Director, International Survey Research Program @ RTI. Tweets my own.
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16 Mar 2022
Any alternatives to Smart Art in Word? I want to go beyond bullets, text boxes, etc. But Smart Art in Word isn't doing for me. Any suggestions?
16 Jan 2022
Please never, ever, ever say "our study is the first to do X." Likely, you are wrong, especially given lags in publication. Also, what's the value in being first? Better to be right, thorough, and careful.
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8 Jan 2022
We can’t resign ourselves to fatalism.
“People won’t wear masks.”
“They won’t get vaccinated.”
“There’s no political will.”
We must keep using our voices holding our electeds accountable. We have not nearly tried everything in the toolbox yet. We can’t give up.
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8 Jan 2022
What a pleasure to conduct a lit review for a project! It’s been a few years. Funded opportunities to read and think are few and far between, love them!
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8 Jan 2022
Primal screams of “YES!” from demographers. This and pretty much all pandemic data. #poptwitter @OxfordDemSci
7 Jan 2022
I really don't understand how people keep trying to estimate the severity of omicron without adjusting for age distributions. The relative risk with previous waves varied so enormously by age, a small change in ages or vaccination age distribution can massively affect severity
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5 Jan 2022
Something I try to remember everyday. In the day-to-day hustle of survey research in #aapor world, this message of grace can sometimes be easy to forget. Let’s give each other - coworker, boss, client, supplier - love and peace this year.
4 Jan 2022
Remember, as we start 2022 to give yourself and others grace. We have been in a constant state of fear and anxiety for two years straight. This is not normal.
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30 Dec 2021
I love finding the perfect images when designing my PowerPoint slides.
Here are 12 platforms for finding FREE visuals (icons, stock photos) for your presentations, lectures, and websites! I'll let you know my favorites 👇
@AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter @OpenAcademics #PhDchat
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Charles Lau retweeted
21 Dec 2021
Sacrifices must be made
we are sorry
you must cancel your plans
it is not safe
for you to gather
with friends and family
right now.
But keep your shoes on
your shift is starting soon
and your workplace
requires your presence.
You must make sacrifices
and be sacrificed as well.
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21 Dec 2021
This is a small indication that the system is broken. When I was in graduate school (15 yrs ago) no one I knew ever worked through break. I feel bummed for graduate students now. Take care of yourselves. I know it’s hard.
Charles Lau retweeted
17 Dec 2021
If you are wondering
why
it feels like everything
is just getting worse
know
it is because everything
is just getting worse.
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15 Dec 2021
Excited to read!
New Article Alert! Kalton/Cervantes/Arieira/Kwanisai/Radin/Saito/De/McCracken/Stupp on Dealing w/Inaccurate Measures of Size in Two-Stage Proby Proportional to Size Sample Designs: Applications in African Household Surveys @westat @ICAP_ColumbiaU @CDCgov
doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smaa02…
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8 Dec 2021
Excited to share our paper in @Nature today! We find that two large surveys significantly overestimated COVID vaccine uptake among US adults relative to a benchmark from the CDC. Work with @shirokuriwaki @MichaelIsakov3 @sejDino @XiaoLiMeng1 @flaxter rdcu.be/cCQ4E 🧵1/
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Charles Lau retweeted
3 Dec 2021
So the emails
you meant to write
remain unsent
So your report
that is due
is not finished
So the dishes
remain piled high
in your overflowing sink
So your to do list
remains mostly
undone
You have survived
another week
of the plague
And though
that is not enough
it is enough
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18 Nov 2021
Much of this thread resonates with me. Beyond social purposes, is the intellectual value of conferences worth the time, effort, and money? Especially when presenting to 20 people in a ballroom? Some great points here ⬇️
17 Nov 2021
The pandemic broke a number of things in me. And I think it broke my willingness to organize my life in any way around attending conferences. This may result in professional consequences. That’s ok. I look at the world differently now. I don’t think I’m going back to a Marriott.