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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida

@fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Lincoln | social interaction in police and judicial settings 🧑‍⚖️💬👮‍♀️| ⚽️🏐🏀🇧🇷views are my own

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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Thanks to the UK Border Control officer who greeted me with "welcome home, sir." You made my day.
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Colleagues in the School of Social & Political Sciences @ University of Lincoln lead cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research while actively engaging local communities. Dr Sue Bond-Taylor and @drnickcowen.bsky.social joined Lincoln’s Pint of Science festival. A proud Head of School!
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Jakub Mlynář @jakubmlynar.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
Harvey Sacks' (1935–1975) birthday today. "We are trying not to arrange things conveniently but to find out how they are arranged." (HS in Sanches & Blount, eds., 1975, p. 66) #EMCA #ConversationAnalysis #Ethnomethodology #Sociology
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🗣️"Scientific writing isn’t the packaging around knowledge. It’s one of the key places of knowledge production itself" #AcWri #AcademicSky
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What we lose when we outsource scientific writing - LSE Impact
Writing is often said to be thinking. Based on a study of scientific writing practices, this post analyses what is lost when academic writing is outsourced.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk
Why saving universities is far more than academic
Modern Britain needs young people with degrees – here’s how to make sure they still have somewhere to study them
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Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Dr Richer's views are unexceptionable - but could only come from Oxford, whose hostility to qualitative social science, except in anthropology, is notorious. Big Tech values this - Eg the WIT group at KCL. Great work on Alzheimers by @alisonpick.bsky.social et al www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
The social sciences need tools for the 21st century | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an editorial on difficulties with replicability of results in social science research
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
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Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself theconversation.com/the-greatest...
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The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself
Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.
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Nick Cowen @drnickcowen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Great pleasure welcoming to our campus Laurie Elks, one of the original commissioners on the Criminal Cases Review Commission, to speak about the CCRC’s work on righting miscarriages of justice. He is our first guest speaker on our core module Law Enforcement and Human Rights.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….
theguardian.com
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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...
doingmodernity.blogspot.com
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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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
A doctored image of three paragraphs from a large university's press release, replacing platitudes with the words "we must cut jobs".
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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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/
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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/...
theguardian.com
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
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The only reason why international talent still moves to the UK is the language.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher #chi2026
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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.
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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 😅
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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.
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#1 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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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 18/09/2025
So glad we are scorching the Earth so that a computer can, maybe after many tries, tell a guy how to make a Sandwich.
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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.
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Now comes the hardest part: making sure Parliament doesn’t approve any sort of amnesty for him or his peers.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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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Elliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚨 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...
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Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A Modest Proposal. The OfS must spearhead a dilution of the UK’s lavish student experience www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-...
timeshighereducation.com
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
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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
bbc.co.uk
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.
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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. 🧵
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In a time when people are obsessed with big data and statistics, this is a must-read!
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 09/04/2025
A year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a... Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct
Preamble

All research at our institution, from ideation and execution to analysis and reporting, is bound by the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. This code specifies five core values that organise and inform research conduct: Honesty, Scrupulousness, Transparency, Independence and Responsibility.

One way to summarise the guidelines in this document is to say they are about taking these core values seriously. When it comes to using Generative AI in or for research, the question is if and how this can be done honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently, and responsibly.

A key ethical challenge is that most current Generative AI undermines these values by design [3–5; details below]. Input data is legally questionable; output reproduces biases and erases authorship; fine-tuning involves exploitation; access is gated; versioning is opaque; and use taxes the environment.

While most of these issues apply across societal spheres, there is something especially pernicious about text generators in academia, where writing is not merely an output format but a means of thinking, crediting, arguing, and structuring thoughts. Hollowing out these skills carries foundational risks.

A common argument for Generative AI is a promise of higher productivity [5]. Yet productivity does not equal insight, and when kept unchecked it may hinder innovation and creativity [6, 7]. We do not need more papers, faster; we rather need more thoughtful, deep work, also known as slow science [8–10].

For these reasons, the first principle when it comes to Generative AI is to not use it unless you can do so honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently and responsibly. The ubiquity of tools like ChatGPT is no reason to skimp on standards of research integrity; if anything, it requires more vigilance.
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Sureyya Sonmez Efe @sefe-ofelia.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It is great to hear about our PhD students' research projects at the UoL PGT event👏👏
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It's that time of the year when undergrads start panicking about their dissertation. Today, one of them sent me a draft chapter and asked for my feedback. The email ended with 'good luck'. Not exactly what a supervisor would expect (or like to read) 😅
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Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko @drlkz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed! The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8... The deadline is 16 May!
background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board
text: (Untrue) True Crime: Historicising, Contextualising, Rewriting
8 July 2025 | online Zoomsame background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board
text: Whether stemming from interest in violence and stories or the need to understand criminal behaviour, narrating true crime has become an industry in and of itself. We would like to create a platform to discuss various ways of historicising, contextualising, and rewriting true crime across the media and further understanding regarding the ways in which true crime narratives are deployed.same background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board
text: Topics may include but are not limited to:

covering true crime in the media
the ethics of representing true crime
adapting and reinterpreting true crime
(de)mythologising perpetrators
the criminal-detective dynamic
voicing the victims and their families
the role of law enforcement
shifting formats of narrating true crime
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text: Please submit a 250-word proposal and a 50-100-word bionote by 16  May 2025 using the form linnked in the post.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 6 June 2025.
Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex) and Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (University of Warsaw)
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wordmerchant @thalkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Every piece of quantitative data rests on a qualitative 'moment' where an observation was categorized, then counted.
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 19/02/2025
LLMs are great if all you want is write mediocre prose and think mediocre thoughts
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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 05/11/2024
A question for #emca people: On the promise of ethnomethodological work studies (+ CA work) to practitioners... Do work studies offer "significant discoveries" of interest to practitioners or is "helpful therapy" as good as it gets? (I think "helpful therapy" is actually pretty valuable)
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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 09/01/2025
I co-convene the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers' Network (LLIRN). In 2024, we started a series profiling network members' work across different themes. The first was on Language and Criminal Justice ft. @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social @katesteel.bsky.social & @cornerbus.bsky.social
languageonthemove.com
What’s new in “Language and Criminal Justice” research?
Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team closely collaborates with the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network (LLIRN). To raise awareness of LLIRN and feature the rese…
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Storm Darragh is not stopping my Social & Political Sciences colleagues - Henry, Kim & Aris - from meeting all our visitors to the last University of Lincoln Open Day of 2024. A great turnout despite the weather. Thanks to everyone who came to see us today
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good news this morning: our article on how the ICC produces and assesses evidence on spiritual beliefs has now been published open acess 🔓 We combined #EMCA and linguistic anthropology to study key topics in legal theory: agency and criminal responsibility.
cambridge.org
Trajectories of spirituality: Producing and assessing cultural evidence at the International Criminal Court | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Trajectories of spirituality: Producing and assessing cultural evidence at the International Criminal Court
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I just wish this had come to light earlier so I could have used it for my Intro to CJS module to discuss the implications of "no comment" police interviews.
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Fabio Ferraz de Almeida @fferrazdealmeida.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It seems that this platform is growing fast. Let's just hope it does not become a new LinkedIn - where there's no place for discussing, disagreeing, and learning.
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