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@criminologist.bsky.social
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Criminology, public policy, research and experiments
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Josh McCrain
about 2 hours ago
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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steven monacelli
about 5 hours ago
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
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See stuff about AI etc etc ...starts reading The Butlerian Jihad
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Drug Doc đ
about 4 hours ago
21st century phrenology is still pseudoscientific bullshit.
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Annenberg Institute
about 9 hours ago
đą
#EdWorkingPapers
: Tutoring is powerful but expensive to scale. Across 12 rapid A/B tests,
@noamangrist.bsky.social
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@ccullen.bsky.social
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@janicalapati.bsky.social
optimize a tech-enabled tutoring program, boosting efficiency & finding low-cost ways to double learning impact. đ
bit.ly/49MbmC8
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Caroline Fiennes
about 5 hours ago
Somebody just reminded me of this. Best correction ever:
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Policy Sketchbook
about 12 hours ago
For 90% of people there is no good reason these days to own a high value phone when a second hand one from several years ago can do everything you need it to and more. The added bonus appears to be that would-be muggers won't want to take it from you.
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Policy Sketchbook
about 13 hours ago
[the sound of a million people searching for HotDogGuy.jpg]
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 18 hours ago
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor. (via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
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ç«ć„œăăȘäșș
about 14 hours ago
Who uses AI for drafts? Drafts are for thinking through and crystallising your thoughts, working out how they link together, finding out the gaps in what you want to say. And generally, if it all hangs together. Unless you're writing very generic texts, this doesn't seem like a net positive.
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Alex Sobel MP
about 13 hours ago
We need to move away from First Past the Post. đłïž #PR #ProportionalRepresentation #FairElections Full article:
https://loom.ly/ojnMd-A
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Juliet Turner
4 days ago
I passed my viva! đ Iâm very happy to share that yesterday, after ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my DPhil thesis and will be awarded the title of doctor đ Thank you to my examiners, supervisors, and collaborators for all the advice and support given along the way.
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Gravel Influencer
1 day ago
Every year I look forward to the Don't Burn Down Your Fucking House posts from
@cpsc.gov
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...and when the tax base has been destroyed those retiring/-ed managers will wonder why their pensions are slashed...
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Lewis Goodall
1 day ago
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI canât do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
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âThereâs Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employeesâ
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers canât start their careers?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-replacing-entry-level-jobs-gen-z-careers.html
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Matt Ashby
1 day ago
When asked what are the biggest issues facing them in their daily lives, only 5% of Britons mention crime or public safety. Partly this is because crime is highly concentrated so disproportionately affects a few people. But it probably also illustrates why big police funding increases are unlikely.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
1 day ago
New paper with
@instrumenthull.bsky.social
and Michal KolesĂĄr on leniency/judge IV designs. This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!đ§”
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
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Schrödinger's causality!
@pwgtennant.bsky.social
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Jacqueline Antonovich
2 days ago
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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Georgeous McFartpants đŹđ§đ«đźđ©đȘđłïžâđđȘđžđźđš
2 days ago
Cut to RTE in Dublin: We're hearing reports that the Spanish ambassador has been summoned.
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Jon Collins
2 days ago
Itâs always good to see more employers committed to employing prison leavers. But itâs also vital to get prison education working properly, so people in prison can get the skills and qualifications that employers need.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Crime-cutting jobs plan sees hundreds of firms join hiring drive
Britainâs biggest businesses have joined the Governmentâs hiring drive to get prison leavers into work in effort to cut crime as part of the Plan for Change.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/crime-cutting-jobs-plan-sees-hundreds-of-firms-join-hiring-drive?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=bb0b5e65-c40f-4ad6-beec-0cea80f35631&utm_content=immediately
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Paul Johnson
2 days ago
Even more striking is that a quarter of employees will be higher rate tax payers by the end of the decade. This is a really fundamental shift in the structure of the tax system.
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Dan Quintana
3 days ago
In Norway, youâll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, âHeiâŠâ. Iâm fine with this personally as itâs the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give âthe talkâ to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
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Philip Cowley
4 days ago
#impact
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âïž Starshine
3 days ago
*record scratch* yup thatâs me, youâre probably wondering how i ended up in this situation
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Nicole Rust
3 days ago
Watching
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
âs SFN talk on the train to San Diego. I understand that Iâm not missing anything b/c they stop letting people in when the seats were all full. Go Earl!
