Conner Joyce

🚨 My first solo preprint is out!

I study Grok's fact-checking on X and show:

📌 Professional fact-checkers are a major source of Grok.
📌 Grok becomes more accurate as more articles from fact-checkers become available.

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We are very excited with the prospect of welcoming @connerjoyce.bsky.social in September as one of our new hires!

Thanks, Joseph!

Thanks, Michelle!

Thanks, Vicente! I’m looking forward to working with you all too!

Thanks, Sigrid!

Thanks for all the support from all my mentors and friends @ricepolisci.bsky.social!

I’m excited to announce that I will be joining IE University's School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in Fall 2026! @iepolisci.bsky.social

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Some good news today! My job market paper won the 2025 SPSA Robert M. Howard Best Overall Paper Award! Link to paper in 🧵 if you’re interested in reading more about hackers and politics in illicit digital networks! @spsanews.bsky.social #SPSA2025

First time in the Netherlands and in the beautiful Hague! Excited to be in this great city and presenting at the Conference on International Cyber Security this week! @thehagueprogram.bsky.social #GeopoliticsCyberspace

Full program online now for our 2025 Conference on International Cyber Security! --> thehagueprogram.nl/conference/c...

Tickets available until 20 October 2025: www.thehagueprogram.nl/conference/c...

Excited to present on radicalization in cybercriminal networks! Come check out a great panel on IT and civic engagement tomorrow at 10:00 PDT #APSA2025

On my way to APSA! I am excited to present my paper on political action and radicalization in cybercrime networks. Manuscript here: osf.io/preprints/so.... Come check out a great panel! I’m also on the job market!
(Fri, Sept 12, 10-11:30am PDT, Vancouver Convention Centre West Level 2, West 209)

Thrilled to be presenting this year at the Conference on International Cyber Security hosted by @thehagueprogram.bsky.social! I am really excited about the paper I will be presenting. Check out more information about the project/conference here! www.thehagueprogram.nl/conference-2...

I highly recommend this new JCR article by @ricepolisci.bsky.social Ph.D. student @connerjoyce.bsky.social. It uses a creative empirical strategy to evaluate whether states can control non-state hackers operating from their territory if incentivized to do so-- key to international cooperation.

Do States Constrain Non-State Hackers? International Telecommunication Union Elections and Non-State Cyber Aggression - Conner B. Joyce, 2025 Do states constrain non-state hackers? This article extends research on the role of transnational cyber aggression in international relations, showing that gove...

New research alert! @connerjoyce.bsky.social in JCR: "Do States Constrain Non-State Hackers? International Telecommunication Union Elections and Non-State Cyber Aggression." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to share that my first solo-authored article has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution! You can find it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Congratulations to @kishanbhakta.bsky.social, @marandajoyce.bsky.social, and Tabitha Koch, who won the Marian Irish award for their research at the recent meeting of @spsanews.bsky.social. This is a great article about their research and their paths to Rice! socialsciences.rice.edu/news/rice-po...

Honored to receive the 2024 #SPSA Irish Award for the Best Paper on Women and Politics for “How Should Politicians Respond to Violent Threats? A Gendered Explanation of How the Public Views Responses to Threats of Violence” (w/ @kishanbhakta.bsky.social & @homola.bsky.social & Tabitha Koch)!