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Sam Lewis

@drsamjlewis.bsky.social
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Feminist. Criminologist. Academic. FRIVA lead. essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/204/dr-s…

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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m apalled and deeply saddened by this news from Turkey. Feminists fight against oppression in all its forms. We stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have just discovered this wonderful podcast, hosted by Dr. Eleanor Drage and Dr. Kerry McInerney (researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge). 🤖 www.thegoodrobot.co.uk
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Feminism And Technology | The Good Robot Podcast
Join Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry McInerney as they explore feminist approaches to technology on The Good Robot Podcast. They ask the experts: what is good tech? Is it even possible? And how does fem...
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anthropic C.E.O. Calls for A.I. Slowdown www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown
In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today we remember Gloria Steinem, one of my favourite Feminist 💙 Journalist, activist, organizer, feminist, and one of the defining voices of the modern women’s movement. She spent more than five decades fighting for equality and reproductive rights. 🧵1 #Pinks 🌸 #USDemocracy
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/08/2026
Dr Arday’s tragic death was the direct, foreseeable result of press harrassment, with racism playing a key role We're asking the prime minister to commission an immediate public inquiry ito ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again goodlaw.social/n1ck
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇
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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pleased to see the Booker longlist published … thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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The Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes
The longlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners and three debut novelists
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
And whilst we’re on the subject of all things digital, here’s an ‘interesting’ (ie alarming) breaking news story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals
Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The now confirmed abolition of DSIT can only be described as regressive and shortsighted. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK tech advocates alarmed by Burnham plan to scrap technology department
MPs and industry experts say potential reorganisation will waste time at critical moment for AI and economic growth
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I’m reading a postgraduate student’s dissertation chapter on how violence against women is embedded in wider social & cultural norms. Rather like the violence from the Argentinian football team, which has variously been excused, minimised & dismissed throughout the World Cup.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
An interesting & well-evidenced argument about why the *presence* of women & BAME groups stands out while their *absence* does not. open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...
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Why Women’s Presence Stands Out—Yet Their Absence Doesn’t
On cognitive biases distorting how we see women’s representation
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Socioeconomic factors are becoming 'biologically embedded' in children's brains. The analysis of more than 2,300 9- and 10-year-olds found that environmental factors ranging from household income to education to neighborhood quality are associated with brain differences" www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
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Socioeconomic factors are becoming 'biologically embedded' in children's brains
A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' brain development.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
How better to celebrate Refuge Week than by attending this documentary screening & discussion at Hyde Park Picture House? It’s free, it’s at lunchtime, & attendees get a free accompanying graphic novel! Register here: hpph.co.uk/films/making... @lawatleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
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Making it to the Registers: a migrant healthcare workers' story
Hosted as part of Refugee Week. The three short films feature conversations around the graphic novel Making it to the Registers. 
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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026
'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'. with @ianloader.bsky.social. Now peer reviewed and published by the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A heartwarming story to start the day ❤️ The Priests Revered in the Land of Five Genders www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
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The Priests Revered in the Land of Five Genders
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove
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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If you want to read the open letter from 400+ female screenwriters about the BBC’s Everard drama, The Nerve has it.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sending warm wishes to everyone marking student assessments this weekend. My marking companion has had enough, but we can’t give up yet. Onward! 💪🏼
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
You’ve got this, Hungary 🇭🇺 ❤️ 💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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Record numbers vote in Hungary election which could end 16 years of Orbán rule - follow live
Several polls suggest the prime minister faces a tough challenge from Péter Magyar in a pivotal parliamentary election.
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Law & Social Justice @lsjleeds.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
‘Directions, divergences, and dilemmas: What next for the feminist project in law?’ We're delighted to host Professor Joanne Conaghan @joanneconaghan.bsky.social, for our Annual Lecture! 📅10 March ⏰ 17:00- 19:30 📍Liberty Building LG.06 For more and to register for free 👇 tinyurl.com/5emw347w
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Select tickets – Directions, Divergences, and Dilemmas: What Next for the Feminist Project in Law? LSJ's Annual Lecture – LG.06, Liberty Building
Directions, Divergences, and Dilemmas: What Next for the Feminist Project in Law? LSJ's Annual Lecture – LG.06, Liberty Building, Tue 10 Mar 2026 - The Centre for Law & Social Justice (LSJ) and Fe...
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. wapo.st/4c3qzA5
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Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS.
Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Suspected victim suicides have outstripped homicides for the last two years, according to the Domestic Homicide Project. I suspect that if we’d been looking for longer, this would have been the case for longer. 💔
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Revealed: The true toll of female suicides with domestic abuse at their core
Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases in England and Wales
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“That we don’t even know how many women taken their lives because of men’s violence is to our society’s shame and reflects how little women’s lives matter.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Calls grow for suicides linked to domestic abuse to be treated as potential homicides
Politicians and experts say police should be better trained and move away from ‘tickbox approach’ to suicides
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.
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Helen Bonnick @helenbonnick.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
youtu.be/zw6__4oTfos PhD opportunity studying Child to parent violence at Queens University Belfast! #CPV #CAPVA 📣
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Understanding Child to Parent Violence: A Family Wide Perspective
YouTube video by QUB Psychology
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
To save you all time, let me say that Harvard referencing and APA7 are *not the same*. #typesetting #academicwoes
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
NEW The biggest police reform package for 50 years is days away. The 43-force model is being ditched, so are PCCs, & the Home Office is taking back control…. Read - for free - everything you need to know about the Police Reform White Paper: www.dannyshaw.net/post/police-...
