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Sara Mitchell

@sbmitche

5 years

I haven’t broke down crying until today when the woman in front of me at Walmart couldn’t afford her groceries because she has only $44 in her account. I offered to pay for them. Then I cried in my car. It just hits me how hard this economic crisis is going to be for people 😢

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Political science is best when we embrace methodological pluralism. We seem to be going in the opposite direction.

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I dislike the use of endnotes in articles generally, especially when I'm reading page proofs for an article that has close to 150 endnotes. Footnotes are far superior to endnotes.

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3 years

I just learned that I won a collegiate teaching award. Thanks to my colleagues and students for writing letters in support of my nomination! I have been so fortunate to work with so many talented and caring students at the University of Iowa ❤️

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NSF award email! This is happening, yay! Elise Pizzi and I are PIs for the Disasters, Migration, and Violence (DMV) lab which will help us understand gov't policy responses to disasters and how this interacts with forced/circular migration to produce violence/peace. @UiPolisci

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3 years

I am honored to receive the Board of Regents Faculty Excellence Award

6 faculty members awarded for excellence

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, honored six University of Iowa faculty members for their exceptional contributions and sustained record of excellence.

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2 years

I keep data on Google Scholar citation counts at the time I evaluate folks for tenure/promotion letters. The average number of cites among those going up for tenure that I have reviewed is 191, while the average number of cites for those being promoted to full is 1848.

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7 years

A manel to discuss women in math. It doesn't get more ironic than this 😂

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7 years

A few birthday pieces of advice for academics. 1) Spend extra time with your kids in the summer because they grow up too fast.

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@sbmitche

5 years

Tariffs with China now six times higher than when T took office. Americans paying 100% of these costs.

Chad P. Bown

@ChadBown

5 years

Trump's tariffs are now such a part of our every day lives that @PIIE has turned them into a movie. Coming to a Netflix subscription near you...

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5 years

Term limits are undemocratic. Most political science studies of term limits in state legislatures suggest they create less representative and less productive legislators.

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5 years

The American people are demanding term limits! Serving in Congress shouldn't be a lifetime appointment. Great crowd in Raleigh, NC.

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5 years

Lots of discussions about tenure clock extensions, which is great. But we also need to discuss the effects of this pandemic on graduate students too. They are losing conference presentations and networking opportunities and journals they might submit to may run more slowly. /1

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@sbmitche

5 years

Time for a criminal investigation

Anna Massoglia

@annalecta

5 years

SCOOP: NC's GOP Senator Richard Burr told the public he was confident the govt can fight off COVID-19 the same time he & his wife sold up to ~$1.5 million stock in major corporations that ended up losing most of their value during the coronavirus pandemic

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4 years

My dad came home from the hospital! Glad to hear they will be sending a physical therapist to his house to help improve his strength. I have been recommending this for a long time.

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4 years

Decorating the house for Xmas to distract myself from worrying about my parents who both have covid 😢 This is so scary.

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4 years

Conditional acceptance at a top journal is a nice way to start the week! Of course since the reviewers had 18 pages of single spaced comments in the previous round, we still have to do additional revisions 😂

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4 years

I read about this in grad school a long time ago 😂

The Economist

@TheEconomist

4 years

Why is northern Italy richer than the south? Cultural economics could provide an explanation. One of our most popular economics briefs of 2020

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5 years

Thanks to Conflict Processes section for this award. J David Singer was a mentor to Paul Hensel and I and inspired two decades of data collection through ICOW. Thanks to all of the amazing students who helped us along the way! #APSA2019

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7 years

Great summary @sarahkendzior in 1:07 minutes

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7 years

Trump has been accused not only of sexual assault but of rape by many women and girls over multiple decades. I discussed it on #AMJOY

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4 years

Senior guy asks me if I have kids (I say yes, a daughter), he looks at my CV and then says "I'm wondering if you are a good mother given the length of your CV" 😡

Stock Market Drip💧

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4 years

What was your worst experience while on a job interview?

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3 years

I am so proud that my paper with Andy Owsiak on the judicialization of the sea was accepted at American Journal of International Law today!! In addition to being published in the journal, it will also be featured in an online forum with scholars commenting on our article ❤️❤️❤️

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7 years

As a former department chair, I would add: -teaching classes on preferred days, time slots, classrooms -working in a transparent system where budgets, strategic plans, etc are shared -having colleagues who help and promote your career -fair service loads for all

Jo Wolff

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How to keep academics happy: 1 Time for research 2 Teaching load that stimulates without being overwhelming 3 Modest pay increments 4 Fair pension 5 Occasional word of praise or encouragement 6 A say in things that concern them Er ... that’s it.

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2 years

Since men assume all airplane armrests belong to them, what happens when two men sit next to each other 😂

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4 years

Are academics more annoying during the coronavirus pandemic or is it just me?

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1 year

I'm in the APSA Executive Committee Meeting right now. I will recommend that folks wait a couple of days before making any decisions. Everyone will hear detailed information about the situation very soon.

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@AKHicklin

1 year

I realize I’m being an egregiously lazy political scientist here, but can someone tell me where APSA stands now? I’m not going either way, but if it’s cancelled, I need to check on some of our grad students. And l can’t find the signal through the Twitter noise.

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3 years

Cool to see our book “What Do We Know About War” on the banner 😀 @RLPGBooks

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6 years

I recently talked with graduate students at Iowa and Missouri about the process for publishing journal articles. I added the summary document to my website:

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3 years

Sometimes I look at people's CVs and I wonder if they spend every waking moment on their research. I really hope they don't. Work-life balance is so important for achieving long term happiness in academia.

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4 years

Update on my parents: they seem to be doing better. My mom is eating again and able to do most things, although she is tired & gets dizzy sometimes. My dad is still in the stages of covid where he doesn’t want to eat much & sleeps most of the day. Hoping they keep getting better.

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3 years

Honored to join the APSA Council

Meet the New 2021 APSA Council Members -

Congratulations to the newly-elected APSA Council Members and Officers for 2021! These Council Members and Officers began their terms in September following the conclusion of the APSA Annual Meeting....

politicalsciencenow.com

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3 years

Manuscript accepted! Good start to the week.

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3 years

I am so grateful for celebrating 23 years of marriage with my amazing husband Steve. We had 14 inches of snow the day before our wedding, so the 5 inches of snow we got yesterday is a nice gift/reminder 😀 @Coralvillian

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2 years

Give me the top 3 reasons you most love being an academic. Mine: 1) teaching & mentoring students & seeing where they end up in life, 2) having freedom to research/teach the topics I am passionate about, & 3) being connected to scholars all over the world who share my interests.

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6 years

Reviewed paper for World Politics. Both reviews were very +. WP rejected the piece. My email to the journal: “It appears to me that you don’t rely on reviewers when making editorial decisions (this is a clear r&r to me as a former editor). Please take me off your reviewer list.”

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6 years

Glad to see our article in Political Analysis ( @michelledion @JaneLSumner ) on gender citation gaps available along with 5 articles responding to our findings.

Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields |...

Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields - Volume 26 Issue 3

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6 years

Fascinating that the PRC is paying for a four page insert (by the China Daily) in the Des Moines Register today with multiple stories about how T’s tariffs hurt Iowa farmers.

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4 years

The Journeys in World Politics mentoring workshop for women in IR will return in 2020-2021 AY (probably spring) thanks to a special projects grant from @APSAtweets #JourneysWP

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3 years

Why do students say thank you when they turn in a test 😂

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5 years

Summer guilt is something we need to change in academia. I have been a PhD for 22 years & every summer follows a similar path. 1) Create a list of everything I will finish. 2) Get a couple things on this list done. 3) Temporary success followed by guilt of remaining items. /1

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@jmwooldridge I find it hard to believe that I scored higher than you on the quantitative GRE given that you are the smartest person I ever took a class from. You lectured weekly for 3 hours doing proofs with no notes. You were also nice to me, which is way more important than being smart :)

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6 years

The peer review system is essential in our publication process and we must incorporate this training in PhD programs. /1

Jane Jones, PhD

@janejoann

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Peer reviews are vital to scholarly publishing, but we receive no formal training in how to write one #acwri

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6 years

On MSNBC: People are saying this is a Nixon goes to China moment. But it’s more like a Harold and Kumar go to White Castle moment.

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4 years

An autobiography on my career

H-Diplo Essay 325- Sara McLaughlin Mitchell on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

My interests in global politics were sparked at a young age while growing up in north central Iowa. Farming communities are keenly aware of events in world politics that can affect the price of crops…

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6 years

Only one student in my water & conflict class earned extra credit points by reading my course syllabus. This is worse than I expected. "You can earn two extra credit points by emailing me a picture of Sam and Dean from the TV show Supernatural before the first exam."

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4 years

Talked to my dad on the phone in his hospital room. He sounds tired & a bit out of it, but hard to communicate because he doesn’t have his hearing aids. His kidney dr wants to keep him there a few days. Glad he is involved in treatment. Thanks everyone for your thoughts/prayers.

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5 years

Grad students are simultaneously preparing to teach classes and sections online, while also adjusting to the classes they take online. They might face a worse job market if this extends to the fall semester. Grad programs should consider extending students’ funding for a year. /2

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2 months

Is it just me, or are reviewers becoming more difficult? The nit-picking at multiple stages of reviews is out of control. If authors make a good faith effort to revise a paper, I recognize that as a reviewer. I don't go down some rabbit hole about 1-2 minor points I made.

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4 years

My parents seem to be doing better today

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1 year

Thanks everyone for making this evening so special at the APSA Conflict Processes/FPA reception. I am truly blessed to be part of such an amazing research community!

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3 years

👏👏👏 My coauthors and I found the gender pay gap in political science was around $4000

American Association of University Professors

@AAUP

3 years

Women faculty at Syracuse to get $3.7 million from settlement. The disparity in gender pay gaps in higher ed has been well-documented. An AAUP study showed that full-time female faculty members earn close to 20% less than men. #GenderPayGap

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5 years

R&R!

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5 years

Now that my university is joining the rush online, I will reiterate my concerns about 1) not compensating faculty for the extra time this requires above normal course prep and 2) having little awareness of how our software systems will work on a large demand scale.

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4 years

Larry Bartels in a Jeopardy question!!

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1 year

Congratulations @jboxstef on receiving the Frank Goodnow award!! I am so grateful for your amazing mentorship and service to the discipline!!

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7 months

As a first gen college student, I see all these posts about elite schools people got rejected from and consider that I never applied to any elite schools. I didn’t have anyone guiding my application choices.

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1 year

Annual reminder that I have some job market resources on my website including questions you could ask or be asked on interviews:

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4 years

The unwillingness to arrest these folks or use force against them because they are white is outrageous

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3 years

If a journal won’t publish your work after repeated tries, don’t review for it. Learn this lesson many years before me.

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2 years

Elise Pizzi and I celebrating our NSF grant #DMVLab

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1 year

RIP Bruce Russett. Thanks for supporting my systemic democratic peace research at a time when everyone thought all answers were at the dyadic level.

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8 years

@maddow yeah it's Nader in FL in 2000 all over again

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@GeoffBowden @profmusgrave Grad students with 2-2 loads is more likely

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3 years

In my capacity as Placement Director at U Iowa, I am starting a tweet series about our PhD students on the job market. Please introduce yourself to these amazing students if you see them at APSA :) You can learn more about each student by clicking on their website!

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Me when I open my page proofs and see the copy editors changed Russia to USSR for a 2018 example

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An undergraduate student was telling me today that she enjoys political science (after switching from biology) because most of her classes are taught by female professors❤️

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6 months

Manuscript accepted for publication! Excellent way to start the weekend 😀

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4 years

Article accepted! @bomiklee @Cody_J_Schmidt #TeamHawkeyes

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5 years

Great to meet you!! @KamalaHarris

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4 years

After 15+ rejections, I think the answer is NO 😂😂😂

American Political Science Review

@apsrjournal

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Dream of being published in @APSRjournal ? Meet the new editors and get the inside scoop at #APSA #APSA2020 Sep. 12 12-1:30 EST.

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4 years

Like many others, I am gutted that 65 million people voted for T after everything he has said and done. The BLM movement should have brought us together to a better place, but instead the election reveals the deep seated racism alive and kicking in America. I am appalled 😢

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@JohnHolbein1 I find academia to be a very rewarding career even though the to do list gets overwhelming. My 2018 resolution is to pick things I really want to do this year and make the best of them. One goal is to create a more supportive group environment for my PhD students.

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One of the worse tendencies in academia is for a person to argue for higher standards after passing a rank level. We would all be better off if we focused on helping others be successful in our depts. & and the discipline and recognized each other's contributions, even if varied.

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6 years

My professional rejections listed on my shadow CV: Going 0/11 (offers/interviews) on post-tenure interviews the most painful. #ShareYourRejections

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4 years

Can someone explain why a vaccine study with N=8 is getting so much media coverage and pushing the stock market up? It’s 8 cases...

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3 months

The Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a focus in the study of conflict (either inter-state or intra-state). Please apply!!

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4 years

I have supported @KamalaHarris for president since I first saw her speak at the DC women’s march. I really hope she will be the VP nominee.

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Whew. If this ain’t Presidential — I don’t know WTF is.

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It's that time of year again where I introduce PhD students on the job market from the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa in my capacity as Placement Director. We have five excellent candidates! @UiPolisci

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5 years

@profmusgrave Ability to make delicious croissants and bread more generally

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Manuscript conditionally accepted!!

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6 years

As you prepare course syllabi, consider adding something like this to see if they are reading the sylalbi :-) "You can earn two extra credit points by emailing me a picture of Sam and Dean from the TV show Supernatural before the first exam." Only 1 student replied in spring!

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4 years

I'm at the "looking at my to-do list and saying fuck it" part of the week

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6 years

Women in political science who received their PhD in the past four years should apply for this research mentoring program funded by APSA:

APSA Women’s Research Mentoring Workshop

October 12-13, 2018: APSA Centennial Center, Washington, D.C.

connect.apsanet.org

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I’m devastated by this news. Bear was such a kind and generous soul and had wonderful ways of thinking about research problems. We first met as grad students and interacted in IR and methods circles since. We shared a love of systemic and dynamic models. I will miss him 😢

Sarah Brooks

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@Prof_BearB Rest in peace, dear colleague and friend. You will be missed and remembered fondly around the world. Thanks for the fun times over food, fire pit and speakeasy. Hang in there K & M.

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4 years

The spread of covid is not surprising in either of these situations and yet the college students take way more criticism for it.

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I think we are all owed an acceptance with no revisions in 2020

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5 years

Next year I am creating a new plan. I am taking four weeks of vacation and setting one of those automatic email replies that I despise. I will use those weeks to recharge my mind and body and connect with family. I will do better. /3

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“25% of institutions producing 71 to 86% of all tenure-track faculty"; the hierarchical structure that no one at the top wants to acknowledge

Jesse G. Meyer, PhD, Scientist

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Want a faculty job? You better get your PhD from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc @AcademicChatter

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Grading is the worst part of being a professor

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My parents are in the “I think we’re over covid” phase of the disease. Thanks everyone for your kind messages and support!! My heart aches for all who have lost loved ones to this pandemic.

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Manuscript accepted!! #TeamHawkeyes @bomiklee @Cody_J_Schmidt @yufannn_yang

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4 years

@SRuhle It makes you wonder what the Russians have on all of them 😂

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First Father’s Day without my father is a sad one

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3 years

I received a very nice email from an undergrad student who took two classes from me this year and wrote to thank me for teaching two of her favorite classes at Iowa. She also described how I helped her get through the pandemic. It's so special in a year like this to hear this❤️

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R&R to start the day 🎉

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Just received a grant from the college to support our "What Do We Know About War" conference (with John Vasquez) this fall at Univ. of Iowa. Yay!

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5 years

Another R&R! Going to be a busy Xmas break 😀

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3 years

My latest piece in the Monkey Cage on democratic fishing disputes.

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Why did France and the U.K. dispatch their navies to fight over fish?

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1. My 10th PhD student graduated and I really enjoyed working with current students on new papers this year. 2. I received an award for a dataset I have worked on most of my career. #ICOW 3. I celebrated my 20th anniversary with my husband and transitioned to empty nesthood.

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An older male faculty member looking at my CV and then asking me how I could be a good mother with my record...