Dr J Warr
@warrcrim.bsky.social
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim
If you are interested in #SensoryCriminology and #Sensory studies in #Criminology, #Victimology, #CriminalJustice, and #Zemiology then see this:
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 1
This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…
sensorycriminology.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you are interested in #SensoryCriminology and #Sensory studies in #Criminology, #Victimology, #CriminalJustice, and #Zemiology then see this:
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
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An experiment in the limits of blogging... Please do follow the series and feel free to comment/join the discussion...
New blog post discussing our forthcoming International Handbook on #Sensory #Criminology. We're leaving the comments open to encourage discussion and engagement - particularly from students. The first in the series #AcademicSky #CrimSky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 1
This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…
sensorycriminology.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
An experiment in the limits of blogging... Please do follow the series and feel free to comment/join the discussion...
Reposted by Dr J Warr
New blog post discussing our forthcoming International Handbook on #Sensory #Criminology. We're leaving the comments open to encourage discussion and engagement - particularly from students. The first in the series #AcademicSky #CrimSky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 1
This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…
sensorycriminology.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New blog post discussing our forthcoming International Handbook on #Sensory #Criminology. We're leaving the comments open to encourage discussion and engagement - particularly from students. The first in the series #AcademicSky #CrimSky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
There is good reason to believe that there has been direct #Russian interference in #UKPolitics throughout all #elections and referenda in the 21st Century.
Whether that be through funding, lobbying, subverting, corrupting, or coopting #MPs/EMPs, campaigns, or political reporting.
We need answers!
Whether that be through funding, lobbying, subverting, corrupting, or coopting #MPs/EMPs, campaigns, or political reporting.
We need answers!
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
There is good reason to believe that there has been direct #Russian interference in #UKPolitics throughout all #elections and referenda in the 21st Century.
Whether that be through funding, lobbying, subverting, corrupting, or coopting #MPs/EMPs, campaigns, or political reporting.
We need answers!
Whether that be through funding, lobbying, subverting, corrupting, or coopting #MPs/EMPs, campaigns, or political reporting.
We need answers!
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
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Having spent a lot of my life at HCA, I can thoroughly recommend it - go apply if this is a good fit for you!
FYI: This position is for someone with a focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
FYI: This position is for someone with a focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh (School of History, Classics and Archaeology):
memorients.com/news/postdoc...
memorients.com/news/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh | MEMOs
The University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
memorients.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Having spent a lot of my life at HCA, I can thoroughly recommend it - go apply if this is a good fit for you!
FYI: This position is for someone with a focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
FYI: This position is for someone with a focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
Just reading through the #CovidInquiry report (covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/mo...) and am disturbed to see the complete absence of discussion on decision making and political governance as it relates to #prisons + #DeathsInCustody
Given the decisions made at the time this is shocking!
#CJS
Given the decisions made at the time this is shocking!
#CJS
Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report - Core decision-making and political governance UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives
A report by The Rt Hon the Baroness Hallett DBE, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on the core decision-making and political governance, dated 20 November 2025.
covid19.public-inquiry.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Just reading through the #CovidInquiry report (covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/mo...) and am disturbed to see the complete absence of discussion on decision making and political governance as it relates to #prisons + #DeathsInCustody
Given the decisions made at the time this is shocking!
#CJS
Given the decisions made at the time this is shocking!
#CJS
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Likewise 'if that means closures of departments and programmes limit students' choice of area and location of study'. Student choice, the mantra of days gone by, is being killed by a thousand uncoordinated cuts.
Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Likewise 'if that means closures of departments and programmes limit students' choice of area and location of study'. Student choice, the mantra of days gone by, is being killed by a thousand uncoordinated cuts.
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It is outrageous that all YOIs in England are delivering less than children's legally mandated 15 hours education a week.
When we hold young people in detention, we must give them the building blocks for a better future. The Government must put education first, for all young people in custody.
When we hold young people in detention, we must give them the building blocks for a better future. The Government must put education first, for all young people in custody.
For the nearly 300 children in England's YOIs, access to education is restricted, with some spending more than 22 hours a day locked in their cells. This cannot be tolerated by the government any longer: it must put education first.
https://ow.ly/q54w50XwMJ1
https://ow.ly/q54w50XwMJ1
England's three YOIs fail 15-hour education requirement
None of England’s young offender institutions provided children in their care with the education they were entitled to during the last three years reveals probe
ow.ly
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It is outrageous that all YOIs in England are delivering less than children's legally mandated 15 hours education a week.
