Almost perfect surprise anniversary gift: Nico: “For our tenth anniversary, we’re spending all of December in Malaysia!” Olga: “Seriously? That’s so sweet! We celebrated ten years last year, but still — how lovely!”

My suggestion to the marketing team was… not enthusiastically received

80% de los que hacen teoria sociogica out!

More than a meme, a consistent life philosophy

Some people can’t help being optimistic to the point of borderline delusion

Cabo Polonio, Uruguay

Virtue signalling is the opium of European academics

JUSTICE When justice and reason are on your side, try to make them go over to the enemy’s side; then they will pursue you with justice and reason, and will surely lose Augusto Monterroso

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like...reading week" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5N...

"The Preregistarian religion requires me to take one very small part of science and blow it all out of proportion to its actual value" Interesting post by Luke Conway showing the problem of exaggerating preregistration's relevance

Real Halloween: giving regular candys to all kids "Of course children who have nut allergies need to be protected. We need to segregate their food from nuts, have medication available... but maybe if touching a nut kills you, you're supposed to die" Louis CK

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Using DAG and being careful about bad controls in Criminology is not frequent Great paper on sentencing discrimination

But in order to work and collaborate together in a productive way, shouldn't you need to be less arrogant and mediocre and have minimal curiosity and interest in others' discipline? I thought you were talking about sociologists and economists....

There were times when we had to use chains to prevent people from stealing books. Now, you could chain most of our students to one of these bookshelves, and I'm sure that if you came back 10 days later, you'd find their dead bodies, not a single book opened

Jon Elster distinguishes between soft & hard obscurantism One of the best examples of hard obscurantism I know is Fredrickson & Losada (2005) use of differential equations from fluid dynamics to describe emotions over time, wonderfully anhilated by Sokal et al psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Very nice paper by Tiago & Aebi showing that the relationship economy - imprisonment that is considered a fact by many critical criminologist is weak and as usual highly sensitive to research design & analysis It's great that Punishment & Society is publishing this kind of papers!

Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👍👏

Yesterday we have a visitors in Picadilly Manchester

At the University of Manchester, I check my students’ pulse every now and then just to make sure they’re still alive

Academia

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative" Woody Allen

My cognitive capacity is limited to keeping track & maintaining stable relationships with just one human: Olga

When it reaches the threshold of being surprising and novel enough for the reviewer

Essays/assignments ready for marking

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Life attitude

Very cool episode on what is dark matter and dark energy and how do we know is out there by @tomchivers.bsky.social & @stuartjritchie.bsky.social ps: doing one future episode on parsimony-complexity, Occam, etc in science, would be amazing! sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-83...

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What a cool artistic government intervention on latest Banksy work When repression and clumsiness join forces, the sky is the limit

Editor: the article didn't feel like it belong to the energy of our journal Why don't you try in Annals of Proctology...?

What’s the point of trying to be funny by exaggerating reality when reality is already surreal? Trump card for Epstein’s 50th birthday:

Life by Esteban Podetti

Great post by @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social 'Only interdisciplinary conversations worth having are those that go on inside a single head' Interdisciplinary work sounds cool but in practice fails because scientists are lazy and don't engage with the methods/theories of other disciplines

♥️ Bansky’s latest work at Royal Courts of Justice in London ♥️

Editors complaining about authors using IA in such a sloppy way that they include hallucinated references of journal editors! Unless there are costs this won't change Start applying punishments to academic offenders: e.g. a public list of authors not allowed to publish in the journal for 2 years?

'You can trust Physics because rockets fly' (Richard Dawkins) You can trust Criminology because...?

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Top conference questions: "Hi, I have a comment but have not formulated my thoughts ahead of time so bear with me for a few minutes" "Hi, thanks for the great talk, let me just bring up an unrelated topic that will completely derail the entire discussion" youtube.com/shorts/Pbl9Z...

Never let reality spoil your utopia (meme stolen from Steve Stewart-Williams)

Gender perspectives in criminology: great normative takes, bad explanations, depressing measures and empirical models

Very cool episode on IA & empathy with key take away message: more honest and clear distinction between methodological problems of IA studies and fears about perverse effects of extension of IA in our lives So happy to see back again on regular basis the best social science podcast couple ever 😍

Some days it is really hard to keep the faith in social sciences This title + abstract is full-blown macro agression

I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man

There must be a special place in Dante's hell for academics that sign useless petitions and feel good about themselves If you care a serious issue (e.g war, genocide) do something real which usually involve some cost to you; otherwise you are just being ridiculous

If you don’t have time/will to supervise, don’t do it In Criminology in Latinamerica, Spain and sometimes in UK, some “supervisors” not only do not mentor their Phd students, but rather they are absent & ignore them, or worse, are predatory parasites who slap their name on papers or even plagiarize