Had a great time presenting and learning from colleagues at @priec.bsky.social Thanks @dadakim.bsky.social and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for organizing PRIEC’s 20th anniversary🌟

PRIEC in SoCal. Wonderful colleagues, interesting new research, and of course, the views and cuisines that SoCal has to offer.

Whoever took these candid photos deserves a raise. Thank you, @priec.bsky.social, for capturing so much of our 20th anniversary celebration conference. Excited for all of the other PRIECs this anniversary year!!!

PRIEC is now on Bluesky! 💙💛. Be sure to follow!

It was exhilarating celebrating 20 years of PRIEC! 🎊

Upshot: lithium mining can generate environmental damage, at great cost to nearby Native and other marginalized communities—some of which are already suffering from the harms from the mining other minerals.

Needless to say, Christian is great, and all faults in this project are due to me.

TBC, the issue isn’t NIMBYism by Native and other marginalized communities.

The issue is NIMBYism by comfortable communities who have the power to shove mining into someone else’s yard.

In "Framing the Fourteenth: How Frames Shape
Public Opinion on Birthright Citizenship" Mai Do,
UCR; Minhye Joo, Pitzer; & Jenn Merolla, UCR,
show elite framing that invokes "anchor babies" dampens public support for birthright citizenship. Negative framing moves GOPers most.

#UCRPRIEC20

We know that the incredible investment that community organizations provide includes facilitating civic engagement. @cruzita.bsky.social argues this investment facilitates courageous citizenship, whereby org interventions help people of vulnerable communities manage political risk.

#UCRPRIEC20

"We are calling for attention to the full violence of deportations by taking serious the richness & complexity of stories using ethnographies & tools of critical inquiry."
~paraphrased concluding remarks by Jenny

"Biographies of Removal: The Faces of
Deracination" (Adrián Félix, UCR)

#UCRPRIEC20

What's going on in the Dakotas? Christian Castillo
UC Riverside presents work co-authored with @lauraevans.bsky.social

The politics of extractive markets gets even more complex when layering sovereignty.

"Green Mining: The Politics of Lithium and
Indigenous Peoples"

#UCRPRIEC20

Here is a tricky public policy puzzle.

Taft Crowley, UCSB, explains how chronic disease burdens respond to global shifts in food production & food markets. Both drive surges in type 2 diabetes, & feed forward into material conditions shaping ability to pay for health care & migration.

#UCRPRIEC20

Pushing what we know on emotional drivers of political participation, @abusrat.bsky.social, teaches us Muslim American mobilization is sensitive to different sources of Islamophobia.

"Emotional Reactions to Islamophobia and the
Political Participation of Muslims."

#UCRPRIEC20

Flexing creative muscles, Nathan Chan (LMU) & Matthew Tokeshi (Williams College), advance the concept of "racial invisibility." For sure, the US hierarchy defined by race and nativity dimensions, but overlayed on both is variation in visibility.

#PRIECUCR20

The @priec.bsky.social 20th anniversary meeting is 🔥🔥🔥

At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)

Linking racism, discrimination, & health, independent scholar Tandy Tillinghast, discusses how scholars can translate social science research to praxis.

Key to this: transdisciplinary participatory action research that center survivors in design, data collection, & analyses.
#PRIECUCR20

At the intersection of immigration politics & environmental politics, Sophia Tomany de Brito (UCSB), shows conservation appeals appear to be more of a booster than a bridge.

GOP & Dems electeds carefully position on conservation, but stay firm on partisan immigration positions. #PRIECUCR20

Awash in plenty, @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, & the UCR crew coordinate us across 2 rooms

Panel 1B, @minhye.bsky.social & @jieunspark.bsky.social kick us off with "The Politics of Skin Tone: How Does Skin Tone Shape Political Identities and Attitudes?"

Answer: Your skin tone does matter!

#PRIECat20! @priec.bsky.social 🤩

Congratulations @dadakim.bsky.social, Shaun Bowler, and the rest of the @ucrpolisci.bsky.social crew for organizing a terrific program!!

Knock knock.

Who's there?

📣 PRIEC!

Where?

In Riverside, CA with
@ucrpolisci.bsky.social to celebrate 20 years of PRIEC where it all started!!

#PRIECUCR20

#PRIEC at #CUBoulder 2025. PGI Editor Panel.