Report on Australian Higher Education finds: 🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities 🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms 🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency 🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

Newspapers using the phrase "anti-immigrant" should really be called out for their dishonesty and complicity. Black and Brown people are being attacked for being Black or Brown. There are specific and more accurate words to describe this.

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

Do I have a follower here who is a criminal lawyer in the UK? or teaches British criminal law? Thanks!

Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Thrilled to announce that my new book, A Slow Revolution, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2026! Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, I narrate the story of Sicilians who have fought the mafia at great cost and with extraordinary resilience. #AcademicSky

For 4 weeks, Criminology @uoelawschool.bsky.social have been hosting Dr. Haezreena (Reena) Begum Abdul Hamid from Universiti Malaya. As her visit comes towards its close, she shared some of her fascinating research on female imprisonment in Malaysia with staff and postgraduate researchers.

My colleague Paul Behrens' intervention in Chiles v Salazar at US Supreme Court (re. conversion therapy): "The children and young people who were subjected to these methods never sought to interfere with the rights of others, they just wanted to be who they are." www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

A multi-millionaire attacking working-class families isn't patriotism. It's cowardice. www.thenational.scot/news/2548477...

Monday of week 2, even!

💻 We’ve all been there (God knows I have!): routine slips, words don’t come, and writing feels harder than ever. ✍️In this post, I share 6 practical tips to help you re-start your writing practice and build momentum again: www.raulpacheco.org/2025/04/6-ti... #RPVSky

Be part of the movement that brings hope back to our politics. Join a party brave enough to take on the rich and powerful. Help us fight for people and planet. ✍️👇

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

This week we had a wonderful workshop with Maano Ramutsindela & @ahubschle.bsky.social this week; they respected their new research on transfrontier parks and harmscapes. It was a great way to meet old friends & new ⬇️

The report by Michele Burman, Olivia Smith, Oona Brooks-Hay & Yassin Brunger is available to read on the SCCJR website now. 📄https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/publication/digital-communications-as-evidence-ccrc/ @uofglasgow.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social Queen's University Belfast.

"The far right scapegoats people who have been through unimaginable trauma, blaming them for failures in housing, public services, and the economy that are in fact the fault of governments this country has elected." - @patrickharvie.bsky.social 👉 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2541082...

Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing. There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation. Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...

There wasn’t 110,000 people there yesterday, btw. Not sure why the police parrot the lines of their irritants. But for context: London Pride: 1.5 million Notting Hill: 2 million Pro-Palestine march: 500,000 These people are a tiny, entitled minority and should be treated as such, not courted

All the best clients sign cheques freely then quickly move to lay off staff 🙄 www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Slightly diminish a book: Anti-social Behaviour and Punishment

I have just returned from Kranjska Gora and Bled in Slovenia, after spending seven days with a group of young Bosnian-Herzegovinian politicians. Here is what I learnt. 🧵

📢New publication!! In this article I play around with the fictions (or frauds?) of transparency within international courts and tribunals and examine how transparency and secrecy constitute power and authority academic.oup.com/jids/article...

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

Faculty and admins should play Freaky Friday at least once in their careers. It’s not easy either way

Last week, me and Moosa Izzat gave one of the plenaries at the conference ‘New Right, Authoritarianism and Penality’, wonderfully organised by our dear colleagues @ecrimudc.bsky.social An excellent summary of the contributions can be found here: ecrim.es/internationa...

📄 ✨️ New open access article co-authored by Dr Ben Matthews with Australian scholars: 'Examining the Role of Police-Led Diversion in the Youth Crime Decline in Australia: A Macro-Level Longitudinal Analysis' #Policing #Criminology #Youth #Australia #Academia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is all about social control, about political intimidation, about the desire to inflict pain on citizens of one's own country that the incessant propagandist tirades on Fox News and its lesser progeny have dehumanized. It is not about crime. And any paper that stenographers that is complicit.

The police must focus on serious crimes... like pensioners holding up protest signs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's all grand in Bursa. Ulu Cami (Grand Mosque, 14th century), with Uludağ (Grand mountain, older still) to the rear.

Postdoctoral Fellow working on Abortion Care, based in Law and working with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. @agomoni.bsky.social Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📣 Mentors wanted! Have you studied at Master's degree level or higher? Have 4-6 hours a month to spare? 🙋 Oxford's Refugee-Led Research Hub is looking for mentors to provide application support to displaced students applying for master’s degrees. For more info ➡️ drive.google.com/file/d/113tv...

Today in adventures in coffee orders, I managed to convey my name as Hande (hanım). I think either my accent needs work, or I should adopt a Turkish name for these occasions (nominations welcome).

Attention all Year 1 and 2 students! Sign up for our popular Semester 1 course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World! Hear from experts across departments to understand how gender shapes everyday life, technology, ecologies, and politics.

A happy place. Sat with a grilled mackerel sandwich at Berat Usta's on the Mudanya shore.

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Pumpkin adventurers

This is my new pinned post to show my different commission types: Character sheets: £40 Individual character: £10 (+£5 to include a simple background). Please send me a message if you would like one, thank you very much.

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

Some good journalism on this in Manchester manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

This flag shagging is not patriotism, and flags are not neutral. The same thing is happening on GRT sites across the country too. Racists are emboldened by our government and prime minister, and are acting as if they have impunity. Which they basically do.

It is victory day in Turkey. Scenes from Mudanya.

I’ve signed this petition to ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Fantastic news!

Yesterday Panteion University of Social and Political Science withdrew its patronage from the Eurocrim2025 conference in Athens #eurocrim #criminology #crimsky via @brunildapali.bsky.social www.panteion.gr/wp-content/u...

One of the more disgusting regime moves in a country barely surviving due to disgusting regime moves.

I see the new Criminal Justice in Scotland in the pile 😃

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.