Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Kåre Vernby ( @stockholm-uni.bsky.social ) "The Local Roots of the Nationalization of Politics" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

In Sweden, most PhD students work at 80% contract to extend funding. Now international PhDs are being deported for doing exactly that. So much for “Swedish exceptionalism”. www.tv4.se/artikel/ZhUi...

Had a great conversation with @andyluttrell.bsky.social on why even the best messaging won't bring everyone to your side, and all things immigration opinion and politics. Give it a listen! opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/maki...

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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

Update: As @robfordmancs.bsky.social said to @theguardian.com, zero net migration may offer Labour "the opportunity to steer the domestic political agenda away from" Reform's key topic. Other experts stress that Labour loses votes to Greens & LD. Yes, *for now*, but Labour may play the long game.

"Professor Ludvig Beckman lämnar sin plats i Migrationsverkets etiska råd i protest. Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser han. – Jag kan inte legitimera utvisningar av 18-åringar som växt upp här och som har föräldrar som bor här, säger han."

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

Very very likely that Trump might attack Iran.... just to create a distraction from what is happening with ICE in Minnesota. www.bbc.com/news/article...

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Our cover this week.

The “criminal immigrant" narrative manufactured by the US media-propaganda apparatus psychologically embeds immigrants into racial hierarchies within the social imagination PDF: joeledmartinez.com/wp-content/u...

Cartoon by @mortenmorland.bsky.social.

The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/

Just so people understand the timeline: (1) The president of the United States called Somali-Americans "garbage" and the Vice President says that the US has a "Somali Problem". (2) The White House directs immigration agencies to Minnesota due to its large Somali community.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

ICE has long used the latest spy tech to pursue immigrants — but now it’s also targeting anti-ICE protesters. Here's what you need to know:

When asked what you would need in order to have kids, economic concerns dominate. Men report a higher need for a suitable partner (43%) than women (29%). In this question 33% of women report they don't want children compared to 8% of men.

With ~9 months to election day, the Moderates, the traditional right wing party, are five points behind the right wing populist Sweden Democrats.

NEW AT DEMOGRAPHY: We use difference-in-difference approach using applicant vs. implemented counties w/ 287(g) ICE agreements 2000-2020 to identify a plausibly causal effect immigration enforcement leading to sizeable increase in Latino-White segregation. OPEN ACCESS PDF doi.org/10.1215/0070...

A 12-year-old is suspected of committing a murder in Malmö last week. Until now, criminal networks have used children to carry weapons and plant hand grenades, but not as hit men. This is a direct result of the right-wing government's punitive criminal policy. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/en-1...

2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social heads into winter break in fine fashion w/yet another pub, this time as co-editor of the book "Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship" 🙌 About the book: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anti-colonia... Open access options: chooser.crossref.org?doi=10.51952...

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

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New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).

I am old enough to remember people in the West and especially college students, actually giving a damn about Darfur. Now, nobody gives a shit. I have no idea why, it's not like there is a legal limit on the number of conflicts and massacres one can care about, Gaza or Ukraine are not an excuse.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

▶️ Political Representation 👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social & @sopro.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>> 3/

We are also interested in work with a focus on the representation of marginalized groups.   Submissions: papers, panels, topical roundtables, or author-meets-critics. end/

They might be one of the most high profile academics to leave the US amidst Trump's attack on universities. What a massive GAIN for Univ of Zurich and Europe though. This feels so similar to the situation in Turkey in early 2010's. www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Guest lecturer: Marianne Bertrand, Prof of Economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, gives this year´s Myrdal Lecture at Stockholm Univ titled Gender, Stereotypes and Inequality Wednesday 24 Sept Time: 13.00 – 14.00 Location: Hörsal 6 C-huset, Frescati www.su.se/english/rese...

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 This study shows that both resident and visitor diversity in neighborhoods are linked to more positive attitudes toward migrants. It highlights how everyday exposure—beyond where people live—shapes social inclusion. Article by Hołubowska et al.: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2539907

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

Notable post-tenure publishing differences across fields. One thing that distinguishes these are authorship norms, e.g. in some lab fields, co-authorship reflects status more than work

Writing about cricket and identity next week. England and India go to Old Trafford for the fourth test. That was where Ranji made his England debut on this day in 1896. He scored 154 not out in the Ashes, after the popular + press outcry against the MCC leaving him out at Lords on racial grounds

And later on today at 📍 Room 0A.06 I will be presenting my work "Host Country Conditions and the Religious Adaptation of Muslim Refugees: Evidence from Germany ". #EPSA2025

Excited to be presenting tomorrow at EPSA in Madrid! If you’re curious why some natives deny discrimination while others amplify it come to our panel. 🕚 11:10 AM 📍 Room 1A.04

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We wrote a thing!

Migrationsverket har inte kunnat utfärda vanliga medborgarskap på *över en månad*. Vågar påstå att om det hade varit Transportstyrelsen som inte utfärdat nya körkort, eller polisen som inte utfärdat pass till svenskar som vill åka till Thailand, hade det varit allt annat än tystnad i svenska medier.