Excited to share new study in Criminology (open access) on GLP-1s & violence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Among current GLP-1 users, the link b/t impulsivity and violence was flat across impulsivity levels. Similar story w/alcohol use. More to come from me & @daniel-semenza.bsky.social

Excited to share new study in Criminology (open access) on GLP-1s & violence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Among current GLP-1 users, the link b/t impulsivity and violence was flat across impulsivity levels. Similar story w/alcohol use. More to come from me & @daniel-semenza.bsky.social

Holidays are here. History books about the truth of American history with discounts are the best gifts in these challenging times. Check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, 680 pages, and 40 % with code WELCOME 40 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Please also add/repost the second Starter Pack, which I made because so many great criminologists have joined bluesky lately that the first starter pack got full. As before, please reply if you'd like to be added -- I'll do my very best to include all CJ academics here. go.bsky.app/7qmM6yB

Loved this book - congrats to Jack (and @yalepress.bsky.social)!

Henry Snow@henrysnow.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Great assistant professor opportunity for crim/CJ folks, and I've heard it's a super collegial and cool department.

Katie Durante 🍹🦕@professorkd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

University of Utah Dept of Sociology and Criminology is hiring a tenure track assistant professor! I’m happy to chat and answer any questions about the job, SLC, etc. DM or email me. PS: we are a great group of colleagues to have 😁 Link: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

Hi #ASA2025. I am not usually nervous about public speaking but I am about this - there are SO MANY things I want to make sure to say (or hope someone else will say) and things I'm really not sure what the answer is but I want us to be thinking about together. Hope to see many of you there.

American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The first Plenary Session of #ASA2025 starts in 2 hours. The State of the Sociological Union features David Takeuchi, Lindsay Owens @lindsayowens.bsky.social‬, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social‬, Dan Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social‬, & Catherine Moran. Live stream here: bit.ly/3TDl6Wl.

The systems that have made America safer are under attack. My new op-ed in @commondreams.org explains why we can’t stay quiet as the Trump admin rapidly dismantles much of our violence prevention + public safety infrastructure. We can't go backward. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

America’s Safety Is Fragile; Trump Is Tearing Down the Systems That Protect It | Common Dreams

The systems that protect our lives and our communities were built through years of tireless effort. They can’t be allowed to collapse overnight.

commondreams.org

Is this a good time to remind everyone that Elon Musk is a longtermist? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mike Rothschild@rothschildmd.bsky.social · last yr.

"All elections are rigged and Democrats don't exist" is the kind of paranoid delusion that once got you shunned from society and maybe committed. Now it gets you retweeted by the defacto president and the adoration of thousands of other cultists.

"There are very good reasons that the federal faucet has always been controlled by apolitical bureaucrats. Having a president—or, even more so, an unelected billionaire—hold direct, granular control of nearly seven trillion dollars is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams."

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · last yr.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

nytimes.com

I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack. This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful. go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z #ASC2024 #criminology

Survey experiment finds that people who rely on conservative news sources report much warmer feelings about police after seeing Floyd protest images — but not after seeing Capitol insurrection images. -Christopher Thomas @christhomas.bsky.social in J of Exptl Crim link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So excited to share my new J. of Experimental Criminology study "Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-methods study of public opinion," based on national surveys I ran June 2020 and during Jan. 6th www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🌐#AcademicSky

(PDF) Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection, and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-meth...

PDF | Objectives To test whether news images from George Floyd protests and the Capitol insurrection affected feelings about the police differentially... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

researchgate.net

In the Philly area? Today at 5:30pm at Rutgers Law School in Camden, join Dr. Sarah Tosh as she discusses her new NYUP book "The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance." Open event, no registration. Should be really cool! #lawsky #sociology #academicsky

Wow! With the code CYBER23 you can get 50% off books at @dukepress.bsky.social through 12/8-- that includes Police and the Empire City. So all your friends who were wondering how police departments got like this? They can learn that they've always been like this! www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...

You're completing a PhD or a first postdoc in Social Sciences on topics related to socioeconomic polarization (inequality, segregation, discrimination), consider applying to AxPo's postdoc fellowship before the new year: www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...

Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks | Opinion

As the 2024 election approaches, misinformation researchers at the University of Washington say they won't be deterred by those seeking to undermine their work.

seattletimes.com

"The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1) (...). One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n

After a student asked me about borrowing a book for class, I tried to find a good guide to legal, free sources of academic e-books and I couldn't... so I made one! tinyurl.com/book-resources *So many* fantastic online libraries out there, not to mention open-access textbooks.

Where to Find Books Online.docx

Where to (Legally) Read Books Online for Free(-ish) Let’s say you have been assigned a specific book or textbook for a course. You might be able to borrow it for free online or download a free pdf. ...

tinyurl.com

Researchers: Federal government data will indefinitely disappear Sunday. So I'm downloading a bunch of Census, BLS,& NIBRS data today for projects in my medium-term pipeline. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/b... “If we miss two months of collecting data, we’re never getting that back” -Betsey Stevenson

One Casualty of a Shutdown: Government Data

A lapse in funding would delay data on unemployment and inflation as policymakers try to avoid a recession.

nytimes.com

Hey there, follow Alexis Santos @appdemography.bsky.social -- he's a truly awesome demographer/population health scientist (I personally love his work on the demography of climate disasters). 🧪#demography #publichealth #sociology #academicsky #PennState #HiSciSky

Check out this new interview with me and Kevin Wolff about our study on climate change and crime: gc.cuny.edu/news/how-vol... #ClimateChange 🧪#greensky #greencriminology

How Volatile Temperatures Shape Violent Crime

A new study finds that temperature spikes are driving rates of violent crimes in American cities.

gc.cuny.edu

In your opinion, what is the best “icebreaker” for the first day of class?

So many great panels and papers on climate change at #ASA2023. This is from our panel "Politics of Climate Change."

This looks like a good #ASA2023 panel, about institutional accountability, police violence, and social movements. Monday morning 10-1130am.

In a new essay, @jeffcorbin.bsky.social, Meg Duffy, @carlyziter.bsky.social and I talk about the urgent need to move beyond "it's real, it's bad, it's us" approaches to climate education, instead sharing pathways to climate action that engage and empower, while fighting the immobility of despair.

Climate Education That Builds Hope and Agency, Not Fear - Eos

Reframing climate change education around a message of “hopeful alarm” not only will underscore the threats we face but will also show students how they can act to shape the future.

eos.org

Wait, CUNY and SUNY are clients of the predatory consulting group that is currently destroying West Virginia University? Bleurgh.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3y ago

Here's the group that is dismantling WVU. They have been hired as consultants at land-grant universities around the country to help shred the liberal arts. More unis will hire them now. A thread. https://rpkgroup.com/?fbclid=IwAR1lV31aXrEndH4qO1-H4hHby-lvVIpHze17FbV7ndS0oX6rftyee6UX_qg

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2): Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui

Maui Aloha: The Peopleʻs Response

Support our frontline grassroots heroes mobilizing to mālama ʻohana affected by the wildfires on Maui Hawaiʻi People’s Fund stands in solidarity and full support with those individuals and organ...

hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com