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Rümeysa Öztürk speaks after her release from ICE detention and return to Massachusetts. We'll keep pushing for freedom and justice for Rümeysa and other scholars like her who've been targeted for exercising their First Amendment rights.

First research, now data. The Trump administration is proposing to reclassify many positions in the federal government including statisticians. The Friends of BLS has made it easy to voice your concerns to your elected representatives www.friendsofbls.org/email-template-1

New pub alert 🍾 The most challenging yet rewarding paper I’ve worked on: 3y from idea to publication in BJC! I explore how unstructured spare time shapes individual and temporal differences in crime, and propose a spare time model in criminology. doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

👉 This is an important issue of The Criminologist. It contains five pieces about academic publishing in our field, three of which involve #Criminology. The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏 asc41.org/wp-content/u...

What happens when academics live together: spontaneous co-writing. 🥳 Our book finally arrived! @robingalnander.bsky.social #criminology #desistance #academicsky #academia

LOL. Love this.

Deranged Trump fully believed a badly photoshopped picture of Abrego Garcia’s knuckles displaying “MS13” was real and got very angry at an interviewer for exposing the lie. @realDonaldTrump is very dumb

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cri... 🤬😖😫😤😢

Excited to be part of Saturday's Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner presented by Political Voices Network! Join us for fearless comedy that rips into media spin with @stephaniemiller.bsky.social @johnfugelsang.bsky.social & more. Tickets are $20.26 live or on demand www.meethook.live/not

Fixed term teaching post (10 months) in critical criminology in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV424/l...

Hey all, just started up and ambitiously attempting to link this account to @sensorypenalities.bsky.social Still getting to grips with it all, @warrcrim.bsky.social give us a hand? #Criminology peeps, quickest ways to hook up with you guys?

Larry David slamming Bill Maher for becoming a Trump collaborator was perfect—and we need more of it! We must commit to never forget those people, companies who collaborated with Trump and sold out our Republic. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/larry-davi...

Heads up #Criminology, #Sociology, and #Law folks. The Annual Roger Head Lecture. 8th May, 17.00-18.30. In person. Given announcements on #BorderPolicing, punitive logics of publishing data on 'foreign national' prisons, and the rising of ethno-nationalism once more this is important

"This is a generational shift where the world will turn away from America." Foreign affairs expert Rula Jebreal on my show tells us the the impact that Trump's mass deportations and illegal detentions are having on the world.

Another #Criminology paper where the author has graciously elected to post her data. Kudos to Sade Lindsay on an excellent paper: Replication Data for: Mixed Signals From Prison? Post-Secondary Vocational Credentials, Race, and Post-Release Employment. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

"U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days" 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo was walking near the Border Patrol headquarters when an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country. They held him for 10 DAYS until a judge released him! news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

#RonJames has a vivid description of #USAdmin. Legend. #cdncomedian #cdnpoli #USApoli #WorldPolitics #DJT

Nothing will prepare you for the interview… (🎥 7 News Queensland)

#GVerse #Attention: The #OrangeBuffoon's HORROR SHOW‼️‼️‼️

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Exposure to gun violence is linked to depression, risk of suicide, and mental health services use, especially when the violence happens over and over again. Thank you to @thetrace.org and @fairrionam.bsky.social for covering our latest national research. www.thetrace.org/2025/04/gun-...

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

#CoachKerr #Harvard www.threads.net/@mystikmike/...

The purpose of studying role models is not to idolize them. It’s to emulate their strengths and transcend their weaknesses.

With billions of dollars in federal funding at risk, Harvard University officials on Monday rejected Trump administration demands to make sweeping changes to its governance, admissions and hiring practices.

Did you know the guy who killed his parents and was plotting to murder Trump was a right wing terrorist who wanted to start a race war?! He was a follower of Order of the Nine Angles, which the FBI describes as a neo-Nazi cult. He praised Hitler and white power. #MAGA abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin...

Only bad guys wear masks.

We have a cover! And the book will be available in print from the University of Chicago Press on July 8.

Another #Criminology paper where the author has graciously elected to post her data. Kudos to Sade Lindsay on an excellent paper: Replication Data for: Mixed Signals From Prison? Post-Secondary Vocational Credentials, Race, and Post-Release Employment. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

we don't have Infomocracy-style Information because people don't want to know

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

#SeeYouInCourt I guess #DJT just found out. Kudos to Gov. Janet Mills. apnews.com/article/main...

Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian producer of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by a group of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and later arrested by the Israeli army, according to activists and a neighbor who spoke to The Post.

"Many of those testifying in favor of the bill noted that nine other states had passes similar legislation that had held up in court."

When is a book about #ForensicPsychologists not really about Forensic Psychologists? When its about the complex matrices of #power within the contemporary #prison This is the primary focus and contribution of this book: www.emerald.com/insight/publ... #Criminology #CriminalJustice 1/13

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Now more than 300. Including children and even babies. All so Netanyahu can avoid a court date today. Sick stuff from Netanyahu’s Israel, backed by Trump.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.