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Martin Heidenreich @heidenreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"we identify three dominant rhetorical strategies – personalisation, economic alarmism, and ideological framing ... policy outcomes...abandonment of the 65% renewable energy obligation, the cancellation of planned building efficiency standards ... climate legislation in an age of digital populism"

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

First data release from @glen-study.bsky.social doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

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GESIS-Suche

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Umfrage: Zwei Drittel der Deutschen denken über einen Job im Ausland nach" So überschreibt Indeed eine Pressemitteilung vom 22. Juni 2026. Viele Medien berichten über die Ergebnisse (u.a. dpa, Spiegel, tagesschau, handelsblatt). Wie seriös ist die Studie? Ein Thread 🧵

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📈 Potenziale für den Arbeitsmarkt Studie des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung untersucht die Qualifikationsstruktur von Neuzugewanderten in Deutschland 2005 - 2023 👉 www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2026/BiB-Aktuell-2026-5 #Fachkräftemangel #DemografischerWandel

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BiB.Aktuell 5/2026

Neben der Information über aktuelle Aktivitäten des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung enthält das Heft folgenden Beitrag: Potenziale für den Arbeitsmarkt. Qualifikationsstruktur von Neuzugewan...

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Christian Meier zu Verl @zu-verl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📢 Dissertationspreis 2027 Die DGS-Sektion Migration und ethnische Minderheiten zeichnet Dissertationen aus, die einen innovativen und herausragenden Beitrag zur Migrationssoziologie leisten. Einreichungsfrist: 31.10.2026 Preisgeld: 500 € Infos in der Ausschreibung. soziologie.de/sektionen/mi...

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DGS - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie: Dissertationspreis

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

CfP "Migration als Zukunft der Arbeit" auf dem DGS Kongress 2026 endet am 31.03. Wir freuen uns auf Eure Einreichungen an der Schnittstelle von Migration und Arbeit soziologie.de/fileadmin/se...

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

CfP "Zukünfte postmigrantischer (Un-)Sichtbarkeit in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft" auf dem DGS Kongress 2026 endet am 31.03. Die Sektion freut sich auf Eure Beiträge soziologie.de/fileadmin/se...

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Marie Labussière 🟥 @labussieremarie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Doing computational social science research on inequality on your own? This special issue is for you! We’re inviting submissions for a Historical Social Research issue on “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice.” 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 #CallForPapers #CompSocSci #Inequality

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13/03/2026

This is good. The slop tsunami is coming for scholarship at a very bad time. One thing I would add: generating papers is the worst thing LLMs can do in the research ecosystem, where we really need fewer papers to review and publish, not more. /1

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How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation

Since 2023, a significant number of published scholarly papers show signs of having been edited using AI tools. These tools are also being used to review papers and search and discovery tools, in ways...

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

NEW PUBLICATION “How the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germany” now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808 I’m very happy that this paper is out – this project is particularly important to me.

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Serkan C. war alleinerziehender Vater zweier Kinder. Um seine Familie zu unterstützen, wurde ein Spendenkonto eingerichtet: Empfänger: DB Regio IBAN: DE 15 5008 0000 0091 6377 01 Verwendungszweck: Serkan C. www.dgb.de/presse/press...

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Wir trauern um Serkan C.

Mit tiefer Betroffenheit haben wir vom Tod unseres Kollegen Serkan C. erfahren, der nach einem brutalen Angriff während seiner Arbeit als Zugbegleiter seinen Verletzungen erlegen ist.

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

CfP "Migration und Arbeitsmarkt" für den DGS Kongress 2026 in Mainz. Abstracts auf Deutsch und Englisch sind willkommen. Deadline für Abstracts ist der 31.03.2026

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

CfP "(Un)Sichtbarkeiten" für DGS Kongress 2026. Abstracts auf Deutsch und Englisch sind willkommen.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

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Life Course & Social Stratification

Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Rund die Hälfte der schon kurz nach Russlands Überfall auf die Ukraine nach Deutschland Geflohenen im erwerbsfähigen Alter hat hier bereits eine Arbeit." www.zeit.de/news/2025-11... Neue BiB Studie zu Ukrainischen Schutzsuchenden in DE. Download hier: www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/...

