🚨New paper klaxon!🚨
How does a police department manage to claim that it's "making progress"? And how does it do so even when people complain about its poor performance, corruption, or whatever else?
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... @chicagopolice.bsky.social
NEW: Tony Cheng, Johann Koehler, "Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
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Gold OA is a terrible model that has done a lot of harm.
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“170 Years of Change in Living Arrangements”: @gfloridi.bsky.social & A. Esteve explore the role of mortality decline over time & encourage social scientists to consider how extended life spans can shape arrangements. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Join Vital City, @nyuwagner.bsky.social and the @russellsagefdn.bsky.social for a conversation between New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and Robert Sampson about his new book, “Marked by Time."
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Building a checking tool? Last year a friend and I made a crude command line tool to mark student essays for a manual scan by comparing references in Word docs against Google Scholar. I recall stumbling across a rather well developed one on GitHub that digested most doc formats not long after.
That being the UK has no PhD training at all and 1 year MPhils with only two terms of courses and students with little to no math background nor intention to ever do any quant work. So I think we'll lean into statistical literacy with an optional applied track and see what happens for a year.
Yeah, I don't doubt they could be translated, I just wouldn't be able to teach them. I'm actually leaning toward shifting the programming/applied stays component to being an optional track as we're catering to a different audience here than my US-origin courses we're designed for.
I agree in principle but my barrier is that Python is a poor platform for my own work, so my skills will never be developed/updated enough to produce as good a learning experience for students. I do recommend it to students and use it myself for a number of tasks where it dominates R though.
NEW on Wonkhe: Students aren't confused about AI – they're making rational choices in a system that has removed the incentives to learn. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall preview findings from new research on learning in an age of AI buff.ly/4TKftU3
Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.
Somehow some deep wisdom in Reddit post on confronting bad research:
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
Why does Editorial Manager even have password-based login? I don't think I've ever successfully gotten into it without resetting my password.
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations
📢 Hiring: Postdoc in Criminology / Sociology at UPF
Join @demosocupf.bsky.social as a Postdoc:
📊 Focus: Evaluating penal interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain.
🗓️ Deadline: March 15th, 2026.
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I rambled at length about this in a paper about the control of "criminogenic" properties:
'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social
We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic.
We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.
So damaging to our scientific organizations and young scientists trying to get started in this environment.
JOB: Lecturer (Education) in Psychology and Criminology, Kings College London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ332/l...
A poster advertising a seminar given by Dr Helen Kosc at the Institute of Criminology, on 26 February 2026 at 5PM.
Our next Lent Term public seminar will take place tomorrow, with Dr Helen Kosc speaking about ‘Desistance as Temporal Work’, based on her survey of 150 prison-leavers from HMP Bullingdon.
There is still space available on this seminar. Book your place now:
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A poster advertising a public seminar by Dr Helen Kosc, from the Institute of Criminology.
Join Dr Helen Kosc in just under two weeks' time for our next Lent Term public seminar, where she will discuss 'Desistance as temporal work'.
Based on her research into 150 men released from HMP Bullingdon, she will explore what desistance entails.
Book here: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/desis...
And here is the call for abstracts for the 2026 Cars & Crime Symposium: jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/call%...
Taking place in Ilkley (West Yorkshire) on 30–31 July.
If your work explores the intersection of crime and road traffic (see examples below), send us your abstract.
🗓 Deadline: 17 April
I just heard that our funding application was succesful, which means there will be a 2nd #Cars&Crime symposium on the 30/31 of July in Leeds. This time open to everyone. Call for abstracts to be circulated around Easter.
If you are doing research in this area we want to hear from you.
This is the link to the talk I am giving on Thursday 12th Feb (5-6pm) at the Inst. of Criminology @ Cambridge:
www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/explo...
Yeah, I immediately imagined the chain where this metric gets built into the Elsevier submission pipeline and either you pay and it tells you your novelty score and/or editors see it on submission and make decisions. And either way they train AI on it and sell that AI to help you write/edit papers.
