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christhomas.bsky.social
Research: punishment & inequality, race, climate change & crime, computational social science
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These folks do fantastic work Don’t let the lights go out, esp not now Give if you can bsky.app/profile/chad...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

"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."

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 30 days ago • 166 comments

Please check out this new project I've been working on with some incredible collaborators. Analyzing very cool big data with federal judge identifiers, we found some intriguing results about how presidents (especially one president) have shaped both sentencing leniency and ethnoracial disparities.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 109 days ago • 67 comments

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

submitted 406 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 405 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 406 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 462 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 462 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 480 days ago • 0 comments