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Asier Moneva

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Criminologist | Researcher in cybercrime @nscr-instituut.bsky.social & The Hague University of Applied Sciences | Co-Chair of the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) 🌐: asiermoneva.com 💬: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇳🇱 📍: Amsterdam - The Hague

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Nov 21

📣 Can internet searches help prevent #cybercrime?

Our new study looks at Google search data to examine interest in the DDoS-for-hire services known as 'booters,' and assess how effective law enforcement online ad campaigns are in reaching potential offenders.

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Hannes Rusch @hannesrusch.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨

Looking for a PhD-student to help us study the damages caused by cybercriminals. 🕵‍♂️⌨️🖥️ 📈

Join our interdisciplinary consortium of cybercrime researchers for your PhD journey!

All information & job details: csl.mpg.de/en/career/

We look forward to your applications! #EconSky

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Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social · 2d

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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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 2d

The top editors of a criminology journal have stepped down after the society in charge of the publication assessed concerns about manuscript review times.

Editors of criminology journal resign amid concern about review times

The top editors of a criminology journal have stepped down after the society in charge of the publication assessed concerns about manuscript review times. The board of the American Society of…

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

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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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 10d

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.

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Member Spotlight: Collaboration & Stewardship Across the Research Lifecycle at VU

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is advancing open science by building coordinated support for their research community through an integrated model that connects infrastructure, training, and policy development.

www.cos.io

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 21d

We’ve preprinted for a reason: we want feedback. So feel free to reach out, comment, or suggest ways to improve!

Cc: @stijnruiter.bsky.social

Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 21d

🚨 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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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · 26d

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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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 29d

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

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 9

Whaaa... where's the camera?! 😆

Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 9

If I ever celebrate a "# of citations" milestone, please slap me with a fish.

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Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Sep 9

We've built registered reports into @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social to try and help with that 🤓

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 9

Well, or just do registered reports.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 9

Haven't really thought about it, but maybe we could write full abstracts, including results, after that initial editorial review?

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 9

😱

These are second hand, so I'd love to see what's in them. Some suggested they may contain malware though... I still think it's worth looking at!

Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 9

This has to be the coolest conference badge ever!

Conference badge crafted from a floppy disk, with the attendee’s name printed on the disk’s label in a retro-style font. From the Human Factor in Cybercrime Conference 2025, hosted in Copenhagen.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 7

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

Some notes I took during ENOC's pre-conference meeting at EUROCRIM. My handwriting is terrible, so I still need to figure out parts of it. But there are a lot of bullet points, which means a lot of ideas too.

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

European Network for Open Criminology

esc-enoc.github.io

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Sep 5

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.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 5

Stop with your feasible solutions you.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 5

I think the networking part still works, but there's not much time to network except after the conference. So perhaps include more breaks? WGs could also create breaks by organizing panels with no presentations, to collectively discuss relevant topics and connect people with each other.

Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Sep 5

And relatedly, third formal petition to limit the maximum amount of presentations in a panel to three.

✋🏼

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