Dan de Kadt
Social and data science at the London School of Economic
Trying to come up with a good idea
- Things Claude (still) can't do: Juggle Refuse to put myself to bed at 9pm Make jerk chicken Disappoint my parents Experience severe anxiety I'm safe for now
- Personally think Dulles airport deserves to be named after Trump
- Reposted by Dan de Kadt⏰One week left! Deadline approaching for our Early-Career Conference on Political Dimensions of Urban and Rural Life (April 23-24 at LSE). Submit your paper: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Looking forward to some great papers! ✨
- 📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtElizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is an 11-year old girl kidnapped by ICE from the same city as Liam Ramos and held in the same child prison. She's coming home. Abolish ICE. Leave our children alone. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Thanks to Monica and APSA for organizing this, and to all the people who came and listened and asked questions. Sorry we couldn't answer all of them. If you ever want to talk, drop me a line.
- Also how the American electorate feels tbf
- A bit like me and fashion tbth
- It’s a great day to book a blood donation appointment!
- Reposted by Dan de KadtNew preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...
- V sad that we had a diverse menu of science fiction futures to pick from and we got The Matrix.
- If Ezra Klein were a good person™️ he would in fact give his labour away for free like the rest of us good people
- "It is morally wrong to accept money for work" feels like a new depth of BlueSky brain
- Reposted by Dan de KadtUnreal. He’s shutting down the Kennedy Center, after his flunkies caused mass defections of artists? Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.
- Trump so keen to speed run Nazism he’s capitalising nouns
- Reposted by Dan de Kadt“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
- 4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtDHS will soon be offering to hand out stolen art from deportees’ homes.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtThe White House could not be clearer here. It opposes immigration, period. It is radically, ideologically, categorically dead-set against immigration itself—against “all visas”. Against the very same immigration that brought Miller’s refugee ancestors to the United States.
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtLiam Ramos' schoolmates, delivered by the principal to their single mom in a detention center.
- Reposted by Dan de Kadtreminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtICE has the modus operandi of a violent carjacking and kidnapping gang.
- Mock him all you want but in my experience on this point the man speaks for 99% of Boomers in every wealthy Western nation (I mean who’s mum doesn’t have 12 homes)
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtIt’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
- Rhetoric shot Renee Goode in the face before calling her a “fucking bitch.” Rhetoric shot Alex Pretti in the back while he was pinned to the ground by multiple federal agents.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtWhen everyone brings $50k of cold hard cash in a paper bag, the tyranny will move on to its next victims.
- Reposted by Dan de Kadtyou can’t fucking dox a public official!
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- Feels weird to be living through this moment, like listening to Bob Dylan's Hurricane but in real time
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- Reposted by Dan de Kadt📢 JOB ALERT! Postdoc opportunity in Political Behaviour & Political Economy (UKRI‑funded) - Please do share with anyone who might be a great fit. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please feel free to get in touch!! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Dan de KadtMilitary occupation corrupts the soul.
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🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost! - Reposted by Dan de KadtICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtJOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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- Don’t like being one of those political scientists who tries to demonstrate the “relevance” of their research, BUT… In our study of lawless, televised, brutal state violence in South Africa we find that the *key* to accountability is the existence of political actors willing to fill the vacuum.
- Testament to Trump‘s extraordinary longevity that his face was the first image ever broadcast on Tv
- Reposted by Dan de KadtReminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtNEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
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- The Bromeliad Trilogy might be the best thing Terry Pratchett ever wrote. Hmmm.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtPlease apply to this pre-doc position to work on projects related to culture, political economy, and development in DRC and Mozambique. Strong data analysis skills required. First round of applications reviewed Feb. 2. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
- On how (state) violence leaves permanent scars upon one's sense of place.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtSecretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtThis is really not a time to push people out and prevent people from coming in due to some position purity. Either the opposition tent will be large, or there will be no tent at all in a few months.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtToday has been a very rough day. But it‘s important to share Alex’s parents message.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtAlex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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- Catastrophic failure of a response by Klobuchar. Embarrassing. At least Frey seems to understand the gravity of the situation.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtLiterally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.
- Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
- Reposted by Dan de KadtImagine what’s happening in the camps.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtThe Secretary of Defense praising the murder of a protestor and posting "ICE > MN." Minnesota is an American state with almost six million residents.
- Lying liars lie all all the time. Don't broadcast and repeat their lies.
- Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtReminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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- Reposted by Dan de KadtIt is way, way worse than the first video made it look. He was helping someone else up, got maced, and then got dragged to the ground from behind and shot multiple times.
- Reposted by Dan de KadtMinneapolitans are gathering on every block tonight at 7pm to hold a vigil for someone killed by our own government, for doing nothing but helping someone up off the ground. What would you say if you saw this in other country? What would you expect to happen to those responsible and accountable?
- Don't believe the lying liars who lie.
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