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Often looking at maps, sometimes for a reason. Ph.D. candidate at @NYUpolitics. Formerly MIP @fsistanford. he/him

New York, USA
Joined March 2016
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I'm excited to share 'City Limits and Partisan Sorting', available online @JPIPE_journal! It's cool to see this chapter of my dissertation in print. doi.org/10.1108/JPIPE-05-202… Using geocoded election results, registered voter data, and city shapefiles in the U.S., I show that...
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... the areas just outside city limits (in both urban and rural environments) are demonstrably more Republican-leaning than neighborhoods on the other side of the border. The gap is largest in regions where places outside cities lack any meaningful provision of...
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... public goods (e.g. the unincorporated areas of the Mountain West versus townships in the Northeast). Much of the variation is explained by demographic and socioeconomic factors, but local taxes and expenditures also predict the degree of partisan sorting.
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Looking forward to #APSA2024 (my first!) to discuss my work on U.S. cities and partisan sorting: dropbox.com/scl/fi/tget1unkt… I’ll also be helping rep the cool project with @leah_u_stein and @sanford_gordon on trends in in-district House contributions.
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Thrilled to be joining @NYUpolitics this fall to pursue a PhD in politics and political economy! I truly don’t know where I’d be without the support of great mentors and friends like @saumjha and countless others. Excited for a lifestyle centered around nonstop NY-style pizza!
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I am one (1) constitutional crisis away from shaving my head
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me showing the dog where I dropped my crumbs so he can come clean it up
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my post quarantine, post-Zoom goal is to keep up that whole thing where I wave awkwardly at everybody else for slightly too long before leaving a meeting room
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The more I let my hair grow out, the more I look like Coconut Head from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. This tweet will not be accompanied by a photo.
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If you’re typing and notice you made a mistake a few words back, how do you fix it?
83%Pound backspace & restart
17%Use cursor to go back
6 votes • Final results
My best talent is nodding and saying ‘oui’ whenever a French speaker tells me something and I don’t understand them
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Adulthood is just a daily cycle of opening the fridge and discovering that the food you bought the day before is now 83% mold
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walking into this Swiss supermarket and realizing that I’m gonna need to learn German real quick if I don’t want to give myself food poisoning
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Does trying to use the steam from my teakettle to smooth my graduation stole count as:
67%Design thinking?
33%Desperation?
9 votes • Final results
I wish overthinking things burned calories
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Everybody’s out there graduating but I’m just sitting here eating yogurt
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turns out you’re still expected to do things and go places even when it’s senior spring. my lawsuit against everyone who asks me to do these things is pending
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I know why I’m crying in the club right now
To the robot who turned 90 days into 15 years of exploration: You were, and are, the Opportunity of a lifetime. Rest well, rover. Your mission is complete. (2004-2019) mars.nasa.gov #ThanksOppy
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I had to do multiplication by hand on my midterm today, and the fact that I’m lowkey proud of myself for doing that is sad
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a good way to describe my entire college experience
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