Happy to be co-organizing M2C2 again!! This time at Duke, May 15-16, with @mararevkin.bsky.social & @meganastewart.bsky.social . Advanced PhD candidates & postdocs working on political violence: we want to hear from you! Two Junior Fellowships w/ travel covered. Deadline: March 10

Very excited to be co-hosting with @dotanhaim.bsky.social & @meganastewart.bsky.social the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium (M2C2) Mini-Conference at Duke May 15-16! PhD candidates & postdoctoral fellows are invited to apply for our Junior Fellowship. Apply here by Mar. 10: forms.gle/Vy6h53639F8B...

APSA deadline is next week! We (SEAPRG) are offering light abstract feedback (esp. for junior scholars) and matchmaking for organized panels on Southeast Asia. Fill out this short form by *tomorrow* (Jan 7) and we’ll do our best to get it on a strong APSA panel. tinyurl.com/apsa-sea

We're hosting SoWEPS-10 at FSU this spring (March 5–6)! If you’re based in the Southeast, doing cool work, and want thoughtful feedback, we’d love to see your submission. Grad student funding available! Details: tinyurl.com/swps10 Form: tinyurl.com/swps-submit

Really proud of our new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social!! @nicoravanilla.bsky.social @matthewjnanes.bsky.social What does citizen contact do to police attitudes in conflict settings? For those interested in bureaucrats, embeddedness, conflict, mixed methods: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Today we are sharing work from Nico Ravanilla, Renard Sexton, & @dotanhaim.bsky.social on government efforts to provide services and build trust w/ communities in a rural, conflict-affected region in the #Philippines during the COVID19 pandemic.

The central puzzle is why did Musk and Trump fight a war when a division of Mars would have left them both better off?

Publication day for our long, long awaited article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social on the effects of community policing on police officers' own attitudes about the community!

🧵 Proud to share our new paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access)! We used a field experiment to test how contact with citizens shapes POLICE OFFICER attitudes then developed inductive theory about when it works v. backfires. Paper w/ @matthewjnanes.bsky.social & @nicoravanilla.bsky.social

🚨 Call for Proposals! 🚨 Seeking junior scholars of conflict & violence for the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium (M2C2) Mini-Conference: ✨ March 21-22 @ FSU ✨ $1,250 honorarium ✨ Eligible: <3 yrs tenure track ✨ Mentorship & panels 📄 Full CfP: bit.ly/M2C2-CfP 📅 Apply by Jan 10: bit.ly/M2C2-Submit

I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available. I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments Let’s see if I find the energy to do this!

For early-career conflict researchers: the ESOC Mentorship Program is open! It provides fellows working on conflict with individual mentors, campus engagement with them, and professional development, including attending an ESOC meeting. More details here: esoc.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

1/ 🤔 Ever wondered if pairing socially isolated students with popular peers helps or hurts their outcomes? My job market paper explores this through a large-scale RCT across Indian schools. Thread below 🧵 #EconSky #EconJobMarket #JMP

Have you ever wanted to show your support for principled modeling of bounded outcomes/proportions? No? Well, anyway, now you can! See 👇 for ordbetareg swag--mugs and T-shirts--available now! 😁 A perfect 🎅 gift for your favorite 🤓... #rstats #academicsky #statsky rmk-designs.printify.me/products

Look here PhD candidates in conflict research: this is a great workshop and networking opportunity ⤵️ Conflictsky

So… which one of Gaetz’s enemies masterminded this brilliant scheme to nominate him for AG just so he'd have to resign from Congress?

#ConflictSky Note: ESOC "will cover travel expenses for presenters" to travel to Taipei!!

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

Back on @bsky.app after a social media break. Does anyone know if the "polisky" feed has been replaced or renamed? Can't seem to find it anymore!

