Aby--not fast, just furious
@aby@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I have to pick a topic to make a 10 minute video presentation on, and then write an essay about for my "Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Crime and Justice" subject.

I can choose anything that is a "contemporary or emerging issue" that I want to research, however it can't be anything that our modules already cover..

Our modules are:

- Hate Crime
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Wildlife, Animal, and Forestry Crime
- Trafficking in Cultural Property
- Identity Crime
- Technology, Digitals, and Crime Prevention
- Institutional Abuse
- Trauma, Personality Functioning, and Offending Behaviour
- Aging Offenders
- Work with Offending Behaviour
- The Professions in Criminal Justice and Wellbeing

I want to write about the NSW anti-Semitism laws, and how they're actually being used to cow criticism of Israel's genocidal actions against Palestine, but I feel like the marker is going to think that comes too close to the "hate crime" module.

I was thinking of writing about either the under-16 social media ban or about Ring door camera surveillance stuff (but both could be covered by the tech/digitals module).

The only other thing I can think of is the whole ligature points in prisons issue.

Suggestions welcome!

#uni#Academia#Criminology#CriminalJustice #university #writing

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@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

3/3🧵: as #graduation season is in full swing, #UK #students from top #universities are staging #protests in support of #Palestine. On Thursday #Cambridge #university students waved #Palestinian flags and/or #keffiyeh, wearing traditional dress at their graduation ceremony and demanded their uni follow Kings' example and #divest from #Israel & #genocide.

Students at ceremony taking palestinian flags out of their pockets or refusing to shake hands
Students at ceremony taking palestinian flags out of their pockets or refusing to shake hands
joene 🏴🍉
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@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

2/3🧵: a couple of hours later, an even larger #walkout was staged by the under/post grad #students of political & social science of #Edinburgh #university, leaving the #graduation ceremony hall mostly empty. The #uni now has a stark choice: the money from its financial entanglement with #Israel and companies that actively enable #genocide in #Gaza, or the money and the brains of its students. ✊🏽🇵🇸

Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
joene 🏴🍉
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sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

1/3🧵: This is how #protest movements reach a #tippingpoint 🥲. #Edinburgh #university, a #uni that was named in the #UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's report about #Gaza #genocide enablers, saw its PhD #students walk out en masse from their own #graduation ceremony on Friday. Hear those who think they are the majority shout "shut up" until they come to realise the majority is loudly, clearly and beautifully supporting #Palestine and #divestment.
https://www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/7nhe6nfect3a9djkczclnakgp6m9zc

Video showing dozens and dozens of students leaving the graduation hall at Edinburgh uni
Video showing dozens and dozens of students leaving the graduation hall at Edinburgh uni
sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

2/3🧵: a couple of hours later, an even larger #walkout was staged by the under/post grad #students of political & social science of #Edinburgh #university, leaving the #graduation ceremony hall mostly empty. The #uni now has a stark choice: the money from its financial entanglement with #Israel and companies that actively enable #genocide in #Gaza, or the money and the brains of its students. ✊🏽🇵🇸

Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

3/3🧵: as #graduation season is in full swing, #UK #students from top #universities are staging #protests in support of #Palestine. On Thursday #Cambridge #university students waved #Palestinian flags and/or #keffiyeh, wearing traditional dress at their graduation ceremony and demanded their uni follow Kings' example and #divest from #Israel & #genocide.

Students at ceremony taking palestinian flags out of their pockets or refusing to shake hands
Students at ceremony taking palestinian flags out of their pockets or refusing to shake hands
sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

2/3🧵: a couple of hours later, an even larger #walkout was staged by the under/post grad #students of political & social science of #Edinburgh #university, leaving the #graduation ceremony hall mostly empty. The #uni now has a stark choice: the money from its financial entanglement with #Israel and companies that actively enable #genocide in #Gaza, or the money and the brains of its students. ✊🏽🇵🇸

Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
Edinburgh students leaving their graduation ceremony en masse
sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

1/3🧵: This is how #protest movements reach a #tippingpoint 🥲. #Edinburgh #university, a #uni that was named in the #UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's report about #Gaza #genocide enablers, saw its PhD #students walk out en masse from their own #graduation ceremony on Friday. Hear those who think they are the majority shout "shut up" until they come to realise the majority is loudly, clearly and beautifully supporting #Palestine and #divestment.
https://www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/7nhe6nfect3a9djkczclnakgp6m9zc

Video showing dozens and dozens of students leaving the graduation hall at Edinburgh uni
Video showing dozens and dozens of students leaving the graduation hall at Edinburgh uni
Nadia Zaboura ✨
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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

When George Mason University president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”

But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#University#HigherEd #Education#Trump#Virginia#DEI
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

When George Mason University president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”

But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#University#HigherEd #Education#Trump#Virginia#DEI
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp last month

If you work in education & have been vexed by the impact of AI (chatbots etc.) on you students' learning, then as John Naughton reports, a recent experiment has demonstrated that your presumption that students use of AI reduces their engagement with their learning & therefore undermines their educational achievements looks to be correct.

They're just cheating themselves!

(Also includes a brilliant Frank Herbert quote at the end).

#education#AI #university

https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/does-ai-makes-us-dull-students-have-answered-that-question