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Tabea Scharrer

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Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', www.researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-…

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0x8000 @0x8000.bsky.social · 22h
#md0810 2026 Magdeburg Rechtsextremes Vernetzungstreffen - der undemokratische Landtagspräsident Halbe AfD-Fraktion, ganze BSW-Fraktion, Compact (Paar Elsässer, Poggenburg), Dieter Dehm, Alexander von Bismarck (der immer in den Farben der russischen Trikolore rumläuft), Guido,
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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Netzwerk Fluchtforschung @fluchtforschung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New publication in the Forced Migration Studies Blog! "Deportation at all costs? The EU’s new regulation on returns" by Bernd Parusel has just been published. fluchtforschung.net/deportation-...
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Remote jobs such as content moderation & data annotation have been promoted as a win-win by UN agencies & global tech companies... But interviews with more than two dozen refugees in Kakuma show that only one side has clearly benefited." www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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‘Someone else will do it for less’: Refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay
Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs
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julius geiler @juliusgeiler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Neue erschreckende Details zu einem rassistischen Überfall auf eine Brandenburger Flüchtlingsunterkunft. Zwei Deutsche sollen einen arabischen Wachmann u.a mit einer Stahlkette malträtiert haben, bis dieser sein Bewusstsein verlor. Frisch aus dem Gericht. www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/bran...
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Überfall auf Stahnsdorfer Asylheim: Deutsche prügelten arabischen Wachmann mit Stahlkette bewusstlos
Bei einer rassistischen Attacke auf eine Brandenburger Flüchtlingsunterkunft wird ein Wachmann schwer verletzt. Der Prozessbeginn in Potsdam offenbart erschreckende Details.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A world in which societies can only remain stable with much higher levels of military and civil defence capacity than anticipated in the 1990s is going to involve a much wider degree of state intervention in the economy and efforts to sustain a social contract that secures the loyalty of citizens
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Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Ich würde mir wünschen, wir würden über Antisemitismus reden, und zwar in allen Menschengruppen. In Iran ist Antisemitismus eine der Säulen des Regimes. Menschen, die sich gegen das Regime gestellt haben & hier hinkommen, lehnen alles daran ab. Trotzdem sind sie in einer dezidiert antisemitischen
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Schriftstellerin Shida Bazyar über die NS-Zeit: „Sie haben das getan, weil sie es wollten“
Wie wurden in den 1920er-Jahren aus netten Nachbarn Nazis, Täter und Mitläufer? Shida Bazyar über ihren Roman „Die Lücken“ und ihren Geburtsort, das ehemalige NS-„Gaumusterdorf“ Hermeskeil.
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#CfA: The MPIWG is offering First Research Article #Fellowships for 📑 doctoral students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions, to publish their first English article on 📚 history of science, technology, and medicine, or #STS 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2027 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3
Green and white text on a dark green background which features botanical or anatomical drawings. The text reads: "Become a fellow. First Research Article Fellowship Program. Deadline: January 15, 2027".
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Dr. Ismail Küpeli @ismail-kuepeli.de · 05/09/2026
Oktober 2026 startet mein Forschungsprojekt über Männlichkeits- und Geschlechterkonstruktionen in türkisch-islamischen Milieus in Deutschland:Wie verschränken sich Geschlechterbilder mit nationalistischen &islamistischen Narrativen, Ideologien der Ungleichwertigkeit und Zugehörigkeitsvorstellungen?
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DER STANDARD @derstandard.at · 03/10/2026
Das Ergebnis fiel überraschend eindeutig aus. www.derstandard.at/story/3000000342…
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Matheus Hagedorny @hagedorny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
„They shall not pass“: Am 4. Oktober 1936 wollten britische Faschisten um Oswald Mosley durch das jüdisch geprägte Londoner East End marschieren. Dies verhinderten jüdische Anwohner:innen, irische Dockarbeiter, somalische Seeleute, Gewerkschafter:innen und Kommunist:innen trotz Polizeigewalt.
Gruppe elegant gekleideter Männer mit erhobenen Fäusten steht hinter einer Barrikade vor einem Backsteingebäude.
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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Annual reminder on German Unification Day that West and East differed already before 1945
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Louis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Offenbar kam es im Vorfeld der Präsentation der Enzyklika „Magnifica humanitas“ hinter den Kulissen zwischen Papst Leo XIV. und dem Technologieunternehmen „Anthropic“ zu großen Konflikten, weil der Vatikan der sogenannten KI kein Bewusstsein zubilligen wollte.
