A lovely Christmas Day walk in some amazing light.

Merry Christmas / Meri Kirihimete everyone! May your days be merry and bright ✨️ 🎄 ☃️

#CallForPapers: Legal and Criminological Psychology invites submissions for a special issue exploring The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies #AcademicSky #Criminology #EmTech Deadline 10 March bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Consumer PSA: A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree, but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree. DON'T BE FOOLED.

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

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

Just getting the first few papers accepted and ready for copyediting for our first issue in spring 2026.

As Co-Chair of the @campbellreviews.bsky.social Crime & Justice Group, I’m delighted to congratulate Dr Liz Eggins and Prof Dave Wilson on receiving the Leonard E. Gibbs Award. A well-deserved recognition of their outstanding contribution to rigorous, policy-relevant evidence synthesis.

Forget-me-not 🩵 #art #photography #flowers

Never gets old

🚨BREAKING 🚨 if you tweet your new paper in red-alert emojis, and the paper has not actually cured cancer, then you should reevaluate your perceived self-importance

Excited to be here over the next 3 days #ANZSOC2025 And what a view 🤩

Persuasive letter on populism as a cognitive short-cut in the @financialtimes.com

Interested in women and girls safety/co_creation/planning and housing. New fully funded PhD opportunity below. www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-n...

Academia is 10% inspiration, 90% trying to remember how past you named things

🧵Spotted at an A&P Show in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies. Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears. Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!" (1)

crimrxiv.com is regularly exceeding 100k users per month thanks to your support of open criminology. It's always free for readers and authors to use. You can also join us for free here: http://dlvr.it/TPMrGg

We're excited to announce a newly published joint statement on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evidence synthesis along with Cochrane, @jbiebhc.bsky.social, and the @envevidence.bsky.social. Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Palm Beach, Waiheke. Right now Nerd fact (I’m a marine biologist after all), when luciferin and luciferase (gotta love the biblical names) join together, they react with the oxygen in the air to make an oxidised complex. After that, luciferin emits a photon, and that is what you see when it breaks

PhD students and early career scholars are especially welcome.

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions. To manually turn off go to: Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under “How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

We're excited to share that Dr @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social has been awarded a @royalsocietynz.bsky.social Tāwhia te Mana Research Fellowship for her research on developing a systematic approach to identifying high-harm perpetrators of family violence 🔍 👏 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social

We're getting bigger. Now you can join CrimRxiv Consortium as an individual. Same price as what it costs to read and publish on CrimRxiv (which is zero). 🧡 Be an early member of the open-criminology movement. app.joinit.com/o/crimconsor...

Have a research idea that you think might be a fit? Submit a 3-page LOI here: assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/Caus...

Awesome cloud formations today in Aotearoa NZ

Early(ish) career folk, if you haven't seen this call, please take a look! We've had a decent number of responses but we would like to get more representation from across the sector. The (extended) call technically ends tomorrow, but we can be flexible for promised submissions.

Another view of this morning’s sunrise. Friday, 10 October, Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

In our latest clip, we have the privilege of featuring Prof. Ray Pawson @sspatleeds.bsky.social presenting “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Evaluation Research.” A must-watch for anyone interested in #RealistMethods and #PolicyEvaluation more broadly. socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/methods-clips/

Excellent tool for NZ'ers (and also, anyone from anywhere in the world). Created by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Highly recommend those in politics, public life, activism, journalism, media, and academia use this tool to determine risk of PII exposure. www.howexposedami.co.nz

WATCH @richard100.bsky.social at the 2025 Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference in Sydney earlier this year presenting research on suspicious accounts contacting adolescents via social media networks 🎥 youtu.be/7GDER16M9Ps?...

I’m still looking for someone to do an evidence assessment on violence prevention initiatives for @EvidenceBaseJnl Would love something on the evidence base for violence interrupters, among others.

Global review of research from 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 finds almost all studies show no difference between the rates at which immigrants and local people commit crime, with only a few studies from 🇩🇪/🇮🇹 finding higher immigrant offending.

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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...

@sandyschumann.bsky.social receives the Open Criminology Award from the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) in Athens Photo credit: @ferhattura19.bsky.social

Another way government austerity is failing healthcare and the NZ people. Underfunded Te Whatu Ora / Health NZ is cutting access to the Cochrane Library, a gold standard source of information to support health decision-making. NZers use it 246 times per day. #nzpol tinyurl.com/3jya8hkd

A while ago when there was discussion of other countries seeing major long term age/gender divisions & I looked at the NZES 2002 to 2020. I'm now adding in 2023, and while there is fluctuations, they are within the range of the last decade, which is very different (and less dramatic) to the US/UK...

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

“Reti said "the government has made it clear on several occasions that we want publicly funded research to focus on solving real world problems that can be commercialised"” WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

@noemiebouhana.bsky.social, your slow science advocacy might finally be catching on www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Every sentence of this only got better and better

Prevent is designed to handle vulnerability vertically (risk concentrating in individuals). It's not designed to handle vulnerability horizontally (risk spreading across social groups due to diffusion of radicalising settings). But vulnerability is transectional now. No more sheltered ecologies.

We are now officially open for submissions! You can find our website at: www.tandfonline.com/journals/reb...

Prof @richard100.bsky.social presenting research on suspicious accounts contacting adolescents on social media at ARCJC 💻 @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @uclcrimescience.bsky.social

Dietrich Oberwittler now discussing how we can explain the youth crime drop over the past 30 years (recent trends notwithstanding) #ARCJC

Could right-wing politicians *please* ease up on the magical thinking about AI? It's just getting daft now. www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/569...