Maybe get the Mayor involved in 'Cars & Crime'? @jpinasanchez.bsky.social

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

Looking forward to joining the hackathon with my fantastic team tomorrow. All the prep work has already been a lot of fun. Learning a lot about how replications work in practice. Highly recommended!

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!

There has been pushback against the idea that street criminals simply shift to cybercrime, mainly because the required skill sets differ. However, growing evidence suggests such transitions do occur, which may help explain broader crime trends. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Life is what happens to you while entering credentials to login to remote work environments.

Homicide offenders are almost invariably men. 93% of convicted homicide offenders were male. 65% of cases involved male victims killed by male suspects, 26% of cases involved female victims killed by male suspects, and 4% of cases involved male victims killed by female suspects.

If you haven't done it yet, consider following @mattashby.com for rigorous crime analysis and tasteful data visualization. 👨🏻‍🍳🤌🏻💋

As Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections: www.science.org/cont...

El 6 de Febrero doy un curso de introduccion al analisis cuantitativo de penas #sentencing para la Universidad de Salamanca, dejo aqui los materiales en abierto para cualquiera que le pueda ser util, jmpinasanchez.github.io/sentencias.h...

We're consumed by stories of murder, but how much do you know about homicide in England and Wales? Every day this week I'm going to post a thread summarising a different aspect of what data can tell us about the nature of homicide. 🧵

One of the best episodes so far (both parts)! Loved the back and forth and the camaraderie between @lakens.bsky.social and Smriti Mehta. Found myself laughing out in the train a few times! 😅

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

infer 1.1.0, a package implementing an expressive grammar for statistical inference, is on CRAN! In a change originally motivated by @allendowney.bsky.social's posit::conf(2024) keynote, the package now supports arbitrary test statistics. Read more: github.com/tidymodels/i...

Open Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...

Possibly of interest to our members 👇

I do love it when reviewers sneakily sign their peer-reviews.

Over the past decade, COS has worked closely with partners across Europe. We’re now starting the process of establishing a formal presence in the EU to deepen that collaboration while continuing to support researchers worldwide. Read more: www.cos.io/blog/expandi...

I agree completely but one should do so charitably and in good faith. I think we're too reluctant to critique work publicly (myself included!), but the infrequent critiques that are made publicly are also too often unfair and motivated by ideology either directly or indirectly to receive praise.

What does #CrimSky think about this? A recent case comes to mind... 🤔

This (free) event may be of interest our members: “Towards new horizons of scholarly publishing” in Nijmegen on 5-6 February '26. Topics: future of academic publishing, Diamond Open Access, and challenges ahead. See: www.horizondiamond.nl

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

Seminario en Madrid el 9 de diciembre, dar difusión si podéis

🚨Before many of us head out for Thanksgiving Holiday next week, we wanted to, again, congratulate last week's winners of our ASC DC Awards! See below:

We @opensciencenl.bsky.social proudly present the new work programme for 2026–2027. 13 funding instruments to strengthen #openscience in the Netherlands. Structured around 5 themes: 🔹infrastructure 🔹capacity 🔹communities 🔹incentives 🔹monitoring www.openscience.nl/en/news/work...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Do you think about time in criminology? ⏰ Do you think about how we can better specify temporal processes and effects in theory and research? Consider contributing to a new special collection! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Feel free to send a message if you have any questions!

Ok,a very informal survey. I need suggestions as to the best UG programs in criminology, criminal justice, crime science internationally. Context: we need to persuade my Uni of what the contents have to be for our reformed program & need to arm myself with arguments and good examples

One of the advantages of preprinting your work is that you can improve it and update it on the go. Based on the feedback we received, we've added an empirical proof-of-concept of our framework, applying it to a human journey to web hacking. 🔗 Open materials: osf.io/54tga/ 🔜 Preprint v2

I haven’t read the full piece, but the argument in the quote seems to be of the form “some good were produced without this” (leaving unsaid “and quite a lot of bad results, too”). But the argument for pre-registration isn’t that it leads to good results, it’s that it makes results more trustworthy.

Hello Criminology journals! 👋🏼

Great afternoon talking with Durham Constabulary leaders about how to make police problem solving really work. If you’d like me to come and talk about making problem-oriented policing effective and sustainable, I don’t charge for talks to police forces. So please get in touch!

Your review is due. 💀

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design. We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 Looking for a PhD-student to help us study the damages caused by cybercriminals. 🕵‍♂️⌨️🖥️ 📈 Join our interdisciplinary consortium of cybercrime researchers for your PhD journey! All information & job details: csl.mpg.de/en/career/ We look forward to your applications! #EconSky

PhD opportunity on online hate among youth (Dutch required). Come work with us! #DutchAcademia #AcademicJobs www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

The top editors of a criminology journal have stepped down after the society in charge of the publication assessed concerns about manuscript review times.

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

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam advances open science with an integrated approach to connecting infrastructure, training, & policy. Their model brings together librarians, data stewards, & systems managers to support researchers & help meet complex regulatory requirements. 💡:

🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out! Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis. bsky.app/profile/soca...

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?

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

If I ever celebrate a "# of citations" milestone, please slap me with a fish.

We've built registered reports into @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social to try and help with that 🤓

This has to be the coolest conference badge ever!

We're excited to keep pushing open science in criminology! Big responsibility too. 😅 One thing’s clear from the notes I took during our last meeting: ENOC is bursting with ideas and we’ll work hard to realize them! #OpenScience #OpenCrim