Elsebelle
@elsebelle.bsky.social
TrentU Dept Social Work. LSE Social Policy. Research on children of prisoners, punishment, social policy, social justice. Settler, she/her.
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The richest man on earth had two choices for deploying his unfathomable wealth: 1) help the world in a meaningful way or 2) build an AI for bullying people. And he wonders why he's globally loathed.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The richest man on earth had two choices for deploying his unfathomable wealth: 1) help the world in a meaningful way or 2) build an AI for bullying people. And he wonders why he's globally loathed.
Yes! I give students the analogy of signing up for a marathon and then driving a car to the end. Like, you got to the finish line but you missed the entire point bc you didn’t do any running.
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Yes! I give students the analogy of signing up for a marathon and then driving a car to the end. Like, you got to the finish line but you missed the entire point bc you didn’t do any running.
Did he like listen to the words he was saying?
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Did he like listen to the words he was saying?
‘Sociology doesn’t care about how money and economies affect people’?! That’s wildly incorrect. Try typing ‘sociology’ and ‘poverty’ into Google Scholar and see what happens
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
‘Sociology doesn’t care about how money and economies affect people’?! That’s wildly incorrect. Try typing ‘sociology’ and ‘poverty’ into Google Scholar and see what happens
Absolutely agree. Lately I’ve had 1st yr students telling me that the weeks I assign 2 chpts of our textbook are too hard, despite these chpts consisting of 30-40 pgs of text with key points bolded, call out boxes, lots of subheadings, illustrative pictures, etc.
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Absolutely agree. Lately I’ve had 1st yr students telling me that the weeks I assign 2 chpts of our textbook are too hard, despite these chpts consisting of 30-40 pgs of text with key points bolded, call out boxes, lots of subheadings, illustrative pictures, etc.
Yes! I took my 9 yr old to see hamlet in the park, which was obviously a little nuts for her age and initially she couldn’t even understand the words they were saying. But then after relaxing into it a bit, it clicked and she could follow, like learning a language
October 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yes! I took my 9 yr old to see hamlet in the park, which was obviously a little nuts for her age and initially she couldn’t even understand the words they were saying. But then after relaxing into it a bit, it clicked and she could follow, like learning a language
Right, but most people (I know from working in this area) think that incarceration & crime rates are related (in either direction), which they aren’t. So responding to lies about high/rising crime with stats about incarceration, & suggesting it’s plummeted, may be confusing if not counterproductive
September 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Right, but most people (I know from working in this area) think that incarceration & crime rates are related (in either direction), which they aren’t. So responding to lies about high/rising crime with stats about incarceration, & suggesting it’s plummeted, may be confusing if not counterproductive
I’d suggest that ‘mass incarceration is over’ is a big overstatement! Rates for young men have dropped, as your data shows, but the US incarcerates so many more ppl than other countries that even a 50% (as that article predicts could happen *in the future*), US rates would still be an outlier
September 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I’d suggest that ‘mass incarceration is over’ is a big overstatement! Rates for young men have dropped, as your data shows, but the US incarcerates so many more ppl than other countries that even a 50% (as that article predicts could happen *in the future*), US rates would still be an outlier
Yet they don’t all move to the US! You’d almost think they’re getting something valuable for those taxes
September 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Yet they don’t all move to the US! You’d almost think they’re getting something valuable for those taxes
Yep, sure wouldn’t guess from this that most violence and other crime happens in the home, is done by people you know, and is super gendered. For example, husbands assaulting wives during a ‘little fight’
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Yep, sure wouldn’t guess from this that most violence and other crime happens in the home, is done by people you know, and is super gendered. For example, husbands assaulting wives during a ‘little fight’