'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social
We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic.
We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.
Our first newsletter is out! Read it here: mailchi.mp/d6127976d232... Including a call for a roundtable on replication at #eurocrim
02.03.2026 07:17 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
And here is the call for abstracts for the 2026 Cars & Crime Symposium: jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/call%...
Taking place in Ilkley (West Yorkshire) on 30–31 July.
If your work explores the intersection of crime and road traffic (see examples below), send us your abstract.
🗓 Deadline: 17 April
Congrats on securing funding for another #Cars&Crime symposium in July! 👏
Read more about last year's excellent event: essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art...
@ccjsleeds.bsky.social
I just heard that our funding application was succesful, which means there will be a 2nd #Cars&Crime symposium on the 30/31 of July in Leeds. This time open to everyone. Call for abstracts to be circulated around Easter.
If you are doing research in this area we want to hear from you.
Can a procedurally just letter reduce recidivism among prolific traffic offenders?
Amina op de Weegh, @nivette.bsky.social and I just published our evaluation study of a Dutch police intervention in the new journal Evidence Base.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🥁 Kölle, Alaaf! Collegium musicum, Alaaf! Uni Köln, Alaaf!
Mit dem ersten Karnevals-Song, den das Collegium musicum seiner langen Geschichte produziert hat, wünschen wir Euch fröhliche und bunte jecke Tage🥳
👉 youtu.be/QE5fak4PouM
#uniköln #unicologne #liebedeineuni #alaaf #kölnistbunt
Illustration einer Frau in einem weißen Laborkittel, die ein Tablet hält und mit Molekülen interagiert. Text 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science' im Hintergrund.
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science ⚛️
🔗 uni.koeln/NPM3J
#uniköln #unicologne #february11 #science #womeninscience #InternationalWomensDayInSTEM
PhD position on #HCI, #AI and #Disinformation: Develop tools for fact-checking & media literacy & create open science resources.
Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026
stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246
#phdchat #CHI26 #chi2026
All materials, including the slides we used for the 20 minute seminar lecture, are available on OSF osf.io/4sjuk/overview ⬇️
10.02.2026 11:38 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0New piece from us in the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social newsletter, on why Criminology is lagging behind in Open Science and steps needed from the ESC to promote #openscience. escnewsletter.org/archive/crim... With Torbjørn Skardhamar and Jakob Demant
10.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0This year featuring the great @sandyschumann.bsky.social, recipient of the @opencriminology.bsky.social 's Open Science Award with a talk on... yes, you guessed correctly: #OpenScience!
03.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional banner for the Cologne Graduate School advertising a doctoral scholarship in “Demography & Social Inequality,” featuring a close‑up of a graduate holding a dark blue cap on the left and light green background on the right. Large green and white text reads “Interested in a doctoral programme? Apply now – Doctoral Scholarship Demography & Social Inequality,” accompanied by simple white line icons of a tilted inequality scale and a small group of people, plus the Cologne Graduate School logo in the bottom right corner.
🎓 Doctoral Scholarship Opportunity in Cologne!
Join the CGS at the University of Cologne for a 3-year PhD focusing on Demography & Social Inequality. Benefit from a tax-free stipend, an international network, and cutting-edge research.
📅 Deadline: March 15, 2026 🔗 Application: uni.koeln/JQGW2
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29.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
El 6 de Febrero doy un curso de introduccion al analisis cuantitativo de penas #sentencing para la Universidad de Salamanca, dejo aqui los materiales en abierto para cualquiera que le pueda ser util, jmpinasanchez.github.io/sentencias.h...
26.01.2026 10:28 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
To students looking for PhD opportunities in #CriminalJustice. 3XPhd (fully funded) positions to work with Jakub Drápal & @msoltes.bsky.social on their latest ERC project, from Charles University (Prague), imho the leading research centre on #Sentencing worldwide.
www.prf.cuni.cz/sites/defaul...
🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna
Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social
computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...
New paper Co-authored w Dr Chae Rose:
The Morality of Speeding & the Conditional Relevance of Controls: rdcu.be/eYEQR
#SituationalActionTheory #MoralRules #MoralContext #SpeedingDecisionMaking #ConditionalRelevanceOfControls
📊 What works to reduce school exclusion?
A new study co-authored by Alex Sutherland in The Campbell Collaboration finds school-based interventions succeed when policy is consistent & buy-in is strong, with the greatest impact seen in primary schools.
👉 https://ow.ly/lAp350XXTMx
Don't miss the Early Bird Registration Deadline for the virtual SIPS@SPSP 2026: Community Action Meeting — “Improving Open Science Resources for Social-Personality Psychology.”
We will discuss:
✨registered reports,
✨open data,
✨replications, and
✨diversity science
buff.ly/hXwY23n
Poster for the “Sociological Ash Wednesday” event at the University of Cologne on 18 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, in lecture hall A2, with a background photo of the Cologne skyline and cathedral at sunset over the Rhine. Large white text announces the title “SOZIOLOGISCHER ASCHERMITTWOCH”, with green banner slogans reading “Universitäre Diskursräume” and “Zwischen Freiheit und Beschränkung”. The lower left lists a panel discussion with Claudia Diehl (Konstanz), Naika Foroutan (Berlin), Markus Ogorek (Köln), Uwe Schimank (Bremen) and Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim), moderated by Jan‑Martin Wiarda, and organisation credit to Clemens Kroneberg with a website link. The logos of the University of Cologne, the Adenauer School of Government and the WiSo Faculty’s 125‑year anniversary (1901–2026) appear at the top and bottom of the poster.
Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne.
This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world.
bit.ly/soziologisch...
A colour block banner with the words 'International Fellowships 2026' written on the left-hand side.
Together with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC
15.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 24 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 2
CAUSALab 2026 Courses Student Tuition Waiver Deadline
Apply now for a 2026 student tuition waiver! ⏰
Limited waivers available for qualified PhD students w/out alternative funding to attend #causalinference Summer Courses @hsph.harvard.edu
📅 Deadline: 2/15/26 11:59 PM ET
Review eligibility & apply:
hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...
New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025"
doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
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.
12.01.2026 10:16 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Baum und Stadtansicht mit mehreren Hochhäusern bei Dämmerung. Text: "VERANSTALTUNGEN JANUAR".
Veranstaltungsplan für Januar 2026 an der Universität zu Köln mit Themen wie Ernährungssicherung, Forschungsethik und eine Open Mic Night.
Veranstaltungsplan mit verschiedenen Terminen und Themen.
Liste von Veranstaltungen der Universität zu Köln im Jahr 2026, darunter Lesungen, Konzerte und Ringvorlesungen mit Terminen, Uhrzeiten und Veranstaltungsorten.
🎉 Frohes Neues! 🗓️ 2026 startet mit vielen spannenden Veranstaltungen, Konzerten und Ringvorlesungen an unserer Universität. 🎫 ➡️ Speichert euch die Termine mit einem Klick auf den Speicher-Button, damit ihr sie immer griffbereit habt. 🔗 uni.koeln/F5ADE
#uniköln #unicologne
(1/6) As 2025 ends, we look back on a year of meaningful milestones:
🏆 We were honored to award the Kohli Prize for Sociology to Peter Bearman and the Infrastructure Prize for Sociology to SocArXiv, recognizing their exceptional contributions to the discipline.
Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
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UK Metascience Funding
"The UK government has announced a major increase in funding for metascience over the next four years, including a more than trebling of investment in the UK Metascience Unit."
Possibly of interest to our members 👇
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