Great to See My Latest Chapter 'Fighting Fire with Facts: Detecting, Decoding, and Dismantling Online Propaganda' Out In the AMAZING New Volume Propaganda Studies in Criminology. 💃💃♥️ So Many Incredible Chapters to Check Out 👇👇👇 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Great to Receive My Copy of The Sociology of Violent Extremism Edited by the AMAZING @surajlakhani.bsky.social and @amaramarasingam.bsky.social I Wrote a Chapter With The One and Only #CraigWebber Applying Joseph Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' to Islamic State and Al-Qaeda's Propaganda Strategy 😍 😍

One Week Left to Sign Up to The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research Sign Up 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa

Was Great to Join Friends and Colleagues #SimoneTaghavi and #RachelKeighley from the @bschcnetwork.bsky.social to Discuss My Book and Doctoral Work ‘The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda’ 👇 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/47tZ...

Our Latest Podcast Features Our Very Own @ashkingdon.bsky.social Who is Discussing Her Doctoral Work and Book 'The World White Web' Join Us to Hear About How #Memes are Used as a Weapon and how Technology and Imagery are Accelerating #Radicalisation 👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/47tZ...

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🔈New Publication Alert🔈I Was Delighted to Contribute the Chapter on Extremism to the IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts and Work with the Wonderful Editors 😍 Check Out the Volume it is AMAZING 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Heading to Manchester Today for Our Collaborative Responsible AI UK Research Grant Investigating how Generative AI Enables Visual Hate Speech and Extremism. It Is My First Time in the City 😍 and I am Buzzing to Work With #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald and #KarmvirPadda ♥️ #ResponsibleAI

Really Excited to Speak at This Early Career Researcher Safety & Wellbeing Online Workshop on Wednesday 25th February 12:00-2:30pm GMT I Will be Talking All Things hashtag #Opsec and How to Keep Safe Online and Offline events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdd8f...

❗ Early career researcher safety & wellbeing workshop: next week❗ Come along on 25th Feb to hear from our expert speakers (Allysa Czerwinsky, @ashkingdon.bsky.social, and Antonia Vaughan) and to share your own experiences and advice for other ECRs. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdd8f...

For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇

🚨Call For Abstracts Alert🚨If you have a presentation related to hate crime and would like to present at the British Society of Criminology conference please e-mail your abstracts of no more than 250-words to Ben Colliver ([email protected]) no later than 18/02/2026 😃

Really looking Forward to Participating in this Researcher Safety Workshop on 25th February 12-2:30pm hosted by NABS+ Focused on Keeping ECRs/PhDs Safe. I will Focus on #Opsec and the Best Ways to Keep Safe Online and Offline 👇👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdd8f...

We'll be focussing on three themes, each with a fantastic guest speaker and opportunity for you to share your experiences, advice, & questions: 👉 Mental & emotional wellbeing: Allysa Czerwinsky 👉 Operational security: @ashkingdon.bsky.social 👉 Disseminating sensitive research: Antonia Vaughan

🚨 ECR wellbeing workshop 🚨 Calling all early career researchers (in and outside of academia)! On 25th February 12-2:30pm NABS+ is hosting a online workshop focused on keeping ECRs safe and well when conducting potentially dangerous or harmful research.

Excited to be Funded by Responsible AI UK to Study how Gen-AI Enables Visual Hate Speech & Extremism, Working with #AllysaCzerwinsky #KarmvirPadda & #ShanaMacDonald. We'll Develop Evidence-Based Recommendations For Platforms & Policymakers 💃💃#AEthics rai.ac.uk/press_releas...

Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPadda👇👇#ResponsibleAI rai.ac.uk/new_projects...

Join us in 2 hours for @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES's first webinar of 2026 on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics! @draamattheis.bsky.social will discuss how to negotiate the ethics of extremism research online www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

On the killing of Renee Nicole Good, I just published a piece in @foreignpolicy.com arguing the Trump administration is weaponizing the narrative of “vehicular terrorism” as a shortcut to justify an unlawful killing: “death squad logic, adapted to American streets” foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/13/v...

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

🎓Fully Funded PhD Alert🎓AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #Retweet #PhD #phdlife 👇👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨Meet the Authors: Hate Crime Perpetrators Event🚨Thursday 26 January 2025, 1:00–2:00 pm GMT (online) Join us for a presentation + Q&A on the Two Volumes Hate Crime Perpetrators: New Perspectives from Theory, Research and Practice (Vol. I & II).👇👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...

