Well worth a read. Most well thought out and developed discussion on #policing I have seen this week..

Preach! Just wrapping up an ethnography on just this...

A new essay from @winlow_s and myself in the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. A personal memoir of our decades-long struggle to introduce a new realist theoretical framework into western social science. journals.uio.no/JEA/article/… @BritSocCrim @britsoci #socialscience

"A good day for sociology a bad day for sociologists" Bavlar in one sentence... love it

Latest @URealists blog from our ECR (early career researchers) network. A bit of a change this time - @emmaarmstrong96 and Paul Alker on New Year resolutions. Do the personal ones court disappointment, and should we wish for bigger improvements? ultrarealists.com/new-year-n…

Please everyone help. I am trying to do a Christmas miracle and make someone happy. Yesterday (21/12/25) in @Bullring we found this lost platinum wedding band. It is name and date engraved, and has more detail. I want to reunite it with its rightful owner. Retweets might help.

I genuinely hate to pull rank, and I've never done this on X, but I've had enough of patronising little whelks like Lukas. I'm trying to tell him that economics and social science in general need an interdisciplinary approach. He tells me to 'write something'. Good heavens. Sorry, but for once only, I'm forced to show off. He has 101 citations in one discipline and an h-index of 7. I have 5,392 citations across multiple disciplines with a h-index of 35, and 35,936 peer/student reads on academia.edu, which puts me in the top 1% of global scholars. My PhD was an investigation of social and economic history through a psychological/criminological lens, in which I first explored the interdisciplinary approach I have developed since. I ran two businesses in the 70s and lived through the catastrophic deindustrialisation process. My academic and experiential knowledge of social and economic history suggests rather strongly that economists' current DSGE models are poor tools for analysis, prediction and policy. If you want to find out about more sophisticated system-dynamics models currently under development, I'm not the expert, follow @RelearningEcon and @ProfSteveKeen, and for some political and policy implications follow @RichardJMurphy and dip into some @CheeseMacro podcasts. In my long career I've supplied social science with three original concepts, and encouraged my research partners such as @winlow_s and @Thomas_Raymen to supply more. I've lost count of my articles and I've written 11 books. But the kid who tells me to 'write something' clings onto an orthodox paradigm and makes a living parroting its findings, which for him gives him some sort of authority over others who might disagree. This is how obsolete paradigms reproduce themselves. They capture people young and turn them into arrogant, unthinking priests. x.com/AltermattLukas/status/…

I really feel for the millionaires today.

What every Vice Chancellor should be offering with genuine contrition 21percent.org/?p=2757

I'm thinking the burst AI bubble will leave behind a more revolting mess than the dot-com bubble and the GFC. At least the first two left behind some tech and a few more houses alongside austerity and reaction, but AI will leave behind nothing but brainrot, crushing intellectual conformity, mass plagiarism, energy sinks, mass unemployment, a spooky surveillance system and history's creepiest oligarchs.

There is something humerous to be said about south America, borders and criminals being annoyed about being denied entry. I can't quite put my finger on it..🤣

@CraigKelly90 and I turned a few of our chats into this piece. Feel free to give it a read and tell us what you think! ultrarealists.com/from-trage…

Excellent piece by @CraigKelly90 and @MaxHart44 on the digital afterlife of violence. In the wake of Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska and others, it's important to make sense of how we consume violent acts ultrarealists.com/from-trage…

The latest UR blog is up now! On the Kirk and Zarutska murders and how mass media and social media turn tragedy into spectacle. From our Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher network. Spread the word! Cheers. ultrarealists.com/from-trage… @URealists @CriticalCrimBSC @britsoci

Flags... flags... nostalgia and disorder. Finally a decent take on Flaggate!

A fact that I believe features in what I hear told is a rather good little book that introduces some facts about Crime and Punishment in England...

When the beautiful game is the ugly game. Great article on youth academy football by @NickRGibbs1 and Daniel Briggs. frontiersin.org/journals/soc… @URealists

Brilliant blog on #datafication, #Harm and #Grok by @MaxHart44 on Ultrarealists.com. Well worth a read for anyone interested in AI, Zemiology, privacy or.. Fentanyl recipes!? ultrarealists.com/dataficati…

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