🆕 Excited that @andresuribe.bsky.social and my joint work is out 🔓 open-access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social We study under what conditions rebels succeed in establishing rebel governance in areas dominated by the state. A thread 🧵

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Still looking for Southeast Asia watchers to add to my SEA Starter Pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Excited to announce that Renard Sexton and I are leading a working group on “Security Challenges in Southeast Asia” at the West Point Social Sciences Seminar. The deadline for abstract submissions is September 4. Don’t miss the chance to contribute — submit your abstract here: tinyurl.com/bpam6xw2

PolNet is back, hosted at FSU, June 5-8! Submit a proposal by next Monday (3/25): fla.st/5ILM4C1A conference.polinetworks.org

PolNet 2024 is happening and back to in-person! Real-world networks are way better than online networks. June 5-8 in sunny Tallahassee, FL (co-hosted by Matt Pietryka and I) Please join us and spread the word! *NetworkEmoji* polisky Submit a proposal (March 15 deadline): fla.st/5ILM4C1A

I've always liked this by @pstaniland.bsky.social. It's about lessons from S. Asia for US in Afghanistan. But it is helpful for thinking about the Gaza war and the deep political contradictions of a democracy engaging in state/nation building in the 21st century. foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/24/c...

Call for syllabi: I'm teaching a new PhD seminar in the spring called "Political Psychology of Violent Conflict." Super grateful to anyone willing to share syllabi on political violence, political psychology, behavioral IR, etc. that I can use for inspiration.

So excited this is finally out in the world. Grateful to the editors, reviewers and countless friends and colleagues who have provided feedback on this project!

Heartbreaking stories of Afghan families being torn apart as Pakistan forcibly expels up to 1 million Afghans, many of whom were born in Pakistan and have spent their entire lives there. Cruel dilemma: hide in the shadows and hope to avoid getting caught, or go to Taliban Afghanistan?

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🚨Job alert 🚨 (PDRI-DevLab) @UPenn invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship (2024-2025). The postdoc would be working with me on joint research projects (50% of their time). There's no teaching. To apply see apply.interfolio.com/136018 Please consider applying, or sharing widely.

Conflictsky folks, give this paper a read! I think it's one of the best recent papers published on political violence. Really novel theory, and incredibly creative empirics.

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

🚨 New preprint: "A Strategic Logic of Violence against UN Peacekeepers" - Micro-level theory - Cross-nat data on UN PKO targeting - Mixed method case study of Mali BOTTOM LINE: inverted-U (nonlinear) relationship between UN deployment and targeting. LINK: osf.io/ta96y polisky conflictsky

How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)

Conflictsky. Important analysis from @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social

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An Open Access, un-gated article by Asfandyar Mir, Tamar Mitts, and me in Perspectives on Politics polisky: "Political Coalitions and Social Media: Evidence from Pakistan" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great to see this out: blog post in The Loop summarising our recent PLOS ONE paper, w/ Margherita Belgioioso & Kristian Gleditsch. PoliSky ConflictSky theloop.ecpr.eu/community-de...

Great podcast, great research. Really enjoyed this one. Conflictsky

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...

Hi! I’m on a book award committee for the conflict processes section of APSA. Send in your nominations!

We are hiring! Come work with as a Program Manager, at the Penn Development Research Initiative- DevLab. Your primarily responsible would be managing a portfolio of research projects. Our team is fun, the university benefits are generous, and the city is great. Details at: shorturl.at/flIJY

Polisky folks! 2nd Annual EPOVB conference will be in Tallahassee at FSU Feb. 29 through March 2 (an amazing time of year time to be in Tallahassee) See below for details. Funding available for grad student travel. Submissions here: fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Tempted to create a horse-related feed called 'Trotsky' If only I were actually into horses...

I tried to follow @profmusgrave.bsky.social 's instructions, and created a PSJMInfo feed. The goal is to continue the #psjminfo effort on the other place, and hopefully to make the rumor mill irrelevant. Let me know if you'd like to be added!

Polisky. Announcing workshop on 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀. Ursula Daxecker, Andrea Ruggeri, and I are inviting proposals for an in-person workshop at University of Amsterdam in spring 2024. Submission deadline: Friday, September 29 Call & submission info: evap.uva.nl/event/worksh....

Excited to see my Blueskee (tm) feed getting more interesting as more people join! One thing that doesn't seem as common on here: a good old-fashioned "paper thread" of 5-10 posts describing a recent publication/WP. Has that kind of thing gone out of style?