Melanie Flynn

Flyer for Listening to the Unheard: The effects of fisheries regulations on coastal communities. This webinar launcges the Just SeaCurity Dialogues based at the University of St Andrews, which creates opportunities for emerging researchers to: shae ongoing work and receive expert feedback, explore theoretical and methodological approaches, build collaborative relationships across institutions, connect with diverse ocean governance networks, contribute to special issues and an edited book project. NB This webinar is the first of a 2-part series that targets both researchers (1) and practitioners (2).

#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

Flyer for Listening to the Unheard: The effects of fisheries regulations on coastal communities. This webinar launcges the Just SeaCurity Dialogues based at the University of St Andrews, which creates opportunities for emerging researchers to: shae ongoing work and receive expert feedback, explore theoretical and methodological approaches, build collaborative relationships across institutions, connect with diverse ocean governance networks, contribute to special issues and an edited book project. NB This webinar is the first of a 2-part series that targets both researchers (1) and practitioners (2).

#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

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 —…

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.

Ooh! Downloaded and looking forward to reading this.

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

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/...).

Three new books: Island Criminology by John Scott and Zoe Staines, SpyCops by Raphael Schlembach, and Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene edited by Ragnhild Sollund and Martine Lie.

50% off @brisunipress.bsky.social so I treated myself!

Absolutely nails it. #oldschool #vegan

Day 30 of #30DaysWild.
We did it! The boys built wildlife houses in Minecraft to celebrate and they got their certificates. Year 3 done!

Two boys sit on a bench in the countryside, their bikes propped up behind them. They are looking at the view across a valley containing a reservoir. Hills and trees can be seen in the distance.

Day 29 of #30DaysWild.
A bike ride (walk for me). We thought about how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful place.

A bee sits on a pink thistle.

We also see this dude.

Various plants are set out on a table ready to be planted into a hanging basket. A child’s hand reaches over pointing at some lobelia.

The finished hanging basket ready to be hung by our front door. Silver cineraria can be seen in the centre, with two pink brachyscome. Trailing lobelia has been planted all around the edge of the basket.

Day 28 of #30DaysWild.
We visited the garden centre today to re-stock the hanging basket. (We bought a couple of chilli plants too).

Two top trumps cards. The word kestrel can be seen on the bottom card. The one on top says fox. There is a picture of fox poo, a panel on the left contains information about foxes and on the right are various scores for Frequency, Hardness, Length, Width, Smelliness, and Yuck Factor.

Day 27 of #30DaysWild.
We played Plop Trumps and learned about various animals and their poo!

A black and orange ladybird pupa attached to a green leaf.

Day 26 of #30DaysWild.
Another walk and we spotted a ladybird pupa!

Two small Lego plant pots, one blue, one yellow, contain Lego plants. Both have arms and a smiling face.

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.

A collage of 9 pictures showing flowers, leaves and seed pods of various colours: purples, pinks, yellows, oranges, whites, and greens.

Day 24 of #30DaysWild.
Another local walk. Flowers of many different colours.

Still just over a week to apply for this role.

A blue and yellow tropical-style fish built from Lego.

Day 23 of #30DaysWild.
We watched a nature documentary about marine life and then built a Lego fish (from a set).

A dark grey snail, with a shell of dark brown and accents of white and yellow, sits atop green foliage.

A pale grey snail with a yellow shell decorated with dark brown circles sits on a green hedge.

At least eight snails can be seen at the bottom of a hedgerow and on the tarmac pavement (sidewalk).

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.

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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Close up of two small, red strawberries growing down the side of a flowerpot

Close up of a bee. It is black and yellow striped with a white bottom. It sits on a white flower.

Small lilac-coloured flowers on a lemon thyme plant.

Close-up of yellow buds on a silver-grey curry plant (which resembles rosemary).

Day 20 of #30DaysWild.
Spent some time in the garden.

A sheet of paper contains various drawings of different leaf shapes (and a spider web).

Day 19 of #30DaysWild. A scavenger hunt. Still not up to going out, I drew various shapes for them to find in the garden.

A child stands barefoot on grass.

A child stands barefoot on grass.

Day 18 of #30DaysWild. We grounded ourselves by standing barefoot on the grass.
(A day late as I was in bed with Covid yesterday).

Day 17 of #30DaysWild.
The boys (and many other schools) visited Bridgewater Hall today to play with the Halle orchestra. Inspired by this they wrote songs about nature.

Two books. ‘Mammals’ with a cover containing a picture of a lion and ‘That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals’ by Ruby Roth, illustrated with a stylised drawing of various ‘farmed’ animals.

Day 16 of #30DaysWild.
Today was a reading day and some interesting facts were learnt, including about pandas, turkeys, quail, and the Amazon rainforest.