Super useful advice

When people tell me to be pragmatic & let it slide

@williamlallen.bsky.social every single time I see a jack russell walking the streets of Madrid, I ttell @deniskierans.bsky.social “Mira, una Pepita” 🩷🫶🏼

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

So: a) none of political assassins were students, or even shared a coherent ideology - shameful to blame universities b) Trump is already engaged in the attack on campus speech the Free Press wants c) I worry a lot more about the animosity to campus The Free Press is fueling than any of my students

This is insane www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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New papers out on perceived unfairness! A 🧵: In @sociusjournal.bsky.social with @brueggemann-o.bsky.social J. Lang, S. Strauss we show that women are no longer more accepting of lower wages than men by using linked employer-employee data.

This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥

Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization.

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Sad to leave Sibiu 🇷🇴 after a glorious month of work and vacation. @deniskierans.bsky.social and I met lovely people & cats, ate amazing food, loved both nature and the city 🩷 Ata pronto, Sibiu

Exceptional interview The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

bret stephens: israel isn’t committing genocide israel:

This report by Lee Mordechai👇🏼👇🏼 witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

‘The plan is manifestly illegal, and if carried out would amount to a series of grave international crimes’ - Israeli intl law scholars on plans by Defence Minister Katz to “concentrate” population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...

Ethnic and gender bias in Large Language Models across contexts: https://osf.io/9zusq

This how your email finds me.

Just learned that yet another university investigation into abuse of PhDs ended with a "recommendation" the professor talk to a labourr lawyer—no sanctions, no ban on supervising students. When will we stop tolerating abuse of junior scholars?

On 5 July 1948, the #NHS was born. 🕯️ Ahead of tomorrow, we’re shining a light on some of the many people who came to Britain to help make this vision for a better society a reality 💙 #HeartOfTheNation

EqualStrength crowd is the coolest crowd 😎🔥 #IMISCOE2025 (

Gearing up for the Annual Conference of IMISCOE, in Paris. Next week, our @equalstrength.bsky.social team will be presenting fresh results from multi-sited survey and field experiments on prejudice, intersectional stereotypes and discrimination conducted in 9 European countries. Stay tuned!

Power to the people ✨🌟🌈🎉🎉🎉

Fun fact: My secondary school’s name was ‘República Oriental de Uruguay’ (Republic of Uruguay), apparently bc Uruguay donated funds for its construction 🤔 why Uruguay gave money for a school in Spain? maybe due to the high number of Galician migrants in Uruguay? I’ll never know 🤷🏻‍♀️ My school today👇🏼🇺🇾

@iprnickp.bsky.social and @gavin-kelly.bsky.social analyse how the UK welfare state was reshaped by austerity and Covid, showing that despite fundamental changes, most reforms aligned with the UK's liberal model. They also explore future policy options. #UKWelfare academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

How does immigration relate to welfare states and public opinion about access to welfare? @mfreino.bsky.social, @isabel-ruiz.bsky.social and I have a new open-access review of the evidence in @oxrepjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/oxre... #polisky #econsky #socsky #migcitsky 1/n

People have real problems believing Reform voters don't come from Labour, if not recently, then in the past. A small proportion do, but let's look at how far back you'd have to go now ...

On the tariffs @strangeloopcanon.com over at the other place has pretty convincing evidence that the White House may have used LLMs to come up with its tariff model and that that evidence may have come from LLM scraping of a Peter Navarro book. We are in the dumbest AI timeline.

Shame on this labour goverment www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

After months of just seeing each other through a screen, we finally meet in-person at wonderful VUB Brussels. Thanks Abel & Pieter-Paul for hosting us

Labour have changed the rules on applying for British citizenship to prevent most refugees from *ever* getting it, if they arrived by small boat or entered using forged documents, for any reason, on the basis that it means they’re permanently not “of good character”.

New blog post with my wonderful colleagues! The other link looks like it's not working but this one should work: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/what...

Together with @sbvanoosten.bsky.social, @heypaolo.bsky.social and @distasioval.bsky.social , we've written a blog post about ethnic inequalities in employment. Read below👇 What’s in a Name? Wage Inequalities Based on the Ethnic Minority Name of a Job Applicant: compas.ox.ac.uk/article/what...

Algún investigador/a en universidad española ha usado Prolific para encuestas online y cómo ha gestionado el tema de los pagos? Estoy viendo que lo más eficiente es que lo pague yo con mi tarjeta y después solicite reembolso a mi institución. Gracias!

Latest update to @migobs.bsky.social briefing on attitudes to immigration shows - after years of Brits softening their attitudes - a clear ‘uptick’ in both level of concern and salience. With @mfreino.bsky.social @sblinder.bsky.social migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

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Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As we explain, single motherhood doesn’t have a terribly strong impact on child poverty. It matters, but other factors matter more. And as mentioned in the text, it has an even smaller effect on Black children - as @rsbaker.bsky.social & @christinajcross.bsky.social have shown.

Elon’s visit to Auschwitz, we should remember, was part of a PR effort to clean up his image after he let anti-Semites back on Twitter and even agreed with some of their posts. His advertisers started to flee so he did this. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Es busca equip per l’Oficina de la Renda Bàsica Universal! Termini de presentació: 27/01/2025 Politòleg/Sociòleg (A1-24.2): dretssocials.gencat.cat/ca/detalls/A... Economista (A1-23): dretssocials.gencat.cat/ca/detalls/A... Analista de dades (A1-23): dretssocials.gencat.cat/ca/detalls/A... 1/2

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Does the billionaire guy who grew up in a white supremacist segregationist autocracy, and spends much of his time retweeting racists and fascists, know what the gesture means and is associated with? Who can say.

When immigrants fail to integrate into modern, democratic society.

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Sickening www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...