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Sky Kunkel
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Postdoctoral research fellow at the Gender and Security Sector Lab at Cornell University.
UN peacekeeping/security/nonstate actors.
www.skytheacademic.com
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We're so proud of our team (@deanneroark.bsky.social, @skytheacademic.bsky.social @zinab.bsky.social) for their tremendous work on #MOWIP training in Fiji!

Their dedication set these reports and future projects up for great success.

Thanks to EthosCRS, the #Elsienitiative, the RFMF, and the FPF!
June 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.
April 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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If you do want to know how it works—and, specifically, how it can work in the US, here’s a thing I wrote: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Trump Can Be Stopped
Other countries managed to fend off autocracy. By borrowing from their playbook, America can too.
substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I got to explain the 14th amendment to my class today. Many didn’t know it was a reconstruction amendment. This is why one of the best things we can do is provide the history behind what leads to the madness. People truly don’t know.
January 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions.

See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al:
—PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2...
—Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
January 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Calling everyone planning to submit for #APSA2025 and who works on IR with a critical lens - if you have an abstract and want to join a panel with some great folks, send me an email/DM ASAP!! We only have room for a couple more papers, so first come, first serve
#Academicbsky
January 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Calling everyone planning to submit for #APSA2025 and who works on IR with a critical lens - if you have an abstract and want to join a panel with some great folks, send me an email/DM ASAP!! We only have room for a couple more papers, so first come, first serve
#Academicbsky
January 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Starting a first draft of a replication paper for #isa2025, does anyone have a well-structured replication paper I can use as a template?
January 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I’ve created @polviolencepapers.bsky.social to repost working papers on political violence. Since Bluesky doesn’t have a bookmark function yet, I thought we needed a dedicated space to store all those working papers often shared here.
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 AM
starting off the day with my first ever request to review a paper for a journal (so exciting!!!!). any tips on best practices for referees as I go through it?
January 9, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Forgot to share on here: Hi! Conflict Processes @ MPSA section head here. Don’t forget to submit your proposals today. If you’re struggling because of world events or not sure of fit email/message me.
October 9, 2023 at 11:49 PM
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The USIP fellowship was an amazing experience: it provided the time & support to make dissertation progress, connections to incredible minds at USIP & a network of brilliant junior scholars working on peace & conflict research.

Also: it took me *multiple* application attempts.

Apply! PSJMInfo
September 29, 2023 at 2:08 PM