José Pina-Sánchez

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺

@jpinasanchez.bsky.social

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Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Data #Bias #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 4h

Epic picture of @clanfear.bsky.social delivering a thunderous introduction to the potential outcomes framework in Leeds last week! Passion emanating from every fibre of his being.

This is what the causal inference movement needs. A joy to behold.

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · 8h

“ambitious plan to digitalize the courts […]
an IT system, introduced as part of a £1bn project, has been plagued with technical faults - causing crucial information to go missing, be overwritten, or appear lost
[…]
was known about for years before action was taken”

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, The IT bug that's caused chaos in the courts

An IT bug caused evidence to go missing or appear lost in some court cases.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 19h

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 1d

I am still taking 3 flights to Europe just this term, so my cap is also full of the shit I am spreading through the atmosphere, but come on, a transcontinental flight to fascist America to have the privilege of speaking for 15 minutes in a half empty room?

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t agree more. If I don’t censor myself on this one, I’ll end up with no friends in academia.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

All political parties in #Ilkley (West Yorkshire) support free parking. Even the #Green party is affected by this form of #Braincar rot.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy

This week’s column by Stewart Lee

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

‘Using Grok is like believing what your farting uncle says at Christmas’: Stewart Lee on X’s AI chatbot

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"

Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 4d

I am not ashamed to say it once took me 5 to 10 minutes to find the toilets in that building. Also, I still do not have a clue where level 1 is.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 5d

Keir Starmer and Labour could really learn a lesson from Spain about the implications of not being a dick to immigrants.

John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 5d

Spain in a sweet spot: tourism boom, growing high value services, decent manufacturing base, relatively low energy costs, high immigration.
www.reuters.com/default/spai...

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 5d

I think it is just a case of excessive risk-aversion mixed-up with a chronic shortage of quantitative researchers in my field, but yes, in your case that might be the case. Absolutely crazy that Leeds students do not get to learn causal inference from you.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 5d

Same here. A key argument about expanding our training on quantitative methods has been: what happens if we need to replace you?

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 5d

Spain in a sweet spot: tourism boom, growing high value services, decent manufacturing base, relatively low energy costs, high immigration.
www.reuters.com/default/spai...

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Juanjo Medina 🍉 @jjmedina.bsky.social · 5d

Ok,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

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Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 6d

The wonderful local newspaper The Dublin InQuirer has just published a number of stories from their own victimisation survey.

www.dublininquirer.com/new-survey-o...

Reposted by Kori Schake, Joanna Bryson, Meredith Broussard , and 46 more Kori Schake, Joanna Bryson, Meredith Broussard, Katharine Hayhoe, Christian Odendahl, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Richard J. Butler, Steve Peers, Steven French, Melissa Terras, Simon J. Greenhill, Harvey J. Miller, Philippe Huneman, Simon Otjes, Dustin Mulvaney, Mirco Tonin, Janne Tukiainen, Paul Matthews, Rachel C. Nethery, Lilian Edwards, Julia Lynch, Caroline T. Schroeder, Bessma Momani, Brian Keegan, Olivier Morin, Peter D. Howe, José Antonio Noguera, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Lex Heerma van Voss, Catherine J. Frieman, Mauro Gatti, Anthony Burke, Jack Stilgoe, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Brooke Harrington, Christopher Zorn, Alexander Woywodt, James A. Benn, Charles T. Mathewes, Seth Frey, Jani Erola, Aidan O’Sullivan, Catherine Spooner, Will M. Gervais, David Spurrett, José Pina-Sánchez, Valeria Mazza

Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 8d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

blog.arxiv.org

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11d

It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️

www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

www.euractiv.com

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 12d

Especially relevant to British and European criminal justice / criminology researchers with a thirst for empirical methods and open acess practices. There is life beyond the #BSC & the #ESC.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 12d

To the interest of researchers working on #empirical #criminal #law. There is a new working group hosted by the European Society of Empirical Legal Studies. Led by 2 rising stars in the field, @msoltes.bsky.social & Jakub Drapal. #ESELS members can join here: esels.eu/working-group/

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 18d

I was once told I had to fill a risk assessment form to hold a seminar with colleagues (not students) outdoors, on the lawn in front of our building, in a sunny summer day.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 18d

My 10 years old son is obsessed with WWI. This is hpw he spends his evenings.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18d

Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 18d

Unless they are willing to increase the amount of funding by taking it away from stem, or change the format of their funding schemes, e.g. lottery based, that would be the only rational - and honest - choice.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 18d

With these success rates, UKRI is now in a position to contribute - massively - to research in the social sciences and humanities if they were to cancel all government funding to those disciplines.
Quite a realisation.

ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 20d

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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Sally Kyd @profkyd.bsky.social · 19d

Another day, another report of a road death which raises a number of issues identified in my report Behind the Headlines: Sentencing after fatal crashes:
news.sky.com/story/merced...

👉'shameful' delays
👉lack of lifetime bans for drivers who have shown themselves to be a danger to the public

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 19d

If you ever submit a grant proposal that begins with:
“This project will have a small or iterative impact, if any…”
I promise I’ll have that page printed and framed in oak so you can display it proudly in your office.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 19d

good for Sheffield

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 19d

"Projekt DEAL, established a fee of €2,750 per article with the publisher Wiley."
"Instead of paying for access, authors pay for publication, but the final amounts do not represent any savings."
How can this be justified? Why are not we ashamed?

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 19d

The mirage of Open Access: articles free of charge for citizens are strangling universities buff.ly/PCfIJC4

The mirage of Open Access: articles free of charge for citizens are strangling universities

For science to be truly open and at the service of society, knowledge must no longer be solely in the hands of an oligopoly.

buff.ly

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