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Vlad K.
3 months ago
Evergreen.
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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
5 days ago
We are delighted to announce that Professor
@emlafitzsimons.bsky.social
is to be the new director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies from Monday, 1 December 2025. Prof Fitzsimons has been director of the groundbreaking Millennium Cohort Study since joining CLS in 2014. Read more:
bit.ly/3Lvhjtp
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Michael Clemens
3 days ago
TIL: When the New Horizons space probe visited Pluto, it was carrying the ashes of Pluto's discoverer, the farm boy turned self-taught astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
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Micah
3 days ago
Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
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Moose Allain
3 days ago
If youâre starting to think about Christmas shopping, check out the replies to this.
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Starfish Who Canât Think Something Witty
3 days ago
Ancient philosophy is 50% profound eternal wisdom and 50% that same exact guy declaring with supreme confidence two paragraphs later that pee is stored in the armpit.
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McSweeney's
3 days ago
"Working Democracy"
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Oxymorons for 2025
Deafening Silence Exact Estimate Working Democracy Slow Newsweek Mild Headache Fair Election Impartial Judge Justice Department Separation of Power...
https://buff.ly/zz9NH6W
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
4 days ago
âCandidates whose research is more similar to the committee are more likely to winâ - we are just horrible at hiring in academia IMO
#linkoftheday
academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
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Darren Dahly
3 days ago
It's mind-numbing how anyone could view city journal as operating in good faith. But many do.
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Jonathan Portes
3 days ago
Chief Economic Advisor, HM Treasury - a fantastic and extremely challenging job, following in the footsteps of Keynes..
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Quick Check Needed
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1977933
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Dorian Lynskey
5 days ago
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" â The Times, May 1975 âIt is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British lifeâ â Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Elisabetta Versace
4 days ago
Very clear illustration of the different effects of alternative visualiaations of the same data
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Dan Quintana
4 days ago
If youâve ever attempted a meta-analysis, youâll know that authors generally do a poor job reporting statistics. If you do this well, youâll improve your chances of your work being included in a future meta-analysis.
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Paul HĂŒnermund
4 days ago
Maybe you've missed the crushing, DAG-wielding critique. Of course, not by a star scholar...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Double machine learning and automated confounder selection: A cautionary tale
Double machine learning (DML) has become an increasingly popular tool for automated variable selection in high-dimensional settings. Even though the ability to deal with a large number of potential co...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jci-2022-0078/html
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Dr. Ian Garner
4 days ago
Delighted to announce I have found my first published academic article clearly written by ChatGPT. Full of non-existent references. What are we even doing anymore?
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Amy Orben
4 days ago
đŁ Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8â18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM):
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1QPMzyQANqaBSSO
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Dan Neidle
4 days ago
Fiscal creep has been an amazingly easy way for recent Governments to raise tax without anyone noticing. Here's the higher rate tax band since 1990. It rose faster than inflation from 1994 to 2009. Then began a steep decline - with many more people paying higher rate.
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derek guy
5 days ago
crazy IG em_clarkson
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christhomas.bsky.social
12 months ago
Please also add/repost the second Starter Pack, which I made because so many great criminologists have joined bluesky lately that the first starter pack got full. As before, please reply if you'd like to be added -- I'll do my very best to include all CJ academics here.
go.bsky.app/7qmM6yB
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Dan Baldassarre
4 days ago
That face you make when you get busted for murdering a vole and the evidence is splattered all over your bill but youâre so drunk with blood lust you donât even care (Northern Saw-whet Owl)
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Picard Tips
4 days ago
Picard management tip: Ignore rules that make no sense.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
4 days ago
A skydiving man captured in front of solar activity - actually real!
#linkoftheday
www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/...
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Aubrey Jane Roberts
4 days ago
I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work â€ïž
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Nicholas A. Christakis
4 days ago
Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked Claude Code to run one of the first AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage operations. The operation targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies.
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
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