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...

Really good, this

This is crazy interesting: Super Nintendos are getting *faster* as the hardware ages. We spoke to the person who discovered this and has been collecting more data. They even put a SNES in the freezer to test a hypothesis www.404media.co/super-ninten...

anyone know the best AI to help me write R code to pull data from an API?

Knowing tonnes of people who work in climate change/ESG, and seeing how much they fly (LOTS), this feels very on brand: www.bbc.com/news/article...

We’re constantly being told that our present moment is one of crisis: a ‘silent epidemic’ of male unhappiness. This myth has numerous threads. Chief among them is that boys are underperforming in a schooling system that’s biased towards girls’ aptitudes. There are further claims:

Does drinking this much coffee lower the risk of omitted variable bias?

Everyone going on about Tesla stock being down - still higher then it was a year ago.

I agree, but ideas need policy behind them - wider than 'allow academics to book their own travel.' Without those concrete steps to combat the losses in other domains where third parties have got in on the act it's all, well, a bit academic.

FFS. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I am 100% serious when I say that one of the most important skills for a researcher is an exceptional tolerance for feeling stupid. As a researcher, you really have to lean into feeling stupid.

Almost perfect timing: 'Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in England and Wales: Review of Recent Findings', with @eoinguilfoyle.bsky.social, now available 💎OA at the Journal of Legal Research Methodology www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/jl...

Know thy enemy

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Just found my undergrad notes. No idea how I ever understood all this.