Lucky Man

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

Timeless: Only time Uruguay was mentioned in The Simpsons Homer Simpson: 'Look at this country! You-are-gay' www.youtube.com/shorts/635rp...

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This has now been published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... The original authors also posted a reply: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Quick thread on some additional thoughts and then I'm probably done talking about this one 🧵

Most of my time I wonder what the hell am I doing with my life, usually staring at a table of regression coefficients and about to fall into table 2 fallacy 🎯

One reason (among many) why I do not recommend our criminology students to use auto-ethnography for their empirical projects: “Criminology student sentenced to 4 consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to murdering four Idaho students” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"the results were derived proctologically" ( (c) @steamtraen.eu) is a phrase I will put in my pocket and produce when the occasion demands. retractionwatch.com/2025/08/20/h...

Who could possibly have guessed that UK universities’ endless staff training on unconscious bias, microaggressions, stereotype threat & trigger warnings is mostly useless, built on bad science, and just a giant virtue-signalling exercise? www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/unpaywalle...

Utopia: AI replaces entire sociology and criminology programs… then immediately implodes under the sheer volume of academic bullshit it has to process.

When it comes to prison order comparative research in criminology is almost nonexistent One of the few exceptions is 'The Puzzle of Prison Order' by economist David Skarbek. Amazing work, except for a few unnecessary references to bullshit criminology (Foucault/Wacquant). Nobody is perfect...

😍😍😍 Checking on a response to comments on a R&R in a Criminology Journal the authors distinguish causal & reflective indicators and they even cite Keneth Bollen. I think I am going to cry. Thanks for this. It make my day! 😍😍😍

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How does it feel to work for a criminal organization? This post about US captures the UK experience 'News University rankings are the worst thing to ever happen to higher education since Mao had all the professors in China killed in the Cultural Revolution' web.archive.org/web/20241117...

I love the smell of anger to cars in the morning. Smells like....victory

Very cool discussion between @yoelinbar.net and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social on when to quit theories, usually either too soon or too late Super relevant for criminology, where it’s rare to see any crim theory truly put to rest www.fourbeers.com/122

Data Science Graduates After Artificial Intelligence Hits

Finally, a woke, eco-friendly slogan I can endorse and feel like part of the bluesky community!

I love the smell of napalm in the morning, it smells like... like... the sixth rejection of a manuscript

Godwin’s Law reloaded: As any online discussion goes on, the probability of a Trump reference approaches 1

An efficient, and yet not frequently used, solution to this kind of problems is to avoid conferences as the plague!

Finally an Artificial Intelligence model I can relate with! www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-...

'This paper is so bad it is not even wrong' Wolfgang Pauli

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I find the final point very depressing (degradation of critical thinking) particularly because when I discuss this with colleagues/friends, they look at me as if I am a crazy modern luddite Using IA to write most of your stuff is like bringing a robot to the gym to lift weights for you (J. Gleick)

Cool paper by an Uruguayan colleague Matias Brum Being exposed to dictatorships as a child erodes your democratic values and preferences and makes you more likely to become a progressive leftist! t.co/8abqwZG0ud

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever. Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like....Kirchnerism www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

New how-to guide now available on the European Network for Open Criminology website. This time @asiermoneva.com shares advice on writing reproducible and readable analysis code. Highly recommended! esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/repro...