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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

L’shanah tovah and Shabbat Shalom! I poorly timed my conference trips this year and find myself in London for RH. The Borough Market came through though! It’s been a very complicated and challenging year but I feel more grounded and have a lot of hope for what 5787 holds for me and loved ones.

A card with fish and a round challah on a white background

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Made it to Boston for #APSA2026! Today I'll be at the APSA Politics of the Built Environment Short Course where I'll be giving a short talk about my book "Who leads and who follows? Norms in Urban Climate Governance."

Devon smiling in a brown linen suit with red linen shirt

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Shabbat shalom! Last week in Ottawa for the summer- back to Copenhagen next week for the fall term. I had some great news this week re: job market stuff and a paper I’ve had in my backlog for ages went under review at a super high impact journal. Unfortunately though,

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you liked the Odyssey, you might like:

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The ghost of Margaret Thatcher during the World Cup semifinals

Margaret Thatcher in a tank with a British flag flying from it

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Using my free will this morning to make matzo chilaquiles

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

You know you work in Denmark when your team workshop itinerary has knitting scheduled in

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

February was horrifically terrible- personally and globally. Hoping this Shabbat (which fell on one of the nicest days in Copenhagen recently) will usher in less pain and grief.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The worst part of being in Europe again is waking up every morning and immediately seeing a new fresh hell

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Today is #ReproShabbat hosted by @lilithmagazine.bsky.social and @ncjw.bsky.social - I was a co-champion of their uterus challah competition last year and decided to give it another go this year to reclaim the crown. Stiff competition this year though!!

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A late Shabbat Shalom! It’s been a … weird week. I’ve been pretty sick all week but also got great news on my book, Daniel received some good news, and we got a lot of great things rolling with our water governance project. Hoping a restful Shabbat will kick what’s left in my system.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Shabbat shalom! Going into this week with a huge weight off my shoulders- my book proposal has been submitted! If all goes according to plan, the book will hit shelves before the end of next year!

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Shabbat shalom! Absolutely ready to say goodbye to this week between everyone circling back and the ratcheting up of US fascism. I will be reading and napping with my dogs if you need me.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Seeking help on getting Gemini out of my Google workspace (especially Drive). Smart features are turned off and I've also deselected Opal and Gemini. Why am I still getting force fed Gemini in my Google Drive?

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Shoot that last one should have been this:

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Remember personal pan pizza tracker cards? Made resolutions this year based on that inspiration! We also tied two big accomplishments we want to complete in 2026 around bottles of bubbly that we will open once we achieve those!

Two goals wrapped around mini bubbly bottles

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Niche thing from my dissertation: a big downside to subscription or privatized models of bike programs (aside from price point) is the lack of flexibility for resident needs. Ex: Seoul (which operates bikes as a public good) was able to design smaller bikes for youth, women, and elderly folks

A regular bike frame and a smaller bike frame side by side

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Shabbat shalom! The last Shabbat of 2025 has arrived. We spent this week celebrating the marriage of our friends Caroline and Liam as well as making a ton of holiday treats and snuggling the pups. Looking forward to 2026 and the new adventures ahead!

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Made a million cookies for neighbors and ordered Chinese food. Overall good holiday!

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Happy Night 4 of Chanukah! Clockwise from top left: pickle latke, applesauce latke, sour cream latke, smoked salmon and dill latke, poutine latke, and buffalo latke with blue cheese #poliscicooks

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Also FWIW, Jourdan and I have spent two years trying to tell folks that the work of "AI detection" is incredibly flawed and biased against folks who are disabled and English learners. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ethically, we have concerns about total bans on generative AI as enforcement of such policies necessitates propping up a predatory industry of carceral, surveillance technology. Shortly after the release of ChatGPT, companies like Open AI (Chat GPT’s parent company) released so-called “detector” tools meant to tell professors and others the statistical likelihood that a submitted text was generated by AI. Following suit, TurnItIn, Grammarly, and other educational technology have launched their version of services to sniff out papers with AI generated content. Unfortunately, these tools are error ridden and have high false positive rates for disabled students, international students, and those who use more “acceptable” AI tools like Grammarly (Bailey Citation2023; Laird, Dwyer, and Grant-Chapman Citation2023; Myers Citation2023). Given these equity concerns, there are a number of universities that have rolled out bans or disabled AI detection tools on their campuses.Footnote2 Some professors have also started using lists of words or phrases that they believe might signal use of generative AI in coursework, such as “delve” or “crucial” (Stillman Citation2024). All of these strategies and trends reflect increasing pressure for professors to police academic honesty and integrity in the classroom. The only other viable alternative to this surveillance approach in order to enforce bans on generative AI use is to reconfigure assignments to be done primarily in class and on paper, which introduces additional concerns regarding disability access and substantially limits the types of assignments and assessment at instructors’ disposal.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

So Daniel remembered Chanukah candles but forgot to bring a Chanukiah with him from Ottawa. We improvised by building a LEGO Chanukiah and creating a makeshift one with Trader Joe’s seasoning. Happy night 1, everyone!

A Lego Chanukiah and a Chanukiah made of tea lights and a Trader Joe’s seasoning

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Shabbat shalom! It’s the last Shabbat in Copenhagen for the year! It’s been truly phenomenal to have this postdoc experience and live here. I’m also excited to that classes finished this week and now I can go home to Canada for a little bit and see my dogs.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

LEGO pieces came in today so we were able to put together our menorah!

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Shabbat shalom! This was very likely the worst week of 2025. It started with our dogs basically getting abandoned by the new sitters we hired (and having to scramble to find new folks- shout out to Siobhan + her mom) and

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day! Spotify just roasted me this year (Four Seasons was on repeat to finish the diss).

Vivaldi, Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift, Charli xcx albums as top albums

5,615th top listened of Vivaldi globally

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So the bad news is that Daniel forgot to bring the Chanukiah I asked for him to bring. The good news is that I get to order the Lego set I wanted to order now. (Yellow Chanukiah was the original design; teal Chanukiah is my design)

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I am also on this list and came to BlueSky to complain about it 😆- amazing that a bunch of PhDs can’t read this paragraph where it makes it incredibly clear why folks are on the list, how they got the info, and how to remove themselves

You are receiving this invitation as we are reaching out to all political scientists at universities in liberal democracies, using email addresses collected from publicly available webpages. If you do not wish to be contacted, you may opt out here.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Also in honor our our anniversary please enjoy my favorite photo from our wedding

Two dogs being walked down the aisle at a wedding. The woman holding the dog in back has matching enthusiasm to the dog

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Shabbat shalom and happy 4th anniversary of being married to @chavezye.bsky.social ! Sad to not spend it together but we will get to spend some time together soon. Also grateful for an amazing week at the C40 Mayors Summit in Rio. Amazing connections and insights for our project.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I am genuinely confused (and potentially concerned) as to why ISA is sending out different messaging and framing to different segments of ISA membership about traveling to the 2026 conference. These are screenshots from three different scholars I know of the "same" email we received today from ISA.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Hanging out at The Kings Garden today and there is another statute of taking something out of Khaleesi’s mouth after she’s snatched up a treat on the ground post garbage day

Statute of a man holding a lion’s mouth open

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Shabbat shalom! I had a great last two weeks traveling back to Canada and the US for some guest talks and to see my dogs (and Dan). This week was bookended by lost luggage (again) and having a little health flare up (again). Thankfully, not anything some soup, liquids, and rest couldn’t mostly fix.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'm thrilled to announce that @isa-canada.bsky.social will have TWO workshops at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social this year! A dissertation workshop (open to all in the AM and with an invite-only track for feedback in the afternoon) and a workshop on teaching IR in the age of generative AI. More info in 🧵

Visual version of plain text information available here: https://mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_callE#wrk2

Visual version of plain text information available here: https://mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_callE#wrk8

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Shabbat shalom! Honestly a bit of a crap week. In the positive side, I was successful in getting a good challah bake this week with my kitchen set up here (made four different smaller challahs to hedge bets) and a few new things I tried in class went pretty well thankfully

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

OR Taylor was hegemon-in-waiting. I used the Taylor Swift/Ariana Grande fandom competition to talk about bipolar system haha. And then said if you added in Kendrick v Drake and Nicki v Cardi B you have great examples of clusters of regional hegemony

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Giving a talk about hegemony to an intro poltiical science course today and I'm so excited about this example of hegemonic stability theory I drew up

What happens when unipolar hegemonic power declines?
The system becomes unstable!

