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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Guess whose ugly mug is gonna be in the Sept/Oct issue of Foreign Affairs. Here I'm bragging about @setonhall.bsky.social's new Masters program. www.foreignaffairs.com/sponsored/gr...

Screen capture of Huddleston's title and question about pursuing graduate studies in international security.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Kind of yes, but go ahead and take for funsies and let's see what happens.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My undergrads wrote a short survey about the Iran war. It's short, only 3 min. They're trying to get responses ASAP. Could you take it real quick, and maybe pass it to others? Works on PC and smartphone. All perspectives welcome. Here's the link: shu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

@njpbs.bsky.social @steveadubato.bsky.social had me on to talk about the cruel, reckless sabotaging of USAID and other amazing Trump foreign policy decisions of the last year. www.njpbs.org/programs/thi...

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🚨Job Alert! @setonhall.bsky.social is hiring a TT asst prof of Cybersecurity and Policy, split appointment between CompSci and Diplomacy. Open until filled (but I'd say get apps in by early January). Come live in the Garden State! jobs.shu.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Employment Opportunities - Seton Hall University, New Jersey

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I'm pretty sure the salary statement on the listing is wrong, so ignore that for now.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

@setonhall.bsky.social Diplomacy is hiring! We're looking for an Assistant Professor in International Human Rights Law. Apply! And let me know if you have questions. jobs.shu.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Employment Opportunities - Seton Hall University, New Jersey

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Any PhDs (maybe ABDs) out here in the NJ-NYC area who'd be interested in teaching a (once a week) masters level course in international security in the spring semester? We're a 30min train ride from Penn Station NY. Reach out if you have someone in mind (including yourself)!

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I love the 1800s garden graveyards. Such a great concept.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I am spending my sabbatical year working on Cory Booker's foreign policy team. What he pulled off with his 25-hr speech was extraordinary. I feel proud and incredibly privileged to have contributed. Here's a bit of the national security section my team worked on: youtu.be/GnKDC5xzAi0?...

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President Trump is Making America Less Safe | Senator Cory Booker’s long speech to the U.S. Senate

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is lovely, Steve. Brandon was a great colleague, and we are really feeling the loss at SHU School of Diplomacy. He got a lot done in his two short years here, including taking over as director of DiploLab and coauthoring several pieces with students.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thank you, Sebastian! Link for free access (can be used 50 times total): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6AZGX... Andrea, I agree with you, and we grappled with this question a lot. Our framework leaves room for mindful advocacy. Here's my thread from last week: bsky.app/profile/joeh...

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Best place to read rebel marketing is Cliff Bob's work, one of the originals on the topic. Interesting thing to consider re:terrorism. I guess it depends on whether we treat "terrorist" as merely a slur versus an empirical descriptor. A lot of these groups do use terrorism as one of their tactics.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

All this, and many other good articles, in CSD's latest special issue on Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccsd20/2... 8/8

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Conflict, Security & Development

Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors. Volume 24, Issue 6 of Conflict, Security & Development

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Finally, we don't think these concerns mean all rebel marketing is bad. Sometimes, the rebels might be better than the state and legitimizing them might be straightforwardly ethical. That's a separate debate. We just want conflict scholars to intentionally think about this ethical consideration. 7/8

Text excerpt from Huang and Huddleston's "Are we marketing rebellion?"

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

We don't have complete answers to the question of what to do about this. Definitely don't stop doing research. But DO think about how your work is useful to these actors, and DO be aware of biases built into your data collection during fieldwork. 6/8

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Moreover, many scholars are incentivized to write for larger audiences, so these effects can be magnified. And rebel leaders themselves read and cite our work more than you might think, and may directly use it in their marketing efforts. 5/8

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Next, this might be true even if scholars' (and journalists') coverage is negative, or normatively condemnatory. It can still raise their profiles and give them bargaining leverage, like it did severe abuse by rebels in the DRC. 4/8

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I don't like long threads, so let me keep it punchy. Our first point is that scholarship on rebels can be useful as rebel legitimation. Our work sometimes inadvertently plays into their hands, and conflict scholars need to think about how. 3/8

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Cliff Bob's book famously put journalism, TV, and other media in the category of marketing by rebel groups, but what about scholarship? Does it matter that our research is sometimes useful to violent nonstate actors? When and how is scholarship useful to them, and what can scholars do about it? 2/8

Abstract of Huang and Huddleston's article "Are we marketing rebellion?"

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

New publication! @reyhuang.bsky.social and I ask a tough ethical question of ourselves and conflict scholars: Are we marketing rebellion? A few years ago, we discovered we both were grappling with this question. doi.org/10.1080/1467... 1/8

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Are we marketing rebellion?

Is studying civil war contributing to civil war? Rebel groups often expend significant resources building up international support and legitimacy for their cause. At the same time, much of conflict...

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I've seen plenty of AI slop, and I too, hate it. And very much agreed about writing=thinking. But that's not the point in question here, is it? But I didn't see @afinetheorem.bsky.social advocating writing substitution use cases. It seems clear to me it's designed to complement instruction.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

But I get that others are worried that admin will then saddle me with a 4-4, not hire people. etc. I also worry about that.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It does seem like it wouldn't help much at all in writing classes, but seems great for my methods class, even parts of my conflict class. If a chat can answer the midnight qs like "When is our final?" and "Which assignment counts the most?", my life would get easier. 3-3 is a lot of work!

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Initial 2 reactions. Good: Wow, an AI that has read my syllabus and all my slides/readings will probably give better answers to my students than rando internet AIs at 3am. Evil: Wow, a lot of people think this AI could replace TAs. I guess we finally have a solution to the overproduction of PhDs.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It's real colleagues, who are behaving as trolls and undermining any conversation about their important and (perhaps) dire point. Like he said, it's an empirical question, but all I see is assertion w/o evidence. This tool looks useful for at least a few courses at my R2 (where there's no TAs).

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Someone please help Mr Lizard get Big Scooter to make things right (preferably not Luigi-style).

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Holy cow, when was the last time a state collapsed this fast under rebel group pressure?

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Perfect way to kick off Thanksgiving weekend (and preburn a few thousand calories, Denny's Cove, Tennessee) #climbsky

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This looks great. Every time I go to Jordan, I wonder how the king is so popular (and whether it's an illusion). Will get a copy.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And here's another compelling reason. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is all the reason anyone needs to stay off the birdsite. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I do! Although I haven't been able to bake as much lately bc I don't have an oven at my place in DC.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Nicely done. Rye is so sticky and hard to work. Do you have a dedicated rye starter?

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yay, you're here! Also, dude, good timing. I'm spending my sabbatical as Fellow in Congress, and can use all the advice I can get. Can't wait to grab a copy. Congrats!

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is probably why I really left. For months I blocked/muted every one of these ad accounts, but they were infinite. I screenshotted them for about a week before I said eff that. Just an awful information experience overall. Wasn't gonna last.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Look for the starter packs. And ask to be added to them too.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This place is so much better at connecting peers than Twttr/X ever was. My follower count is recovered after only a week, I'm finding interesting folks I never knew about and, they are mostly not bots. It's all signal and very little noise around here. So much better.

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Joseph Huddleston @joehud.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'd join this list if you don't mind. Plenty of good bakes forthcoming.

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