The Department of Political Science at Penn State is hiring in CP/IR, for a position focused on non-democratic politics. Link to apply: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Penn State is searching at the Assistant Professor level in in American political behavior, broadly defined. We are seekign someone who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology or social data analytics.

Working on a new project that examines internet takedown requests to google and other media platforms. Anocratic states experiencing political challenges issue more government, court order, and law enforcement takedown requests. All states issue more takedown requests over time.

Working on a new project that examines internet takedown requests to google and other media platforms. Anocratic states experiencing political challenges issue more government, court order, and law enforcement takedown requests. All states issue more takedown requests over time.

New postdoc position posted at the AI & Global Development Lab! What would you do? Use ML & causal inference to evaluate African development programs—build remote-sensing pipelines for geo-temporal poverty estimates & impact evals, among other things. Details: liu.se/en/work-at-l...

PolNet is a really great conference with generally good panel participation so you get helpful feedback!

Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

One of my recent articles has now been officially assigned page numbers in Journal of Conflict Resolution. 🔍 Key finding: The spatial distribution of loyal, disloyal, and wavering rebel supporters explains who gets targeted and where. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Earth Observation Meets Adam Smith: Earth Observation AI in Policy Innovation for Global Development👇 planetarycausalinference.org/earth-observ...

If you are a scholar publishing in political networks and you're eligible for any of these section awards, hit me up for a nomination!

Call for nominations for #APSA Political #Networks Section awards 2025. We have 5 awards. More details with award committee contact details on the awards page: apsanet.org/section41. Please spread the word and send us your nominations. #polnet #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #polisky #polisci

We need more research on social media effects on elites, activists, and other subgroups per our recent Nature review www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some news: I'll be starting as an assistant professor at Trinity College in Hartford, CT as of this coming summer. I'm so excited to get started working with great colleagues. It's been a really tough series of markets, and I'm so lucky to have found a great place to teach and do research.

For the rubric “it ain’t much but it’s honest work”, I just got my first R&R (w/ Major Revisions) on a solo author paper. It’s just the beginning, but these little wins definitely contribute in fostering my love for the path I’m pursuing & academia!

Thousands of people are marching throughout Tbilisi towards parliament including groups from several regions of Georgia to protest the government's EU U-turn and call for new elections. 🔴 Georgia live updates: oc-media.org/georgia-live...

Our article on the lasting impact of rebel governance on post-conflict state and citizens' perceptions of state institutions now has page numbers and is open-access in Comparative Political Studies. Check out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨We are excited to announce the 2024-25 call for papers for the Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop. More info below and at our site: juniorquantconflict.wixsite.com/workshop Submissions are due Oct 31. utdallas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please circulate widely -- thank you!

My coauthored article with Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Trey Billing, titled "The Effect of Radio Propaganda on Mobilization during the Rwandan Genocide," has been officially published in the American Sociological Review. #conflictsky You can find it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Article has an issue number! In the paper, I find that relational ties between states lower the rate of interstate conflict while simultaneously spreading political institutions. #conflictsky

UTD has 2 open-rank IR jobs. I'm on the committee if you have questions. jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/27562

UT-Dallas is hiring for an open rank faculty position in IR! We're particularly interested in scholars studying IPE and/or Conflict. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! polisky psjminfo jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/27562

Excited this is done. It took a few years to clean the data!

In a forthcoming article at American Sociological Review, we reexamine the effect of radio propaganda on participation in the Rwandan Genocide. With new data, we find that access to the radio led to an earlier onset of but not higher rate of violence. w/ Trey Billing & Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira

An oped from my UTD colleague Curtis Bram. He draws an interesting thread between Democrats initial reaction to the debate and Republicans’ discussion of the capitol riots. thehill.com/opinion/4752...

My article on cooperative communities and interstate conflict is available online at JoP. I find that network ties between states simultaneously spread political institutions and induce within group cooperation. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The networked movements of al-Shabaab after losing the capital.

Christoper Bishop has a new ML book out, about Deep Learning. His original ML book was so good, high hopes for this one: www.bishopbook.com #stats #MLsky polisky 📉📈

🥳Yay, this paper's now officially out! Available open access👇 cup.org/3GTQ99X #polisky, intsec, nationalisky

My newest paper is now online at the Journal of Peace Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So happy to see our paper on repression and combat motivation (w/ Arturas Rozenss & Yuri Zhukov) forthcoming in American Economic Journal: AE. This was one of my favorite long-term projects to work on, and I could not have asked for a better team of co-authors. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I am excited to share that I will be joining the amazing Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor next Fall! Huge thanks to people at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University for their incredible support.

🚨Attn polisky🚨 applications are now open for Bridging the Gap’s International Policy Summer Institute! This workshop provides invaluable training for scholars interested in policy & media engagement. Apply!! ⤵️

I couldn't find a tutorial I liked to get students who know R up and running with Python, so I wrote my own! Part 1 is here: andrewhalterman.com/post/python_... (And if you have a tutorial you like, please let me know!)

Am a big fan of this new (and unfortunately timely) @iojournal.bsky.social article by WUSTL's @carlynwayne.bsky.social. Terrorism doesn't make people afraid. It makes them angry, which is why we end up with cycles of violence. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Deadline for proposals for the UT Emerging scholars conference is this Friday! Spread the word polisky

I got an official confirmation that my JOP replication file is finished. I’m very excited to have this article finished!

🚨🚨Bridging the Gap is searching for our next Fellow to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives! Please check out the call, share it with your networks, and apply! Happy to answer any questions ⤵️ polisky

🚨New paper alert🚨 #polisky #intsec My paper, "Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest", has been cond. accepted at APSR! I ask: Why are some international issues perceived as national interests worth fighting for while others are not? While we may think the answer is obvious..1/4

Introducing Conflictsky, a new feed for political conflict and violence! Like and pin the feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... To post, tag with 'conflictsky' or 'violencesky' It's a polisky sub-feed, so request to join that list if you haven't already: www.paulmusgrave.info/how-to-use-p...

Call for papers for the Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop, organized by Chris Blair, Roya Talibova, Maryum Alam, and me. I used a bunch of the papers from the workshop in my grad international conflict syllabus this semester. You can apply using the link below. tinyurl.com/2u54ywyh

My article titled "Signaling Resolve through Credit-Claiming" is now published online in International Interactions. I show that groups that are younger or have recently suffered the loss of a leader claim attacks to burnish their organizational reputation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Working on a project examining what makes women central actors in violence using the Rwanda Genocide as a case. We find that women co-participate in violence with more women compared to men. Here is a heat map by sex, age, and who was mobilized hightling the role of women in recruiting women.

I am very excited to share that I’m part of a research team that was awarded an NSF under the Cyberinfrastructure call. The project extends work from Patrick Brandt, Vito D’Orazio, Javier Osorio, and Latifur Khan that created the LLM ConfliBERT.

Excited that my last dissy article is conditionally accepted at JOP. I show that networked interactions spread institutions between and induce group among states. Together, the processes create cooperative regimes, composed of state with similar institutions that are less internally conflictual.