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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

As we head towards Halloween, I got to thinking that Gorebridge is well named to be Scotland's horror capital. I went to check it out...

#Halloween #VisitScotland

Black and white Scotrail sign for Gorebridge, edited so that Gore shows in red, dripping with blood

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 1d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, I don't know what was going on here, but after watching The Tourist Trap,I was not sticking around to find out.

13/13 for creepiness.

Bravo, Gorebridge!

#Halloween #Gorebridge

View of transit van. Over the headrest of the passenger seat is a smiling face mask.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost horse! 👻

10/10 for early adoption of Halloween costume

#Halloween

Horse in protective cover that makes it look like it has dressed up as a ghost

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Sinister goat!

Okay, friendly goat, but sinister after application of photoshop.

7/10

#Haloween

Horned goat looking at camera. Eyes are artificially red.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Mild spookiness at the Borthwick kirkyard, where I am reminded of my own mortality.

5/10, would benefit from zombies

#Halloween

Tombstone, with crossed bones, skull and hourglass, angel and book

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

As we head towards Halloween, I got to thinking that Gorebridge is well named to be Scotland's horror capital. I went to check it out...

#Halloween #VisitScotland

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering if after the inkcident, not only the spiller, but all their descendents were barred in perpetuity...

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. Hoping it will be the first of many. The pie was a joint effort, but Pınar brought balkabağı tatlısı into my life.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like it's that time of year again 🎃☺️

A pumpkin pie, round, filled, orangey brown with one slice cut out.

A hand holding a slice of pumpkin pie on a plate

Cooked sweet pieces of pumpkin served with tahini and chopped walnuts

Cooked sweet pumpkin with tahini and walnuts

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 6d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 6d

Join us to this ESRC Festival of Social Science event at the QFT with @qubcriminology.bsky.social -
Link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/removed-ho...

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 6d

NEW WORKSHOP: 'Mass incarceration, mass incorporation, and the rise of a protagonist Judiciary in Brazil' with Dr Luiz Dal Santo.

Wed 29 Oct, 4pm (UK time) 🕓

Register bit.ly/4gSUCe0 👈

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Prof Jane Mitchell @jane-mitchell.bsky.social · 6d

How can law students become better leaders, not just learn about leadership? My new article explores how transformative learning theory can reshape how students think, feel, and act: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thanks to all my leadership students + the Santa Clara Law Review!

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 6d

Looks like the neighbours are having some work done.

Edinburgh Evening News Mon, Oct 6, 2025

Iconic Banana Flats in Leith going retro after £69m upgrade approved

Good to see investment in social housing.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 12d

Draft of my paper on Politics and Policing in Post-Communist Europe is up on @ssrn.bsky.social if that's your kind of thing. Even if it's not your kind of thing, it is still there.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Criminology #Police #Politics #Postcommunism

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking of a PhD in Criminology?

You'll find details of the Criminology team at Edinburgh here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/res...

(staff can co-supervise with colleagues in other disciplines)

And more on all our @thesccjr.bsky.social partner institutions here: www.sccjr.ac.uk

#PhDChat

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SCCJR - The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research.

The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding o...

www.sccjr.ac.uk

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?

Need funding?

@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.

www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhDchat #SocSciSky

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Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

SGSSS STUDENT-LED OPEN COMPETITION 2025/26 THE 25/26 CALL IS NOW OPEN FOR ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the Student-Led Open...

www.sgsss.ac.uk

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 10d

The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation's comments on radio 4 today were worrying. He refers to a potential need for legal changes to enable the banning of protests to alleviate the burden on police for national security reasons, while discussing the defend our juries protest on Saturday.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 12d

Draft of my paper on Politics and Policing in Post-Communist Europe is up on @ssrn.bsky.social if that's your kind of thing. Even if it's not your kind of thing, it is still there.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Criminology #Police #Politics #Postcommunism

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Marti Rovira @mrovira.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨

Recruiting a PhD candidate for the project:
“Contextualized Multi-Intervention Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence”

⏳ Deadline: 22/10/2025 – short timeline & demanding application, act fast!

📄 Info (Catalan): drive.google.com/file/d/1g_Wt...

drive.google.com

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 15d

Report on Australian Higher Education finds:

🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities

🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms

🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency

🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

One submission said leaders’ salaries could not be “justified by the quality of executive decision-making, nor by the scope of executive duties. The core business of a university – teaching and research – is co-ordinated virtually entirely by ordinary non-executive staff”.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 16d

Newspapers using the phrase "anti-immigrant" should really be called out for their dishonesty and complicity. Black and Brown people are being attacked for being Black or Brown. There are specific and more accurate words to describe this.

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 27d

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 27d

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 19d

Do I have a follower here who is a criminal lawyer in the UK? or teaches British criminal law?
Thanks!

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