Valerio Baćak

🚨 Deadline extended to December 15!

Check out the full CFP list here: ajph.aphapublications.org/callforpapers

#CFP #PublicHealth #Masculinity

May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️‍🔥

The Rise of the Carceral State: Foundations and Contours of a Rapidly Changing Criminal Legal System A “carceral state” represents a critical definitional contrast to the more commonly invoked frames of “mass incarceration” or “mass criminalization.” Mass criminalization scholarship is typically focu...

Very much looking forward to reading the new issue of the @russellsagefdn.bsky.social journal on racial bias in criminal justice, and especially the piece by my star colleague @sarawakefield.bsky.social (with @kristinturney.bsky.social): www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/3...

Professor Examines the Rise of Counterfeiting in China

As always, my colleague Ko-lin Chin studies topics in organized crimes that very few people could do and do well, and his new book on counterfeiting in China is no exception www.rutgers.edu/news/profess...

Sociological Theory (the journal) invites contributions to a special issue on "Sociological Theorizing in the Global South".
Find out more:
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

Looking forward to this. If we can align public opinion about crime with facts, good things can happen.

Americans tend to view international students positively, though some support limitations Most Americans (79%) think it’s good for U.S. colleges and universities to accept international students.

NEW FINDINGS:
79% of Americans say it's good for the US to accept international students

70% of Republicans say the US should be able to cancel visas of students who criticize US foreign policy

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism | NEJM It has been suggested that vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is a cause of autism. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1991 th...

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best.

This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

Opinion | What Both the Left and the Right Get Wrong About Violent Crime

Great op-ed by David Kennedy, reinforcing the case for investing in and expanding community-based violence intervention programs www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

The FBI Will Likely Report The Lowest Murder Rate Ever Recorded In 2025 But will it stick?

New this week: the FBI will likely report the lowest murder rate ever recorded when its data for 2025 is released next year. I wrote about why I think this will happen as well as the chance that the record doesn't last after being revised.

jasher.substack.com/p/the-fbi-wi...

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

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Screenshot of the call for applications for MZES Visiting Fellowships, 22 September 2025. For the full text, please follow the link.

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers!

❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊

💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November

Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

🚀 2-year Postdoc opportunity with me on older adults, digital technologies & wellbeing.

Flexible location/remote-friendly

Deadline 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST

Details & how to apply (both ITA/ENG):

www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

#Postdoc #Ageing #Demography #DigitalInequality

Chart shows Majorities of Americans say many groups in U.S. society face at least some discrimination Large majorities of Americans say numerous groups in the United States face at least some discrimination, including immigrants, transgender people and members of different racial and religious groups. About eight-in-ten (82%) say immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally experience a lot of or some discrimination – including 57% who say they face a lot of discrimination, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults. That is the highest share for any group among 20 included in the survey. Still, there is a widespread belief that many other societal groups also are discriminated against: 77% say people who are transgender face at least some discrimination, with 48% saying this group experiences a lot of discrimination. 74% say Muslims in the U.S. face a lot of or some discrimination, while a similar share (72%) say Jews face at least some discrimination. Roughly a thi

Americans who say there's a lot of discrimination against people who are:
In US illegally 57%
Transgender 48%
Gay or lesbian 37%
Black 36%
Muslim 34%
Hispanic 34%
Jewish 30%
Immigrants in US legally 29%
Women 22%
Asian 21%
Religious 17%
Older 16%
Evangelical 13%
White 12%
Men 10%
Atheist 7%

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

The Real-Time Crime Index is now updated through July. The sample consists of more than 560 agencies covering 116 million people. It's our largest sample yet and shows murder down 20% and both violent & property crime down more than 10% compared to 2024.
realtimecrimeindex.com

Unbelievable.

Begging journalists not to report on crime trends like this. DC crime was already falling relative to 2024 prior to the federal intervention, so it comes as no surprise that it was also down during this stretch.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Delighted to see my first publication in Spanish. Sadly, I did not write it in Spanish, but I am very much looking forward to learning the beautiful language.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on social media(X) that federal border agents will be assigned to NPS sites as part of the broader federal law enforcement push in DC. He said the Interior Department had authorized a “service-wide deputization” of Customs and Border Protection

Trump's Washington D.C. national guard plan ignores FBI crime data Murder rates in D.C. — and in most major American cities — are at a near-record low. Yet Trump insists on ranting about "bloodshed, bedlam and squalor."

Crime across the country is hitting historic lows, but these days are hell for facts www-msnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.msnb...

We have three tenure-track faculty openings @runscj.bsky.social, one for a qualitative expert; deadline is 31/8. I continue to be impressed with the quality of research my colleagues are doing, and how supportive we are as a community. Very international and interdisciplinary, too. Link below.

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.

The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

🚨 Our GVRC FY26 RFP is now live!

Up to $1M in funding across 3 tracks for gun violence prevention research.

Faculty, postdocs, and students at U.S. universities are eligible.

Due Sept 1.
📄 gunviolenceresearchcenter.rutgers.edu/FY26RFP

🔗 Apply: rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

⏳ Only 1 week left! Apply as a Postdoc in Computational Social Science (TV-L 13, 100%, 4 yrs + tenure track) @gesis.org to build open-source tools🛠 & infrastructure🌐and conduct your own reproducible research🧠 with digital behavioral data.

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#CSS #openscience #hiring

A graph showing American's Confidence in the Police, 1993-2025. The survey asked "How much confidence do you, yourself, have in the police — a great deal, quite a lot, some or very little?" The graph line peaked in 204 at 64% and declined more or less steadily to 45% this year.

American's confidence in the police dipped this year.

Editorial | Penn descends into fascism The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.

we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Nailed it. Exactly the same here.