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026
An attorney who saw the Detention Mortality Map told me about a client with medical problems who was deported to Pakistan anyway and died three days later. I talked about it on The Project Censored Show. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio... @projectcensored.bsky.social
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Help us sustain our Solidarity Guard by donating, and add your name to our petition against settler terror. Sign our petition: standtog.org/4ylQUBH Donate: standtog.org/3TCTTqi
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Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
#cfp Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries Seventh Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies Tübingen, June 28 – July 1, 2027 "The purpose of this seminar is to promote the historical study of refugees, who are too often regarded as a phenomenon of recent […]
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile, Russian "Z-writer" Prokhanov and pro-Kremlin "Night Wolves" bikers baptized the Moon. They brought a piece of a granite boulder, called it a "celestial moon rock," held a religious procession, and claimed they were making the Moon Orthodox to "unite it with Russia."
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Andreas Kemper @andreaskemper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Es ist gut, dass Team Freiheit nur 0,3% in MV holte. Aber es ist zu befürchten, dass sich das ändern könnte. Das Unternehmen Vy Capital von Alexander Tamas, dem Bruder von Joana Cotar (Team Freiheit) hat sein Vermögen im lezten halben verdoppelt (von 26 auf 50Mrd $). www.ft.com/content/c765...
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Elon Musk’s secretive backer builds $40bn SpaceX stake
Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker’s largest shareholders
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kenya's noisy Quakers! religionnews.com/2026/09/28/l...
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Loud worship and other contrasts set apart Kenya's large community of Quakers
KAIMOSI, Kenya (AP) — There are an estimated 400,000 members worldwide of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. About half live in Africa with most in Kenya, where Americans introduced the rel...
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Margherita Cusmano @margheritacusmano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When you ask people about economic inequality, what crosses their minds? In a new open-access paper in Sociology, I asked 47 participants this question. Almost no one talked about money alone. Instead, they pointed to gender, race, visa status, language, and disability. 🧵👇
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Steven Vertovec, Futures of Difference @fod-soc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The future of migration and diversity is not in Europe or North America. It is in Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America. So why do we still measure these societies against Western norms? Loren Landau (Oxford, Wits) asks this in his short for Futures of Difference.
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Is Diversity a Western Concept?
Short · Loren Landau on decentering the West in diversity scholarship
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Frau Nora @fraunora.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vor allem in der Ukraine wurden Jüdinnen:Juden bei Massenerschießungen ermordet. Schätzungen gehen von 1,5 - 2 Millionen Menschen aus.
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Vor 80 Jahren: Massaker von Babyn Jar | Hintergrund aktuell | bpb.de
Am 29. und 30. September 1941 erschossen deutsche Nationalsozialisten und ihre Helfer in einer Schlucht auf dem heutigen Gebiet der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew über 33.000 Jüdinnen und Juden. Die Mas...
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Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok....the anthropology section of the Vanderbilt Report has dropped. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
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The Task This document represents a supporting chapter in our Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Our interdisciplinary panel was charged with asse...
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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shipping disrupted. Hormuz closed. Sudan's war widening. What kind of order is emerging around the Red Sea, and at whose expense? A Region in Flux, with @arabreforminit.bsky.social, the Folke Bernadotte Academy and the Rift Valley Institute. Thu 1 Oct, 16:00 EAT Register: tinyurl.com/msp38msj
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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kjetil Tronvoll is one of the best analysts of the Horn of Africa. This is well worth listening to in full despite all the annoying Youtube adverts. In passing, the AU's failure to engage confirms that it has become as irrelevant and complicit as its OAU predecessor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Ze...
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Ethiopia and Tigray at war: New alliances and same old fears of death, destruction and devastation
YouTube video by Tghat ትግሃት
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Susanne Wosnitzka @donauschwalbe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Was KI auch noch alles kaputt macht: Freundinnen, die für Online-Lexika schreiben oder solche betreiben wie FemBio, ersahen via VG-Wort-Meldungen wesentlich weniger Klickzahlen für ihre Seiten, weil die Leute nur mehr die KI-Zusammenfassung nutzen & daher nicht mehr auf die Webseiten selbst gehen 😔
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People are more pro-social than we think An experiment in which 5,980 lost letters were dispersed in communities found that return rates for ingroup (Italian) & outgroup (foreign) recipients were the same Places that returned more letters to ingroup members also returned more to outgroup members
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Germany's cabinet approved a bill in July that would allow AI use in visa, residence and asylum procedures. Josefine Flesch, Bernard Quante, and Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social, unpack the rights and bias concerns it raises. buff.ly/SZWJ2GO
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Germany's Draft Law on AI in Migration Raises Rights and Bias Concerns
Germany’s new AI migration law could reshape visa, asylum, and residence procedures. Natalie Welfens, Josefine Flesch and Bernard Quante examine risks.
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gleiches wird gemeldet von den Hochschulen. Die Bewerberzahlen brechen ein. Vollstes Verständnis für jede einzelne Person, die deswegen nicht nach Sachsen-Anhalt kommt, ob als Fachkraft, Azubi, Studi oder Tourist. Aber eine Bitte: Macht es laut. Äußert euch lautstark. Sonst hat es keinen Effekt.
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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Während des Berliner Wahlkampfs hab ich zum ersten Mal so richtig darauf geacht, ob/welche Kandidat:innen einen Doktortitel tragen. Jetzt wo klar ist, wer ins nächste Berliner AGH einzieht, hab ich's mir mal angeschaut. 1. Verteilung nach Partei
Balkendiagramm: Anteil der Mitglieder des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses mit Doktortitel nach Partei (Wahl 2026), absteigend sortiert. SPD 13,6 % (n = 3), AfD 10,3 % (n = 3), CDU 8,8 % (n = 3), Die Linke 6,4 % (n = 3), Grüne 3,8 % (n = 1). Die SPD-Fraktion weist den höchsten, die Grünen-Fraktion den niedrigsten Anteil an Mitgliedern mit Doktortitel auf. Eigene Darstellung. Quelle: Vorläufiges Endergebnis der Wahl zum 20. Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin am 20. September 2026,  https://wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BE2026/Afspraes/AGH/gewaehlte.html
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Karen. @mswashee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wenn die Verfolgung von Minderheiten zum Mehrheitsrecht wird, ist das kein normaler politischer Streit mehr. In der sogenannten Mitte meinen noch zu viele, es beträfe sie nicht – doch wenn diese Rechte fallen, trifft es uns alle. Lesetipp @maxpichl.bsky.social im Gespräch mit @dnah.bsky.social
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Feindbild Migration: „Diese Agenda hat eine lange Tradition“
Die Demokratie ist mehr als die Herrschaft der Mehrheit, sagt Rechtsprofessor Maximilian Pichl. Er erklärt, was sie mit Flüchtlingsschutz in Europa zu tun hat.
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Di Volpe @divolpe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Publication alert! My first article is out in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (open access!) In the article, I put current Italy-Libya cooperation on migration control and its legitimation within the Italian sphere in historical context through Stoler's concept of colonial aphasia.
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Out of sight, out of mind: Italy-Libya and its colonial past and present
Contemporary cooperation between Italy and Libya on migration control is often analysed in a vacuum, framed as a pragmatic response to human trafficking and irregular migration. This article argues...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I told him at the time to stop working, because ICE was arresting everyone,” Sakariye’s cousin told me. But Sakariye refused. “He believed ICE was looking for criminals.”
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Daniel Mullis @daenumullis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
„Wie die NZZ aus Regierungskreisen erfuhr, will … Dobrindt das BAMF schon bald dazu anweisen, die Schutztitel von Syrern abzuerkennen. Dies soll laut übereinstimmenden Informationen nach den Landtagswahlen in Mecklenburg Vorpommern und Berlin am kommenden Sonntag geschehen.“
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Asyl: Warum eine halbe Million Syrer in Deutschland bald ausreisepflichtig sein könnte
Der Bürgerkrieg in Syrien ist mittlerweile seit fast zwei Jahren beendet, doch nur wenige Asylmigranten sind bislang zurückgekehrt. Das Bundesinnenministerium will nun den Druck zur Heimreise verstärk...
