Do you ever claim to be interested in the "association" between variables? This talk may be for you! @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social will explain when and why such associational language is not appropriate and why causal language should be used instead. Register here: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Check this cool criminolgical paper by David and Ken focusing on time use. Its theoretical but it is useful (yes, I know, it looks like an oxymoron but it is not! it is actually useful!)

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In psychology there some zombie theories which despite being apparently debunked by replication crisis, they are still alive and kickin In criminology we don't even know because we are still waiting for our replication crisis www.experimental-history.com/p/nothing-ev...

Back home! Oldies but goldies: 'Manchester is the worst. It is all horrible in Manchester. The people are all pasty-faced, prim and proper...weird. They're walking down the street and you don't know if they're going to kill you or what. The food's disgusting'. www.espn.co.uk/football/sto...

My academic life, oil on canvas

In the year of our Lord 2026, they’re still selling maid uniforms in Uruguay

A new study shows that just over 50% of studies in the social sciences replicate. Within the social sciences, economics has the worst replication rates. What kind of loser do you have to be to do worse than sociology? www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/should-we-...

There should be a special circle of hell for academics who treat PhD thesis defenses as ego performances forgetting it’s supposed to be about helping the student do their best work and enjoy a meaningful discussion of their ideas What kind of loser you have to be?

One cultural shock when I moved to the UK was discovering that many British criminologists still happily use this rather empty label

My niece Bella plays soccer, she scores goals on you, kicks the hell out of you, breaks your toenail…and then helps you heal it. What more could you ask for?

How started / How ended

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Same!

All ball! Totally all ball, play on, play on!

Bet you can't guess which desk is mine and which one is my office colleague's at the University of Manchester?

Every time you think universities can’t possibly get worse, they somehow find a new, more expensive way to prove you wrong Respect!

The other weekend someone gave me the most accurate description of my social skills: 'Nico is like an alien who just landed in Earth and is doing his best to pass as human' 🎯🎯🎯

More than a t-shirt; a philosophy for staying sane while working in UK universities

Urban super heroes without cape Only in manchester!

I was rejected from a Criminology Program at the University of Barcelona directed by a professor with a very funny surname I send an email to a friend with a joke about the surname....but I copied the director himself. The rest is history

Friday emails from the university Vice-Chancellor encouraging sense of togetherness in moments of crisis with the 'we are all in the same boat'

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Now the 80s are definitely gone RIP Chuck 😢

I have seen many many many academic job ads, but none as good as this one 👇

Teaching at the UK Universities youtube.com/shorts/WwWUt...

Jose being Jose

I'm delighted to get overseas enquiries about these positions. A big reason people move to New Zealand is the lifestyle. So, I thought I’d do a personal thread of the highs and lows of living here. Disclaimer: to me NZ is paradise, so this is biased. Take it with a quarry-load of salt etc... (1/n)

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mini? What a lucky guy!

Imagine a social scientist had designed the Schrödinger's thought experiment

We all know I do not self censor simply because I dont have nothing to loose, instead you...that is really courage: hero without a cape!

Monday again.

One day like today Marx died. Not the brilliant, creative, insightful thinker who gave so much wisdom to humanity, Groucho. The other one, Karl

Michel Foucault might be controversial, but still he has some amazing books. Like one by Jon Elster that his cousin lent him.

Be careful with with your denominators, they matter a lot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNot...

Curious about how psychological theories are built, tested, and refined in practice? This summer, the Theory Methods Society is launching the very first edition of the summer school Theory Building in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (July 6–10, 2026). theorymethodssociety.org

In Criminology we follow Schwartz paper too literally

I've just made live the updated website that accompanies my R book (www.discovr.rocks) - it's mostly finished: almost all of the chapter solutions/task solutions are done, data are live, updated info about the `discovr` package of interactive tutorials, and it's had a face lift.

Just epic (stolen from DanielTutt@TuttReal)

Me: oil on canvass by Podeti

Epic

'God created war so that Americans would learn geography' Mark Twain

Utopia Imagine a world where colleagues at seminars and conferences ask only real questions and stop asking the “look how intelligent and deep I am” ones

Let's make this part of criminal law An intro higher than 300 words, 10 years of prison; higher than 1000 words, death penalty