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“#Uncovering crime patterns using location data” San Francisco: Amount of check-ins. Credit: ETH Zurich When and where does crime arise in cities? To answer this question, criminologists have previously relied on rather static models. Crime has been linked, for example, to the structure of the resident population or to the use of land in a…
“#Women may not be counted accurately during Census, professor says” Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s no secret the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses and schools to close and people to shelter in place, forcing millions to file for unemployment and delivering a huge blow to the U.S. economy. But Wake Forest sociology professor Catherine E. Harnois…
“#Remote jury trials during COVID-19: what one project found about fairness and technology” On March 23 2020, jury trials in England and Wales were suspended in response to COVID-19. This was done to protect public safety as social distancing measures were difficult to implement in courtrooms. Since then, several proposals, such as remote trials, have…
“#Northern accents are becoming more similar, suggests new research” The accents of educated city dwellers across the North of England are becoming more similar, according to new research from The University of Manchester. Linguistics expert Dr. Patrycja Strycharczuk and her colleagues wanted to discover whether there is any evidence for the existence of ‘General Northern…
“#Pandemic disproportionately affects scientists with young children” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic is having a disproportionate, negative impact on the careers of scientists with young children at home, a new survey finds. Researchers at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management led the study, finding broad discrepancies in the pandemic’s impact on scientists. Most…
“#The plight of the Kalahari San” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Over the past few decades, San (Bushmen) communities in southern Africa, former hunter-gatherers, have developed new adaptive strategies to cope with climate change, the presence of other groups on their land, and the impacts of globalization. While San have likely lived in southern Africa for…
“#The geographies of COVID-19” Social lock downs have highlighted different social inequalities, like access to green spaces. Credit: Shutterstock A pneumonia of unknown cause was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on 31 December 2019 in China’s Hubei Province. Just a month later, and only for the sixth time, the WHO declared an…
“#Scientists develop new method to improve police lineups” Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a discovery with important implications for criminal justice, a team of scientists from USC and other Southern California research institutions has developed a unique way to measure the reliability of an eyewitness trying to pick a culprit from a police lineup. It’s…
“#Laws offer limited protection against price differentiation by algorithms” Online stores can use algorithms to charge some customers higher prices than others. European laws only offer limited protection against such price differentiation. Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Professor of ICT and Private Law at Radboud University, has written about this very topic in an article that was…
“#Black mental health patients hit hard by COVID-19, social injustice: ‘We were already at a breaking point’” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Dr. Brandi Jackson, a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said the COVID-19 pandemic has been her most difficult period as a psychiatrist. With an uptick in anxiety and depression in her…