NEW: Revisiting Terrorist Motivation - A Critical Appraisal and New Directions for Research Our special issue launches shortly. Here's the primer: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to this research with Human Digital and @vox-pol.bsky.social. The ongoing proliferation of illegal content on gore sites is undermining broader efforts to counter terrorism and other harms online. Among the key findings of the research:

🧵 I spoke to FRANCE 24 for their piece on The Base, a transnational neo-Nazi terrorist organisation now being used as a tool in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Earlier this month, a cell affiliated with The Base claimed responsibility for an assassination in Kyiv. www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...

Gardaí fear drug gangs in Ireland have made connections with a gun supplier who's providing criminals with lethal 'throw away' 3D-printed plastic guns, The Journal has learned. Read more here: http://jrnl.ie/6745392t

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“White House has recommended terminating U.S. funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Happy to join the European Commission's EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation's Thematic Panel "Management of Foreign Terrorist Fighter, Volunteers and their Families". Earlier this week, we met in Berlin, to discuss varying approaches to returnees across EU and priority third countries.

Diary entries written by Luigi Mangione reveal the now 27-year-old’s detailed thinking ahead of the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, a new court filing shows.

New article by former @crexuio.bsky.social PhD fellow, @evianeleidig.com and former C-REX guest researcher @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social 👇

📢 Our new article in the Nordic Journal of Media Studies is out, co-written with @evianeleidig.com We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

🚨 New article with the brilliant @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛 open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms committed the car bomb attack the fertility clinic in Palm Springs. Bartkus was a follower of Efilism, or a radical version of antinatalism that holds that it’s ethical to end life because life is suffering. bnonews.com/index.php/20...

UPDATE: One person was killed and four were injured in the weekend blast, said Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.

Statement from the PKK on the end of its armed struggle: “The PKK's 12th Congress decided to dissolve the PKK's organizational structure and end the armed struggle method.” firatnews.com/kurdIstan/pk...

BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Tusk announced full certainty that the massive fire at Marywilska 44, a major wholesale center in Warsaw, was arson ordered by Russian intelligence.

As it's such a lovely evening here in Clonmel, I took a short walk down to our local holy well at Tober na hAoine. Both delighted and a little relieved to see the fallen hawthorn tree bursting into bloom.

The PKK could disband within the coming days. In a statement published by ANF the group says it held its 12th Congress earlier this month and will release results "within the near future" after Ocalan called on it to lay down arms anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pk...

I know being baffled by all this is getting old, but wow

FBI has opened 250 investigations tied to 764. Every single one of the FBIs 55 field offices across the country are handling a 764-related case. Some victims as young as nine & authorities indicate there could be 1000s of victims globally abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-opene...

Far right activist Scott Delaney jailed in UK for drugs haul after years on the run. Delaney had become one of Ireland’s most prominent far right influencers amassing thousands of followers on social media.

Dublin criminal gang attempts to drop pipe bomb from drone in a failed attack against rivals. The first non-conflict related drone bomb in Europe, surely? www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Looks like 764 members in Brazil were plotting to bomb a concert??? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Woman dies when a bomb she is carrying explodes in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police say

Greek police investigating previously unknown group Revolutionary Class Struggle that claimed responsibility for a recent bomb blast targeting the offices of Greece's railway company www.dw.com/en/greece-ex...

UK: Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an attack on three prison officers by Hashem Abedi, the jihadist jailed for life for helping his brother carry out the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017. The officers sustained life-threatening injuries www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russia just killed dozens of Ukrainians in a missile strike on Palm Sunday, a day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin, shook hands and posed for cameras. Witkoff visited an Orthodox Christian cathedral. Today church-goers were targeted. Report w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social on.ft.com/42k2tuc

Just arrived. Looking forward to diving into this by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, a timely and urgently needed book!

