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Ashton Kingdon

@ashkingdon.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight

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Amber Seaward @amberseaward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These include: 🎓 Expert advice from Allysa Czerwinsky, @ashkingdon.bsky.social, and Antonia Vaughan 📚 Pre-existing resources, from organisations like @vox-pol.bsky.social and prior research projects 🙋‍♀️ Suggestions from the research community (thank you to all who completed or shared our survey!)
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
On Route to My Fave Conference Ever #TASM (Terrorism and Social Media) Looking Forward to Presenting Some Research and Chairing Some Panels/Roundtables as Well as Catching up With So Many Friends 😍😍🥂🥂🥂🍷🍷🍻🍻 Also Excited to Run a Session at the VOX-Pol Summer School 💃💃💃💃
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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...
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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 😍 😍
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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...
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨Event Coming Soon- 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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🚨Event Alert - 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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨Event Alert - 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 Here 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🔈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/...
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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...
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Amber Seaward @amberseaward.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
❗ 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...
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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇
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The rise of online harm | 16 | Individual, community, and institutiona
In an increasingly polarized and reactionary world, researchers are more and more likely to be the target of online harm. Faced with this reality and
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨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 (ben.colliver@bcu.ac.uk) no later than 18/02/2026 😃
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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...
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Amber Seaward @amberseaward.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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
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Amber Seaward @amberseaward.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🚨 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.
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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...
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RAI UK Awards £200,000 Collaboration Grants to support the UK’s Mission for Advanced Research in Responsible AI – Responsible AI
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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...
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A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms – Responsible AI
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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Ashley A. Mattheis, University of Manchester
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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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...
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Claims of Vehicular Terrorism in Minnesota Don’t Hold Up
The U.S. government is adopting dangerous language to justify unlawful killing.
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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🧵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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🎓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...
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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🚨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...
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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....
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The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda
Published in Terrorism and Political Violence (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚨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 👇👇
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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...
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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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...
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A conversation with Lauren Steckles-Young
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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 🍻🍻
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🎓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...
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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨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...
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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 🎊🎊🎉🎉🙌🙌
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Avoid Marking Deadlines By Decorating Your Tree With Complete Symmetry and #Precision I Love Christmas So Much 😍😍🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 #HolidaysAreComing #ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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.
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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...
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A conversation with Dr. Abel González García
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British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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...
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Radical Ecologies of the Right and Left: A Conversation with Ashton Kingdon and Balša Lubarda | Review of Democracy
In this new episode of the “When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge” series, which shares fresh research from a workshop organised by the CEU DI Democracy in History Work Group, we discuss with D...
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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!
A pendant flag. It shows an applique lions head which is smiling. In script below it says "be bold, be brave, be you"A pendant flag. It features a cartoon raven, mid -squawk. It reads "eat the rich"
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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 👇👇
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🎙️ 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
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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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-...
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The (Rapidly) Changing Face of Terrorism and Implications for Psychology Research
Terrorism is the use or threat of use of violence by non-state actors against non-combatants in the furtherance of some
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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....
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The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy
Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...
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Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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Scholar and Student Wellness while Confronting Violence and Ignorance: Can we Trust our Institutions when we are Targeted? | Studies in Social Justice
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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....
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The world white web: uncovering the hidden meanings of online far-right propaganda
Published in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Lea Brost @leabrost.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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....
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The world white web: uncovering the hidden meanings of online far-right propaganda
Published in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🚨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....
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The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy
Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...
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