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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Maybe add to it that stats and methods must be tightly coupled in a derivation chain?

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I would be fascinated to know what Austin Turk would think about our modern political situation.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

such authorities are charlatans. We use these models as a way to produce historical comparisons of similar situations (i.e., collapsing social systems) that can serve as the basis for specifying and testing hypothesis. /7

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thus, no one could replace Trump’s causal role in history. History is about particulars. But this doesn’t mean we can gain no semblance of general knowledge. This general knowledge comes from a an ideal type that specifies the general nature of charismatic authority and the situations under which…/6

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The social traits selected for vary by era, so no one will be identical to Trump in the past. Moreover, selection doesn’t necessarily mean success (selection pressures are not teleological). /5

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

traditional institutions, such as the press and public education. Religion, too. Under these conditions, selection pressures mount for individuals who can create certainty and order.4/

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Charismatic authority only arises under certain conditions, particularly in times of high uncertainty or turbulent times. We have been observing the rapid decline of the post-WWII historical epoch. Its end is being accelerated by the death of boomers and rapid tech change and the collapse of…3/

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A Weberian ideal type is not a generalization, it is an ideal representation of a phenomenon, such as charismatic authority as noted above. Such representations carve out the conditions necessary for the phenomenon to occur, meaning there is no claim about universalism being made.2/

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

This is where traditional science breaks down. Science typically deals with empirical regularities. One-off events are difficult to understand under such an approach because they are unique and impossible to reproduce. They yield no generalizations.1/

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

AI is no panacea. www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06...

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This is one of the reasons I am skeptical of AI in social research. Nomological and correlative approaches have difficult times explaining complex social phenomena. AI does too. futurism.com/apple-damnin...

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Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Water on the Entire AI Industry

Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

See chapters 3 & 4 in Mechanistic Criminology.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I am excited to announce I accepted a new position at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. They recently became a Research I University. I’ll be joining wonderful colleagues and am excited for the new opportunities that await.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It’s fun. It’s processual. It focuses on deviance and how definitions of it change over time as a result of social conflicts. It’s really accessible, like most of Howie Becker’s works.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If by ‘best’ you mean most scientific, Retrofit Social Learning Theory. It’s the only theory that is precisely stated enough to possibly be falsified. My favorite theory, though, Becker’s Labeling Theory.

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Volkan Topalli @volkantopalli.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

👉 This is an important issue of The Criminologist. It contains five pieces about academic publishing in our field, three of which involve #Criminology. The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏 asc41.org/wp-content/u...

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It could also be a background to a Jack Handy “Deep Thoughts”:)

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I can imagine the late nite at with song titles scrolling!

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Excited to announce my research team's paper below was just accepted for publication in the journal: Criminology. Criminology is the top criminology journal for the scientific study of crime. This is a major career accomplishment. www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...

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Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In this paper, we show how empirical tests of disorganization theory lack standardized operationalizations of key constructs. This paper provides initial evidence that weaknesses in theory can potentially influence false-positive research results independently of traditional methodological concerns.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I am excited to announce our paper "Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note" has been accepted for publication in the journal Criminology. #crim #sociology www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...

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Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We are working on setting up a list of guests now! I’ll keep you posted.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The fallacy of expertise is in abundance on social media. Thanks for the reminder!

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Congrats on the book and the attention it is getting!

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There are several online services you can use that are pretty convenient.

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...

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Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This isn’t enough to allow for ‘blast processing’ :) #nintendon’t #SEGA

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Beth Hardie @bethhardie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What if schools could improve student behaviour not through punitive measures but by addressing the well-evidenced link between anti-social morality and adolescent problem behaviour? Join us and @satnavproject.bsky.social at our #eapl2025 workshop eapl2025.com/workshops/

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The changes in the US Government are being guided by an institutional logic of corporate management, which is not new to other sectors (e.g., higher education and medicine). No one can claim these sectors became more "efficient" as a result. If anything, they all experience goal displacement.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Criminologists who prefer empirical models to theory-dependent falsification effort might be interested in this. Empirical models should never be reified. It is important to remember we live in reality and not mathematical space.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Daylight savings is the bitcoin of time.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What does one mean by ‘authentic’ :)

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A few months I talked to a friend about society entering a dark age. The belief that we are in a post-truth world is a symptom and a self-reinforcing cause. As Marx reminds us in his Theses on Feuerbach, the material world matters. Ultimately, conceptions of reality must bend to reality itself.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

d) I just really wanted desert. Why did I order the other stuff? :)

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This raises an interesting question as to if these things have been archived somewhere and if scholars should be building a repository of governmental reports and data.

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I have missed Conan O’Brien. I watch him from the beginning and he’s been like a goofy friend who always knows how to make me laugh. Yes, this means I a have poor taste:)

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The most significant event in the demise of etiological criminology was a simple change in how theories compete. Should theory competition rest on falsification or measures of model fit? Criminology chose model fit. Our replication crisis is the price we pay for that error. #criminology

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Challenge them. Make them think. Let them know the course is a place where they can safely be wrong.

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Patrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

What relevance does the replication crisis have for non-academic research, such as the methods used to evaluate social programs? In a new paper with Ben McNamee and Michael Lenczner, we argue that the answer could be quite a lot Article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... OA: osf.io/6hevp

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kryanproctor.bsky.social @kryanproctor.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thanks for the comments! We have some more work looking at these types of questions in the pipeline. I am also working to have good lab manuals put together so it can be turn-key for people wanting to get involved.

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