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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rankings are bullshit and all that, but to see Edinburgh Napier University also rank #1 modern university in the UK for #criminology feels like recognition of the incredible expertise and hard work of the best colleagues one could ever hope for. Rankings or not, very proud to be part of the team 🏆

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Thinking about postgraduate studies? Interested in criminal, restorative, and transformative justice? Watch this video to hear about our MSc Crime and Justice in Practice directly from members of our teaching team, and take a peek around our campus. For more info: www.napier.ac.uk/courses/msc-...

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Dr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

📣 Call for contributors 📣 from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'. Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼

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Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Our social sciences and criminology colleagues are ready to welcome prospective students at Edinburgh Napier University's Open Day 2025. Come see us at Sighthill Campus between 10am and 3pm #MustBeNapier

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Another excellent @europeangroup.bsky.social conference this year in Malmö: programme packed with critical and radical voices and clear commitment in support of Palestine. Grateful for the kind and attentive audience listening to my and @dinesson.bsky.social's paper on zemiology of counterterrorism

A woman standing in front of a screen showing a presentation titled "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism".

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Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Our colleague Dr @kir-anderson.bsky.social was discussing her recent book "The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation", the first detailed analysis of a unique time in the history of Scottish prisons. The book is available here: www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin... #EdBookFest

A woman wearing glasses and a striped black and white shirt smiling at the camera while holding a copy of the book "The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation"

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Packed room for the "Unlocking the arts" event at the Edinburgh Book Festival this afternoon, with the wonderful Kirstin Anderson and Lady Unchained discussing art, incarceration, and how to think of possible ways forward to both mitigate and prevent the harms of criminalisation.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My brilliant colleagues' recent funding successes have opened up 2 fixed term positions in our criminology team at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social; if you are an early career researcher, or you are finishing up/just out of a PhD, we would love to hear from you.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

You can't swing a cat in Napier's crim team's offices without hitting a successful colleague in the face, and I am beyond delighted to see the latest success of all-round excellent human being @kir-anderson.bsky.social, I can think of no better person to conduct this important project.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A much needed (and excellently timed) resource produced by my esteemed @edinburghnapier.bsky.social colleagues, looking forward to taking my students through this work. This really couldn't have been written by more diligent hands, absolutely delighted to see it out into the world ⚖️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I really love this journal, yet another incredible issue featuring cutting edge critical and radical scholarship, and a great bonus is that so many articles are open/full access. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

June 25, 4pm BST (UTC+1), online Against the Latin American Current? Decarceration in Chile Javier Wilenmann, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile From @thesccjr.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/against-th... #Penology #Criminology #Chile

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Against the Latin American Current? Decarceration in Chile

While Latin America has seen a significant rise in incarceration rates over the last 30 years, Chile has experienced a 33% drop. Why?

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"Kirstin Anderson opened by pulling no punches". I have zero trouble believing that! As always, here's @kir-anderson.bsky.social taking hard questions head on and leading exactly the kind of conversation we should be having about prisons: about social harms, academic pavidity, and lessons unlearned.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This past year it has felt particularly important to connect with all my students individually, and work my hardest to help them bring their experiences and understanding of the world into the classroom. I am truly SO thankful for this "Best Lecturer" nomination, perhaps I might be onto something.

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Victoria Canning @vcanning.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The petition to #FreeFatou is here - please sign if you can 👇🏽https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-deportation-of-our-sister-fatou-her-life-is-in-danger-if-she-is-deported

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Stop the Deportation of Our Sister Fatou – Her Life Is in Danger if she is Deported

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"The term is being misused" the term is being used exactly as intended. "The law is being misused" this is the point of the law.

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Stephen or Steve "EMV" Cobb @scobb.net · 25/03/2025

Great to see a shout out to #Zemiology, key to understanding the full impact of technology abuse.

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Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Did you know? We now offer 3 #masters degrees as part of our subject area's masters suite: in criminology, in joint criminology and forensic psychology, and in social research. All 3 programmes focus on applied learning and offer an optional work placement 💼 Check out the information below 👇

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Utterly delighted to see this MSc out in the world after so much hard work went into its design. Come study #criminology (and #zemiology) with us at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social, you couldn't find a better team than the outstanding scholars and educators I have the pleasure of calling my colleagues

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Kirstin Anderson @kir-anderson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Excited to give a SASO guest lecture on the Barlinnie Special Unit tomorrow evening, 4 March 2025, at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, 17:30, free, open to all interested and no registration needed @socscinapier.bsky.social www.sastudyoffending.org.uk/attachments/...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Unlike the author I think research on the aetiology of crime should be abandoned altogether, but the questions raised in this enjoyable article are pertinent: why do we teach and legitimise causal claims we know to be rubbish, perpetuating criminological myth? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Zombie criminology and disciplinary maintenance: How living-dead explanations that eat your brain, preserve the criminological status quo, and shape the criminological paradigm

This manuscript introduces zombie criminology (ZC). ZC draws upon zombie arguments made in other disciplines (e.g. physics), and makes reference to historical/cultural meanings associated with zomb...

