Scott Wolford
@thescottwolford.bsky.social
Professor of Government, UT Austin // Co-director, Correlates of War Project // IR, war, game theory, beer snobbery, rock music, Dune references
Oh, Learn Bar. How I’ve missed you.
July 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Oh, Learn Bar. How I’ve missed you.
Pardon the dated self-reference, but working on a model of war expansion inspired by WWI in a 19th century basement pub in Budapest feels like old-school #wolfording @jessecjohnson.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Pardon the dated self-reference, but working on a model of war expansion inspired by WWI in a 19th century basement pub in Budapest feels like old-school #wolfording @jessecjohnson.bsky.social
"Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics," co-authored w/@utaustin.bsky.social PhD student @yujimasumura.bsky.social, is now out in Early View @ajpseditor.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
April 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Shifting power, interstate war, and domestic politics," co-authored w/@utaustin.bsky.social PhD student @yujimasumura.bsky.social, is now out in Early View @ajpseditor.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Super Hans FTW
November 30, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Super Hans FTW
Escaping APSA for some writing, accompanied by Bob Ross
September 7, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Escaping APSA for some writing, accompanied by Bob Ross
Keeping this in the paper until some joyless scold makes us take it out...
September 5, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Keeping this in the paper until some joyless scold makes us take it out...
writing lecture slides like
September 4, 2024 at 9:30 PM
writing lecture slides like
A sample of what we'll talk about in undergrad Causes of War this semester...
August 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
A sample of what we'll talk about in undergrad Causes of War this semester...
If messing up "Rostov-on-Don" is a human error, I won't care so much. But if this is a symptom of @cnn.com using the fancy autocomplete that is an LLM...
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August 13, 2024 at 6:23 PM
If messing up "Rostov-on-Don" is a human error, I won't care so much. But if this is a symptom of @cnn.com using the fancy autocomplete that is an LLM...
apple.news/Ay-n8V2HWQT6...
apple.news/Ay-n8V2HWQT6...
Pretty sure this is the darkest footnote I've ever written.
August 9, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Pretty sure this is the darkest footnote I've ever written.
Today in “Apple Music gets me”
August 6, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Today in “Apple Music gets me”
IMO this is the single funniest line in all of Star Wars. It's well-earned, totally in character yet totally absurd, and I laugh *every time* I see it. 3PO relentlessly shitting on R2 in the early moments of ANH comes close, but for my money no single line has this much fucking laugh in it.
July 27, 2024 at 11:03 AM
IMO this is the single funniest line in all of Star Wars. It's well-earned, totally in character yet totally absurd, and I laugh *every time* I see it. 3PO relentlessly shitting on R2 in the early moments of ANH comes close, but for my money no single line has this much fucking laugh in it.
If I’m still seeing this, Brexit didn’t go far enough.
July 23, 2024 at 7:34 AM
If I’m still seeing this, Brexit didn’t go far enough.
Black Drongo Classic IPA at Learn Bar in Taipei
July 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Black Drongo Classic IPA at Learn Bar in Taipei
Best euphemism for homelessness I’ve ever seen
July 3, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Best euphemism for homelessness I’ve ever seen
Collective deterrence, with UT GOV PhDs, now assistant professors @joshlandry.bsky.social and Kevin Galambos. In Budapest, as you do.
June 26, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Collective deterrence, with UT GOV PhDs, now assistant professors @joshlandry.bsky.social and Kevin Galambos. In Budapest, as you do.
Today in "Footnotes that I hope survive the review process."
polisky
polisky
June 4, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Today in "Footnotes that I hope survive the review process."
polisky
polisky
Now I’m insufferable in Korean, too.
May 10, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Now I’m insufferable in Korean, too.
Whoever proposed this—a warning that I'm in caps lock right by the cursor instead of on a key obscured by my hands while I type—is one of my heroes.
April 11, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Whoever proposed this—a warning that I'm in caps lock right by the cursor instead of on a key obscured by my hands while I type—is one of my heroes.