🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for Theoretical Criminology, submit your proposal before APRIL 15. Submission guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Some of you may have noticed that we’ve had a bit of a problem with bots posting comments en masse on @crimrxiv.com pubs. It’s taken a while to sort this out, but thanks to the leadership of Knowledge Futures and the PubPub team, we are finally beginning to resolve it! Thanks all for your support

CfP: Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning [Special Issue in Theory and Society] Key Dates: Abstracts: June 1, 2026 Full papers: December 31, 2026 More info: link.springer.com/collections/...

Reviewer: The authors misquote Smith et al. (2000) and this shows a lack of understanding of the topic. Editors: This is not acceptable; the article must be rejected. Me: What the fuck... I didn’t even cite Smith et al. (2000)! 😂

Meaningful research. Collegial team. A pretty remarkable place to live. We’re recruiting two Lecturers (tenured Assistant Professor equivalent) to join us.

Reminder! We are seeking discussants for a roundtable on repeatability of criminological research at #eurocrim2026 @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social Inform us before 20 March if you are interested @asiermoneva.com @alextrinidad.eurosky.social @isabellevdv.bsky.social

What if some of our fiercest public debates are being shaped not by lies, but by simple mathematical misunderstandings? @lisatompson.bsky.social reveals how using the wrong denominator can dramatically distort our picture of racial disparities in policing. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNot...

@drlaurahuey.bsky.social giving a talk on deepfakes and cheapfakes at @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Receiving reminders for things I have already completed

Yet another criminology article with hallucinated references published in an @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal. I reported it over a month ago to the journal, but the paper is still online and not retracted www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Machi Tseloni has just donated @criminologyuom.bsky.social the entire series of Home Office Crime Reduction Research papers. What a present❤️ I’ll get in touch with our Library to explore ways to digitize all this and make it publicly available and machine-readable (probably through @crimrxiv.com)

📢 Hiring: Postdoc in Criminology / Sociology at UPF Join @demosocupf.bsky.social as a Postdoc: 📊 Focus: Evaluating penal interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). 📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain. 🗓️ Deadline: March 15th, 2026. www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

Every now and then I like to have a look at the stats for @crimrxiv.com to see how we’ve been doing. ChatGPT has now solidly surpassed LinkedIn, X and Bing as the third top referrer (behind Google and Google Scholar). One can only assume it will continue to climb the rankings in the coming years

Our first newsletter is out! Read it here: mailchi.mp/d6127976d232... Including a call for a roundtable on replication at #eurocrim

And here is the call for abstracts for the 2026 Cars & Crime Symposium: jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/call%... Taking place in Ilkley (West Yorkshire) on 30–31 July. If your work explores the intersection of crime and road traffic (see examples below), send us your abstract. 🗓 Deadline: 17 April

Last week an open access librarian told me they’ve been tracking a trend showing that Green OA (repositories, OA hubs) may be more clearly associated with increased citations than Gold OA (publisher APCs). I know: I haven’t seen the data and citations don’t matter, but isn’t it interesting?

We're pleased to share an impact milestone for CrimRxiv: In the past 30 days, we exceeded 200,000 visitors and 1,500,000 views. We greatly appreciate your participation in open criminology as readers and authors. Our community is growing 🧡📈

'From Principles to Populism: Sentencing in England and Wales', available now ahead of print in Crime and Justice vol. 55, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... in which Julian Roberts and I provide an introduction to sentencing in E&W, and review recent developments in policy and research.

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

New piece from us in the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social newsletter, on why Criminology is lagging behind in Open Science and steps needed from the ESC to promote #openscience. escnewsletter.org/archive/crim... With Torbjørn Skardhamar and Jakob Demant

This year featuring the great @sandyschumann.bsky.social, recipient of the @opencriminology.bsky.social 's Open Science Award with a talk on... yes, you guessed correctly: #OpenScience!

