I wrote about how #migration has shaped the #WorldCup. The world's most popular sport's biggest tournament will likely be more diverse going forward. Check it out here 👇🏻 #dataviz #football thatakin.com/worldcup2026

30 days of D3.js + React = 30+ charts completed for the #30DayChartChallenge! I know I'm a little late, but I didn't want to miss out on this opportunity to hone my skills. Check out the live, interactive visualisations here: thatakin.com/chart-challe... #DataViz #DataVisulization #React

Amazing way to look at visualisation of intangible stuff: nightingaledvs.com/the-tiles-th...

The Tiles That Made Me: Mapping Friendship through the Lens of AI, Nightingale

According to the Oxford Dictionary, friendship is a "voluntary, personal relationship characterized by mutual affection, trust, and support.

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A detailed read on Australia's offshore asylum processing policy and the pushbacks. It's likely the EU will follow the suit soon 👇🏻 worksinprogress.co/issue/how-au...

How Australia really stopped the boats - Works in Progress Magazine

Many countries want to copy Australia’s immigration rules. But its most-copied border policy is not the one that worked.

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As today's prompt for #30DayMapChallenge is "Fire", I have to plug my contribution to #30DayChartChallenge for this year. See all my contributions to the 2025 Challenge here: tinyurl.com/yc729t67 #DataViz #Python

I'm trying to catch up on some of my newsletters this Saturday and am really enjoying how sassy @brianklaas.bsky.social gets. Last week it was the McLaren owner parking illegally, and this week it is the so-called luminaries.

Always love reading capabilities approach applied in migration studies. Rodriguez-Peña presents a great case how migration capabilities vary across different regions. #MigrationStudies #CapabilitiesApproach comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Mapping migration capabilities worldwide - Comparative Migration Studies

The complexity and abstract nature of capabilities may explain why research on migration aspirations is far more prevalent than studies on migration capabilities, and why clear conceptualizations and ...

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UN Behavioural Science Week is here and once again I am not going to be able to attend any of the sessions because of the time difference, but you should if you can! #BeSci www.unbesciweek2025.org

Do smugglers motivate irregular migration? Only 4% of 60'000 migrants interviewed for a @mixedmigration.org study cited smugglers as influencing their decision to migrate. Friends, family, returnees, and social media are more likely to play a role. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6185...

Busting myths about migration to help create better policy

The Mixed Migration Centre asked tens of thousands of migrants what influenced them to migrate. The results may surprise some politicians. They could help to inform better policy, says the center's di...

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UNHCR’s guidance on returns to Syria underscores ongoing risks: insecurity, destruction, and humanitarian crises. While supporting voluntary, informed returns, it calls on states to suspend negative asylum decisions and allow access to asylum for Syrians. www.refworld.org/policy/count...

Position on Returns to the Syrian Arab Republic | Refworld

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Amazing article. I am so happy to see gender is getting more attention in the climate mobility research. Beyond great researchers like @drsayebkarlsson.bsky.social #ClimateChange #ClimateMobility #Gender #ClimateJustice rdcu.be/d2jjj

Excellent thread 👏

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

I saw the Orion Nebula and Andromeda on my birthday and took a shot with my📱 Jupiter and its moons were so visible. Betelgeuse is the red dot to the right and the Orion is just above that. Pleiades wasn't very visible to the naked eye but I'm happy with the result ✨ #astronomy #astrophotography

It's encouraging to see climate displacement gaining more attention in global media. The evidence is clear: climate change will intensify displacement worldwide, particularly in the most vulnerable regions. 👇🏻 www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...

Mapping the impact of climate change on global displacement

As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008.

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Let's see how much he'll be able to achieve

Joe English@joe-english.bsky.social · 2y ago

"I will defend humanitarian values. I will defend our humanitarians and the people we're here to serve. "We need to call time on the era of impunity. We need to stop the attacks on civilians and provide them with the protection that they deserve and that they need."

Alright, alright. It's my first attempt and I'm ok with how it came out 🌕 The views were even better than the photo could capture. Dark skies for all! #astrophotography #mobileastrophotography #astronomy

This sounds great. So many amazing people have already confirmed. Rebecca was one of the first people I reached out to when I was drafting my thesis, and Daniel is the reason I'm on BSKY. This workshop will be so fruitful.

Daniel Sharp@deeesharp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you working on migration justice from a feminist perspective? Apply to be part of this workshop Rebecca Buxton & I are organizing on "Feminist Philosophy of Migration". See the call below & DM me if you have questions www.alws.at/iws_organiza... #migcitsky #poltheory #philosophy #philsky

Bula from Fiji 👋🏻 One of the advantages of living here is the opportunity to do such things even for a long weekend.

I had separated my ways with Facebook - Meta and its companies some years ago due to their involvement in many human rights violations, attacks to democracy, prevalent mis & disinformation in their platforms.

As we mark another #TolkienReadingDay2024, the theme of service and sacrifice resonates deeply with me. Last year, I was in Ethiopia with the UN Refugee Agency to assist displaced hundreds of thousands of people. This year, I decided to leave my job and support my partner in Fiji 🇫🇯

I left my job this week and it feels like I have started a new life now. In a couple of weeks, I will be moving to another country to be with my partner and I cannot wait for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead #Restart

Italian government is organizing a great exhibition on #Tolkien, but I am leaving the country right now. If anybody is in Rome between November 16 and February 2nd, do not miss it.