Melanie Flynn
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Melanie Flynn
@animalcrim.bsky.social
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AKA Crimtweets. Senior Lecturer Criminology & Associate Dean for Research. Nonhuman animal victimology, vegan criminology, environmental justice, crime analysis, crime prevention, evidence based policing, spatial crime concentrations, routine activities.
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#Webinar alert. Effects of #fisheriesregulation on #coastalcommunities featuring my own fantastic PhD student Stephanie Young Adika. October 24th 2025, 12:00GMT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#marinelaw #oceangoverance #greencriminology
#Webinar alert. Effects of #fisheriesregulation on #coastalcommunities featuring my own fantastic PhD student Stephanie Young Adika. October 24th 2025, 12:00GMT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#marinelaw #oceangoverance #greencriminology
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Space may be the final frontier, but the modern race to launch rockets and satellites at an unsurpassed rate has generated a large and rapidly growing environmental footprint, the full effects of which are poorly understood.

Analysts say proactive national and international regulations are needed.
Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks
The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near future as the commercial and international space race takes off. Three projects alone —…
news.mongabay.com
Ooh! Downloaded and looking forward to reading this.
6. More research is needed, exploring MO, geographic patterns, and dog characteristics.

Next paper: Dogs as victims of abduction - assessing the impacts. Watch this space!
2. Thefts increased as opportunity increased - more dogs, higher prices.
3. More likely to occur during summer months and in the home/garden.
4. Very low number of detections.
5. Rational choice and routine activity seem to be good explanatory approaches.
#dogtheft #dogabduction
Written with John Walliss (Derby) and @drdanielallen.bsky.social the key messages are:
1. There was an increase in reported dog thefts during the pandemic, but this doesn't seem to be directly related to lockdown.
#dogtheft #dogabduction #animalharm #animalvictimology #greencriminology
A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).
Day 30 of #30DaysWild.
We did it! The boys built wildlife houses in Minecraft to celebrate and they got their certificates. Year 3 done!
Day 29 of #30DaysWild.
A bike ride (walk for me). We thought about how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful place.
We also see this dude.
Day 28 of #30DaysWild.
We visited the garden centre today to re-stock the hanging basket. (We bought a couple of chilli plants too).
Day 27 of #30DaysWild.
We played Plop Trumps and learned about various animals and their poo!
Day 26 of #30DaysWild.
Another walk and we spotted a ladybird pupa!
Day 25 of #30DaysWild.
We bought this Lego as a present for the boys for completing the 30 days, but they’ve been so good while I had Covid and still wanted to keep it up even though I said we could stop. So we let them make them tonight.
Day 24 of #30DaysWild.
Another local walk. Flowers of many different colours.
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Still just over a week to apply for this role.
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
Day 23 of #30DaysWild.
We watched a nature documentary about marine life and then built a Lego fish (from a set).
Day 22 of #30DaysWild.
Our first walk since week one, when twin 2 hurt his ankle. Just a little, wet, wildlife hunt as I’m still recovering from Covid. We saw many many snails!
Day 21 of #30DaysWild.
Due to the heat, one of the boys designed two automated cooling devices for birds/wildlife. The other designed a fox house. As it is #worldgiraffeday we also read some facts about these fascinating creatures.