And once again I'm tapping the sign that privateering and the issuing of letters of marque is a violation of international law as the 1856 Declaration of Paris has been custom for over a century

Grammarly is now an enemy of education "Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating." Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Only way to deal with this: 1. Regularly curate your Scholar profile and delete any #FakeCitations. 2. Push for articles/works that include a false citation of yours to be retracted. 3. Editors/publishers - bar repeat offenders 4. Make this an #academic misconduct issue. #AISlop #EpistemicFraud

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Once more unto the #ECRFriday, dear friends, once more! Laura Haas is a DPhil candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Her article on the deployment experiences of #prison staff with prior military experience is both interesting and impactful. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #Criminology #Psychology

'It's a small percentage of global' was the same line run by the Bitcoin mining folks when trying to dimiss the impacts of their activities. You can put any highly-polluting activity atop a massive denominator to get a teeny percentage and happily dismiss it Wrong for them and wrong for this

Once more unto the #ECRFriday, dear friends, once more! Laura Haas is a DPhil candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Her article on the deployment experiences of #prison staff with prior military experience is both interesting and impactful. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #Criminology #Psychology

I wonder if a live archive of the articles and submissions that include such fake sources would be useful for editors/publishers for: 1. Cross-checking purposes 2. Quality maintenance 3. #AcademicFraud prevention 4. etc. #AcademicBlusky #Criminology #CrimSky #SocialSciences #SciComm

Earlier this year I rejected an article that had 9 non-existent citations. The citations accredited to my partner, a collaborator, a close colleague, and me on topics close to but nothing we've actually published. I was then sent same article to #PeerReview at a different journal. #Criminology

Perhaps people who cite fake papers should be drummed out of the profession. Try writing your own stuff instead of delegating to a bot, ffs.

Hey #CrimSky #Criminology #AcademicSky - It would be great to get a book review or two from within criminology, particularly #prison people. #Sound and #Detention is a cross disciplinary edited volume with sound studies and #Musicology as well as criminology: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...

…. I tried looking up what “Eastern Pacific“ means and our media stenography situation is such that they all reported that phrase without asking ANY questions

Until recently, this term was basically exclusively used by two groups: - bureaucrats and scholars describing people who voluntarily return to their original state - FAR FAR right groups who believe ethnic intermingling is bad and countries should seek to limit it by expelling migrants

In years to come analytical philosophers will debate whether such are indeed referents or no! #AISlop

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Billionaires are nothing but leeches on a society. Let's tax them until there are no more billionaires.

Are they sure it wasn't the Liberation Front of Turtle Island?? #MontyPython #Criminology

Interesting for #criminology and #Zemiology The responses speak to attitudes on #Crime/#LawBreaking and the dismissal of #SocialHarms over individual utility.

Do check out the archive - there are 41 posts ranging from anonymous, system experienced writers to Michael Spurr. We particularly welcome junior academics, with a supportive editorial process. Also some really useful stuff for #teaching #AcademicSky #Criminology #CrimSky

If you teach #MediaAndCrime this is a good example of the dangers of #AISlop and how it relates to #AgendaSettingTheory via #Disinformation The poisoning of our #InfoEcology can have serious consequences for our #criminological understanding of events #criminology

A quick glance at the Home Office Instagram gives you a sense of how far the far right mainstreaming has gone in the UK. (Surprised not to see a Trump-style ASMR of a migrant in chains, but I'm sure that's coming...)

Hey #Criminology See below. 2nd blog in the series introducing the new Routledge International Handbook on #SensoryCriminology It explores the #sensory components of #politics, #violence, and #war (and other things). The blog is a useful #teaching resource. Check out archive. Please reshare

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The reason why such companies are trying to hook states into service dependency. They are not economically viable anymore, but that dependency will provoke subsidy when the bubble inevitably bursts. #AIBubble

This follows the US model from the 70s where the far-right deliberately targeted Churches to bolster a Christian Nationalist movement. The grand narratives and focused religiosity get subverted by the movement so they become entangled in the minds of adherents. #NarrativeCriminology #UKPolitics

Idea is to boost the contribution of an #ECR in #SHAPE or #STEM Rules are simple: 1. Give persons name 2. Tag them if possible 3. Detail title of article/book/presentation 4. Provide a link 5. State discipline (i.e. #Sociology) 6. Use the # #ECRFriday 7. If you see an #ECRFriday post, share it

For this week's #ECRFriday I am promoting Dr Ariadne Fischer who completed her PhD earlier this summer in #prison research. Her first publication is titled: Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment See here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Criminology #CriminalJustice

“There is no justification for continuing this sentence. It is simply unjust.” Lord Thomas on IPP sentences: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipp-sentence-government-blood-lord-thomas-b2877984.html

Built to Harm - new, free publication by @inquest-org.bsky.social - uses detailed case studies & data analysis of deaths in prison to expose how the women’s prison estate continues to harm those it imprisons. Read the Full Report here: www.inquest.org.uk/Handlers/Dow... @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social

Today's the day!!! The e-book is now available, please recommend to your libraries! We're also thinking about how we get the book to all those people who have contributed - directly and indirectly - from Bethlehem to HMP Shotts. Ideas welcome. #Prisons #Confinement #Arts #Music #Sound

A clear example of #ToxicManagerialism in #HigherEd (other than expensive vanity projects, needless restructuring, + bureaucratic bloat) is process that put #academics in direct competition with each other. It ignores the working and epistemic reality of knowledge production/communnication. #HEUK

For those interested in #DigitalCriminology and #DigitalVictimology

Cutting off your economic nose in order to spite your nationalist face! #UKPolitics

Hey all, #Sound and #Detention is out on THURSDAY!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and... If you happen to be in Oslo on January 19th, at 12:30 do come to our bokbad to celebrate! Please share, particularly those of you interested in #prison studies and #sociology, #Musicology, #SoundStudies...

#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

imagine if academics worked-to-rule. 40-40-20 on a 40 hour work week would mean 16 hours on teaching (lol), 16 hours on research (lmao), 8 hours on service (rofl)

Hey #Criminology See below. 2nd blog in the series introducing the new Routledge International Handbook on #SensoryCriminology It explores the #sensory components of #politics, #violence, and #war (and other things). The blog is a useful #teaching resource. Check out archive. Please reshare

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

This is why Elon Musk’s X platform was fined by the EU. Elon refused to follow the regulations that every other platform has to adhere to in the EU. This is not a “free speech” issue.

Hey #Criminology See below. 2nd blog in the series introducing the new Routledge International Handbook on #SensoryCriminology It explores the #sensory components of #politics, #violence, and #war (and other things). The blog is a useful #teaching resource. Check out archive. Please reshare

The researchers show that minor audiovisual glitches during video calls harm interpersonal judgements in consequential life domains and reveal that glitches are associated with both reduced social connection and a lower likelihood of being granted criminal parole.

How do you increase #crime rates in a changing labour market defined by youth precarity?? #criminology #CriminalJustice

The first terrorism act was introduced by the Labour government in 1974 with Temporary Provisions in the title. It was described by Roy Jenkins, SoS Home Dept, as ‘draconian’ and ‘unprecedented in peacetime’. How are we to describe Order 803 under the latest iteration?

I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced

The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners said in a statement that the findings showed an inbuilt bias. It said: “This has meant that in some circumstances it is more likely to incorrectly match black and Asian people than their white counterparts.

Decades after the #murder of #ZahidMubarek at the hands of a known/flagged #racist cellmate in #HMYOIFeltham, #SundeepGhuman is murdered by his known/flagged racist cellmate in #HMPBelmarsh This is where denial of #InstitutionalRacism gets us. No lessons learned www.inquest.org.uk/sundeep-ghum...

A drum I have beaten a lot since it became evident in the Scottish Independent and #Brexit referendums was that we had insufficient exposure and investigations into #ElectoralCrimes and the penetration of hostile foreign entities in #UKPolitics. See below: #NationalSecurity #Criminology #CrimLaw

Hannah's spectacular work is a must for anyone looking at #War #Colonialism #Violence and a fitting star for reawakening #ECRFriday. Look her work up and marvel. And give this a share!!

For #ECRFriday I am going to big up my colleague: Dr Hannah Wilkinson This book chapter explores some of the #EmbodiedHarms of #Militarisation and #War experienced by soldiers/veterans doi.org/10.1007/978-... See also forthcoming chapter in Routledge International Handbook of #SensoryCriminology