When we hold young people in detention, we must give them the building blocks for a better future. The Government must put education first, for all young people in custody.
When we hold young people in detention, we must give them the building blocks for a better future. The Government must put education first, for all young people in custody.
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Hey all #AcademicSky, #Criminology, join us at 1pm tomorrow to talk all things #sensory and #sound in #prison
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
New Directions: The Senses in Prison - With Dr Kate Herrity
Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Dr Kate Herrity, exploring the sensory experiences of prisoners and its impact.
www.eventbrite.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hey all #AcademicSky, #Criminology, join us at 1pm tomorrow to talk all things #sensory and #sound in #prison
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
Saxony plans to use drones to film inside moving cars. The aim is to catch people using their cell phones while driving. Police will also use behavioral scanners, Palantir data analysis, live facial recognition, facial search engines, and government-deployed malware.
Sachsen will mit Drohnen in fahrende Autos filmen. So sollen Menschen überführt werden, die beim Fahren ihr Handy bedienen. Die Polizei soll außerdem Verhaltensscanner, Palantir-Datenanalyse, Live-Gesichtserkennung, Gesichter-Suchmaschinen und Staatstrojaner nutzen.
netzpolitik.org/2025/novelle...
netzpolitik.org/2025/novelle...
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
40 years ago the top rate of tax was 60% in the UK.
This was under Thatcher.
If those earning over £100,000p/a (whether that be direct or through passive income) were taxed at that rate what would that generate for the public purse???
#UKTax
This was under Thatcher.
If those earning over £100,000p/a (whether that be direct or through passive income) were taxed at that rate what would that generate for the public purse???
#UKTax
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
40 years ago the top rate of tax was 60% in the UK.
This was under Thatcher.
If those earning over £100,000p/a (whether that be direct or through passive income) were taxed at that rate what would that generate for the public purse???
#UKTax
This was under Thatcher.
If those earning over £100,000p/a (whether that be direct or through passive income) were taxed at that rate what would that generate for the public purse???
#UKTax
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Folks seem to be forgetting this so I’m here to remind you:
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
10 Undeniable Facts About the Michael Jackson Sexual-Abuse Allegations
The author, who spent more than a decade covering the scandal for V.F., shares the key revelations and insights that viewers of the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland need to know.
www.vanityfair.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Folks seem to be forgetting this so I’m here to remind you:
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘
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Musk may have inadvertently provided an idea for how governments can begin to combat disinformation. Mandatory country of origin details on every account.
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Musk may have inadvertently provided an idea for how governments can begin to combat disinformation. Mandatory country of origin details on every account.
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Project MUSE - The Evolution of Platform Science
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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important on LLMs for academics:
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
![5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreieufyngjbrn23zkmesrimcwemxkxtaf2x7d3bedjt7bg65htgtkrm@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
important on LLMs for academics:
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
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New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
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NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
This should be a key #AcademicRules!
Reviewers are allowed to have their opinions about a text but they should not misrepresent what is and is not in the text
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This should be a key #AcademicRules!
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
This week has been death by a thousand bureaucratic cuts (someone really needs to write an article on #BureaucraticRage in #HE), structural dread, dental vandalism (thanks @kateherrity.bsky.social for descibing it thus), and ocular assault.
Is it over yet??
#HigherEducation
#Criminology
Is it over yet??
#HigherEducation
#Criminology
a stuffed animal is sitting on a large rock .
ALT: a stuffed animal is sitting on a large rock .
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week has been death by a thousand bureaucratic cuts (someone really needs to write an article on #BureaucraticRage in #HE), structural dread, dental vandalism (thanks @kateherrity.bsky.social for descibing it thus), and ocular assault.
Is it over yet??
#HigherEducation
#Criminology
Is it over yet??
#HigherEducation
#Criminology
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Former Ukip MEP and ex-leader of Reform in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10.5 years for taking bribes for pro-Russian statements
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
U.K. Politician Admits Making Pro-Russia Statements in Return for Bribes
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Former Ukip MEP and ex-leader of Reform in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10.5 years for taking bribes for pro-Russian statements
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...