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Flucht: Studie: Hiesige Ukrainer - hohe Jobquote, viele Trennungen

Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Flucht“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Studie: Hiesige Ukrainer - hohe Jobquote, viele Trennungen“.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/11/2025

It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1

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Christian Meier zu Verl @zu-verl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Heute konstituierte sich der Vorstand der DGS-Sektion #Migration und ethnische Minderheiten. Freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit u.a. mit @niwitte.bsky.social @piwoni.bsky.social – und ganz besonders darauf, mein Herzensprojekt, die Umbenennung der Sektion, weiter voranzubringen. #dgs #soziologie

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

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Andreas Genoni @genoni.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

New paper on educational inequalities in declining destination attachment among immigrants in @sfjournal.bsky.social (with Ruedin): doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... (1/3): Tertiary educated immigrants react particularly strong to unmet migration expectations, showing stronger declines emotional attachment

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When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants

Abstract. Immigrants with higher levels of education tend to report more discrimination and a weaker attachment to their destination country than immigrant

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

There is no world in which masked and armed agents of the state running down delivery drivers makes us safer. That our information environment and political leaders have convinced people otherwise is a massive failure.

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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Mittwoch um 17 Uhr in LB 107 beim #DGS2025. Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft Danke @norawaitkus.bsky.social und Monika Eigmüller für die Organisation!

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Fabian Gülzau @fguelzau.eurosky.social · 09/09/2025

Striking visualisation of the global mobility divide! Also chance to highlight some relevant research... 🧵

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Andreas Genoni @genoni.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Working on the integration paradox? Join us at next year's IMISCOE conference! 👇

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Are you planning to attend IMISCOE 2026 in Girona and working on immigrant naturalization? @ninaca.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts to put together a panel. Sends us your paper abstract if you are interested to join! @migcitpol.bsky.social #MigCitSky www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-c...

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New JEMS #openaccess paper w/ @niwitte.bsky.social: We show that EU citizens living abroad are less likely to vote in European elections due to bureaucratic obstacles such as early registration deadlines. This happens even for intra-EU movers who feel attached to the EU. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Figure 1 shows the registration deadlines, based on official EU information, for mobile Europeans who wanted to vote in the 2024 EP election, for all member states that provided such information. It reveals several major obstacles: First, the registration options and deadlines varied widely between EU member states. For example, Swedish citizens residing in Belgium had two choices: register to vote in Sweden by 16 May or to vote in Belgium by 29 February. Among the 13 member states that listed a registration deadline for their own nationals residing abroad, there were no fewer than twelve different registration dates (Figure 1, Panel A). In the case of registration deadlines for non-nationals, there were even 20 unique dates among the 20 different countries that listed a specific deadline. 4This multiplicity of rules requires mobile Europeans to actively search for the conditions that apply in their particular case and thus complicates their situation.
Crucially, many of these deadlines were very early. Several deadlines had already expired in March or earlier – multiple months before the election on 9 June 2024. The most extreme case concerns non-national EU citizens in Spain, who had to register more than four months before the election. This requirement creates a serious obstacle to participation in the election.

Figure 2 displays the descriptive differences between the four groups under study. Among Germans who currently reside in other EU countries, the average self-reported turnout in the 2019 EP election was 54 percent (Panel A). This number is close to the actual average turnout of 51 percent in the European Union as a whole, but lower than the average turnout of 61 percent in the general German population (Swedish
National Election Studies Program 2019). Moreover, past intra-EU migrants (i.e. Germans who have lived in other EU countries and have since returned to Germany), who are a more meaningful reference group since they have comparable socio-demographic characteristics (similar level of education, age, etc.; cf. Online Appendix, Table A2), feature a self-reported turnout of 81 percent. Thus it seems that the probability
to vote for those currently residing abroad was suppressed by 28 percentage points compared with their counterparts who have returned to Germany. The turnout gap is even larger for global migrants: Germans who currently reside in a country outside the EU had only a 25 percent probability to vote in the past European election, compared with a turnout of 90 percent among past global migrants – a striking difference of 65 percentage points. Put differently, global migratory moves suppressed the turnout by 72 percent.

Regression models corroborating the previous descriptive findings

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Interesting call from the Sociological Association of Ukraine: "Sociology and Society in an Exponential World" #Exponentialgesellschaft

From Olga Kutsenko (olga.kutsenko.ua28@gmail.com), August 1, 2025

A Call to Scholars: Navigating a World in Exponential Change Join the V Congress of the Sociological Association of Ukraine (SAU)

At a time of unprecedented global turmoil, wars and rapid transformation, the Sociological Association of Ukraine invites you to a critical dialogue. We convene under the vital theme, "Sociology and Society in an Exponential World: Research Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects", from the unique vantage point of Kharkiv, Ukraine. This is more than a conference; it is an act of intellectual resilience and a crucial opportunity for the global academic community to engage directly with Ukrainian scholars. We will delve into the most urgent sociological questions of our time, exploring everything from the nature of societal resilience in wartime to the future of a world grappling with chaos and exponential change. Join us to share your research, challenge existing paradigms, and contribute to a conversation that has never been more relevant. Be part of this vital conversation.

