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Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social · 3h

Today's @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social report on work and training is worrying yet unsurprising. The government needs to fix prison regimes and the first step should be reversing cuts to education budgets that will only make a bad situation worse.

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‘Just passing time’: A review of work and training provision in adult prisons – HM Inspectorate of Prisons

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 7h

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits | Computer Weekly

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts.

www.computerweekly.com

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Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social · 7h

It is 100 years since #Thatcher was born. Read my thoughts on her legacy in this week's #TheBigIssue here:

#Thatcherism #politics #crime #housing #trains #TonyBlair #schooling #neoliberalism #neo-liberalism #UK #Conservatives #Tories #ConservativeParty #GreenParty

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Margaret Thatcher's legacy continues to cast its long shadow

Britain is still living the consequences of the ideas Margaret Thatcher injected into British political discourse and policymaking.

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 5h

It will be interesting to see what Ministers are prepared to say about the China spying case from the despatch box. I am surprising that this morning's line to take still seems to turn on China not having been "designated" a threat/enemy by the last government. /1

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 22h

Its the problem with a society and a political class that has been corrupted by #ThinkTanks into believing that cultural problems that emerge from capitalist exploitation/consumerism can only be resolved by formal legislation!

Its one of the more toxic legacies of the Blair years.

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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 1d

The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 5d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 6d

The latest interview in our Anti Gen AI Heroes series is out!
@olivia.science
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 6d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 6d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 6d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Omar Phoenix Khan @justicefocus.org · 12d

Ep 1️⃣ of Series 2️⃣ of Justice Focus ✴️ Postcolonial Policing
How do histories of empire shape everyday realities of policing today?
I chat to Dr. Zoha Waseem @warwickuni.bsky.social about her research on policing, security, & urban violence in Pakistan.
PLEASE SHARE!
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Postcolonial Policing with Dr Zoha Waseem

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Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal @crimandcj.bsky.social · 7d

🔹 Prison education & ethics
🔹 Public perceptions of police appearance
🔹 Epistemic injustice & victimisation
🔹 Death penalty support in the Americas
🔹 Judicial decision-making in Hong Kong
🔹 Environmental & space-focused green criminology

📖 Read the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/4

Criminology & Criminal Justice - Volume 25, Number 4

Table of contents for Criminology & Criminal Justice, 25, 4

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 8d

Point one here is a disturbing example of the #ELIZAEffect

Dangerous if this becomes common in #academia and #HigherEducation

Those in the #SocialSciences need to do better in terms of challenging the #AIPropganda being pushed by predatory #TechBarons so this delusion does not impact our students

Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · Aug 26

We need "you are not immune to propaganda" but for AI use risks

We have seen too many cases of
1. Highly educated folk starting to believe LLMs are sentient.
2. Folk with no prior mental health issues becoming delusional.
3. Prrofessionals becoming reliant on it to do things they could do better.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Dec 6

‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same [as human cognition], because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’
— @olivia.science

www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 8d

The safety of minority groups is never ever achieved by giving police greater powers.

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 8d

“Police forces will be granted powers to put conditions on repeat protests…”

It’s scary that the British government is making it harder for people to protest. You can’t end one form of racism by encouraging another. The safety of minoritised groups will not be achieved by giving police more powers.

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 9d

Seems sensible to me.

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 9d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

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Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social · 9d

The film we commissioned as part of out ESRC funded homicide trends project is out, and can be viewed here:

#academicsky #ESRC #documentaryfilms

vimeo.com/1120080918?f...

Lives Transformed - 40 Years of Violence and Social Change

This short film draws on the largest-ever study of the Homicide Index in England and Wales, tracing four decades of shifting patterns of lethal violence. It examines…

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 9d

Zoe's (1991) "Sunshine on a Rainy Day"

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 9d

question for the timeline

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Sensory Ecology Lab @sensoryecology.bsky.social · 9d

“The opposite of déjà vu is ‘jamais vu’, when something you know to be familiar feels unreal or novel in some way. In our recent research, which has won an Ig Nobel award for literature, we investigated the mechanism behind the phenomenon.”

#scicomm

www.sciencealert.com/the-opposite...
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The Opposite of Déjà Vu Happens, And It's Even More Uncanny

Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind.

www.sciencealert.com

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 9d

Bring in real protections for #artists and #authors to either stop their work and #IntellectualProperty being pirated and used by #LLMs/#TechBarons or avenues for seeking real financial recourse for thefts that occur.

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 9d

A propos of nothing ...

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 9d

"Thousands of people have won cases against their employers and not been paid what they are owed – even after asking the government to help them get it"
@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

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Thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards - TBIJ report

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Patsy Stevenson @patsystevenson.bsky.social · 11d

I spoke on BBC Breakfast this morning about the Panorama Documentary showing abusive police at Charing Cross station.

We've heard the same things for decades, the commissioner apologises and promises change but then nothing happens and public pressure dies down.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 10d

From The Times, 4 April, 1974

Newspaper article from UK Times, 4 April, 1974

‘Universities “Exploiting Students as Cheap Staff”’

from Tim Devlin, Education Correspondent, Liverpool, April 3

Postgraduate students, it was alleged here today, are being exploited as cheap labour by the universities and their ‘appalling’ rates of pay are being used to keep down the wages of other staff, particularly laboratory technicians

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