Craig Kelly

@redrumlisa Yeah, missing one word on there really changed it 🤣

@CraigKelly90 For 'The Sociologists' you know exactly what I mean..😂😂😂😂 and who I mean.

"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-new-m…

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…

I really feel for the millionaires today.

@James_Treadwell Don't forget your man bag. Got to have the man bag.

Meh, easy to avoid such violence, just assimilate. Order Stella only. Rock a Stoney with your North Face trackies and Air Max 90s. Get a word like 'wicked' 'bad' or 'risky' inked on your neck. Sovs on. Now, nothing to fear form the Western Capitalist Cishetropatriarchal society!

@SamHLevey Commute on the train. It gets cancelled often enough you get 3 or 4 hours extra a week to read.

Hey academics, especially ones with heavier teaching loads: how the heck do you make time to read? Two years in and I'm still having an extremely hard time with this. Any good tips?

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.

@SecuritySheep @BDSixsmith I would urge @BDSixsmith to read this though.. without typo's... academic.oup.com/bjc/article-ab… Drill should not be a cop out. But to deny the criminogenic links is foolish

@SecuritySheep @BDSixsmith And again, X and not being able to edit typo's as I respond while doing other things is my undoing here 🤣

Completely false. Drill is 100% gang music, and about real crime, or its fans would reject it. The courts should be careful about using it as evidence, because rappers can be speaking on behalf of other gang members, but this is shameful stuff to print.

@SecuritySheep @BDSixsmith Picked up on some obvious trends. But a cop out is saying it is a form of cultural expression is the driver. Perhaps not. Perhaps a form of cultural expression is a looking glance into what is going wrong at a structural level... drill music is just a great way to see the errors

@captgouda24 It is fundamentally immoral... it is on the very long list of things wrong with it.

Why on earth should we be concerned about this? The problem with child pornography is not that its consumption is inherently immoral, but that its production entails harm. Would you say that dangerous mining conditions make lab-grown diamonds immoral too?

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-tragedy-t…

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-tragedy-t…