Conor O'Reilly

We are delighted to share the inaugural edition of our brand new CCJS newsletter. Every quarter we will be sharing the latest research developments, impact activities, events and other news from across our community. Read the first edition here: campaignmonitor.leeds.ac.uk/t/y-e-cuidyo...

A crowded stadium. Thrilled fans watch from the terraces, fixated by the figures on the brightly-lit court. Over the noise, the commentator shouts excitedly: "Hughes conceives a lovely hypothesis. Wilson tests it through repeated observation. Evans adds experimental data then passes back to Hughes, who states the theory in unambiguous terms and the crowd goes wild!!!"

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Grid of 14 photos of the ground near Glenfada Park in Derry where the fourteen people who were shot by the British Army on Bloody Sunday fell. Taken 30 January 2022, the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre

‘The Fourteen Stations’. Derry, 30 January 2022. Photographs taken on the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday documenting (as closely as is now possible) the spots where the fourteen people fatally shot by the British Army that day fell.

Fungus-infected zombie spiders discovered in Northern Ireland Gibellula attenboroughii was found in an abandoned gunpowder storeroom.

GAH.

Sorry!

We're so sorry. But if we had to look at it, so do you.

We don't make the rules of scientific trauma.

www.popsci.com/environment/...

We are excited to join BlueSky and share all the amazing work of our Centre members. Stay tuned for more information about this year's Annual Lecture and Frank Dawtry Memorial Lecture, both taking place later this semester.

Our @delaferiar.bsky.social weighing in on tax evasion with her customary eloquence. 'The Law applies to everyone, no matter how rich you are'. 👏
#AcademicSky, #LawSky, #Tax

Uisce Salach/Dirty Water — ANNA MARIE SAVAGE Well, hello everyone, I’m back into blogland!!! As I always say (and let me stress that this is only me), I always need a project, a concept, a ‘meaning’ to paint what I paint. A lot of abstract pain...

Blogpost on exciting artivist work on fuel laundering in Irish borderlands by my friend Anna Marie Savage.

Excited to collab with her for my research project on Petro-Culture & Informal Fuel Economy - stay tuned!

www.annamariesavage.com/blog-2-1/uisce-salachdirty-water
@lawatleeds.bsky.social

📣 Calling all PhD students 📣

Applications are now open for the Vulnerability and Policing International PhD Summer School!

📅 Monday 7 – Friday 11 July 2025
📍 University of York, UK

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2025.

Read more and apply:

vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/vulnerabilit...

University of Leeds Tweet about leaving X

@universityofleeds.bsky.social are the latest university to cease posting on X. They are the first one I have seen to have made a formal statement about it.

Shortlist for The Pineapples 2025 awards announced The 2025 shortlist for The Pineapples awards for place has been announced with 110 projects in the running for a golden pineapple for their contribution to place

🍍Our @annabarker.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Pineapple Awards!!
Read more about the awards and her project below👇
tinyurl.com/yfky2vze

@westyorkshireca.bsky.social @mayorofwy.bsky.social @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social @greenflagaward.bsky.social
#LawSky

Finally, big news: my paper, with the results of the Taxation and Inequalities project, is out!! Drawing upon extensive new law data, from 33 countries, and informed by a wide range of disciplines, it provides a new policy roadmap for addressing inequalities through tax systems.

Likewise listening to this - great podcast! Worth checking out Trevor Birney's book 'Shooting Crows' also for link to legacy stuff in contemporary policing that students might enjoy. Similarly hoping to do some (related) research soon also

Adíos Antonio? definitely a film in this...

I'm assuming contractual but meanwhile...financial pressures on university sector etc

Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Digital Technologies - The Citizen Lab The Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time

Exciting-as-exciting can be assistant prof with endowed chair job alert at the Citizen Lab: citizenlab.ca/2024/11/assi...

Legacy issues of The Troubles and dirty war of informants, disappearances, state agents & collusion definitely having cultural reach beyond North. Worth checking these out & works/projects preceding them:

www.fxnetworks.com/shows/say-nothing
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k39tdz
tinyurl.com/yc2zh6cm

Bridging the protection gap: Lived experiences of insecurity and regulatory deficits

Alert: ESRC funded collaborative doctoral studentship to work on insecurity and regulatory deficits in everyday life. Based in @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, supervised by me and Dan Taylor @oupolitics.bsky.social. Collaboration with @unchecked-uk.bsky.social.
www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/bridging-the...

YouTube video by University of Leeds Spotlight on Research: Tackling Rural Domestic Abuse

Today, on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we’re spotlighting @drsamjlewis.bsky.social’s work on rural domestic abuse.

Her research highlights the unique challenges rural communities face and drives meaningful. Learn more.👇

tinyurl.com/52jt9wdt

Faculty success at the 2024 Research Impact and Engagement Awards Faculty of Social Sciences researchers pick up two Research Impact and Engagement Awards at this years' inaugural awards celebrating the long road of engagement and resulting impact.

We’re thrilled to celebrate our researchers’ success at the 2024 Research Impact and Engagement Awards! 🏆

👏 Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's team won the Mature Policy Impact Award

👏 Dr Laura Bainbridge’s team won the Emerging Policy Impact Award

Read more: tinyurl.com/3caanses

More of this please!

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

As @delaferiar.bsky.social often reminds me... #TheresAlwaysATaxAngle

Excellent idea! It seems this is my academic self...word-clouded

#criminology #AcademicSky #ScholarGoggler

Many congrats all & richly deserved!

Last night at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Awards we celebrated the positive impact the #SaferParks project is having on policy and practice. 🏆

The real strength is the collaborative partnership’s commitment to bring about change and the value of doing this by engaging with women and girls.

New thread to summarise what the various #GE24 party manifestos have to say on drug policy:

First, @fiannafailparty.bsky.social:
7358484.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/735848...

Manifesto commits to decriminalisation of personal possession of drugs

Copy & paste of #CADrugUse recommendations

How to get started with academic Bluesky As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, …

How to get started with academic Bluesky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

105. War and Peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East (George Mitchell) Leading · Episode

Inspirational discussion with Senator George Mitchell on negotiating peace and so much more. If 'listening' purposefully is one of the key takeaways, then this is well worth your time

open.spotify.com/episode/76kl...

Many thanks!