Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Mailed their info address ...

Which supervisor/Prof is going to break it to them?

I am in London a LOT. Perhaps I take more care because I'm conscious of the stats on phone thefts etc. - but I have never had an issue. I was in Lisbon last week and TWICE I caught men with their hands in my bag (they need to practice their thievery as it doesn't work if the person notices!)

London (population 9 million) has had fewer murders year-to-date[1] than Birmingham, Alabama (population 200k)[2]

[1]: www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...

[2]: www.bhamwiki.com/w/2025_Birmi...

I have a terrible cold at the moment and taken quite a few drugs so I'm putting this down to hallucinations caused by too much Night Nurse. It cannot be a real thing that really happened.

Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.

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Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law

How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...

AI is a crisis for the climate. @naomiaklein.bsky.social

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Victims of NHS maternity failings in England ‘received unacceptable care’ Valerie Amos’s investigation finds women let down and slow progress on reforms, with ‘devastating consequences’ Victims of NHS maternity failings received “unacceptable care”, leading to “tragic consequences”, the head of an investigation into maternity care in England has said. Changes within services have been too slow despite being necessary and urgent, according to a report by Valerie Amos, who is leading the national maternity and neonatal investigation (NMNI). Continue reading...

Victims of NHS maternity failings in England ‘received unacceptable care’

Thailand strikes Cambodia as Donald Trump-backed ceasefire collapses Cross-border clashes erupt again months after south-east Asian neighbours were involved in five-day conflict

The man with the reverse-Midas touch.

DNA expert whose methods were flawed was paid $2.79m A discredited forensic scientist who analysed DNA evidence for the Crown in hundreds of criminal cases received almost $2.8 million of public funds, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Bermuda Police Se...

www.royalgazette.com/crime/news/a...

DNA identifies suspected killer 20 years after Jennifer Kiely found dead on Eastbourne seafront DNA obtained last year was the "final piece of the puzzle" and led to Keith Dowbekin officially being made a suspect. Police now say they're confident he was the killer.

Another chapter in the "DNA is great at solving crime if you actually take it" saga... so many missed opportunities.

Killer named after DNA breakthrough in seafront murder after 20 years. news.sky.com/story/dna-id...

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

Teach the environmental harms of AI and its infrastructure.

DNA of Palestine Action activists is checked against unsolved crimes ‘Golden era’ in UK-wide database as hundreds of first-time suspects enter criminal justice system

Unbelievable that they saying this out loud! www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...

I spent four years in one of Britain's worst jails for a murder I didn't commit Grzegorz Szal hoped compensation might help him move on with his life. Instead, he's faced years of unresolved torment.

Our shameful NON compensation scheme on show again. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

I ate SO MUCH when I was breastfeeding - and I still looked like a Barbie doll (all boobs and nothing else)... This was esp. after 9 months of vomiting had meant I hadn't really eaten for AGES!

Mapping the Probabilistic AI Ecosystem in Criminal Justice in England and Wales Commercial or in-house developments of probabilistic AI systems are introduced in policing and the wider criminal justice (CJ) system worldwide, often on a force-by-force basis. We developed a systema...

arxiv.org/abs/2512.04116 Important new paper trying to map AI tools across the CJS in England and Wales from the PROBabLE FUTURES project!

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library.

Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)

The price of aid cuts.

In short, the place is in disarray. And the reason this has gone on for so long without anyone outside the library community caring very much says a lot about modern Britain. It's not that we don't, as a nation, value research. Medical breakthroughs, scientific advances, the world-changing claims of the Al pioneers, the jaw-dropping investments of the tech bros - these are constantly in the news. But what happens at the BL is, mostly, the wrong kind of research. It's about the dull old humanities, not the cutting-edge sciences. It mostly looks backwards, not forwards. So it's regarded, not least by our political leaders, as a backwater.

Finally a piece in the Times about the British Library! It echoes many of the points I raised a few weeks ago, including why policymakers and the media have paid so little attention to it
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...

1,800 days behind bars: democracies cannot let Jimmy Lai die in prison Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong — and his health has dangerously deteriorated. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) once...

#HongKong: Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement — and his health has seriously deteriorated. RSF once again urges democracies to mobilise to secure his release, before the publisher - a British citizen - dies in jail.

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU.

You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Firing on shipwrecked people is literally the textbook example of an illegal order.

Every single person from Hegseth down to the soliders who fired needs to prosecuted.

And if Bradley is more concerned about his job? Then he doesn't have the moral integrity to be leading troops.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control.”

AI corrupts our learning.

Taxpayers fork out £112k to help Deputy Chief Constable relocate from London Jane Connors has more than three decades of experience in policing and moved to Scotland in 2023

The sums of money reported here beggar belief - they are staggering. How can they be paying out these sums for salaries and then on top - these relocation costs are ridiculous. www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottis...

I want to live in a past reality where journalists cared about a) facts/accurate information and b) the meaning of words.

She shows shocking disregard for both here.

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