Andy Aydın-Aitchison

That time when, two months into World War 1, the FT asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes: great @ftweekend.com piece by @theboysmithy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/79a4...

Should have posed them more as comments...

What a turnout!

Great to join @ucu.org.uk @unisontheunion.bsky.social & @unitetheunion.bsky.social and students at University of Essex taking action to save jobs in Colchester and Southend.

Time for the University to rethink its plans and engage positively with staff & their unions.

Coloniality in humanitarian futures thinking Abstract. This article is concerned with the coloniality of humanitarian futures thinking. It interrogates the assumptions that crises such as climate chan

It's taken a while for this to see the light of day, but it's finally out in @secdialogue.bsky.social

Here @tammam.bsky.social and I explore coloniality in humanitarian futures thinking.

Please get in touch with me if you cannot access the article and would like a copy.

doi.org/10.1093/secd...

a man says " the line must be drawn here " Alt: Captain Picard in the movie Star Trek First Contact says in an overly dramatic way " the line must be drawn here, this far, no further "

They took my desk, now they want my pension, well NO:

(On strike today and tomorrow, off to join @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line outside the law school, itll be cold and wet but sometimes you have to stand up and be counted.)

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)

Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff

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Jennifer Fleetwood, City St George's, University of London, will be @glasgow.ac.uk on 25 March to give a talk on 'From private concerns to public narratives: tracing the rise of personal stories about crime'.

It's in-person, no need to register, all welcome.

www.sccjr.ac.uk/event/from-p...

The Class Series | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology This series of events aims to amplify working-class voices and foreground working-class perspectives on the human past and current issues of interest to HCA staff and students. It features student-led...

And tomorrow I’m speaking in Edinburgh hca.ed.ac.uk/about-us/equ...

This is the link to the talk I am giving on Thursday 12th Feb (5-6pm) at the Inst. of Criminology @ Cambridge:

www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/explo...

Screenshot of the cover of the report, 'Justice That Works: Report of the Scottish Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission.'

NEW: the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 final report and recommendations have been published today.

As one of the Commissioners, this year has involved an enormous amount of work. Our report sets out an agenda for change.

🔗 link to report
www.gov.scot/publications...

Join a union - www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union

Our amazing @sophisteria.bsky.social recently gave evidence, alongside reps from other Scottish HEIs, to the Education, Children and Young People's Committee at a special session on HE funding at the Scottish parliament. We have made a 2.5 minute video mash up of her best moments. Enjoy! #UCU

Loved the twist at the end 😃

Very enjoyable for the responses...

‘haphazard’ and ‘uncoordinated’ is a real through line in cost cutting in the university sector

it’s almost like the people making decisions here fail to understand that universities are very complex institutions and that very few people (if any) ‘do the same job’ within them

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take Mark Kermode reviews Melania

My God.....Mark Kermode did see Melania....🔥

And they've arrived!! Thank you @routledgebooks.bsky.social
Check out the Routledge site: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
or the blog: sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/01/i... for previews and info for #Teaching and #Research. #AcademicSky #Criminology #CrimSky

This is fair. I'd like to see it supplemented with some contributions for the long term too. National Insurance and enrolment in NEST for example.

This academic year I taught my Master course on the Legal, Ethical and Social Issues of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for the fifth time! #AI /1

Joshua Page speaking in Glasgow on Predatory aspects of US criminal justice on 11 March.
If you can't make it, he's also talking on the same topic in Edinburgh on 12 March.
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Research

Text taken from herling in Prlic et al case on 7 June 2007 in which defence counsel questions Bo Pellnas, a Swedish Brigadier General who served as part of the UN Monitoring mission: 7 Q. All right. I need to move on very quickly. 8 In 2003, General, did you give an interview to a Swedish newspaper 9 called Aftonbladet? 10 A. Perhaps. 11 Q. Perhaps? 12 A. Perhaps. 13 Q. Let me remind you. Did you at any time make a comment to a [text ends]

Defence counsel and witness breaking into song at the ICTY?

Perhaps.

Taken from the 7 June 2007 hearing in Prlić et al.

FT first broke the scoop re £10k yesterday afternoon (Epstein to Mandelson's partner)

then we revealed other payments of £13k, £2k, £4k etc (Epstein to Mandelson's partner)

now we're revealing direct payments of 3 x $25,000 from Epstein to Mandelson himself

the story now makes clear it was far more than just £10,000, regular payments from Epstein to Mandelson partner

Eurimages supports 33 co-productions 02/12/2025 - New films by Miguel Gomes, Jasmila Žbanić, Florian Zeller, Guillaume Gallienne and Alain Gagnol are among the selection

The results of the 3rd Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2025 have just been announced: The cultural support fund of the Council of Europe @coe.int will support the co-production of 33 feature films, including new films by Miguel Gomes, Jasmila Žbanić & Florian Zeller.
cineuropa.org/486705

Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić Abstract. The paper excavates ‘implicit criminologies’ concerning victims, perpetrators and bystanders from four films by Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić:

I've written on Žbanić's films and her engagement with atrocity and its aftermath.

doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

This next chapter has great potential as a major cinematic exploration of transitional justice.

#Film #TransitionalJustice #BiH

Održan radni sastanak o snimanju filma "Quo Vadis, Aida? - Dio koji nedostaje": Posljednje pripreme u toku Predstavnici radne grupe, pod vodstvom premijera Kantona Sarajevo Nihada Uka, održali su sastanak s predstavnicima relevantnih kantonalnih ustanova i produkcijs...

Preparations for filming of follow up to Quo Vadis Aida are at an advanced stage:

www.klix.ba/magazin/kult...

#Srebrenica #BiH #Bosnia #ExYu #TransitionalJustice #Justice #Film

The directorship of SSEES has been advertised. Closing date 15th February. Spread the word!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A date for your diary

@harryannison.bsky.social is in Edinburgh, Thursday 5 February at 4pm (UTC), talking on "Contesting Parole: Notes on the Politics of Conditional Prison Release"

Full details and registration:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Politics #Research

Isn’t it insane how one man can erode an institution of such repute. Trust, reputation, esteem. Innovation. Boundary pushing. These are core currencies in academia and take decades, if not centuries to produce. Edinburgh won’t recover from this quickly and it is v sad to watch