Professor of sociology, University of Oslo. Also criminologist. https://xitter.cf/t.co/nX2NZUN9Mk
Oslo, Norge
Joined June 2016
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New article out on disciplinary survival in @Theory_Society The case is sociology, but might apply wider. It's just that a famous quote gave the opportunity to write it this way. You might not like it, or maybe you do.
link.springer.com/article/10…
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New in @Theory_Society, @JukkaSavo and @grumpy_rn argue that criminology has made more theoretical progress than its critics often acknowledge.
What do you think? Read their article here: link.springer.com/article/10…
Here is my take on AI and authorship, and it has everything to do with open science. Here are the principles:
osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5v…
Sammen med min gode kollega @bjornhoyland påpeker vi her dårlige prioriteringer ved UiOs kurs i universitetspedagogikk: uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2023…
One just should not be sued for legitimate high quality scientific critique. gofund.me/70c497b1
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Looking forward to have this PhD-course together with Trude Lappegård:
uio.no/studier/emner/sv/iss/…
Interested in a postdoc position in Oslo? We need someone who preferably knows a lot about data, but also criminological stuff. We're pretty good, but would be delighted if someone more talented than us applies: 2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Rec…
The project leaders are super nice.
Sammen med @bjornhoyland påpeker vi at skoleeksamen er pedagogisk undervurdert. Vi ser en del utdatert kritikk av skoleeksamen. Vi bør heller få enda bedre skoleeksamener! nrk.no/ytring/skoleeksamen-e…
This is worth reading! To the extent I've seen positional statements in papers, I tend to just skip them. My interest is whether their evidence and arguments hold. To that end, positional statements are uninformative, and potentially misleading.
#Positionality statements do not belong in the research literature.
This is what my coauthors and I argue in the article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. @PsychScience
Our objections to this growing practice are three-fold (1/6).
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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Vi, @grumpy_rn , oppsummerer og kommenterer svarene fra LINK og rektoratet:
1) det finnes ingen kriseberedskap for pedagogiske utfordringer ved UiO
2) LINK vil ikke bidra
3) skoleeksamen kan løse ChatGPT-problemet på kort sikt uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2023…
UiO bør bli mer fremoverlent og ha en beredskap for undervisning når det skjer omveltninger! @bjornhoyland og jeg er veldig tydelige i dette innlegget.
Sammen med @grumpy_rn etterspør jeg tydeligere, praktisk orientert, pedagogisk lederskap og støtte fra rektoratet og LINK. De må komme på banen med reelle løsninger for relle utfordringer knyttet til vurdering i lys av chatGPT og lignende verktøy uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2023…
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Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi har ledig en fast stilling som forskningsrådgiver! Vi er Norges høyeste rangert miljø på feltet, og instituttet har vært i sterkt vekst og får et stadig mer internasjonalt miljø: bit.ly/3QXfO5F @forskningsradet @UniOslo
I've just published a comment on late blooming criminal careers: link.springer.com/article/10… A few theories claim it is not a meaningful category - but without defining it, so hard to refute. While I comment on Matsuda et al, it is sort of directed elsewhere.
By the way: I also think I make a minor contribution to how to do exploratory group-based trajectory modelling in criminology: use time since onset rather than age, plot everything and add some descriptives. Full script here: osf.io/pbkyw
New paper out with @rannveigvk and Willy Pedersen on effects of weather on crime. crimesciencejournal.biomedce… Does weather matter for crime? Not much. Neither level or spatial shifts. (It would have been fun and interesting if it did, but no, sorry).
Dear @FrontiersIn Thank you for the generous offer of being guest editor. I see no sign of you even knowing my field of expertise, and random offers like this will probably not improve your reputation.
We all suspected this. Still, some push for "Open review", "collaboratory review" etc. I said no to review for a major OA journal today because they have such reviewer guidelines. Double blind is preferable.
🚨 Reducing status bias in peer review 🚨
Double-anonymous peer review helps reduce bias, but most journals don't use it because it's laborious to enforce, change is hard, etc. Can we get bias-reduction simply by *encouraging* anonymization?
Yes!
(1/n)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Det virkelig oppsiktsvekkende i denne saken at en pastor mener at barn må vite om de foretrekker lettmelk eller ekstra lett melk for å bli undervist om kjønnsidentitet på skolen. nrk.no/norge/attearinger-sku…
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Thank you @RussiaUN for your letter dated March 16.
Please see our suggested edits below.
#StandWithUkraine #RespectTheCharter
