Theo Kindynis
Criminologist currently interested in conspiracies, parapolitics, deep politics
- Criminologists for Palestine is calling on @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social members to vote on the questions recently posed by the ESC Board. There are also calls for a boycott of the organisation for the reasons set out here criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com
- From the BBC's homepage today 🤔
- British Transport Police have conducted a dawn raid on a man suspected of "over £250,000 in criminal damage to the London Underground". Footage postage on social media shows around 20 officers smashing their way through a door wearing riot gear. www.instagram.com/p/DTdUR-ciYSP/
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- Reposted by Theo Kindynis💥open access to : - various full scale articles -short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ) -opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey -interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova -in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero -Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre
- New deep dive on Jeffrey Epstein's early years from the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
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- Open letter to the board of @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social by Jane Ngan. Full text available here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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- Good to see the Board of the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social have found time for a city break between obstructing and delaying the vote promised to members on the Society's complicity in Israeli atrocity crimes
- The Epstein Network and Attempts to Discredit Israel Lobby Study Follow an Elite Playbook to Silence Dissent thewire.in/world/the-ep... by @usempire.bsky.social
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- Photo of tags on the Bakerloo line used to illustrate this racist diatribe by Tucker Carlson, which singles out graffiti for opprobrium 🎻❄️ archive.is/up9bi
- Currently working with a PhD researcher who is studying and researching graffiti writing. Do any colleagues have recommendations for forthcoming conferences in UK / Europe that might be well suited for them to present at? Crim / psyhc / autoethnography / edgework / "addiction"
- Presenting new research at @histmat.bsky.social conference next week in London
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- Two new contributions from me defining "deep politics" and "parapolitics" as part of @researchspin.bsky.social's A-Z of Secrecy and Ignorance series. Links below 👇
- Reposted by Theo KindynisOnline first: Here is the new opinion piece of Lambros Fatsis in Criminological Encounters. www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social
- Trump authorises CIA operations in Venezuela www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
- 'Epstein wasn’t a rogue actor. He moved easily through worlds of finance, science, politics, and media. His connections to both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump reveal a social world where money, sex, and influence flow freely -protected by the powerful and ignored by regulators.'
- MI5 'illegally obtained data' from BBC journalist's phone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Reposted by Theo Kindynis"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
- Reposted by Theo KindynisOnline first: Here is the new article of Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič in Criminological Encounters. www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social
- Leaked emails show Jeffrey Epstein helped broker security agreement between Israel and Mongolia @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
- In Stockholm to talk graffiti
- Funny how "experimental crimniologists" love to rag on theoretical work they don't understand but utter drivel like "fish oil reduces crime" passes without comment penntoday.upenn.edu/news/time-ha...
- My article, 'Criminology, Conspiracy Theories and Theorizing Conspiracy' is in print in latest issue of British Journal of Criminology! We should take conspiracy theories seriously and investigate conspiracies by political & corporate elites. Free access below 👇
- MOD signs new "strategic partnership" with Palantir www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Reposted by Theo KindynisOnline first: Here is the new article of Brunilda Pali and Polly Pallister-Wilkins in Criminological Encounters. www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social
- Good riddance. Her legacy is one of institutional vandalism
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- New paper tries to "experimentally falsify" ghost criminology by misrepresenting it — claims we argue places 'emit a detectable 'spectral residue' that unsettles people independent of what they know'. We’ve never said that www.crimrxiv.com/pub/bxsjoeth...
- University of California, Berkeley has provided information on 160 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump's administration as part of a federal investigation into "alleged incidents of antisemitism" www.reuters.com/world/us/uc-...
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- Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
- This video shows how much support there was for the motion - almost unanimous!
- Reposted by Theo KindynisStatement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...
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- Reposted by Theo KindynisFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
- How the British state and its media outriders smeared Palestine Action www.declassifieduk.org/how-governme...
- David Lammy is facing possible legal action over a plan to invite staff from the oil firm Shell and the defence firm BAE Systems to work inside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- New paper by Thomas Volscho on Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- MPs are currently debating the proscription of Palestine Action www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
- The Home Office has sandwiched @palaction.bsky.social between a Russian paramilitary group and hyper-obscure online neo-Nazi groupuscule "Manics Murder Cult" in a draft proscription order to be debated in parliament this week www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Incoming MI6 head’s grandfather was Nazi spy chief who participated in the murder of Jews and Ukrainian partisans archive.is/1BWsz
- Obscene. Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly offered three OpenAI researchers $100 million signing bonuses to join a team at Meta focused on building AI "superintelligence" archive.is/mDNUP
- UK police blocking information about contracts with Palantir democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uncovered-...
- We are hiring a Lecturer in Criminology and Digital Crime. Come and work with us! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ765/l...
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- Reposted by Theo KindynisNew research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
- Political think tanks, and a new ecosystem of political influencers, special advisors, now exert more influence than academic research in policy formation - with less transparency and accountability. New work by Lucia Zedner in Theoretical Criminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
