Working on a new project that examines internet takedown requests to google and other media platforms.

Anocratic states experiencing political challenges issue more government, court order, and law enforcement takedown requests.

All states issue more takedown requests over time.

The networked movements of al-Shabaab after losing the capital.

Working on a project examining what makes women central actors in violence using the Rwanda Genocide as a case. We find that women co-participate in violence with more women compared to men.

Here is a heat map by sex, age, and who was mobilized hightling the role of women in recruiting women.

More images.

Here are some images from the forthcoming JCR piece.

What was nice about the paper is that I figured out a way to quickly measure alternative specifications. And because it was so efficient I ended up running a few thousand alternative operationalizes of my theoretical argument. Here are plots of those alt specifications and how it affects the results

In the paper, I also introduce two new methodological approaches. The first is a temporal community detection algorithm and the second is a way to quantify measurement decisions with unsupervised learning. Here are some images from the paper.