Holidays are here. History books about the truth of American history with discounts are the best gifts in these challenging times. Check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, 680 pages, and 40 % with code WELCOME 40 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Please also add/repost the second Starter Pack, which I made because so many great criminologists have joined bluesky lately that the first starter pack got full. As before, please reply if you'd like to be added -- I'll do my very best to include all CJ academics here. go.bsky.app/7qmM6yB

Loved this book - congrats to Jack (and @yalepress.bsky.social)!

Great assistant professor opportunity for crim/CJ folks, and I've heard it's a super collegial and cool department.

Hi #ASA2025. I am not usually nervous about public speaking but I am about this - there are SO MANY things I want to make sure to say (or hope someone else will say) and things I'm really not sure what the answer is but I want us to be thinking about together. Hope to see many of you there.

The systems that have made America safer are under attack. My new op-ed in @commondreams.org explains why we can’t stay quiet as the Trump admin rapidly dismantles much of our violence prevention + public safety infrastructure. We can't go backward. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Is this a good time to remind everyone that Elon Musk is a longtermist? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"There are very good reasons that the federal faucet has always been controlled by apolitical bureaucrats. Having a president—or, even more so, an unelected billionaire—hold direct, granular control of nearly seven trillion dollars is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams."

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack. This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful. go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z #ASC2024 #criminology

Survey experiment finds that people who rely on conservative news sources report much warmer feelings about police after seeing Floyd protest images — but not after seeing Capitol insurrection images. -Christopher Thomas @christhomas.bsky.social in J of Exptl Crim link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So excited to share my new J. of Experimental Criminology study "Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-methods study of public opinion," based on national surveys I ran June 2020 and during Jan. 6th www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🌐#AcademicSky

In the Philly area? Today at 5:30pm at Rutgers Law School in Camden, join Dr. Sarah Tosh as she discusses her new NYUP book "The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance." Open event, no registration. Should be really cool! #lawsky #sociology #academicsky

Wow! With the code CYBER23 you can get 50% off books at @dukepress.bsky.social through 12/8-- that includes Police and the Empire City. So all your friends who were wondering how police departments got like this? They can learn that they've always been like this! www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...

You're completing a PhD or a first postdoc in Social Sciences on topics related to socioeconomic polarization (inequality, segregation, discrimination), consider applying to AxPo's postdoc fellowship before the new year: www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

"The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1) (...). One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n

After a student asked me about borrowing a book for class, I tried to find a good guide to legal, free sources of academic e-books and I couldn't... so I made one! tinyurl.com/book-resources *So many* fantastic online libraries out there, not to mention open-access textbooks.

Researchers: Federal government data will indefinitely disappear Sunday. So I'm downloading a bunch of Census, BLS,& NIBRS data today for projects in my medium-term pipeline. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/b... “If we miss two months of collecting data, we’re never getting that back” -Betsey Stevenson

Hey there, follow Alexis Santos @appdemography.bsky.social -- he's a truly awesome demographer/population health scientist (I personally love his work on the demography of climate disasters). 🧪#demography #publichealth #sociology #academicsky #PennState #HiSciSky

Check out this new interview with me and Kevin Wolff about our study on climate change and crime: gc.cuny.edu/news/how-vol... #ClimateChange 🧪#greensky #greencriminology

In your opinion, what is the best “icebreaker” for the first day of class?

So many great panels and papers on climate change at #ASA2023. This is from our panel "Politics of Climate Change."

This looks like a good #ASA2023 panel, about institutional accountability, police violence, and social movements. Monday morning 10-1130am.

In a new essay, @jeffcorbin.bsky.social, Meg Duffy, @carlyziter.bsky.social and I talk about the urgent need to move beyond "it's real, it's bad, it's us" approaches to climate education, instead sharing pathways to climate action that engage and empower, while fighting the immobility of despair.

Wait, CUNY and SUNY are clients of the predatory consulting group that is currently destroying West Virginia University? Bleurgh.

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2): Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui

"We urge policymakers to instead draw on solid scholarship that investigates the harms and risks of AI—and the harms caused by delegating authority to automated systems" w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social

If you are interested in the state of capitalism and you haven't read Brett Christophers' work, you should.

Hi #LawSky ⚖️, really psyched to share my coauthored article "Automating Judicial Discretion: How Algorithmic Risk Assessments in Pretrial Adjudications Violate Equal Protection Rights on the Basis of Race" Full text: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1680&context=lawineq

Excited about a new paper co-authored w/Kevin Wolff on climate change and crime, focused on abrupt spikes in temperature and violence across cities in the US. Great collab providing new evidence and additional questions! Link below to full text: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hNM4AlNEi1Oa

Hi, Bluesky, I'm a critical criminologist and enjoy connecting with people and learning about new stuff. I'm hoping this site will be better than Twitter and Threads, and easier to use than Mastodon.