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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

#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).

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 25/07/2025

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.

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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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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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/...).

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Day 30 of #30DaysWild. We did it! The boys built wildlife houses in Minecraft to celebrate and they got their certificates. Year 3 done!

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Day 26 of #30DaysWild. Another walk and we spotted a ladybird pupa!

A black and orange ladybird pupa attached to a green leaf.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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.

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Still just over a week to apply for this role.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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).

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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).

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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).

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Day 18 of #30DaysWild. We grounded ourselves by standing barefoot on the grass. (A day late as I was in bed with Covid yesterday).

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Day 15 of #30DaysWild. Cheat day. We had a family day out at a retro arcade club for Father’s Day. So our ‘wildlife’ was centipede and millipede 😉 (We also saw a real pheasant on the way home).

The game Centipede. A computerised centipede made up of several blocks moves across the screen while players try to shoot it.

The game Millipede. A retro game screen displays mushrooms, a jumping spider and a millipede.

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This week on Wonkhe: James Coe reviews the latest REF2029 guidance on contributions to knowledge and understanding

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REF is about institutions not individuals

James Coe reviews the latest REF2029 guidance on contributions to knowledge and understanding

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Day 14 of #30DaysWild. We spent time contemplating the sky and clouds (and suggesting what things they looked like).

A moody sky heavy with clouds. Colours range from dark grey to white, with small pockets of blue sky peeking through.

A sky full of white and grey clouds. Some blue sky can be seen.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/06/2025

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Day 13 of #30DaysWild. Tonight we played wildlife charades/20 questions. There was some ‘interesting’ acting and a diverse range of species on show!

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Day 12 of #30DaysWild. One of the boys made a poster, while the other one played a game of Canopy with me, where the aim is to grow the most bountiful and ecologically balanced rainforest.

A child’s drawing. The poster says 30 Days Wild in ‘3D’ writing. Below is an explanation of what this is and drawings of a tree and flowers.

Several cards are laid out on the floor to form the game surface of Canopy. Some show wildlife, others plants and yet others form trees of differing heights.

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Kim Stallwood @kimstallwood.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

My appreciation of Paula Sparks, Britain’s foremost authority on animal rights law, who recently died. kimstallwood.substack.com

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Day 11 of #30DaysWild. We made sound maps. Stood quietly in the garden and drew a map of the sounds we could hear around us.

A diagram with lines coming out of a centre point. At the ends of these lines are the sounds that could be heard, such as a car, birds tweeting, rustling leaves.

A diagram with lines coming out of a centre point. At the ends of these lines are the sounds that could be heard, such as leaves rustling, a car door, bees buzzing.

A diagram with lines coming out of a centre point. At the ends of these lines are the sounds that could be heard, such as tweet tweet, coo, whoosh

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Come and join me at Liverpool Hope University for #postgrad study from September. I will be leading our MRes in Green Criminology but we have other options including a taught MA. Info in replies. #greencriminology #extremism #transnationalcrime #MA #masters #environment #criminology #terrorism

New Criminology Masters at Liverpool Hope University: MA International Criminology and Security Studies; MRes Green Criminology and Environmental Crime; MRes Transnational Crime; MRes International Terrorism and Extremism. MRes courses consist of a 30-credit subject-specific module + 30 credits of research methods + 120 credit dissertation. MA course is 3x30-credit subject-specific modules from the three MRes + 30 credits research methods + 60 credit dissertation.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Day 10 of #30DaysWild. Nana took over today when the boys visited after school. Flower seeds planted to keep the butterflies happy.

A pink plant pot filled with dark compost.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Day 9 of #30DaysWild. Having to get creative with not being able to go out for walks, so tonight we did a jigsaw all about rainforests.

A 300 piece jigsaw with facts about rainforests and drawings of flora and fauna.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Day 8 of #30DaysWild. We did wildlife quizzes today and spotted a duck when we went to the shops!

Screenshot of an online quiz. A close up of a frog with the words “HOP ON IN TO SOME QUIZZES”

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Day 7 of #30DaysWild. A chipped bone at football has put paid to any walks! So today we played bug bingo and we are now watching a nature documentary.

A game board with 9 squares featuring different bugs. Two are covered with tokens decorated with leaves.

Photo of a TV screen showing a squirrel leaping through the air.

A child sits at a hospital wearing a black medical boot.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Day 6 of #30DaysWild. Back outside! Went for a walk past the reservoir and to our local woods. Spent some time among the trees just being quiet and enjoying feeling part of nature.

Two boys sit on a wooden bench looking across a reservoir.

Slim tree trunks rise from the green undergrowth.

Looking up to the tree canopy, glimpses of white-blue sky.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Day 5 of #30DaysWild. Heavy rain meant no outdoors time, so we have twin two writing an acrostic poem and twin one drawing the picture this time.

An acrostic poem based on the word nature.
Night and day
Animals are all around us
Threatened
Under appreciated
Remarkable animals
Everyone needs to protect them

A child’s drawing on a computer. An orange fox stands in front of grass and the sky.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Day 4 of #30DaysWild. One drew a parrot and the other wrote an acrostic poem. (There wasn’t time to get outside as it was kick-boxing tonight).

A child’s drawing on a computer shows a blue, green and yellow parrot sat in a tree.

An acrostic poem for WILDLIFE:
Walking
In between
Leaves,
Dandelions, daisies, and daffodils
Looking at lavender
In
Fields of flowers
Everywhere.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Day 3 of #30DaysWild. No pictures today as the boys went to RHS Bridgewater with school and spent all day outside in the gardens spotting bees, building dens and generally enjoying themselves.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Day 1 of #30DaysWild We started with a 4 mile walk and just enjoyed being out in nature.

Two boys in rain coats walk down a trail in the countryside.

A view of green trees and fields. White clouds are spread across a blue sky, with a grey cloud in the foreground.

A pink and white wild rose with yellow centre contrasts with strong green leaves.

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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

UK Court rules that if you want to engage in industrial level farming, then you have to accept that what you produce includes industrial waste. #greencriminology #pollution #environment www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Chicken manure can be classified as industrial waste, judge rules

US-style mega-farms in Herefordshire face tough new regulations after high court ruling

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Our sociologists’ wives research is helping to set the record straight about whose shoulders British sociologists are standing on. Wives collected and analysed data, edited and co-authored. Visit our website to find out more, and …1/6 academicswives.co.uk

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Welcome to Academics’ Wives Welcome to Academics’ Wives Academics’ Wives is a British Academy / Leverhulme funded research project exploring the contribution made by wives of social investiga...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧

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Francesco Calderoni @fracalderoni.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨 Global Crime is open to special issue proposals! 🚨 We welcome proposals from early-career researchers and established scholars on topics like organized crime, corruption, illicit markets & more. ℹ️ www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgl... #Criminology #CallForPapers #GlobalCrime #academics

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