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Alex Sutherland

@criminologist.bsky.social

Criminology, public policy, research and experiments https://sites.google.com/researchdesign.uk/alexsutherland Newest paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-025-09726-0

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Alex Sutherland@criminologist.bsky.social · 2h ago

Didn't know the name, but definitely agree with the complaint! Trials are practical exercises as well as stats ones!

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 2h ago

Donald Preece b #OTD 1938 (d 6 Jan 2014) Fellow RSS 1963. A champion of experimental design& statistics education. He often complained about the over-emphasis on “mathematically-oriented teaching” at the expense of practicalities of study planning, design, data collection, & data cleaning.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 22h ago

Early release latest: a man was released from Wandsworth, outside of which British Transport Police immediately arrested him for bike thefts he was wanted on from June and August.

Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · 21h ago

Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on chatbots almost brought the US into war with China – went mostly unnoticed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · yesterday

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie: By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.
Schnitza Fars@schnitzafars.bsky.social · 2d ago

did you know that we get the word "cockamamie" from a bastardization of a term ("decalcomania") for a period in the 1930s after temporary tattoos were invented by the French and kids were running around putting them on fucking everything?! 🐦🐦🐦

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · yesterday

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Alex Coppock@aecoppock.bsky.social · 2d ago

New from Hainmueller and Laitin on the causal effects of becoming a citizen on wages. Short story: the observational ests overstate the premium relative to the experimental ests. Authors conclude "observational averages should not be used as causal forecasts for policy" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Sander van der Linden@profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fantastic opportunity at Cambridge! Come join us as the Hatton Professor of Sustainability. We're looking for a word-leading behavioural scientist or experimentalist to lead behavior change research on sustainability. Apply ✔️https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-professorship-of-sustainability-la50727

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The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

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