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Police reform: what to expect?
For over a week now, government ministers and police chiefs have been 'rolling the pitch' for what is being billed as the biggest overhaul of policing in half a century. A carefully co-ordinated commu...
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
‘Directions, divergences, and dilemmas: What next for the feminist project in law?’ You are very welcome to @lsjleeds.bsky.social's Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor @joanneconaghan.bsky.social. 📅10 March ⏰ 17:00- 19:30 📍Liberty Building LG.06 For more and to register👇 tinyurl.com/5emw347w
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Select tickets – Directions, Divergences, and Dilemmas: What Next for the Feminist Project in Law? LSJ's Annual Lecture – LG.06, Liberty Building
Directions, Divergences, and Dilemmas: What Next for the Feminist Project in Law? LSJ's Annual Lecture – LG.06, Liberty Building, Tue 10 Mar 2026 - The Centre for Law & Social Justice (LSJ) is ple...
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Today’s news. It really is relentless.
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Parents and children who went through a pioneering court process designed to better protect families affected by domestic abuse share their experiences in a new Ministry of Justice report led by Dr Charlotte Barlow. Read more about this comprehensive review 👇 tinyurl.com/5c2h68mp
Background of paper dolls holding hands on a blue backdrop. Smiling photo of Dr Barlow in a circle frame. #News flare. Text reads: Dr Charlotte Barlow leads review of pioneering court pilot which is designed to better protect families affected by domestic abuse.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📰Academic in the news! Our @dralimalik.bsky.social appears in the Yorkshire Evening Post on the 10-year anniversary of the Boxing Day floods. He has created a series of leaflets to help communities prepare for extreme weather events such as flooding, storms, heatwaves and snow 👇 tinyurl.com/y5u6twhf
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University of Leeds academic produces information leaflets to support residents
A decade after flooding devastated Yorkshire, a University of Leeds academic has produced a series of booklets to help people in the UK prepare for and cope with extreme weather.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I used GenAI to create an Excel file of the names, addresses, URLs etc. of all 74 coroners in E&W. I used it to build worksheets, & write code, to collate inquest details. Marvellous, I thought. Then it hallucinated inquests into the deaths of people who never existed, with names & dates.
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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy Winter/Summer solstice today and festive greetings for the coming week. Looking forward here to the lighter, longer days 🎄
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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 16/12/2025
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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Helen Bonnick @helenbonnick.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Powerful and distressing reporting on the BBC website today. Many people having been shouting about this for a long time. Hoping this helps to being change. #adoption #CPV #CAPVA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Parents threatened by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care
Families seeking help for their children’s complex needs describe threats of police action against them.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📢 School of Law academics in the news! @drsamjlewis.bsky.social and @annabarker.bsky.social discuss the Feminist Research Into Violence & Abuse Network, driving vital research on gendered violence, from rural abuse to women’s safety in parks. Read more in the Yorkshire Post👇 tinyurl.com/2v2tf269
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How West Yorkshire is stepping up to help eliminate violence against women - Alison Lowe & Dr Sam Lewis
November 25 marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It is a stark reminder that gender-based violence remains a widespread crisis. The statistics speak for themselves. ...
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Don’t be like Kim Kardashian.
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Dr Rebecca Shaw’s ‘Changing the Narrative of Domestic Abuse’ is a creative, evidence-based programme of Relationships, Sex and Health Education lessons on domestic abuse aimed at secondary school students years 7-11. Learn more about this vital resource👇 tinyurl.com/yhpzs2wa @ccjsleeds.bsky.social
Background image of a resource from the programme. Smiling photo of Dr Shaw in a circle. Text reads: 'Dr Rebecca Shaw’s vital new educational programme aims to tackle prevalent narratives around domestic abuse. ‘Changing the Narrative of Domestic Abuse’ is a creative, evidence-based programme of Relationships, Sex and Health Education lessons on domestic abuse aimed at secondary school students from Year 7 to Year 11.' #news flare.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It’s about time. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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‘We’re working to root out medical misogyny and ensure mo...
To avoid preventable deaths, we must dismantle a culture that allows the dismissal of human experience
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
‘The CBI and Universities UK… said universities already subsidised research by £5.4 billion a year, largely through international student income. A levy would "accelerate contraction" in research and innovation, they warned.’ www.thetimes.com/article/95f2...
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Tax on international students would be crippling, universities say
The Confederation of British Industry and Universities UK warn plans for a 6% levy will also affect the wider economy
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The value of public R&D
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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
WOMEN RECLAIM THE NIGHT There are lots of Reclaim the Night events across West Yorkshire this weekend - here's Leeds Other Paper's report of the first one, back in 1977. #ReclaimTheNight #SaferStreets
LOP 69 (25 Nov 1977) text of story headlined Women reclaim the night. Plus photo of women's march through Leeds, lit by torchlight.
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Sam Lewis @drsamjlewis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Developments in AI are outpacing measures to ensure privacy and fairness, and prevent bias. In that context, this is very worrying: Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/t...
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Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Our latest paper(with Ruth Weir, Niels Blom, Oluwole Adeniyi) entitled Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence is finally published in the British Journal of Criminology! doi.org/10.1093/bjc/... LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence
Abstract. This study explores the relationship between changes in neighbourhood characteristics and changes in violence rates across England and Wales from
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