#forensic-science — Public Fediverse posts

‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’
By Tory Shepherd

Prof Richard Bassed helped identify Boxing Day tsunami and victims of Australia’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires. ‘The randomness of this massive flood,’ he says. ‘That gets to you’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/nepal-tibet-flood-victim-identification-australian-forensic-scientist-richard-bassed-ntwnfb

#NepalTibetflooddisaster #Forensicscience #Naturaldisasters #Science #Australianews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd

WE REPORT FEWER INSTALLED APPS NOW. THAT IS THE FIX.

That number on the card went from 3,981 to 791 and it is the thing I am proudest of in this release.

In 2018 I wanted a list of the apps installed on an iPhone. I thought that was one question. It is at least six, and no single artifact answers all of them.

So we tested it properly, iOS 12 through iOS 26, every registered test image we have. The old installed summary had been counting app extensions, malformed bundle IDs, and apps known only from container activity. Strip those out and the count drops by 80 percent. Nothing was thrown away. It moved to a table whose label says exactly what the evidence supports, and the historical view got bigger at the same time, 9,575 rows to 11,786.

The history got bigger. The claim got smaller. That is the trade I want every time.

My favorite detail: on one public test image, two apps being removed produced seventeen container destruction rows in nine seconds, because every app extension owns its own container. Read those rows as apps and you would report a phone shedding seventeen. It shed two.

An inventory and a stack of receipts are both useful. They are not interchangeable.

Link in bio.

#DFIR #DigitalForensics #MobileForensics #iOS #OpenSource #ForensicScience #Infosec

New partnership hopes DNA will help solve First Nations cold cases
By Alasdair McDonald

Cutting edge forensic science could help shine new light on current First Nations cold cases across Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/new-global-first-partnership-to-shed-light-on-missing-persons/106999426

#ForensicScience #DNATesting #MissingPerson #IndigenousAustralians #AlasdairMcDonald

A year on, this human skull mystery at Mildura may never be solved
By Nethma Dandeniya

More than 12 months after a human skull was discovered on the banks of Australia's longest river, investigations remain ongoing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/police-investigation-into-human-skull-remains-ongoing/107004530

#Police #DNATesting #ForensicScience #NethmaDandeniya

Atlas of Disappearance review – forensic quest for thousands of forgotten victims of the Spanish civil war
By Phuong Le

Researchers employ technology in a bid to identify and retrieve remains in Spain’s Valley of the Fallen, in Manuel Correa’s emotional documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/03/atlas-of-disappearance-review-forensic-quest-for-families-robbed-of-graves-by-franco

#Film #Documentaryfilms #Spain #Forensicscience #FranciscoFranco #Architecture #Culture #Artanddesign #Europe #Science #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PhuongLe

Our latest research (led by Sadie Barlow, with Dr Edoardo Manino) found LambdaG doesn’t need a calibration dataset for well-calibrated likelihood ratios, just a simple correction! This simplifies analysis and makes it the only authorship verification method without calibration. Paper on arXiv now.

http://andreanini.com/2026/07/13/lambdag-a-simplified-approach-to-authorship-verification/

#forensiclinguistics #forensicscience #nlp #authorshipanalysis #stylometry #digitalhumanities

Modern forensic analysis leads to arrest in Georgia 1985 murder cold case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/modern-forensic-evidence-1985-georgia-murder #UsCrime #UsNews #Ohio #Georgia #ForensicScience #Science

On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 780), I discuss the books of #FrankTallis, the series #ViennaBlood, and the phenomenon of #SigmundFreud in #GenreFiction. #ScienceFiction #HistoryOfScience #Mystery #CrimeFiction #Gothic #Horror #HistoricalFiction #SFF #ForensicScience #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-780-p-a-cornell/id166360307?i=1000770891894

Dig begins for remains of Troubles victim 50 years after disappearance https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/26/dig-begins-troubles-victim-seamus-maguire-disappeared-county-antrim #NorthernIreland #UkNews #Ireland #Ira #HilaryBenn #ForensicScience

A novel, nondestructive methodology utilizing dry cytology brushes to extract cellular and genetic material from ancient animal-skin parchments without compromising the physical integrity of the historical artifacts.
#MolecularGenetics #Bioarchaeology #VeterinaryGenetics #ForensicScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/gen05182601.html

Science Guides Justice: AIIMS Patna Hosts Landmark CME on Forensic Medicine.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_forensic_medicine_aiims_patna

#AIIMSPatna #ForensicMedicine #NationalForensicMedicineDay #JusticeDelivery #ForensicScience #News

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

Today feels like a good day to start work on a book that I've been pondering for a few months. #writing #ForensicScience #DFIR

Understanding sadism—specifically in its subclinical or "everyday" manifestations—is no longer merely an academic exercise relegated to #forensic #psychology or criminal pathology. As will be explored in this intense analysis, everyday sadism is deeply embedded in the current state of humanity.
#WhatIs #Psychology #BehavioralScience #ForensicScience #Sadism #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/wi03112601.html

Recent behavioral research demonstrates that deeply ingrained societal myths and stereotypes about male rape directly compromise the judicial process by significantly influencing how potential jurors evaluate evidence, judge credibility, and render verdicts in male-on-male sexual assault trials.
#BehavioralScience #ForensicScience #Psychology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/bs03102601.html

How a clump of moss helped convict grave robbers in Illinois https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/05/how-moss-helped-convict-grave-robbers-illinois #Science #Chicago #Illinois #UsNews #ForensicScience #WorldNews

Disappointing to see the latest HoL report on Forensic Science continues the myth that "defence" forensic science is different to other forensic science. Science is the key element, not who pays the bill.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldsctech/256/256.pdf (paras 102 et seq.)

I fear we are will see expansion of a poorly worded set of codes and delays while people wait to be told not just what to do, but how to do it, giving up when they see how expensive it is.

#DFIR #ForensicScience #Forensics #DigitalForensics.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/df-research-shouldnt-secret-angus-marshall-iya1e #DFIR #Forensics #research #academia #ForensicScience

I am frustrated, and a little bit angry. Digital Forensics is broken. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-forensic-research-does-exist-uk-angus-marshall-s6hke #DFIR #forensics #forensicscience #research #academia

I'm exploring how people find best practice for writing SOPs and what it looks like. You can help by completing the survey online at https://forms.gle/t26bsCqtBCwhq2YV9 or downloading a copy from https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Xre41M1MSSf-kjSsxI8lHuThf6RvekWq

and emailing it back to me.

Input from ANY industry is useful - and more is probably better.

Responses are confidential and no detail of SOP asked for.

#forensics #SOPs #quality #ISO17025 #standards #DFIR #forensicScience

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have, for the first time, used a breakthrough technique with a goal of better identifying the origin of #nuclear materials — a tool that could someday help efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear material around the globe.
#ForensicScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/fs12092501.html

Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/europe/louvre-heist-dna-databases.html

Inside the Louvre Jewel Heist That Shocked the World

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/europe/inside-louvre-jewel-heist.html

2 Louvre Heist Suspects Have ‘Partially Admitted’ to the Crime

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/louvre-theft-suspects-confession.html

DNA Analyst Career and Education Information 2026

Ever been fascinated by how a single strand of hair or a drop of blood can solve a mystery?

That’s exactly what DNA analysts do they decode genetic clues that can identify suspects, uncover family ties, and even push the boundaries of medical research.

👉 Read the full article: https://scholarinfohub.com/dna-analyst-career-and-education-information/

#DNACareers #ForensicScience #Biotechnology