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Miranda Lubbers
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Professor of Anthropology; UAB Barcelona; Director COALESCE lab (http://coalesce-lab.com/en). ICREA Acadèmia fellow; ERC Advanced Grant holder “A #network #science approach to #social #cohesion in #European #societies”. European Academy of Sociology. .. more

Miranda J. Lubbers is a Dutch social scientist specializing in the analysis of migration, segregation, and social identity through personal networks. She is Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and director of the COALESCE Lab. .. more

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New paper in Sociological Methodology with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @alexciordia.bsky.social, & @nuriatargarona.bsky.social about the measurement properties of aggregated relational data (responses to "how many people do you know who..?") and NSUM estimates: doi.org/10.1177/0081...
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Sue the whole line of command.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Indeed, why only list US citizens who died or were detained by ICE, why not also include migrants who died in their hands or sent to camps that don´t respect human rights whether or not their papers were in order? These are all human rights violations re: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,...
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
🚨 SCHUMER just now: “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

The whole thing is now 75 pages and took forever, and it´s used "to contextualize the 5 articles you present for the evaluation". This takes multiple days per applicant, and administrations apparently don´t see what a national loss of research time and thus excellence these things are.

I finally have my CV in the format the committee for the accreditation of my past 6 years of research demands, e.g. each article (of whole career!) broken into 9 pieces (author, title, year, type of publ, details of journal/editorial, ISSN or ISBN, DOI, URL, "quality indices"). Why, WHY?

Boycot de WK. Die man en zijn entourage hadden ons bijna in een oorlog gedregd (en kunnen dat nog steeds doen) en hebben een legertje dat dem steden terroriseert.

In ICE? Effective, durable, responsible?

Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Oh European leaders should definitely respond with stronger stances, I totally agree. But Newsom wasn´t frustrated, he was doing a little publicity stunt at the cost of others he thought he could simply bash, like Trump does, and that's how we got here.

it’s great to tell Europeans how they can help. But the publicity thing of going on TV to call European leaders pathetic and spreading more misinfo about Nobel Prizes, that immitates him. Do you want to be him? And your interview with Shapiro, how are you not doing there what you accuse others of?

Mr Governor, Europeans are very well aware of the crimes against humanity happening in the US right now and instead of coming to Europe to call EU leaders pathetic for not standing up to your government, please get your party together and give them that same speech.

Do it
🚨🚨 EU moves closer to using its #tradebazooka against the US as Germany has joined France in saying it will ask @ec.europa.eu to explore unleashing the #Anti-CoercionInstrument at the emergency EU leaders' summit in Brussels on Thursday evening.🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
EU moves closer to using its trade bazooka against the US
Capitals are backing a more forceful response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
www.politico.eu
🚨🚨 EU moves closer to using its #tradebazooka against the US as Germany has joined France in saying it will ask @ec.europa.eu to explore unleashing the #Anti-CoercionInstrument at the emergency EU leaders' summit in Brussels on Thursday evening.🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
EU moves closer to using its trade bazooka against the US
Capitals are backing a more forceful response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
www.politico.eu

He´s definitely not rolling over himself, right. RIGHT? bsky.app/profile/maxg...
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."

And then the thing about Nobel prizes being given away 😱.

Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."

He could have said strong responses are needed without the insult and would have looked like an ally instead of yet another bully

Yeah coherent “My country installed an absolutely insane fascist regime, both Dems & Reps are rolling over or are afraid to stand up to them but let’s call people abroad pathetic for not standing up to him”.

I can assure you that national news shows us, at least in various European countries, how things are going in Minnesota and elsewhere. I guess people get frustrated everywhere, the Greenland issue could warp us into war from both the East and the West. You´re all on our minds though!
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.