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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 1d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 1d

Join us to this ESRC Festival of Social Science event at the QFT with @qubcriminology.bsky.social -
Link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/removed-ho...

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 1d

NEW WORKSHOP: 'Mass incarceration, mass incorporation, and the rise of a protagonist Judiciary in Brazil' with Dr Luiz Dal Santo.

Wed 29 Oct, 4pm (UK time) 🕓

Register bit.ly/4gSUCe0 👈

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Prof Jane Mitchell @jane-mitchell.bsky.social · 1d

How can law students become better leaders, not just learn about leadership? My new article explores how transformative learning theory can reshape how students think, feel, and act: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thanks to all my leadership students + the Santa Clara Law Review!

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the neighbours are having some work done.

Edinburgh Evening News Mon, Oct 6, 2025

Iconic Banana Flats in Leith going retro after £69m upgrade approved

Good to see investment in social housing.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 7d

Draft of my paper on Politics and Policing in Post-Communist Europe is up on @ssrn.bsky.social if that's your kind of thing. Even if it's not your kind of thing, it is still there.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Criminology #Police #Politics #Postcommunism

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of a PhD in Criminology?

You'll find details of the Criminology team at Edinburgh here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/res...

(staff can co-supervise with colleagues in other disciplines)

And more on all our @thesccjr.bsky.social partner institutions here: www.sccjr.ac.uk

#PhDChat

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SCCJR - The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research.

The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding o...

www.sccjr.ac.uk

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?

Need funding?

@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.

www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhDchat #SocSciSky

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Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

SGSSS STUDENT-LED OPEN COMPETITION 2025/26 THE 25/26 CALL IS NOW OPEN FOR ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the Student-Led Open...

www.sgsss.ac.uk

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 5d

The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation's comments on radio 4 today were worrying. He refers to a potential need for legal changes to enable the banning of protests to alleviate the burden on police for national security reasons, while discussing the defend our juries protest on Saturday.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 7d

Draft of my paper on Politics and Policing in Post-Communist Europe is up on @ssrn.bsky.social if that's your kind of thing. Even if it's not your kind of thing, it is still there.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Criminology #Police #Politics #Postcommunism

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Marti Rovira @mrovira.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨

Recruiting a PhD candidate for the project:
“Contextualized Multi-Intervention Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence”

⏳ Deadline: 22/10/2025 – short timeline & demanding application, act fast!

📄 Info (Catalan): drive.google.com/file/d/1g_Wt...

drive.google.com

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10d

Report on Australian Higher Education finds:

🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities

🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms

🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency

🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

One submission said leaders’ salaries could not be “justified by the quality of executive decision-making, nor by the scope of executive duties. The core business of a university – teaching and research – is co-ordinated virtually entirely by ordinary non-executive staff”.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 11d

Newspapers using the phrase "anti-immigrant" should really be called out for their dishonesty and complicity. Black and Brown people are being attacked for being Black or Brown. There are specific and more accurate words to describe this.

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 22d

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 22d

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 15d

Do I have a follower here who is a criminal lawyer in the UK? or teaches British criminal law?
Thanks!

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 13d

Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.

Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t. And in the rush to incorporate GenAI into every nook and cranny of the institution — from the classroom to the finance office — what gets repeatedly ignored is this fundamental paradox: GenAI’s architecture absolutely depends on consciously taken actions that would stand in violation of any of our institutions’ academic-integrity policies.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12d

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 13d

Thrilled to announce that my new book, A Slow Revolution, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2026!

Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, I narrate the story of Sicilians who have fought the mafia at great cost and with extraordinary resilience.

#AcademicSky

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 13d

Image of professional actor, Pilou Asbaek, in character in Game of Thrones

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 13d

Guardian headline: Denmark: Professional Actor behind attacks that closed Danish airports defence minister says

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 14d

For 4 weeks, Criminology @uoelawschool.bsky.social have been hosting Dr. Haezreena (Reena) Begum Abdul Hamid from Universiti Malaya. As her visit comes towards its close, she shared some of her fascinating research on female imprisonment in Malaysia with staff and postgraduate researchers.

B&W image of Reena, seated, talking to audience. One member looks on from the side. Reena gestures to a screen, unseen off to one side of the image.

Wide, colour shot. Audience around tables looking on as Reena starts her talk. At the back of the rom a screen shows a slide of a prisoner, behind bars, and a prison officer.

Shelfie/selfie. Reena in the foreground and me in the background. All smiles. Shelves of books and a picture of the Bosnia and Herzegovina State Detention unit to rear.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 15d

My colleague Paul Behrens' intervention in Chiles v Salazar at US Supreme Court (re. conversion therapy):

"The children and young people who were subjected to these methods never sought to interfere with the rights of others, they just wanted to be who they are."

www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Dr Paul Behrens as amicus curiae at the US Supreme Court | Edinburgh Law School

www.law.ed.ac.uk

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16d

A multi-millionaire attacking working-class families isn't patriotism. It's cowardice.
www.thenational.scot/news/2548477...

Nigel Farage blasted over 'grotesque' plan to axe indefinite leave to remain

NIGEL Farage’s plan to axe indefinite leave to remain (ILR) has been slammed as “grotesque” ...

www.thenational.scot

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 16d

Monday of week 2, even!

Drunk and haggard, Captain Haddock says, "What a semester, huh?"
Looking more together, and a bit surprised, Tintin leans in to say "Captain, it's week 2!"
Snowy/Milu looks excited at the chance to have some of the captain's drink

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 17d

💻 We’ve all been there (God knows I have!): routine slips, words don’t come, and writing feels harder than ever.

✍️In this post, I share 6 practical tips to help you re-start your writing practice and build momentum again:

www.raulpacheco.org/2025/04/6-ti...

#RPVSky

6 tips to re-start your writing practice

It's happened to all of us who write: multiple conflicting commitments, "everything is due yesterday",

www.raulpacheco.org

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