Sam Lewis

‘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

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.”

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past.
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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

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. 💔

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

“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...

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

Understanding Child to Parent Violence: A Family Wide Perspective YouTube video by QUB Psychology

youtu.be/zw6__4oTfos PhD opportunity studying Child to parent violence at Queens University Belfast! #CPV #CAPVA 📣

To save you all time, let me say that Harvard referencing and APA7 are *not the same*. #typesetting #academicwoes

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.

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...

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...

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-...

‘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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Today’s news. It really is relentless.

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.

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 👇
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Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

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.

📰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 👇
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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.

Happy Winter/Summer solstice today and festive greetings for the coming week. Looking forward here to the lighter, longer days 🎄

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...

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.

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...

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.

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. ...

📢 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👇
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Don’t be like Kim Kardashian.

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.

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👇
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@ccjsleeds.bsky.social

‘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

It’s about time. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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

‘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...

We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.

The value of public R&D

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...

LOP 69 (25 Nov 1977) text of story headlined Women reclaim the night. Plus photo of women's march through Leeds, lit by torchlight.

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

Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy

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...

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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!