Brandon Kendhammer

Political Science, development/conflict, Nigeria (📚=Muslims Talking Politics and Boko Haram: A Short History). Not posting on behalf of my employer.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

@melnickjeffrey1 Colin Croom! (My childhood best friend just sent me a video of this show in Boston tonight, extremely jealous of all of you getting to see them this tour)

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

@adriaeln @SidKhurana3607 Got this in one, as well. Although I'd love to see the geography of the synods. My gut tells me Missouri Synod Lutherans aren't very Missourian at this point.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

The obvious pick here is Liberty Valence, but the sneaky best answer is The Quiet Man.

[𝒮𝒶𝓈𝒽𝒶 @Sasha_Screens]

where would one start with john ford? i've seen the grapes of wrath and how green was my valley, but that was back in high school.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

@elnathan_john It's not easy, but it's something that my colleagues and I are talking and reading about everyday. Lots of disagreements and different strategies emerging...

[That Week In SNL @ThatWeekInSNL]

40 years ago. Jan. 18, 1986. Harry Dean Stanton and The Replacements give us quite possibly the booziest episode ever. The Replacements spent most of the day drinking together with Harry & after these performances, the ‘Mats would be "banned" from SNL.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

@AlfredEjewman @melnickjeffrey1 Jeff are you on to this great reissues label Planet Ilunga? They've been compiling some previously very hard to find Docteur Nico and OK Jazz. https://t.co/ja3j0UdwPo

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

(Sala-i-Martin voice) "I just preregistered 4 million hypotheses"

[alz @alz_zyd_]

Data analysis is now functionally costless. Once a dataset exists, all insights within it can be extracted - a process which used to cost thousands of human-hours and millions in wages - can now be extracted through a few hundred dollars and a few days of Claude code

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

@aphofer @binarybits @besttrousers One thing that seems really clear from COVID/MOOCS/large university asynch online courses is that in the absence of some real, substantial, in-person component, completion rates for average students (and below) fall off a cliff.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

Every year is a great year in new music if you listen to new music. And as an old '90s https://t.co/oOwB1ajyjM guy/African music fan in particular, this is such an amazing era.

[Brant @BrantPhilip_]

The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms US “precision hits" against the Islamic State in northwest Nigeria.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

Absent the aforementioned regional offensive and massive investments in security infrastructure across the area, farmers and village-dwellers in rural Sokoto State aren't probably safer today than yesterday.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

I'm far enough out of the game these days that I don't have much to say about the potential damage inflicted on jihadi groups by the US airstrikes in Sokoto State today. But a few quick general observations...

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

2) It continues to be the the case that militant groups (however connected to ISIS or not) in northwestern Nigeria are a major threat to the many civilians in the region, and airstrikes have never really been effective in Nigeria at creating the conditions for needed security.

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

Honestly, I checked a Glen Campbell greatest hits cd out of the public library when I was 24, and it was kind of earth shattering.

[Mahavishnu Con McHarlan @hardlybjorking]

I just heard “Wichita Lineman” for the first time. What the fuck

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

Being a tenured professor at a lower-resourced university is still often a great job. But the opportunity costs on income and location are *huge* unless you get a 90th percentile outcome (whether, as is often the case, due to hard work and talent, or otherwise).

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

Apropos of the recent "faculty jobs are great!" discourse, the media tenure-track salary at my (nominally) R1 university is in the mid-$90ks (across all ranks), and the state legislature dramatically weakened the actual job security.

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Average earnings for a male full-time worker with a bachelor's degree, ages 25 to 34 was $101,600 in 2024. For a woman it was $83,460. So a young, avg married couple with undergrad degrees is earning $185K

Keep that in mind when someone tells you median household income is $84K

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

I was a *huge* https://t.co/oOwB1ajyjM fan as a high schooler in the mid-90s. It is impossible to describe how uncool I was in the moment, and how fully vindicated I feel today.

[reilly @reillywryly]

we are the daughters of the yallternative dads u couldn’t burn…………………

[Brandon Kendhammer @Kendhammer]

There's no better chronicler of a Nigeria that is (as he puts it) "democratic in its cruelty" than Elnathan John. It's so very rare (in and out of Nigeria) to read anyone able to express such disgust with Nigeria's violence paired with sympathy for *all* its ordinary citizens.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

A Country of Particular Concern: The Fulani, Faith, and the Failure of the Nigerian State https://t.co/MPEh3mxH7B