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🚫Things to leave behind in 2020:
1. Leaving the diaspora and moving to "Gohna🇬🇭" without a plan for earning income, then trying to survive in Gohna by monetizing your new YouTube channel about life in Gohna.
This thing is becoming a ponzi scheme and it must stop⛔
2. Uploading photos of your snowed-in car or 2-bedroom house in Mississauga with the caption, "Still want to come to Canada?"
Just drop your photo, write "I escaped" and go.😐
3. Writing "Sapiosexual" on your Tinder bio.
Facebook. You need Facebook.
4. Headhunting someone and taking them through an entire interview and testing process after reaching out to them yourself, only to hit them with the "We like you but" email.
This one baffled me because I was literally by myself and you came to meet me. What was the reason?🤷🏿♂️
5. Using the phrase "Good PM" for any reason whatsoever.
Return to Ìbàràpá from whence you came, foul creature
1. Leaving the diaspora and moving to "Gohna🇬🇭" without a plan for earning income, then trying to survive in Gohna by monetizing your new YouTube channel about life in Gohna.
This thing is becoming a ponzi scheme and it must stop⛔
There\u2019s a YouTuber who interviews people who\u2019ve moved back to Africa from the diaspora and somehow all the videos sound like this to me pic.twitter.com/jwjMZMkueZ
— Nelumbo N. (@vuyanzi93) December 31, 2020
2. Uploading photos of your snowed-in car or 2-bedroom house in Mississauga with the caption, "Still want to come to Canada?"
Just drop your photo, write "I escaped" and go.😐
3. Writing "Sapiosexual" on your Tinder bio.
Facebook. You need Facebook.
4. Headhunting someone and taking them through an entire interview and testing process after reaching out to them yourself, only to hit them with the "We like you but" email.
This one baffled me because I was literally by myself and you came to meet me. What was the reason?🤷🏿♂️
5. Using the phrase "Good PM" for any reason whatsoever.
Return to Ìbàràpá from whence you came, foul creature
How do you write a PAP in practice, especially in limited time?
Regardless of how you feel about @The_JOP’s new policy, a lot of political scientists will be writing PAPs for the first time.
I wanted to share my experiences/thoughts having written many PAPs.
Thread follows..🧵
1. What counts as a PAP? In my view, all that makes a PAP a PAP is that it pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, ideally as precisely as possible.
Note what this does *not* include: lit review, theory, etc.
Some people like to write PAPs that include all this, but...
..I do not think this is necessary. In my view, as long as your PAP pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, it’s a PAP, regardless of what else you may want to add to it. Add more if you want, but you don’t need to imo.
That means PAPs can be super short/fast to write.
2. How do you do this practically?
Idea 1: For people getting started, I highly recommend https://t.co/EbxOOIHr8Z. Screenshot attached. You’ll answer 6 questions about your analysis, each answer requires ~a few sentences. Should take you around 15 minutes. And that’s it!
The tool will create a) an anonymized PDF with your answers you can upload with a paper submission and b) a blinded link (eg https://t.co/hTHH0rb4wg) you can include that verifies you pre-registered. And you’re done!
There’s many more options. Here’s two more things I’ve done:
Regardless of how you feel about @The_JOP’s new policy, a lot of political scientists will be writing PAPs for the first time.
I wanted to share my experiences/thoughts having written many PAPs.
Thread follows..🧵
1. What counts as a PAP? In my view, all that makes a PAP a PAP is that it pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, ideally as precisely as possible.
Note what this does *not* include: lit review, theory, etc.
Some people like to write PAPs that include all this, but...
..I do not think this is necessary. In my view, as long as your PAP pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, it’s a PAP, regardless of what else you may want to add to it. Add more if you want, but you don’t need to imo.
That means PAPs can be super short/fast to write.
2. How do you do this practically?
Idea 1: For people getting started, I highly recommend https://t.co/EbxOOIHr8Z. Screenshot attached. You’ll answer 6 questions about your analysis, each answer requires ~a few sentences. Should take you around 15 minutes. And that’s it!
The tool will create a) an anonymized PDF with your answers you can upload with a paper submission and b) a blinded link (eg https://t.co/hTHH0rb4wg) you can include that verifies you pre-registered. And you’re done!
There’s many more options. Here’s two more things I’ve done:
A thread outlining my thoughts on Second World War tactics.
For me tactics only makes sense when looked at as a socio-technical system. This thread reflects that way of thinking.
Again I'll be using British examples but there are some US crossovers later on.
1/
My starting place is Lionel Wigram and the Battle School Movement.
The principle objectives were concerned with training a mass of newly conscripted infantry in how to fight. There were precedents from the FWW. This movement though was set up by a Territorial Army officer.
2/
I referenced Tim Harrison-Place's excellent book in an earlier thread on SWW small arms.
There's also this excellent article on Wigram and the Infantry
Wigram sought to inoculate new soldiers from the chaos of battle while training them in the basics of what might simplistically be called fire and movement.
4/
As I said in this earlier thread, there was a tension within the Army between those were part of the institution's professional ethos and the new conscripts that made up the mass of the
For me tactics only makes sense when looked at as a socio-technical system. This thread reflects that way of thinking.
Again I'll be using British examples but there are some US crossovers later on.
1/
My starting place is Lionel Wigram and the Battle School Movement.
The principle objectives were concerned with training a mass of newly conscripted infantry in how to fight. There were precedents from the FWW. This movement though was set up by a Territorial Army officer.
2/
I referenced Tim Harrison-Place's excellent book in an earlier thread on SWW small arms.
There's also this excellent article on Wigram and the Infantry
Wigram sought to inoculate new soldiers from the chaos of battle while training them in the basics of what might simplistically be called fire and movement.
4/
As I said in this earlier thread, there was a tension within the Army between those were part of the institution's professional ethos and the new conscripts that made up the mass of the
The ethos of the professional Army valued marksmanship as an indication of their professionalism.
— Dr Matthew Ford (@warmatters) December 23, 2020
More than this, I'd contend they did not entirely trust a conscript army to do what was necessary.
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Thread: Romanian bear dancers...At the end of the year, boys and men in eastern Romania put on heavy bear costumes, often made of real fur, and dance through the streets of towns and villages...
They dance to the rhythm of drums. In the end a ritual scene is performed in which the bear collapses because a demon is inside him. The "Gypsy" comes with a knife and bleeds the bear, lets the demon out and the bear gets resurrected
https://t.co/QMEHD8wdmC via @YouTube
In some versions of the tradition, the bear, the Gypsy and the drummers also go from house to house in the village, singing and dancing to ward off evil and bring good luck...
Officially "It’s thought that the tradition of dancing bears originated many centuries ago among the Roma who would visit villages just before New Year with real bears on leashes to dance and chase away bad spirits from the outgoing
I can see why people would think that this ritual could have Roma origin...Roma's with their dancing bears were until recently a common scene in Eastern Europe...
They dance to the rhythm of drums. In the end a ritual scene is performed in which the bear collapses because a demon is inside him. The "Gypsy" comes with a knife and bleeds the bear, lets the demon out and the bear gets resurrected
https://t.co/QMEHD8wdmC via @YouTube
In some versions of the tradition, the bear, the Gypsy and the drummers also go from house to house in the village, singing and dancing to ward off evil and bring good luck...
Officially "It’s thought that the tradition of dancing bears originated many centuries ago among the Roma who would visit villages just before New Year with real bears on leashes to dance and chase away bad spirits from the outgoing
I can see why people would think that this ritual could have Roma origin...Roma's with their dancing bears were until recently a common scene in Eastern Europe...
Thread: Listening to the new episode of @GaslitNation, "Clear Intent," with @AndreaChalupa & @sarahkendzior. Full transcripts available at https://t.co/4ZBuylvoX9.
"This was intentional... We've seen their assault on democracy for the last five years." - Andrea
.@AndreaChalupa goes through a timeline of events before and during January 6th. A couple things in here that I didn't know already. (I'm curious why the Kremers want so much credit for the march. That whole thing between them and Ali is confusing, but maybe GN will go into it).
.@SarahKendzior reads from an article she wrote in 2016. It's STILL relevant!
"This was coming so far in advance that you literally cannot tell the difference between an article that I published before he was even president and one that comes out now." https://t.co/owXeiDuqhc
I'm posting the above three tweets now then live-tweeting as I listen. This episode of @GaslitNation should be available wherever you get your podcasts soon, if it isn't already. I'm listening ad-free on Patreon.
Donald Trump pardoning war criminals and his mob buddies is a signal to his supporters that they can get away with violence. It's a recruitment tool. Police getting away with murder: recruitment tool. - Andrea, not a direct quote
"This was intentional... We've seen their assault on democracy for the last five years." - Andrea
.@AndreaChalupa goes through a timeline of events before and during January 6th. A couple things in here that I didn't know already. (I'm curious why the Kremers want so much credit for the march. That whole thing between them and Ali is confusing, but maybe GN will go into it).
.@SarahKendzior reads from an article she wrote in 2016. It's STILL relevant!
"This was coming so far in advance that you literally cannot tell the difference between an article that I published before he was even president and one that comes out now." https://t.co/owXeiDuqhc
I'm posting the above three tweets now then live-tweeting as I listen. This episode of @GaslitNation should be available wherever you get your podcasts soon, if it isn't already. I'm listening ad-free on Patreon.
Donald Trump pardoning war criminals and his mob buddies is a signal to his supporters that they can get away with violence. It's a recruitment tool. Police getting away with murder: recruitment tool. - Andrea, not a direct quote
