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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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It is the greatest app available

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Casual inference, university-style

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Faroe islands. Pretty pretty good

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

New: Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. Released publicly so anyone can download www.404media.co/researchers-...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Also of some note that Nicusor Dan didn’t tack to the right between the rounds and didn’t dance to Simion’s tune. Not all mainstream parties supported him and not all strategists were happy with him, but Romanians voted for him over the radical right today.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

"as Swiss, we don't have feelings, we have money"

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I dont know about you, but Bluesky has quickly gone from 'isn't it great this isn't twitter!' to 'isn't my little hot take about politics witty?' really quickly.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 64 days ago • 884 comments

Teach coding to novices in higher education (e.g., intro to python)? Finding AI has made the process difficult/less successful? Have novel ways of integrating/overcoming LLMs? Want to have a chat about this? Drop me a message! Organising a cross-institutional/discipline group to discuss the topic.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

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submitted 80 days ago • 286 comments

don't let hadley wickham see this, he'll die (also somebody please make this somehow with base R) #rstats

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Good reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Live map of UK HEI job losses: 😱☹️🤷‍♂️👇 www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely the grimmest of things to read, for anyone who cares about probation, or the UK in general. cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/site...

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Really good, this

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This is crazy interesting: Super Nintendos are getting faster as the hardware ages. We spoke to the person who discovered this and has been collecting more data. They even put a SNES in the freezer to test a hypothesis www.404media.co/super-ninten...

submitted 91 days ago • 82 comments

anyone know the best AI to help me write R code to pull data from an API?

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Knowing tonnes of people who work in climate change/ESG, and seeing how much they fly (LOTS), this feels very on brand: www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

We’re constantly being told that our present moment is one of crisis: a ‘silent epidemic’ of male unhappiness. This myth has numerous threads. Chief among them is that boys are underperforming in a schooling system that’s biased towards girls’ aptitudes. There are further claims:

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Does drinking this much coffee lower the risk of omitted variable bias?

submitted 93 days ago • 10 comments

Everyone going on about Tesla stock being down - still higher then it was a year ago.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I agree, but ideas need policy behind them - wider than 'allow academics to book their own travel.' Without those concrete steps to combat the losses in other domains where third parties have got in on the act it's all, well, a bit academic.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

FFS. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I am 100% serious when I say that one of the most important skills for a researcher is an exceptional tolerance for feeling stupid. As a researcher, you really have to lean into feeling stupid.

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

Almost perfect timing: 'Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in England and Wales: Review of Recent Findings', with @eoinguilfoyle.bsky.social, now available 💎OA at the Journal of Legal Research Methodology www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/jl...