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻! 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀: 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 For Full Details of this International Call and our Expert Editorial Panel, visit 👉https://ijpds.org/calls/people-criminal-justice-system #CrimeData #CallforPapers Please share this call with your colleagues. Thankyou 🙏

Really interesting to hear plans re changes to school suspension in white paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... esp as suspension causes increased risk of later custody link.springer.com/article/10.1... we can prevent behaviour leading to suspension onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

💡Did you know? Winners of the 2026 Dissertation Award will get the chance to work with our @ukdsimpact.bsky.social team to write a post for the UK Data Impact blog promoting and celebrating their work! More info here: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2026/01/27/c... #UKDSDissertations

‘Advanced analytics in criminology’ is formalised as one of the 7 key research themes @criminologyuom.bsky.social‼️ Read more about the research areas we cover, our teaching, and our members (including new leads @oliveiratr.bsky.social and Niels Blom): www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/criminology/...

Judicial records of crimes against the person and property in Spain, 1900 🥶 Source: non-digitized statistical reports from the Barcelona city council

Sometimes I like spending time looking at non-digitized historical crime records. This morning I accessed prison records from Barcelona from 1907 (pretty cool huh!). Below is the age-crime curve for the prison population. If anyone fancies a side project using these data, please do get in touch!

To students looking for PhD opportunities in #CriminalJustice. 3XPhd (fully funded) positions to work with Jakub Drápal & @msoltes.bsky.social on their latest ERC project, from Charles University (Prague), imho the leading research centre on #Sentencing worldwide. www.prf.cuni.cz/sites/defaul...

There is still time to register for this event on school absences and crime!

Our Criminology team is expanding! Lectureship position (E&R) available @exeterspspa.bsky.social

🧪 Thousands of special issues are stained with PISS (>33% of articles authored by the guest editor). See @hansonmark.bsky.social's thread below for a brief summary, read our preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563), explore our ShinyApp to see where it occurs (paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...).

Do you explore intersections between digitalization and geography of crime? @asiermoneva.com, Wim Bernasco and I look forward to your contribution to our guest-edited special issue “The Geography of Crime in the Digital Era”. See call for papers (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...). Please share.

Paper out with @jpinasanchez.bsky.social & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social in @socialindicators.bsky.social 🔔 How often do we compare crime recorded across countries? We show that crime counting rules vary widely across countries and this strongly affects cross-country comparisons

Our new journal will officially be launching its inaugural issue in April. Evidence assessments, cutting edge methodology papers, research commentaries .. www.tandfonline.com/journals/reb...

'The Effect of Counting Rules on Cross-National Comparisons of Homicide', by @davidbuil.bsky.social (who came up with the idea & did all of the data analysis and most of the write up), myself & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social, just out at Social Indicators Research (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢 Please do share widely 1/3

Anything to escape a Manchester winter 🌧️✈️ Strong UoM Criminology crew at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference! 🇦🇺🇳🇿

📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert: Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE). Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway. #Criminology #CrimSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...

My department at the University of @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a permanent Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence to join @socialstats.bsky.social. We’re looking for candidates whose work connects AI with the social sciences. Applications close 5 January 2026. More details here:

Working on AI trust, security, or related areas? @manchester.ac.uk has advertised three Fellowships (up to 3 years) for postdoctoral researchers who are within four years of completing their PhD www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time. For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session! Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...

We're organising a webinar on 18 February to mark the end of my @adr-uk.bsky.social Fellowship on school absences and crime. With talks from top-notch colleagues including @iainbrennan.bsky.social, @foxnic.bsky.social, Mark Mon-Williams, and many others! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-schoo...

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Machi Tseloni earned her PhD in 1994 at University of Manchester, where she helped found the Manchester Quant Crim Group. Yesterday she returned to @criminologyuom.bsky.social, joined by her PhD supervisor Ken Pease and James Hunter, on the day of her retirement, to take part in a RESQUANT session

Job alert! We're looking for a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy to deliver teaching, supervision and service on MSc and MPhil courses in Comparative Social Policy. Apply by 14 Nov More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

External speaker seminar series at @criminologyuom.bsky.social 🤓

Are we winning the pumpkin carving competition? 🎃 @foxnic.bsky.social @oliveiratr.bsky.social

🚨 The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close November 9. For more informational about the position, click here: lnkd.in/gGtgKJYW

Este mes se ha sabido que otra revista española, la Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología, con una trayectoria de 26 años bajo la dirección de un profesor de Derecho Penal de la Universidad de Granada, también fue transferida a Oxbridge Publishing House. doi.org/10.21428/cb6...