Alhamdulillah. I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Occidental College in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy. I cannot believe my luck that I get to call the amazing city of Los Angeles home! 1/n

August 2024. Did I lie? DID I LIE?!?

Starting at 1% in the polls, @ZohranKMamdani pulled off one of the great political upsets in modern American history. Yes. We CAN create a government that represents working people and not the 1%. I look forward to working with Zohran as he builds a city that works for all.

Movements just changed the course of history. Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani. This win is for all of us. The fight continues — onward.

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.” Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani

As South Asia is in the thick of smog season again, I'm re-upping a thread on my paper that shows that we don't need flashy/ ineffective tools like smog towers/cannons. Instead, there's a lot that can be achieved if existing govt bureaucrats are properly incentivized.

I haven't been on Twitter in forever, but come back with an important request: what are folks favorite qualitative articles in political science? Especially those recently published in the top journals / those showcasing research in South Asia? Grateful for tips!

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @PNASNews w/ Reny, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

It's a thing that exists! If you want a free copy of The Invisible Hand(out) retweet this & I'll pick one name on the release date (8/12) & send it to you wherever you are! Or if you can't wait that long, the e-version is available at https://t.co/0x5czYvTaT

I remember my desperate messages to friends in grad school, asking them if the paper was really *that* bad. I remember the sinking feeling at not getting satisfactory responses. Grad school can truly be a dark time. But I'm grateful for my supporters & my cheerleaders. Thank YOU!

But I persisted & published. The paper shows that the moral hazard of aid [more violence --> more aid] can coexist with an aggregate decline in recipient state violence by displacing violence geographically. It's a paper close to my heart. And it is a sign of my resilience. 4/n

I workshopped it at Aid Withdrawals 2021, PEIO 2022, and got feedback from several senior scholars. Got rejected from a special edition, but here we are. Every time I approached this paper, I was ridden by impostor syndrome (still am!). Reading it became a trauma. 3/n

According to my advisors who read at least 2 versions of this paper, it did not meet NYU's qualifying paper requirements & I was separated from NYU's program at the end of my 4th year. Then a friend asked me to submit it to a workshop during Covid-19. 2/n

📢New Publication! https://t.co/bnpAXSCWjn I've stopped using X, but wanted to announce my first ever solo-authored publication, out in Journal of Conflict Resolution this week. I had the idea for this paper as a grad student at Oxford, and began writing it in 2014 at NYU. 1/n

a cutie patootie

Many congratulations to the Mamdani-Nair Family!

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @ZohranKMamdani.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Run don’t walk to GO VOTE FOR ⁦ZOHRAN MAMDANI⁩ FOR NYC Mayor!!! Rank ⁦Zohran #1 Brad Lander #2 Adrienne Adams/Scott Stringer/Michael Blake or Zellnor Myrie #3 to #5. DO NOT RANK TRUMP BILLIONAIRE-FUNDED SEX PREDATOR ANDREW CUOMO