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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 04/06/2026

In terms of attitudes, we saw some differences regarding career stage and methodological preference, but nothing *striking* (sample is obviously limited). Of course, actual behavior is a different thing. Agree 100% about the lack of incentives.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 04/06/2026

Interestingly, the feedback was highly nuanced. On average, our peers are not simply 'for' or 'against' open science as a whole; instead, they support different combinations of these practices.

A correlogram of Spearman’s rank correlations between the nine attitudes towards open science. Only a subset of tiles with significant correlations are colored.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 04/06/2026

6️⃣ conducting open peer review 7️⃣ using open-source software 8️⃣ preregistering research 9️⃣ disclosing contribution roles As expected, we found generally positive attitudes. However, colleagues were more cautious about two specific areas: publishing preprints, and conducting open peer review.

A bar plot ranking the attitudes towards the nine open science practices. For each practice, the distribution of the responses on the 5-point Likert scale is shown. Practices are ranked as follows:
1) publishing in open access
2) sharing open materials
3) using open source software
4) sharing open code
5) disclosing contributor roles
6) sharing open data
7) pre-registering research
8) publishing preprints
9) conducting open peer review

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 29/04/2026

Most of these chats advertised multiple illicit goods and services. Similar to the darknet, drugs dominate, though there is also substantial room for cybercrime. We identify up to 77 different illicit products and criminal services, ranging from hard drugs to phishing and money laundering.

Bar chart showing the total number of messages collected per crime category, ordered from highest to lowest. Hard drugs dominate with about 9.0 million messages, followed by non‑crime‑related content (about 6.0 million), soft drugs (5.2 million), prescription medication (4.9 million), and carding (4.0 million). Smaller but still substantial volumes appear for stolen accounts (2.6 million), forged documents (2.0 million), and money laundering (1.4 million). The remaining categories are far less frequent: fireworks (about 595K), phishing (546K), leads (222K), firearms (65K), match fixing (31K), and cryptophones (29K).

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 26/03/2026

A bit overqualified for that position? Maybe. But my only regret are all those APCs. --- I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓 I published 67 papers and paid $67,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? forrt.org/TenureRun/

Screenshot of the video game "Tenure Run" showing the final results screen with the final score against a stylized game background.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 03/03/2026

Done! ✅ And it looks like many other people were busy with migration as well.

A screenshot of the Eurosky migration service to migrate your AT protocol account to Europe. A message reads: "The migration service is currently at capacity (100 active migrations). Please try again in a few minutes.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 26/02/2026

Here's my contribution to the symposium in the form of a logo. You're welcome.

The word "crime" with its letters reshaped to form the silhouette of a car.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 04/11/2025

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

Multiple representations of a human journey to web hacking. a, above) The journey as a network, with activity nodes and paths highlighted according to visit and transition frequency, and time spent. b, in the middle) Four sequential snapshots of the network to depict the journey’s progression over time. c, below) A line graph showing the step-by-step journey across time and cyber place.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 18/09/2025

🚨 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 title page of the preprint.

Title: The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility

Authors: Asier Moneva, Stijn Ruiter, and Wim Bernasco

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing online offender mobility. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights, we extend two established criminological models for studying offline offending—the geometry of crime and crime journeys—by adapting their core concepts to cyberspace and developing a topology in which the cyber place is defined and becomes the unit of analysis. Just as offenders travel before, during, and after committing crime offline, we argue they also undertake trips before, during, and after committing cybercrime, and that like offline journeys these cybercrime journeys comprise identifiable and measurable components. We further distinguish between human journeys (what offenders perceive) and data journeys (what happens to the information they transmit). We explicitly demonstrate how concepts from the geometry of crime and crime journeys translate from offline to online crime and mobility. This approach enables the systematic formulation of research questions and the measurement of behavioral patterns, facilitating the generation and accumulation of knowledge on cybercrime offending. The paper illustrates the framework’s theoretical relevance within environmental criminology and its practical application for cybercrime analysis through concrete examples.

Schematic representation of a cybercrime journey. Hindu-Arabic numerals represent the sequence of cyber places visited by the user, while Roman numerals indicate the sequence of infrastructure nodes traversed by the data.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 13/09/2025

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?

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).

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 09/09/2025

This has to be the coolest conference badge ever!

