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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺
@jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Data #Bias #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities.
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 4h
✨️🎓 Funded PhD studentship in #Criminology at University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, with wonderful PhD supervisors (@fergusmcneill.bsky.social)
as part of a brilliant European comparative study on rehabilitation & reintegration.

🔗 for details of this #PhD #scholarship and to apply:
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc...
Screenshot: PhD scholarship: 'Rehabilitation and Reintegration: Technologies, practices and experiences' at the University of Glasgow.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 7h
I’ve just signed up for this cool citizen science project. Looking forward to reporting back from Leeds South Bank. If you live near any of the 12 “new” towns proposed by the government, consider signing up too.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 15h
Kemi, this is just a population density map

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d
The immigration doom loop in full swing.

Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.

(1/3)

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 4d
In the most extreme cases, we estimate the homicide rate in Albania is 97% higher than what is recorded in Eurostat, with Serbia, Portugal, Macedonia, or Iceland also showing figures that should be approx. 50% higher, while France and Slovakia overestimate their homicide rate by about a third.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 4d
When we adjust for the estimated effect of some of these different country rules we see a good amount of variability in homicide rankings.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 4d
Here we show how consequential the use of different counting rules in crime recording is across countries. Even for homicide (the best-recorded crime type) and within Europe (the world region where crime recording is most standardised), cross-country comparisons remain highly problematic.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 4d
'The Effect of Counting Rules on Cross-National Comparisons of Homicide', by @davidbuil.bsky.social (who came up with the idea & did all of the data analysis and most of the write up), myself & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social, just out at Social Indicators Research (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).

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Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds @sspatleeds.bsky.social · 5d
We are pleased to announce that Prof Ana Manzano will deliver the fourth lecture in the 2025/26 Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture Series.

Lecture entitled: The Detective Work of Evaluation: Notes from the Field

➡️ More info & tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...
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"The Detective Work of Evaluation: Notes from the Field": Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Ana Manzano – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds, Wed 4 Feb 2026 - We are delight...
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Juanjo Medina 🍉🇺🇦 @jjmedina.bsky.social · 5d
Cada vez más necesario. Empecé hace un año y tanto la suite de Proton, Como Vivaldi, qwant y herewego me van muy bien

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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 5d
But no mention of pavement parking in the new strategy. Forcing people to walk in the road isn't safe.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Eye tests for drivers over 70 and tighter alcohol limits could be introduced
The government’s road safety strategy aims to reduce deaths and serious injuries on Britain’s roads by 65 per cent by 2035
www.independent.co.uk

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 6d
Just wasted 15 minutes of my life trying to find a book that seems not to exist, in all likelihood because its title was created by Gen AI. Ironic applause for all the tech geniuses and their collaborators for imposing these bullshit engines on us -- and expecting us to be thankful!

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d
good luck

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d
This may be the most important advice for PhD students and early-career researchers in the age of email: learn to shift. Only 1% of requests are important, and fewer than 10% require reading beyond the first line.
pengzell.bsky.social Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10d
Academia is mostly learning to distinguish between problems you can solve and problems you can successfully ignore

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10d
Academia is mostly learning to distinguish between problems you can solve and problems you can successfully ignore

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 11d
Celebrating 40 years of Spain & Portugal in the EU! 🇪🇸🇵🇹

Four decades of unprecedented progress: boosting investments, democracy, and innovation.

They made the EU richer; we made them stronger. A crucial part of our story.

Progress. Together. 🇪🇺
A commemorative logo on a solid blue background featuring a large white number "4" next to a circular sunburst or firework graphic composed of yellow, light blue, and dark blue rays, which represents the "0" in "40." The word "YEARS" is curved along the bottom right edge of the sunburst, and the word "together" is written in large, bold, white lowercase letters across the bottom.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 13d
£1.05 at my local whetherspoons.
I hate I love thos place so much.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 13d
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 14d
CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh
June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364...
#HPS
Topics Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics; we particularly welcome contributions that make contact with this year's conference theme: Ground Truth and Validity. While the notion of measurement validity is comparatively familiar, ground truth may need more of an introduction. The concept of ground truth has origins in remote sensing, where it is used to contrast the outcomes of a near or ground level measurement with outcomes of a remotely sensed measurement. From these origins, the concept has now moved to a wider use, particularly in machine learning contexts, where it denotes data assumed to be true, which can then be used to calibrate and validate machine learning data. The time seems ripe for a more careful investigation from a measurement perspective of the concept of ground truth-both in its original understanding and in its more metaphorical use. Measurement and Simulation • Connections between measuring and simulating • Can simulation substitute for measurement? Measurement and Data Science Measurement and Data Science • Measurement and data quality • Measurement and data analysis • Measurement and Al Models in Measurement • The role of models in measurement • The role of models in justifying measurement results • Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation Models of Measurement • The general structure of the measurement process • The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement The structure of measurement in social and human sciences • Transduction and calibration in measurement • History of the conception of the structure of measurement History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement • Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives • New quantification and measurement approaches • Epistemological and metaphysical approaches to measurement Measurement Applications and their conceptual foundations in any area of science • Life & Health Sciences

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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 14d
📢 New publication – and a great way to end the year
In this study, we use MAIHDA (Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy) to study who is most at risk of violence victimisation in England and Wales. Paper: doi.org/10.1177/1748... 1/n

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 15d
What can 40 years of song lyrics tell us about society?

I analysed the lyrics of 1,600 pop songs going back to 1985.

Our music appears to be getting gloomier, less future-looking and more self-obsessed

1/6

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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 21d
📻Our @annabarker.bsky.social appears on BBC Radio 4's Living and Light, explaining how urban lighting affects safety and accessibility for women and girls, and the role lighting has been found to play in making these areas more accessible.
Listen👇
tinyurl.com/3aakjy87
(Clip starts at 22:00)
Living and Light - BBC Sounds
Illuminating new science on artificial light and our health.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 24d
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24d
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 24d
the difference in deaths by dangerous driving and its cyclist equivalent suggests it is not just a reporting issue

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 24d
I was going to say that, also, 20mph limits in urban areas outside London (at least in West Yorkshire) are basically advisory.

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 24d
🚨 New preprint 🚨

We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies.

The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication.

🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db
🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 24d
because of their systematic undermining of active travel initiatives, the inexplicable neglect of motoring offences, and the implications that the type suburban sprawl they favour have on the loneliness crisis and the climate crisis. This issue of blaming cyclists is just another example.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 24d
Time to remove the police from planning decisions / consultations.
roadcc.bsky.social road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 25d
“I do not believe that cyclists are a group of people who are more criminal than the rest of society or than any other road users. However, they are less accountable than people who drive buses and cars, and general deterrence theory does not work for them,” said former Met head Lord Hogan-Howe
“Arrogant” cyclists riding at 70mph are ignoring police and making pavements “as dangerous as the road”, House of Lords told
During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, former Met Police head Lord Hogan-Howe reiterated his calls for bike number plates, while other peers claimed that the “threat” had shifted from “Lycra ...
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