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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺
@jpinasanchez.bsky.social

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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Political science 34%
Sociology 29%

09.26 in the morning and I have already been asked to verify my OneDrive and Outlook account 5 times. No one does productivity like Microsoft.
Every time the BBC mentions the "black hole" in the UK public finances, they should say "due to Brexit".

And every time they ask someone about tax rises or spending cuts they should ask "was Brexit worth it for this?"

"Que factores influewn en las sentencias judiciaeles? Las sentencias penales como objeto de investigación criminológica", (www.youtube.com/live/94S9Al_...) desde la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, con Laura Arantegui, Daniel Varona y Josep M. Tamarit.
Las sentencias penales como objeto de investigación criminológica
YouTube video by UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
www.youtube.com
HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.

For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!

Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
We're organising a webinar on 18 February to mark the end of my @adr-uk.bsky.social Fellowship on school absences and crime. With talks from top-notch colleagues including @iainbrennan.bsky.social, @foxnic.bsky.social, Mark Mon-Williams, and many others!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-schoo...
From School Absences and Exclusions to Crime: Evidence and Implications
This webinar marks the conclusion of an ADR UK Fellowship examining the longitudinal relationship between school absences and crime.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
U.K. universities have seen a drop in overseas students. Plus many have a budget shortfall, so the impact is on staff redundancies resulting in larger tutor groups, loss of non academic staff, loss of facilities, loss of spending in uni towns and cities, loss of innovation support locally.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday

RCTs are the gold standard! They pyramid says so.

Losing the US is actually an opportunity.

Missing not at random.
The UK's anti-migrant mania is destroying the health system with a 26% rise in overseas-trained doctors quitting the UK in 2024

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com

You should write an impact case for the ref about this.

Perfect example for why open peer review should be the way forward.
Our paper, that we worked hard to produce before the second wave, estimated that 21,000 excess deaths were caused by the 1 week delay in lockdown.

The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

Webinar en la UOC. Pero tambien pleasure, he absorbido sol para el proximo mes, como buen viajero britanico de ryanair.

First time in Barcelona. I can confirm all the nice things that I've heard about it, but more than the nreathtakimg architecture or the weather, I am in complete awe about how easy and pleasant is to get by around here. These people deserve all the praise they are getting.

First time in Barcelona. I can confirm all the nice things that I've heard about it, but more than the nreathtakimg architecture or the weather, I am in complete awe about how easy and pleasant is to get by around here. These people deserve all the praise they are getting.

Note to self: time to start looking employable.
Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.

More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.

More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
Moral: Be careful what you ask for.
Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
We’re asking research funders & universities to step up because together, they have the leverage - and frankly, the responsibility - to stop the drain and redirect billions currently flowing to commercial publishers 💸 back into community-owned systems that serve science, not profit.
9/n

Mojca Plesnicar introducing her ERC project on #sentencing architecture.
Ps: check out the castle in the background.
How do we incentivise people to publish fewer papers?

We need to live in a world where saying 'I have published over 500 papers' is widely understood as a red flag, not as something to brag about.

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More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized.

This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.

5/n
Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer.

They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.

3/n