🚨 Happy to share my latest open-access research which examines the use of Twitter’s live-audio conversational feature, Spaces, with far-right communities I argue that the Elon Musk backed Spaces has emerged as a powerful communicative tool for the far-right www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Russia is reportedly using social media and financial incentives to recruit Chinese nationals to voluntarily join the Russian military. isw.pub/UkrWar041025

30 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, where does America stand on extremism today? Join our panelists alongside @lbaum94.bsky.social as they unpack the legacy & engage in a meaningful discussion about the lasting impact of domestic violent extremism. 🗓️April 17 | 🕐1pm EST 📍Virtual

What's the scariest American political development? This one, I think. shows.acast.com/warcollege/e...

A peak behind the paywall... For $5 a month you can receive this level of detailed summary and analysis relating to developments in northern Syria to your mailbox each week

A west Belfast man (27) has been sentenced to 12 months--suspended for 2 years--for publicly supporting dissident Irish republicans after he shared posts on Facebook 3 years ago that included calls for violence. www.thejournal.ie/man-sentence...

I had the pleasure to join @mollythomastv.bsky.social and @philofwrite.bsky.social on Big [If True] @tvotoday.bsky.social for the latest episode on tradwives, misinformation & conspiracy theories 🧺🌾💉 www.tvo.org/video/trendi...

Really important FT article exploring role of trust in health; I’m quoted along with @obshealth.bsky.social colleagues including @martinmckee.bsky.social. The free policy brief is here: eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications... www.ft.com/content/2c38...

From March 25–28, 2025, the VORTEX research network gathered at Uni Turin. PhD candidates shared their initial findings. Keynotes and discussions covered: 📊 Data Management 🧭 Ethics: Regina Ammicht & Quinn Marco Krüger 📣 Science Communication: Gabriele Marino Next meeting: online in fall 2025.

spoke with @johnalechner.bsky.social about his incredible new book 'Death Is Our Business.' It's everything you ever wanted to know about Russian mercenaries angryplanetpod.com/p/life-insid...

👋 Hello Bluesky! Excited to share insights & updates from the VORTEX Doctoral Network! Funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe, we unite 8 universities & 10 PhD candidates to develop strategies to counter & prevent radicalization. Let’s connect! 💡🔗 🌐 vortex.uni.mau.se 📢 We are also on LinkedIn

For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

It was a pleasure to participate in the International Women’s Day panel hosted by @unioslo-stk.bsky.social in Oslo I spoke about far right anxieties of fertility and reproduction in creating moral panics #IWD2025

PKK leader Ocalan’s historic call to disarm could go to waste without external guarantors www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/pkk-...

PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan calls on the group to disarm and dissolve in widely expected but historical statement. Will be many challenges ahead, but potentially an end-of-an-era moment. www.dw.com/en/turkey-oc...

”Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is expected to call on the group he founded to lay down its arms this week, two Turkish officials with knowledge of the matter told @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.” Ragip Soylu: www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-...

al-Houl camp population breakdown as of 3 days ago: 15,870 Syrians 15,950 Iraqis 6,389 3rd country nationals aanesgov.org?p=18541

MARK YOUR CALENDARS On August 13, 2025 My book on QAnon "From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" will be published with Routledge's Far-Right and Fascism series. It will be available for Pre-Order in July. www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...

The Swedish prime minister said the shooting of anti-Islam campaigner Salwan Momika, just hours before a trial verdict was due on Thursday over his burning the Koran, might be linked to a foreign power www.reuters.com/world/europe...

On January 13 the US government designated the Terrorgram Collective. The collective & their propaganda have played a role in mobilizing recent mass attackers in Turkey, Australia, and the US. Today I'm sharing a historical threat assessment of the collective www.maargentino.com/inside-terro...

A small Chinese artificial intelligence lab, DeepSeek, stunned the world by revealing the technical recipe for its cutting-edge model, turning its reclusive leader into a national hero. Find out how the start-up shocked Silicon Valley: on.ft.com/4jvooqi