Andy Aydın-Aitchison
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.
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonMy God.....Mark Kermode did see Melania....🔥
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- 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
- Defence counsel and witness breaking into song at the ICTY? Perhaps. Taken from the 7 June 2007 hearing in Prlić et al.
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchisonthe story now makes clear it was far more than just £10,000, regular payments from Epstein to Mandelson partner
- I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...
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- 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
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- New analysis from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social & fellow Unions. Sizeable surplus @ Edinburgh Uni Financial pressure is from irresponsible capital spending & depreciation Management metrics mislead Redundancies hit financial strength & Uni’s academic mission www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...
- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison💫 Glad my early women of European integration found an issue and volume www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and what an issue, with my PhD supervisor, a colleague whose research is always a pleasure to read on the case of Croatia and someone, I do not know, but shares my same surname :)
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison📢 We’re Hiring a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research! ⬇️ We are looking for an internationally recognized academic to join our ambitious and supportive research community. 📍 Location: Uppsala, Sweden 📆 Application deadline: 26 March 🔗 Apply / Learn more: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonDuckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results https://voteyesornoai.com
- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonPlease help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonMissing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
- Hot on Vol 6's heels, the CFP for Contemporary Challenges 7 is out. If you know any possible contributors, especially Masters/PhD students and ECRs, please pass it on. Deadline: 23 Feb 2026 Sub: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su... Journal: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj #OpenAccess #PhDChat #ECRChat #CFP

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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:
- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison✨️ Starting the new year with a new article by Dr Ben Matthews and colleagues: 'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis' #children #CareExperience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonA List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵
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- Turns out the director's name was Noé, not Noël, and he really, really does not specialise in Christmas films.
- Not a starter pack, but a list to welcome anyone new and looking for criminology. bsky.app/profile/did:... Reply or message to be added. #Criminology
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- Book talk: Joshua Page, Legal Plunder - The Predatory Dimensions of (US) Criminal Justice 12 March, 1615 (UTC, Edinburgh), School of Law, Old College, Quad Teaching Room Details and Registration: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Research #USA #Edinburgh
- First attempt at a vegan cake. Cinnamon, apple and raisins pre-soaked in apple rakija. Verdict, not too shabby.
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonClosing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢 Please do share widely 1/3
- 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
- 16 of December seems a significant day for my great, great, great grandparents. Barbara Brown, born this day in 1781 in Montrose; Jean Kennedy and John Cruickshank married today in 1848 in Slains; And Janet McCallum passed away at the age of 85 at Old Deer.
- Open access paper from Sandra Grudić. An exploration of how neighbourly solidarity gets demobilised after initial violence, through the case of Bosanski Novi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenAcccess #Violence #Atrocity #BiH
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonWe (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-AitchisonIn this moving piece, Mónica Ruiz House takes us with her on a search and recovery operation in the Sonoran Desert. Here, religion-in-transit creates a shared language of grief for those who have lost their lives on the way. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison📚 Stirling PhD researcher Jessica Cleary has published a book review of an edited collection: 'Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement' by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.) (2020) #Criminology #CrimSky mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/volume-...
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- Reposted by Andy Aydın-Aitchison💫 NEWS RELEASE 💫 A new SIPR funded report compares how Scotland and England and Wales respond to criminal exploitation in modern slavery cases, revealing major differences in victim protection and decision making. Read: bit.ly/4aIYrBq Listen: bit.ly/4ab2arj
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- New briefing on state forces (police and military) involved in serious and organised crime, from researchers in Georgia, Ireland, UK: www.socace-research.org.uk/publications... #Criminology #Corruption #OrganisedCrime
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