Big thank you to Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social , and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social for their encouragement (and so much more) and to Abby Cordova, @sritholtz.bsky.social and Juan Masullo for their helpful comments.

Thank you, Chris. Very kind!

Mil gracias a mi compatriota @andresrtcausal.bsky.social. I learned so much about stacked difference-in-difference strategies and you kept it all together.

Art work: Carolina Caycedo (1978) Mi linaje femenino de la resistencia ambiental (see carolinacaycedo.com)

And here it finally is: Thankful that our paper "Gender in elections: The consequences of killing women activists" is out in the Journal of Peace Research (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

LAPSS- January 29 and 30, deadline: September 15th, 2025. We will also have a gender and conflict pre-conference workshop again.

- but at this very moment, he is making his dream come true and visiting Lenin's Mausoleum. We should not understimate how important leaders' prior experiences are for their willigness to persist and their dreams for the future.

For this paper, I interviewed high-ranking leaders of the FARC and verified whether Rodrigo Londoño had received military training in the UdSSR, which academic and non-academic circles claimed to be true. Only recently it is confirmed what he told me in the interview - that he had never been.

Special thanks to Matthias Basedau, Sabine Carey and the Women Publication Support Group (@sabinecarey.bsky.social), Austin Doctor, Anastasia Shesterinina, Margit Bussmann, and Christian von Soest.

Congratulations! So proud!

And the biggest support comes from the core members. So happy we are doing this together.