Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Grazie a Il Manifesto per aver raccontato il nostro studio sulla memorializzazione della Resistenza e dell’antifascismo nei comuni italiani oggi, in occasione del 25 Aprile.
ilmanifesto.it/uneredita-vi...
Michael Clemens
We have a new paper out on what the large conjoint literature tells us about public opinion on immigrant characteristics:
New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front."
How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares.
Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361
I've been using random seeds for years but I have no idea how they work. Seeds somehow(?) make the same random numbers?
So I figured it out! New post includes an interactive PRNG generator, lava lamps, lottery fraud, @random.org, Chaucer, and Minecraft #rstats
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/04...
NEW (and open access!) in @pnas.org:
We find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal county activation.
Joint with @cvargas100.bsky.social and @immigrationlab.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Thank you for having us @eleala.bsky.social !
Does public service deprivation boost support for the populist right?
New evidence in our paper, conditionally accepted at APSR 🥳, where we study how GP closures shape voting intentions in England. 👇
mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...
Simone Cremaschi
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social
"Luck and Predictability in the Life Course"
We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
