What are concrete strategies to counter male supremacist ideology and violence? Our new white paper urges P/CVE fields to see it as a structural force, not just a fringe issue. Full paper on our website: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4amajt2w

Next Monday, we'll have this semester's first reading group meeting. We discuss "Is the Far-Right Anti-Science? Hierarchies, Metapolitics and Struggles for Epistemic Authority" by C. Baker (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). Send an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de to get the zoom link & join us!

Useful listen, including on how race science gets into the mainstream academic literature (spoiler: it’s with the help of mainstream researchers)

Ben Waber@bwaber.bsky.social · last mo.

First was an important talk by @ent3c.bsky.social on grappling with “race science” at Penn Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvu5...

My 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

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 3mo ago

Excellent and incredibly timely article 'scholars must engage deeply with the far-right’s epistemic and metapolitical strategies, exploring how to challenge scientific misinformation when it assumes the appearance of scientific legitimacy' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For 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...

Race Science Inc. | HOPE not hate

Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company

investigations.hopenothate.org.uk

Aporia'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.

@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.

Scheduled 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)

Hi 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... 🧵

📢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/

Article 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...

Opinion | We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Peril

We underestimate the manosphere at our peril.

nytimes.com

New 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/...

"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...

🚨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...

In 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...

Welcome 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

theguardian.com

A 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...

Debbie Ging@debbieging.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important new resource launched today by the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre, authored by Dr. Fiona O'Rourke, Dr. Catherine Baker and Dr. Darragh McCashin, with panelists Dr. Kenny Doyle (Mens Development Network) and Jane McGarrigle (@webwiseireland.bsky.social) antibullyingcentre.ie/wp-content/u...