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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 20h

Me too

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 1d

Reviews of studies on the drop in youth offending finds consistent decreases across many countries ended around 2015, and the drop is best explained by changes in how young people spend free time and decreases in alcohol consumption.

doi.org/10.1086/737409

The International Youth Crime Drop: Evidence and Explanations | Crime and Justice

Abstract Youth crime and other types of risk behavior have declined considerably over the last 20–30 years in many developed countries. Robust evidence comes from both official crime data and…

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Frans Bouma @fransbouma.com · 4d

This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 8d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 12d

Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?

Need funding?

@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.

www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhDchat #SocSciSky

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Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

SGSSS STUDENT-LED OPEN COMPETITION 2025/26 THE 25/26 CALL IS NOW OPEN FOR ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the Student-Led Open...

www.sgsss.ac.uk

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 12d

⌛️ Less than 2 weeks to apply for the position of @vp-centre.bsky.social Research Fellow.

The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.

Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025

Read more and apply 👇

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 13d

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

European Network for Open Criminology

esc-enoc.github.io

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 13d

@opencriminology.bsky.social 👋

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure the heroin dealer is a hero tbf

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 17d

Pulp Fiction

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Scottish Institute for Policing Research @the-sipr.bsky.social · 20d

📣 Save the date: 14 Oct 2025
Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health.

Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too.

📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC)
✉️ Book via [email protected]

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 22d

Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social is speaking at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on "Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change" tomorrow.

Register for a livestream:
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...

Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

www.crimeandjustice.org.uk

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨

We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.

The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.

Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 27d

Looks very much like mine! I've been meaning to get Mayo's severe testing for ages.

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 28d

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'.

David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · 29d

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-...

Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science – European Network for Open Criminology

Find out how shifting incentives can make open science the norm.

esc-enoc.github.io

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · 29d

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-...

Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science – European Network for Open Criminology

Find out how shifting incentives can make open science the norm.

esc-enoc.github.io

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 13

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?

Tile chart showing 36 barriers to practicing open science, grouped by barrier type and by open science practice. The five barrier categories, based on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018), are: costs and infrastructure (3 barriers); structure of scholarly communications (8); lack of supportive culture, incentives, and training (15); privacy, security, and proprietary barriers to sharing (8); and (intra)disciplinary differences (2). Barriers are also grouped by nine open science practices: publishing open access (4 barriers), publishing preprints (5), sharing open code (4), sharing open data (6), sharing open materials (2), conducting open peer review (4), using open source software (4), pre-registering research (3), and disclosing contribution roles (4).

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Great to see Criminology expanding in Ireland and in the most mellifluous and fragrant of counties!

James Windle @jameswindle.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

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James Windle @jameswindle.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

my.corehr.com

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · Sep 10

The pretty draft is now online.

Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...