Dylan Connor
@lifechances.bsky.social
Computational Social Science | Professor, ASU Geography | CASBS Fellow 24-25, Stanford
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profconnor.github.io
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profconnor.github.io
https://x.com/Life__chances
How do our changing cities dictate our ability to build wealth and live enriching lives? At ASU, The Life Chances Lab uses big data & GeoAI to build the infrastructure to study how places shape opportunity over the life course. See our new website: lnkd.in/dnyj5K58
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August 28, 2026 at 10:35 AM
How do our changing cities dictate our ability to build wealth and live enriching lives? At ASU, The Life Chances Lab uses big data & GeoAI to build the infrastructure to study how places shape opportunity over the life course. See our new website: lnkd.in/dnyj5K58
New paper out with @socialpixel.bsky.social linking urban expansion to electoral politics through satellite imagery. Check it out!
New in @pnas.org Electoral politics influence expansion and titling of informal urban settlements | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Art: Amy Kate Wolfe. Politicians move houses, titles, and infrastructure like chess pieces across the landscape. 🧵 what we found in Mexico City's urban expansion 1/7
May 22, 2026 at 1:12 AM
New paper out with @socialpixel.bsky.social linking urban expansion to electoral politics through satellite imagery. Check it out!
Not sure how to celebrate St Patricks Day? ☘️
Listen to my @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social podcast on Irish baby names:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Listen to my @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social podcast on Irish baby names:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Where have all the Patricks gone? The rise and fall of a name
The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name
www.rte.ie
March 17, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Not sure how to celebrate St Patricks Day? ☘️
Listen to my @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social podcast on Irish baby names:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Listen to my @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social podcast on Irish baby names:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Where have all the Patrick's gone?
Where have all the Patricks gone? A #RTEBrainstorm podcast with presenter @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social & guests @dyligent.bsky.social and Clodagh Tait looking at the rise & fall of an Irish name. Now available wherever you get your podcasts www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Where have all the Patricks gone? The rise and fall of a name
The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name
www.rte.ie
March 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Where have all the Patrick's gone?
'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 and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!
Playing from 20:50
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@casbsstanford.bsky.social
My podcast with the great labor economist and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!
Playing from 20:50
open.spotify.com/episode/4nui...
@casbsstanford.bsky.social
David Card: Behind the Nobel
open.spotify.com
February 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
'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 and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!
Playing from 20:50
open.spotify.com/episode/4nui...
@casbsstanford.bsky.social
My podcast with the great labor economist and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!
Playing from 20:50
open.spotify.com/episode/4nui...
@casbsstanford.bsky.social
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🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021
🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...
1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021
🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...
February 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021
🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...
1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021
🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...
Congrats to @garimajain.bsky.social 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, @amyfrazier.bsky.social
#PhDDefense #Geography
She integrates satellite data, field work & modeling to understand the who/how/where.
Committee: Billie Turner, me, Hallie Eakin, @amyfrazier.bsky.social
#PhDDefense #Geography
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Congrats to @garimajain.bsky.social 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, @amyfrazier.bsky.social
#PhDDefense #Geography
She integrates satellite data, field work & modeling to understand the who/how/where.
Committee: Billie Turner, me, Hallie Eakin, @amyfrazier.bsky.social
#PhDDefense #Geography
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: osf.io/preprints/so...
#aging #HealthEquity #geography
#aging #HealthEquity #geography
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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: osf.io/preprints/so...
#aging #HealthEquity #geography
#aging #HealthEquity #geography
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We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars
ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...
Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...
ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...
Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...
Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education | ASU News
Two bored 18-year-olds walk into a bar.That is, in fact, almost how the career trajectory of one of the most influential and admired education scholars in America began.Not long after he turned 18, Da...
news.asu.edu
October 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars
ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...
Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...
ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...
Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...
Interviewed by RTE on the past and future trajectory of Irish baby names!
Check it out: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Thanks to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social
Check it out: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Thanks to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social
Where have all the Patricks gone?
The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name
www.rte.ie
September 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Interviewed by RTE on the past and future trajectory of Irish baby names!
Check it out: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Thanks to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social
Check it out: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Thanks to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social
Super news! Honored to win the annual Editors' Choice Award at the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society for our paper "Who gets left behind by left behind places?"
@cjres.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social
@cjres.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social
The 2024 Editors' Choice award has been made to Dylan Connor, Aleksander Berg, Tom Kemeny and Peter Kedron for their paper "Who gets left behind by left behind places?"
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
July 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Super news! Honored to win the annual Editors' Choice Award at the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society for our paper "Who gets left behind by left behind places?"
@cjres.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social
@cjres.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social
My PhD students Yilei Yu and Alex Cliff have defended their dissertations, producing outstanding research at the intersection of spatial data science and flooding!
Thanks to committee members @sarameerow.bsky.social (co-advised Alex), Melanie Gall, and Aaron Flores.
#PhD #SpatialDataScience
Thanks to committee members @sarameerow.bsky.social (co-advised Alex), Melanie Gall, and Aaron Flores.
#PhD #SpatialDataScience
July 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My PhD students Yilei Yu and Alex Cliff have defended their dissertations, producing outstanding research at the intersection of spatial data science and flooding!
Thanks to committee members @sarameerow.bsky.social (co-advised Alex), Melanie Gall, and Aaron Flores.
#PhD #SpatialDataScience
Thanks to committee members @sarameerow.bsky.social (co-advised Alex), Melanie Gall, and Aaron Flores.
