Missing from lots of literature on immigration is just how much survival is contingent the communal orientation of co-travelers. I have stories of a Bangladeshi man jumping into a river to save a Haitian. Of Sudani paying Chadian smuggler fees. Of Ecuadorians advocating for Mauritanians.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper out✅ In work led by Mia Puur we do Risk Terrain Modeling of 32 Swedish cities and show that city characteristics matter a little for model performance - whereas methodoligical choices matter much more. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📚New paper with @jakobschwoerer.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social in @prxjournal.bsky.social📚 We show that moving toward the far right on immigration doesn't benefit mainstream parties. Not even in elections where immigration is salient. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you are attending demonstrations this week at Delaney Hall or other detention centers, please study operational security and arrive properly equipped. How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in protests? How can we protect ourselves? crimethinc.com/opsec 🧵⬇️

My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....

STILL the most complete and accurate articulation of the government's playbook for sabotaging and dismantling opposition political movements in the U.S. and the world. For it's 50th anniversary, read the new abridged essential edition of the Church Committee Report. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

I dag skriver jag i Altinget om kroppskameror och om den tilltagande normaliseringen av ständig övervakning, med utgångspunkt i såväl evidens som den mer principiella fråga som uppstår när kameror allt oftare är närvarande i vardagen. Läs gärna! www.altinget.se/rikspolitik/...

Hopefully the countries that voted for this take their legal obligation to address climate change more seriously than the did their obligation to prevent genocide

For the years 2015-2019, the UN reported that 52 countries had policies intended to raise fertility rates, and 69 were trying to lower fertility; 19 wanted to maintain current rates, and 52 specified no national policy. These are their stories.

Israel har dödat över 250 journalister sen 7 oktober 2023. Fler än i Vietnamkriget och Afghanistankriget sammanräknat. 174 har sårats och 106 fängslats. 64 av de dödade räknar CPJ som rena mord, vedergällning av Israels militär för journalistiskt arbete. www.journalisten.se/kronikor/vi-....

Men fascister ska vi tillåta och helst ha dem i regeringskansliet 😡 Denna jakt på muslimer är extremt farligt. Under den här mandatperioden vittnar muslimer bland annat om vardagsrasism vilket är en tydligt konsekvens av regeringen rasistiska politik.

Racism is in the mainstream in Sweden. Christian Democratic (KD) party leader (currently in the governing coalition) introduced an 'action plan against islamism'. Points include: www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

Idag minns vi Ådalen. Vi minns också vem som är Sveriges vice statsminister. www.svd.se/a/mr9mK0/bus...

Since redistricting and the VRA are rightfully getting attention, here‘s info about prison gerrymandering. If unfamiliar, prisoners are counted as part of population of area in which they are held captive and not where they’re from, despite felony disenfranchisement. www.prisonersofthecensus.org

"The failure of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to suspend Israel from Eurovision, as it did with Russia, is an act of cowardice and an illustration of blatant double standards when it comes to Israel," says Amnesty International (@amnesty.org): www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Spain has awarded the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. "Public responsibility also carries the moral obligation not to look away. It's an honour to recognise someone who defends the conscience of the world”-President Sánchez.

If only we had evidence on the effects of abortion bans of migration for policymakers to consider… Oh wait, we do! www.nber.org/papers/w33328

In Sweden, there is labour market discrimination against those who are active in the radical right Sweden Democrats, and to a lesser extent the Social Democrats. This pales in comparison to ethnic name discrimination which has much larger effects.

For facility populations that reflect more updated counts compared to what ICE reports, go to detentionreports.com. At this point, the annualized fiscal year average is not going to reflect recent changes in the number of people detained.

oppositionsledaren står redo att stötta regeringen i alla deras beslut

Excited for my talk today at Cornell University on reproducibility in the soc & behavior sciences, results from SCORE w/ a focus on sociology. In case you can't make it, I made a pre-recorded video youtu.be/kMwOwZaYYtE @briannosek.bsky.social @weedenkim.bsky.social #openscience #reproducibility

Allow me to get this clueless old man up to speed: His admin is trying to use the Defense Production Act to take over Spirit, the stated goal of flying around troops and cargo is bullshit, and they will absolutely try to use these planes and their crew for deportations.

Detention Reports Website Updated with New Design and Features ICE's detention system has grown rapidly during the Trump admin. Detention Reports, a trusted source of data, just got an overhaul. @adamjst.bsky.social @relevantresearch.bsky.social austinkocher.substack.com/p/detention-...

No kidding. Disgusting. And the law goes into effect on National Day. 🤮

As the Chair of the University of Sanctuary Network at Essex, I am delighted to announce that we can offer a University of Sanctuary Scholarship.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether your data can be used against you. Or, more precisely, whether your Google location data can be used against you if you opted in to location storage services across one of Google’s many products. 1/12

Some very Nordic developments. Uppsala has launched a campaign to try to get people to say hi to each other. An opinion writer in the local newspaper: "I am not going to start to say hello to people".

Nu pausas tonårsutvisningarna, sa de i mars. Men det blev inte så.

Passionate about data, research, and policy change in California? So are we! Join CPL's UC Berkeley team as our next Research Assistant/Associate: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...

State capture in Sweden

Vi avslöjar nya kontakter mellan statsministern och Palantir! www.etc.se/inrikes/pala...

We published a paper on the GC Wealth Project in @springernature.com Scientific Data, describing our extensive public data base on private wealth. In this blog article, we give some insights about the work behind the paper communities.springernature.com/posts/mappin...

New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

Meningen med ett system är vad det gör. Vad socialdemokratins vänsterflygel gör är att hålla hoppet levande om att sossarna ska bedriva vänsterpolitik samtidigt som det är strukturellt garanterat att de aldrig gör det och på så sätt hålla kvar väljare.

Palantir är ”etiskt neutral”, sa Gunnar Strömmer i ett uttalande han kommer få äta upp i decennier. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Like with any other elite institutions, we should not speak of them as "powerful" and "resourceful" individuals, but as lucky idiots with poor taste and an even worse of ethics and personal responsibility. Call out the naked emperor. Every single time.

🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3 w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh #econtwitter #econsky

Angående så kallade ”startlån” som diskuteras i Sverige.

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

Add Sweden's S to that list

Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it. In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”

Trump saying today that the pope is “WEAK on crime” is extremely funny, but as with much of what Trump does, he also helps expose how baseless and cynical the liberal establishment has become.

Narrator voice in a post apocalyptic Mad Maxish hellscape in 2035: “they didn’t“