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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 1d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?

Need funding?

@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.

www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhDchat #SocSciSky

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Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

SGSSS STUDENT-LED OPEN COMPETITION 2025/26 THE 25/26 CALL IS NOW OPEN FOR ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the Student-Led Open...

www.sgsss.ac.uk

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 5d

⌛️ Less than 2 weeks to apply for the position of @vp-centre.bsky.social Research Fellow.

The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.

Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025

Read more and apply 👇

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 6d

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

esc-enoc.github.io

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 6d

@opencriminology.bsky.social 👋

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 11d

Not sure the heroin dealer is a hero tbf

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 11d

Pulp Fiction

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Scottish Institute for Policing Research @the-sipr.bsky.social · 13d

📣 Save the date: 14 Oct 2025
Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health.

Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too.

📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC)
✉️ Book via [email protected]

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 15d

Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social is speaking at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on "Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change" tomorrow.

Register for a livestream:
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...

Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

www.crimeandjustice.org.uk

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17d

Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program

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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨

We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.

The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.

Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 21d

Looks very much like mine! I've been meaning to get Mayo's severe testing for ages.

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 25d

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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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 26d

Great to see Criminology expanding in Ireland and in the most mellifluous and fragrant of counties!

James Windle @jameswindle.bsky.social · 26d

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...

my.corehr.com

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James Windle @jameswindle.bsky.social · 26d

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...

my.corehr.com

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 28d

The pretty draft is now online.

Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the
power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the
discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow-
ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the
consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with
some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey
political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the
statistical power of political science research.

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 29d

It would be good for our ACEs project, but I think a 4 week turnaround is too short.

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · 29d

Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...

Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford

Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Quality of talks this year was really excellent

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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Cheers - I'll look into it. We've also got a HPC that could seriously reduce sim time but I've never learned how to access it.

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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · Aug 11

Are you interested in understanding and preventing child criminal exploitation (CCE) or testing new community violence prevention interventions? Come on work with us @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social !

hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Job profile

hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Aug 5

Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space).

Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/

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A blue hexagon on a white background. Inside the hexagon is a grid of much smaller hexagons. Most of these are dark blue, but some of the small hexagons are lighter blue and spell out the letters SF. On top of the grid is the text sfhotspot.

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Harry Annison @harryannison.bsky.social · Jul 22

Anyone have a view on this? Maybe @samfr.bsky.social 🙏

Harry Annison @harryannison.bsky.social · Jun 30

Sense check query for anyone Education-oriented: For my (criminal justice) research, various policy makers have pointed to Education as an area that has seen a lot of bureaucracy stripped out, real improvements in that regard over the past (5? 10? 15?) years. C'est vrai?

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