Iain Brennan

Reducing Crime A monthly podcast featuring conversations with influential thinkers in the police service and leading crime and policing researchers working to advance public safety. Often amusing, often enlightening...

New episode of Reducing Crime with @benbradford.bsky.social is great - highly recommended and would be great teaching resource

pca.st/podcast/4b91...

External speaker seminar series at @criminologyuom.bsky.social 🤓

Chartle - A daily chart game Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

Do you enjoy playing chartle.cc?
We’re opening up to the community!

Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!

DON'T MISS TODAY AT 3PM UK TIME: "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

The first in the new season of causal inference seminars from the #CIIG

ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Lecturer in Criminology at University of Sheffield Apply for the Lecturer in Criminology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...

Youth diversion “fragmented and inconsistent” Joint inspection finds current youth diversion work is fragmented and inconsistent.

Youth diversion "fragmented and inconsistent" - Joint inspection by @HMIProbation & @HMICFRS finds current youth diversion work is fragmented and inconsistent. www.russellwebster.com/youth-divers...

Me too

The International Youth Crime Drop: Evidence and Explanations | Crime and Justice Abstract Youth crime and other types of risk behavior have declined considerably over the last 20–30 years in many developed countries. Robust evidence comes from both official crime data and…

Reviews of studies on the drop in youth offending finds consistent decreases across many countries ended around 2015, and the drop is best explained by changes in how young people spend free time and decreases in alcohol consumption.

doi.org/10.1086/737409

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

"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...

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...

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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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...

⌛️ 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...

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

@opencriminology.bsky.social 👋

Not sure the heroin dealer is a hero tbf

Pulp Fiction

📣 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 S.McVie@ed.ac.uk

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...

Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program

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...

🚨 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...

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

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'.

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-...

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).

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?

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

Quality of talks this year was really excellent