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Kenneth Vaughan

@kennethvaughan.bsky.social
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Sociologist of religion and politics. Professor. Research on the far right, democracy, and public health. Likes metal, punk, bikes, gyms, traveling, coffee, wrestling, and vidja games.

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 12/10/2026
Wow. I mean, I know a lot of places (including where I work) are real high on AI right now, but "No more hand-written code" is a genuinely unhinged directive.
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(🖬🖫). ₍^. .^₎⟆ @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 12/10/2026
Everyone who uses claude acts and talks like an addict.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 04/10/2026
Julian Curo-Churata, 47, from Peru, died in ICE custody in Louisiana on September 29, the 37th death in ICE detention in fiscal 2026, the deadliest year on record. The records show more than the coverage so far. austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026
This summer, ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data say otherwise. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...
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ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History
The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What academics should I be following? 
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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shamonda-like virus – Rapidly expanding multi-country livestock outbreak with congenital malformations in cattle and sheep, Europe beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=6…
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Kiley @kileywrestling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The phrase “pentagon influencer” should not exist. WHAT ARE WE DOING?
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026
Since January 20, 2025, ICE has deported more than 66,000 people identified as members of a family unit, about one in ten removals. Family detention is back too, at Dilley and Karnes in Texas. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-has-de...
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ICE Has Deported More Than 66,000 Family Members Under Trump Administration, Family Detention Is Back at Dilley and Karnes
New ICE data show more than 66,000 family-unit deportations since January 20, 2025, about one in ten removals, with an August spike above 20 percent, as family detention reopens at Dilley and Karnes.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/10/2026
ICE made a record 49,138 arrests in July, per data from the Deportation Data Project. Over half of the people arrested had no convictions or pending charges. That is not what going after the "worst of the worst" looks like. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...
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ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History
The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/10/2026
Refugees used to be the immigrants everyone agreed on. Matthew Soerens of World Relief and I talked about how the Trump administration came to ban persecuted Christians. Listen here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social
Quote card. Matthew Soerens, World Relief: “I remember the first decade or so that I worked at World Relief, that was, like, the easy, safe category of immigrants that everyone agreed upon.” From the conversation President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution, austinkocher.substack.com
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:
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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A deep dive into one of the pieces of evidence provided in the anthropology section of the Vanderbilt report
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026
President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution: Matthew Soerens on the Collapse of Refugee Resettlement and Why Churches Should Care austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-...
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President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution: Matthew Soerens on the Collapse of Refugee Resettlement and Why Churches Should Care
2026 is the year that the United States breaks with a long history of resettling Christians and other religious minorities fleeing persecution, and many people of faith don’t even know it.
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Kiley @kileywrestling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are tons of things that get circulated among wrestling media and never get reported. Why? Because it’s either 1) personal, 2) dangerous/cruel, or 3) unnecessary. Reporters aren’t obligated to publish every nugget of information they receive just because you want them to. Y’all tire me out.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026
ICE is deporting parents without their children. The Atlantic follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, left behind when his parents were sent to Venezuela. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Simultaneous gastrointestinal illnesses at 20 kindergartens in Tbilisi, Georgia, with more than 100 hospitalized beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=d…
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sup guys
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It let me back in!
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Goodnight SOCIOLOGISTS and jabroni marks without a life who don’t know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot, marks
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Entry of #FarRight candidates into #Sweden's govt is associated with an overall decrease in immigrant representation. The Sweden Democrats, who are hostile to immigrants, take seats from other parties, who are more likely to run immigrant canddiates. No effect on LGBT candidates.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s good.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Apparently, nobody cared.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
someone help me p-hack something #Science #Sociology
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Best coffee in #SanAntonio
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Yes, you should read the sources you cite. Occasionally, you can’t, so you cite the work as existing in another work (Johnson 1918 in Brubaker 2016). No, this is not as bad as publishing plagiarized sources that were hallucinated out of whole cloth.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
FRIEND TO GOATS EVERYWHERE
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
First real post on the new blog! If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Like US researchers, Koiranen et al. find that the population "Christian nationalism" index lumps (at least) two very different ideologies into one. Those traditionally lumped into a single CN category split into two dimensions, one exclusivist, and one pluralist.
