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...

@jolliffesimpson.bsky.social presenting our research (and bossing it!) on understanding polyvictimisation, using boost & flag mechanism from repeat victimisation lit @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social #ARCJC

Been looking forward to this talk! Prof Troy McEwan and Dr @benspivak.bsky.social on "why accurate assessment of family violence homicide risk is not possible". #ARCJC2025

Dr Molly McCarthy starting her talk with the youth crime decline and moving on to talk about what's driving the minority of high harm youth offending that remains.

@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social giving a keynote at #ARCJC about ev-based ways to reduce re-imprisonment. Electronic monitoring a good alternative to prison but need to be thinking about context it is implemented in. Preaching to the choir here!

AI is being used to generate synthetic CSAM - but it also helps law enforcement analyse data to identify victims & perpetrators with the prospect of reducing psychological harm. Watch @joelscanlan.com explore enforcement to prevention, highlighting the need for "Safety by Design" principles online.

New how-to guide now available on the European Network for Open Criminology website. This time @asiermoneva.com shares advice on writing reproducible and readable analysis code. Highly recommended! esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/repro...

when software updates and there's suddenly a little ✨ icon you know it's about to start sucking

#APB Spotlight Day 1, written by Sophie Curtis-Ham, Ryan Jones, & Cathrin Jordan, explores how we can measure police effort. Introducing the Police Response Effort Index (PREI), a new tool to quantify how much time different calls for service take. 🧵👇(1/5)

this is an important thing to remind people: Trust in science remains high but scientists must now COMPETE with other influences, including untrustworthy ones 🧪 "we share data on...strategies to help scientists compete with non-credentialed sources for influence" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Free advertising for #openresearch if ever i saw it @crimrxiv.com

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...

Just accepted! 🎉 www.researchgate.net/publication/... We examined 1,158 New Zealand Police reports for IPV episodes to identify whether officers recorded evidence of controlling behaviors and...

Today in 1789 a mob stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. The spectre of that moment has loomed over incompetent authoritarians presiding over unequal and unjust societies ever since.

Shane Johnson and Kate Bowers are awarded the 2025 Environmental Criminology and Crime analysis award. Award and motivation delivered by Marcus Felson. #ecca2025

In case you can't see it, Bridge is dumb enough to spell it out: NZME will go hard on crime this election because it's the one area National still outpoll the left. So expect the editorials, the opinion pieces, the crime box on the front page, to continue until they get the result they want.

Try to remember to like things 👍🏻of value on Bluesky - not only does it improve yr feed by sending you more from that account but it also adds to the "popular with friends" feeds of your fellows. Another good reason to hit like on other people's posts is "Unique Likers" is a metric used to bash Bsky

Submitting to CrimRxiv is easy, see for yourself.

"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before" <- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd openletter.earth/open-letter-...