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Welcome to a late-night thread about data, terrorism data, and what we think we’re measuring when we’re measuring terrorism. 1/ This thread was sparked by Benjamin Allison’s new article on
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Anybody who's ever been on the academic job market knows it's one long onslaught of often contradictory advice. So, I wanted to try something.This week, I gave the exact same
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I have a number of thoughts on this study, which has important & sobering findings but does not ask one central question:Do faculty view PhD programs as job training programs,
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Faculty keep asking me why I say I'm busy—a question that utterly bewilders me, because the answer seems so obvious. But perhaps it's not. So, faculty: here's what your grad
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This resonated deeply, and gave words to the haze in which I existed last summer while doing my fieldwork. A few further reflections on performing gender and authority while doing
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I was also on this call. It was the first time I've experienced Zoom-bombing (which Kate handled with such grace), but it was far from the first time I've heard
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I'm a first-generation graduate student. Here is a thread of things I didn't know when I started my program. 1/ I didn't know that citing your undergraduate thesis was a
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There's a lot to take away from this fascinating story on foreign fighters with the YPG in Rojava (northern Syria). Thoughts incoming. (1/?) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/untold-story-syria-antifa-platoon-66615
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This is less significant than it might appear. Here’s why. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/terrorist-label-white-supremacy-Russian-Imperial-Movement.html First, some outlets are reporting the designation of the Russian Imperial Movem
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Many grad student TAs are doing a ton of extra, uncompensated work right now to keep courses afloat, often with minimal institutional support.They’re also doing a ridiculous amount of emotional
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