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Jeffrey Swindle

@jeffreyswindle.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. I research how ideas spread around the world and their consequences. jeffreyswindle.com

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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Another great source for even more immigration datasets: deportationdata.org/related.html
deportationdata.org
Related projects – Deportation Data Project
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are on the academic job market, I feel for you and am happy to chat about any aspect of the experience. I spent more years on that treadmill than I would like to remember. (3/3)
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I can sing praises about the university, benefits (housing, pension), proximity to crystal cove beaches. It's really marvelous! If you have questions about the search and your fit, reach out over email. (2/3)
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My department at UC Irvine is hiring at the Associate/Full Professor level. Our department is called Criminology, Law & Society, and we have faculty from every social science field (soc, anthro, econ, poli sci). So, our search is broad. (1/3) recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10413
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Associate Professor/ Full Professor
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I regret to share this with you
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I use that chart when teaching too. I will have to try your idea of pairing it with the gold card path...great idea.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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-...
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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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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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!
online.ucpress.edu
Utility and the Attention CommodityContradictions in Mobile ICT Use in the Global South
While scholarship on information and communication technologies for development (commonly referred to as ICT4D) emphasizes the technological utility of information and communication technology (ICT) e...
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nooooo
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just shared with a few PhD students interested in these topics. Congratulations Gala and good luck with this and other book events!
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very interesting work! I didn't know about these questions about perceptions of impact. This is giving me motivation to go download the data...
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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨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/...
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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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Matthew Blanton @matthewblanton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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...
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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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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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 mockup of 'The New York Good Times' newspaper website, featuring positive news stories. The main headlines include 'Amazon Deforestation at a 9 Year Low' with a split image showing lush forest next to dry land, 'STUDY: Zero Cases of Cervical Cancer Seen in Women Vaccinated Against HPV as Girls' with a microscopic image of the virus, and '13,370 Children's Deaths from Preventable Disease Prevented Today' accompanied by a medical syringe image. Other stories include 'A 5th Person Has Been Cured of HIV' with a photo of a hand holding a red AIDS awareness ribbon, positive headlines about wind power in Europe, dog cancer vaccines, and women in parliament. The layout mimics The New York Times website design, with navigation sections for U.S., World, Business, Arts, Lifestyle, and other categories at the top.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you for making these! So useful.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks for sharing @profmarycollier.bsky.social. This looks great!
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A very, very helpful thread on fertility declines versus fertility delays.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congratulations Livio!
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Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We have a great Zoom talk planned for next week! Please join! mercy.edu/news-events/... @austinkocher.com
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Not real but also perfection
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 11/04/2026
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
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Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10/04/2026
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.
Seizures of Cocaine at the U.S.-Mexico Border		Component	Southwest Border	Coastal/Interior	Northern Border	Total
		Oct-20	4368	6353	303	11024
		Nov-20	2622	5978	1	8601
		Dec-20	1411	5053	1	6465
		Jan-21	2400	6980	243	9623
		Feb-21	2690	4885	22	7597
		Mar-21	1545	10067	5	11617
		Apr-21	2240	4666	0	6906
		May-21	1903	1022	0	2925
		Jun-21	1409	2565	0	3974
		Jul-21	2412	5158	71	7641
		Aug-21	2252	7643	166	10061
		Sep-21	1483	9594	119	11196
		Oct-21	1825	2183	13	4021
		Nov-21	2069	3284	319	5672
		Dec-21	1229	6046	5	7280
		Jan-22	913	1401	3	2317
		Feb-22	2538	1147	552	4237
		Mar-22	2086	1684	1	3771
		Apr-22	2287	5107	3	7397
		May-22	2830	2944	0	5774
