The call for abstracts for LEPH2026 is open. Researchers, practitioners, policymakers & community leaders are invited to submit proposals that advance safer, healthier communities. Deadline: 16 March 2026 Decisions by early May Submit now: leph2026.org @glepha.bsky.social

'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...).

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

We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls" Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes. 🧵 1/10 publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...

One week left to apply — If you're a PhD student and would like to discuss your work, meet like-minded people, and enjoy London, then please apply before December 8th!

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...

This is clever and amusing. theonion.com/not-sure-how...

Amazing progress from @sonrai.bsky.social on the Introduction to Data Stewardship microcredit. Big congrats to the team involved. Please consider including this small cost into your grant applications to ensure your research team is well trained. www.ucc.ie/en/dh5001/

Fantastic! Theory in violence interventions is often weak and simplistic. Qualitative work with programme participants is the way to improve.

How does a violence intervention program actually work? We interviewed 99 READI participants to find out. Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy. crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...

New episode of Reducing Crime with @benbradford.bsky.social is great - highly recommended and would be great teaching resource pca.st/podcast/4b91...

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

Do you enjoy playing chartle.cc? We’re opening up to the community! Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!

DON'T MISS TODAY AT 3PM UK TIME: "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci The first in the new season of causal inference seminars from the #CIIG ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...

Youth diversion "fragmented and inconsistent" - Joint inspection by @HMIProbation & @HMICFRS finds current youth diversion work is fragmented and inconsistent. www.russellwebster.com/youth-divers...

Reviews of studies on the drop in youth offending finds consistent decreases across many countries ended around 2015, and the drop is best explained by changes in how young people spend free time and decreases in alcohol consumption. doi.org/10.1086/737409

This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows! techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite." www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct... To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about: www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland? Need funding? @sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already. www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships... #PhDchat #SocSciSky 1/2

⌛️ Less than 2 weeks to apply for the position of @vp-centre.bsky.social Research Fellow. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 Read more and apply 👇 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Hello! ENOC is on BlueSky now. We are a working group of the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social dedicated to the promotion, training, application and rewarding of open research in criminology. Check out our website for more: esc-enoc.github.io

@opencriminology.bsky.social 👋

📣 Save the date: 14 Oct 2025 Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health. Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too. 📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC) ✉️ Book via [email protected]

Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social is speaking at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on "Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change" tomorrow. Register for a livestream: www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...

Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

The bit I'd add to this great piece is about language. The end-goal of OS is not openness but more dependable research findings, qual or quant. We need to start talking about research claims along a spectrum of 'credibility'.

New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar: Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...

Researchers often perceive 'barriers' to practicing #OpenScience, whether it’s publishing open access, sharing data, or pre-registering studies. Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers. Do you recognize them in your own work?

Great to see Criminology expanding in Ireland and in the most mellifluous and fragrant of counties!

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...

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...

Are you interested in understanding and preventing child criminal exploitation (CCE) or testing new community violence prevention interventions? Come on work with us @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social ! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space). Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp... Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/ 🧵

Anyone have a view on this? Maybe @samfr.bsky.social 🙏

📰 We've entered PHASE 2 of #Criminology's #OpenScience #DataSharing Policy!! Acceptance letters from the journal will now include the following (NB: text in red). Phase 3 (mandatory data sharing w/exceptions/embargoes) starts 2027. @openscience.bsky.social

With @glepha.bsky.social, we’re delighted to be convening the 8th International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health in Leeds, UK next year! 📅 6 - 9 September 2026 📍 @universityofleeds.bsky.social Pre-register: leph2026.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44O...

If you’re an academic criminologist who doesn’t automatically make all your work #OpenAccess, please take 10 minutes to read this short article by Scott Jacques on why you absolutely should be: doi.org/10.21428/cb6...

Job Opportunity: Project Manager for the Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence. Deadline on Monday 21 July! 👇🏽

Dr Sandy Schumann, Winner of the First ENOC Open Criminology Award @sandyschumann.bsky.social @uclcrimescience.bsky.social

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 An ESRC White Rose DTP Associated Studentship based at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social is open for applications: "Cross-System Insights from Linked Public Service Data". Deadline: Friday 18 July 2025 phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/419-...

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 The new Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence is looking for a Project Manager. The post is available 0.6 FTE for 3 years commencing Sept 2025. Salary: £39,355-£46,735 pro-rata Deadline: 21 July jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

@criminologist.bsky.social, some preaching to your choir

What sounds more impressive? A "98.0% increase" in employment or a "9.6pp. increase"? If you said the first one, read our latest paper #openaccess to find out why such figures can mislead: W/ @drcodyporter.bsky.social & Dr Pete Finn #research #employment #MoJ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our podcast @nulliusinverba.bsky.social consists of 60+ episodes on what science is, and what it could be. As Smriti and I are both passionate about learning, we also read out classic papers and chapters in our separate 'Prologue' episodes. We have 17 so far. Here's a list of all these episodes:

📄🔍 Testing PaperCheck for the first time: - Installation went smoothly. - Uploaded a paper in PDF. - Workflow was pretty straightforward (see pic). - The structure of the reports is clear and can be exported in three different formats. Pretty cool! 1/4 bsky.app/profile/debr...

Do you want to conduct education research with large-scale national data, but don't know where to start? Join us for a practical introduction to the National Pupil Database Funding is available to support travel costs for PhD students without recourse to other funds More details & sign up 👇