Jack Cunliffe

The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters? Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest

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.

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

Decidedly not social science - theconversation.com/is-time-a-fu...

Emerging Risks of Nitazene‐Adulterated Vapes in Australia: Balancing Regulation, Access and Harm Reduction Click on the article title to read more.

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.

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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

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Lecturer (Academic) Criminology and Criminal Justice in Dorset House (Bournemouth - Talbot) | Bournemouth University View details and apply for this Lecturer (Academic) Criminology and Criminal Justice vacancy in Dorset House (Bournemouth - Talbot). T he newly established School of Law and Society is looking to...

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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.

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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.

Binance to Compensate Users Affected by Crash in Wrapped Ether, Staked Solana and Ethena’s USDe Wrapped tokens crashed as Binance's infrastructure buckled, making it harder for market makers to stabilize prices.

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 - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

"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

Steam Hosted Malware Game that Stole $32,000 from a Cancer Patient Live on Stream Scammers stole the crypto from a Latvian streamer battling cancer and the wider security community rallied to make him whole.

this story has everything. Streaming to survive cancer. Steam scams. Crypto. Behold 2025 and all its horrors

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Submitted my PhD 10 years ago today. Still quite proud of it. etheses.lse.ac.uk/3257/

About time too. The MCS lot breezed through uni a few years ago, and there's nothing since!