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Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Medical Examiner confirms Haitian asylum seeker died from untreated tooth infection in Az detention www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Medical Examiner confirms Haitian asylum seeker died from untreated tooth infection in Az detention
A Haitian asylum seeker who spent months in detention in Arizona died from an infection in his lung caused by an untreated tooth infection, according to a preliminary report from the Maricopa County M...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 18/05/2026
NEW: Two years after the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, killed and wounded hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and burned down their village, the survivors are still denied justice and cannot return to their homes. www.hrw.org/news/2026/05... 🧵⤵️
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you are interested in the far right, and want to look beyond the well-trodden paths, read this book and follow Sofia, a great young scholar of the far right.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘It’s heartbreaking’: panic in eastern DRC over return of Ebola
Residents of Ituri province fear spread of disease and economic impact of outbreak six years after the last
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Most importantly, I have to say, we recommend a strict quarantine for all asymptomatic passengers for six weeks, which means until June 21 or June 22 depending on when they left the ship", says @ecdc.europa.eu director Pamela Rendi-Wagner at presser on #hantavirus outbreak.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
All reports today are from negative tests; 2 Belgian passengers. 4 in Italy, including an Argemtinian national not related with the Hondius. He was in hospital with pneumonia, which is not caused by a Hantavirus. The 3 others were on the KLM flight with an infected person.
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isspsurvey.bsky.social @isspsurvey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#ISSP_research Dimova & Dimov (2023) use ISSP #SocialInequality data to examine how and why people place themselves on the top–bottom social ladder. doi.org/10.1080/0020... Interested in this module? The ISSP cumulative #SocialInequality dataset (1987–2019): search.gesis.org/research_dat...
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Are the subjective social status inequalities persistent?
Aiming to broaden the knowledge about Subjective Social Status Inequalities (SSSI), this short article examines the determinants WHERE and WHY people self-place themselves in the Top-Bottom societa...
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Italy, Demos & Pi poll: FdI-ECR: 29% (-1) PD-S&D: 22% M5S-LEFT: 13% FI-EPP: 8% LEGA-PfE: 8% (-1) AVS-LEFT|G/EFA: 6% FN-ESN: 4% Azione-RE: 4% (+1) +E-RE: 2% IV-RE: 2% +/- vs. 15-18 September 2025 Fieldwork: 04-06 May 2026 Sample size: 999 ➤ europeelects.eu/italy
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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I spent years thinking the path was simple: PhD → postdoc → academia → fulfillment. But life is rarely that linear. So I started a new newsletter for natural scientists navigating careers, identity, and life in and beyond academia 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/fagQdMg
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Welcome to The Natural Scientist
Careers, Purpose, and Life Beyond Academia
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/05/2026
A Nigerian military airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, Amnesty International claims. A Red Cross official confirmed the strike to The Associated Press and said “multiple civilians” were killed.
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Nigerian airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market, Amnesty International claims
A Nigerian military airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, Amnesty International claims.
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
omny.fm/shows/580-cf... CFRA Weekends - Humanitarian crisis in Sudan keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse
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CFRA Weekends - Humanitarian crisis in Sudan keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse - 580 CFRA
The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is gradually turning into one of the world’s worst. Geoffrey Johnston is an International Affairs columnist with the Kingston Whig-Standard. He joins Andrew Pinsent on...
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Hantavirus: 12 Radboud hospital workers to quarantine due to slack safety measures
A dozen workers at the university medical center in Nijmegen will enter a precautionary quarantine after possible exposure to hantavirus. The 12 employees at the Radboudumc hospital were involved in t...
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
3) We need to care for and protect healthcare workers taking care of patients on the boat and in all receiving countries, because they are likely to have close contact and be at risk for transmission as prior events have shown
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
2) but this is a high mortality disease which progresses fast. We need to get people w close contact (on the boat, those who left the boat) under observation both to ensure no more chains of transmission & so they get fast care if sick. Time to advanced supportive care matters.
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
1) no this is not the start of a global pandemic. No lockdowns coming. It's a very complicated outbreak but low risk to general public based on what we know about the pathogen and data so far. There will/may be more cases, but many suspects may be negative.
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As someone who ran a high containment patient care unit similar to those taking care of #hantavirus patients right now for a decade & has taken care of viral hemorrhagic patients in multiple outbreaks, I have three quick points to make:
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