Hallucinations in peer review research are a current major problem. It signals a grave lack of care by researchers, and should trigger more scrutiny of the claims therein. VerusCite is a tool to extract and verify citations in academic articles. Try it out at veruscite-data.com

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Reposting recent paper - soon to release new version updating for period between Jan - but again, majority of cybercrime underground are gaining next to no technical capacity/sophistication uplift from GenAI, mostly logistics automation and productivity tool for the experts arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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📢 Interested in collaborative replication, open science, and research methods in criminology? Join us at the inaugural meeting of #CRIMLabs, a new international Many Labs initiative, at @opencriminology.bsky.social pre-conference meeting (9 Sept 2026). Details in the leaflet 👇

⏰A quick reminder that nominations are closing soon! Submit your nomination before the deadline (16/07/2026)!

European Network for Open Criminology@opencriminology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Nominations are open for the 2026 Open Criminology Award! Recognising outstanding contributions. 🆕 New for 2026: 🏆 ECR Award (€1,500) 🏆 Established Researcher Award (€2,000)* 📅 Deadline: 16 July 2026 🔗 esc-enoc.github.io/open-crim-aw... #OpenCriminology #OpenScience *Subject to final agreement.

Summer Sale! Policy Press are offering 50% off my recent (2025) second edition of 'Adolescent to Parent Abuse' book with code BUP07. Now only £12.50 policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/adolescent-t...

Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse

Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse - Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice; Since publication of the first edition, awareness of, and interest in, adolescent-to-parent abuse has risen consid...

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Now at JDLCC: @oliveiratr.bsky.social and I's accessible (but opinionated) guidance on testing theories with reciprocal effects using panel models. We argue for centering theory, making sure your data can answer your question, and defaulting to robust estimators. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I have been doing econometrics and data science consulting in academia and the private sector for a decade, and for the first time in a while I am open to new clients. If you are looking for someone to help you with data stuff, drop me a line! nickchk.com/consulting.h...

I will be talking about how government data transformed sentencing research in England & Wales, how it did not, and what else we (academics) can do besides bemoaning data limitations"

A few places left for the British Society of Criminology's Criminal Justice Statistics Network Annual Symposium 2026, “The Changing Landscape of Criminal Justice Data” next Tuesday in London, in collaboration with the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcs-crimin...

Coverage of our #PDDevaluation in @theguardian.com. Find out more at the National Symposium on Police-led Drug Diversion @sheffielduni.bsky.social this coming Thursday. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Drug diversion schemes cut reoffending rates more than prosecution, study says

Exclusive: Research in England shows people a third less likely to reoffend under decriminalisation-style schemes

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Last Friday I spoke to Henry Bonsu (Times Radio) about the preposterous claim that White British are discriminated against by the criminal justice system. www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2... From 19:45 to 25:59 #TwoTierPolicing

Henry Bonsu | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times

Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.

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Essex looking for two sociology lecturers - one data science, one criminology focused https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=820750dfAM&WVID=9918109NEm&LANG=USA

New registered report with @alextrinidad.eurosky.social & @ianloader.bsky.social, under review at PCI RR: "Road Violence and Perceptions of Safety among Pedestrians and Cyclists" We test if the fear of crime paradox applies to the road violence context. We welcome feedback, osf.io/preprints/so...

Great funded opportunity for students interested in pursuing PhD in law/criminology in Ireland. Deadline is June 9. Info: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/defaul...

COME WORK WITH US! We are hiring for a fixed term Lecturer in Criminology. Deadline 4 June. Reach out if you have any questions about the role or the department. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL957/l...

Lecturer in Criminology at University of Hull

An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Criminology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Interesting session - crossovers to clusters of prison deaths in custody

Scottish Institute for Policing Research@the-sipr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📊 Webinar: Statistical issues in police investigations (incl. healthcare death clusters) 📅 12 June | ⏰ 10–11:30 GMT 🎤 Hutton & Wilson | Chair: McVie Exploring statistical challenges in policing + lessons from the Lucy Letby case 👉 bit.ly/4eryDfj

📊 Webinar: Statistical issues in police investigations (incl. healthcare death clusters) 📅 12 June | ⏰ 10–11:30 GMT 🎤 Hutton & Wilson | Chair: McVie Exploring statistical challenges in policing + lessons from the Lucy Letby case 👉 bit.ly/4eryDfj

Focused deterrence programmes operate at the sharp edge of violence prevention — but race equity doesn’t embed itself. In this blog, Laurelle Brown shares delivery-level learning from Nottingham on what it really takes to move from intent to implementation. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/embedding-ra...

Do you ever claim to be interested in the "association" between variables? This talk may be for you! @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social will explain when and why such associational language is not appropriate and why causal language should be used instead. Register here: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Nearly one in three young people who offend go on to reoffend. We're expanding @theskillmill.bsky.social, a social enterprise that provides young people who’ve offended with paid work- with evaluation from the ICF. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/news/paid-wo...

The governing body for 14 Dutch universities (UNL) has published a "Vision on Publication Culture" that is so inspiring and forward thinking. Worth a read for those trying to changes publishing and research assessment practices. Take a read: www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/public...

How do we know if research is credible? In Abatayo et al., 86 of us combined evidence across the SCORE program including replicability, reproducibility, robustness, human and machine assessments to understand relationships among many potential credibility measures. 1/ Paper: osf.io/preprints/me...

Continuing from this morning’s SAFE podcast. Laurelle Brown’s latest blog looks at what it really takes to embed race equity into Focused Deterrence programmes. It’s not an add-on, it’s about relationships, data, and rethinking how decisions are made. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/building-rac...

Reminder! We are seeking discussants for a roundtable on repeatability of criminological research at #eurocrim2026 @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social Inform us before 20 March if you are interested @asiermoneva.com @alextrinidad.eurosky.social @isabellevdv.bsky.social

Scotland experienced similar reductions in violence to those described in this great @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social article. If you want to learn about that process and maybe look into the future of US violence prevention, sign up for this talk: Wednesday 2pm *GMT* www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scotti...

“The Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU): Past, Present and Future”

Join the first session of our CV3 Speaker Series with Jimmy Paul, Head of Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit.

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Vital City@vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What drove the nationwide crime decline of 2025? @johnkroman.bsky.social argues that large-scale prevention investments — funded through pandemic recovery dollars — helped drive the drop and that future gains require thinking beyond policing alone. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how...

This Wednesday 2-3.30pm GMT @crimsochull.bsky.social: Jimmy Paul (Head of Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit) discussing 20 yrs of violence reduction in Scotland and the challenges of sustained violence reduction. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scotti...

“The Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU): Past, Present and Future”

Join the first session of our CV3 Speaker Series with Jimmy Paul, Head of Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit.

eventbrite.co.uk

📣 Join the Youth Endowment Fund as a Senior Grants & Commissioning Manager. Be part of our mission in preventing children and young people becoming involved in violence. Closing date: 17/3/26, 12PM. 📌Apply here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/careers/ #NGOjobs #Hiring

Other interesting things: China is now the second country with most accesses to pubs (it used to be UK; now third). Philippines has surpassed Canada as fourth. India has surpassed Germany and France. And Nigeria and Kenya have surpassed Netherlands. This is truly a service to global criminology 🌎🌍🌏