The inevitability of this is almost painful! #Epistemicide #DOGEFuckwittery #Enshitification

I’m glad I’m out of Higher Education now. The Unis were captured by corporates long ago. My buddies @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social and @beneltham.bsky.social are all over it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted that our Abstract Dr Katy Proctor Breaking the Silence; Reflections on the Lived Experience of Race and Privilege in Academia has been accepted for the British Society of Criminology Conference in Nottingham Trent University ✨️ #BSC #Criminology @bsc2026conf-ntu.bsky.social

hey quick question, what does it tell us about a technology if companies need to roll it out under the cover of rising fascism?

Pablo’s work on “condensate Deborah numbers” is now out in #JCP!! Selected as Editor’s Pick and featured as a #Scilight pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...

NEW The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. What did the judgment say and not say, and what has changed and not changed. And what happens next. Quick explainer by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The Mellon Foundation trained me in the art of the sword; she taught me how to love, and how to kill in the name of second-wave feminism. The Mellon Foundation taught me the Weirding Way; my name became a killing word (my name is "Intersectionality").

It is a painful error to think about #prisons in isolation from the broader matrices of socio-political and economic issues they sit at the centre of. What kind of a society do we wish to create? Dostoevsky wasn't wrong.

Kate Gooch and I discussed our work on #prisons, #sound and #violence with Laurie Taylor for "Thinking allowed" - aired tomorrow: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... The wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social very kindly made a 50% off code (HRR50) to mark it: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

A great new www.sensorycriminology.com post from fantabulous Luisa Schneider ready to go next Mon. This echoes her marvellous chapter in @routledgebooks.bsky.social int' handbook of #Sensory #Criminology, discussing the impact of the hostile city on the houseless; www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

It is not widely realised that judgments have no real legal effect until and unless there is a court Order giving effect to the judgment. Orders are the sausages that come out of the judicial sausage factory, just as statutes come out of the parliamentary sausage factory.

Hey #AcademicSky ... its #ECRFriday time! This week I'm boosting Dr April Smith doi.org/10.1177/1462... this is important for highlighting how Peer Mentoring in #prison may be framed as care, but can become a web of informal control that serve the interests of the institution #Criminology #CJS

Deadline for submitting your #BSCC2026 abstracts is next week! Sunday 22 February 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80139... @britishcriminology.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social

Thread: In our article in Theoretical Criminology Lander Govaerts and I discuss the rhizomatic harms of another of such algorithmic risk profiling tools that was implemented in the Netherlands to predict crime : ProKid+ and Top400 #AI #riskprofiling #precrime /1

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.

Oooh. This just arrived. Lots and lots of brilliant contributions (chapter 3 is ok too…). Thanks @kateherrity.bsky.social and team for the invite and support. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Article title: AI, #Enshitification, and the Entrenched Mcdonaldisation of Society! #Sociology

Hey #Criminology and #Law folk, what's it called when you collude with hostile foreign entities in order to subvert the political order in your own country?? #UKPolitics #Brexit

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Today at 3:30 on BBC Radio 4 (Thinking Allowed), Kate Herrity talks about her book 'Sound, Order and Survival in Prison' and how sensory #Criminology reshapes power. 🎧 Listen here: https://ow.ly/93kJ50Y9jKq 📚 50% off paperback & eBook with code HRR50: https://ow.ly/9oTR50Y9jKr

So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

Counter-argument: LLM-powered "Generative" AI isn't radium paint. It's Tetraethyl lead. - Technically does have a very narrow practical application. - Is worse than existing alternatives. - Its creators KNOW IT IS DANGEROUS. - Is pushed anyway because profit.

NEW Three reasons why the Mandelson disclosure exercise will be a shock for the government Ministers and officials usually are in control of disclosure exercises - but here they will not be - and why that matters A detailed post by me: emptycity.substack.com/p/three-reas...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

For those in #GreenCriminology here is an example of #Agnotology and the manufacturing of a partisan legal order. #criminology #law

please don't forget if you have Master's students who wrote a great dissertation last year on a borders related topic to get them to submit it to @bordercrim.bsky.social for our annual dissertation prize. more info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Remembering dear friend Caspar Melville today who died last year. Caspar and I would take Goldsmiths students on an annual pop music history walks around Soho, London. Sorely missed RIP. A beautiful spirit.

