Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 15/01/2026We're hiring a Lecturer in Criminology to join a great team. Come and join us in Devon, we had pasties. 000
Reposted by Lewys BraceAshton 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...findaphd.comVictimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.comPhD 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... 031
Reposted by Lewys BraceAshton 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 👇👇 032
Reposted by Lewys BraceStuart Macdonald @s-macdonald.bsky.social · 06/10/2025🚀 VOX-Pol Institute webinar on Chatbots & Extremism 🚀 14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time) - Do extremist actors misuse chatbots? - What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms? - How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE? To attend, please email info@voxpolinstitute.org 021
Reposted by Lewys BraceStuart Macdonald @s-macdonald.bsky.social · 03/10/2025⚡ Final hours. Extremists won’t wait. Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure. This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content. Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac... #VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremismvoxpolinstitute.orgVOX-Pol Institute | Shaping Responses to Online ExtremismJoin us in Munich for a hands-on, expert-led workshop designed to deepen your understanding of the challenges and strategies in addressing violent extremism and terrorism content online. This interact... 001
Reposted by Lewys BraceAshton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I am Excited to be Editing a Special Journal Issue Titled Terrorism, Radicalisation and Social Order: Perspectives on Emerging Threats and Responses. If You Have Something to Say about the Future of Terrorism/Extremism Research Check Out The CFP 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/ejdcaehbha 02711
Reposted by Lewys BraceJohn Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The entire special issue on terrorist motivation has just been published, with several pieces #openaccess. Check it out. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...tandfonline.comTerrorism and Political ViolenceRevisiting Terrorist Motivation, Guest Edited by John Horgan and Max Taylor. Volume 37, Issue 7 of Terrorism and Political Violence 02517
Reposted by Lewys BraceDr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025🚨 New PhD Opportunity at Anglia Ruskin University 🚨 Happy to announce a new funded PhD opportunity - looking at The Role of AI in Extermist MisInformation (w/ Lakshmi Babu Saheer & Elisa Orofino). 📌 ESRC Research Priority Areas: Security, risk and resilience www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur... 077
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 13/08/2025This programme offers a unique blend of substantive knowledge of how emerging technologies (particularly #data and #AI) are impacting contemporary and future #security, #defence, and #lawenforcement issues with practical training in #datascience methods (no prior data/coding experience necessary). 011
Reposted by Lewys BraceKaitlin Senk @kaitlinsenk.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Check out my new paper with Andra Pascu-Lindner @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Using survey experiments, we show that voters do not view potential women PMs as less competent in forming governments or less influential over policy outputs when compared to men. Read more: 0144
Reposted by Lewys BraceCREST @crest-research.bsky.social · 31/07/2025🫵 Are you an Early Career Researcher in behavioural or social science for security and defence? Gain one-to-one support from an experienced mentor through the NABS+ Mentorship Scheme. Deadline: 15 August 👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c... for full details and application formcrestresearch.ac.ukECR MentoringThe NABS+ Mentorship Scheme connects Early Career Researchers with experienced mentors in behavioural and social science for security and defence. 001
Reposted by Lewys BraceDr. Hannah Bunting @hannahbunting.bsky.social · 23/07/2025🚨 ICYMI: EPOP 2025 registration open, and draft programme released! 🚨 Join us in Exeter 4-6th September on our Streatham campus for some stellar papers. Early bird rates open until 4th August, registration closes 28th August. Those staying in Holland Hall will wake up to this view! 152
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 19/06/2025My long-term collaborator Prof. Stephane Baele is recruiting for a funded PhD position to work with him in the area of digital extremist communications. Details can be found here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353560 If you have any questions, please contact Stephane (stephane.baele@uclouvain.be).euraxess.ec.europa.eu1 Full-time PhD Fellowship in Social Sciences (digital extremism)The Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) is looking for strong candidates for a generous, full-time PhD fellowship in the field of digital extremist communication. 022
