University of Iowa Political Science Ph.D. Candidate. I study the causes and consequences of border wall construction. I also love maps and the outdoors!
Joined June 2017
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Excited to have the work @sbmitche, Elise Pizzi, and I published at ISQ!
We use novel data on government responses to natural disasters to investigate how international borders and border disputes influence who responds to disasters and how they do so.
academic.oup.com/isq/article…
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Check out our newest publication from the DMV Lab in ISQ! We examine how disaster response differs in border vs. interior areas and how ongoing or settled territorial disputes alter disaster responses. @LappeAdam @UiPolisci
doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqag059
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I can't help but notice these lists of 'great men' are all men who were great at killing. In the case of Alexander or (fictional!) Achilles, great at killing and *nothing else.*
No scientists, artists, writers, humanitarians.
Just killers. Not quite my definition of greatness.
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U Iowa looks pretty good on these measures
You can search for your school on the site "Mapping the Structural Divide" in US Higher Education: kylesaunders.com/university-…
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I cannot believe all it took was for NIL to become legal to see the fall of the SEC
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The government was never meant to be run like a company. Its bottom line isn’t profit margins, it’s people.
The notion that the government should be run like a business is an absurd one.
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Let’s be clear: the Department of Education exists because states wouldn’t fund poor schools, wouldn’t protect kids with disabilities, wouldn’t follow civil rights law, especially in the South. Anyone calling to abolish it is calling to turn back the clock—and we can’t let that happen.
At the White House right now. Headed to see President @realDonaldTrump return control of education back to the states—where it belongs.
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It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured stupidity that did it.
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The haters said a trade war would tank the market.
They were correct.
Honesty, great call by the haters.
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A nation is a “group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours.” - Karl Deutsch
I explain what this has to do with "Great Power Stupidity" in my latest for @WPReview
worldpoliticsreview.com/us-t…
Great presentation by my friend Ahmed on U.N. Peace keeping and its pacifying effects on Militarized Interstate Disputes!
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This is exactly the problem. You can't take the "move fast and break things" mentality of Silicon Valley into the federal government, a place where if you break things, people die, or have their rights violated, or can't access essential services.
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If he does this, it will be the absolute dumbest thing any US President has ever done, ever. Forward deployment is an extremely effective tool of deterrence, and US forces in particular have been shown to dramatically reduce the chance of aggression. WTAF is he doing.
BREAKING: US Vice President JD Vance will probably announce the withdrawal of US troops from Europe at the Munich Security Conference. This is what the head of the security conference, Christoph Heusgen, assumed in an interview with Deutschlandfunk . "I suspect that today the American Vice President will also announce that a large part of the American troops will be withdrawn from Europe and that Europe should take over the tasks
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🚀 Launching a new #Stata package #geoflow that allows users to generate spatial arcs.
This package is a culmination of over a year of work for building stable core dependencies. It also brings us one step closer to flexibly plot network data (more on generic applications later this year).
Given the complex structure of spatial network data (nodes, flows, attributes, projections etc.), the use is not so straightforward but I will add more examples and tutorials soon.
From now till March, there are several trainings scheduled around maps and spatial data so expect some improvements in the coming months.
Do give it a try! More info:
github.com/asjadnaqvi/stata-…
Up soon on #SSC!
