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8 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
i just got my teaching evals from last semester and my students were so niiiice 😭😭
special shout-out to the person who wanted to clarify that i am "funny haha"
i started using "podcast voice" for teaching on Zoom -- which is where you talk softly right into a lapel mic -- and multiple students said it was "relaxing"... success!!
they liked my Shiny apps!! ImageImage

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4 Feb
Harvard prez: “On behalf of the Harvard community, I apologize to Dr. Terry Karl for the University’s failure to assure that Domínguez met the conditions of his 1983 sanction. Harvard failed her.”

about 👏 goddamn 👏 time!!! 👏

provost.harvard.edu/files/provost/…
I am incredibly relieved that the report is finally out. We had to fight for a LONG time to get this review, and it didn't get off to a great start when they spent more time talking to Harvard faculty than to *the women who were sexually harassed*...

I continue to find it incredibly frustrating that the Harvard administration couldn't just butt out and let this be an *external review*. The degree of micromanagement by the deputy provost was insane...

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21 Nov 20
The Tories' 'chumocracy' over Covid contracts is destroying public trust.

Me in the @guardian 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In this piece, I try to take seriously the government’s argument that it was important to use “informal arrangements” in procurement given the urgent need to source PPE.
In response to which I make two points:

1️⃣ The “need for speed” does not mean we should throw basic anti-corruption principles out the window.

2️⃣ Based on the results, it is hard to believe that senior political figures were willing or capable of “pre-vetting” suppliers.
Read 7 tweets
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18 Nov 20
🚨 Based on exclusive reporting by @BylineTimes and @allthecitizens, I created a new visualization of the COVID contracts being awarded to firms linked to the Evangelical Christian sect, the Plymouth Brethren.

🔎 Take a look: sophie-e-hill.com/post/pray-to-p…
In this map, I've broken up "government" into Central, Local, and NHS.
This gives a more granular picture and also highlights some local councils, like Bristol City Council, which have awarded contracts to multiple Brethren-linked companies.
Read 6 tweets
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9 Nov 20
This is a more wonky thread about how I made this visualization in #Rstats using the awesome visNetwork 📦...

sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-cron…
First step is to create the underlying network data. We need one file of "nodes" - i.e. the people and organizations. And one file of "edges" - i.e. the connections between them.

I created these by hand, based on excellent investigate journalism: ImageImage
Now we can pull these together to create a network visualization!

You'll notice that I included a column for "type" in the nodes file. This allows me to use different icons for people vs firms vs political organizations. Image
Read 8 tweets
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9 Nov 20
The cronyism in this Tory government is so out-of-control that I honestly couldn’t keep track… so I combined my two main skills (puns and #Rstats) to create this interactive visualization.

Introducing… My Little Crony!

sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-cron…
Explore and follow the links to read excellent reporting by folks @guardian, @openDemocracy, @BylineTimes, @GoodLawProject, @PeterKGeoghegan, @david_conn, @robevansgdn, @RussellScott1, @JolyonMaugham, @WritesBright, @gillplimmer1, @carolinejmolloy, etc.!

sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-cron…
As a bonus, some rare archival footage of me creating this visualization:
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3 Oct 20
Ep 2 of "Suspicious Activity" (a podcast on the #FinCENFiles by @pineapplemedia and @BuzzFeedNews) recounts how George Osborne lobbied US regulators NOT to prosecute senior execs at HSBC...

podcasts.podinstall.com/pineapple-stre…
... which is a brilliant illustration of "structural power" as developed by folks like @PepperCulpepper and @RaphaelJReinke, as well as @Cornelia_Woll's "collective power of inaction".

Check out the podcast and then follow-up with some further reading from #polisci! (a 🧵)
Culpepper & Reinke (2014) use the idea of "structural power" to compare and contrast the UK and US bank bailouts in 2008.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
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