Richard Moorhead

@richardmoorhead.bsky.social

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Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Empirical and conceptual work on lawyers regulation and ethics. Especially the Post Office and all who billed her. Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie. Novice cello player .. more

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Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter. He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. He is giving the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases". .. more

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · Sep 15

Spaundau Bolly

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 3d

It's become so standard, I wonder if it's not used for ironic effect now.

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 8d

Love the last line...

Professor G @professorg.bsky.social · 8d

Oh my god…

In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment.
Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we'd like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version.
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers-aka my fellow newsroom journalists-via workplace chat app Slack. "Sure!" I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free— including a PlayStation 5 it had bron talked into buying for "marketing purposes." It ordered a live
fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.

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Professor G @professorg.bsky.social · 8d

Oh my god…

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today.

Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.

Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core

Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes

www.cambridge.org

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 9d

Why aye Wissa.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9d

Fujitsu boss to face grilling from MPs over the Post Office Horizon compensation.

Public purse footing the bill.

Fujitsu and its execs, PO execs, lawyers, accountants benefitted from false prosecutions, haven't paid anything.

No one charged for the scam which destroyed lives of innocent people.

Fujitsu chief to face MPs grilling over Post Office compensation

Paul Patterson will appear before the business and trade select committee on 6 January amid mounting pressure on Fujitsu to make a sizeable contribution to the Horizon scandal compensation bill, Sky N...

news.sky.com

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Mollie Simpson @molliesimpson.bsky.social · 9d

thanks to @alphaville.ft.com for selecting our investigation into Andrew Milne as one of the best non-FT pieces of journalism of the year www.ft.com/content/72d0...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

This last point really matters: the magistrates’ courts impose about 93% of all sentences, yet practically all empirical research in England and Wales focuses on the Crown Court. We may therefore have a potentially massive selection bias on our hands.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

New preprint: "Widening the Lens: Exploring Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts"
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/9a70adbm...
Led by @eoinguilfoyle.bsky.social, with Ana Morales & Sara Geneletti.
We compare the Crown Court and the magistrates' courts for the first time...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 10d

Yes. This is important.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

www.theguardian.com

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 10d

Small numbers, high volatility? Or, if course, just made up

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 10d

I like it. 😂

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 11d

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In contrast to the gapingly, shallowly narcissistic, despair deepening piddle of that other tweet a better example for us all...

Matt Mitovich @mattmitovich.bsky.social · 11d

If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 11d

And in such fine clobber too! A beautiful place.

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Matt Mitovich @mattmitovich.bsky.social · 11d

If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12d

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 12d

Ummm. #nufc

a man wearing a red headband with the words one shot written on it

ALT: a man wearing a red headband with the words one shot written on it

media.tenor.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.

Praying for his full & speedy recovery.

And so deeply inspired by his example.

BNO News @bnonews.com · 12d

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Bryan Fanning , and 3 more Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Bryan Fanning, Sara Wallace Goodman, Colin Talbot, Richard Moorhead

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 12d

My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 12d

Ahhhhh. Yes. I go and see very obscure indy bands with a friend who's really into it and I am usually caught marvelling at this very fact

BNO News @bnonews.com · 12d

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 13d

Good things come to he who weights. Sending you the very best.

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 15d

🤔

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16d

“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16d

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 24d

Nice touch to pat his bum after #bigdanburn

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26d

He really does.

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Darren @nufc86.bsky.social · 29d

14 years on, Gary Speed’s loss reminds us how vital it is to speak up, check in, and look after our mental health #nufc

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · Nov 27

Obviously we think we are one but may be another

michael veale @michae.lv · Nov 26

On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · Nov 27

Now not not!

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · Nov 27

... Some very good work done that has good grasp of how things work on the ground. Some vg academics still come from practice.

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