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Sandy Schumann (PhD)

@sandyschumann.bsky.social
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Lecturer at UCL, Department of Security and Crime Science | UKRN local chapter co-lead | research extremism/hate/terrorism online and offline

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I have a new paper on "The Psychology of Virality" with @steverathje.bsky.social We explain how similar psychological processes (eg preferential attention to negativity, social motives, etc.) drive the spread of information across online and offline contexts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Dr Sandy Schumann, Winner of the First ENOC Open Criminology Award @sandyschumann.bsky.social @uclcrimescience.bsky.social
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Dr Sandy Schumann, Winner of the First ENOC Open Criminology Award – European Network for Open Criminology
Recognised for advancing transparency, collaboration, and open science in criminology
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I am pleased to share that @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @ryanscrivens.bsky.social and I have just signed a contract with @uclpress.bsky.social to co-edit an open-access book that will discuss ‘Methods for Studying Extremism and Terrorism Online’. (1/4)
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I am thrilled that Victoria Bowland published her MSc research. She showed that young people who are radicalised online are more readily perceived as victims, which shapes the public’s support for distinct criminal justice responses. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Legal and Criminological Psychology | BPS Forensic Psychology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Purpose This study explored the victim-perpetrator nexus in the context of cognitive online radicalisation. Specifically, we examined if a person's age and whether they were exposed to extremist con...
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A timely reminder at Charité in Berlin to remember persecuted science (and that the persecution of science is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes).
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I am pleased that my paper with Jonathan Kenyon and Jens Binder has now been published here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We delineate distinct types of internet use that are associated with an increased likelihood to prepare/commit a terrorist attack. 1/2
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Identifying distinct types of internet use that predict the likelihood of planning or committing a terrorist attack: Findings from an analysis of individuals convicted on terrorism(-related) charges i...
Previous research has documented that the internet plays an increasingly important role in facilitating involvement in terrorism. However, the level o…
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design & perform new research, to innovate, to teach & communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement" A painfully accurate read. That lays out the folly of the modern uni! academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I am recruiting a PhD student for our new EPSRC center for doctoral training in Cyber-physical risk. The project will examine how extremist content online can promote violence offline. 1/3
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚀 2 new pre-prints are out! 1) Led by my former student Victoria Bowland, we examined the victim-perpetrator nexus in the context of online radicalisation crimrxiv.com/pub/tosz8zd9... 1/2
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Perceptions of Individuals Radicalised Online: Examining the Victim-Perpetrator Nexus
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 23/02/2025
#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright
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Rekord rechtsextremer Straftaten: „Erschreckender Aufwärtstrend“
Rechtsextreme Straftaten erreichen neuen Höchststand: mehr als 40.000 Delikte. Das zeigt eine Anfrage von Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Petra Pau (Linke).
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Sandy Schumann (PhD) @sandyschumann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us for UCL‘s first Replication Games, run by @i4replication.bsky.social 🙌🏻
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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Join us next week for International Love Data Week 2025! The theme is year is Whose data is it, anyway: buff.ly/48cq4hw Join us next week as we celebrate our love for all things data and showcase the fantastic work of teams across UCL who help staff and students everyday with their data!
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International Love Data Week
Welcome to the official home page of Love Data Week!
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