Jack Cunliffe

YouTube video by Știrile zilei. Pe scurt, de la Recorder INTERVIU: Ce rămâne după Ion Iliescu

An interview with historian Mihai Burcea. Arguably the best analysis of Ion Iliescu's life and political career currently available.
Subtitles via machine translation work reasonably well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hL8...

Fusing concept to theory: identity fusion’s potential role in crime research - Theory and Society Developing theories, evidence, and methods that could help to reduce crime is foundational to crime research. Here we present an interdisciplinary framework that can shed light on old theories and ope...

Whether it’s gang violence or helping a stranger, group bonding shapes action.

Time to reframe how we understand social ties in criminogenic & prosocial contexts. Read the article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New paper out: What if extreme criminal and prosocial acts shared the same root cause?

We explore how identity fusion—where personal & group identities merge—can help explain violence, loyalty, & desistance.

Say what you want about the 'Old Masters' but they were pretty rubbish at painting babies

Everything is absolutely fucked, isn't it?

Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implications

I have three questions.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

9 years since a seagull shat on me and @mariskavdhorst.bsky.social on the way into a summer school lecture, in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum.

It's a good look:

It is the greatest app available

Ad display, white on blue, promoting student clubs, societies, and associations. "Did you know club members have a 19% higher chance of getting an 'A' grade?"

Casual inference, university-style

Faroe islands. Pretty pretty good

Very true. Got this from a mate who was there:

Oh man, this is close to my heart! I want to get a personal speed camera to catch cars nailing down our road. We live on a small residential street near a park and I swear people do 50 down it. A 20 zone and sheep bumps, please!

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

New: Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. Released publicly so anyone can download www.404media.co/researchers-...

Also of some note that Nicusor Dan didn’t tack to the right between the rounds and didn’t dance to Simion’s tune. Not all mainstream parties supported him and not all strategists were happy with him, but Romanians voted for him over the radical right today.

"as Swiss, we don't have feelings, we have money"

No one banging on about it anymore:

Absolutely shite

I dont know about you, but Bluesky has quickly gone from 'isn't it great this isn't twitter!' to 'isn't my little hot take about politics witty?' really quickly.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Teach coding to novices in higher education (e.g., intro to python)? Finding AI has made the process difficult/less successful? Have novel ways of integrating/overcoming LLMs? Want to have a chat about this? Drop me a message! Organising a cross-institutional/discipline group to discuss the topic.

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, Second edition is about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is s...

The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

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a 3-D venn diagram with the two large circles labeled "Badly made Venn Diagrams" and "Badly made 3D graphs" with the intersection labeled "This horrific abomination"

don't let hadley wickham see this, he'll die (also somebody please make this somehow with base R) #rstats

Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Good reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps Mapping redundancies from 2023

Live map of UK HEI job losses:

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Absolutely the grimmest of things to read, for anyone who cares about probation, or the UK in general. cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/site...