Reposted by Lewys BraceAmarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15/05/2025🚨NEW🚨 @surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071academic.oup.comThe Sociology of Violent Extremism: Theoretical and Sociological ApproachesThis book is an essential collection addressing key challenges in studying violent extremism. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, terrorism 310648
Reposted by Lewys BraceUniversity of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Dr @hannahbunting.bsky.social has outlined what to look out for in tomorrow's #localelections25 in this @uk.theconversation.com article 🗳️ theconversation.com/local-electi...theconversation.comLocal elections: what would a good night look like for Nigel Farage’s Reform?Council seats are up for election across Tory heartlands and Nigel Farage is looking to gain hundreds of them. 011
Reposted by Lewys BraceAshton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The Closing Date (28th) is Approaching for Two Posts at @unisouthampton.bsky.social A Lecturer in Criminology and a Teaching Fellow in Crim/Sociology. Come and Join this Wonderful and Supportive Department. 👇👇 #SpreadTheWord jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...jobs.soton.ac.ukJob Opportunity at the University of Southampton: LecturerBe part of the dynamic development of Sociology social policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton.We are seeking to appoint a criminologist as Lecturer to expand our vibrant academic Depa... 0310
Reposted by Lewys BraceAshton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Come and Join the Most #AMAZING and #SUPPORTIVE Department, We are Recruiting a Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow in #Criminology or #Sociology at the University of Southampton. Closing Date 28 April, Please Share Widely and With Anyone on the Job Market 👇👇 033
Reposted by Lewys BraceRyan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Out now in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression: We used group-based multi-trajectory modeling to explore how users’ online behaviors evolved as they engaged with users on the largest white supremacist forum. The study is #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 062
Reposted by Lewys BraceCREST @crest-research.bsky.social · 12/04/2025👉 “This is the kind of experience I wish I’d had earlier in my career.” – Future you, after joining the NABS+ ECR Steering Group 😉 Apply now to co-lead with us & make an impact. 🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu... 📢 Deadline: Mon 28 April #ECR #BehaviouralSciencecrestresearch.ac.ukOpportunitiesCheck out the latest opportunities from the NABS+ community. 011
Reposted by Lewys BraceCREST @crest-research.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Looking to grow as a leader in behavioural science? Join the NABS+ ECR Steering Group: ✅ Shape national-level research activity ✅ Gain governance experience ✅ Plan impactful events ✅ Represent your peers 📢 Apply now: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu... #ECR #BehaviouralSciencecrestresearch.ac.ukOpportunitiesCheck out the latest opportunities from the NABS+ community. 001
Reposted by Lewys BraceVOX-Pol @vox-pol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Vol.12, Iss.4 of our monthly Newsletter appeared in subscribers' inboxes yesterday. Includes info on new VOX-Pol Institute's (VPI) forthcoming Dublin workshops on 'The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, Platforms, & Technologies.' Access the Newsletter online at voxpol.eu/category/pub... 011
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A pleasure to write this short piece on what certain themes from Netflix's #Adolescence tell use about #incels and the #manosphere More in-depth peices can be found on @crest-research.bsky.social's site: crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra... 043
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Happy to share that our new paper is out. Here, we show how advances in computer vision is making it easier to implement bespoke image classifiers and object detection models to detect and classify memes and images on #extremist/#terrorist online spaces. #DataScience pt.icct.nl/article/more...pt.icct.nlMore is More: Scaling up Online Extremism and Terrorism Research with Computer Vision | Perspectives on TerrorismScholars and practitioners investigating extremist and violent political actors’ online communications face increasingly large information environments containing ever-growing amounts of data to find,... 020
Reposted by Lewys BraceDr. Hannah Bunting @hannahbunting.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Doing cool research on elections, public opinion and/or parties? Don't forget to submit your abstract for EPOP 2025 before the end of April. Link to the form here: forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact elections@exeter.ac.uk 😊forms.office.comMicrosoft Forms 01415
