Pontus Odmalm
@podmalm.bsky.social
SL in Politics. University of Edinburgh, PIR
#PoliticsOfMigration. #MS #Leither 🏴
Own account/(re)posts=interesting
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/pontus-odmalm
#PoliticsOfMigration. #MS #Leither 🏴
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@podmalm.bsky.social
· Aug 4
What a great start to the sabbatical! Tri-write with @slsalo.bsky.social and @jensrydgren.bsky.social 95% there - “We would like to accept the article for publication, but before we go ahead, we would like to give you the opportunity to make some further minor changes//…//.”
Thread/Important read in light of today’s net migration figures 👇
Out today: MPS Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland survey 2025
migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/publications...
migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/publications...
Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland: Changing, complex, contradictory - Migration Policy Scotland
The third wave of Migration Policy Scotland’s annual representative survey provides a detailed picture of how views are evolving. This attitudinal survey series provides policymakers and others with e...
migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Thread/Important read in light of today’s net migration figures 👇
Thread 👇 #StocksAndFlows
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thread 👇 #StocksAndFlows
Important read(s) 👇
With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome?
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Important read(s) 👇
This 👇
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This 👇
”//…//re-examine *every* Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration//…//” 😮
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
National Guard shooting: Trump says US should ‘re-examine’ all Afghan refugees after suspect named
President calls the shooting in Washington an ‘act of terror’, as officials name Rahmanullah Lakanwal as suspected shooter
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
”//…//re-examine *every* Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration//…//” 😮
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Huge, if true.
I fixed it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Huge, if true.
Alternate timeline, then 👇
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Alternate timeline, then 👇
Thread 👇
🚨🚨 It is rare that the rulings of @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social make headlines but the judgment yesterday on the recognition of #samesex marriage is a rare exception to this. Very welcome ruling from the CJEU: 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders
The Luxembourg-based court said a decision by Polish authorities infringed on a same-sex couple’s freedom of movement.
www.politico.eu
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Thread 👇
More Phd ops 👇
Doctoral scholarship for EU students to work with me at Oxford on democratic backsliding, democratic defence, or illiberalism: Renato Morelli Corpus Christi College Graduate Scholarship in Politics 2026-27. Deadline 9 Jan 2026. Please circulate!
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
More Phd ops 👇
What’s this stage called?
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
What’s this stage called?
Hell: circle 9.
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hell: circle 9.
Ping #BBC
A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
over.nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ping #BBC
”The longer the party is a personality cult, the harder it will be to emerge from his shadow.” Important read 👇
New post just out:
"MAGA Meltdown?"
With Trump's approval ratings collapsing the Republicans are starting to realise they're in serious trouble.
Here's why it's going to get worse for them.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/m...
"MAGA Meltdown?"
With Trump's approval ratings collapsing the Republicans are starting to realise they're in serious trouble.
Here's why it's going to get worse for them.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/m...
MAGA Meltdown?
Why the Republicans are in serious trouble
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
”The longer the party is a personality cult, the harder it will be to emerge from his shadow.” Important read 👇
Interesting 👇
Despite the current state of politics, moral views have become more progressive over time. Why? In an experiment we found that the arguments that make liberals more liberal also persuade conservatives, whereas the arguments that make conservatives more conservative don't persuade liberals.
Susceptibility to Moral Arguments Among Liberals and Conservatives
Abstract. An empirical result in Moral Foundations Theory is that liberals and progressives endorse the individualizing factors of care and fairness, while
academic.oup.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Interesting 👇
Point (3) 👇
A clear indication that the right wing rhetoric has shifted the narrative. Nigel Farage thinks it’s ok to only clarify ‘I’ve never DIRECTLY racially abused anyone’ and still be a candidate for prime minister.
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Point (3) 👇
Point (2) 👇
I genuinely find it astonishing that someone of colour could advocate the random picking of potential migrants to create a climate of fear among minoritised people.
I mean... how do you think thatll work for other black British people Trevor?
I mean... how do you think thatll work for other black British people Trevor?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Point (2) 👇
👀
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
👀
Point/thread 👇
Kneecapping one of the UK‘s main exports because you boxed yourself in with unsustainable tax pledges and too cowardly to properly walk it back is contemptible.
Reeves‘ unfortunate tenure in No 11 will be marked by lots of small, damaging tax increases because the alternative was too hard.
Amateur
Reeves‘ unfortunate tenure in No 11 will be marked by lots of small, damaging tax increases because the alternative was too hard.
Amateur
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Point/thread 👇
That said, given tweeps have to check accounts themselves, this may/may not impact on spread of disinformation.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was create...
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
That said, given tweeps have to check accounts themselves, this may/may not impact on spread of disinformation.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
“I am the child of [labour] immigrants”. Not the same category as “asylum”, mind.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“I am the child of [labour] immigrants”. Not the same category as “asylum”, mind.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“//…//the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) *continues* to administer electric shocks to disabled children.” FFS.
Disability advocates and their supporters have called on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill banning the use of ‘aversive therapy’, as the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) continues to administer electric shocks to disabled children.
Massachusetts legislators urged to pass bill banning electric shock treatment on disabled children
Disability advocates and their supporters have called on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill banning the use of ‘aversive therapy’, as the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) continues to administer electric shocks to disabled children.
liamodell.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“//…//the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) *continues* to administer electric shocks to disabled children.” FFS.
Important read 👇
'Dictator DNA: individualising Nazism in the context of rising fascism and genocide'
New Commentary piece on the #IdentitiesBlog, by our co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social:
www.identitiesjourna...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #farright
New Commentary piece on the #IdentitiesBlog, by our co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social:
www.identitiesjourna...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #farright
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Important read 👇
Reposted by Pontus Odmalm
The 4th Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration will take place in Madrid on May 26–27, 2026. PhD students or recent grads can submit their full paper by Feb 1, 2026. Submit here ➡️ economig2026.sciencesconf.org
The Economics of Migration Junior Workshop 4th Edition - Sciencesconf.org
The Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration is a joint initiative of CERDI, PSE, LISER, the University of Luxembourg, Universidad Carlos III, CEPII, and the IC Migrations.
economig2026.sciencesconf.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The 4th Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration will take place in Madrid on May 26–27, 2026. PhD students or recent grads can submit their full paper by Feb 1, 2026. Submit here ➡️ economig2026.sciencesconf.org