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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 21

The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely
@europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social

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Demand action from the ESC: petition to end complicity

We, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ...

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Prof | Dr Anna Sergi @annasergi.bsky.social · Aug 28

As a European Criminologist, and a Winner of the Early Career Award of the European Society of Criminology I condemn the statement by colleagues of the Israeli Society of Criminology: it is a betrayal of our commitment to be social scientists led by facts and reason

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As part of my commitment to European Criminology next week I will be participating in #Eurocrim2025 in Athens. During the General Assembly we will need to debate on a motion about the European...

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · Jul 26

Butter Theory explained.
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #butter #CostOfLiving

Cartoon. Title: “Butter Theory”. In a small picture Finance Minister Nicola Willis is saying, “I’ve invited Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell to explain to you Butter Theory” Large picture of Miles Hurrell, who is saying, “The excellent returns farmers are making on butter, trickles down to the NZ Consumer in the form of eye-watering prices” accompanied by a small picture of a weeping woman with small amount of butter plopping on her head. The cartoon closes with Nicola Willis saying, “Thank you, Miles. We can see why you’re paid $6 million a year”

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Janey Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · Feb 19

A very distressing C4 report tonight on pregnant women prisoners being handcuffed during childbirth, despite it being against MoJ policy. Those policies aren’t worth the paper they’re written on — the only way to keep pregnant women safe is to stop sending them to prison.

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Feb 19

‘Prison will never be a safe place to be pregnant’ – campaigner

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‘Prison will never be a safe place to be pregnant’ – campaigner

We spoke to Janey Starling from the feminist campaign group Level Up, and former prison governor Pia Sinha who now heads the Prison Reform Trust.

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The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social · Jan 21

Winchester: A truly squalid, overcrowded Victorian jail.

The prison received an awful inspection report in 2022, but things have gone from bad to worse.

Read our response to @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social's inspection report:
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Poor cell conditions at Winchester prison.

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Russell Webster @russellwebster.com · Jan 21

Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail
James Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @syalrajeev.bsky.social on @theguardian.com

Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and Wales

Exclusive: Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Jan 19

Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population – about 53% of the median US worker’s wage.

Reentry is difficult in and of itself. How is anyone supposed to successfully navigate it without financial stability?

Graph titled: Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Jan 6

First co-authored publication from my postdoc!

‘It’s like you’re still in jail’: exploring the subjugation of emotional knowledge in prison-to-community #reintegration in Canada

Co-authored with Sophie Lachapelle and Jennifer M. Kilty.

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#criminology #reentry #parole #carceral

‘It’s like you’re still in jail’: exploring the subjugation of emotional knowledge in prison-to-community reintegration in Canada

Reintegration means being released from prison and returning to the community; however, the process is much more complex than this simplistic definition implies. In addition to acquiring the resour...

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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · Dec 19

This govt really is the grinch who stole Christmas. What an awful month for social sciences and humanities scholars in Aotearoa - here culture is also named! Feeling deeply for colleagues and very worried for our universities and society. This stuff matters!

Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · Dec 19

And funding opportunities for the social sciences and humanities have been cut from the Horizon Europe programme. 🤬

Changes to MBIE’s Horizon Europe Top-Up fund scheme

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MBIE is providing an update on the Horizon Europe Top-Up funding scheme.

Change to Top-Up fund eligibility for projects in Cluster 2 

From 1 February 2025, projects in Cluster 2, Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society, will no longer be eligible for funding through the MBIE Horizon Europe Top-Up funding scheme.

This change is being made to align the Top-Up fund settings with the Government’s priorities for Science, Innovation & Technology investments, and direction outlined in the Catalyst Fund investment Plan. Research organisations who have submitted a proposal for a Cluster 2 project which opened before 1 February 2025 and who registered for Top-Up funding with MBIE within 10 working days of the European Commission (EC) call for proposals closing will still be eligible for Horizon Europe Top-Up funding.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · Dec 10

My union’s statement and open letter on the short-sighted cuts to #SocialSciences and #Humanities from the #Marsden Fund. #AcademicSky

www.together.org.nz/love_humanit...

Save Humanities and Social Sciences

Join us in building a better world

www.together.org.nz

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flaneuse1.bsky.social @flaneuse1.bsky.social · Dec 6

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · Dec 5

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer... Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of December 2 - 8

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Alice Mills @alicemillsnz.bsky.social · Dec 5

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Marsden Fund cuts a win for 'convenient' evidence

From the University of Auckland – Opinion: Cutting social sciences and humanities from NZ’s ‘blue skies’ research funding means dark times for independent thought.

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Juliet Gerrard @julietgerrard.bsky.social · Dec 4

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Juliet Gerrard: Funding the whole pie

It's a tiny portion of our overall funding, yet social sciences and humanities research makes a massive impact. Without it, the pie starts to crumble.

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Alice Mills @alicemillsnz.bsky.social · Dec 5

agreed!

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · Dec 4

A fairly straightforward take down of this government's idiocy, myopia, and spite.
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Anne Salmond: Govt de-funding the mind

Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both bad policy and scientifically illiterate, writes Dame Anne Salmond

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Elizabeth Stanley @proflizzystanley.bsky.social · Dec 4

It is startling to see the shifts towards authoritarianism ...limiting pluralism, fixating on 'problem' groups, expanding law n order, extending non-transparent decision-making, protecting dominant economic-political interests...everyday, there's another contribution

Elizabeth Stanley @proflizzystanley.bsky.social · Dec 4

NZ govt has removed the humanities & soc sciences from main independent funding (Marsden). Now focused on 'economic benefit' projects

Extraordinary in its ideological focus; lack of understanding about how economy, politics, arts and socio-cultures intersect; and disregard of quality of life in NZ

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Alice Mills @alicemillsnz.bsky.social · Dec 4

A dark day indeed

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · Dec 4

In the most direct statement yet that NZ's hard right government is totally opposed to any research that might challenge the social order they support, they have stripped the Humanities & Social Science panels from the largest fund for innovative research in the country.

Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and contributes to science with a purpose.
“The Government has been clear in its mandate to rebuild our economy. We are focused on a system that supports growth, and a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs,” Ms Collins says
“I have updated the Marsden Fund Investment Plan and Terms of Reference to ensure that future funding is going to science that helps to meet this goal.”
The new Investment Plan focuses on supporting research that can be of economic, environmental or health benefit to New Zealand. The new Terms of Reference outline that approximately 50 per cent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic benefits to New Zealand.
“The Marsden Fund will continue to support blue-skies research, the type that advances new ideas and encourages innovation and creativity and where the benefit may not be immediately apparent. It is important that we support new ideas which lead to developing new technologies and products, boosting economic growth, and enhancing New Zealand's quality of life,” Ms Collins says.
“The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.

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Tea Fredriksson @spookademic.bsky.social · Nov 17

Making a first post in a new place is tricky—good thing the book @robingalnander.bsky.social and I wrote has a cover now so that I know what to throw out there. 🥳

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