Fabio Ferraz de Almeida
@fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology, University of Lincoln | social interaction in police and judicial settings 🧑⚖️💬👮♀️| ⚽️🏐🏀🇧🇷views are my own
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Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
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I had a look at a press release about job cuts from a nearby large university .
I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.
So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.
I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.
So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I had a look at a press release about job cuts from a nearby large university .
I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.
So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.
I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.
So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.
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Really terrible news from the University of Nottingham. The idea you can have a comprehensive university without language and music is absurd. Higher education serves society and you can't have a society with imagination and purpose if the people in charge decide creativity is worth nothing.
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Really terrible news from the University of Nottingham. The idea you can have a comprehensive university without language and music is absurd. Higher education serves society and you can't have a society with imagination and purpose if the people in charge decide creativity is worth nothing.
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Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
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This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The only reason why international talent still moves to the UK is the language.
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The only reason why international talent still moves to the UK is the language.
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if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher
#chi2026
#chi2026
While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...
When LLMs Write Our Papers
Four writing issues I notice as a reviewer — and how to fix them
dbuschek.medium.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher
#chi2026
#chi2026
This comes as no surprise for those who have gone through the process.
The health surcharge is scandalous, especially considering the current state of the NHS.
The health surcharge is scandalous, especially considering the current state of the NHS.
Astonishing when you see it like this.
October 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This comes as no surprise for those who have gone through the process.
The health surcharge is scandalous, especially considering the current state of the NHS.
The health surcharge is scandalous, especially considering the current state of the NHS.
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The first School of Social & Political Sciences Research Seminar of the new Academic Year is underway. Thanks to our colleague @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social for speaking about his research on Police Vloggers
October 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The first School of Social & Political Sciences Research Seminar of the new Academic Year is underway. Thanks to our colleague @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social for speaking about his research on Police Vloggers
Colleague: I'm always making sure my students design their research to answer 'why' something happens, not simply 'how'. Who cares about the process?
That's how you provoke an ethnomethodologist 😅
That's how you provoke an ethnomethodologist 😅
October 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Colleague: I'm always making sure my students design their research to answer 'why' something happens, not simply 'how'. Who cares about the process?
That's how you provoke an ethnomethodologist 😅
That's how you provoke an ethnomethodologist 😅
Many of my undergraduate students want to do primary research for their dissertations.
Talking to colleagues, some question the value of doing so if there's data available out there - other surveys, interview transcripts, etc. - implying that there's no point in redoing what's already been done.
Talking to colleagues, some question the value of doing so if there's data available out there - other surveys, interview transcripts, etc. - implying that there's no point in redoing what's already been done.
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Many of my undergraduate students want to do primary research for their dissertations.
Talking to colleagues, some question the value of doing so if there's data available out there - other surveys, interview transcripts, etc. - implying that there's no point in redoing what's already been done.
Talking to colleagues, some question the value of doing so if there's data available out there - other surveys, interview transcripts, etc. - implying that there's no point in redoing what's already been done.
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Today the School of Social & Political Sciences hosted the inaugural session of its MA International Relations Public Lecture Series organised by Marianna Charountaki & moderated by @drnickcowen.bsky.social. Thanks to Alam Saleh, Christos Kourtelis, Nasasra Mansour & Lesley Masters for participating
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today the School of Social & Political Sciences hosted the inaugural session of its MA International Relations Public Lecture Series organised by Marianna Charountaki & moderated by @drnickcowen.bsky.social. Thanks to Alam Saleh, Christos Kourtelis, Nasasra Mansour & Lesley Masters for participating
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It’s Welcome Week at the Uni of #Lincoln & today the School of Social & Political Sciences organised a quiz for staff & new students. Do you know in which county Chequers is located& which UK city was the first to install traffic lights? How about the prison population in England?
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s Welcome Week at the Uni of #Lincoln & today the School of Social & Political Sciences organised a quiz for staff & new students. Do you know in which county Chequers is located& which UK city was the first to install traffic lights? How about the prison population in England?
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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
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So glad we are scorching the Earth so that a computer can, maybe after many tries, tell a guy how to make a Sandwich.
September 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
So glad we are scorching the Earth so that a computer can, maybe after many tries, tell a guy how to make a Sandwich.
Terrific day visiting my alma mater to present our new research project.
On top of that, it has been an absolute pleasure to listen to so many innovative and exciting talks.
#EMCA research in police and legal settings continues to flourish.
On top of that, it has been an absolute pleasure to listen to so many innovative and exciting talks.
#EMCA research in police and legal settings continues to flourish.
Fabio Ferraz de Almeida listens While his co-author starts their talk (via video) on how Brazilian police use vlogs to present a version of their work
September 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Terrific day visiting my alma mater to present our new research project.
On top of that, it has been an absolute pleasure to listen to so many innovative and exciting talks.
#EMCA research in police and legal settings continues to flourish.
On top of that, it has been an absolute pleasure to listen to so many innovative and exciting talks.
#EMCA research in police and legal settings continues to flourish.
Now comes the hardest part: making sure Parliament doesn’t approve any sort of amnesty for him or his peers.
September 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Now comes the hardest part: making sure Parliament doesn’t approve any sort of amnesty for him or his peers.
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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A Modest Proposal.
The OfS must spearhead a dilution of the UK’s lavish student experience www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-...
The OfS must spearhead a dilution of the UK’s lavish student experience www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-...
The OfS must spearhead a dilution of the UK’s lavish student experience
If the UK has decided it can no longer afford the sub-Oxbridge university model, expectations need to be systematically lowered, says Robert Dingwall
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A Modest Proposal.
The OfS must spearhead a dilution of the UK’s lavish student experience www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-...
The OfS must spearhead a dilution of the UK’s lavish student experience www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-...
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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Well, yes, wouldn't it be nice if you knew the answers in advance, and could predict precisely which ideas will turn out to be enormous breakthroughs and which lead to dead ends... BUT THAT'S NOT HOW RESEARCH WORKS. *face palm*
Two senior @ukri.org figures this week have suggested unis could reduce how much research they do
“Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25
(1/2)
“Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25
(1/2)
Research England official: universities could do ‘less’ R&D - Research Professional News
Arma 2025: Director of research asks whether system should provide “disincentives for lower-quality research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Well, yes, wouldn't it be nice if you knew the answers in advance, and could predict precisely which ideas will turn out to be enormous breakthroughs and which lead to dead ends... BUT THAT'S NOT HOW RESEARCH WORKS. *face palm*
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There are reasons that most UK universities are in trouble which have nothing to do with them. The managers have a hard job. However, some are in over their heads, putting out corporate statements about a "clear vision and plan" which no one has seen
No-confidence vote in University of Lincoln bosses is passed - BBC News
Academics at the University of Lincoln call for compulsory redundancies to be ruled out.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There are reasons that most UK universities are in trouble which have nothing to do with them. The managers have a hard job. However, some are in over their heads, putting out corporate statements about a "clear vision and plan" which no one has seen
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Universities do research that may not be commercially viable now but will be transformative down the line. They correct for market failure. If all they do is think like enterprises then they become a part of that market failure.
Of course, any academic worth their salt would then ask whose research will lay the foundation for any of this activity ... but expertise doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for commercialisation.
May 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Universities do research that may not be commercially viable now but will be transformative down the line. They correct for market failure. If all they do is think like enterprises then they become a part of that market failure.
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Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵
April 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