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jeffreymitchell.bsky.social
Former vacuum cleaner repair boy, current sociologist https://jeffrey-mitchell.com/
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The Church Committee Report is, to date, the most detailed articulation of the government's playbook for disrupting, surveilling, and crushing political movements. It was written in 1975 but could not be more relevant or useful in 2025.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Interestingly, the police were a no-show. And guess what? Civilization did not collapse and people had a great time.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Tenemos nuevo paper 😀 Sobre experiencias de discriminación en seis grupos minorizados (minorías étnicas nativas y población migrada) en Europa y su salud percibida. Con el gran @jeffreymitchell.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

New article out now with @daniellaparra.bsky.social We show (among other things) a negative gradient in health for those that have accumulated experiences of discrimination and harassment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

ICE detentions of people with no criminal records are up nearly 900 percent over the same period last year. Gift link: wapo.st/43DxcEB

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

An LAPD officer in a helicopter announced to a crowd of protestors “I have all of you on camera. I’m going to come to your house.” This is the very definition of using surveillance and the threat of reprisals to chill constitutionally-protected free speech.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this. No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?" archive.ph/E1vxH

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

And thanks to a generation of reactionary centrists, feckless Dems, autocratic GOPers, and a TV culture of non-stop crime shows and bleeds-it-leads news, we spent TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of declining and low crime rates building out that police-state style police system at EVERY level of government.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

#uppsaladeclaration now has more than 1,900 signatories. We refuse to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

We seek a new PhD student to join our research group, studying how digital technologies – social media and AI – affect political communication, mobilisation and power. The position is within the @digsum.bsky.social research centre at Umeå University. Deadline July 21 --> www.umu.se/en/work-with...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. The current setup of the Flock ALPR system is incompatible with a free society.

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

Unfortunately we all understand what the aim is - the forcible depopulation of Gaza via the killing or exile of its entire population.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Instead of starting the police reform clock in 2020, look further back in time: Rodney King (community policing), Michael Brown (body cameras and procedural justice training). We've known for a long time that police reform doesn't address the true mechanism enabling police violence: police power.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

These are all open access. If you’re a scholar @rafeefz.bsky.social on unis & values based neutrality couldn’t be clearer, Aseel & @cairsti.bsky.social document the emotional impacts of Gaza in the West Bank & Michael Burawoy gives a comparative analysis of apartheid in South Africa & Palestine

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe in the strong version of the "great replacement theory"—that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

'Measuring sentence inflation England & Wales', with @sentencingacademy.bsky.social We estimate that 87% of the increase in sentence severity experienced over the last 2 decades is due to a genuine change in the sentencing practice (sentence inflation). www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/measuring-se...

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Many European politicians are trying to attract American researchers. However, sometimes their branding doesn't match their domestic higher education policies. So I've written a guide on recent political developments in Swedish academia for prospective immigrants. joenoonan.se/post/swedish...

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine if chefs: Sourced the ingredients Cooked the meal Tested each other's dishes Handed over their recipes …then PAID a corporation $$$ so you can eat it That's the business model we're looking at here

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

New article: “Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence” with Eva Jaspers and @frankvantubergen.bsky.social is now available in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Access: doi.org/10.1080/1369...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

The US is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

Läs @aliesbati.bsky.social om likheter/skillnader mellan massmorden I Örebro o på Utöya. (Kan du inte läsa ETC, teckna en prenumeration) www.etc.se/inrikes/ali-...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

I am making a little R package to work with World Value Survey data. Does anyone have any suggestions of what they would like to include in it? Right now it is mostly tools to look at variable coverage, and to make it easier to work with variables and value labels. #rstats

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

I'm confused about how the AP put out a story titled, "Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters" with no mention of evangelical beliefs about Israel helping kick off the end times and the return of Christ. THAT'S THE MAIN THING. apnews.com/article/isra...

submitted 137 days ago • 95 comments

Job alert! Six days left to apply: 2 years, 100% FTE, fantastic team, great opportunities, huge EU-wide project on welfare states' responses to social risks in times of climate change - more info here: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

submitted 147 days ago • 35 comments

Do you live outside Norway, have a PhD in social sciences, want to work on trust and/or social capital and want to combine this with an Arctic adventure in wonderful Tromsø? Then apply for an Arctic Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! Deadline 16 Feb! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309439

submitted 151 days ago • 2 comments

Tja, inget är säkert ännu. Och bevis är i sig en sak, verkligheten kan vara en annan. Men medier och allehanda experter borde nog ha väntat med att mer eller mindre säkert slå fast att det rört sig om sabotage i Östersjön. Men det militära narrativet råder esvd.svd.se/shared/artic...

submitted 151 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

submitted 151 days ago • 85 comments

We can’t even get a good 21st century critique of intelligence agencies in an imagined utopian post-scarcity society.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

The postdoc period is more crucial than PhD for academic success and it’s beneficial to change your research profile but only ”just enough”

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

submitted 157 days ago • 182 comments

I have struggled with my role is as an Arabic speaker with a platform, in the face of the need in Gaza. I have decided to start a series I'm calling “Voices of Gaza” that tells a fuller story of people’s lives and dreams beyond victimhood. I hope you'll help amplify.

submitted 159 days ago • 13 comments

Detta påminner mig om DuBois som skrev i 1917: "The cause of war is preparation for war, and of all that Europe has done in a century there is nothing that has equaled in energy, thought and time her preparation for wholesale murder" www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/... @gorangreider.bsky.social in @etc.se

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

My department has a call for a permanent associate professorship at UiT, Norway. Deadline 19 January. Come and work with me! DM me for questions about the position!

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

Call for papers: editors @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion are inviting expressions of interest for a Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Deadline: 13 January. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #CfP #Gaza #Palestine #genocide Keffiyeh artwork buff.ly/41uSBir

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

As we mourn and celebrate the exemplary life of Jimmy Carter, I thought back to Matthew Braswell’s essay (and Kevin Mattson’s book) describing the president’s discussions with sociologist Robert Bellah and historian Christopher Lasch. RIP. onthe5thfloor.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/s...

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Sharing another piece I'm proud of this year: After Slate published an article in which a writer urged progressives to get on board with police surveillance, they let me write a rebuttal articulating exactly what's harmful about more surveillance.

submitted 186 days ago • 5 comments

Wow: “The documents reveal that the YPD installed cameras on campus, tracked students’ social media accounts, and monitored students using aerial drones.“

submitted 185 days ago • 4 comments

Read this new article by Mikael Holmqvist on "Royal power in the market-oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites". #EarlyView in the #BJS ➡️ https://buff.ly/3AVvRxy

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 194 days ago • 9 comments