Will #MomTok Survive This?
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

pictures of Whitney, Taylor, and Demi and a picture that says "Will #momtok even survive this?"

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Shabbat shalom! I think this is the first Rosh Hashanah I’ve spent alone in a very long time. I’ve been incredibly exhausted this week but otherwise recovered from being sick. Daniel had a really exciting week with some cool professional things, which was a nice omen for the new year.

Shabbat table set up with pumpkin and pomegranate

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Also WILD that committes, such as the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity — which represents underrepresented scholars — can’t move their programming to an accessible format with this model.

What types of proposals can move to an ISA Global program session?
Paper, panel*, and roundtable* proposals are eligible. In the case of panels and roundtables, and papers that were submitted as part of a panel, all panelists on the proposal in question need to agree to the potential move, as the ISA Global sessions will occur two and a half weeks prior to the in-person portion of the program, and participants on ISA Global sessions cannot appear on the in-person part of the ISA 2026 program.
We especially encourage submissions from students, early career scholars, scholars from historically low-resourced institutions, and scholars from the Global South who might experience added burdens (e.g. financial) in traveling to the Annual Convention.
*Special program panel and roundtable types, such as Committee, Partner Organization, Distinguished Scholar, and others, are not eligible for ISA Global at the this time, nor are papers included on such items.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Soooo what are folks supposed to do for panels that include both US scholars (who are barred from being moved to online) and non-US based scholars who (rightfully) need to be moved to virtual for ISA 2026? I think this plan could have used a little more feedback and time to cook...

ISA Global is an opportunity dedicated to scholars based outside the United States.

Scholars who can travel to Columbus on a domestic flight are not eligible.

Please note: We understand that scholars with neurocognitive differences and others based outside the U.S. might avoid online sessions. We encourage you to consider all our in-person opportunities for research and networking additional to the Annual Convention - including region, section, and caucus conferences and workshops as well as our annual midyear conference - and the in-person opportunities of our sibling societies outside the US, such as EISA, BISA, and IPSA.

There is an important limitation to consider before applying.

The number of panel slots available through ISA Global is limited, so no given individual may be included on both the in-person and ISA Global portions of the ISA 2026 program (regardless of the type of role). Participants who will be present in Columbus may attend all sessions of ISA Global, and participants on the ISA Global portion of the program may view any events streamed from the in person program in Columbus, but no one may be a panelist on both. If you are seeking to have an entire panel or roundtable moved from the in-person program to ISA Global, understand that all participants on that item will be bound to this limitation.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Excited to share my favorite piece of academic lore in lecture tomorrow

Third Wave Feminism - Origins

Judith Butler
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Undoing Gender

(fun aside- she once rescued a colleague’s apartment from a guy who destroyed/squatted in the unit on their sabbatical )

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Shabbat shalom! Back in Copenhagen after a whirlwind trip to Ottawa (for AC and my dogs and my bed) and Vancouver (for APSA). And then immediately got sick. Haven’t been this sick in about two years- combo of PhD wrap up, moving, and international travel finally got to me though.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Celebrated my dissertation being accepted by the library by buying a new book. Less than 10 pages into Katabasis and absolutely CACKLING.

Katabasis and an iced flat white on a table

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Shabbat shalom! Taught my first course of the semester. Submitted my edited dissertation to the library. Got my yellow health card and staff card. Made a few new friends. Attended my first faculty meeting. Dan went back to Ottawa (😢). An extremely full week!

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