Andy Aydın-Aitchison
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison
@andy8chi.bsky.social
Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)

Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
‘War is a banal platform for sociopaths and
people blinded by power… As a feminist, I despise these structures’ Jasmila Žbanić

A day to reflect on the lives ended and scarred through war and the violent pursuit of power.

My grandfather seated to right, in a sombre, posed picture during WWI.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
All kinds of uses, in fact
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This could work for lower league Scottish football.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hijinks and frighteners
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Happy halloween from the Scottish Lowlands!

Oidhche Shamhna shona dhut!
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Started my day in India (virtaully), with a talk to Law and Criminology students at Saveetha School of Law on the topic of policing after Communism in Europe.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Criminology #Politics #Policing
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reading week walk 6, Queensferry to Cramond, rail bridge, Firth of Forth. Not pictured, sense of calm before returning to the semester's tasks.
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reading week walk 5, Deer Abbey ruins and Pitfour Lake.
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reading week walk 4, Balmoral Castle estate. Royal leaf, royal residence, royal coo. Not pictured, royals.
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Reading week walk 3, Braemar Lion's Face and Cromlins. Mushrooms, creepy trees, castle and squirrel. Not pictured, anything looking remotely like a Lion's face.
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reading week walk 2, Linn of Dee. Thundering waters. Not pictured, the fush struggling and jumping upstream.
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mid-semester reading week walk 1, Loch Kinord and a Pictish Cross. Not pictured, a super-strong smell of (wild?) cat wee.
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Cows!

#Cows
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Visiting MacCormick fellow Faith Gordon, talking at @uoelawschool.bsky.social this week on looking at children's safety online from a rights_based perspective.
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A visit from @benbradford.bsky.social to @uoelawschool.bsky.social, talking on policing, procedural (in)justice, and impacts on mental health.

#criminology #police
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Okay, I don't know what was going on here, but after watching The Tourist Trap,I was not sticking around to find out.

13/13 for creepiness.

Bravo, Gorebridge!

#Halloween #Gorebridge
October 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ghost horse! 👻

10/10 for early adoption of Halloween costume

#Halloween
October 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sinister goat!

Okay, friendly goat, but sinister after application of photoshop.

7/10

#Haloween
October 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Mild spookiness at the Borthwick kirkyard, where I am reminded of my own mortality.

5/10, would benefit from zombies

#Halloween
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
As we head towards Halloween, I got to thinking that Gorebridge is well named to be Scotland's horror capital. I went to check it out...

#Halloween #VisitScotland
October 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Looks like it's that time of year again 🎃☺️
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
September 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
September 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For 4 weeks, Criminology @uoelawschool.bsky.social have been hosting Dr. Haezreena (Reena) Begum Abdul Hamid from Universiti Malaya. As her visit comes towards its close, she shared some of her fascinating research on female imprisonment in Malaysia with staff and postgraduate researchers.
September 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Monday of week 2, even!
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM