Professor • Boise State • International Relations • Focus: War, FoPo, Basing, and Troop Deployments • Nerd: scifi, gaming, methods. RT ≠ Endorsement
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24 Feb 2025
My new book, The Gamer's Guide to International Relations, is now out.
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A simple visualization of the line of control in Ukraine since April 2022.
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I’m still waiting for those top 32 breakdowns, but here’s the day 1 to day 2 conversion ratios. No surprise that GY is a big winner, but special attention should go to GS and GR too. I also know that GS put at least 4 decks into top cut, which will be an insane conversion to T64
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May 26
Wait a minute, Galaxy Quest is basically the same story as the Three Amigos…
I wonder if the Three Amigos holds up, I haven’t seen it in over three decades.
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Today is the submission deadline for the Urban Economics Association meeting in Chicago, September 25-26. Please send your best urban-related work for our program committee to consider.
urbaneconomics.org/meetings/…
@UrbanEconomics
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May 20
I know nothing about it. 🤷🏼 I do hope it’s a real @wizards_magic deck. 🤨Though they should redo the card as he looks like he didn’t have his @KelloggsUS #RaisinBran that morning and will have some trouble boldly “going”! 🚽😉🤣
@WilliamShatner - As a huge fan of yours and also of the game Magic the Gathering, I was just curious if you had any thoughts on your upcoming card in the game! Thank you sir!
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May 14
A brief discussion about U.S. troops in Germany.
Overseas US military bases are integral to combat operations and can burnish the country’s image to advance its foreign policy goals.
theconversation.com/why-trum…
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May 1
me as i read 40% of what claude wrote back and type in “continue”
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Apr 29
Writing a bit about the high rate of stockpile consumption in Iran:
theconversation.com/can-the-…
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Apr 28
Hi @TalkNerdy_Pod, found the pod through SGU a long time ago.
The original quote, "The plural of anecdote is data," predates the negation by a few years and was written by a political scientist! quoteinvestigator.com/2017/1….
Negative form: quoteinvestigator.com/2017/1…
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Apr 28
Obviously, there is a wide gap between the two quotations and offers space to discuss what is and is not good social science.
I think this little tidbit is amusing, and I have used it in the classroom and with colleagues to think a bit deeper about our quantitative evidence.
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Apr 21
NATO’s internal cohesion is being threatened (again) – but in pushing for support on Iran, Trump may risk eroding US influence on the alliance:
theconversation.com/natos-in…
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Apr 14
Deck swap (ma-allen.com/lorcana/change/): post two lists and know what you need to cut/add to change your deck. Also, post two different lists to figure out what cards you need to swap from deck to deck if you have only a playset of each card (thanks, purple). (6/7)
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If you encounter any issues, let me know.
The landing page (which will be updated with future tools) is here: ma-allen.com/lorcana/ (7/7)
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