I tried very hard yesterday to find something in the reporting on Ceuta that was better than just feeding the basic instincts and fears of invasion

Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com · 5d ago

The "mainstream" discourse on Ceuta shows quite clearly how the discourse has shifted, how norms and humanity have eroded, and how fear of (or perhaps, agreement with) the far right shapes the politics and discourse of the day.

Glen Hansard RIP. Thanks for all the beautiful songs you left us. smid=nytcore-ios-share

Glen Hansard, Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56

The Irish singer-songwriter, who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” died in a motorcycle crash.

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Fox entering the party when we get tired that is the wild life of Berlin #wildlife

Ich bin stolz darauf an einem Institut zu lehren an dem sich zahlreiche Kolleg*en an der initiative www.Wissenschaft-gegen-Faschismus.de beteiligen @wigefa.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

My colleague Cova Meseguer (ICADE) and I really like this paper published a little over a year ago in Global Networks. Cova thinks we were ahead of our time 💡— the paper examines #deportations to #LatinAmerica and #publicopinion toward the U.S. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Forced returns fuel anti‐Americanism: Evidence from U.S. deportations to Latin America

In the last two decades, forced removals have been the main feature of U.S. migration policy toward Latin America. In this research, we explore whether this policy has had implications in terms of La...

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Compared to 137 or so illegal and arbitrary executions that’s of course not the the main issue but wtf: Once the men were on the patrol boat, the US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer, Palacios said.

Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com · 4mo ago

“If there were no drugs aboard those boats, it’s a hugely embarrassing ‘false positive’ for US intelligence at a time when that intelligence is being used to kill people, no questions asked.”

During Easter processions at Lake Atitlán, you’ll meet Maximón — originally a Maya deity who often takes on the role of Judas Iscariot. He also drinks, smokes, and has a thing for neckties.

I like the new piñatas offered in Tijuana

Wow.

Goodby end of history hello apocalyptic studies www.capas.uni-heidelberg.de/en

Very much looking forward to this very nice conference in Segovia next week

Axel Dreher@adreher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Program and papers for the 18th PEIO (@the-peio.bsky.social, IE University, Jan 29-31) are now online at www.peio.me. Thanks to Zoe Ge, Nikitas Konstantinidis and Irene Menéndez González for hosting us! @iepolisci.bsky.social

Do we already have a quiz show “satire or reality” based on trump quotes?

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

#Nobel #FoundInBerlin

📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers! Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America. 9-10 July 2026 in Berlin. Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below) #EconConf #EconSky

Berlin sledding season ❄️ Sleds spotted today include: traffic signs, Euro pallets, skateboards, drying racks, and garbage bags. When it snows, Berlin improvises.

So hard these days to distinguish satire from reality 😢

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 7mo ago

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!

“With the U.S. not just unwilling but unable to underwrite any order, it’s Trumpian anarchy. There is a sudden vacuum in the world order, while Trump wields diminished U.S. military and diplomatic power wildly, with no constraints.”

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This Time Is Not Different (except there are even less competent people in charge, the international order is dead, and we have the foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship). goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...

reminder if not evident: US backed coups in Latin America haven't usually led to periods of democratic transitions and stabiliy, and neither did they usually have that intention (e.g. Guatemala 1954; Brazil 1964; Dominican Rep. 1965; Chile 1973; etc.)

Back in Christmas mood

New research note: Cross-Country Variation in Deportation Risk tinyurl.com/3x5ss4jk We mapped ~7,200 deportation corridors using data from 42 deporting countries. Data available as an interactive #RShiny app 👉 www.deprisk.info #DepRisk #Migration #Deportations #Data4Migration

My 11yo explained to me why the opportunity cost of spending less time with his friends isn’t worth the marginal improvement in grades. I think he’s ready for an economics degree.

There was a time when Germany had great architects. #Bauhaus Reichsknappschaftshaus by Max Taut, 1929, now the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsk...

BÆM is back! Submit your paper and join us for the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings. Three workshops with a fantastic lineup of invited speakers: Development Economics, 5-6 May Economics of Migration, 6-7 May Fairness in the Economy, 8 May Calls for papers👇https://www.baem.info/

Ist es sozialwissenschaftlicher Analphabetismus oder bewusste Irreführung oder beides? Einfach zum Haare raufen was da sogar vermeintlich seriöse Medien verbreiten

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Der Unsinn von der Zustimmung zu Merz’ Aussagen wird jetzt wirklich überall verbreitet. Es ist nicht nur extrem frustrierend, dass das ZDF das nicht korrigiert, es ist schlicht auch ein Armutszeugnis für die deutsche Medienlandschaft. Unhinterfragt weitergegeben. Man möchte einfach nicht dazulernen.

Muy feliz y honrada de contribuir a esta gran iniciativa de la Facultad de Economía - Uniandes! economia.uniandes.edu.co/voces/mas-al... En esta entrada resumo un nuevo documento de trabajo co-autorado con mis increíbles colegas @chrambrosio.bsky.social y Juliana Quigua: www.iza.org/publications...

Working paper alert: We find that being more exposed to deportation threats had strong negative wage effects driven by the most precarious jobs and agriculture

Andrea Velasquez@andreavelasquez.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy to share my new working paper with my great co-authors @chrambrosio.bsky.social & Juliana Quigua where we estimate the labor market effects of U.S. immigration enforcement policies in El Salvador www.iza.org/pub/0mZVpDAb @iza.org #econsky #academicsky

#BerlinMarathon #Kreuzberg ❤️

We are looking for PhD students! More information at www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...

This is bad, in & of itself, but also highlights the reality that no one - not 🇨🇦, or 🇬🇧, or the rest of 🇪🇺, or 🇯🇵, or 🇦🇺, & <certainly> not 🇩🇪 - is coming to poach 🇺🇸 scholars en masse, or to provide funding/jobs to offset the devastating cuts to NIH/NSF/Title VI/etc. etc. 🇺🇸 funding for science/higher ed.

Stefan Müller@stefanmueller.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️