Asier Moneva
Criminologist | Researcher in cybercrime @nscr-instituut.bsky.social & The Hague University of Applied Sciences | Co-Chair @opencriminology.bsky.social
🌐: asiermoneva.com
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📍: Amsterdam - The Hague
- This 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!
- 2026 Summer School of the European Society of Criminology 🗓️Application deadline: 15 February 2026 👉Apply on time and secure your place! www.unil.ch/unil/en/home...
- There has been pushback against the idea that street criminals simply shift to cybercrime, mainly because the required skill sets differ. However, growing evidence suggests such transitions do occur, which may help explain broader crime trends. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- "Some [offenders] transitioned from street crimes to financial cybercrimes and can be characterized as cafeteria-style offenders, driven by opportunism and perceived profits. These offenders appear to seize new opportunities provided by technology to steal money from victims."
- Life is what happens to you while entering credentials to login to remote work environments.
- Hello Criminology journals! 👋🏼
- "The Case for Expanding the Domain of Registered Reports: Confronting Academic Dishonesty and Declining Confidence in Science" by Robert Andersen doi.org/10.1111/1748...
- Hello Criminology journals! 👋🏻
- New submission format at SBE: “Replications as Registered Reports” link.springer.com/journal/1118... You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously. #EconSky
- Reposted by Asier MonevaHomicide offenders are almost invariably men. 93% of convicted homicide offenders were male. 65% of cases involved male victims killed by male suspects, 26% of cases involved female victims killed by male suspects, and 4% of cases involved male victims killed by female suspects.
- If you haven't done it yet, consider following @mattashby.com for rigorous crime analysis and tasteful data visualization. 👨🏻🍳🤌🏻💋
- Reposted by Asier MonevaAs Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections: www.science.org/cont...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaEl 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...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaWe're consumed by stories of murder, but how much do you know about homicide in England and Wales? Every day this week I'm going to post a thread summarising a different aspect of what data can tell us about the nature of homicide. 🧵
- One of the best episodes so far (both parts)! Loved the back and forth and the camaraderie between @lakens.bsky.social and Smriti Mehta. Found myself laughing out in the train a few times! 😅
- Starting the new year with a new podcast episode of Nullius In Verba on 'Scientism' nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-72... In the first of two parts, we ask if it is ok to think that science is the best way to generate knowledge, or if this is too dismissing of 'other ways of knowing'.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaDo 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.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaPaper out with @jpinasanchez.bsky.social & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social in @socialindicators.bsky.social 🔔 How often do we compare crime recorded across countries? We show that crime counting rules vary widely across countries and this strongly affects cross-country comparisons
- Reposted by Asier Monevainfer 1.1.0, a package implementing an expressive grammar for statistical inference, is on CRAN! In a change originally motivated by @allendowney.bsky.social's posit::conf(2024) keynote, the package now supports arbitrary test statistics. Read more: github.com/tidymodels/i...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaOpen Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaPossibly of interest to our members 👇
- We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
- I do love it when reviewers sneakily sign their peer-reviews.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaOver the past decade, COS has worked closely with partners across Europe. We’re now starting the process of establishing a formal presence in the EU to deepen that collaboration while continuing to support researchers worldwide. Read more: www.cos.io/blog/expandi...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaI agree completely but one should do so charitably and in good faith. I think we're too reluctant to critique work publicly (myself included!), but the infrequent critiques that are made publicly are also too often unfair and motivated by ideology either directly or indirectly to receive praise.
- What does #CrimSky think about this? A recent case comes to mind... 🤔
- Reposted by Asier MonevaThis (free) event may be of interest our members: “Towards new horizons of scholarly publishing” in Nijmegen on 5-6 February '26. Topics: future of academic publishing, Diamond Open Access, and challenges ahead. See: www.horizondiamond.nl
- Reposted by Asier MonevaIn light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1
- Reposted by Asier MonevaSeminario en Madrid el 9 de diciembre, dar difusión si podéis
- Reposted by Asier Moneva🚨Before many of us head out for Thanksgiving Holiday next week, we wanted to, again, congratulate last week's winners of our ASC DC Awards! See below:
- Reposted by Asier Moneva
We @opensciencenl.bsky.social proudly present the new work programme for 2026–2027. 13 funding instruments to strengthen #openscience in the Netherlands. Structured around 5 themes: 🔹infrastructure 🔹capacity 🔹communities 🔹incentives 🔹monitoring www.openscience.nl/en/news/work... - Reposted by Asier Moneva[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by Asier MonevaDo you think about time in criminology? ⏰ Do you think about how we can better specify temporal processes and effects in theory and research? Consider contributing to a new special collection! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Feel free to send a message if you have any questions!
- Reposted by Asier MonevaOk,a very informal survey. I need suggestions as to the best UG programs in criminology, criminal justice, crime science internationally. Context: we need to persuade my Uni of what the contents have to be for our reformed program & need to arm myself with arguments and good examples
- One of the advantages of preprinting your work is that you can improve it and update it on the go. Based on the feedback we received, we've added an empirical proof-of-concept of our framework, applying it to a human journey to web hacking. 🔗 Open materials: osf.io/54tga/ 🔜 Preprint v2
- 🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out! Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis. bsky.app/profile/soca...
- And here's the updated preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... With @stijnruiter.bsky.social and Wim Bernasco
- Reposted by Asier MonevaI haven’t read the full piece, but the argument in the quote seems to be of the form “some good were produced without this” (leaving unsaid “and quite a lot of bad results, too”). But the argument for pre-registration isn’t that it leads to good results, it’s that it makes results more trustworthy.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaGreat afternoon talking with Durham Constabulary leaders about how to make police problem solving really work. If you’d like me to come and talk about making problem-oriented policing effective and sustainable, I don’t charge for talks to police forces. So please get in touch!