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Our new open-access paper proposing the use of socio-semantic networks to augment traditional URL outlink analysis by including thematic proximity info into the networks and their applications in the study of online #extremist/#terrorist ecosystems is now out. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comSocio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online EcosystemsHow to best chart and analyse extremist digital ecosystems? This paper proposes to complement standard mapping methods based on URL outlinks, which are typically deployed but present several critic... 061
Reposted by Lewys BraceRyan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Out in the latest issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KTSQH... 081
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Applications are open for UoE's MSc Security and Data Science starting in September 2025! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr... Please contact l.brace@exeter.ac.uk if you have any questions 1/2exeter.ac.ukSecurity and Data Science MSc | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter 110
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025For anyone interested in the study of #extremism, #terrorism, and other related issues, you should absolutely follow the Vox-Pol network. The open-source resources they provide are as useful as they are extensive. 053
Reposted by Lewys BraceGina Vale @ginavale.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Sharing Childhood Innocence Project here for first time. @hannahbrose.bsky.social and I tracked, compiled & analysed cases of #children (u-18s) convicted of #terrorism offences in England & Wales since 2016. Our live update reaches total 55 cases & includes a second girl 👇 icsr.info/childhood-in... 012
Reposted by Lewys BraceRyan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025On the VOX-Pol Blog this week: @brennahelm.bsky.social, Tom Holt, Wally Wojciechowski, Richard Frank, and I summarize the results of our recent study, published in Crime and Delinquency, on the online posting behaviors and trajectories of incel forum members: voxpol.eu/examining-th... 094
Reposted by Lewys BraceCREST @crest-research.bsky.social · 31/01/2025📣 Calling all ECRs - Do you want know how your research can make a big impact? Join IAPSS' upcoming seminar on 27 Februrary, 10am EST (4pm BST), presented by Peter Neyroud. 📧 Email iapss@lancaster.ac.uk to book your place! ⬇️ crestresearch.ac.uk/iapss/events/se……crestresearch.ac.ukFrom Research to Impact: Building Government Relationships to make a differenceThis seminar will offer unique insights for early-career researchers participating in the IAPSS program and others looking to enhance their skillset. 003
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This is an amazing opportunity for any PhDs out there interested in the subject. It's also the opportunity to work with some great people. #extremism #terrorism #PhD #postgraduate 010
Reposted by Lewys BraceCREST @crest-research.bsky.social · 05/12/2024🚨 Don’t miss the chance to apply for the UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 💡Fellowships are designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security & defence communities 🗓️ Deadline: 29 April 2025 🔗 Apply here:buff.lyUK IC Postdoctoral Research FellowshipsApplications now open! These Fellowships are designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities. 021
Reposted by Lewys BraceSuraj Lakhani @surajlakhani.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Interested in the nexus between video-gaming and violent extremism? The Extremism and Gaming Research Network is now on @bsky.app! Check out our work here and how you can get involved: @extremismgaming.bsky.social #extremism #terrorism #radicalisation #onlineextremism 112
Reposted by Lewys BraceSuraj Lakhani @surajlakhani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I've put together a starter pack of those researching/working in the area of online extremism/terrorism. If you work on this issue and want to be included, drop me a DM. #onlineextremism #onlineterrorism #terrorism #extremism go.bsky.app/GwxRmef 145528
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Been on here a few days, probably should make a post. Happy to say that our open-source guide on AI and extremism is now available via the VoxPol network: voxpol.eu/file/ai-extr... The report discusses how certain types of AI models will be used by, and impact, the online extremist landscape.voxpol.euAI Extremism: Technology, Tactics, Actors - VOX - PolOver the past decade, two major phenomena have developed in the digital realm. On the one hand, extremism has grown massively on the Internet, with sprawling online ecosystems hosting a wide range of ... 021
Reposted by Lewys BraceBrian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Hi! Here's a starter pack of terrorism/extremism/etc. scholars to follow. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed, or if you know of people I've missed. go.bsky.app/3SyNYsA If you want a more general peace and conflict list, see this go.bsky.app/7o8tZt2 by @sebvanbaalen.bsky.social 123117