You can't swing a metaphorical cat on the internet without stumbling across a heated debate about bias in policing. But what does the research actually tell us? And, perhaps more importantly, what can't it tell us? Our new paper takes stock of the evidence. 🧵

Stealing a phone and poaching a lizard: same logic? Criminology’s ‘hot product’ frameworks (CRAVED, VIVA) are widely used to explain which wildlife gets targeted. We show why they fail as a simple additive checklist. Now open access in Conservation Biology: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

A critical reflection on the application of hot product frameworks to explain the target selection of wildlife products

The application of hot product frameworks, such as value, inertia, visibility, and accessibility (VIVA) and concealable, removable, available, (abundance and accessibility), valuable, enjoyable, and ...

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🎙️ Last week I chatted with Michael Joyce on #Cybercrimeology about our research on cyberspace topologies and cybercrime journeys. He's learned to ask the right questions to keep my tedious rambling interesting. Always a pleasure! Listen here: cybercrimeology.com/episodes/thi...

This research is going places: Cyberspace topology and online offender mobility | Cybercrimeology

Where do cybercriminals go when they go online? Dr Asier Moneva returns to Cybercrimeology to discuss how defining places in cyberspace might help us understand the journeys offenders make. We talk ab...

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This tool is such a time saver. Thanks a lot to the devs! Now I'm fully licensed. 😎

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2w ago

You *could* check the license status of each of your OSF projects by hand, but what’s way quicker is tapping into the OSF API. We made an app to do this for you. Plug in your OSF profile link and it will list the licensing status of all your projects dsquintana.shinyapps.io/osf-license-...

Metacheck is now hosted by Surf! This offers us the possibility to offer an all in one online solution. Before we advertise this more, we would love to trial the new tool with data managers and editors of Diamond open access journals who want to try out automated checks. Especially of data and code.

New preprint! Universities increasingly expect academics to practise open science. But is it rewarded when hiring? We analysed 1,356 academic job ads from Norwegian institutions and found that <5% of ads mentioned open science as a required or desired qualification osf.io/preprints/ps...

@alextrinidad.eurosky.social and other members of esc-enoc.github.io, are thinking of creating a new OA journal in #Criminology under the PCI model. At this stage we are reaching out to see if we could gather 50 colleagues that could commit to help as associate editors. Let us know if interested.

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Almost at the end of a very intense 3-day CBS Replication Games! Co-organised by @odissei.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social, 19 researchers (6 teams) came together to replicate 6 papers using Dutch admin data from top economics journal @fialalenka.bsky.social @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social

The FAIR Research Outputs call by @opensciencenl.bsky.social is open 😍 The call gives a boost (💰) to researchers who want to make their outputs #FAIR and #open First come, first served basis, so be quick! www.openscience.nl/en/news/firs...

First round of the ‘FAIR Research Outputs’ call now open | Open Science NL

Open Science NL has opened the new Call for proposals ‘FAIR Research Outputs’. With this funding instrument, Open Science NL aims to encourage research outputs to be as open and FAIR as possible.

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The Open Criminology Award for established researchers, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, goes to Prof Scott Jacques, founder of @crimrxiv.com, for advancing transparent, accessible, and collaborative research practices in criminology. 🏆

We are glad to announce this year's winner of the early career Open Criminology Award, sponsored by @nscr-instituut.bsky.social: Danielle Stibbe! A PhD student on cybercriminal decision making, the committee was impressed by her consistent engagement with open science practices. Congratulations! 🎉

Back from #Eurocrim2026! Great organisation, panels, roundtables, and catching up with people I’ve been seeing around. Exciting discussions at CRIMLabs, the @opencriminology.bsky.social roundtable on Repeatability in Criminology, and a session organised by my colleagues at @unicologne.bsky.social.

Looking back on a great week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social Warsaw. Particularly enjoyed the roundtable on "Repeatability in Criminology" @opencriminology.bsky.social. + It was great to get feedback on our experimental vignette study on online abuse of female politicians. And of course, the pierogi...

Today I’ve given attendees at the #Eurocrim2026 conference a challenge. Be the first to solve this riddle and you’ll get a prize (still to be decided, but probably an Amazon voucher or something): ‘Who am I? Domestic. Laptop. Bravery’

Last chance to sign up! 👇🏼

European Network for Open Criminology@opencriminology.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 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 👇

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Ever thought about cyberspace in spatial terms, and what that means for criminological theory and crime analysis? Then this paper might be of interest to you! w/ @stijnruiter.bsky.social & Wim Bernasco link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The topology of cyberspace and cybercrime journeys: a framework for analyzing online offender mobility - Crime Science

Purpose This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing online offender mobility. Methods Drawing on multidisciplinary insights, we extend two established criminological models for studying offl...

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A Spanish translation of my textbook Improving Your Statistical Inferences, made by Juan G. Fernández Fernández, is now available here: juangff85.github.io/inferencias-... I am very grateful Juan worked so hard to made the contents available to Spanish speakers!

Can a market takedown disrupt cybercrime elsewhere? From 51,643 forum ads and a 1,120-post field experiment, we find 20% less activity and tougher moderation—but also displacement, adaptation and fading effects. With Danielle Stibbe & @asiermoneva.com: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The ripple effect of operation cookie monster: the impact of an illicit market takedown on an untargeted hacker forum - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Objectives Assess potential spillover effects Operation Cookie Monster (OCM), a law-enforcement takedown of an online market selling stolen account credentials, had on users and administrators of an u...

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13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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After a little break due to busy schedules Nullius in Verba will be back with a new podcast episode later today! We will discuss when and how artificial intelligence and automation can improve the way we do science. Keep an eye on your podcast players!

📢 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 · 5mo 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.

We know a lot about whether investigative interviewing techniques work—but far less about how to implement them, for whom they work, and at what cost. Our new paper shows how the EMMIE framework can help bridge the research–practice gap. doi.org/10.1080/1561... #EvidenceBasedPolicing

The practical relevance of investigative interviewing research: applying the EMMIE framework to bridge the research-practice gap

Investigative interviewing research has produced valuable insights into effective techniques for gathering information. However, this research often fails to fully bridge the gap between academia a...

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📢 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.

The idea is a target article, followed by invited and submitted peer-reviewed commentaries representing diverse perspectives, with the original authors given a right of reply. The goal is to open up space for discussion on how we can get Open Research to work for everyone. Any takers?

@rjbeecham.bsky.social, Caroline Tait, Juan Fonseca and I have a new registered report and are looking for feedback before we conduct the analysis: "The Road Violence Toll of Urban Sprawl: A Registered Report of Collisions with Cyclists and Pedestrians in England and Wales" osf.io/preprints/so...

Many researchers support #OpenScience in principle, but argue they face real barriers when putting it into practice.