		Jun-22	1363	7979	1	9343
		Jul-22	1357	3697	150	5204
		Aug-22	5202	7655	1	12858
		Sep-22	1474	942	1	2417
		Oct-22	2919	2074	1	4994
		Nov-22	1815	2780	1	4596
		Dec-22	1822	4255	8	6085
		Jan-23	2128	949	0	3077
		Feb-23	2270	266	26630	29166
		Mar-23	3753	2046	0	5799
		Apr-23	2072	1012	0	3084
		May-23	1137	2064	0	3201
		Jun-23	2633	2808	192	5633
		Jul-23	1578	5250	0	6828
		Aug-23	2078	2732	0	4810
		Sep-23	3364	381	65	3810
		Oct-23	4258	330	9	4597
		Nov-23	3640	399	0	4039
		Dec-23	2330	609	5	2944
		Jan-24	2396	2401	319	5116
		Feb-24	3586	7825	642	12053
		Mar-24	1275	2884	7	4166
		Apr-24	1799	5761	5	7565
		May-24	1993	5174	1	7168
		Jun-24	1534	1528	0	3062
		Jul-24	1464	1273	460	3197
		Aug-24	2605	3035	898	6538
		Sep-24	3503	4263	0	7766
		Oct-24	2799	3193	0	5992
		Nov-24	2143	557	1	2701
		Dec-24	2822	6719	1156	10697
		Jan-25	3042	2122	8	5172
		Feb-25	3065	741	246	4052
		Mar-25	3887	1335	117	5339
		Apr-25	4110	288	535	4933
		May-25	2713	2595	564	5872
		Jun-25	4411	1942	354	6707
		Jul-25	4615	673	516	5804
		Aug-25	3973	1106	273	5352
		Sep-25	3369	3043	1053	7465
		Oct-25	3505	2383	0	5888
		Nov-25	5283	2636	395	8314
		Dec-25	1805	1989	45	3839
		Jan-26	2447	3059	0	5506
		Feb-26	2902	4736	26	7664
		Mar-26	3829	1667	14	5510
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/04/2026
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...
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Wow, striking findings... (I am also here for the interesting way you conceptualize the meaning of pre-treatment trends in this case!)
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
That's eye catching. Relatedly, this is worth a read from @ryanburge.bsky.social: www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/young-morm...
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Young Mormons Aren’t Blue — They’re Just a Little Less Red
Utah is not a purple state.
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Kristopher Velasco @kvelasco.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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...
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Congratulations and thank you!
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
templates, models, narratives, ideas, notions, views, thoughts, actions, practices, I'm sure I am missing a dozen more
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thank you for sharing this. It is remarkably well done and humanizing.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 23/02/2026
"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.
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Don’t Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
Line graph that shows a blue line of # protests since Trump's 2nd inauguration surpassed, showing these to have exceeded 42k by the end of Jan 2026. A green line counts # of protests during the same time period in Trump's first term and just exceeds 10k.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Can't make this up...
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This looks fantastic. Thank you!
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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...
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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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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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*
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I reached out to AVP and David Grusky was enthusiastic about sharing transcripts for PhD students to work on. But there did appear to be hurdles before they could share the data, at least for now. I ran out of time this fall, but I hope to try this.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I love their work. Some of the bravest folks around.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you for sharing this link to provide monthly support to @elfaro.net / @elfaroenglish.bsky.social. I just joined the cause.
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I had not seen their 2026 conference announcement. Thanks for posting this. In case you are interested, here is version 1 of our dataset (w/ @kvelasco.bsky.social) of speakers at World congress of Families events since they started in 1997: osf.io/tj68h/files/...
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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! ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This might help... talk.tidbits.com/t/spotlight-...
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Spotlight in OS 26 not indexing all files
Since upgrading (??) to OS26 Spotlight is not finding files on the disk, only web locations. According to Perplexity this is a known problem: ”The issue with Spotlight in macOS 26 (Tahoe) not finding...
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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...
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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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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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.
The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"
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Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South Full details here: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u... @asanews.bsky.social
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Jeffrey Swindle @jeffreyswindle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Signe - congratulations!!! You are going to produce some very important research with this opportunity. :) I am thrilled for you!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21/08/2025
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.
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