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Andy Aydın-Aitchison

@andy8chi

Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him) Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302

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The online banner shows a Call for Papers: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives". Conference dates: October 15-16, 2026 at the University of Graz. Application deadline: March 31, 2026.

The online banner shows a Call for Papers: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives". Conference dates: October 15-16, 2026 at the University of Graz. Application deadline: March 31, 2026.

📣 #CfP: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives"

Workshop @uni-graz.at, Oct 15–16, 2026. We welcome proposals on tribunal truths, digital infrastructure & memory politics. Exploring digital coloniality & computational methods.
📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026
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11.02.2026 09:41 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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With The University of Edinburgh’s un-necessary cuts continuing, several hundred staff lost this year and more redundancies planned, I’m voting ‘yes’ and ‘yes’. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

02.03.2026 12:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Phising by means of old-school SMS?

02.03.2026 12:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white still. In a bar with bare lighting, a young man stands gesturing and talking. He is describing the universe. At either side behind him men look on with interest.

Black and white still. In a bar with bare lighting, a young man stands gesturing and talking. He is describing the universe. At either side behind him men look on with interest.

If anyone has a couple of hours free on Monday in Edinburgh @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social are showing Béla Tarr's beautiful, dark Werckmeister Harmonies.

27.02.2026 19:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

25.02.2026 17:51 👍 2046 🔁 726 💬 21 📌 59
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Prison Nursing Unlocked: A history of care and justice: exhibition launch | Event | RCN Scotland | Royal College of Nursing Join us for the launch of our new exhibition about the history of prison nursing. Enjoy free refreshments and a chance to look around the exhibition, alongside activities and talks on nursing in just...

Don't forget tomorrow in Edinburgh is the launch of the latest @rcnhistory.bsky.social @rcnlibraries.bsky.social #HistNursing exhibition

Free either in person or online

www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

25.02.2026 13:55 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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Lecturer (Education) in Criminology at King's College London Recruiting now: Lecturer (Education) in Criminology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

JOB: Lecturer (Education) in Psychology and Criminology, Kings College London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ332/l...

25.02.2026 08:13 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Amnesty International Careers Amnesty International Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply

Our team is hiring! Come work with some of the most brilliant (and kindest) people in the OSINT field ❤️
careers.amnesty.org/intranet/vac...

24.02.2026 14:39 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The City That Won’t Let You Sit: Sensory Criminology and Urban Pain …Western cities govern houselessness through what I conceptualize as deliberate nociception. There is a pervasive, intentional production of sensory pain that functions as a mechanism of regu…

Latest #SensoryCriminology blog by Luisa T Schneider

The City That Won’t Let You Sit sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/16/t...

Explores how urban planners/systems of governance deliberately weaponise nociception to punitively exclude certain people from certain spaces/places

#Criminology
#Zemiology

24.02.2026 13:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Scottish Greens look to cause upset at the 2026 Holyrood election The polling is good for the Scottish Greens - so what are they hoping for at the May election?

From free bus travel for under 22s, scrapping peak rail fares, feeding more kids, and introducing safe access zones.

We can demonstrate we’ve made Scotland a better place!

www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

24.02.2026 10:33 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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"Girlhood At War" tour - March dates

📅 Stockholm - 05/03 lnkd.in/e_qvTQ_7

📅 New York - 09/03 (details soon)

📅 The Hague - 12/03 lnkd.in/eD5c7DTN

📅 Gent - 23/03 human-rights-de-krook-albanese-en-kosovaarse-stemmen-in-het-migratiedebat

📅 Freiburg - 25/03 lnkd.in/eG7GhuCn

23.02.2026 19:45 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Making and Unmaking Archival Methods - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Cris van Eijk about making and unmaking archives.

Anyway, I was on @oxfordcsls.bsky.social's Talking About Methods podcast this month ranting about exactly this, if anyone's interested:

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/making-and-u...

22.02.2026 15:05 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Postdoc opportunity in Sociology at the Max-Weber-Institute, University of Heidelberg. Great chance for early-career researchers looking to advance their work in a well-established European sociology program. #AcademicJobs #sociology

adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startu...

20.02.2026 07:21 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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1/2 Out now: @crmnlgy.bsky.social The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements, and Hope. Available free and open access: academic.oup.com/book/61855?l... Watch the Book Launch at LSE: m.youtube.com/watch?v=h40s...

19.02.2026 08:13 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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SCCJR Justice Future Seminar Series A new seminar series for 2026 which asks the question, how do we imagine justice evolving in the future?

2/2 Free workshop on violence prevention resource next week, 24 Feb 1-2pm online. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sccjr-just...

19.02.2026 08:15 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Revealed: The true toll of female suicides with domestic abuse at their core Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases in England and Wales

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Suspected victim suicides have outstripped homicides for the last two years, according to the Domestic Homicide Project. I suspect that if we’d been looking for longer, this would have been the case for longer. 💔

18.02.2026 22:28 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Calling #Criminology #PGRs and colleagues. Anyone going to #BSC and want to join @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social and I on a panel discussing #Arts, #Music, #Sound in #CJS / places of #Violence? If you have students starting out and nervous about conferencing hit me up! #CrimSky, #AcademicSky

18.02.2026 12:38 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology - Cardiff University - Job Details Job Details: Lecturer in Quantitative CriminologyCardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit a Lectu

Lectureship: Quantitative Criminology (Please share)

Cardiff University

Deadline 11 March 2026

Details: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

#Criminology #Quantitative #AcademicChat #PhDChat #JobFairy #Wales #Cymru

17.02.2026 10:54 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

6 days to go on the call for papers for volume 7 of the interdisciplinary Contemporary Challenges, an #OpenAccess journal hosted by @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social

17.02.2026 10:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

14.02.2026 09:03 👍 96 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 6

Should have posed them more as comments...

12.02.2026 22:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

12.02.2026 14:06 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
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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...

12.02.2026 14:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.)

12.02.2026 08:05 👍 44 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 2

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-...

11.02.2026 20:16 👍 539 🔁 268 💬 38 📌 16
Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology - Cardiff University - Job Details Job Details: Lecturer in Quantitative CriminologyCardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit a Lectu

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff

krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

11.02.2026 17:36 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

10.02.2026 12:19 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

09.02.2026 21:59 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Exploring the individual-level effects of New Labour’s social policy agenda on crime over the life-course: outlining a strategically-paired cohort study | Institute of Criminology As part of the Institute of Criminology's Lent term public seminar series, Professor Stephen Farrall will speak on 'Exploring the individual-level effects of New Labour’s social policy agenda on crime...

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...

09.02.2026 17:27 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0