My reflections in @theglobeandmail.com on Minneapolis as a Canadian living in the U.S., a veteran, and a researcher of political violence: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... DM me for the piece if you'd like to read it.

They're reinventing LinkedIn from first principles.

New in Small Wars & Insurgencies: “Killing Like a State: Explaining Rebel-Perpetration of Wartime Genocidal Violence.” Using ISIS as a case study, I show how rebels can behave like states, and when four high-threshold conditions align, genocide can follow. Link to article in comments

Proud to share our APMJ paper on digital nomads in #SoutheastAsia, spearheaded by my coauthor Mariana (lead author + fieldwork!). Findings: privilege & remote work, the “hybrid home,” and the paradox of feeling at home while uprooted. Link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TZM56... #MigrationStudies

Omg Klarna is recruiting a civil war and genocide scholar? What are they planning over there?

Just published in World Development! 🎉 This piece explores how peace agreements and democratization can actually undermine Indigenous self-determination, using the Cordillera region of the Philippines as a case study. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As delays and shakeups loom over the BARMM elections, we can be sure that if the elections take place in October, Malacañang may be casting the deciding vote. Read my latest analysis in @eastasiaforum.bsky.social with thanks to @duriandiaries.bsky.social eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/09/m...

In light of the recent arrest of Rodrigo Duterte on charges of crimes against humanity, I want to reshare this conversation I had with award winning author Patricia Evangelista after the release of her book Some People Need Killing, on who is Rodrigo Duterte. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 finally answers my burning question of what happens if Sonic was John Wick.

Normal conversation starter with colleagues in a political science department: “so I was thinking about Mobutu Seso Seko today.”

Fellow scholars of Southeast Asian politics can tell you that absolutely nothing can ever go wrong with a sovereign wealth fund.

Bangsamoro elections moved to May 2026, extending the transition period for the peace process. President BBM to appoint a new transitional government in the autonomous region.

@cnn.com: “there’s a credibility crisis in the media! We need to do something” Also @cnn.com:

My Government and Politics of Southeast Asia students are not to be outdone by my intro to IR students. Here are their memes: 🧵

My favorite time in the semester is when I get to post the memes my students made in the class. Here are the ones from my intro to international relations class: 🧵

My Taylor Swift moment was having Noel King and Victoria Chamberlin of @vox.com visit Smith College.

Goodbye neoliberalism, welcome back mercantilism

Political dynasties trying not to deploy election related violence challenge, level: impossible

Everyone complaining about Tyson v. Paul perhaps missed the greatest interaction in sport broadcasting history: when Lennox Lewis asked Evander Holyfield in the commentators’ booth if he thought Tyson would bite Paul and if Tyson “bit off more than he can chew.”

Only took me 7 years to get this piece of paper. Am I a real boy now? @uoft.bsky.social

Very happy to share that this article on drawing on fieldwork in the BARMM over the past year is now online with Democratization. We owe many thanks to SwissPeace for helping us workshop this paper to get it to this stage! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you think about it, an R&R is just turning your paper into what can be, unburdened by what has been. #phdchat #KHive #AcademicTwitter

EVERYBODY STOP AND LOOK AT THIS R&R COMMENT I GOT FROM A REVIEWER 2. I have never felt dopamine levels like this and likely will never reach this high ever again. #phdvoice #phdchat #gradschool

Academics only want one thing: @phdvoice.bsky.social

We started on this in May 2021. We even presented our findings to GAC to support Feminist International Assistance Policy and the WPS agenda. Finally found a home for it in the journal of Violence and Gender! Thanks to all who supported us and can’t wait to see it online! #phdvoice #phd

3 years of data collection, 100+hrs of interviews, 7 months of transcription, 5 months of writing, 219 single-spaced pages, 87,316 words (not including references and appendices) later, the full draft is done. Internal/External examination next! #phdvoice #phdlife #PhD

Okay but why Lululemon selling the medieval peasant from Lower Brittany look for $74.

A grimace shirt a day keeps the new year scaries away. #newyear #grimace #childrenofgrimace

I love co-authoring with engineers because they write the most based method sections. #phdvoice #phdchat #academicchatter

Y’all think this chapter is long enough or should I keep going? #phdchat #phdvoice

Them: what good is a political science degree? Me:

Doing some organizing of my library for writing my dissertation and here is every book I have on the Philippines

Happy to announce that the article that I co-authored with a former student is now live in the latest issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention: an International Journal. #genocide

I don’t always cosplay a journalist. But when I do, it’s because I’m interviewing award-winning journalist Patricia Evangelista about her new book that chronicles the human stories of the drug war in the Philippines. Our conversation will air on Nov 10th. Meanwhile, go get her book!

After 7mo, I have finally finished transcribing over 100hrs of interview data from 90 interviews collected over the course of 3 years in the Philippines for my dissertation. I'm now committing myself publicly to pushing out one chapter every month until completion. #phdvoice #phdchat