Lia Merivaki (she/her)

@Liamerivaki
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Asst. Professor in American Politics at MSstate. Election Science, voter education, data accessibility/transparency. 🇬🇷 #PositivityAtThePolls
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Folks, are we still congregating here? Haven't logged in in a while.
Webinar: Building Trust in Elections | MIT Election Lab

Today's webinar was 🎉
Special thank you to @MITelectionlab, @clairedesoi and @cstewartiii for their support.
Our election officials were wonderful, and so were the orgs who work on the sidelines to support them.
Thank you to @Mara_Suttmann for making magic with me.

Our summary with Mara Suttmann-Lea
on combating election misinfo has been published by @MITelectionlab!

https://electionlab.mit.edu/articles/building-voter-trust-social-media

We track inoculation and debunking tactics among state and local election officials during the 2022 cycle.

Thanks, @MITelectionlab for your support!

Building voter trust on social media | MIT Election Lab

Academics, academics in training, practitioners and any election geek: join us at UGA for the Election Science, Reform and Administration (ESRA) conference, May 31-June 2.

I am on the program committee and can answer any questions.

https://esra-conference.org/2023-call-papers

Election Science, Reform, and Administration Conference

Newly elected AL Secretary of State announces leaving from the ERIC data sharing partnership.

This is a blowback to all the efforts states have made to keep voter rolls clean.

@ericstates_info is an important partnership, how disappointing.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-alabama-district-of-columbia-privacy-11ce75ad3f0273fe07c3e7ca10d64fcc

Allen announces withdrawal from voter registration group

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's new secretary of state announced the state's withdrawal Tuesday from a 32-state voter registration partnership, a data-sharing effort that was designed to maintain accurate voter rolls but has sometimes become the target of conservative ire and conspiracy theories.

Associated Press
Those who travel for SPSA, are you masking?

Please read this consensus statement in Nature from last month. Lately, these common-sense recommendations are being framed as "hardline," "zero-COVID," "fringe," in the popular media and even by some from our own communities, but there is remarkable consensus among scientists on what we need to do, even if we do not want to listen. As a benchmark for our aspirations, this is a fine document. #COVID #publichealth

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2

A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat - Nature

A diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries provides health and social policy actions to address inadequacies in the pandemic response and help to bring this public health threat to an end.

Nature
I stopped making resolutions since 2020. The only thing I will try to do is take more time for myself this year. #2023

Anyone who really wants to learn about elections in the US should listen the High Turnout Wide Margins podcast.

https://twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1599457606015209472?t=NAjz8CtvQjNYf1QkAlPhoA&s=19

I Am Incorrigible on Twitter

“Extraordinarily moving, and well worth three minutes of your time. #TransRightsAreHumanRights https://t.co/CpP5D7fcO9”

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