There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds: 1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)

NORWAY UPDATE - In the 2nd quarter of 2025, we spent more on fossil fuel extraction than we've ever spent before - 2025 will probably end up with record-high investments in fossil fuels - Spending is so high every prior projection wildly underestimates final $$ (this is worsening since 2021)

Milde måne! Vi har passert 3900 abonnenter – det begynner å gå opp for oss at hvis folk fortsetter å like, dele og tegne abonnement vil vi nå målet, redde Filter Nyheter og bli større enn Document!

Fri, undersøkende og ikke-klikkdrevet journalistikk har aldri vært viktigere enn nå. Det handler om demokratiets fremtid, intet mindre. Har derfor to oppfordringer på lille pinseaften: 1) Tegn abo på @filternyheter.no NÅ 2) Spre ordet videre om alle du kjenner også skal gjøre det

Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵

❇️ New journal article ❇️ 'Exploring relational and structuring skills among Norwegian probation officers during mandatory supervision sessions' by Karl Yngvar Dale, Bjørn Kjetil Larsen, Sarah Hean, and Atle Ødegård. #Probation #SocialWork #Criminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hello from the Editors at the European Journal of Probation! We are just getting started on BlueSky. We welcome submissions on a range of topics across: #probation and community justice, sentencing, #parole, resettlement, desistance, and much more. 🔗 to our website: journals.sagepub.com/home/EJP

Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics! tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc

Excited to repost this call for papers on politics, harm and justice which we crims at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social are organising as part of our Brit Soc of Criminology Reg Group. Its on the 18th Sept, but Abstracts are needed by the 17th April. Please send those to Ed, not me! Please repost!

📢 Attention researchers and practitioners! The International Review of the Red Cross calls for papers on 'upholding humanity in war'. Submit by February 15th, 2025, and contribute to this vital discussion. Read more 👉🏽 international-review.icrc.org/call-for-pap...

Last week I chaired the Probation Journal editorial board for the first time in my new role as Editor. If you're planning to write about probation please do get in touch! We're a suportive board, keen to publish pieces from people with diverse voices and backgrounds. journals.sagepub.com/home/prb

Our new @probationres.bsky.social publication is out! 'A Fork in the Road' reports on probation practitioners' experiences of probation's post-nationalisation journey. We identify profound questions about the delivery of probation services now and in the future. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇

In a post-peak public engagement world where mainstream papers have dropped outlets like the Monkey Cage, what avenues exist for academics to get their work and insights in front of a wider public audience or directly to policymakers? A thread of examples from my own experience. 1/

Pleased (and relieved) to have just submitted proofs for our volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order". Thanks to our contributors for their wonderful chapters & meeting our rather strict deadlines! Here's a sneak preview of the cover we settled on after extensive public polling...

it's worth noting exactly why helseplattformen is such a terrible fit for norway: it was developed by an american company, specifically for a for-profit health care system. it works pretty well in the states – specifically because there are countless for-profit admins, working for myriad companies

According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now. We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.

Exciting news! At Swansea University we’re hosting the 5th Narrative Criminology Symposium -‘Narrating harm, narrating hope’ - 15th-17th June 2025. More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narrative-...

Check out this feed on #criminology created by @johntoddkvam.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

1,742 The number of released #IPP prisoners who had their licences automatically terminated on 1 November www.gov.uk/government/p...

Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

Some big news this morning www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

In case you missed this over the weekend, I put together a University of Oslo starter pack ⬇️

Elon Musk har vært i regelmessig kontakt med Vladimir Putin siden slutten av 2022. De snakker sammen om både business og geopolitikk, hevder kilder i europeiske og amerikanske myndigheter overfor amerikansk storavis. filternyheter.no/elon-musk-ha...

Hey people, just letting you know that my book Comparative Criminal Justice is out (again! it's the 5th edition you see...). Loving the front cover if I'm honest! Available at Routledge: www.routledge.com/Comparative-...

