Thrilled to have had a small part in this. Excellent work by champe barton at The Trace thetrace.org/2021/11/califo…

Personal news: Way excited to announce that I'll be the new data editor at The Trace. Thanks to everyone at The Trace for getting me off to such a great start!

I need great data stories to share with students. What’s the best thing you’ve read or watched lately?

In 1968 the Soviet Union invaded my mother’s country. She became a refugee and wasn’t allowed to go home and see her family for 18 years. Take a minute today to feel grateful that tanks and bombs don’t determine who governs you.

🧵 The firearm suicide rate has been rising steadily among young people in their teens and twenties over the last decade, with the sharpest increases among people of color. Read more about our new analysis of public health data:

Proud of this one. On a personal note I want to say that sometimes it feels hopeless, but it is never, ever true. There are so many people who can and want to help you.

Just want to address the ‘all Slavs are the same so what difference does it make if Russia takes over’ argument. This papers over decades of deliberate cultural genocide. For example, in our lifetime, Belarusian will be a dead language, gone forever, and that is not accidental.

I have tried to stay silent but ‘there is no war but class war’ is only something you would say if you’ve been amazingly lucky in life. Devastated families, orphans, refugees living in tents, kidnapped child soldiers, those traumatized by death and violence would beg to differ.

The Ukrainian national anthem is a bop of course, but if you are looking for other Ukrainian music to enjoy I submit Go_A. Here is their amazing song Shum. The concrete dome in the background is Chernobyl. Go_A - ШУМ (Official Video) youtu.be/sDeMfL8Ib9A via YouTube

This is the most elegant solution to this question that I've seen. r-bloggers.com/2022/03/intera…

I don’t think you get how devastating these words are. They’re about people abandoned to totalitarianism twice in living memory. It’s not ‘hawkish bleating’ for them to want democracies. Words matter and you are revictimizing people who have suffered greatly.

An academic zoom event yesterday with 300 international participants to discuss the Ukraine situation was targeted by Russian hackers who posted pornographic images, preventing the event from continuing as planned. Great support for free and open dialogue guys.

The comments in chat were by native Russian speakers.

It's always amazed me that somehow the starving peasants are the bad guys in this movie.

I am JUST DEVASTATED that Access has fallen off the list.

This jam goes out to all those who have loved and hope someone else is still around to love them later.

What is the AR-15, exactly? In our latest #AskTheTrace, Jennifer Mascia demystifies the weapon currently at the center of the gun debate: thetr.ac/PEom8 (Video: @OlgaPierce)

Nebraska in one map.