Conference badge crafted from a floppy disk, with the attendee’s name printed on the disk’s label in a retro-style font. From the Human Factor in Cybercrime Conference 2025, hosted in Copenhagen.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 07/09/2025

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

Some notes I took during ENOC's pre-conference meeting at EUROCRIM. My handwriting is terrible, so I still need to figure out parts of it. But there are a lot of bullet points, which means a lot of ideas too.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 02/09/2025

An unexpected guest at the table!

A cat lying on a chair at a restaurant table.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 27/06/2025

📄🔍 Testing PaperCheck for the first time: - Installation went smoothly. - Uploaded a paper in PDF. - Workflow was pretty straightforward (see pic). - The structure of the reports is clear and can be exported in three different formats. Pretty cool! 1/4 bsky.app/profile/debr...

A screenshot of a few lines of R code. The code shows how to use the papercheck R package to extract information from a scientific paper and produce a report about adherence to some of the current best practices.

The code:

# Load packages
library (here)
library (papercheck)

# Load paper from PDF
pdf_file <- pdf2grobid(filename = here("papers", "paper-id.pdf"))

# Load from XML
paper <- read_grobid(pdf_file)

# Reports
report(
paper = paper,
output_format = "html"
)

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 11/12/2024

On the train home after a guest lecture in Utrecht Uni. It was lovely catching up with @nivette.bsky.social and @isabellevdv.bsky.social. I even got a coffee cup made from recycled cups and a wipeable notebook. Cool stuff. And the students asked very good questions. What more could one ask for?

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 21/11/2024

To our surprise, some searches even led to identify booter services that were still operational during the campaigns, providing useful information for law enforcement operations such as PowerOFF.

The warning banner placed on seized booter websites by law enforcement agencies during operation PowerOFF.

Title: "This website has been seized"
Corpus: "The FBI has seized this website for operating as a DDoS-for-hire service. This action has been taken in conjunction with Operation PowerOFFF, a coordinated international law enforcement effort to dismantle criminal DDoS-for-hire services worldwide. DDoS attacks are illegal.
Law enforcement agencies have seized databases and other information relating to these services. Anyone operatingor utilizing a DDoS service is subject to investigation, prosecution, and other law enforcement action.
For more information, please visit: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/anchorage/fbi-intensify-efforts-to-combat-illegal-ddos-attacks"
Law enforcement logos: Operation PowerOFF, Europol, Netherlands Police, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, German Federal Criminal Police, Polish Central Office for Combating Cybercrime, UK National Crime Agency.

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 09/09/2024

🎁 As promised, here's a little something... Do you want to get this cool sweater? Then come to our session and ask your best question, just like that! 🔥 Limited edition! #swag #Eurocrim2024 #cybercrime #MentionPrevention

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 07/09/2024

🤔 Attending EUROCRIM next week and still don't know which session to join on Thursday 12th at 8:00? Maybe this will help you decide! ▶️ We will present the results of a unique quasi-experiment on #YouTube about the engagement generated by video ad campaigns against #cybercrime tutorials.

A screenshot of the conference programme.

Title of the presentation: "Countering cybercrime tutorials with online video ad campaigns: A quasi-experiment on YouTube"

Authors and affiliations: Asier Moneva, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) & The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS); Rutger Leukfeldt, (NSCR, THUAS, & Leiden University); and Maurice van der Stoel, Cyber Offender Prevention Squad (COPS) of the Netherlands Police

Another screenshot of the conference programme.

Abstract of the presentation: Popular social media platforms host harmful content. One type of such content is video tutorials for launching cyber attack or using cybercrime tools that are posted on YouTube. [...] As part of a broader approach to the use of cybercrime awareness messaging, law enforcement and academics have joined forces to try to counteract the effect of these cybercrime tutorials. This presentation shows the pioneering cybercrime prevention work done jointly with the Cyber Offender Prevention Squad (COPS) of the Netherlands Police to deploy online video ad campaigns on YouTube against tutorials for two types of entry-level cybercrime: launching DDOS attacks and using remote access trojans (RATS). [..] preliminary results show that the video ads were more compelling than the average in YouTube, with anti-DDOS tutorials being the most viewed and most compelling. We discuss the practical implications [...].

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