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.

Following Ron Clarke’s death last month, here’s a great podcast episode where he explains how he identified the importance of understanding crime opportunities as the key to effective crime prevention. It’s a great story if you’ve not heard it:

📄🔍 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...

We finally also have a Dutch Crime Severity Index (CSI), available online: nscr.nl/de-nederland...

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

🎯 I scored 6/10 on #DiscoverOrMDPI — can you beat me? pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/, #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

News: The Washington Post has suffered a cyber intrusion that compromised the emails of at least several reporters at the paper, including those on the national security and economic policy teams, according to people familiar with the matter.

Crazy as @jpinasanchez.bsky.social policy in publishing/editing/reviewing may sound we've reached the point that if we have a minimum of integrity any shitty really open access journal is better than any of these buccaneer enshittifiers & exploiters of our precious time and money.

📄 New preprint out! We surveyed our @nscr-instituut.bsky.social colleagues on their attitudes toward nine open science practices and asked them to justify their responses. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os...

📄 New preprint out! We surveyed our @nscr-instituut.bsky.social colleagues on their attitudes toward nine open science practices and asked them to justify their responses. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os...

This. Most financial cybercrime is rather unsophisticated. People favor the path of least effort, and criminals are people too. Learning new tools requires effort. Many cybercriminals are not even tech-savvy. Malware development is done by a select few, adapted by some, and adopted by many.

EPISODE ALERT: A new @reducingcrime.com podcast episode (#83) just dropped with David Décary-Hétu, an expert in all things darkweb. It's like a free primer on what's going on in cybercrime, law enforcement interdictions, and the dark web. Apple: apple.co/4kbgJNG Spotify: spoti.fi/43Hv9OH