I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

I randomly discovered this morning that Zoom on Mac might be recording the content of your screen and audio, even when you're using other applications. (No I don't remember giving Zoom permission to do this.) 1/2

Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived! 🎉 This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can rely on with confidence. For more detail, see igraph.org/2025/09/20/i...

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Viendo a Musk en relación con UK me alegro de que no hable ni papa de español

Encantada de compartir debate con @andreuescriva.bsky.social en @elpais.com sobre el pacto de Estado ante la emergencia climática. Coincido con Andreu en las carencias que hay que cubrir y desde @greenpeace.es vamos a exprimir la oportunidad. elpais.com/opinion/2025... elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Last sentence tells u a lot bout where we r now.

Pues lo mismo pero en España

Con las agresiones permanentes y atentados contra su seguridad que sufren quienes usan la bicicleta para desplazarse por la ciudad no se ponen así.

This is really puzzling - it's not as though prisons were overflowing with Ed progs or activities in the first place... ...and flies in the face of evidence eg link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is moving in exactly the wrong direction! Education & meaningful activity in prison is crucial to reducing violence and improving outcomes

El lado del mal - Entrevista con Meredith Whittaker, Presidente de Signal. Transcripción y traducción al Español elladodelmal.com/2025/09/entr... #Signal #Privacidad #AIEthics #AI #IA #InteligenciaArtificial #Privacy #AgenticAI

🔝 La jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat" ha generat tant d'interès que l'aforament ja és ple. Si, tot i això, vols assistir-hi, pots inscriure't a la llista d'espera i si algú es dona de baixa, t'avisarem perquè puguis venir. 🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25

🚨Exclusiva | Detenido en Madrid por investigar casos de infiltración policial en movimientos sociales. ✍🏻 @tomasmunyoz.bsky.social . 🎬 @alexmeaude.bsky.social  https://elsal.to/44018

Lo ocurrido con las #UniversidadesPúblicas en estos últimos meses ha puesto de manifiesto la intención del #PP en #Andalucía de maltratar el único ascensor social que nos queda. Dejadme que os cuente desde el principio (1/3) 👇 youtu.be/9fcjwVUv688?...

Malos tiempos para la seguridad

New job alert - Criminology lectureship (3 years) - University College Cork, Department of Sociology and Criminology - all specialisations and interests welcome my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

El icónico programa que ayudó a salvar al lince ibérico de la extinción, entre otras muchas especies, podría desaparecer de los presupuestos de la Unión Europea para el periodo 2028-2034

Free training: An introduction to Social Network Analysis @ukdataservice.bsky.social ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/an-in...

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

🧑🏼‍🏫 Vamos con el primer punto del #PactoXLaCiencia 📄 Estatuto del Personal de Investigación (EPI) @cienciagob.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social 👇🏼🧵

El 14 de octubre un tribunal militar juzgará a un guardia civil según el Código Penal Militar. Enfrenta 6 meses de cárcel por lo que para un policía no implicaría más que una leve sanción administrativa. Aplicar códigos militares a policías es impropio de una democracia.

Helpful reminder we r better off with decentralised non for profit open source collaborative solutions.

Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.

I know there's a lot of news rn but @eroston.bsky.social, @zhirji.bsky.social and I wrote a full accounting of the Trump administration's war on climate science and clean energy. Putting it all in one place was a lot!

Es que no pueden ser más sinvergüenzas. Cobrando €3500 por 5 noches como para querer que te cierren el negocio. Pero hay los tienes con un altavoz mediático que sintetiza el problema del periodismo hoy. www.elmundo.es/cronica/2025...

The European Network for Open Criminology has a new team of co-Chairs: @asiermoneva.com, @isabellevdv.bsky.social and @alextrinidad.bsky.social. What a team! 🔒🗝️ Read more about ENOC here: esc-enoc.github.io

@oliveiratr.bsky.social enhorabuena!

I've updated my web. I started a few years ago with github+blogdown+Hugo+netlify. It looked gr8 but changes to Hugo were a pain. Every time I wanted to change have 2 relearn all. So I've gone 4 more minimal but hopeful sustainable approach using GitHub+quarto+netlify. Link here: juanjomedina.com

#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect Comments in link below

It’s sad to see how the vast majority of key cultural, economic, media, and political institutions and organizations of our liberal democratic systems are perfectly fine staying on a far-right platform.

Insisto: Prohibir AirBnB no soluciona el problema de la vivienda, pero HAY QUE PROHIBIR AIRBNB. Es un uso espantoso de espacio urbano. Construid putos hoteles.

Encuesta nacional representativa del proyecto que dirijo, el 39% de los susodichos fusionaria guardia civil y policía nacional en un nuevo cuerpo policial (julio 2025)

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division.” I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this

The European Society of Criminology should take the principled lead of the World Archaeological Congress in relation to the participation of delegates from Ariel University #EuroCrim2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/blog/world-a...

Soy criminólogo y no, no es verdad lo que dice este señor

BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity." (Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)

This is grim. Substack skews towards an ideology that is actively anti-science, in its support for centre right to far right commentators. Ideology aside: the site is artificially propped up on hollow VC money and when time comes to cash in, users'll get screwed www.nature.com/articles/d41...

*Please REPOST* More and more institutions are withdrawing their support of the organization of the European Society of Criminology annual meeting! We hope that our motion to ban Israeli institutions will be put to a vote during the GA. Come join the protest! 5 September, 1PM, Pierce Theatre.

En comparant les mobilisations contre les réformes des retraites en 2010 et 2023, deux chercheurs attribuent l’affolante hausse des violences à des stratégies de maintien de l’ordre agressives, dangereuses et anachroniques.

*Our new LTN paper out today* Do 'boundary road' junctions with minor roads get safer when minor roads are filtered (i.e. closed to through-traffic)? We tested this using police-reported casualty data (2012–24) from 113 London Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) introduced between 2015–24. 1/

Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland www.computerweekly.com/news/3666298...

Marruecos estrena los brazaletes electrónicos para frenar el hacinamiento en las cárceles elpais.com/internaciona...

A lo mejor en vez de arrancar olivos podemos anular campos de golf

@swajones.bsky.social falling 4 the selfish interest of a few preventing rewilding efforts in Guardamar so that they can keep capitalising their expired concessions is not something I expected... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...