Seeing a typo while grading in the age of ChatGPT

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Measuring recurrent victimization: evaluating operationalization strategies and predictors using the Crime Survey for England and Wales by @ferhattura19.bsky.social et al open access @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social

Most criminals aren't bad people. Most people commit a criminal act.

I love that Wikipedia is now going to be the most trusted source on the internet. A complete 360 from what we used to teach in the mid 2000s about how you shouldn’t rely on it. Bravo to the volunteers and citation nerds keeping accurate information alive.

Been asked if there's an official announcement, but no, not for some weeks - if all goes well. Brief overview: ONLIVES aims to tackle the accelerating mutations of criminal extremism, which blur into other serious crime, including CSA and incitation to self-harm, hitting youth especially hard. 1/3

The cruelty is the point profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

This week I presented an evidence to practice talk for The Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention about patterns of family violence harm committed by people who come to police attention in New Zealand 👮 A recording is available on youtube ➡ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqyc...

Best way to find out your Horizon bid was successful: Paul Gill and Zoe Marchment pull you out of the room right after a public talk to share the news. We haven't been together in the same place in ages. There would have been no bid without their help. We have the most awesome research group. :)

In addition to the 2* lecturer positions, we also have a Teaching Fellow position open in Psychological Criminology. An exciting time to be joining us! elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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)

@richard100.bsky.social delivered an insightful seminar yesterday highlighting insights from the Australian Homicide Project, drawing on interviews with 260 offenders to better understand the situational factors behind homicide. Watch the recording now youtu.be/a8vZXnqPBN8?...

All societal groups (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) are victims less often due to the global crime drop. But the drop wasn't equal across groups, so people who are not White, are disabled or who are in poverty are now more likely to be victims, **relative to the rest of society**. doi.org/10.1177/1477...

Get you some business association managers like Jamey from Karangahape Road, and Brent from Uptown 👏👏👏 And big shout out to the businesses behind them, who support doing what actually works to help those without homes rather than vice signalling. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

What if some of our fiercest public debates are being shaped not by lies, but by simple mathematical misunderstandings? @lisatompson.bsky.social reveals how using the wrong denominator can dramatically distort our picture of racial disparities in policing. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNot...

Everything is either a false dichotomy or just plain wrong.

The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is looking for a pending/recent PhD with strong causal inference skills, for a remote, part-time consulting position. This is a great opportunity for someone considering a transition from academia to the policy space. Deadline: March 15 Please share!

The inaugural issue of @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social is out online (and early too!). Catch it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rebj20/c...

Our very own @richard100.bsky.social will be presenting Situational Aspects of Homicide: Variations Across Homicide Types for our March Te Puna Haumaru seminar series. Click on the following link to register 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9df042...

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

British context; quick survey and on an important topic given councils periodically review lighting provision for cost reduction reasons. Have at it ;)

Can we really predict lethal family violence? 🎓 In this Te Puna Haumaru seminar, Assoc Prof Benjamin Spivak examines evidence from 40,000+ Victorian cases and questions the limits of lethality risk prediction. ▶️ Watch the recording youtu.be/LqngWYqfTsc?...

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Cool cool cool. We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Putting together the final touches on the inaugural special issue. Much thanks to Lorna Ferguson for her sterling editorial efforts and to all of our contributing authors. Special thanks also to Matt Logan for all of his behind-the-scenes promotional work.

Is it possible to predict lethal and non-lethal family violence?This online seminar shares findings from a prospective study of nearly 40,000 family violence reports in Victoria, AUS testing whether commonly used risk factors predict lethal and non-lethal outcomes.🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/57ucmdhf

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New review of evidence finds the most-effective police crime prevention tends to be: a) focused on very specific places (not people or neighbourhoods), and b) tailored to preventing a *specific* type of crime. ⚠️ Broad-brush crime prevention generally doesn't work. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

A lovely Christmas Day walk in some amazing light.

Merry Christmas / Meri Kirihimete everyone! May your days be merry and bright ✨️ 🎄 ☃️

#CallForPapers: Legal and Criminological Psychology invites submissions for a special issue exploring The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies #AcademicSky #Criminology #EmTech Deadline 10 March bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Consumer PSA: A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree, but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree. DON'T BE FOOLED.

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢 Please do share widely 1/3

Just getting the first few papers accepted and ready for copyediting for our first issue in spring 2026.

As Co-Chair of the @campbellreviews.bsky.social Crime & Justice Group, I’m delighted to congratulate Dr Liz Eggins and Prof Dave Wilson on receiving the Leonard E. Gibbs Award. A well-deserved recognition of their outstanding contribution to rigorous, policy-relevant evidence synthesis.

Forget-me-not 🩵 #art #photography #flowers

Never gets old

🚨BREAKING 🚨 if you tweet your new paper in red-alert emojis, and the paper has not actually cured cancer, then you should reevaluate your perceived self-importance

Excited to be here over the next 3 days #ANZSOC2025 And what a view 🤩

Persuasive letter on populism as a cognitive short-cut in the @financialtimes.com

Interested in women and girls safety/co_creation/planning and housing. New fully funded PhD opportunity below. www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-n...

Academia is 10% inspiration, 90% trying to remember how past you named things

🧵Spotted at an A&P Show in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies. Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears. Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!" (1)

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