Tatiana Padilla has a great list of datasets for studying immigration to the United States, ICE raids, and more. Bookmarking this for myself, but I want to share with others: drtatianapadilla-pxjwf.wordpress.com/immigration-...

Immigration Data Resources

This page compiles publicly available data resources on immigration enforcement, the immigration court system, and immigrant populations in the United States. It is intended for researchers, journa…

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A smart intervention in the demography/sociology literature on the potential influences of the internet and mobile phones: online.ucpress.edu/socdev/artic... Cool study, Jess Kim and @sushiaarushi.bsky.social!

I want to incorporate more art & music into teaching. These pieces from @madelinedonahue.bsky.social are first on my list: Our Car is a Treasure Chest of Food and Toys Floatie Red Studio

🚨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/...

Which immigrants do citizens prefer? A meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments

Meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments reveals patterns of similarity and variation in public immigration preferences worldwide.

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New Research! My article in @prpr-journal.bsky.social is the first systematic validation of CBP apprehensions as a proxy for undocumented migration in nearly 30 years, with evidence from Guatemala at both national and subnational levels. Spoiler: they still work. 🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Brief Report: Are Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Apprehensions a Reliable Proxy for Undocumented Migration? New Evidence on Migration from Guatemala - Population Research and Policy Review

Researchers have long relied on United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehension data as a proxy for undocumented migration, yet the last time their validity was assessed was in 1995. Si...

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We created a fake 'good news' version of the New York Times homepage. All factually correct. A different way of seeing the news. informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnew...

A very, very helpful thread on fertility declines versus fertility delays.

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/ No, the New York Times was *not* wrong about birth rates.. There has been some pushback on a recent @upshot.nytimes.com article on US birth rate trends that I think is *mostly* unfair. The original article: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u... #demography

We have a great Zoom talk planned for next week! Please join! mercy.edu/news-events/... @austinkocher.com

Not real but also perfection

James Davidson@americanevolution.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

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Southcom’s illegal boat strikes began on September 2 and have killed 164 people. We now have data through March about cocaine seized at US borders. Cocaine seized during 7 months before the strikes: 38,059 pounds Seized during 7 months since the strikes: 44,186 pounds Supplies steady. No impact.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 5mo ago

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

I just updated my LGBTI National Policy Dataset through 2025. I’ve also added more policies and sub-national coverage. Here are some interesting trends: osf.io/wta9p/overvi...

"The Illegality is Not a Bug, It's a Feature." Here's the video version (con títulos en español) of last week's podcast episode on illegal lethal boat strikes, featuring WOLA's drug policy program director, John Walsh.

Don’t Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background

YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America

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Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

A challenging but ultimately very rewarding essay. Amia Srinivasan on developing a political imagination creative enough to resist oppression and patient enough to explore the psychological development of the oppressed and the oppressors. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious

What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...

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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible. Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 9mo ago

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

BREAKING NEWS: Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law & society, wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize — the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u

I was lucky to overlap with Brian at the University of Michigan through a mutual friend when he was a law student. It was clear then he was really devoted to making the country a better place for all. He needs our support! I am not surprised in the least to see him leading the way in Chicago.

Shannon Craig Straw@shannonstraw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Some of you have asked how you can support our family. The biggest thing you can do right now is to contribute to Brian’s legal defense fund. secure.actblue.com/donate/straw...

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South Full details here: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u... @asanews.bsky.social

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."

Scholars of political and cultural diffusion take note...this preprint and thread are important. Congrats to the authors on their massive amounts of data & analyses!

Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz@seramirezruiz.bsky.social · last yr.

Across policy domains: 📚 Some lean more on scholarly research, others on policy sources (think of lit on 'cultures of evidence'). Yet across all domains, 🌍 governments mainly cite knowledge from high-income countries. Bottom line: origins of references stay stable despite domain differences.

Who's cited most across borders? 🇺🇸 The U.S. leads gov-to-gov refs by a wide margin. 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺 follow. Also, 30 countries—mostly Least Developed—were never cited. 📚 Same for academic refs: 17 of top 20 gov-cited countries also top in academia. 🤯 43% of scholarly works include a U.S.-based author.

We feed you. They hunt us.

📊 Over 9,000+ studies rely on DHS data. 🗺️ The figure below shows decades of global data use. That’s what’s at risk if we don’t act.

With graduation this week, there are hundreds of Harvard students in their graduation regalia with their proud parents from all around the world. Taking photos on the library steps, getting a special dessert in town... I love seeing those parents every year, but especially this year. It's beautiful.

The Bukele govt sent the US a list of MS-13 leaders in US custody whom they want sent back, because they know about a gang deal with Bukele that Bukele wants to keep secret. Trump already sent one back. Here are the names, all based on Jose Olivares' reporting for @dropsitenews.com:

Secret Bukele Deal Lies Behind Trump’s El Salvador Deportations

Trump asked the Supreme Court Friday to lift the ban on renditions to Bukele’s torture chambers—and an update on the left wing comeback in Ecuador

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