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It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

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These users feuded with Musk on X then saw their reach collapse. It’s the starkest sign yet that Musk has the power to suppress critics and control the conversation on X and is willing to use it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Got a chance to discuss some of the evidence about unwarranted #disparities in #sentencing in the latest episode of #BBCAntiSocial My part starts on minute 29.

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Python's new t-strings: Template strings, also known as t-strings, have been officially accepted as a feature in Python 3.14, which will ship in late 2025. 🎉 I’m excited; t-strings open the door to safer more flexible string processing in Python. davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p...

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Reading the SM posts of RFK Jr’s mad anti-vax supporters is a statistician’s nightmare. They’re all wielding graphs showing the rise in vaccine use and the rise in autism as evidence that one causes the other. You could do a similar chart with the increase in ice cream flavours and autism.

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US Health Secretary RFK Jr calls autism a "disease". Autism is not a disease. It's a neurodevelopmental condition that impacts the way the brain develops and processes information.

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We’re delighted to share our conference programme. As well as @carlenefirmin.bsky.social & Darren McGarvey keynotes, the event includes sessions on gender-based violence, neighbourhood policing, diversion, and lots more! 📅 9-10 Sept 25 📍 Leeds Register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

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An interesting video from New Scientist on brain imaging evidence of sex differences in autism, and the interaction of adolescence + being female + autism, especially with the change from primary school to secondary school. Also covers self-harm and eating disorders youtu.be/N1X8__QutRI

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The number of people referred as victims of #modernslavery to the NRM but refused at the initial stage has shot up 290% in 2 years, from 12% in 2022 to 47% in 2024. The enormous negative impact of the Nationality and Borders Act has to be acknowledged www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨 Does equality before the law mean treating everyone the same? Sonya Ruparel & @shipleywrites.bsky.social discuss the fiery debate between the Lord Chancellor & Sentencing Council over how judges should consider cases involving minoritized communities 🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/2c65b4

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Us developers have learned the hard way that: 1. Prototyping is more like 10% of the actual work - even though the business folks thinks we're 90% done 2. Shipping prototypes to production is possible but generally a bad idea Vibe coding is prototyping. Others will learn - soon

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Hundreds of girls in the US are confined by the juvenile justice system for “status offenses,” like running away or truancy. Confinement for these offenses is particularly troubling because those behaviors tend to be responses to abuse. More care, less confinement.

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Join us on Tuesday, 6 May 1-2.30pm for an interactive discussion on the use of open and accessible data in modern research. There will be a panel discussion with time for tea, coffee and networking Find out more and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-up...

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“encouraged to use Chat GPT […] [The outlines] were often wrong, & I'd spend more time fixing them than if I'd just done it the old-fashioned way” […] It was a huge waste of time”

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📢How did the COVID-19 pandemic change the way people impacted by possible trafficking and exploitation seek help? Latest research with @drellac.bsky.social, and using over 5 years of Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline data uncovers surprising trends 1/ doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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Paper by @lisatompson.bsky.social and colleagues showing that the risk of being a repeat victim of crime (in 🇳🇿) varies substantially depending on victim characteristics and crime type. ‘Crime’ is not one thing and doesn’t have one solution. dx.doi.org/10.15663/tph...

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This study by @lisatompson.bsky.social and @drellac.bsky.social analysed 8,386 cases from the UK’s Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline run by @unseenuk.bsky.social between October 2016 and December 2021. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Without Systems Thinking, AI won’t deliver the gains you expect. It’s tempting to throw GenAI at the problem - but applied in isolation, it'll likely deliver little. Worse, it could take you in the wrong direction faster and exacerbate existing problems. blog.robbowley.net/2025/04/07/w... 1/5 🧵

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That sign: “We just want to learn things and help people” ❤️

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A scandal in our time: More than 3,000 children in care being sent to live 100 miles from home, data shows www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/more-th...

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🔍 Latest data on violence trends for 2023/24 ❌ More children victims of homicide ❌ More convicted for violent offences ❌Higher reoffending rates ❌More children in absolute poverty ✅Fewer Black children in custody ✅Improved school attendance Full insights. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/stat...

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I wrote something about why it is a mistake to think we all want the same things from digital government, and why AI and automation is not a corrective to shrinking IRL state capacity www.careful.industries/blog/2025-3-...

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“The watchdog said: "These are some of the most vulnerable children in care. "They should not be placed in settings with no regulatory or independent oversight"”

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“"I'm really worried that the most vulnerable children, their needs are escalating, not diminishing, because they're not getting that help. "I worry about children in the wrong places with the wrong staff, the wrong oversight, adding to the harm they've already experienced."”

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“experienced "constant disruption and instability" and made a threat to take her own life because she "didn't want to keep going through what the system was putting [her] through"”

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“many children who were subject to a DoL end up living in temporary accommodation […] because of the lack of suitable places in registered children's homes […] "a national scandal". […] been placed in unregistered homes […] often without access to education or vital psychological therapies.”

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“Chereece […] started running away after she was put in a children's home 35 miles from her hometown. She said she was "running away to be with [her] friends and family" […] her running away was because she was not being listened to & not having her needs met” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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New JQC paper by @criminologyuom.bsky.social's Tom Diviak!

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Could diet impact behaviour? Research in the YEF Toolkit shows nutrition programmes could drop aggression by 38%, and anti-social behaviour by 52%. Learn more about the correlation between nutrition and the impact on violence in the Toolkit. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/nutr...

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www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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In my latest column for Science magazine, I discuss recent AI "reasoning" models -- how it works, to what extent it captures "genuine" reasoning processes, and what's needed to answer such questions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

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Fab new paper from @toby-davies.bsky.social & Aiden Sidebottom on predicting harm in missing person incidents with police data: doi.org/10.1080/1043...

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“[limited] view of where AI is being deployed in [gov] & public services” “Public procurement of AI is not fit for purpose” “Lack of clear terminology about ‘AI’ is inhibiting […] effective use” “AI is only as good as the data” “context is important” www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

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Yesterday a group of us put our heads together to think about the questions that should be asked of Starmer's plans for AI in government - you might have seen this nod to it in Politico this morning. These are for journalists, politicians, and anyone with an interest in pro-democracy tech (1/3)

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We are recruiting Teaching Assistants to teach in our BA Criminology and BA Global Social Challenges programmes at @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social for the 2025/2026 academic year. If you're interested, you can find all the details here:

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Fascinating interview with Jonathan Shepherd on research and violence/harm prevention: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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