Catherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My first solo-author article, Is the Far-Right Anti-Science?, is now published in Social Epistemology. It explores the far-right’s epistemic struggle to claim scientific authority, attacking and co-opting science to legitimise white supremacy & misogyny—an issue academia must increasingly attend to 18140
Reposted by Catherine BakerPatrik Hermansson @patrikhermansson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025For more details on Aporia and its place the race science network around the Pioneer Fund read our investigation for @hopenothate.org.uk last year: investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science...investigations.hopenothate.org.ukRace Science Inc. | HOPE not hateUndercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company 031
Reposted by Catherine BakerPatrik Hermansson @patrikhermansson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Aporia's status as a race science outlets is well established by now. By lending his Harvard credentials to it, Pinker contributes to widening its audience. 2162
Reposted by Catherine BakerAnthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025@cat-baker.bsky.social’s paper examined how science and academia are simultaneously attacked and co-opted in reactionary and far-right rhetoric. She situated assertions of “basic biology” in terms of a broader cultural milieu that reifies biological-essentialist narratives of gender and race. 141
Reposted by Catherine BakerAnthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Scheduled speakers include: @cat-baker.bsky.social, @joncollins.bsky.social, Eileen Culloty, @simoned.bsky.social, @profafinlayson.bsky.social, Marina Frid, @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, @kat-hig.bsky.social… (+ even more in the next post) 184
Reposted by Catherine BakerAnthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Hi folks! I’m very excited to announce details of a one-day international symposium I’m hosting on Thursday 29 May 2025 (09:00–17:30) at @ucddublin.bsky.social. You can find more information on @ucdischool.bsky.social’s website: www.ucd.ie/ics/events/r... 🧵 12622
Reposted by Catherine BakerReactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025📢Webinar announcement📢 Our ethics of researching the far right webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI returns on Thursday 17th April with a session on activism, knowledge production and dissemination in the study of reactionary politics. Sign up below! reacpol.net/webinar-7/ 166
Reposted by Catherine BakerMaja Brandt Andreasen @majabandreasen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Article on the manosphere in the New York Times in relation to #Adolescence features great coverage of our report on recommender algorithms and manfluencers (with @debbieging.bsky.social and @cat-baker.bsky.social): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our PerilWe underestimate the manosphere at our peril. 295
Reposted by Catherine BakerJilly Boyce Kay @jillybkay.bsky.social · 04/02/2025New short article with Sarah Banet-Weiser, about the digital mirror-world, and how it is populated by strange doppelgangers of feminism 'Through the looking glass: feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1198
Reposted by Catherine BakerAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/01/2025"As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures" A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t... 25125
Reposted by Catherine BakerJo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 13/01/2025🚨New Publication in New Media & Society🚨 Co-First-Authored w/ @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social & @markriedl.bsky.social Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. jlukito.com/s/brown-et-a... 613635
Reposted by Catherine BakerSophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/12/2024In this @rachaelhealy.bsky.social piece, @jillybkay.bsky.social: “Liberal feminism has been rejected for good reason .. it makes sense you’d want to find an alternative. But just because something is the enemy of liberal feminism does not mean it’s good for women” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...theguardian.comWelcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women‘Femcel’ influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain – in the name of feminism 25013
Reposted by Catherine BakerAndrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com · 10/12/2024A thoughtful and extremely useful guide. It follows this equally excellent public report from April: "Recommending Toxicity: The role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers" antibullyingcentre.ie/wp-content/u... 2216