Dylan Connor

@lifechances.bsky.social

Prof @ASU_SGSUP | @CASBSStanford 24-25 | Computational Social Science | 🇮🇪

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

New paper! 📈
Why do kids born into poverty in rural areas climb the income ladder at higher rates than their urban peers? Answer: rural boys, who benefit from life in small places with more two-parent households.

https://t.co/yBObBQHX2S
#AcademicTwitter #EconTwitter #rstats 1/8

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

Great week in SF at AAG with @ASU_SGSUP

[SGSUP at ASU @ASU_SGSUP]

Once again, #SGSUP had a strong presence at #AAG2026 in San Francisco. 🔱

Our faculty and students led and contributed to a wide range of sessions, with nearly 80 papers affiliated with #ASU.

We also loved connecting with our community at our Alumni & Friends Reception—made even more memorable with stunning views of the city!

A special highlight: Professor Emeritus Billie Turner was honored in five sessions organized by his former PhD students. To carry his legacy forward, his mentees established a new #AAG endowment which recognizes and advances outstanding PhD research in human–environment science.

#Geography #ArizonaStateUniversity

[SGSUP at ASU @ASU_SGSUP]

Where have all the Patricks gone? Associate Professor @Dylligent explains what's behind Irish baby names and why some names rise and fall in popularity. 🍀

Tune in to the @RTEBrainstorm podcast: https://t.co/ZsMSMoYUgj

#StPatricksDay #LuckoftheIrish

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

Not sure how to celebrate St Patricks Day? ☘️

Listen to my @RTEBrainstorm podcast on Irish baby names:

https://t.co/SVFF5vFgoT

[RTÉ Brainstorm @RTEBrainstorm]

Where have all the Patricks gone? A #RTEBrainstorm podcast with presenter @ellamcsweeney & guests @Dylligent @ASU and Clodagh Tait @MICLimerick looking at the rise & fall of an Irish name. Now available wherever you get your podcasts https://t.co/IsChdmbd0p

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

'A good theory is a Picasso painting. Empirical work is more like fixing a tractor - you just need the stupid thing to run.'

My podcast with the great labor economist+Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!

Playing from 20:50
https://t.co/rVC4KN3yWB

@CASBSStanford @sgsu

[CASBS @CASBSStanford]

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

"David Card: Behind the Nobel"

1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @Dylligent on the innovative labor-related empirical work (and more) that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/KXBekW2D33

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

Congrats to @garimajain2002 on defending her dissertation on the aquaculture transformation in India!
She integrates satellite data, field work & modeling to understand the who/how/where.

Committee: Billie Turner, me, Hallie Eakin, Amy Frazier
#PhDDefense #Geography @ASU_SGSUP

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

Wonderful evening with Rachel Franklin at GSUP

[SGSUP at ASU @ASU_SGSUP]

Last Friday, #SGSUP hosted the 2025 Malcolm L. Comeaux Lecture with guest speaker Rachel Franklin, Executive Director of Harvard University’s Center for Geographic Analysis.

In her talk, “The Tortured Geographers Department: Red Herrings, Spatial Data, Data Science and AI,” Franklin shared insights from her own research and examined the challenges scholars face in today’s rapidly evolving data landscape, closing with big-picture takeaways for geography and higher education.

Faculty, staff and students gathered for a reception before the lecture, where we were especially honored to recognize and welcome Professor Emeritus Malcolm L. Comeaux.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening celebrating geography and innovation. Stay tuned for the recording later this week.

#ASU #Harvard

[SGSUP at ASU @ASU_SGSUP]

Last Friday, #SGSUP hosted the 2025 Malcolm L. Comeaux Lecture with guest speaker Rachel Franklin, Executive Director of Harvard University’s Center for Geographic Analysis.

In her talk, “The Tortured Geographers Department: Red Herrings, Spatial Data, Data Science and AI,” Franklin shared insights from her own research and examined the challenges scholars face in today’s rapidly evolving data landscape, closing with big-picture takeaways for geography and higher education.

Faculty, staff and students gathered for a reception before the lecture, where we were especially honored to recognize and welcome Professor Emeritus Malcolm L. Comeaux.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening celebrating geography and innovation. Stay tuned for the recording later this week.

#ASU #Harvard

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

7/7 Link to GEOWEALTH-US: https://t.co/9QXVKl4QDe

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

1/7 New research: The wealth of your neighbors may protect your brain. Our new WP finds that higher community wealth is linked to a significantly lower risk of cognitive decline in older adults in the USA

Link: https://t.co/n1eXV38PI6

#aging #HealthEquity #geography

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

6/7 This was a big team effort leveraging the new GEOWEALTH-US dataset. Huge thanks to my co-authors & institutions @ASU_SGSUP, @munkschool, @CASBSStanford. Special shout out to the team at @ipums and @umnlifecourse for their fantastic work + support of our project.

[Northwestern @NorthwesternU]

What it's all about. 💜🥹

Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

Interviewed by RTE on the past and future trajectory of Irish baby names!

Check it out: https://t.co/Dph5aBFB1d

Thanks to @RTEBrainstorm @CASBSStanford @ASU_SGSUP

[Dylan Connor @Life__chances]

Lovely to get to talk about baby names on the RTE news!

[RTÉ Brainstorm @RTEBrainstorm]

Where have all the Patricks gone? Tune into @RTERadio1 at 6.35pm today to find out as @Dylligent @ASU and Clodagh Tait @MICLimerick explore changing Irish baby name trends. A new series from @RTEBrainstorm with @Researchirel 🎧 You can also listen now at: https://t.co/8JA3AsvDAp

[Tom Kemeny @_tomkemeny]

Honored to win the best paper award this year 🎉 at @CamJRES for 'Who gets left behind by left behind places' with @Dylligent , Aleksander Berg, and Peter Kedron. ICYMI, paper is here https://t.co/5lq3aTf2zh