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Welp thats on me for waiting until the last minute. The mirasmart page for #PAA2026 is down, it’s 3am and I have an 18h trip tomorrow (today?) idk anymore 😢

The Rio I’m from is not for the weak. Helicopters, gunshots every night, military operations nearby. Meanwhile there’s people laughing, going about their day to day, celebrating being alive.

Incredibly excited to be presenting my work about Chicago, at Chicago on the "Urban Sociology and the Legacy of Chicago" session (it doesn't get more meta than that lol)
Stop by at 4pm to hear me talk about The contextual Foundations of Neighborhood Trust #ASA2025

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

I’m so exhausted of scary times

There's an incredible irony in filling out my IRB protocol while watching The Rehearsal 🫠

I just finished everything I had on my to-do list for today (and a few bonus tasks), and all I can feel is that "I clearly didn't have enough things on my list for the day" 🫠😭

This seems like a good time to remind people that the Stanford Prison Experiment was based on fraudulent data. The "guards" were cruel to the prisoners because Zimbardo told them what he wanted to find with his research, and because they *wanted* to help him prove his point.

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

So excited for #PAA2025! It's very wholesome that my first poster (ever) is on an idea I wrote about in my grad school app 🥹🥹
Stop by Saturday morning to chat about #neighborhoods, #trust and #networks ✌️

Message from Cornell's leadership 12 hours after news of $1B in federal grants frozen. "The affected grants include research into new materials for jet engines, propulsion systems, large-scale information networks, robotics, superconductors, and space and satellite communications, as well as cancer research – work of significance for our national defense, the competitiveness of our economy, and the health of our citizens."

In attacking universities, Trump is actively harming American national interests.

Here's a taste of what now-frozen Dept of Defense grants to Cornell supported. Note how much of this research is in line w/GOP's priorities, historically.

Also frozen: grants from Depts of Ag, HHS (NIH), Ed, etc.

Statisticians that help desperate graduate students have a reserved spot in heaven.

The microplastics in my body have unionized and formed a sentient credit card to further throw me into debt

I am EXTREMELY grateful that women exist and are just so helpful and wonderful and kind.

I’ve been a Líder Estudar since 2013, and I wouldn't have studied abroad without them! The scholarship covers up to 90% of financial need and provides fellows with lifetime access to an exclusive network of talented Brazilians—a community that has been fostering leaders for over 30 years.

The Líderes Estudar fellowship is now open! To apply, candidates must be:
•⁠ ⁠Brazilian citizens up to 34 years old
•⁠ ⁠University students at any level—from first-year undergraduates to doctoral candidates
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Please share with your students: bit.ly/Lideres-fell...

Still feeling blissful with “I’m Still Here” winning Best International Film 🥹
Viva ao cinema brasileiro! Viva Eunice Paiva!

I wish I had 100 lives so I could be a neurolinguist on one of them

It sank in this week that English doesn't have a subjunctive verb form and I haven't recovered from it 🫠
And now a lot of interactions that didn't make sense to me started to click lol

I forgot how fun lesson planning is 🥹