Jon Dean

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Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher. Views my own

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2d

After operating since 2009, Sheffield’s main WI is set to close because all the volunteers running it are leaving.

Trans exclusion means spaces for all women are being lost.

www.shwi.co.uk/post/2026-me...

Following the recent national Wi ruling on membership eligibility effective April 2026), we need to share some
difficult news about our group's future. Our current officers have decided not to renew their membership with the Wi, and at present, no one has
come forward to fill these essential committee roles. Without officers in place or a committee, Seven Hills
Wi will be suspended from April 2026. If you're interested in helping keep our group running or have questions about what's involved, please get in touch urgently. Wed love to hear from anyone willing
to step forward. Thank you to everyone who has been part of our Seven Hills community. Whatever happens next, the friendships and memories weve created together will always matter, those that are moving away from the Wi, don't wish to lose the social aspect of a group, so
will be looking at alternative options.

Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

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nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social · 6d

Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

FindAPhD : PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield

Apply for a PhD: PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 9d

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

To:
Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com]
From:
Christakis, Nicholas
Sent:
Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM
Subject: Re: Thanks
You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop
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Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net
On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
great first date
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas <
wrote:
Dear Jeff
I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday
light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that.
Best regards,
Nicholas
Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from
my iPhone.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net

From:
Sent:
Christakis, Nicholas
Jeffrey Epstein
Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM
Subject: Re: meeting again
no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas
wrote:
dear jeff:
thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed!
as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks.
my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people.
let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above):
best, nicholas
On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:41 AM 9/8/13, Jeffrey

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: "Christakis, Nicholas" =
Subject: Re: introduction -- follow-up
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:26:20 +0000
great I will be back in sept. lets try then
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Christakis, Nicholas < nicholas.christakis@yale.edu> wrote:
Dear Jeff:
The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it:
I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, 1 make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes):
http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-21st-century-change-to-social-science
Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): http://humannaturelab.net/wp= content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/126.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece).
I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven.

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Fill Colons @uneasylover.bsky.social · 9d

Screenshit

To: 'eevacation mail.com 'eevacation@gmail.coml
From:
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Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Dear Xbox LIVE member,
This message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE
account associated with this email address. This action is based on the New York Attorney
GeneralAs partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York
registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly
children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able
to connect to Xbox LIVE.
If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, or any unused Microsoft points, we are refunding
the remaining value of those to you within 30 days.
If you do not receive a refund within 30 days, or if you feel that you have been banned
incorrectly, please send Microsoft a notice using the process at www.xbox.com/notice.
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10d

careful now people: it may all look like fascism, fit the definition of fascism, follow every key tenet of fascism but you wouldn't want to actually call it fascism too early and be caught out.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12d

🧵 The people of Minnesota, especially Renee Good and Alex Pretti, have shown that American democracy still has a lot of strength left within it.

But the battle is far from over. The US is in a liminal moment, a time of transition. We can do this, but there's much to know and to do.

The Liminal States of America

The people are fighting back—and winning—but this is far from over

plus.flux.community

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 12d

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 15d

BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 15d

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 16d

Remember that the UK has far, far weaker protections against state power than did the US. And the latter folded up like a pack of cards. The US is a warning from the British future.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17d

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 17d

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

MinnMax @minnmax.com · 17d

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 17d

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17d

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

two images of an arrest, one digitally altered by the White House to make it look like the arrestee is crying

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 17d

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 18d

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 21d

I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 22d

This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...

...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 23d

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f

Today is the Smithsonian's deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."

n.pr

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jan 10

This guy was professor of sociology at the University of Bristol as recently as 2021, and before that (up to 2018) was professor of sociology at the University of Bath.

Yes! "No leniency towards saboteurs."

The world is with you. This should be the last time the Republic's enemies are able to mobilise inside the nation. Liquidate the Zionist threat.

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · Jan 9

Graham's all about 'protecting women'

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · Jan 9

Greens right now:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 9

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

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The Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness @c4research.bsky.social · Jan 8

We’re so excited to announce that our new ‘Insights, Findings and Events’ page is now live on our website! 🎉

Check out our first three articles at the link: c4.ac.uk/insights/ 🔗

Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter whilst you’re there! 😉

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · Jan 7

I've reviewed John's new book 'Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The Spirit of Service' here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · Jan 7

If you're interested in volunteering, its place in levelling up and regeneration, or the wide variance in community participation levels, Prof John Mohan is talking at SHU next week, with me as discussant.

Weds 14 Jan, 1-2.30 in person and on Teams.

Full details here: www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regio...

The spirit of service “bloweth where it will”: community-level variations in voluntary action | Sheffield Hallam University

The spirit of service “bloweth where it will”: community-level variations in voluntary action

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