Publish or Perish: A Text Adventure of Academic Survival A few weeks ago, I listened to Matt Grossman's interview with Andy Hall, in which he discussed how he and Graham Strauss used Claude Code to extend a previous study. While Claude did make mistakes, they were correctable for an informed user.…

I have been testing out Claude Code this past week and made a silly International Relations/social science publishing text adventure game. It's silly, but was a use-case for me to better understanding Claude a bit more. #int-rel #int-rel #polisky

Me: I need to write as soon as I get in the office. Also Me: This person asked a decision theory problem in the game theory subreddit, how dare they. Also, I am going to do the math to answer their question.

The hidden influence of the military on fashion.

1097 words so far this month. I have a modest goal due to admin stuff, but it is progress! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Trying to commit to productivity in #AcWriMo 2025. zubrin.substack.com/p/acwrimo-2025

It was worse than I imagined. Time to close that account.

What the hell?

Why we should prefer switch-side Swiss pairings over dice rolls in TCG pairings: zubrin.substack.com/p/improving-...

Given the recent Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace, sharing this recent article with @michaelallen.bsky.social , @flynnpolsci.bsky.social and Grzegorz Smułek where we explore NIMBYism wrt US troops in Poland in the context of Russian threats www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy to be in Vancouver for #APSA2025. This was our "troops as DV" paper that @michaelallen.bsky.social , @flynnpolsci.bsky.social , and I are finally getting back to. Thanks to @marinahenke.bsky.social and @mcfuhrmann.bsky.social for super useful feedback!

@xkcd.com Can we get an updated map of the internet? I moved offices, put up my 2007 one, and need a replacement I think.

I've had several friends send me this NYT piece. If you're interested in reading more about the complex relationships between U.S. bases and neighboring foreign communities, check out our book, Beyond the Wire, written during the 1st Trump admin (link in reply) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/w...

Why Kissinger would have been a Fortnite champ − and other foreign policy lessons from the gaming world theconversation.com/why-kissinge... @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @michaelallen.bsky.social

Is Chomsky a fascist in the Lore universe?! @ryannorth.ca

Listening to today's Econtalk podcast and the idea that if humans had an LLM's knowledge set, we would see more cross-domain insights instead of the statistically likely output (perhaps the difference between creative output versus statistically average output). So, I want to push chatgpt. #polisky

Check out this amazing H-Diplo roundtable on our book, "Beyond the Wire." Thanks to Lindsay Cohn, @smsaideman.bsky.social, Sebastian Schmidt, and @cnwillis.bsky.social for engaging so thoughtfully with our work! @michaelallen.bsky.social @flynnpolsci.bsky.social issforum.org/roundtables/...

The algorithm has decided that my book, The Gamer's Guide to International Relations, is half on Kindle today at Amazon. #irksy #polisky

Not sure if this is a misspelling or the mobsters in this universe have very filthy guns. @ryannorth.ca

I talked about my new book about gaming and international relations on the local Boise news: I talked about my new book on the local news: idahonews.com/news/local/b... #irsky #polisky

About two years ago, @carlammm.bsky.social, @flynnpolsci.bsky.social, Grzegorz Smułek, and I conducted a survey experiment in Poland. A few interesting finds: 1) Observationally, support for US basing was noticeably higher in 2023 than it was in 2020, when we last surveyed #irsky #polisky

I lack chill. #polisky #irsky

People in Poland 🇵🇱 prefer U.S. military bases to be further from their homes, but contact with U.S. service members moderates NIMBY attitudes. New paper at @intlinteractions.bsky.social w/ @michaelallen.bsky.social @flynnpolsci.bsky.social , and Grzegorz Smułek www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The doors have ears and the

If you are at ISA, consider joining us on Sunday at 10:30am to discuss "The Gamer's Guide to International Relations." Andrew Szarejko (@szarejko.bsky.social) chairs with great discussants including...

My new book, The Gamer's Guide to International Relations, is now out. The book uses genres (MMORPG, Survival, MOBA, BR, and 4x) to show how games within these genres contain ideas we find in international relations and political science. #polisky #teaching #irsky

I did a 25-minute panel interview for Arirang, a widely watched Korean News station. Topics mostly focused on Trump's foreign policy towards Ukraine, Israel, Japan, India, and South Korea. Not often I get up at 3am for an interview. Time for sleep. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sdt...

Crypto-fascist used to mean something else.

Reposting this, given that the Panama Canal came up again in Trump's inauguration speech: @michaelallen.bsky.social @flynnpolsci.bsky.social theconversation.com/trumps-canal...

Not sure where I will hang this yet.

A new piece on @us.theconversation.com with @michaelallen.bsky.social and Michael E. Flynn, on Panama's reaction to Trump's statements on the Canal. (based in part on our fieldwork in #Panama) theconversation.com/trumps-canal...

What other trilogy has gotten better with each movie?

What happens to the Port of Tartus and how Russia tries to maintain access to it in a future Syrian regime will be important to understand the evolving domain of military access. #polisci #politicalscience 🗺 #IRSky www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...

After doing this for a decade, the students finally did it. A - 18 B - 2

It's the best time of the year (for my international relations final). #politicalscience

A new variable for my executive turnover models.

🧵 Do citizens give politicians credit for foreign aid projects in Africa? Research suggests that it depends on both voter information and politicians’ capacity for oversight. Check out this recent World Politics article by Kate Baldwin and Matthew S. Winters: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... #polisky

A "T" on a tee in a T-pose at the AT-AT ATT store.

If I time travel to make an initial investment (or to "create" a technology), there is a serious currency problem. If I go back to 1950 and need a hundred thousand dollars in 1940s currency, it would be hard for me to acquire it now.

We watched "A Taste of Armageddon" for the final week of my Politics and Pop Culture. We will be chatting about AI tomorrow. #politicalscience #polisky

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

This was a good read as a non-Americanist political scientist. #polisky #politicalscience #behavioursky

There has been a lot of confusion over what the president can(not) do with the military. And lots of misunderstanding about what Posse Comitatus actually means. We explain it all in this @goodauth.bsky.social piece. #Polisky #CivMilSky #PolicySky #PoliSciSky goodauthority.org/news/can-the...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Well before platforms that prioritize micro-content, memes, and the general enshittification of social media.

One of the few academic works where I have to make a comment like this in the proofs. #academia #politicalscience

Last week, we were interviewed on a podcast by the new books network about our book on U.S. overseas basing. Come listen. #polisky.

I guess #polisky is where I need to be. Is there a list of other academics to follow that I can easily start adding people from? I am looking to populate my feed!