• What: V Congress of the Sociological Association of Ukraine

• When: November 20-21, 2025

• Where: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (with a fully accessible on-line format)

• Call for abstracts and papers deadline: September 20, 2025

For submission guidelines and registration, please visit the official SAU website:https://sau.in.ua/opinion/the-v-congress-of-the-sociological-association-of-ukraine-2025/

We look forward to welcoming you, in person or online, to help shape the future of sociology.

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 06/07/2025

“Don’t Complain. Adapt. Be Successful”: How Highly Educated, #MiddleClass #Germans of Polish, Turkish, and Sub-Saharan African Background Respond to #Racism Author: Eunike Piwoni @piwoni.bsky.social University of Passau Coming soon! #antiRacism #qualitativeInterviews

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

www.swr.de/swrkultur/le... Warum Menschen Auswandern (und häufig zurückkehren) Darüber habe ich gesprochen mit Marion Theis (SWR), Meret Weber (ZEIT) und Arne Grätsch (Auswanderungscoach) Zu hören heute um 17.05 live auf SWR Kultur oder ab sofort als Podcast

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Zukunftsangst und Rentnerglück – Warum Deutsche auswandern

Marion Theis diskutiert mit Arne Grätsch, Einwanderungscoach Meret Weber, Autorin und Journalistin Nils Witte, Sozialwissenschaftler, Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung

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Katja Pomianowicz @kpomi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The next In_equality Conference is around the corner – you know what to do! Like in previous years, the event is not only an academic (inequality research) & personal (great & nice community) highlight; the venue by the beautiful lake makes it unforgettable! ECRs are particularly welcome to apply!

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Mit Marie Gundlach von der Süddeutschen Zeitung habe ich über mein Buch "Die #Exponentialgesellschaft", Wachstumskrisen und Stabilisierungsaufgaben gesprochen. Heute in der gedruckten Ausgabe am Kiosk & online hier mit zusätzlichen interaktiven Grafiken (Paywall): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Artikel in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 8. August 2025, "Die längste Zeit gab es kein Wachstum", Interview von Marie Gundlach mit Emanuel Deutschmann

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

What do student visas cost? DAAD just published an English translation of my 2022 paper on this issue, which revealed huge inequalities: African and Asian students pay a lot more for visas than Europeans and North Americans. doi.org/10.46685/DAA... @daadworldwide.bsky.social

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Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

#Published: "Attitudes towards interethnic partnerships with refugees: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Germany" by Jana Kuhlemann, @stefanieheyne.bsky.social & Irena Kogan (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). @parform.bsky.social #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social! We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights. a 🧵

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Pathways to External Citizenship: The Global Extension of Dual Citizenship and Voting From Abroad
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Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero and Maarten Vink
Description
The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights over the past decades has been widely observed. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties. Yet these trends have been studied in a disconnected manner. This is remarkable as the exercise of external voting requires nationals abroad to keep a legal link with the home country, while dual citizenship acceptance is high on the agenda of politically mobilized emigrant communities. In this paper, we make two original contributions. First, applying sequence analysis to a dataset covering 194 countries over 61 years (N=10,310), we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting: 1) norm setters, 2) dual citizenship only, 3) external voting only, 4) latecomers, and 5) norm resisters. Second, we analyze the correlates of these pathways with a focus on the predominant political regime type. Democratic regimes are not more prone to be norm setters that adopt both forms of rights extension but are less likely to be norm resisters that do not adopt either. Partial norm extenders and latecomers are not significantly associated with a particular regime experience.

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population

The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Erfreuliche Post ♥️ Ich freue mich auf die Lektüre des neuen Buches von @deutschmann.bsky.social

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/06/2025

Despite FIFA's history of shady dealings, I'm kind of surprised they were so quick to abandon their anti-racism messaging for World Cup games in the US. They're already going to struggle to fill US stadiums. And I'd bet that US FIFA fans skew to the left. www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup

The messaging has not been visible during the opening round of fixtures at the tournament in stadiums or on social media platforms.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 17/06/2025

Will posting reviews with papers increase trust? Maybe, but I reckon not so much with articles they are publishing anyway - which anyone can evaluate. I want to see the rejections.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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