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jackdc.bsky.social
Quant Methods and Criminology SL at Uni of Kent. Criminology Director of Studies, for my sins. I love push bikes, #LFC și România. One quarter Faroese. Not massively effective at social media
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Its because he actively refused to leave the party HQ when the army told him the previous night that its not a defensible position. In the morning as barricades begun being overrun he effectively agrees to leave only as the mob is in eye-sight

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Today’s press cutting: one of the biggest mass arrests ever to occur in the UK - Love Decade at Gildersome

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Fascinating new research and exhibition about Black enslaved & indentured people who escaped their ‘owners’ and ‘masters’ in C18 London, and the ‘safe houses’ that helped them avoid recapture: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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We are delighted to announce the release of ellmer, an R package for accessing the power of LLMs in R! ellmer supports a variety of model providers. Chat, tool call, stream API calls, extract structured data, and more! Learn about it here: posit.co/blog/announc... #RStats #AI #LLM

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Just out in the Brit. Jnl. Criminology #probation #criminology Please repost! Thanks! academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

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It’s very funny that Milei is embroiled in a massive scandal over promoting some scam meme coin meanwhile Trump created his own scam meme coin literally named after him and took in several billion based on it and nobody seems to care

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The hero we didnt know Criminology needed www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Milei on Friday touted on X the little-known crypto coin $LIBRE, which then hit nearly $5 apiece. Hours later, it fell below $1. Argentina’s fintech chamber said it could be a “rug pull". www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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The Ministry of Justice was a relative winner in the Autumn Budget. But if you take a longer view, the department has really taken a beating. It’s done worse than the average department, worse than the average ‘unprotected’ department, and it spends less now than it did 20 years ago. [thread]

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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Think Deepseek also got flu:

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What's the new "for you" tag on Google searches? I just fucking googled it, it should be 'for me', who else?

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I've got flu, and although I'm 44 and must have had it before, I honestly can not believe how bad I feel. It's phenomenal. End of world business.

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#Criminologists, #LegalResearchers, it is going to look very weird if we end up being the last to do the right thing.

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If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds). www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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Now out in Critical Criminology. #Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System: Three English Cases. By me, @schreeche.bsky.social, @lbilli91.bsky.social & Keir Irwin-Rogers. 1/? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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“Considering the Convict Criminologist through the lens of Status Fragility demonstrates that, while not being explicitly categorised as punishment, the consequences of taking up an academic identity can be stigmatising and excluding”

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Surveys: not what they used to be - www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Norway’s criminal justice system has often received high praise for its equity and fairness; it has rarely been under scrutiny in data-driven criminal justice journalism.

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Enjoyed this, solid journalism www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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I mentally dismissed the headline as soon as saw it, and got on with marking research reports, by gen zs, based on the BES, often centred on their ideas of the importance of democracy

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This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.

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I’ve just resigned from the editorial boards of a couple of for-profit journals. From now on, I’ll only review and write (when I am the first author) for Diamond #OpenAccess journals. Being part of the current system felt increasingly hypocritical. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Italian cyclist Sara Piffer, 19, dies after being hit by car during training ride

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Happy to see Ross Ulbricht finally released. Silk Road was not the cesspit it is often made out in news media. It had a non-violent charter, thriving political community, and was a creative attempt to reduce the risks associated with the illicit drugs trade. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article..., would seem that bluesky people are somewhat against this. I think he's more than served his time

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Great paper by our mate @schreeche.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1.... I remember these stories, and I remember their impact. Very glad they're written down for everyone to learn from.

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youtu.be/Kybyy1EkoOE?...

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Another article written by Susie Hulley and me. Might be of interest.

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Academics enthusiastically sharing their latest research as '#OpenAccess', while omitting the fact that their universities pay thousands in fees to make it so.

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We are pleased to share news of the latest publication from our Rehabilitating Probation Project rehabilitating-probation.org.uk/our-research...

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also featuring the classic Gallup YES!/Yes/No/NO! scale

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🚨NEW JOB ALERT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CRIMINOLOGY)🚨 Adelaide University Criminology is seeking applications for an Associate Professor (Level D) - area of specialisation open. See below link for more info, or reach out directly for a confidential chat: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Feeling pretty chuffed with my highest ever 5 min blitz rating at 1501 on @lichess.org, which puts me, er, exactly in the middle of the distribution. Proud to be average!

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Would if it's possible to add a 'pre signature' to my emails.... "Happy new year, hope you had a good break"...

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