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Can't claim credit for this as @kir-anderson.bsky.social did the organising and I did the tagging along, but it was interesting to see what students made of the process (especially those who remembered me saying in class "when you want to bury an issue and avoid accountability, launch an inquiry")

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Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

An insight into real world practice as our students heard statements from the Scottish Police Federation and GEOAmey on the impact of COVID-19 on their organisations. Thanks to @kir-anderson.bsky.social and @frasoliman.bsky.social for organising and @covid19inquiry.scot for a warm welcome.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Come for the view, stay for the postgraduate offerings, stay even longer for the whiskey bar

A view of a wide Edinburgh road, with sandstone buildings on either side

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Interested in postgraduate studies? You are still in time to register for our Open Evening event on Wed 26 February. Come find me to discuss our new criminology masters, the MSc Crime and Justice in Practice 🎓 www.napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...

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Learn more about postgraduate study by attending a postgraduate event with Edinburgh Napier. Meet academics, student support teams and current students.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's day from this power couple

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In even better news, the article is open access and will remain free long after February ends 🎉

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement: freemovement.org.uk/good-charact... And I've done a follow up on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

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New change to Home Office policy permanently blocks refugees from citizenship

Change is bad in principle and breaches the Refugee Convention

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Victoria Canning @vcanning.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Most read articles for 'Justice, Power and Resistance' - journal of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control with @policypress.bsky.social are FREE this month - links in thread 👇

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Dr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@frasoliman.bsky.social and I are among BUPs most downloaded authors of 2024! You can read our paper "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism" and the whole collection free until Feb 28th! Most downloaded collection: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/page/most-re...

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Most read articles collection

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My friend and I have shared so many cool sightings with one another over the few years since we met: stars, planets, moons, orbiting space stations, birds, squirrels, whales in the firth of Forth. His curiosity, joy, and kindness know no bounds. This is the first full moon since he passed away.

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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you’d like to see the end of driven grouse shooting, sign this. There’s five months left which means it needs almost 14,000 signatures/month. There’s no time to lose so repost after singing!

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Just received the unexpected gift of 20 minutes of free time, just long enough to post some of my favourite #birds among the ones I saw in 2024. First up, this lovely kingfisher, spotted on the banks of the river Almond on New Year's Day

A male kingfisher perched on a tree bough, its plumage bright blue and orange. The bird is left, its sharp slightly angled downward

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And what a great, forward-thinking event it was: our brilliant PhD cohort, constantly pushing the boundaries of criminological thought and research; the Future Labs, "idea containers" for alternative justice futures; and Brunilda Pali's thought-provoking talk on environmental restorative justice 👏

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a black and white photo of a man in a car with the caption do n't look back baby do n't ever look back.

ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a car with the caption do n't look back baby do n't ever look back.

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Dr Andrew Wooff @awooff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Dr Brunilda Pali provides a fascinating #SCCJR annual lecture, talking about environmental restorative justice and some green shoots of positive news in this space. #restorativejustice

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Really looking forward to this event 👇

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I wonder if this reflects the particular nature of criminal law, but my view is actually the opposite: Changing the law on the ground requires no lege action at all. If cops stop arresting for X, X is decriminalized. If cops want to stop you for X and X is not a crime, they’ll get you for Y.

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Of course I didn't have my camera with me, but here is a phone picture taken through the spare binoculars I keep in the car: sparrowhawk eating a pigeon on the bank of the Union canal #birds

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It's been so nice to see so many people I used to connect with on Twitter joining this site, but also to connect with so many people I didn't know before. I think a proper introduction is in order, and it's a great excuse to make use of the brand new thread function 🧵

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Alexander Verbeek @alexverbeek.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

If you have any reach on Bluesky, please consider reposting so I can find old and new friends (and then I’ll follow you back 😊). I'm Alexander Verbeek and publish about the climate crisis, environment, the beauty of nature, science, walking, sustainability, wildlife, photography, water, and energy.

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

For anyone interested in short term holding facilities and (not mass) deportation, I have a new book out next month about the UK (with a very pretty cover): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Supply Chain Justice

How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain

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michael veale @michae.lv · 15/11/2024

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

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A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT

Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

😀REGISTRATION IS OPEN😀 Join us on Fri 6 Dec for the SCCJR Annual Lecture at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social with Brunilda Pali, Uni of Amsterdam, who will talk about 'Restorative Justice in Environmental Harms & Conflicts.' 👉https://bit.ly/SCCJR-AnnualLecture2024

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SCCJR Annual Lecture 2024: Brunilda Pali

Dr Brunilda Pali, University of Amsterdam, will present this year's lecture on 'Restorative Justice in Environmental Harms and Conflicts.'

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