this, but my email inbox is the tree and the machine thingy is the start of term

Murder is Bad

Do people think that PhD topics are like 'English: What are the top five books?'

Not Catholicism inventing RCTs to test the impact of demonic possession

Law and Economics was a mistake.

Oh man, this absolutely rocks

Students react similarly when I assign an article I've written for them to read

What frustrates me the most about this is universities' lack of aggression in response. They need to be out within seconds of this dropping, delivering an in-your-face and two-footed response. They're in a vicious fight for their survival. They just don't seem to understand that.

Originality, significance and rigOREOS

Only 10% of people think crime/law-and-order/ASB is one of the most-important issues facing Britain right now, although that rises slightly to 15% among people aged 18–24 and 18% among people in London.

Earthquakes aplenty this week

Why is the police role so broad in the US today? In our paper, @dthacher and I argue that it's a story about an out-of-control call-for-service system; a Frankenstein’s monster that took on a life of its own and eventually came back to haunt us. doi.org/10.1017/lsi.20… 🧵 1/7

the dainty little chin straps on their helmets are just so unserious

call me naive, but if you take it for granted that cops stand behind someone campaigning for political office, then you also have to grapple with the cognitive dissonance you experience in the moment the campaigner happens to spout fash and you had other ideas

them's the breaks

me in between two term sessions