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Criminologist | Researcher in cybercrime @nscr-instituut.bsky.social & The Hague University of Applied Sciences | Co-Chair @opencriminology.bsky.social

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · Nov 4
One of the advantages of preprinting your work is that you can improve it and update it on the go.

Based on the feedback we received, we've added an empirical proof-of-concept of our framework, applying it to a human journey to web hacking.

🔗 Open materials: osf.io/54tga/
🔜 Preprint v2
Multiple representations of a human journey to web hacking. a, above) The journey as a network, with activity nodes and paths highlighted according to visit and transition frequency, and time spent. b, in the middle) Four sequential snapshots of the network to depict the journey’s progression over time. c, below) A line graph showing the step-by-step journey across time and cyber place.
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stijnruiter.bsky.social
Do you explore intersections between digitalization and geography of crime? @asiermoneva.com, Wim Bernasco and I look forward to your contribution to our guest-edited special issue “The Geography of Crime in the Digital Era”. See call for papers (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...). Please share.
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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davidbuil.bsky.social
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
January 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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simonpcouch.com
infer 1.1.0, a package implementing an expressive grammar for statistical inference, is on CRAN! In a change originally motivated by @allendowney.bsky.social's posit::conf(2024) keynote, the package now supports arbitrary test statistics.

Read more: github.com/tidymodels/i...
A hexagonal logo for "infer" featuring a green Douglas Fir tree centered on a mountain landscape background with blue-gray peaks and white snow-capped ridges. The word "infer" appears in a modern, lowercase black font at the bottom of the hexagon, which has a dark blue border.
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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opensciencenl.bsky.social
Open Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
27 studies re-examined | Open Science NL
Open Science NL has awarded funding to 27 applicants to replicate earlier studies. They will reanalyse original data, repeat experiments, and replicate studies with slight variations to the original design. A total amount of 5.2 million euros was granted.
www.openscience.nl
December 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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opencriminology.bsky.social
Possibly of interest to our members 👇
i4replication.bsky.social Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Dec 11
We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th.

Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
asiermoneva.com
I do love it when reviewers sneakily sign their peer-reviews.
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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cos.io
Over the past decade, COS has worked closely with partners across Europe. We’re now starting the process of establishing a formal presence in the EU to deepen that collaboration while continuing to support researchers worldwide.

Read more: www.cos.io/blog/expandi...
Expanding Our Work in the EU: An Update on COS's Next Steps
Today, we’re sharing an update on the steps we’re taking to establish a formal presence in the European Union in Brussels, Belgium and how we hope to collaborate with partners in the EU, Europe, and b...
www.cos.io
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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clanfear.bsky.social
I agree completely but one should do so charitably and in good faith. I think we're too reluctant to critique work publicly (myself included!), but the infrequent critiques that are made publicly are also too often unfair and motivated by ideology either directly or indirectly to receive praise.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
asiermoneva.com
What does #CrimSky think about this? A recent case comes to mind... 🤔
dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Nov 30
I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.

1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
November 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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opencriminology.bsky.social
This (free) event may be of interest our members: “Towards new horizons of scholarly publishing” in Nijmegen on 5-6 February '26. Topics: future of academic publishing, Diamond Open Access, and challenges ahead. See: www.horizondiamond.nl
New Horizons Diamond
www.horizondiamond.nl
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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socarxiv.bsky.social
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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jjmedina.bsky.social
Seminario en Madrid el 9 de diciembre, dar difusión si podéis
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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asccyber.bsky.social
🚨Before many of us head out for Thanksgiving Holiday next week, we wanted to, again, congratulate last week's winners of our ASC DC Awards! See below:
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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jeroenson.bsky.social
We @opensciencenl.bsky.social proudly present the new work programme for 2026–2027. 13 funding instruments to strengthen #openscience in the Netherlands.
Structured around 5 themes:
🔹infrastructure
🔹capacity
🔹communities
🔹incentives
🔹monitoring

www.openscience.nl/en/news/work...
Work programme 2026-2027: the Netherlands takes the next step towards open science | Open Science NL
With its second work programme, Open Science NL takes another major step towards making open science the norm in the Netherlands. On 14 November, the Steering Board approved the programme for 2026 and 2027. It outlines thirteen funding instruments covering the full spectrum of open science, ranging from citizen science hubs, AI, replication studies, to open science infrastructure.
www.openscience.nl
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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nivette.bsky.social
Do you think about time in criminology? ⏰ Do you think about how we can better specify temporal processes and effects in theory and research? Consider contributing to a new special collection! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Feel free to send a message if you have any questions!
📣 Call for papers - special collection! 🕰️Rethinking time in developmental criminology The concept of time is integral to developmental and life course criminology. By definition, developmental… | J...
📣 Call for papers - special collection! 🕰️Rethinking time in developmental criminology The concept of time is integral to developmental and life course criminology. By definition, developmental and ...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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jjmedina.bsky.social
Ok,a very informal survey. I need suggestions as to the best UG programs in criminology, criminal justice, crime science internationally. Context: we need to persuade my Uni of what the contents have to be for our reformed program & need to arm myself with arguments and good examples
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
asiermoneva.com
One of the advantages of preprinting your work is that you can improve it and update it on the go.

Based on the feedback we received, we've added an empirical proof-of-concept of our framework, applying it to a human journey to web hacking.

🔗 Open materials: osf.io/54tga/
🔜 Preprint v2
Multiple representations of a human journey to web hacking. a, above) The journey as a network, with activity nodes and paths highlighted according to visit and transition frequency, and time spent. b, in the middle) Four sequential snapshots of the network to depict the journey’s progression over time. c, below) A line graph showing the step-by-step journey across time and cyber place.
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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mattashby.com
I haven’t read the full piece, but the argument in the quote seems to be of the form “some good were produced without this” (leaving unsaid “and quite a lot of bad results, too”).

But the argument for pre-registration isn’t that it leads to good results, it’s that it makes results more trustworthy.
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
asiermoneva.com
Hello Criminology journals! 👋🏼
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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mattashby.com
Great afternoon talking with Durham Constabulary leaders about how to make police problem solving really work.

If you’d like me to come and talk about making problem-oriented policing effective and sustainable, I don’t charge for talks to police forces. So please get in touch!
Flowchart illustrating the importance of both short-term and long-term responses. The process begins with a leftward arrow labeled “scanning,” leading to two parallel arrows: “short-term response” above and “analysis” below. A red stop sign appears at the end of the short-term response path, indicating its limit. Analysis continues forward into a third arrow labeled “long-term response.” The upper caption reads, “Have a short-term and a long-term response.” “Priority: rapid implementation” is noted above the short-term response, while “Priority: sustainability” appears below the long-term response, emphasizing the balance between urgency and lasting solutions.
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
asiermoneva.com
Your review is due. 💀
criminologist.bsky.social Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social · Oct 12
Full [ethics review/data-sharing agreement]* required

*Delete as appropriate
seema.bsky.social Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations, you're department chair.
October 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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cos.io
🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design.

We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.
October 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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hannesrusch.bsky.social
🚨 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
October 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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isabellevdv.bsky.social
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!
www.uu.nl
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM