Stop making me like the pope this is so fucked up

Last Friday I spoke to Henry Bonsu (Times Radio) about the preposterous claim that White British are discriminated against by the criminal justice system. www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2... From 19:45 to 25:59 #TwoTierPolicing

Fund scholarship. Jadwiga of Poland knew this 600 years ago. Leaders should know now.

@rjbeecham.bsky.social, Caroline Tait, Juan Fonseca and I have a new registered report and are looking for feedback before we conduct the analysis: "The Road Violence Toll of Urban Sprawl: A Registered Report of Collisions with Cyclists and Pedestrians in England and Wales" osf.io/preprints/so...

Sus laws, Brixton, New Cross fire, enduring discrimination in the use of stop and search, Stephen Lawrence, Macpherson, The Secret Policeman, The Casey Report. Shall I go on. . . . It's as if all that suddenly never happened.

Many researchers support #OpenScience in principle, but argue they face real barriers when putting it into practice.

Latest evidence on this made up debate, black male suspects are more than 3 times more likely to be strip searched while in police custody than white male suspects, by Amal Ali, journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

I wrote about immigration policy in Britain this week. Britain has shut the door on the most economically desirable kind of migrant. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Most policy & urbanist discussion centers on those who choose to give up their car. We can achieve better policy and better communities if we center those who never had a choice. nondriver is a podcast about the stories of those people. Coming to you June 5th. Subscribe: youtube.com/@nondriver

If this was an election my vote would go for i) whoever is serious about open research and ii) impose a lottery system for any funding scheme under 20% success rate.

does anyone know how is it possible that food items in all university events across the whole of the UK is exactly the same?

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Ever wondered what has happened to all the kids playing outside? This happened 👇🏼 🚗🚙🚗🚘🚙🛻🚙🚗🚙🚘🚙🚗🚙🚗🚘

New registered report with @alextrinidad.eurosky.social & @ianloader.bsky.social, under review at PCI RR: "Road Violence and Perceptions of Safety among Pedestrians and Cyclists" We test if the fear of crime paradox applies to the road violence context. We welcome feedback, osf.io/preprints/so...

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

I know some people wonder why Starmer is so widely disliked. In part it is because of this. Under Starmer Labour has continued attacks on basic rights, especially for trans and non-binary individuals, and making it harder for LGBTQIA+ people to seek asylum. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/countries/un...

Beautiful Leeds.

Agree. So many limitations of the traditional system, long before AI. Its time to be bold and experiment.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Not such a crazy idea after all. Let's do it!

'The number of under-16s killed or seriously injured has risen by 17% in England, jumping from an average of 1,884 between 2017 and 2019 to an average of 2,204 between 2022 and 2024'

This proposes a peer review credit system. I like it. But review credits must not only be generated by journals. To break the journal monopoly on peer review, other venues - such as journal-agnostic review, and post-publication review - should also draw from the pool. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Or, as I like to call it, the alter of EBP 😆

Steel industry: £1.1bn in GDP and 20,000 employees University sector: £265bn in GDP and 400,000 employees What the fuck am I missing here.

Even his attack on Reform raises a Reform issue and is pro Reform.😂

Does anyone have the answer to this question? Even just a half baked off the top of the head would do to help me get through the next couple of hours before I start drinking.

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Why is this not the end of writing-papers-for-journals-based science and what would be the alternative?

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

The world is changing at great speed, as oligarchs grab powers that once belonged to the people. Starmer not only has no answer to this, but he doesn’t even register it as an issue. He promised “Change”, but the change is happening without us. And without him.

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

How close are we to give up on thinking? I find this pretty scary.

Wow this figure. AI reviews appear to be (subjectively) much better along almost all dimensions 👀

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

1/ We got 50,000 articles about how weak and impotent soft power has proven in the 21st century. Meanwhile, the "1st army in the world" can't bend Iran to its will and the (self-proclaimed) "2nd army in the world" is over a thousand days into its 3 day special military operation.

Simple rule: If you're still posting on X, then you're not allowed to accuse anyone else - whether a person, organisation, or group - of inaction towards intolerance.

It's interesting that everyone here feels that they should be heard. I wonder how many are involved in community organisations or clubs. I think a lot of this stems from not feeling connections with others rather than any deeply-held political beliefs

The US is an unreliable and deceitful ally now, and is doing its best to help Putin’s dictatorship commit unspeakable war crimes against a European democracy. It is a good thing if the US pulls out of Europe and stops pretending.

Causal inference theory and methods should be first introduced at secondary school, and the rest should be taught in all quantitative undergraduate courses. It is far too fundamental to leave to specialist masters and graduate degrees, learnt only by a small minority of quantitative scientists.

On 31 March 2025 the Office for Students employed 475 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff.

This is absolutely true. We have plenty of parks around us but the adults & children who live on our street barely know each other. Our street is a car park.

Here is an off the top of my head but potentially workable proposal to deal with the peer review crisis and to incentivise quality over quantity: review tokens. You get to submit 1 paper for every 2 you review.

The BBC is too cowardly to make the key point in it’s headline. Immigration has gone sharply down. Our problem going forward is too little immigration, not too much. As some of us have been saying for some time.

I've been asked to be an editor for an exciting new OA criminology journal but I am struggling to find the motivation when I see what new AI models can do. How likely is it that in the next couple of years or so most of the articles we receive are AI generated and we cannot tell the difference?

We have a programme for the '2026 Cars & Crime Symposium' jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/Progr... It should give us a nice couple of days of learning about the criminal dimension of car culture. Preprints of the papers in preparation will be uploaded here: jmpinasanchez.github.io/outreach.html

Scrap all of this wasted time and effort and just award grants randomly. The article briefly suggests and dismisses this but I think it would solve a lot of problems with science funding. If you're overwhelmed with good submissions, you're already choosing randomly and just not admitting it.

One of the greatest headlines ever made

Lovely sight to start the day. You cant park there mate.