All who exploit (in terms of capital/data/labour) and all who abuse (in all contexts) have 1 common trait: A moral perspective that allows people to be percieved in terms of use value, not relational value It allows them to inflict harm whilst maintaining a positive moral self-image #Criminology

When I moved from Twitter to Bluesky I made a starter pack for digital #criminology check it out! #digitalcriminology go.bsky.app/Fequm3N

So many great authors and chapters in the collection. It was also a privilege to work with such creative and supportive editors! The #SensoryCriminology blog is well worth a read: sensorycriminology.com/home/

Amazing to receive my copy of The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology today! 🎉 My chapter analyses ex-soldiers’ embodied sensory and affective experiences of British colonial occupation and #StateViolence in the ‘war on terror‘ #SensoryCriminology #CriminologyandWar #ExMilitary

An exciting day getting a physical copy of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology 🥳 such an amazing experience with all the editors and an incredible achievement for them all 🫶🏻 To top it my chapter secured second place for an internal PGR publication competition 🥹

What happens when, for the last 20yrs, your #NationalSecurity apparatus has, rather than focusing on enemy states/entities, been chasing politically expedient ideological hobgoblins with the encouragement of #ThinkTanks and lobbyists financed by overseas billionaires and #TechBarons ...??

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley

like i love this story and I think it reveals something important. the atari is encoding a ton of information about the rules of chess explicitly in a very small amount of data, and the associational model, despite a much larger amount of data & computation, does not effectively model the game

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Pleased to see our chapter (with @sianlewiscrim.bsky.social) out now in the wonderful 'Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology'

The article is Adebisi, Foluke I. "Seeking the University That Is Ours: Understanding, Unpacking and Unsettling Black Students’ Racialised (Un)Belonging in UK Law Schools." The Law Teacher (2025): 1-17 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Like the Tufton St entities, the Blair Institute, the TPA, Onward etc. dont already push nationalist ideologies + policy positions that serve the interests of US billionaires + the #SurveillenceCapitalism of #TechBarons?? We've been shit at guarding or limiting their influence thus far! #UKPolitics

10 New Prison Facts From The Winter 2025/6 Bromley Briefing @prtuk.bsky.social prison factfile shows indicators on safety, use of force, purposeful activity and overcrowding all deteriorating significantly in the past two years. www.russellwebster.com/10-new-priso...

Here is the new call for papers for /Criminological Encounters/. It is entitled "Towards an Anti-Racist Anti-Criminology" and is hosted by Lambros Fatsis. (Please share widely!) The full CFP and practical details can be found here: criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr...

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

👉The Response of Criminologists for Palestine (C4P) to the recent questions by the ESC to their members. The @ESC is hiding behind the the issue of scientificity - and of following swiss laws on equality- what about international law? Please vote to support C4P criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

I know the bar for senior administrators at most universities is already low, and yet they continue to trip over it. This post is about AI

📢 Still time to sign up, students particularly welcome! Free, online events to launch the #Sensory #Criminology handbook, share ideas and connect: 1 - Thurs 5th Feb, 5pm; GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... 2 - Fri 6th Feb, 10am; GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

It's due to be aired next Tuesday - @brisunipress.bsky.social have very kindly issued a 50% off code for paperback and ebook to mark the occasion.

Online Book Launch!! Routledge International Handbook of #SensoryCriminology We are holding two free online events to cater for different time zones, contributors, and audiences Event 2 - Fri 6th Feb, 10.00 GMT 2. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Zemiology

Hey #Criminology & #CJS, If you're interested in #prison & #SensoryCriminology then check out this week's #ThinkingAloud on BBC #Radio4 @kateherrity.bsky.social will be discussing her book Sound, Order and Survival in Prisons: The Rythms and Routines of HMP Midtown www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...