Two weeks left to apply to Leeds for an Associate Professor in Criminology/Criminal Justice position. Reach out if you’d like to chat! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR386/a...

Our sexual violence research group at BU is organising a free in-person conference 28-29th October. Would be happy to see you in Bournemouth. If you are interested please let me know so I can send you the link for registration. #Criminology #CrimSky

📢 1.90 is rolling out now (3/11) Every post now has the ability to “detach” quote posts. Quote posts are great but sometimes they’re used to dunk on people. This tool gives you a quick way to remove your post from the quote, reducing the unwanted attention that a quote might bring.

Bokfolk av alle slag! Fantastiske kollegaer på UB har laget en ressursside om forbudte bøker. Supert for bibliotek, skoler, lesere, bokhandlere, forfattere, lesesirkler, forlag og alle andre! Les, bestill gratis materiale og bli med! www.ub.uio.no/bruk/forbudt...

Let's begin with a plug. Our new book on the long-term impact of neoliberal socio-economic policies on crime and justice is now available for free via *Open Access*. Delighted! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Thx for the welcome! 📢 18th September 5pm Online launch of my @britishacademy.bsky.social research report 'Beyond the Barriers: Exploring Access to Family Justice for Women in Prison' Of interest social workers,courts,prisons,family lawyers, judges #familylaw Sign Up👇 forms.office.com/e/sXkxMTY4EH

Very pleased to see Man in @seatsixtyone.bsky.social is here! 👋🏼 If you want flight-free travel, there really is no better source of info 🚈

Join us for a mix of literature, film, history and criminology at our online event Crime, Death and the Gothic Imagination, 9 September 2-6pm BST (programme in post below, sign up via link). Please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-deat...

If you're looking for an interesting criminal justice listen, this podcast on the future of probation is great - contributors are some of my super colleagues on the Rehabilitating Probation project secretlifeofprisons.libsyn.com/the-future-o... (More on the project: rehabilitating-probation.org.uk)

Vil du jobbe med å videreutvikle kunnskapsarbeidet i Norad, bidra til innovative løsninger og velfungerende systemer? Dobler vi effekten av 1% av norsk bistand tilsvarer det å øke budsjettet med en halv milliard. Det trenger verden. Hjelp oss med det! 201701.webcruiter.no/main/recruit...

Hi friends. I'm looking for someone with solid medical stats and/or health data science skills to work with me on development of clinical prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis. It's a Postdoctoral Researcher position and is full time for 2 years. Search ref: 074011 ore.ucc.ie

If anyone is in/near Edinburgh on 21 February, this will be a great seminar on narratives, interaction and desistance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narratives.... Free and aimed at both academics and practitioners!

Sykt viktig sak. Er bildene fra en krigssone? Fra månen? Fra en gruve i Kina eller Afrika? Nei, fra hverdagen til norsk @naturvern.bsky.social www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

so you want to hear a little popular music history from a galaxy far far away? i'm sure you're already familiar with the biggest group ever, Rebel Alliance. (bringing this thread over from the bad place before it is list like tears in rain)

On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

The British Academy runs a multiyear trial on randomizing grant allocation among proposals that exceed quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi... Looks like a lottery increases diversity of recipients on many dimensions. 1/

Join us for @tabouchadi.bsky.social 's talk about "Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone: (How) Can Niche and Challenger Parties Expand Their Electorate?" in our "European Politics & Society" series at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) on 16 Nov! Register & more info tinyurl.com/3saxnrw5

If you have Windows 11, the latest version of the Snipping Tool which is rolling out has the ability to extract text from images - handy if someone sends you a screenshot of an error code and you don't want to have to type it out (also for a variety of other uses)

This might interest a few here. In Oslo, but worth checking out the book litteraturhuset.no/arrangement/...

So many sociology and criminology jobs going at Birmingham City University at the moment. Join me! jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

I love this Radiohead song

Criminologists of the world, where are you? Follow us so we can follow back, and build this network to a critical mass?

On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...

I still think about this tweet several times per week.