Beyond Excited to See This Review of My Book - The World White Web - Published in Terrorism and Political Violence Written By The Legendary @willallchorn.bsky.social Thank You So Much For Taking the Time to Write Such Kind Words ♥️♥️👇👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New Project Alert🚨I am Investigating the AI-Climate-Conflict Nexus With a Particular Focus on Data Centres as a Target for Terrorism and Cybercrime. If You or Someone You Know are Interested in #AISustainability #WaterWeaponisation #AIEthics #ClimateChange #Conflict Please Reach Out 👇👇

Just Registered for This Bad Boy 🎉🎉🎊🎊 Buzzing to Attend My First #BSA and First Time in #Manchester 🥂 I Will Be Presenting My Research on #UniteTheKingdom and Running a Special Event on Sociologists at Risk of Harm #Ethics #ResearcherSafety #OnlineHarms

Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #ShareWidely 👇👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy New Year Everyone 🎉🎉 Please See a Link to Our Latest Podcast Episode Where #LaurenStecklesYoung Discusses Her Groundbreaking #DigitalEthnography into Platforms like Reddit and Tattle Life #DigitalHarm #BodyPolitics #HateCrime 👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1nda...

Delighted That My Roundtable on Ethics Has Been #Accepted for the Terrorism and Social Media Conference Going to be Joined by a Bunch of Legends 💃🏆If You Are Attending This Year Don't Forget to Vote for #BarryIsland as the Day Trip Option #TASM2026 #StuartLetMeDoIt 🍻🍻

🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Myself #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. Please Share Widely 👇👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨Free Online Event Alert🚨Sign Up Below For Our Meet the Authors: Contemporary Issues in Transphobic Hate and Prejudice: Transforming the Narrative Event With #bencolliver #JaneHealy #KatieMcBride, and #GinaGwenffrewi 10 December 1-2 GMT 👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...

My Techno Harms Students Were Treated to an AMAZING Guest Lecture by the LEGEND That Is @maurolubrano.bsky.social Who Came In To Discuss His Book Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism 😍😍 Buy It Now People 🎊🎊🎉🎉🙌🙌

Avoid Marking Deadlines By Decorating Your Tree With Complete Symmetry and #Precision I Love Christmas So Much 😍😍🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 #HolidaysAreComing #ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

The recording of last Friday's panel on 'Far-right ecologies', organised by @futureearth.bsky.social is now out (see comment)! I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.

NEW from the British Society of Criminology: Hate Crime Network Podcast! 🎙️ We're exploring Hate Crime in Spain. Hosts Dr. Rachel Keighley and Simone Taghavi are joined by academic pioneer Dr. Abel González García, Director of the department of Criminology at UDIMA. 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1QVy...

Please See Below a Link To Our Next Writing Group. Mon 17 Nov 2025 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT. If You Have a Writing Goal, Want Relaxed Feedback on Your Work, Or Just a Space to Stay Motivated as you Write 💪💪Join Us 😀😀👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...

Check Out The Latest Podcast from @revdem2020.bsky.social Which Features Myself and the Wonderful @lubardab.bsky.social Talking About Our Work On When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge and When Environmentalism Becomes a Battleground of Competing Ideologies 👇👇 revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...

Some people will tell you sociologists and criminologists are broadly the same. I submit to you these images, one hangs in my office, the other next door in my colleague @ashkingdon.bsky.social's office. Match the flag to the person in the comments!

I Have Always Admired @lubardab.bsky.social and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇

🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a

Ideological promiscuity, so-called "NVE", "salad-bar extremism", and a bazillion related new terms. If you're in or near the University of St. Andrews later this month, I'll be there to talk about all this stuff and what it means. Come say hi. events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/prof-...

Terrorist Groups are Weaponising Climate Change —Outperforming States in Delivering Water, Food & Disaster Relief to Win Hearts, Minds & Territory. My Latest Article Reveals How Environmental Governance Is Becoming A New Tool for Legitimacy 👇👇👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's new article day! So excited that this piece with @luccousineau.bsky.social and @iamryanhopkins.bsky.social is out in the world. In it we work through our experiences studying the far-right & propose some ways universities can better support students. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...

Very Exciting Moment for Me This Morning to see the First Review of My Book - The World White Web - Published. Massive Thank You to @leabrost.bsky.social For Taking the Time to Read the Book and Write Such a Wonderful and Thoughtful Review ♥️♥️#AcademicFirsts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited my book review of 'The World White Web: uncovering the hidden meanings of online far-right propaganda' by @ashkingdon.bsky.social is now available in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Thrilled My Latest Article - The Darkest Shade of Green - Is Out In Studies In Conflict & Terrorism 🎉🍾🥳I Examine the Links Between #ClimateChange and #RebelGovernance among #IslamicState #AlQaeda #Hamas & #Hezbollah 👇👇👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us on zoom tomorrow for @crexuio.bsky.social & CANSES webinar series, with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London. We will discuss the challenges of using an empathetic methodology to interview far right extremists 🤓

Hate Crime is an Acute Problem in England & Wales Yet There's Still no National Plan to Tackle It. I’ve Joined Others Across Academia/ Civil Society Calling on the Government to Act Now and Deliver a New Hate Crime Action Plan. Read the Open Letter Here: tinyurl.com/kx89yxuv