#PhD #SpatialDataScience
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In addition to hosting 1996-97 CASBS fellow & Nobel Prize winner David Card on the CASBS podcast recently (we'll publish the episode in the fall), we took David to the study he occupied during his fellowship - now occupied by his podcast conversation partner, Dylan Connor
📷: @dyligent.bsky.social
📷: @dyligent.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In addition to hosting 1996-97 CASBS fellow & Nobel Prize winner David Card on the CASBS podcast recently (we'll publish the episode in the fall), we took David to the study he occupied during his fellowship - now occupied by his podcast conversation partner, Dylan Connor
📷: @dyligent.bsky.social
📷: @dyligent.bsky.social
A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year.. @casbsstanford.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year.. @casbsstanford.bsky.social
A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year..
June 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year..
Reposted by Dylan Connor
An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
The most important paper on democratic backsliding I've read this year
🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨
A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
March 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The most important paper on democratic backsliding I've read this year
This Thursday (March 6) I'll be speaking at the Department of City & Regional Planning at Berkeley about 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 & 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. Reach out if you'd like to attend.
March 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This Thursday (March 6) I'll be speaking at the Department of City & Regional Planning at Berkeley about 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 & 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. Reach out if you'd like to attend.
Many flood-prone buildings are not currently under the purview of FEMA. These buildings are more likely to be deficient in physical condition, poorly constructed, and underinsured - meaning that their residents can face v high costs due to flooding. Read more Yilei Yu's first paper!
New paper t.co/q5YuiEZGLt led by @arizonastateuni.bsky.social PhD student Yilei Yu! 56% of flood-prone buildings in Houston are located outside of FEMA’s 100-year flood zones. These “overlooked” zones are disproportionately home to buildings that are lower quality and often uninsured.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11111-025-00485-8
t.co
February 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Many flood-prone buildings are not currently under the purview of FEMA. These buildings are more likely to be deficient in physical condition, poorly constructed, and underinsured - meaning that their residents can face v high costs due to flooding. Read more Yilei Yu's first paper!
Reposted by Dylan Connor
This study's title sounds like "US cities are bad because they foster inequality." But they find that the problem began in the mid-20th century, which happens to be when cities started planning for cars.
So the problem isn't cities. The problem is cars.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
So the problem isn't cities. The problem is cars.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations
Abstract. Urbanization has long fueled a dual narrative: cities are heralded as sources of economic dynamism and wealth creation yet criticized for fosteri
academic.oup.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This study's title sounds like "US cities are bad because they foster inequality." But they find that the problem began in the mid-20th century, which happens to be when cities started planning for cars.
So the problem isn't cities. The problem is cars.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
So the problem isn't cities. The problem is cars.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Reposted by Dylan Connor
Reposted by Dylan Connor
Some sweet coverage of recent findings by CASBS fellow @dyligent.bsky.social & collaborators showing that major metropolitan areas have ceased functioning as effective springboards for social & financial mobility since the mid-20th century
thedebrief.org/satellite-da...
thedebrief.org/satellite-da...
Satellite Data Reveals Concerning Trend in Major Cities That Were Once a Gateway to Opportunity
Satellite data and city records suggest major metropolitan areas have ceased functioning as effective springboards for progress.
thedebrief.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Some sweet coverage of recent findings by CASBS fellow @dyligent.bsky.social & collaborators showing that major metropolitan areas have ceased functioning as effective springboards for social & financial mobility since the mid-20th century
thedebrief.org/satellite-da...
thedebrief.org/satellite-da...
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Where have all the Patricks gone? New #RTEBrainstorm podcast presented by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social with @dyligent.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social & @clodaghtait.bsky.social MIC Limerick - proudly supported by @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Where have all the Patricks gone?
The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name
www.rte.ie
February 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Where have all the Patricks gone? New #RTEBrainstorm podcast presented by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social with @dyligent.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social & @clodaghtait.bsky.social MIC Limerick - proudly supported by @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Reposted by Dylan Connor
Big cities once lifted generations out of poverty. Now, they entrench it.
New research by @dyligent.bsky.social, @tkemeny.bsky.social et al. shows that since the mid-20th century, upward mobility has shifted to smaller towns.
#Cities must reconnect growth with opportunity. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
New research by @dyligent.bsky.social, @tkemeny.bsky.social et al. shows that since the mid-20th century, upward mobility has shifted to smaller towns.
#Cities must reconnect growth with opportunity. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations
Abstract. Urbanization has long fueled a dual narrative: cities are heralded as sources of economic dynamism and wealth creation yet criticized for fosteri
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Big cities once lifted generations out of poverty. Now, they entrench it.
New research by @dyligent.bsky.social, @tkemeny.bsky.social et al. shows that since the mid-20th century, upward mobility has shifted to smaller towns.
#Cities must reconnect growth with opportunity. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
New research by @dyligent.bsky.social, @tkemeny.bsky.social et al. shows that since the mid-20th century, upward mobility has shifted to smaller towns.
#Cities must reconnect growth with opportunity. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Reposted by Dylan Connor
Combining remote sensing and administrative data, researchers reveal that since the mid-20th century, growing cities have ceased to be centers of upward social and economic mobility. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
February 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Combining remote sensing and administrative data, researchers reveal that since the mid-20th century, growing cities have ceased to be centers of upward social and economic mobility. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...