Since 2003, 284 people have died in ICE custody. Texas is the state with the most deaths (56), but the facility with the most deaths is Eloy Detention Center in Arizona (17). Awesome resource here with more updates to come from the Behind Bars Data project at UCLA

Nearly the entire academic journal publishing system is a scam

High childhood poverty in Sweden, but disproportionally among parents with a migration background. Important research and debate piece by Anna Tegunimataka, @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/K88...

As Sweden steadily transforms its carceral (and welfare) state to look more and more like the US, Swedish Police start acting more and more like American cops.

1/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.com

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

Big men scared of sociology, but it’s illegal to research why. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology. in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard. we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:

EU healthcare workers are sounding the alarm: "this risks legitimising racial profiling, and turning schools, hospitals, shelters, workplaces, public transport and even private homes into sites of immigration enforcement" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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This is a truly disturbing story, and all academics should hope he wins his case, but let’s not act as if this is solely because of Trump. This has been going on under Republican AND Democratic presidents — as well as in other countries.

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee. Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code. No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

After mainstreaming and normalizing nativism for over a decade, the Social Democrats are now as big (small) as the combined far right!

On why UKRI should drop their rule to make funded research open access (which generally means transferring research funding to these bloodsuckers) and demand instead publication in 💎open access journals only.

I ett land där vissa barn lär sig vilket flygbolag som är bäst till sommarstugan i Alicante lär sig andra att mamma inte äter middag längre. I verkligheten räknar ensamstående föräldrar hur många måltider som kan hoppas över. Två Sverige vid samma middagsbord men bara ena sidan har mat.

In light of this, allow me to promote my own research showing that federal judges are really bad at statistics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Trump, and the republican party are the greatest threat to academic freedom, but I feel like everyone is misreading this graph. The Biden presidency lasted from 2021-2025. Like most things, Trump is a force multiplier of bad things already happening in the US.

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

ICE taking over for TSA feels like it will inevitably leave to agents open-firing on passengers

I’ve been studying the punishment bureaucracy and suing judges, prosecutors, and police across the U.S. for more than 15 years. One defining feature of our legal system is that there is rarely any accountability for massive corruption and criminality by those with power.

This is just a funny meme, so no dig at Kai. But we need to teach students more than that. If correlation isn't causation, then what are the conditions under which we can make causal claims (and that's not just randomization)? Science doesn't benefit from causal nihilism.

“The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.“ Palantir will be used to identify domestic Trump critics soon enough.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

UPDATE: the Swedish sociological association (Sverige sociologföbundet) has voted to withdraw the letter sent by the association president to ISA protesting the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society. @soc4pal.bsky.social

Mandy Pipher writes about why Swedes must learn the truth about immigration.

Here is a research question for an interesting #MetaScience project: Does academia attract narcissists, or does it make them?

Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.

Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

Discrimination lectures from my course are A9 and A10 in this list www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBU...

There is a similar conflict happening now within the Swedish Soc. Ass.. Here, the president of the association sent a letter on the association's behalf to the ISA opposing the suspension of the Israeli Soc. Society without consulting the membership. (thread)

STOP THE WAR! STOP ISRAEL! STOP TRUMP!

Between 39–51% of American Indian/Alaska Native peoples live on or within 10 miles of reservations, but 73% of deaths from police violence in this group occurred on or near reservations. The authors call for a public health response to these deaths. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/ziOi50YtsP8

Det blir några möten med folk i helgen, kom gärna förbi med dina frågor. Fredag 12.00 Umeå universitet, Lindellhallen, arr UPF Lördag 15.30 Pizzahäng i Nacksta Sundsvall, pizzeria Mexicana Söndag 16.00 öppet möte i Ö-vik på Solidaritet, Nygatan 8 Välkommen!

NEW: An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran before midday on February 28, 2026, that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime. Read more: https://bit.ly/40dNAcv

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

And the Iranian ship was unarmed, which the US knew - and they made no attempt to rescue survivors. Mass murder.

“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.” I'm telling you, these people are genocidal fanatics. And no, this did not begin with Trump. They want to do to Iran what previous US administrations did to Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Iraq, Libya... the evil is 100% bipartisan.

We can, instead, review these shootings from a policy failure perspective through a "Sentinel Event Review" that looks at all the factors that may have contributed to this undesirable outcome and suggests changes going forward. www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ho...

This is why saving US democracy does not just mean defeating the GOP, or abolishing Citizens United, but also a massive wealth tax of the 1%.

I rambled at length about this in a paper about the control of "criminogenic" properties:

Last time US’s fiction-based belligerence killed 1 million real people, loved people displaced millions more. Isis was created in its prisons. Domestic surveillance went bezerk in the name of the “war on terror.” I’m not a praying person but what is left? My heart is with our Iranian siblings.

The latest issue of Global Dialogue (15.3, December 2025) honours the life and work of Michael Burawoy (1947–2025) Micheal was a key figure in shaping public sociology as a global conversation. You can read the issue here: buff.ly/pVRZi9w

Jakten pp Palme är viktigare än jakten på hans mördare. www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/...

Just how unprecedented is the ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown? We answer those questions and more in our new NBER working paper. www.nber.org/papers/w34794

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The current processing time for a citizenship application in Sweden is 47 months. The government wants to apply new citizenship requirements to people who applied for citizenship years ago but are still waiting. There is grassroots mobilization against this: www.fairtransitionsweden.com

730 000 personer i Sverige klassas som fattiga av SCB. Dubbelt så många som fem år tidigare, 2021. "Det är en olycklig utveckling" säger Arturo Arques, privatekonom på Swedbank. arbetet.se/2026/02/18/7...