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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‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
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Working on AI trust, security, or related areas? @manchester.ac.uk has advertised three Fellowships (up to 3 years) for postdoctoral researchers who are within four years of completing their PhD www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
AI Trust and Security Fellow:Oxford Road
The Faculty of Humanities has recently received a new £4.73m University investment in AI Trust and Security to drive the Faculty’s vision to be a research leader this field. The investment will help us to build an interdisciplinary research team working in the broad field of AI Trust and Security to build on our existing strengths in Digital Trust, Security and Society. At UoM, we see AI security as part of a set of broader issues of trust and trustworthiness, distrust and trust exploitation, and trust-building and resilience, and promote an interdisciplinary approach to these issues.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Working on AI trust, security, or related areas? @manchester.ac.uk has advertised three Fellowships (up to 3 years) for postdoctoral researchers who are within four years of completing their PhD www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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The principal of Edinburgh Uni earns around £420,000 a year. This week his staff were on strike over the threat of redundancies.
It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
'Obscene' pay of uni fatcat bosses targeted in new proposals before MSPs
Greens co-leader Ross Greer has tabled amendments to a Scottish Government Bill to curb the earnings of top execs at universities and colleges.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The principal of Edinburgh Uni earns around £420,000 a year. This week his staff were on strike over the threat of redundancies.
It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
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Latest UN Femicide statistics show that last year 50,000 women and girls- 137 EVERY DAY - are killed by someone known to them, usually a male partner, or close male relative. For so many women being at home is an utterly terrifying experience.
Femicides in 2024: share.google/mv3FktspmdNy...
Femicides in 2024: share.google/mv3FktspmdNy...
Femicides in 2024: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides
This report presents new global estimates of gender-related killings. Around 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024—about 60 per cent of all female homicides...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Latest UN Femicide statistics show that last year 50,000 women and girls- 137 EVERY DAY - are killed by someone known to them, usually a male partner, or close male relative. For so many women being at home is an utterly terrifying experience.
Femicides in 2024: share.google/mv3FktspmdNy...
Femicides in 2024: share.google/mv3FktspmdNy...
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Friends and colleagues at Leiden Uni are organizing a discussion on a lesser known and followed case, so do join and learn more. #Genocide #MassViolence www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Uyghur genocide
This Symposium aims to raise awareness among students about the Uyghur genocide currently happening in the Xinjiang region, perpetuated by the Chinese government. We will discuss what are the events t...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Friends and colleagues at Leiden Uni are organizing a discussion on a lesser known and followed case, so do join and learn more. #Genocide #MassViolence www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Having started last week on the picket line, I was happy to end it focusing on celebrating students, learning and knowledge creation with graduands from MSc, LLM and PhD programmes at @uoelawschool.bsky.social
#Graduation #Celebrate #Law #Criminology
#Graduation #Celebrate #Law #Criminology
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Having started last week on the picket line, I was happy to end it focusing on celebrating students, learning and knowledge creation with graduands from MSc, LLM and PhD programmes at @uoelawschool.bsky.social
#Graduation #Celebrate #Law #Criminology
#Graduation #Celebrate #Law #Criminology
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I am a torture survivor who came to the UK 20 years ago. The government's new immigration reforms will punish people like me.
The government's immigration 'shake up' will only punish torture survivors like me
www.bigissue.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I am a torture survivor who came to the UK 20 years ago. The government's new immigration reforms will punish people like me.
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...so many talks and retrospectives on Nov 21 marking 30 years after the Dayton Agreement, but a packed multi-generational crowd for legendary Belgrade band Partibrejkers at Sloga in Sarajevo showed the real energy and spirit of great music in a great city
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
...so many talks and retrospectives on Nov 21 marking 30 years after the Dayton Agreement, but a packed multi-generational crowd for legendary Belgrade band Partibrejkers at Sloga in Sarajevo showed the real energy and spirit of great music in a great city
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@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here:
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c.org/BW7b88mRSw
Sign the Petition
An Open Letter to Waterstones Regarding a Sixth Edinburgh Branch in Leith
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here:
c.org/BW7b88mRSw
c.org/BW7b88mRSw
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
Reposting, just in case you don't yet know - next week, in Edinburgh, Prof Mark Findlay is talking on his book, Governing the Metaverse.
Tell your friends, tell your students, tell it to that enigmatic stranger sitting in the corner...
#Law #Regulation #Cyberspace #Metaverse
Tell your friends, tell your students, tell it to that enigmatic stranger sitting in the corner...
