Ben Jarvis

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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration."

I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

“Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trust.”

From the article below (a complement to the one the quoted text is about, not the same piece)

👇🎯 Been saying this for years. But it's actually worse than this. They think we are less worthy of actual citizenship & openly suggest that our votes shouldn't count, & they pay absolutely no consequences for this in the National Conversation™️:

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It's been a couple wks since the various reports of Trump's incursions at the LoC. In that time, I've been backing up the OCR text of Chronicling America, just in case

I documented my process on my blog. Just sharing in case others want/need to back up Chron Am for their own peace of mind

Analytical sociologists look around nervously.

Replication crisis not as bad as feared? “Observed replication rates could have been predicted by issues with replication power alone…. predicted replication rate is almost identical to observed replication rates in experimental economics (60% vs. 61%) and experimental social science (54% vs. 57%).”

A major escalation of the ongoing weaponization of the federal government against institutions that are deemed insufficiently obedient.

This isn't about Harvard, specifically: This is an authoritarian regime weaponizing the state to force civil society institutions into submission.

Must-read @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for folks working on populism: "Populist Radical Right Parties are most successful among classes facing a deterioration of their economic position within the social hierarchy. The magnitude of the association is substantial." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I.R.S. Is Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.

I’m old enough to remember the IRS “scandal” from the Obama administration that the GOP fed to a thirsty media, parlaying it into reams of tedious coverage and hackneyed “news analysis”. Every accusation is a confession for these malign mungers.

There are serious concerns about the data validity of the income measurement of the EU-SILC in Hungary after 2017. The numbers reek of manipulation to make the Orban government appear better at fighting poverty than it actually is. This is serious, as it undermines trust in the whole data set.

20 Republicans in the Senate and a handful in the house can end this right now.

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

OMFG. Read this and weep for our country and the man whose life is ruined. The Trump administration did this and now claims it can't be fixed. That's not good enough. All Americans should be losing their minds over this, even those who don't usually pay attention. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Good point. Also, we should reduce the US Army to the size of the Cleveland police department. I am not a crank.

Whatever we offer, they’ll demand more, because what they actually want is to vanquish every institution—the media, the courts, the bar, the universities—that could serve as a check on their power. “There is no appeasing these forces” is right. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

DOGE plays hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace takeover DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, took over the U.S. Institute of Peace after threatening its officials with criminal prosecution.

This is taking it to another level. Perhaps the most frightening aspect here is that the victims called the police ... who then proceeded to faciliate the takeover by goons. This isn't just a faint echo of Germany in 1933. It is precisely the same playbook. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

2. A Green Card holder from Germany 🇩🇪 living in New Hampshire

Detailed and abused -- unclear why

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

At this point, it is obvious that it is not safe for scholars to travel the US. There are no easy solutions for conferences scheduled in the US this year but it should be cleary to everyone involved that they cannot just go ahead as planned.

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission):
1) actions
2) background
3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers – a perfect triple bill on the American future.

This.

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden Abstract. There is increasing evidence that social networks matter not only for long-distance moves but also for short-distance residential mobility. And t

In a new ESR paper with @laurafursich.bsky.social, we show that young adults are more likely to move to neighborhoods near their friends from primary and secondary school. This implicates schools as potential institutional engines of subsequent residential segregation.

But seriously, it *should* be politically perilous for Trump.

Why the rising price of eggs in 2025 is a problem for Joe Biden.