🚨 JOB ALERT: The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are currently advertising a master-level or post-doctoral research position in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close March 22. Please repost! For more info: jobs.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Check out the latest from @edjegasothy.bsky.social and me about Australia's historical experience with prohibition, and what lessons we can learn about it's impact on illicit markets and organised crime. theconversation.com/prohibitive-...

The Median Voter Theorem is a Clarity Trap www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-median...

I know I'm biased, but I honestly can't see the point of reading anything else but @robfordmancs.bsky.social's deep dive on the Gorton and Denton contest. Tells you all you need to know.

Decidedly not social science - theconversation.com/is-time-a-fu...

New paper out co-authored with Jennifer Schumann, on the recent emergence of nitazenes in Australia's illicit THC vape supply. We discuss the regulatory context, implications, and the dangers of conflating adulteration of THC and nicotine vape supply. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Next to zero chance this will work - but anyone got a zotero citation style pointer for Journal of Law and Society? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

📢 New publication – and a great way to end the year In this study, we use MAIHDA (Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy) to study who is most at risk of violence victimisation in England and Wales. Paper: doi.org/10.1177/1748... 1/n

What can 40 years of song lyrics tell us about society? I analysed the lyrics of 1,600 pop songs going back to 1985. Our music appears to be getting gloomier, less future-looking and more self-obsessed 1/6

Details: vacancies.bournemouth.ac.uk/vacancies/57... 3/3

Pretty terrible sign of the times

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...

Doing some latent profile analysis... forgot how infuriating Mplus can be. I love it, but I hate it.

Hahaha, yes.

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite." www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct... To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about: www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

On my god I hate writing theoretical papers. You have to read about 3 books and 10 papers just to write one sentence. Give me a dataset and a specific research question any day

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Awesome stuff

this story has everything. Streaming to survive cancer. Steam scams. Crypto. Behold 2025 and all its horrors

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Submitted my PhD 10 years ago today. Still quite proud of it. etheses.lse.ac.uk/3257/

About time too. The MCS lot breezed through uni a few years ago, and there's nothing since!

One of the most vile antisemitic conspiracy theories of post-1989 Romania has been resurrected on TikTok and is amplified by AUR senator Sorin Lavric. The screenshot shown a recent FB post by Lavric linking to a video showing a 2004 interview of Paul Goma. 1/

An eye-watering 34% increase in illicit drug consumption between 2023-24. Even more concerning, drug expenditure also actually decreased over that period. In other words, illicit drugs are getting cheaper. Time for a radical rethink about our heavy reliance on supply reduction.

An interview with historian Mihai Burcea. Arguably the best analysis of Ion Iliescu's life and political career currently available. Subtitles via machine translation work reasonably well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hL8...

Whether it’s gang violence or helping a stranger, group bonding shapes action. Time to reframe how we understand social ties in criminogenic & prosocial contexts. Read the article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New paper out: What if extreme criminal and prosocial acts shared the same root cause? We explore how identity fusion—where personal & group identities merge—can help explain violence, loyalty, & desistance.

Say what you want about the 'Old Masters' but they were pretty rubbish at painting babies

Everything is absolutely fucked, isn't it?

I have three questions. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

9 years since a seagull shat on me and @mariskavdhorst.bsky.social on the way into a summer school lecture, in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum.

It is the greatest app available

Casual inference, university-style

Faroe islands. Pretty pretty good

New: Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. Released publicly so anyone can download www.404media.co/researchers-...

Also of some note that Nicusor Dan didn’t tack to the right between the rounds and didn’t dance to Simion’s tune. Not all mainstream parties supported him and not all strategists were happy with him, but Romanians voted for him over the radical right today.

"as Swiss, we don't have feelings, we have money"

I dont know about you, but Bluesky has quickly gone from 'isn't it great this isn't twitter!' to 'isn't my little hot take about politics witty?' really quickly.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Teach coding to novices in higher education (e.g., intro to python)? Finding AI has made the process difficult/less successful? Have novel ways of integrating/overcoming LLMs? Want to have a chat about this? Drop me a message! Organising a cross-institutional/discipline group to discuss the topic.

The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

don't let hadley wickham see this, he'll die (also somebody please make this somehow with base R) #rstats

Good reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Live map of UK HEI job losses: 😱☹️🤷‍♂️👇 www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

Absolutely the grimmest of things to read, for anyone who cares about probation, or the UK in general. cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/site...