- Your review is due. 💀
- Reposted by Asier Moneva🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design. We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.
- Reposted by Asier Moneva🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 Looking for a PhD-student to help us study the damages caused by cybercriminals. 🕵♂️⌨️🖥️ 📈 Join our interdisciplinary consortium of cybercrime researchers for your PhD journey! All information & job details: csl.mpg.de/en/career/ We look forward to your applications! #EconSky
- Reposted by Asier MonevaPhD opportunity on online hate among youth (Dutch required). Come work with us! #DutchAcademia #AcademicJobs www.uu.nl/organisatie/...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaThe top editors of a criminology journal have stepped down after the society in charge of the publication assessed concerns about manuscript review times.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaHello! 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
- Reposted by Asier MonevaThe new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats
- Reposted by Asier MonevaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam advances open science with an integrated approach to connecting infrastructure, training, & policy. Their model brings together librarians, data stewards, & systems managers to support researchers & help meet complex regulatory requirements. 💡:
- 🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out! Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis. bsky.app/profile/soca...
- The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility: osf.io/jybkv
- We’ve preprinted for a reason: we want feedback. So feel free to reach out, comment, or suggest ways to improve! Cc: @stijnruiter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Asier MonevaThe 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-...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaNew 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-...
- 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?
- Reposted by Asier MonevaI am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
- If I ever celebrate a "# of citations" milestone, please slap me with a fish.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaWe've built registered reports into @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social to try and help with that 🤓
- This has to be the coolest conference badge ever!
- We're excited to keep pushing open science in criminology! Big responsibility too. 😅 One thing’s clear from the notes I took during our last meeting: ENOC is bursting with ideas and we’ll work hard to realize them! #OpenScience #OpenCrim
- The European Network for Open Criminology has a new team of co-Chairs: @asiermoneva.com, @isabellevdv.bsky.social and @alextrinidad.bsky.social. What a team! 🔒🗝️ Read more about ENOC here: esc-enoc.github.io
- Reposted by Asier MonevaThe European Network for Open Criminology has a new team of co-Chairs: @asiermoneva.com, @isabellevdv.bsky.social and @alextrinidad.bsky.social. What a team! 🔒🗝️ Read more about ENOC here: esc-enoc.github.io
- Reposted by Asier MonevaOr they could just have sessions on the Wednesday afternoon: three sessions then would eliminate the need for 8am sessions on other days. And the conference formally starts on the Wednesday anyway.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaAs the conference gets bigger this is more common but totally pointless, nobody can say anything intelligible AND interesting in the tiny amount of time available. Our prearranged panel of 4 was given a shorter time slot than usual, so effectively the same problem.
- Reposted by Asier MonevaLaugh-cry Presenting... more people presenting than in audience 😮 Why? BECAUSE IT'S 8AM (OBVIOUSLY)
- Reposted by Asier MonevaA reminder to my colleagues attending #EuroCrim2025: **a question is a single sentence that ends with a question mark**. When invited to ask a question in a session, that is not an invitation to give your own talk on an unrelated topic.
- Reposted by Asier Moneva🚨Only 1 more day for ASC DC Award Nominations!🚨 Today, we are highlighting the 🏆OUTSTANDING PRACTITIONER🏆 award! If you would like to nominate someone for this award, please scan the QR code or visit the link at the bottom. Nominations close on Sept. 5 (TOMORROW)!
- Reposted by Asier Moneva@sandyschumann.bsky.social receives the Open Criminology Award from the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) in Athens Photo credit: @ferhattura19.bsky.social
- Reposted by Asier MonevaAt the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...
- Reposted by Asier Moneva🚨Less than 2 weeks left for ASC DC Award Nominations!🚨 Today, we are highlighting the 🏆EARLY CAREER🏆 award! If you would like to nominate someone for this award, please scan the QR code or visit the link at the bottom. Nominations close on Sept. 5!
- Reposted by Asier Moneva🚨Less than 2 weeks left for ASC DC Award Nominations!🚨 Today, we are highlighting the 🏆LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT🏆 award! If you would like to nominate someone for this award, please scan the QR code or visit the link at the bottom. Nominations close on Sept. 5!
- "Effective August 25, 2025, the Center for Open Science (COS) will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server hosted on OSF Preprints." Cc: @crimrxiv.com www.cos.io/blog/suspens...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaThe full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!
- Reposted by Asier Moneva{truffle} is an R package for teaching users to process data. Semi-realistic psychological datasets with predetermined effects (via `truffles_` functions) are then hidden in common data processing headaches (via `dirt_` functions) for students to clean and analyze. mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaAn abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
- "Instead of contenting himself with metaphysical reflection on social themes, the sociologist must take as the object of his research groups of facts clearly circumscribed, capable of ready definition, with definite limits, and adhere strictly to them." (Durkheim, 1897) The sociologist in 2025: 🫥
- Reposted by Asier Moneva📚🔔Happy August!🔔📚 We are still accepting nominations for the following awards. If there is someone you would like to nominate, please do so by **September 5th!**
- 🔔It's that time of year again: the ASC Division of Cybercrime is accepting nominations for DC awards! We're accepting submissions until Friday September 5th, 2025. Consider nominating peer members for our annual awards. For more information, visit ascdivisionofcybercrime.org/awards/nomin...
- Reposted by Asier MonevaAnnouncing 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/ 🧵
- I often see figs. in papers that are so complex it takes a while to make sense of them (if at all). When I studied crime analysis, I learned that simplicity is key to effective communication. Sometimes it feels like we’re trying to show everything we know, rather than what others need to understand.
