Noémie Bouhana
@noemiebouhana.bsky.social
Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
💻 @sandyschumann.bsky.social and @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social were awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant to examine where and how children and young people engage with gore online, as part of their work on The Com and nihilistic violent extremism
This is a 3-year project, and includes contributions from Public Safety Canada and the New Zealand Police, along with several further collaborations with international academic and practitioner partners
👏 @noemiebouhana.bsky.social is leading a new €3.1m grant from the European Commission for her project “ONLIVES” (Anticipating and Countering Fluid Criminal and Violent Extremism)
🇵🇱 @sandyschumann.bsky.social and Ellie Wong are at the annual conference of the European Society of Criminology in Warsaw this week, presenting their work on online harms, urban security, & cyber security
Next week, on 15th September, @paulgillucl.bsky.social will be giving a seminar in the session on 'Violence Fixated Individuals – the internet, online platforms and pathways to violence'. More details here: www.southport.public-inquiry.uk/hearings/tim...
Timetable – Southport
southport.public-inquiry.uk
In yesterday's seminar on 'Violence Fixated Individuals – views from Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy', Dr Richard Taylor mentioned ongoing work by @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social, @amberseaward.bsky.social, and @paulgillucl.bsky.social with the Counterterrorism Clinical Consultancy Service
As the new academic year begins, the CTRG are busy 👇 🔍 CTRG research is featuring in the public seminars organised as part of the UK Southport Inquiry.
CTRG news! 🎉 👏 Huge congratulations to Prof @noemiebouhana.bsky.social on winning a €3.1m grant from the European Commission (as well as contributions from Public Safety Canada and New Zealand Police) for her project “ONLIVES” (Anticipating and Countering Fluid Criminal and Violent Extremism)
With some delay, my op-Ed on the dramatic Saxony-Anhalt election. It is high time we focus our political struggle on strengthening democracy, rather than merely weakening the far right. To do this, we must show realism, resilience and restraint.
The AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right | Cas Mudde
This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today
theguardian.com
The @ctrg.bsky.social will embark on its next adventure from 1 November. Back in March, I was awarded a Horizon Europe grant of 3.1m euros to coordinate the 3-year ONLIVES project (Anticipating and Countering Fluid Criminal and Violent Extremism). Can't wait to get started. But first: beach holiday.
Ngl, I am increasingly cranky about what seems to be a complete lack of rigour, curiosity, depth of thought across many domains of public life in Britain today. What is going on with far right disorder raises really fundamental questions for the state and society, but nobody seems interested.
I was about to turn 11 and to this day nothing can perk me up like that Queen soundtrack.
Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · last wk.Highlander (1986). The swords shoot sparks, and everybody has the wrong accent in this MTV Song of Roland. Hollywood doesn't believe in magic or cocaine hard enough to make 'em like this anymore.
Je devrais pas avouer ça quand on me donne des millions d'euros de financement pour expliquer les comportements criminels et déviants, mais des fois tout ce que j'ai envie de dire c'est: qu'est-ce que c'est con les gens.
Pierre Plottu@pierreplottu.bsky.social · last wk.«On m’a conseillé de me taire, mais je le refuse» : en Bretagne, la solitude et la colère d’une crêpière victime de vagues d’insultes racistes www.liberation.fr/societe/on-m...
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.
It's the smallest things, but - I can't believe the Dyson toothbrush comes only in pink or blue.
Nolan's done amazing stuff - even if The Odyssey left me a little cold - but nothing tops Batman. Damn but these movies hold up good. Whatever happened to Aaron Eckhart?
This is very good advice, even if the true problem is at the cultural and systemic level rather than at the individual level. We write too much because academic culture and system value quantity over quality. And this quantity clogs the system, further weakening the quality.
Catherine E. de Vries@catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2w agoLots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵
We've come a long way since The X-Files. Or maybe not.
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2w agoFBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’
Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month
Has been the case for a while though that too many serious International Relations scholars withdrew from serious discussion about Trump because he doesn't fit into any of their existing theories as a corrupt megalomaniac with no basic concept of the world outside.
National security, counter-radicalisation strategies that don't pivot to address head-on a world order where extremist narratives flood from the top are useless.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”
Exactly. But most ppl mistakenly think they're immune to this. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...
A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly
Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.
theconversation.com
Most procedural justice research has been cross-sectional—making causal claims difficult. Our longitudinal study asks whether police legitimacy reduces delinquency, or whether delinquency shapes legitimacy beliefs. The stronger evidence points to the latter. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Assessing the relationship between police legitimacy beliefs and criminal behaviour over time: A test of causal direction - Amina op de Weegh, Stijn Ruiter, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner, Amy Nivette, ...
This study investigates the direction of the relationship between police legitimacy beliefs and delinquent behaviour using longitudinal data from Swiss adolesce...
journals.sagepub.com
First World problems of the French girl on holiday: how do you The Row in a heatwave. We're only halfway through summer. Give me pre-fall collections. Give me pumpkins.
