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Lisa Jessee @lisajessee.bsky.social · 12h

The ECSR workshop “Understanding Kin Relations” will take place on 2–3 March 2026 in Cologne. We invite early-career researchers to submit abstracts (<500 words) by 21 Nov 2025. The event is funded by the ECSR and free of charge. More information can be found here. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/46e2d...

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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 12h

Our latest paper(with Ruth Weir, Niels Blom, Oluwole Adeniyi) entitled Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence is finally published in the British Journal of Criminology! doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence

Abstract. This study explores the relationship between changes in neighbourhood characteristics and changes in violence rates across England and Wales from

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Alex Trinidad @alextrinidad.bsky.social · 14h

Using an intuitive and theoretically warranted assumption, we find a declining period trend 📉. The bounding approach offers a clear and assumption-aware alternative to other approaches. 🔓 Materials for reproducibility available here:
osf.io/rj57y/files. R syntax will (hopefully) follow soon!
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OSF

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Alex Trinidad @alextrinidad.bsky.social · 14h

📢New paper out! Together with Gordey Yastrebov and Thomas Leopold, we apply a bounding approach (Fosse & Winship, 2019) to APC analysis using GSOEP data to study public concern about crime in 🇩🇪. 1/2 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Bounding Approach to Age–Period–Cohort Analysis: A Demonstration Using Public Crime Concerns in Germany - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Objectives In this paper, we present an application of a bounding approach to age–period–cohort (APC) analysis, recently developed by Fosse and Winship (2019), offering a transparent and assumption-aw...

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Alex Trinidad @alextrinidad.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I didn’t link to the right comment. More than the fake reviews, what I got from the discussion there was concern about uploading a preprint without a licence to a site where it’s not really clear who you’re submitting it to.

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Alex Trinidad @alextrinidad.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if you’ve had a chance to read this thread: bsky.app/profile/roal...

Mikkel Roald-Arbøl @roald-arboel.com · 1d

I would super careful before using this! Tried looking up the researchers in the reviews and couldn’t find any of them. Apparently Claude often starts with Sarah Chen when making up fictional characters (www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...).

From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit

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Lisa Jessee @lisajessee.bsky.social · 2d

And that’s a wrap! 🎉
My final dissertation chapter (with @carrds723.bsky.social) is out in European Journal of Population:
After later-life divorce, only parents disconnected from a child show higher depression—others show stable symptoms
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Client Challenge

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 2d

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…

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Mobility Behaviour👨‍🎓 @davidloisuned.bsky.social · 3d

La peatonalización aumenta las ventas del comercio: las personas prefieren un entorno amigable a uno orientado al automóvil. Estudio en 14 grandes ciudades españolas analizando miles transacciones 💳

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Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social · 7d

David Buil-Gil and I have a special issue out at Crime Science on “Calling the Police”. It’s full of great articles.

link.springer.com/collections/...

Calling the Police: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications

Police-recorded crime statistics are significantly influenced by low reporting rates and inconsistent recording practices, creating a 'dark figure of crime.' ...

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Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social · 8d

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

PhD: Cyberhaat begrijpen en aanpakken

Wil jij een bijdrage leveren aan het beter begrijpen, in kaart brengen en aanpakken van cyberhaat? Dan is deze positie iets voor jou!

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The Campbell Collaboration @campbellreviews.bsky.social · 10d

📢Join the board of the Campbell Collaboration

We’re looking for senior leaders from a wide range of backgrounds who can be part of leading a step change—not just for the collaboration but for the use of high quality evidence synthesis to improve lives all around the world.

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 14d

We will keep you updated on our activities here, including events and new posts on our website. We have many #OpenScience How To's there already, go check them out!

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 14d

Interested in becoming a member? It's free and open to anyone interested in helping foster and encourage practices that embrace openness, integrity and reproducibility in criminology research. See: esc-enoc.github.io/join.html

Join us – European Network for Open Criminology

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Posit @posit.co · 16d

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

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 17d

Join us on Thursday, 2 October, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Andreas Wimmer 🔹 The Shadow Side of Rootedness: How Geographic Stability Across Generations Increases Radical-Right Attitudes 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Seminars and lectures at IAS

Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 24d

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 24d

The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes.

Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.

#RStats #PyData

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 28d

🚨 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.

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The title page of the preprint.

Title: The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility

Authors: Asier Moneva, Stijn Ruiter, and Wim Bernasco

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing online offender mobility. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights, we extend two established criminological models for studying offline offending—the geometry of crime and crime journeys—by adapting their core concepts to cyberspace and developing a topology in which the cyber place is defined and becomes the unit of analysis. Just as offenders travel before, during, and after committing crime offline, we argue they also undertake trips before, during, and after committing cybercrime, and that like offline journeys these cybercrime journeys comprise identifiable and measurable components. We further distinguish between human journeys (what offenders perceive) and data journeys (what happens to the information they transmit). We explicitly demonstrate how concepts from the geometry of crime and crime journeys translate from offline to online crime and mobility. This approach enables the systematic formulation of research questions and the measurement of behavioral patterns, facilitating the generation and accumulation of knowledge on cybercrime offending. The paper illustrates the framework’s theoretical relevance within environmental criminology and its practical application for cybercrime analysis through concrete examples.

Schematic representation of a cybercrime journey. Hindu-Arabic numerals represent the sequence of cyber places visited by the user, while Roman numerals indicate the sequence of infrastructure nodes traversed by the data.

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · Sep 16

New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar:
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
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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.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29d

Das Kriminologische Forschungsinstitut Niedersachen oranisiert eine Tagung zu Kausalanalyse in der kriminologischen Forschung -- 8. und 9. Dezember in Hannover, Teilnahme kostenfrei!

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Einladung zur KGN-Methoden Lab Herbst-/Wintertagung 2025
Zwischen Theorie und Evidenz: Kausalanalyse in der kriminologischen Forschung

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Eskubi @eskubi.bsky.social · Sep 13

Pero,… ¿cuánto tardarías en llegar en bicicleta? ¡Déjate sorprender por el nuevo #metrominuto ciclista de Vitoria-Gasteiz! Una ciudad para caminar y pedalear…

#yomesubo #vgbiziz

👉 lnkd.in/dugMqwxN

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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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