"Intellectual yet idiot." Lecturer in Cyber Threats at @SUSocialScience and @CYTREC_. Tweets about extremism online, free speech, and polling.
Swansea, Wales
Joined October 2016
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New research! @CostelloWilliam, @DrThomasAG and I have conducted the biggest survey of incels to date, funded by @CommissionCE.
bit.ly/49il9wQ
We wanted to know about their psychological experiences, their adherence to ideology, and the ways they networked.
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I agree with @CTProject_JW it is almost impossible to make a clear distinction between online and offline radicalisation. frontiersin.org/journals/psy… #extremism #online #radicalisation
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Support for proscribed organisations: the Supreme Court is due to consider effect of section 12(1A) Terrorism Act 2000 offence at hearing on 20 Nov 2025.../1
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How are terrorists using financial tech, & what impact is this having on their operations?
This ICCT Perspective by @CTProject_JW finds that from 2012–2020, most funding stayed traditional, while only 10% used online tools like PayPal or crypto.
➡️ buff.ly/ZFMCqvY
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🚨 Now Published: The Extremism Risk Guidance – Revised (ERG-R).
After over a decade of guiding terrorism risk assessments in England and Wales, the ERG22+ framework has been comprehensively updated by the HMPPS CT-ARC.
Read the full technical report: doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.70…
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🇨🇦🍁And here it is! Our Canada MRP! 🍁🇨🇦
We are currently projecting that Mark Carney's Liberal Party will *win a majority* at the 2025 Canadian Federal Election, with 182 seats.
We expect the Conservatives to win 133 seats.
A hung parliament remains a distinct possibility.
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Come 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 👇👇
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📢 Registration is now open for the Society for Terrorism Research 17th Annual International Conference, hosted on 7-8 July at Royal Holloway, University of London.
📅 You can still submit Paper, Panel & Symposia Proposals until the April 11 deadline societyforterrorismresearch.…
New research from myself and REASSURE colleagues on the role of institutional ethics committees. We find that:
- Online research is largely neglected within ethics processes
- Researchers are very sceptical about the competence of committees
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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OUT NOW: @helm_brenna, @cybercrimeprof, Wally Wojciechowski, Richard Frank, and I examine user engagement and posting behaviors over time on one of the most well-known incel-moderated forums: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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New report advises mental health support for 'incels'.
@CTProject_JW @DrThomasAG @CostelloWilliam
bps.org.uk/psychologist/new-…
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Our latest led by @SeawardAmber : Analyzing closed-source data to compare specific roles and behaviors within violent and nonviolent terrorist involvement - shorturl.at/sK7UV -
New @VOX_Pol blog by @YilmazKml and myself. We look at the recent misogynistic murders in Turkey and the relationship to the Turkish incel movement
voxpol.eu/beyond-western-mis…
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Are you interested in doing a PhD with me in relationships from an evolutionary psychological perspective? Applications are now open for full funding here: wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-gene…
I've had success with two students before though this competitive process. Feel free to reach out to me on my academic email if you're interested!
New research from @YilmazKml, Mehmet Sozer, Niyazi Ekici, and myself. We seek to understand why some individuals do not radicalise, despite displaying what are often thought of as risk factors.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
It was a real pleasure to speak to the Young Fellows about incels
Thank you @CTProject_JW Dr Joe Whittaker for joining the @CEGroupUK Young Fellows in National Security Fellows this afternoon to talk about incel radicalisation.
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I am conducting some research on UK ice hockey spectator's attitudes towards violence and aggression. This builds on earlier research.
Please consider taking part in this 10 minute survey:
swanseasom.au1.qualtrics.com…
Please Share #hockey #EIHL #NIHL #NHL
A great place to work!
At @UniLeiden and @ISGA_Hague, our team are #hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the 'Preventing and Measuring Radicalisation' project! Know anyone who might be interested? Application deadline 16 September universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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The scholarly journal that I edit, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, is again ranked number 1 in google's h-5 Military Studies category—& equally impressively— number 10 in the Diplomacy & International Relations category
