#FirstGen Political Scientist @uscpoir. Interests in civil war, mercenaries, undergraduate research and research transparency. PI @SPECLabUSC. She/Hers
California, USA
Joined June 2017
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Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
I'm proud of this one: I examine the incentives of military officers at the onset of civil war to remain loyal, side with the rebels, or resign (thread)
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
📣New! on First View🌟 Critical perspectives on Addressing the “Hidden Curriculum” in Political Science Publishing. @britanlar and Hannah Phillips introduce the collection that bring together a comprehensive overview of the publishing process 📒 1/6 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
ChatGPT code interpreter is the best product to come out of @openai since GPT4.
It gives everyone a personal data analyst.
If you haven't tried it yet, let me show you exactly how it works:
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Do you study civil conflict or political violence?
Please take 5-10 minutes to fill out our survey! We want to know how you would resolve some of the common ethical dilemmas faced by conflict researchers.
Your answers will help us @ESoConflict develop non-binding principles
We'd be super grateful if you would fill out the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F….
Thanks to @graemedblair @jsteendavis & @DotanHaim for their help in developing this survey!
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
🚨Job🚨 Come work with me, @graemedblair & @n_ichino as @EGAPTweets & @C_Dem_Canada pre or postdoc fellow. Among other things, you'll help to improve the accessibility of methods for the design and analysis of randomized trials. More info: tinyurl.com/3x43vzcr
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Inspired by @henananabatman's reminder of awesome this movie is, a 2 part thread revisiting my favorite MNAR (missing not at random) examples:
🧵1/2. Favorite fictional MNAR:
ALT Screenshots of Bill Paxton in the amazing film Twister. In the first, he looks optimistic, with text reading "collecting data on tornado wind speeds." In the second, he is looking fearful and filthy, with text reading "don't have data on highest wind speeds because of high winds!" The third is a shot of their overturned tornado chaser truck and Dorothy contraption, which was just thrown upside-down by high winds.
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
We're hiring a Research Support Associate @MITPoliSci to work with me, @evlieb, @maiohassan, and @lab_diversity on research on politics in Africa and the Global South.
This is a great position for those interested in a future phd. More details here: 1/
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Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Honored and elated to share that "Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers" has won the @ISSS_ISA best article award! @isanet @Journal_IS @DrJLHazelton @MorganLKaplan @DukeSanford - take a look at: direct.mit.edu/isec/article-…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Delighted to share my new article w/ @AllanDafoe, published open access in @EJIntSec
*Engines of power: Electricity, AI, and general-purpose military transformations*
@GWtweets @ElliottSchoolGW @GovAI_ @StanfordCISAC
Key takeaways below:
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Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Academic journals have responded to the replicability crisis by promoting open science, including through awarding badges, for example for providing open access to data. How well do these badges work? That’s what we tried to find out! doi.org/10.1177/095679762211…
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Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
APSA Women’s Virtual Mentoring Workshop – Spring 2023. Scholars who identify as women, non-binary, or genderqueer (< 5 years from PhD) encouraged to apply. Apply by February 12 at: tinyurl.com/9kyfhkx3Tenured women: volunteer to be a mentor! tinyurl.com/2a3k7zz7
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
I’ve got a guest post today @BlogBroadstreet about implications my new book - The Scarce State - has for scholars of historical political economy, especially on Africa.
More info on the book is here: cambridge.org/core/books/sca…
Its out soon and available for pre-order @CUP_PoliSci
Today in Broadstreet, @noahlnathan discusses why scarce states are not always weak states broadstreet.blog/2023/01/23/…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Information warfare increasingly shapes the dynamics of 21st century wars. The war sparked by the M3 rebellion in eastern DRC is no exception. My latest for @newhumanitarian w. @ethuin thenewhumanitarian.org/opini…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!! @anthlittle and I are excited to share our new working paper “Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding.” 🔥Our hot take🔥: Contrary to the current narrative, we DON’T find evidence that we are in a period of global democratic decline 🧵1/
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
New paper alert! Can coups end autocratic rule and foster democratisation? In a new @EuroJournIR paper @KSGleditsch & I examine post-coup trajectories. We argue that social mobilisation makes democratization more likely in the aftermath of a coup journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
As promised, "Dangerous Changes: When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness" is now available in @Journal_IS! Instead of the typical summary thread of the argument and empirics (you can go read it!), I'll highlight a few broader takeaways.
direct.mit.edu/isec/article-…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
I’m excited to share that “The PhD Pipeline Initiative Works: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention to Help Under-Represented Students Prepare for PhDs in Political Science” is conditionally accepted at JOP. 🧵drive.google.com/file/d/1zpB…
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
🧵You know how we talk a lot about survey design? Turns out we political scientists are pretty terrible at it when it comes to our own merit review forms ("infernal", "obnoxious"), especially for reporting DEI efforts @POCalsoknow @womenalsoknow (1/4)
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Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Now in World Politics:
Will public consultation about how to use natural resource wealth fuel populism and the dreaded 'resource curse'?
Maybe not:
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Can deliberative democracy overcome the resource curse?
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We finally have a paper based on Tanzania RCT with @nancymbirdsall, Jim Fishkin, and @Mujobu + enormous work by @JenLRichmond, Faraz Haqqi, and others.
Dr. Megan Becker retweeted
Do you use conflict event data in your research as a scholar; in forecasting as a government analyst? I am delighted to share my latest working paper (w/ @miweintraub83, @dandekadt, @JoeFelter, and an outstanding team of @PolViol_Lab research intern co-authors). 1/3