Humbled and honored to be a part of this cohort!!

Andrew Carnegie Foundation@carnegie.org · 3mo ago

Announcing the 2026 Andrew #CarnegieFellows! Selected from a record 381 nominations, 24 fellows will each receive $200K to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more: www.carnegie.org/news/article... #Polarization #Research

🚨It’s out! Our new article (co-authored with soon-to-be Dr. Christina Schmid) examines how shifts in gender relations advanced the PYD’s broader politico-military strategy during three phases of insurgent control (2011–2018). It’s open access below!👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As a historian of masculinities, I can confirm that life truly is mostly about Buffalo Wild Wings

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7 'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia. A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

(PDF) Introduction: Media, democracy, and the global rise of the far right

PDF | This introductory chapter establishes a theoretical and conceptual foundation for analysing far-right media representations across the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Resea...

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Thanks to all contributors inc: @k8ebrown.bsky.social @aurelmondon.bsky.social Luca Manucci, João Bernardo Narciso @kurtsengul.bsky.social Jordan McSwiney, @amaramarasingam.bsky.social @aysed.bsky.social @philofwrite.bsky.social Chris Wilson, @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social & @gretajasser.bsky.social

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

🚨New in Communication Methods & Measures with @drorwalter.bsky.social !!!🚨 Our article Topic Modeling of Video and Image Data: A Visual Semantic Unsupervised Approach introduces VisTopics, a Python package for analyzing large-scale visual datasets: lnkd.in/d8BgjTJ4 and Package: lnkd.in/dvvRbRZC

New article out in New Media & Society: Dror Walter @drorwalter.bsky.social, Yotam Ophir @ophiryotam.bsky.social , Edu Fabregas, and I examine how the Wayfair conspiracy theory moved across platforms. We find Twitter and Reddit played very different roles. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KUIFU...

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Our, Erik Nisbet Mowafak Allaham & Sol Hart, latest work on climate misinformation and AI in AAAI 2025 Workshop on AI Governance is featured in @science www.sciencenews.org/article/clim...

Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expertly trained models

When classifying climate misinformation, general-purpose large language models lag behind models trained on expert-curated climate data.

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My newest paper, led by @smithmarisaa.bsky.social, is now out! In "The Black Pill," we find Black conservative YouTubers both echo traditional Black conservatism & shift to concerns about "anti-white racism." In the broader conservative network, their voices may legitimize white identity politics

Marisa Smith@smithmarisaa.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.

🚨Thrilled to share our new research note: "In the Trenches: A Hands-on Approach to Teaching Data Collection in Terrorism Studies." Co-authored w/ Dr. Sarah Carthy & based on a course that trained 400+ grad students at Leiden in open source data collection. pt.icct.nl/article/tren...

I’m not going to lie. These are scary times. But we CAN do something about it. At the Researcher Support Consortium, we’ve compiled resources for researchers, funders, and institutions—with a toolkit for universities—to help guide next steps. 10/ researchersupport.org

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How has the “Big Lie”, the claim that Donald Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him, impacted voter’s trust of other elections? Matthew Levendusky, Shawn Patterson, Jr., Michele Margolis, @ophiryotam.bsky.social, @drorwalter.bsky.social, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson explore this in a new article.

Our latest paper w/ James Fitzgerald, Marie Santini & Deborah Salles open access at IJPP journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Nobel Economics prize awarded for studies of how institutions affect prosperity

The award went to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for their “innovative research about what affects countries’ economic prosperity,” the Nobel committee said.

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Fantastic recommendations for researchers who anticipate (or are even just mildly concerns about) backlash / harassment for their public facing work.

Rebekah Tromble@rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 2y ago

Kathleen Searles and I have been researching how to better support and protect colleagues who face backlash when they share their expertise publicly. We prepared this tip sheet for academics who are likely to be doing public-facing engagement this election season. Please share widely.

Truly fantastic article from Renee DiResta describing how she became a central villain in the fantasies of the "bullshit industrial complex" (they wouldn't let her use that title) and explaining the ties to Jan 6, other attacks on researchers, and more. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex

Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”

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The Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics is out for Early View that James Fitzgerald and I co-edited in Policy & Internet 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Amazing articles and let us know what you think! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I wrote about the hostage crisis ongoing since Hamas kidnapped scores of Israelis and foreigners on Saturday. So much is unknown, but here’s what I’ve got for now, in @goodauth.bsky.social ⤵️ polisky conflictsky intsec goodauthority.org/news/why-the...

Why the Gaza hostage crisis is different

Security Fence at the border of the Gaza Strip courtesy of © Joyclynn, via Canva.com The Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel – on the 50th anniversary of

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Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks | Opinion

As the 2024 election approaches, misinformation researchers at the University of Washington say they won't be deterred by those seeking to undermine their work.

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Nobel Peace Prize goes to Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist incarcerated in Evin Prison.

Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi?

Who is the jailed recipient of one of the world's most prestigious awards?

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If you are interested in the processes & pathways via which Indonesian & Filipino Muslims join Islamist extremist groups; what motivates them to join; & why some go on to participate in terrorist attacks, please check out my new book: Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization & Commitment in Southeast Asia.

So excited and grateful for our interdisciplinary team Amira J Arie P Bart K and NIJ support to us on this important subject! For my first adult-grant ever!! nij.ojp.gov/funding/awar...

🚨🗞️ Today’s Insight Intellignece is out, and it’s an update on a #TerroristFinancing case we’ve been following for a while, and includes a rare financing charge in Canada! Read on to learn more: newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/terrorist-...

Terrorist financing ring disrupted in the US & Canada

Crypto, PayPal, Western Union....and more

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Trying to adopt small dogs in the South is really like winning the lottery…. If anyone knows of any shelters or rescue organization please send me their details!

Figuring this place out. In case some here may not yet have tired of my spiel: I run a Zoom writing group for students and scholars from Turkey and Syria to create community, structure, and accountability. If you fit this group or know/mentor anyone who does, please email/message me. Thanks!

Oh hey, my 2022 article on anti-Black racism & the development of US counterterrorism is now also a book chapter in "The Politics of Countering Political Violence," covering all your formatting needs & wants. Tell your library to grab a copy:

CTS and Right-Wing Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Volume II, The Politics of Countering Political V...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a period when the rise of right-wing extremism is bein...

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