Brett Heindl

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I allegedly teach political science. “A tourist with a typewriter.” 
Immigrant incorporation & refugee resettlement policy with offshoots into human rights, climate change, and religious politics.

Hey, I'm a somewhat well-rounded person. I like running in the woods, dark beers, and sci-fi, too.

ADHD is my superpower, so I’m interested in every-goddamn-thing.

@dlucksted Thanks for this, and welcome. This is a very different experience than the other place

77% of Black Americans say voting is a fundamental right for every U.S. citizen and should not be restricted, as do 63% of Hispanic Americans and 66% of Asian Americans. White Americans are divided: 51% say voting is a right, while 48% say it is a privilege.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/22/wide-partisan-divide-on-whether-voting-is-a-fundamental-right-or-a-privilege-with-responsibilities/ #PewResearch @sociology @politicalscience #BlackMastodon

Wide partisan divide on whether voting is a fundamental right or a privilege with responsibilities

57% of Americans view voting as “a fundamental right for every adult U.S. citizen and should not be restricted in any way.”

Pew Research Center
@JoseMarichal that’s the humane way to be. We can’t pretend that everyone isn’t struggling
Since the pandemic, I've switched from a firm, non-negotiable due date on assigments to "late papers accepted, no questions asked." Instead of being exacting to "toughen up" students for the "hard world out there," I've decided to model the compassion and care I want them to bring to the world.

I feel that Gen X was well trained for the day when an evil rich dude bought the mall where we all hang out so he could demolish it.

This is our moment.

We're gonna need a lot of skateboards. And a scrappy mutt.

And a montage.

@alasdairroberts Perfect. A how-to guide. The perfect accessory this grading season.

Remarkable, open-access and geocoded data on the full universe of resettled refugees in the United States, 1975–2018

3.1 million individual refugees with their country of origin and exact location of resettlement.

By Dreher, Langlotz, Matzat, Parsons, and Mayda —> https://www.refugeeresettlementdata.com

Refugee Resettlement Data

​This website is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of G ö ttingen, Heidelberg and Western Australia. It has been created as a platform to share digitised individual  refugee...

Refugee Resettlement Data
Because seriously, their earnestness is so intense, it vaporizes irony on contact
And I mean that without a *trace* of irony
Rocking out with The Moody Blues on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Does it get any better than this?