#Law #Regulation #Cyberspace #Metaverse
We will be welcoming our Professorial Fellow Mark Findlay back to Edinburgh to talk on his recent book, Governing the Metaverse.
26 November, 1615 hrs (GMT/UTC), in person, MacLaren Stuart Room, Law School, Old College, Edinburgh
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
26 November, 1615 hrs (GMT/UTC), in person, MacLaren Stuart Room, Law School, Old College, Edinburgh
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
Governing the Metaverse: Law Order and Freedom in Digital Space | Edinburgh Law School
www.law.ed.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposting, just in case you don't yet know - next week, in Edinburgh, Prof Mark Findlay is talking on his book, Governing the Metaverse.
Tell your friends, tell your students, tell it to that enigmatic stranger sitting in the corner...
#Law #Regulation #Cyberspace #Metaverse
Tell your friends, tell your students, tell it to that enigmatic stranger sitting in the corner...
#Law #Regulation #Cyberspace #Metaverse
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I want to extend my full support to staff threatened with compulsory redundancy at the University of Edinburgh.
I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.
I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I want to extend my full support to staff threatened with compulsory redundancy at the University of Edinburgh.
I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.
I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.
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'Higher education minister Ben MacPherson told MSPs he was considering whether to use the Scottish Government’s convening powers to compel university chiefs to negotiate with members of the University and Colleges Union (UCU).'
Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
'Higher education minister Ben MacPherson told MSPs he was considering whether to use the Scottish Government’s convening powers to compel university chiefs to negotiate with members of the University and Colleges Union (UCU).'
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Chimpanzees use 22 types of tools in the wild but they are capable of doomscrolling like the rest of us.
This video of Sugriva using Instagram is shocking because it's so similar to how humans use social media--engaging with content that triggers our emotions, like images of our friends and foes.
This video of Sugriva using Instagram is shocking because it's so similar to how humans use social media--engaging with content that triggers our emotions, like images of our friends and foes.
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Chimpanzees use 22 types of tools in the wild but they are capable of doomscrolling like the rest of us.
This video of Sugriva using Instagram is shocking because it's so similar to how humans use social media--engaging with content that triggers our emotions, like images of our friends and foes.
This video of Sugriva using Instagram is shocking because it's so similar to how humans use social media--engaging with content that triggers our emotions, like images of our friends and foes.
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For three days this week, colleagues at the University of Edinburgh are striking as part of UCU Edinburgh‘s ongoing industrial dispute with university management. Colleagues are protesting against the threat of mass redundancies resulting from a manufactured financial... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nuk
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For three days this week, colleagues at the University of Edinburgh are striking as part of UCU Edinburgh‘s ongoing industrial dispute with university management. Colleagues are protesting against the threat of mass redundancies resulting from a manufactured financial... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-nuk
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Blogged: On the threat of mass redundancy
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
On the threat of mass redundancy
For three days this week, colleagues at the University of Edinburgh are striking as part of UCU Edinburgh’s ongoing industrial dispute with university management. Colleagues are protesting ag…
lornamcampbell.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Blogged: On the threat of mass redundancy
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
lornamcampbell.org/higher-educa...
My contribution to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's Lobby Your MSP campaign yesterday, and my own personal experience of redundancy in the past. #ucu #ucustrikes
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Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs
SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
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UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE
Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE
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Don't cross the picket line!
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Don't cross the picket line!
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.
We are striking for a better university, join us!
#StopTheCuts
A soggy morning challenging damaging cuts with my @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social colleagues at Old College.
Read about the dispute here:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
#ucu #StopTheCuts
Read about the dispute here:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
#ucu #StopTheCuts
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A soggy morning challenging damaging cuts with my @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social colleagues at Old College.
Read about the dispute here:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
#ucu #StopTheCuts
Read about the dispute here:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
#ucu #StopTheCuts
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Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
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Argonaut takes the risk of opening a beautiful, independent, community-oriented bookshop in Leith, then big chain @waterstones.bsky.social comes in, having done none of the work, to try and steal their market. I will always support indie bookshops, especially my local @argonautbooks.bsky.social!
Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Argonaut takes the risk of opening a beautiful, independent, community-oriented bookshop in Leith, then big chain @waterstones.bsky.social comes in, having done none of the work, to try and steal their market. I will always support indie bookshops, especially my local @argonautbooks.bsky.social!
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Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
Great to see The National giving a refugee perspective on the Labour govt proposals on asylum.
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Great to see The National giving a refugee perspective on the Labour govt proposals on asylum.
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries