James Windle

Wow.

In under 24 hours, 200,000 people have signed up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war.

Something special is happening - be part of it at yourparty.uk.

Picture of vehicle hood taller than a little girl crossing in front of it.

That’s one hell of an article title. And one hell of an image in the article.

“Call to drop Range Rover sponsorship of Wimbledon as SUVs 82% more likely to kill children.”

Good idea.

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🚜🌍 Call for Papers – Special Issue on Rural Criminology! | Emilia Jurgielewicz-Delegacz 🚜🌍 Call for Papers – Special Issue on Rural Criminology! 🌾🔍 I am delighted to announce that I will be serving as a guest editor, alongside Walter DeKeseredy, Joseph Donnermeyer, Ph.D., Gorazd M. - fo...

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

I, along with many of my #SOCQUB sociology colleagues, have just signed this petition opposing the awful and unnecessary redundancies threatened at Newcastle. Please do the same here:

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Call for participants Did you work as a prison officer in Ireland during 1970-2010? We are collecting an oral history of prison officer work in Ireland during 1970-2010 We want to learn about your experiences and memories of working in Irish prisons during this period Research team: Dr Louise Brangan, University of Strathclyde Dr Colette Barry, University College Dublin What's involved? Taking part in an interview (in-person or via Zoom) with one of the researchers This will cover your experiences and perspectives on working as a prison officer Who can take part? We want to interview people who worked as prison officers in any Irish prison(s) at any time during 1970-2010 This includes people who currently work as prison officers and people who have retired or moved on from this work. All participation is voluntary and confidential Interested in participating or would like more information? Please contact: Colette.Barry1@ucd.ie Ethical approval granted by University of Strathclyde Ethics Committee. Research approval granted by Irish Prison Service Research Office.

📌 Call for interview participants 📌

We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.

Only reason I moved to Cork Des, Claridge's every night just gets boring

Lets hope, but history of Dublin suggests this might take tad more than a year

🔎 Special Issue Alert 🔍

This Special Issue seeks to provide ways in which we can understand drug-related violence. Submission Deadline is September, 15th, 2025.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

#InternationalDrugPolicy #DrugRelatedViolence

Thanks Nicola

Thanks to @researchireland.ie for funding to conduct a study, supported by Tabor Group, on how women living with addiction have experienced harm reduction and treatment services - with brilliant colleague Joan Cronin (not on Bluesky) @ucc.ie

Cool project, looking forward to seeing the results

Really enjoyed the talks, and really looking forward to reading the book

Research Fellow: Penal Supervision in Comparative Context (Part time, fixed-term) at University of Nottingham Discover Research Fellow: Penal Supervision in Comparative Context (Part time, fixed-term) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

JOB: Research Fellow, a part-time post at University of Nottingham.

Working with a wonderful team on comparative research: @nicolacarr.bsky.social (PI), Beth Weaver, Jake Phillips, Fergus McNeill, myself, Fern Gillon, Sarah Doxat-Pratt.
#Criminology #Probation #Job
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Really looking forward to the Annual SAI Conference tomorrow at @ucc.ie, some really interesting papers being presented

Calling all postdocs in mental health/addiction research - I'd really recommend applying for this excellent development programme - lots of support and networking, and run by lovely people!

Details here:

Thanks for coming, was a fascinating talk and an important report

Still time to register for this interesting seminar, or just drop by today at 12 if your in Cork

Eight countries launch Operational Taskforce to tackle violence-as-a-service | Europol Organised crime is turning to youth for violence-on-demand. Europol has launched a new Operational Taskforce (OTF) to tackle the rising trend of violence-as-a-service and the recruitment of young perp...

Per Europol, violence-as-a-service = outsourcing of violent acts to criminal service providers—often involve use of young perpetrators to carry out threats/assaults/killings for a fee. Acts often orchestrated remotely, with youth recruited & instructed online. www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Good to see this highlighted but this is not as new as Europol seems to suggest - its just one of many 'dirty jobs' that YP with debts are told to do - calling it violence 'as-a-service' may also underplay the exploitation underpinning much of this

The clip couldn't capture the emotion of the day, nor how proud we are of our students

Many thanks to @rteradio1.bsky.social Claire Byrne for covering yesterdays Inside-Out graduation in Cork Prison - where students from Cork Prison & @ucc.ie learn side-by-side within the Prison classroom. @katharinaswirak.bsky.social

List at 1.19 here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Thank you again for coming, it meant a lot to the students. It was inspirational, and emotional, and testament to their hard work and creativity.

The 16th (who knew!) North South Criminology Conference is this June at @maynoothuniversity.ie with the depressingly relevant theme 'Criminology in Polarised Times'. You can submit your abstracts here #MaynoothCrimCon: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Seminar alert - Niamh Maguire, @nicolacarr.bsky.social & Gerry McNally will be talking about the reasons for over-use of short prison sentences & underutilisation of Community Service Orders in Ireland. Register here lnkd.in/eV6ts9sQ @maggieoneill.bsky.social @katharinaswirak.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Sounds like a very cool project

1-year lectureship in criminology with a focus on alcohol and other drug research, at Manchester Metropolitan University. @manmetcrimsoc.bsky.social

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I really hope its Dublin

Why so many Latino voters supported Donald Trump It’s a mistake to assume American Latinos are a homogenous voter group.

Really interesting piece by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría @ucc.ie Why so many Latino voters supported Donald Trump theconversation.com/why-so-many-...