🚨 JOB ALERT: The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are currently advertising a master-level or post-doctoral research position in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close March 22.
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For more info: jobs.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Check out the latest from @edjegasothy.bsky.social and me about Australia's historical experience with prohibition, and what lessons we can learn about it's impact on illicit markets and organised crime.
theconversation.com/prohibitive-...
The Median Voter Theorem is a Clarity Trap www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-median...
I know I'm biased, but I honestly can't see the point of reading anything else but @robfordmancs.bsky.social's deep dive on the Gorton and Denton contest. Tells you all you need to know.
New paper out co-authored with Jennifer Schumann, on the recent emergence of nitazenes in Australia's illicit THC vape supply.
We discuss the regulatory context, implications, and the dangers of conflating adulteration of THC and nicotine vape supply.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
I rarely see you nowadays. Used to get you all the time
Amazing, thank you!
🤯... Oh my. Everything I've ever read, in one place with attached PDFs, a click to perfectly reference anything!
Next to zero chance this will work - but anyone got a zotero citation style pointer for Journal of Law and Society? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
📢 New publication – and a great way to end the year
In this study, we use MAIHDA (Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy) to study who is most at risk of violence victimisation in England and Wales. Paper: doi.org/10.1177/1748... 1/n
What can 40 years of song lyrics tell us about society?
I analysed the lyrics of 1,600 pop songs going back to 1985.
Our music appears to be getting gloomier, less future-looking and more self-obsessed
1/6
Hegemony. Still not sure how to say it. And anomie (an-o-me/ano-me)
Pretty terrible sign of the times
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Goodwin is just flat out racist by this point, and he makes money from it. I wish I'd been much more aggressive in my dealings him when he worked at my university.
We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...
at last
Doing some latent profile analysis... forgot how infuriating Mplus can be. I love it, but I hate it.
www.coindesk.com/markets/2025... - it's wilder than the wild west could even imagine.
Hahaha, yes.
"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
On my god I hate writing theoretical papers. You have to read about 3 books and 10 papers just to write one sentence. Give me a dataset and a specific research question any day
Dangerous elderly people sign
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
Awesome stuff
