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Lisa Tompson
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Crime Scientist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 -> 🇳🇿 Interested in generating and synthesising evidence for better crime prevention and policing policy. Methodologically promiscuous.
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Interested in women and girls safety/co_creation/planning and housing. New fully funded PhD opportunity below.
www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-n...
Designing safer futures: co-creating public spaces with women and girls in deprived neighbourhoods | Andy Newton
Fully Funded PhD (UK applicants only) Interested in co-creation, safety of women and girls, and housing/planning. Come and study with me, Patricia Tzortzopoulos and Begüm Eken https://lnkd.in/eqR3hh...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Academia is 10% inspiration, 90% trying to remember how past you named things
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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🧵Spotted at an A&P Show in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies.
Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears.
Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!" (1)
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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crimrxiv.com is regularly exceeding 100k users per month thanks to your support of open criminology. It's always free for readers and authors to use. You can also join us for free here: http://dlvr.it/TPMrGg
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We're excited to announce a newly published joint statement on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evidence synthesis along with Cochrane, @jbiebhc.bsky.social, and the @envevidence.bsky.social.

Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OSF
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Palm Beach, Waiheke. Right now
Nerd fact (I’m a marine biologist after all), when luciferin and luciferase (gotta love the biblical names) join together, they react with the oxygen in the air to make an oxidised complex. After that, luciferin emits a photon, and that is what you see when it breaks
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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PhD students and early career scholars are especially welcome.
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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We're excited to share that Dr @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social has been awarded a @royalsocietynz.bsky.social Tāwhia te Mana Research Fellowship for her research on developing a systematic approach to identifying high-harm perpetrators of family violence 🔍 👏 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social
Apriel Jolliffe Simpson
2025: Dr Apriel Jolliffe Simpson of Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato – the University of Waikato will develop a systematic approach to identifying high-harm perpetrators of family violence and supporting th...
www.royalsociety.org.nz
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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We're getting bigger. Now you can join CrimRxiv Consortium as an individual. Same price as what it costs to read and publish on CrimRxiv (which is zero). 🧡 Be an early member of the open-criminology movement.

app.joinit.com/o/crimconsor...
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Have a research idea that you think might be a fit? Submit a 3-page LOI here:

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October 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Awesome cloud formations today in Aotearoa NZ
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Early(ish) career folk, if you haven't seen this call, please take a look! We've had a decent number of responses but we would like to get more representation from across the sector. The (extended) call technically ends tomorrow, but we can be flexible for promised submissions.
Call for Contributions: Early Career Researcher Perspectives on the Changing Research System | New Zealand Science Review
ojs.victoria.ac.nz
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Another view of this morning’s sunrise.
Friday, 10 October, Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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In our latest clip, we have the privilege of featuring Prof. Ray Pawson @sspatleeds.bsky.social presenting “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Evaluation Research.”
A must-watch for anyone interested in #RealistMethods and #PolicyEvaluation more broadly.
socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/methods-clips/
Methods Clips | Social Research Methods Centre
socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Excellent tool for NZ'ers (and also, anyone from anywhere in the world). Created by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Highly recommend those in politics, public life, activism, journalism, media, and academia use this tool to determine risk of PII exposure. www.howexposedami.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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WATCH @richard100.bsky.social at the 2025 Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference in Sydney earlier this year presenting research on suspicious accounts contacting adolescents via social media networks 🎥 youtu.be/7GDER16M9Ps?...
The contacting of adolescents on social media by suspicious accounts
YouTube video by NSW BOCSAR
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October 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I’m still looking for someone to do an evidence assessment on violence prevention initiatives for @EvidenceBaseJnl Would love something on the evidence base for violence interrupters, among others.
September 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Global review of research from 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 finds almost all studies show no difference between the rates at which immigrants and local people commit crime, with only a few studies from 🇩🇪/🇮🇹 finding higher immigrant offending.
Immigration and crime around the globe: key findings across a diverse range of contexts · CrimRxiv
This chapter reviews the ever-growing body of empirical research on the immigration-crime link around the globe, focusing on studies across a diverse range of contexts: the United States, Canada, Australia,...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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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September 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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@sandyschumann.bsky.social receives the Open Criminology Award from the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) in Athens
Photo credit: @ferhattura19.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM