Andy Aydın-Aitchison
@andy8chi.bsky.social
Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
https://voteyesornoai.com
https://voteyesornoai.com
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.
voteyesornoai.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
https://voteyesornoai.com
https://voteyesornoai.com
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
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Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
a group of cartoon characters are playing brass instruments .
Alt: a group of cartoon characters are playing brass instruments .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
a group of cartoon characters are playing brass instruments .
Alt: a group of cartoon characters are playing brass instruments .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on.
Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...
Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj
#OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP
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It's publication day!!! Really looking forward to talking #Sound, #Music and #Detention with the spectacular Aine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Froden in Oslo. Catch us for discount codes and musical chats #Criminology #Musicology #ResearchMethods #AcademicSky www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
It's publication day!!! Really looking forward to talking #Sound, #Music and #Detention with the spectacular Aine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Froden in Oslo. Catch us for discount codes and musical chats #Criminology #Musicology #ResearchMethods #AcademicSky www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...
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For 1st #ECRFriday of 2026: @danicadarley.bsky.social
This, co-authored with Dr Waite, focuses on how the operationalisation of 'vulnerability' can hinder the support/protection its use is supposed to engender.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Criminology
#CriminalJustice
#SocialPolicy
This, co-authored with Dr Waite, focuses on how the operationalisation of 'vulnerability' can hinder the support/protection its use is supposed to engender.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Criminology
#CriminalJustice
#SocialPolicy
Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons
‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide-re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
For 1st #ECRFriday of 2026: @danicadarley.bsky.social
This, co-authored with Dr Waite, focuses on how the operationalisation of 'vulnerability' can hinder the support/protection its use is supposed to engender.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Criminology
#CriminalJustice
#SocialPolicy
This, co-authored with Dr Waite, focuses on how the operationalisation of 'vulnerability' can hinder the support/protection its use is supposed to engender.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Criminology
#CriminalJustice
#SocialPolicy
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🚨Job alert! 🚨
I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.
⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26
More info:
I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.
⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26
More info:
Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
www.hu-berlin.de
January 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
🚨Job alert! 🚨
I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.
⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26
More info:
I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.
⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26
More info:
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✨️ Starting the new year with a new article by Dr Ben Matthews and colleagues:
'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis'
#children #CareExperience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis'
#children #CareExperience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis
Placement stability is an important concern for children looked after. Sequence analysis has been proposed as a promising method by which to quantitat…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
✨️ Starting the new year with a new article by Dr Ben Matthews and colleagues:
'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis'
#children #CareExperience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis'
#children #CareExperience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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✍️ Please sign and share my latest petition!
In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain.
So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops.
🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1
In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain.
So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops.
🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1
Petition: Do not increase the time migrants with ILR need to wait to apply for citizenship
We ask the Government and Parliament not to amend the British Nationality Act 1981 to increase the qualifying period for migrants with indefinite leave to remain (ILR) to become eligible to apply for ...
petition.parliament.uk
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
✍️ Please sign and share my latest petition!
In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain.
So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops.
🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1
In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain.
So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops.
🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1
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A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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🙋Did you know that Edinburgh's "official" Hogmanay festivities are an ancient tradition dating back to the last century? 🎆
1993 to be precise.
The event was dreamed up by Edinburgh Marketing and Unique Events Ltd. to "[package] Edinburgh more effectively" and thus "improve the visitor experience" 🧵👇
1993 to be precise.
The event was dreamed up by Edinburgh Marketing and Unique Events Ltd. to "[package] Edinburgh more effectively" and thus "improve the visitor experience" 🧵👇
December 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🙋Did you know that Edinburgh's "official" Hogmanay festivities are an ancient tradition dating back to the last century? 🎆
1993 to be precise.
The event was dreamed up by Edinburgh Marketing and Unique Events Ltd. to "[package] Edinburgh more effectively" and thus "improve the visitor experience" 🧵👇
1993 to be precise.
The event was dreamed up by Edinburgh Marketing and Unique Events Ltd. to "[package] Edinburgh more effectively" and thus "improve the visitor experience" 🧵👇
Turns out the director's name was Noé, not Noël, and he really, really does not specialise in Christmas films.
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Turns out the director's name was Noé, not Noël, and he really, really does not specialise in Christmas films.
Not a starter pack, but a list to welcome anyone new and looking for criminology.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Reply or message to be added.
#Criminology
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Reply or message to be added.
#Criminology
With this upsurge in migration, now would be a good time to recirculate your starter packs.
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Not a starter pack, but a list to welcome anyone new and looking for criminology.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Reply or message to be added.
#Criminology
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Reply or message to be added.
#Criminology
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In his first hundred years of business in Scotland, Santa Claus delivered to children on Hogmanay (31st Dec), not Christmas Eve.
By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England.
#OldWeirdScotland
By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England.
#OldWeirdScotland
December 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In his first hundred years of business in Scotland, Santa Claus delivered to children on Hogmanay (31st Dec), not Christmas Eve.
By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England.
#OldWeirdScotland
By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England.
#OldWeirdScotland
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💥open access to :
- various full scale articles
-short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ)
-opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey
-interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova
-in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero
-Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre
- various full scale articles
-short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ)
-opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey
-interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova
-in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero
-Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
💥open access to :
- various full scale articles
-short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ)
-opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey
-interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova
-in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero
-Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre
- various full scale articles
-short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ)
-opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey
-interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova
-in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero
-Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre
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Our forum on oligarchic sovereignty is now available from @risjnl.bsky.social!
And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.
And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly
- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly
- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Our forum on oligarchic sovereignty is now available from @risjnl.bsky.social!
And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.
And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.
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My preprint of the book chapter "Large Language Models as a (Bad) Security Norm in the Context of Regulation and Compliance is out! arxiv.org/abs/2512.16419 Presented at ILPC (Information Law and Policy Centre) 2024 conference, which is in University of London's Institute of Advanced Studies.
Large Language Models as a (Bad) Security Norm in the Context of Regulation and Compliance
The use of Large Language Models (LLM) by providers of cybersecurity and digital infrastructures of all kinds is an ongoing development. It is suggested and on an experimental basis used to write the ...
arxiv.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My preprint of the book chapter "Large Language Models as a (Bad) Security Norm in the Context of Regulation and Compliance is out! arxiv.org/abs/2512.16419 Presented at ILPC (Information Law and Policy Centre) 2024 conference, which is in University of London's Institute of Advanced Studies.
Book talk: Joshua Page, Legal Plunder - The Predatory Dimensions of (US) Criminal Justice
12 March, 1615 (UTC, Edinburgh), School of Law, Old College, Quad Teaching Room
Details and Registration: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Research #USA #Edinburgh
12 March, 1615 (UTC, Edinburgh), School of Law, Old College, Quad Teaching Room
Details and Registration: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Research #USA #Edinburgh
December 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Book talk: Joshua Page, Legal Plunder - The Predatory Dimensions of (US) Criminal Justice
12 March, 1615 (UTC, Edinburgh), School of Law, Old College, Quad Teaching Room
Details and Registration: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Research #USA #Edinburgh
12 March, 1615 (UTC, Edinburgh), School of Law, Old College, Quad Teaching Room
Details and Registration: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Research #USA #Edinburgh
First attempt at a vegan cake. Cinnamon, apple and raisins pre-soaked in apple rakija.
Verdict, not too shabby.
Verdict, not too shabby.
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
First attempt at a vegan cake. Cinnamon, apple and raisins pre-soaked in apple rakija.
Verdict, not too shabby.
Verdict, not too shabby.
😂😱
Academics now need a section of their cv for heavily cited papers by them that they did not actually write.
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...
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...
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
😂😱
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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...
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...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
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...
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Details: vacancies.bournemouth.ac.uk/vacancies/57...
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Lecturer (Academic) Criminology and Criminal Justice in Dorset House (Bournemouth - Talbot) | Bournemouth University
View details and apply for this Lecturer (Academic) Criminology and Criminal Justice vacancy in Dorset House (Bournemouth - Talbot). T he newly established School of Law and Society is looking to...
vacancies.bournemouth.ac.uk
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Details: vacancies.bournemouth.ac.uk/vacancies/57...
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢
Please do share widely 1/3
Please do share widely 1/3
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢
Please do share widely 1/3
Please do share widely 1/3
A date for your diary
@harryannison.bsky.social is in Edinburgh, Thursday 5 February at 4pm (UTC), talking on "Contesting Parole: Notes on the Politics of Conditional Prison Release"
Full details and registration:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Politics #Research
@harryannison.bsky.social is in Edinburgh, Thursday 5 February at 4pm (UTC), talking on "Contesting Parole: Notes on the Politics of Conditional Prison Release"
Full details and registration:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Politics #Research
Contesting Parole: Notes on the Politics of Conditional Prison Release | Edinburgh Law School
www.law.ed.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A date for your diary
@harryannison.bsky.social is in Edinburgh, Thursday 5 February at 4pm (UTC), talking on "Contesting Parole: Notes on the Politics of Conditional Prison Release"
Full details and registration:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Politics #Research
@harryannison.bsky.social is in Edinburgh, Thursday 5 February at 4pm (UTC), talking on "Contesting Parole: Notes on the Politics of Conditional Prison Release"
Full details and registration:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Politics #Research