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

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

Or they could just have sessions on the Wednesday afternoon: three sessions then would eliminate the need for 8am sessions on other days. And the conference formally starts on the Wednesday anyway.

As the conference gets bigger this is more common but totally pointless, nobody can say anything intelligible AND interesting in the tiny amount of time available. Our prearranged panel of 4 was given a shorter time slot than usual, so effectively the same problem.

Laugh-cry Presenting... more people presenting than in audience 😮 Why? BECAUSE IT'S 8AM (OBVIOUSLY)

A reminder to my colleagues attending #EuroCrim2025: **a question is a single sentence that ends with a question mark**. When invited to ask a question in a session, that is not an invitation to give your own talk on an unrelated topic.

🚨Only 1 more day for ASC DC Award Nominations!🚨 Today, we are highlighting the 🏆OUTSTANDING PRACTITIONER🏆 award! If you would like to nominate someone for this award, please scan the QR code or visit the link at the bottom. Nominations close on Sept. 5 (TOMORROW)!

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

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

🚨Less than 2 weeks left for ASC DC Award Nominations!🚨 Today, we are highlighting the 🏆EARLY CAREER🏆 award! If you would like to nominate someone for this award, please scan the QR code or visit the link at the bottom. Nominations close on Sept. 5!

🚨Less than 2 weeks left for ASC DC Award Nominations!🚨 Today, we are highlighting the 🏆LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT🏆 award! If you would like to nominate someone for this award, please scan the QR code or visit the link at the bottom. Nominations close on Sept. 5!

"Effective August 25, 2025, the Center for Open Science (COS) will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server hosted on OSF Preprints." Cc: @crimrxiv.com www.cos.io/blog/suspens...

The full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!

{truffle} is an R package for teaching users to process data. Semi-realistic psychological datasets with predetermined effects (via `truffles_` functions) are then hidden in common data processing headaches (via `dirt_` functions) for students to clean and analyze. mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

"Instead of contenting himself with metaphysical reflection on social themes, the sociologist must take as the object of his research groups of facts clearly circumscribed, capable of ready definition, with definite limits, and adhere strictly to them." (Durkheim, 1897) The sociologist in 2025: 🫥

📚🔔Happy August!🔔📚 We are still accepting nominations for the following awards. If there is someone you would like to nominate, please do so by **September 5th!**

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/ 🧵

I often see figs. in papers that are so complex it takes a while to make sense of them (if at all). When I studied crime analysis, I learned that simplicity is key to effective communication. Sometimes it feels like we’re trying to show everything we know, rather than what others need to understand.

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...

If *YOU* would like to propose a new template as part of this ongoing effort, we invite you to fill out our Preregistration Template Submission Form! 📄 ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The first version of the open science blog archive is complete, with 3530 posts from 52 blogs. Browse them in the online Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science... All blog posts are ordered chronologically. Have fun exploring part of the open science history in psychology!

"I am wielded by novelists, bloggers, essayists, and that one friend who types exclusively in lowercase but still demands emotional range."

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

If there’s someone whose work has inspired you, consider nominating them for the @asccyber.bsky.social Awards this year. These awards are a chance to recognize and elevate the impactful work being done in our discipline. Let’s celebrate those who move us forward. Details in the thread below. 👇🏼

New posts to support the development of the teaching curriculum at Manchester Centre for Digital Trust & Society: 1) Lecturer in Crime, Security and Technology; 36 months: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 2) Lecturer in Microcredentials; 15 months: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The reference stuff needs a fair amount of work, as it inherits any inaccuracies in grobid’s categorisation of references and citations. We’re looking at using grobid with citation consolidation for crossref to improve this, but then pdf to xml conversion is a lot slower.