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@johanzvrskovec.bsky.social

Research associate/assistant at IoPPN(@kingsioppn.bsky.social), KCL(@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Behavioural epidemiology, statistical genetics, factor analysis, machine learning.

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RFK who? Autistics announce plans to live best lives out of sheer spite Autistic people have unveiled their plans to live the longest and happiest lives they possibly can out of sheer spite toward fascist losers with literal worms for brains.  In a statement released…

The statement read: “If you strike us down, we shall become more autistic than you can possibly imagine.”

08.12.2025 18:02 — 👍 241    🔁 88    💬 1    📌 14

Finns bra paralleller om liknande beteende att dra till UK's Labour i nuläget. Verkar vara ett globalt fenomen.

09.12.2025 08:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hundra spänn på att de kommer att ha sex.

09.12.2025 08:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sofia Mirjamsdotter: Varför vill S vara värre än Tidöpartierna? Fortfarande rasar kriminalvården, polisen, domstolar, barnrättsorgansiationer och advokater mot förslaget om att sätta 13-åringar i fängelse och då drämmer ordförande Andersson till med fotboja för se...

Jo jag skrev några rader

www.vk.se/2025-12-09/m...

09.12.2025 06:17 — 👍 86    🔁 30    💬 10    📌 16
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”Det som händer mig är jag rädd kan bli framtiden för oss alla” - Syre En aprilmorgon i Lund låser David Alcer upp cykeln för att trampa till jobbet. Men istället förs han bort i en omärkt polisbil. Nu hotas han av utvisning.

En aprilmorgon i Lund låser David Alcer upp cykeln för att trampa till jobbet. Men istället förs han bort i en omärkt polisbil. Nu hotas han av utvisning.

09.12.2025 05:51 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Antivaxxer misstänkt för mordförsöken på Akademiska:

08.12.2025 14:43 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Diagnosis Diagnoses are the dominant ways through which diseases, illnesses, and disabilities are labelled, discussed, understood, and ‘explained’ within biomedicine. A diagnosis is both a category and a…

Changelog: Added an "Over-diagnosis" section to the “Diagnosis” glossary page with selections from “The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry”.

stimpunks.org/glossary/dia...

08.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Startup Says It Has Found a Hidden Source of Geothermal Energy Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first such discovery by industry in decades.

NEW from me: i talked to the founders of a geothermal startup that is working on a simple (but surprisingly difficult) solution to find more geothermal energy: seek out systems deep underground that we can use for power. it's harder than you think!

04.12.2025 14:17 — 👍 74    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 7
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Cult(ure) of Abuse How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?

In response to a cult of abuse operating within a culture of abuse, I wrote a taxonomy of abuse: what it is, how it works, and what we can learn about our part in stopping it.

www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...

08.12.2025 12:58 — 👍 169    🔁 65    💬 2    📌 5
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To minimise confounding bias and disentangle warranted from unwarranted disparities, researchers examining sentencing discrimination have traditionally sought to control for as many legal factors as possible. However, over the past decade, a growing number of scholars have questioned this strategy, noting that many legal factors are themselves subject to judicial discretion and that controlling for them can introduce post-treatment bias. Here, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to provide a formal and comprehensive assessment of the different types of bias that may arise from different choices of controls. In addition, we propose a new modelling framework to facilitate the selection of controls and reflect the model uncertainty created by the trade-off inherent in judicially-defined legal factors and other factors with a similar dual causal role. We apply this framework to examine race disparities in US federal courts and gender disparities in the England and Wales magistrates’ court. We find substantial model uncertainty for gender disparities and for race disparities affecting Hispanic offenders, rendering estimates of the latter inconclusive. Disparities against black offenders are more consistent and — under specific conditions — could be interpreted as evidence of direct discrimination.

Screenshot of title page including the following abstract: To minimise confounding bias and disentangle warranted from unwarranted disparities, researchers examining sentencing discrimination have traditionally sought to control for as many legal factors as possible. However, over the past decade, a growing number of scholars have questioned this strategy, noting that many legal factors are themselves subject to judicial discretion and that controlling for them can introduce post-treatment bias. Here, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to provide a formal and comprehensive assessment of the different types of bias that may arise from different choices of controls. In addition, we propose a new modelling framework to facilitate the selection of controls and reflect the model uncertainty created by the trade-off inherent in judicially-defined legal factors and other factors with a similar dual causal role. We apply this framework to examine race disparities in US federal courts and gender disparities in the England and Wales magistrates’ court. We find substantial model uncertainty for gender disparities and for race disparities affecting Hispanic offenders, rendering estimates of the latter inconclusive. Disparities against black offenders are more consistent and — under specific conditions — could be interpreted as evidence of direct discrimination.

Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls"

Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes.

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publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...

08.12.2025 10:19 — 👍 64    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 1
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Pete Hegseth måste vara världens sämsta chef USA:s försvarsminister är inte bara en misstänkt krigsbrottsling utan också världens kanske sämsta chef.

USA:s försvarsminister är som en 12-åring som spelat Call of Duty och tror att det är så krig funkar :((( www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...

08.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.

that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

08.12.2025 06:06 — 👍 2351    🔁 997    💬 42    📌 70
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Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.

Nature research paper: Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes

go.nature.com/48QTo0t

08.12.2025 09:08 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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The First White President The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.

Worth re-reading this seminal 2017 essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in light of everything that's happened since. To say it still stands up would be an understatement. A genuine tour de force. Very impressive.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

07.12.2025 13:16 — 👍 125    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 2

A primary purpose of Disaster Films is to provide an opportunity for us to safely explore our collective anxieties together, but now more and more, we are expected to process our collective anxieties alone.

Seems bad?

07.12.2025 11:05 — 👍 66    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 0

It’s been the way for years. Arxiv is full of junk papers and has been for nearly a decade. Everyone claiming they’ve “published” a paper and it’s all hand waving and not even a shred of rigor, let alone anything resembling a real proof.

07.12.2025 11:09 — 👍 50    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1
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“What if I’m not autistic?” asks person handing assessor 91-page dissertation about life An autistic person is anxious that they won’t receive a formal diagnosis at their upcoming autism assessment - despite providing the psychologist with a folder the size of Tolstoy's War and Peace. …

Avery Mann, 40, who was asked to give “a few examples” about their autistic traits, started with a handful of relevant anecdotes but felt they didn’t want to leave anything out – “just in case that’s the thing that diagnoses me.”

07.12.2025 10:00 — 👍 174    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 9
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Kraftig ökning av barn under 15 år som misstänks för sprängdåd - Ekot 54 barn under 15 år har hittills i år (januari till och med november) misstänkts för allmänfarlig ödeläggelse, enligt statistik från Åklagarmyndigheten, ...

Sedan den sk ungdomsrabatten togs bort för 18-20 åringar har yngre och yngre barn tvingats/lurats att begå grova våldsbrott:

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/kraf...

07.12.2025 08:30 — 👍 72    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 6
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

06.12.2025 19:57 — 👍 37621    🔁 8784    💬 2722    📌 662
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'us v them' framing in all its guises is utterly poisonous to social democracy and therefore should be avoided like the plague by anyone interested in progressing anything that vaguely looks like social democracy

07.12.2025 09:55 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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This is so disgusting.

06.12.2025 18:45 — 👍 2010    🔁 363    💬 211    📌 458
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And the eagle has landed @chekistmonitor.bsky.social

06.12.2025 10:57 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
A black-and-white historical portrait of a man seated on a chair, dressed in clerical robes with a large cross pendant hanging from his neck. His hands are clasped in front of him, and he gazes directly at the camera with a calm and contemplative expression.

A black-and-white historical portrait of a man seated on a chair, dressed in clerical robes with a large cross pendant hanging from his neck. His hands are clasped in front of him, and he gazes directly at the camera with a calm and contemplative expression.

6 December 1942 | Grigol Peradze, a cleric of the Georgian Orthodox Church, an archimandrite, perished in #Auschwitz.

Since 1933, he lectured at the College of Orthodox Theology at Warsaw University. The Germans arrested him on 5 May 1942, and, in November, deported him to Auschwitz.

06.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 389    🔁 82    💬 4    📌 1
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Take a Walk Through Orkney’s Captivating Story of Pirate John Gow The UHI Institute for Northern Studies in partnership with J Gow Distillery is pleased to announce the launch of the John Gow Heritage Trail, a significant new heritage trail in Orkney. The trail t…

Take a Walk Through Orkney's Captivating Story of Pirate John Gow theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/06/t...

06.12.2025 08:02 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

wow who was he up against

05.12.2025 23:21 — 👍 3349    🔁 1043    💬 45    📌 21

1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!

04.12.2025 12:44 — 👍 1062    🔁 140    💬 4    📌 33
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UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis

"This seems the best bang for your buck; it’s less per year than private school.” 🤢 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

06.12.2025 09:54 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 5
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Kulturkommentar: Nazistmarschen i Salem återuppstår efter femton år Parollen ”mot svenskhat” som då var kontroversiell har i dag blivit rumsren, skriver Hynek Pallas.

www.gp.se/kultur/komme...

06.12.2025 09:41 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses The health secretary says the aim is to tackle a rising demand for services and pressure on the NHS.

Streeting, vocal about his belief that mental health issues, autism, ADHD etc are "overdiagnosed, is pushing a review, part led by someone who's already done this to ME patients, into whether they're overdiagnosed. Expect a lot more articles trying to set a narrative. 2/
www.bbc.com/news/article...

06.12.2025 09:19 — 👍 53    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0
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Streeting nervously twirling telephone cord hoping RFK Jr will finally return his calls Wes Streeting is currently waiting by the phone hoping fellow health secretary Robert Francis Kennedy Jr has finally noticed what a special little evil boy he is, according to political sources. Stree...

Retired ghost train animatronic Streeting said: “I’m so nervous. What if he picks up? What if he’s seen this ADHD thing and gone ‘Attaboy, Streeting! Why don’t you come to the White House and play a round of golf with me and my friends? They’re your friends now, too, Wes, and so am I’?”

05.12.2025 14:17 — 👍 238    🔁 88    💬 6    📌 14

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