Kara Swisher Study: “Male players who were good at the game also tended to pay compliments to other male & female players. Some male players, however —ones who were less-skilled & performing worse relative their peers — made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers.” washingtonpost.com/news/the-inter…

Sometimes correlation is causation

🚨 New co-authored working paper from me on stress-testing solidarity among Asian Americans in post-pandemic U.S. politics. tl;dr: perceived discrimination increases solidarity (measured by linked fate) but is short-lived when exposed to state-sanctioned ethnic targeting.

Sen. Warren's YIMBY rhetoric hits the spot, but her new bill speaks to political difficulty of achieving the dream within current Dem party coalition. 🧵/8.

“Yes we laugh”

Election 2024: high EQ vs low EQ

Considering recent anti-immigrant violence in Britain, sharing work with Guy Grossman out now in AJPS doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

In California, “Harris is receiving much higher levels of support than Biden did among voters ages 18-29 (+23), independents (+17), Black voters (+16), political moderates (+12), registered Democrats (+11), liberals (+11) and Latinos (+10).” mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/b…

"Every movement is a contest between expression and persuasion" Watch Omar Wasow | @[email protected] break down the efficacy of protest tactics for Breakthrough dialogue youtube.com/watch?v=PLcvK7…

Published today in the APSR…Open Access 😊🇲🇽😊🇲🇽 Dra. Bianca V. Vicuña 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Alisson Ramos UCLA’s REPS Lab cambridge.org/core/journals/…

More evidence in favor for Chris Palmer, MD’s brain energy model, in this case with Alzheimer’s: A drug that restores brain metabolism could help treat Alzheimer's one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-508140…

With RFK ending presidential run, a good time to revisit his vile campaign to sow fear about vaccination in the Black community during Covid waves.

During the Democratic National Convention, activists faced an age-old predicament: Either protest peacefully and get ignored by the media or protest violently and draw media scorn. #DNC #Chicago #KamalaHarris #Israel #Gaza #CPD Omar Wasow | @[email protected] AFSC wbez.org/government-pol…

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

“A visual representation of a profound injustice can move people, humans respond to a certain kind of narrative power” Watch Celinda Lake and Omar Wasow | @[email protected] discuss the strategy of the civil rights movement and environmentalism at Breakthrough 2024 Dialogue. youtube.com/watch?v=4FEG3u…

Many studies focus on how ICT like social media can help protesters organize against the government, or how it can help the gov stymie organization. How can groups with opposite goals both find the same tech useful? New paper with Tak-Huen Chau and Mai Hassan addresses this Q.

"Every movement is a contest between expression and persuasion" Don't miss Omar Wasow | @[email protected]'s presentation on protest efficacy in the civil rights movement for Breakthrough dialogue youtube.com/watch?v=PLcvK7…

Evergreen

With apologies to X-Clan: ... I remember all the times you lied ’bout eating an animal But you keep talking ’bout Hannibal ... youtu.be/VXG3mdJpo2c?si…