Dr J Warr

I don’t know what’s worse: AI impersonating writers and editors and stealing the value they use to pay rent or people being casually dismissive of said writers and editors for being upset about that

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

“Dangerous Knowledge”: Entrepreneurialism in academia, a book launch Celebrate the book launch of ‘ The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology’ through conversation with its writers.

“Dangerous Knowledge”: Entrepreneurialism in Academia, a #SensoryCriminology Book launch!

At Kings College, University of Cambridge

Tues 17/03/26: 5.30-7pm

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dangerous-...

Featuring: @kateherrity.bsky.social, @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social, @amyg97.bsky.social + more

A poster answering frequently asked questions about the Institute of Criminology PhD conference, including who can attend, who can give presentations, and whether they can be online.

A poster answering frequently asked questions about the Institute of Criminology PhD conference, including the cost of attending and the availability of bursaries.

Since our PhD Conference call for abstracts, we have received fantastic responses. Here are some answers to recurring questions about the conference. If these FAQs help and you would like to present research, send abstracts before 15 March.

Send abstracts here: sites.google.com/view/phdcrim...

Under appreciated post! ☝️

Are you an early-career philosopher hoping to reach beyond academia with your writing? We’re thrilled to be introducing the Aeon Philosophy Prize – a unique opportunity to receive editorial mentorship and see your ideas reach global audiences. Open for applications today buff.ly/p47BrKe

Nice to see this piece tackle the conceptual slippage between #Neurodiversity and #Neurodivergence

#AcademicSky
#HigherEducation

As neurodiversity becomes more prominent in REF, is its meaning being lost? - LSE Impact Neurodiversity has become a mobilising concept in UK research, but does the way it deployed in research writing undermine the terms' original intent?

💥New | As neurodiversity becomes more prominent in REF, is its meaning being lost?

✍️Claire Vincent, Clare Davis, @rosalie-warnock.bsky.social & @kbrickell.bsky.social

#Neurodiversity #REF2029 #ResearchImpact

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Asking students to declare #LLM usage in no way mitigates the #plagiarism that arises from the use of such technologies.

We would not accept a declaration of collusion in defence of #AcademicMisconduct ... yet that is the equivalent act here.

#HigherEducation

a woman with curly hair is standing next to another woman who says he literally just copy me ALT: a woman with curly hair is standing next to another woman who says he literally just copy me

Have said before but worth repeating...

Allowing students to use #LLMs to produce work or imagery for assessments will be in breach of most #University #plagiarism policies.

Vicarious plagiarism is still plagiarism.

Having mixed messages on this does #students no favours.
#HigherEducation

This is where we see the interplay between structural, institutional, and interpersonal forms of #racism producing such outcomes in #policing

Who looks like they belong in certain areas and how those who don't are interpreted as suspicious, and thus a threat worthy of #police attention
#criminology

This is how Cory Doctorow defines “enshittification.” Where do you see it nowadays? Where do you think it’ll pop up in the near future?

a man is sitting at a desk with stacks of papers and the word paperwork written on the screen ALT: a man is sitting at a desk with stacks of papers and the word paperwork written on the screen

My #HigherEducation hot take today:

#Teaching quality, #GrantCapture, and #ResearchEfficacy are all inversley proportional to the degree of #AdministrativeBurden an #academic is exposed to.

Contemporary #HEIs have, to their detriment, all sacrificed the former on the altar of the latter.

Aye. We're going through a "transformation" project that's ill considered, unevidenced, not really budgeted or risk assessed, clearly ideological, and, given proposed cuts to staff and programmes, not really designed to achieve the stated aims!

Would be interesting to see expansion of core administrative staff for all universities over last 15yrs that have made significant cuts to front line #academic staff!

#HigherEducation

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty

For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Allow me to reintroduce ... #ECRFriday

This week: Eleanor Manhong Li

Article: Li, E. M., Hudspith, L. F., Trivedi-Bateman, N., & Willmott, D. (2026). Rape Myths in China: A Systematic Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 0(0). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Criminology #RapeMyths #CrimSky

Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective Abstract. This article advances a critical life-course perspective on repeat violence, drawing on qualitative interviews with people with lived experience

When violence unfolds across multiple relationships and contexts, incident-based systems struggle to recognise how harms accumulate.

New article: ‘Reframing Repeat Violence: A Critical Life-Course Perspective’, British Journal of Criminology.

Open access:
academic.oup.com/bjc/article/...

A helpful reminder that not all politicians are the same…

Some are more corrupt than others…

Farage comfortably ahead for private interest earnings this Parliament

Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics Using a phylogenetic framework to characterize natural selection, we investigate the hypothesis that zoonotic viruses require adaptation prior to zoon…

There's a common misconception that zoonotic viruses require significant adaptation to jump from animals to cause human epidemics.

Not so 👇.

Further, we see clear signs of 1977 flu experiencing cell passage, prior to epidemic.

SARS-CoV-2? Business as usual.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Currently sat in the Wheatsheaf in Oxford... I miss this #pub!

Been told I look like a pirate. Someone else said I look scary!

There's an Outlaw wannabe (dodgy patch).

Hard Rock.

Love it.

#SupportYourPub

Tis a foolish #criminologist who makes predictions but ...

I think that the US's #PetroWar on #Iran is going to result in the siding of the US and Israel with Russia over oil supplies (we have already seen a relaxing of sanctions re India) which will have awful consequences for #Ukraine

#WarCrime

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Well, this takes the biscuit.
I know of cases where people were named as authors without their permission, and where it's difficult to get anyone to do anything about it. But here we have a particularly brazen publisher who says they'll remove it if you pay $500!
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/p...

#AcademicSky idea is to boost work of an #EarlyCareerResearcher in #SHAPE or #STEM Rules: 1. Give their name
2. Include details (if possible)
3. Detail article/book/presentation
4. Provide a link
5. State discipline with # (i.e. #Sociology)
6. Use # #ECRFriday
7. Repost all #ECRFriday posts!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Allow me to reintroduce ... #ECRFriday

This week: Eleanor Manhong Li

Article: Li, E. M., Hudspith, L. F., Trivedi-Bateman, N., & Willmott, D. (2026). Rape Myths in China: A Systematic Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 0(0). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Criminology #RapeMyths #CrimSky

extract from page 12 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

Something I hinged on to get to this what I describe: the Marxian fetishisation of artefacts is so complete in the case of AI that not only do we somehow conclude machines think, but we accept for them to think, speak, draw instead of us, while also thinking these are (expressions of) our thoughts.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

a bit of Andor cosplay

The UK Supreme Court Welcome to SCOUTSblog’s newest recurring series, in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. For our debut column, we […]

In this interview with the SCOTUS Blog, which launches its series on global apex courts, I reflect on the role of the UK Supreme Court and consider whether adjudication at this level in the UK is really as apolitical as we often assume it to be. www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/the-...