Migration does not have to be what it is now
Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected
In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships
The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
Check out nonprofit and philanthropy specialised journals - Voluntas, NVSQ, Nonprofit management and leadership to start. You may also find research in mainstream public admin journals like PAR, JPART and PA.
There’s something sad about how many blogposts are simply copy-pasted ChatGPT output now.
It’s not writing, it’s content — not voices, but outputs. When the only button you press is for an LLM, blogposts don’t earn applause, they earn scrutiny.
I've built a new tool!
You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
Episode artwork including Kat, Kez and Melanie
New #UofGSpotlight episode on 'Work, Ageing and the Employment Rights Act'💡
@kezdugdale.bsky.social speaks with Kat Riach about ageing and work then @melaniesimms.bsky.social about employment rights and recent legislation.
Listen and subscribe: uofgspotlight.com 🎧
I'm not an audiophile, but making the choice to switch back to wired headphones has massively improved my music experience
“We measure the impact of increased immigration on mortality among elderly Americans, who rely on the immigrant-intensive [health care] sectors… [we find] striking effects on mortality: a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide.”
So now we can see the official report of what happened to PEPFAR coverage in 2025 compared to 2024.
14.5m fewer people received testing and counselling (leading to a 400k drop in positive tests)
100,000 fewer on ARVs
1.6m drop in ART patients with documented viral load
I have used @raulpachecovega.bsky.social's to teach reading and literature reviews to easily 500+ students (mostly undergrads), and I regularly get feedback that they're among the most valuable lessons in my science and teaching writing classes.
Cannot recommend enough.
"Our desperate times have created concerned reactions, so here's a firearm factsheet to consider if you're pondering gun ownership:" armedwithreason.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...
US Development Finance Corporation did $3.5bn in business last year.
For comparison, China's Belt and Road investments last year were about $85bn.
www.cgdev.org/blog/looking...
greenfdc.org/china-belt-a...
Great list. I've been considering this too, and trying small steps - Libre Office and signing up with Proton Mail.
Took advice from @parismarx.com a couple weeks ago and it's been great. Most all changes I've made have zero impact on my day-to-day, but mean I'm supporting a wide diversity of non-US platforms. A couple are even a genuine improvement.
Combat both US tech capitulation and Enshittification at once.
Studies of mobilization against Bolsonaro and the effective unity of South Korean political elites against an authoritarian power grab by the last president are still underway. So there are several models politicians in the U.S. have.
Interested in learning more about policy and public engagement and develop the skills to engage in media interviews and public-facing writing? Apply for our workshop this summer - www.bridgingthegapproject.org/ipsi
Applications close this Sunday
If you’re aged 18–30 and have a good business idea, Scotland will back you.
Today I have launched The First Minister’s Start-Up Challenge and applications will open soon.
£500 to test your business, and up to £5,000 to launch it.
Blog: The US Halt on Immigrant Visa Processing.
On Wednesday the US announced it was suspending processing for immigrant visa applications in 75 countries home to 2.5 billion people with a combined GNI of $9.9 trillion....
“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
Important considerations if you're collecting data on online platforms such as Prolific. www.science.org/content/arti...
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
The Govt of India is dismantling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and that's a real shame.
“Randomizing newborns to no hepatitis B vaccine at birth in order to evaluate “overall health effects” of an intervention whose primary benefit is already known is indefensible. When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation; [it is] premeditated harm”
What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
@justsand.bsky.social and I have updated our estimates of lives lost based on cuts to US foreign assistance spending through the end of the fiscal year. They look similar or worse than they did back in June: in the range of 500,000 to 1,000,000 people.
www.cgdev.org/blog/update-...
When I was at NC state, I had lunch with a visiting scholar from Sweden who was visiting US universities for the first time. He described his experience as touring “hedge funds with football teams.”