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Bastian Stock @b-stock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Es läuft eine Kampagne gegen mich. Anlass: eine Einschätzung zum „Projekt M1llion" gegenüber WDR und Regionalpresse. Das Muster ist bekannt und Schweigen macht es stärker. @protestinstitut.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social 🧵
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Interesting paper on relationship between immigration and crime victimization of natives in Germany after 2015. Besides the relevance for the public debate of migrants as a security problem, this paper is interesting in how it uses administrative data link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Table 4 Refugee immigration
and changes in the rate of
victimization of Germans in
crimes with refugee suspects at
county level between 2014 and
2015 (OLS regression results)
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🇩🇪🗳️ Me when people ask if/whom for am I voting in the Berlin state election. (I don't have a German citizenship and since the election to the Berlin parliament is not a local election but a Land/state election, I can't play my EU citizenship card).
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Stephen Albrecht @stephenalbrecht.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Im Grunde folgte die Einführung des Wortes "Remigration" der "Neuen-"Rechtsextremen demselben Muster wie die Popularisierung des Begriffs "Segregation" in den USA, etwa durch den KKK. In beiden Fällen wurde bzw. wird versucht, einer rassistischen Motivation, [...]
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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Diese Zahlen, die gerade so rumgehen, sagen übrigens gar nichts darüber aus, wie es AfD-Wählenden finanziell tatsächlich geht. Es handelt sich um eine Selbsteinschätzung und sie zeigt nur, dass AfD-Wählende sich zu kurz gekommen fühlen.
Von denen die ihre finanzielle Lage selbst als schlecht einschätzen wählten in Sachsen-Anhalt 65 Prozent die AfD. 8 CDU, 9 Linke, 3 SPD, 1 FDP, 4 Grüne, 6 BSW, 4 Andere
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
African athletes are often navigating challenges that are incomprehensible to other countries. One of the finalists for the Nigerian squad couldn’t travel because Germany denied her visa. Three others had to go back university in the US. #wnba woramangra.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/b...
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Basketball Authority Explains D’Tigress’ Final Squad to Women’s World Cup
Nigeria Basketball Federation NBBF has ordered a review of it’s registration and travel process after a late alteration of D’Tigress’ final squad to the FIBA Women’s Basketb…
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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 02/09/2026
Here's a great example of how harmful media and political discourse can presumably have a huge impact on public perception....
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2026
“The economic costs of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown” www.economist.com/finance-and-... The @economist.com discusses our work on the long term effects of the US Administration’s international student exclusion policy. Full paper here—> www.iza.org/publications...
Longer-lasting damage may come from a slowdown in high-skilled immigration. The administration has tightened rules on student visas—down by a third last year—H-1B visas for skilled workers and green cards. At the technological frontier, America relies heavily on foreigners: American-trained workers born abroad make up 35% of those with PhDs in science, technology, engineering and maths. Michael Clemens of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, another think-tank, and his co-authors estimate that such a sustained squeeze on student visas would shrink that top-notch workforce by 11.5% and could reduce annual real GDP by nearly $500bn (1.6% of last year’s figure) within a decade. 
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VITSCHE @vitsche.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On 24 August, we are coming together to stand up for what concerns us all: freedom, democracy and security. 📍 18:30 · Potsdamer Platz ➡️ Protest march: Potsdamer Platz — Pariser Platz Join us, bring your friends, family and Ukrainian flags 💙
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
80% of the articles published in AI & Society seem to be AI slop these days. I want to find the good articles but I hate wading through the slop.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My piece on the Colombian mercenaries in Sudan - and their paymasters in the Emirates - is out as the cover story of the Financial Times magazine today. It's the culmination of months of interviews and data tracking with @justinlynch.bsky.social Here's a gift link: as.ft.com/r/868d9fe4-1...
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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Felix Schilk @stillapossibility.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Der 🇺🇦 Außenminister Andrii Sybiha weist auf X darauf hin, dass die Bilder aus #Ceuta von (pro-)russischen Medien und Kremloutlets systematisch mit entsprechenden #Krisennarrativen verbreitet und werden, um europäische Staaten zu destabilisieren.
We have detected an intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilization. 

There have been more than 1,500 publications on outlets identified by analysts as a pro-Russian network, led by Pravda and RT. Pravda Spanish has posted almost 300 of them. Every language edition of RT has pushed more than 25 news items on the issue.

For years, Moscow has used migration and other sensitive topics to stoke fear and destabilize European countries. 

This is not about the situation itself, but about the way Russia tries to exploit any topic that can benefit its agenda. The only way to protect the public from this interference is to cut it off. 

All Russian propaganda resources should be completely banned in every European country that takes its national security seriously.
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