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Melanie Flynn
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AKA Crimtweets. Senior Lecturer Criminology & Associate Dean for Research. Nonhuman animal victimology, vegan criminology, environmental justice, crime analysis, crime prevention, evidence based policing, spatial crime concentrations, routine activities.
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#Webinar alert. Effects of #fisheriesregulation on #coastalcommunities featuring my own fantastic PhD student Stephanie Young Adika. October 24th 2025, 12:00GMT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#marinelaw #oceangoverance #greencriminology
Flyer for Listening to the Unheard: The effects of fisheries regulations on coastal communities. This webinar launcges the Just SeaCurity Dialogues based at the University of St Andrews, which creates opportunities for emerging researchers to: shae ongoing work and receive expert feedback, explore theoretical and methodological approaches, build collaborative relationships across institutions, connect with diverse ocean governance networks, contribute to special issues and an edited book project. NB This webinar is the first of a 2-part series that targets both researchers (1) and practitioners (2).
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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#Webinar alert. Effects of #fisheriesregulation on #coastalcommunities featuring my own fantastic PhD student Stephanie Young Adika. October 24th 2025, 12:00GMT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#marinelaw #oceangoverance #greencriminology
Flyer for Listening to the Unheard: The effects of fisheries regulations on coastal communities. This webinar launcges the Just SeaCurity Dialogues based at the University of St Andrews, which creates opportunities for emerging researchers to: shae ongoing work and receive expert feedback, explore theoretical and methodological approaches, build collaborative relationships across institutions, connect with diverse ocean governance networks, contribute to special issues and an edited book project. NB This webinar is the first of a 2-part series that targets both researchers (1) and practitioners (2).
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Space may be the final frontier, but the modern race to launch rockets and satellites at an unsurpassed rate has generated a large and rapidly growing environmental footprint, the full effects of which are poorly understood.

Analysts say proactive national and international regulations are needed.
Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks
The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near future as the commercial and international space race takes off. Three projects alone —…
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July 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
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New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business
Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...
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July 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).
July 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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50% off @brisunipress.bsky.social so I treated myself!
Three new books: Island Criminology by John Scott and Zoe Staines, SpyCops by Raphael Schlembach, and Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene edited by Ragnhild Sollund and Martine Lie.
July 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Absolutely nails it. #oldschool #vegan
July 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Day 30 of #30DaysWild.
We did it! The boys built wildlife houses in Minecraft to celebrate and they got their certificates. Year 3 done!
June 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Day 29 of #30DaysWild.
A bike ride (walk for me). We thought about how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful place.
Two boys sit on a bench in the countryside, their bikes propped up behind them. They are looking at the view across a valley containing a reservoir. Hills and trees can be seen in the distance.
June 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Day 28 of #30DaysWild.
We visited the garden centre today to re-stock the hanging basket. (We bought a couple of chilli plants too).
Various plants are set out on a table ready to be planted into a hanging basket. A child’s hand reaches over pointing at some lobelia. The finished hanging basket ready to be hung by our front door. Silver cineraria can be seen in the centre, with two pink brachyscome. Trailing lobelia has been planted all around the edge of the basket.
June 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Day 27 of #30DaysWild.
We played Plop Trumps and learned about various animals and their poo!
Two top trumps cards. The word kestrel can be seen on the bottom card. The one on top says fox. There is a picture of fox poo, a panel on the left contains information about foxes and on the right are various scores for Frequency, Hardness, Length, Width, Smelliness, and Yuck Factor.
June 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Day 26 of #30DaysWild.
Another walk and we spotted a ladybird pupa!
A black and orange ladybird pupa attached to a green leaf.
June 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Day 25 of #30DaysWild.
We bought this Lego as a present for the boys for completing the 30 days, but they’ve been so good while I had Covid and still wanted to keep it up even though I said we could stop. So we let them make them tonight.
Two small Lego plant pots, one blue, one yellow, contain Lego plants. Both have arms and a smiling face.
June 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Day 24 of #30DaysWild.
Another local walk. Flowers of many different colours.
A collage of 9 pictures showing flowers, leaves and seed pods of various colours: purples, pinks, yellows, oranges, whites, and greens.
June 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Still just over a week to apply for this role.
rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 20
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
June 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Day 23 of #30DaysWild.
We watched a nature documentary about marine life and then built a Lego fish (from a set).
A blue and yellow tropical-style fish built from Lego.
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Day 22 of #30DaysWild.
Our first walk since week one, when twin 2 hurt his ankle. Just a little, wet, wildlife hunt as I’m still recovering from Covid. We saw many many snails!
A dark grey snail, with a shell of dark brown and accents of white and yellow, sits atop green foliage. A pale grey snail with a yellow shell decorated with dark brown circles sits on a green hedge. At least eight snails can be seen at the bottom of a hedgerow and on the tarmac pavement (sidewalk).
June 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Day 21 of #30DaysWild.
Due to the heat, one of the boys designed two automated cooling devices for birds/wildlife. The other designed a fox house. As it is #worldgiraffeday we also read some facts about these fascinating creatures.
June 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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June 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Day 20 of #30DaysWild.
Spent some time in the garden.
Close up of two small, red strawberries growing down the side of a flowerpot Close up of a bee. It is black and yellow striped with a white bottom. It sits on a white flower. Small lilac-coloured flowers on a lemon thyme plant. Close-up of yellow buds on a silver-grey curry plant (which resembles rosemary).
June 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Day 19 of #30DaysWild. A scavenger hunt. Still not up to going out, I drew various shapes for them to find in the garden.
A sheet of paper contains various drawings of different leaf shapes (and a spider web).
June 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Day 18 of #30DaysWild. We grounded ourselves by standing barefoot on the grass.
(A day late as I was in bed with Covid yesterday).
A child stands barefoot on grass. A child stands barefoot on grass.
June 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Day 17 of #30DaysWild.
The boys (and many other schools) visited Bridgewater Hall today to play with the Halle orchestra. Inspired by this they wrote songs about nature.
June 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Day 16 of #30DaysWild.
Today was a reading day and some interesting facts were learnt, including about pandas, turkeys, quail, and the Amazon rainforest.
Two books. ‘Mammals’ with a cover containing a picture of a lion and ‘That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals’ by Ruby Roth, illustrated with a stylised drawing of various ‘farmed’ animals.
June 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM