: journalqd.org/article/view....

May 13th 8 p.m. PST, come to an online info session to learn more. Registration here: ucla.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

In grad. school we are often shown a figure that represents research. The center is a big circle, it is surrounded by smaller and smaller rings, and thenin the top right is a small bump representing your research. I don't know what to google to find it. Any help?

Data Analytics in Public Affairs | UCLA Extension Learn how to analyze, visualize and communicate data insights to internal and external stakeholders to assist in public policy decision-making.

If you are a manager who w/ analytics staff, are on an analytics team, or looking to transition into the space, this certificate is for you.

Info sessions on Thursday April 24 12-1:30 p.m. PST and Tuesday May 13 8-9:30 p.m. PST. Registration required.

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Data Analytics in Public Affairs | UCLA Extension Learn how to analyze, visualize and communicate data insights to internal and external stakeholders to assist in public policy decision-making.

UCLA Luskin and UCLA Extension are happy to announce the Data Analytics in Public Affairs certificate! If you want to learn about data and policy, the ethics of large datasets for policy design and evaluation, visualization, or improve your programming, this certificate is for you.

We have great articles by @gregoryeady.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, @devincaughey.bsky.social, @stefan-scholz.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social, @small-schulz.bsky.social, @pedro-rodriguez.bsky.social, @carlislerainey.bsky.social, and more!

On a $10k grant w/ a community partner, I have to pay $750 for them to purchase UCLA insurance for 1 meeting held on campus. Almost 10% of my grant for 4 people to sit in a conference room. What a joke.

In Defense of Government Services Since, approximately, the Articles of Confederation, Americans love to bemoan government services, especially federal ones. They are slow, inefficient, bloated, blahblahblah. Well, I have had plent…

In defense of government services: zacharyst.com/2025/03/05/i...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

A bit late to this but worth knowing about: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

I have a student interested in 1993-2000, an election to coup to after coup time.