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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 13d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Social Repair @socialrepair.bsky.social · 16d

Just under a week to go til our next seminar! We're really excited to be hosting @tariqmodood.bsky.social to be talking to us about global racisms.

2pm BST Wednesday 1st October (next Wednesday!)

You can join us here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8174893023... with the access code 546157

Social Repair
Online Seminar
Understanding Global Racisms: Beyond Euro-Americancentricity
Speaker: Prof Tariq Modood
Discussant: Dr Morgane Reina
Date: Wednesday 1st October 2025
Time: 15:00 – South Africa / 09:00 – Canada (Ottawa) / 10:00 – Brazil / 14:00 UK

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol and the co-founder of the international journal, Ethnicities. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 350 articles and chapters. He was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004, elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and was awarded the Senior Scholar Award by Rice University, Houston in 2025. In 2022 he was ranked in the top 20 UK cited scholars in Politics, Law, Sociology and Social Policy. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. His latest books include Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2nd ed; 2013); and as Special Issues co-editor, with T. Sealy, Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-racism (Political Quarterly, 2022) and Global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity (Religion, State and Society, 2022). His latest book, with Thomas Sealy, is The New Governance of Religious Diversity (2024) He has a You Tube Channel and his website is tariqmodood.com.

Prof Modood will be speaking on how the concept of racialization, developed in Britain and the Global North, may be useful for understanding some forms of prejudice, exclusion, and domination in the Global South

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Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 New PhD Opportunity at Anglia Ruskin University 🚨

Happy to announce a new funded PhD opportunity - looking at The Role of AI in Extermist MisInformation (w/ Lakshmi Babu Saheer & Elisa Orofino).

📌 ESRC Research Priority Areas: Security, risk and resilience www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...

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C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · Sep 2

New edited volume "Contemporary Far Right Culture" with chapters by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and affiliate @evianeleidig.com. Check it out! www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

Contemporary Far-Right Culture: The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism

Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of today’s far-right culture. It examines how far-right extremists operate in the spaces they inhabit, explo...

www.routledge.com

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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · May 26

📢Job alert! Come join us at @criminologyuom.bsky.social !

We're advertising for full-time Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) to develop innovative teaching in trust and security in a digital world. Deadline 4 June 2025.

#AcademicSky #AcademicJob

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Microcredentials (Teaching and Scholarship) :Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · May 21

Another week, another research ethics controversy.

TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.

But let's unpack this one... 🧵

www.404media.co/researchers-...

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

www.404media.co

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · May 19

Feelin' the 💕. This was lovely to see. Thanks @alicetiara.bsky.social

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · May 2

We will DEFINITELY cite this in the next version of the guide! 👏👏👏👏

European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · May 2

Research institutions must do more to protect researchers from online harms, particularly marginalised scholars.

@draamattheis.bsky.social explains more in their new paper ✨ OPEN ACCESS✨ on "Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online"

doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · May 2

Research institutions must do more to protect researchers from online harms, particularly marginalised scholars.

@draamattheis.bsky.social explains more in their new paper ✨ OPEN ACCESS✨ on "Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online"

doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · May 2

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

aoir.org/riskyresearc...

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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · Apr 28

We kick off the two-day workshop on the topic of ”Gendering militarization in Europe” w/h the keynote of @chrisagius13.bsky.social on ”Gendered inversions of militarization” & a super promising lineup of presenters & a couple of public-facing events as well

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Apr 26

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · Apr 26

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

From the changemyview community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thank you!

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨

@draamattheis.bsky.social shows how:
❗Online harassment of researchers is common
❗Harassment of marginalised scholars is strategic practice of far-right
❗Institutions disregard online harms to researchers

✨ OPEN ACCESS✨
doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · Apr 2

a blue note that says thank you so much on it

ALT: a blue note that says thank you so much on it

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · Apr 2

a neon sign that says thank you is lit up

ALT: a neon sign that says thank you is lit up

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · Apr 2

Very pleased to share my new article exploring how institutional disregard for researcher safety online produces structural failures of care. Early view, open access here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online

Online harassment has become an almost ubiquitous, though often institutionally unacknowledged, reality for academics globally, whether they study the online milieu or use digital media to publicise t...

doi.org

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · Mar 7

Very happy to see this article out and to have the opportunity to work with the original #REASSURE team. Check it out 👇👇

Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social · Mar 1

Pleased to see this one published #openaccess at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10..... CC @joewhittaker.bsky.social @lizzypearson.bsky.social @draamattheis.bsky.social 1/3

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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · Mar 7

Podcast Relaunch!

FRAN's podcast Right Rising is back! Check out our latest podcast episode with Prof Mario Peucker talking about his efforts in Victoria, Australia.

rightrising.fireside.fm/55

Democracy Strikes Back

Dr. Mario Peucker joins the pod to discuss his efforts in developing robust institutions to combat hate and conspiracy theories alongside marginalized communities in Victoria, Australia

rightrising.fireside.fm

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Dr Bethan Jones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social · Feb 5

Me and @simoned.bsky.social are organising a pre-SCMS symposium on participatory culture, politics and reactionary fandom. Details and CFP are available at
fanstudies.org/2025/02/05/c... and we'd love to see some abstracts from you!

CFP: Participatory Culture, Politics and Reactionary Fandom

CFP: Participatory Culture, Politics and Reactionary FandomDe Paul University, 2 April 2025Fan practices and behaviours have increasingly moved beyond fan communities into the political, economic, …

fanstudies.org

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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · Jan 22

If you can make it to this talk, it would be well worth your time. @ashkingdon.bsky.social's presentations and research are excellent. I am bummed I can't get there . 👇

The Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social · Jan 22

We are looking forward to hosting @ashkingdon.bsky.social tomorrow at Royal Holloway for her talk on "The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda" chaired by our Snr Fellow Dr. Anthony Richards. Thursday 23 Jan, 5-6:30pm in Shilling Lecture Theatre. All welcome

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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · Jan 22

Really Excited to Be On 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on #3CR to Talk to @slackbastard.bsky.social and @sexenheimer.bsky.social about My New Book 'The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda' We Discuss #KeyFindings #Prevention #CommunityNotes and Obvs the #RomanEmpire

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Jan 22

Tomorrow on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on #3CR, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @ashkingdon.bsky.social about 'The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda'.

slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=52659

Yeah Nah Pasaran! #234 w Ashton Kingdon on The World White Web : January 23, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Ashton Kingdon [Bluesky]. Ashton is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton, a previous guest of ours (February 2021), and the author of…

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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · Jan 15

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · Jan 14

'Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women.'

Why all Musk and the techbros are protecting is rich men's power. Less protection needed, more care.

My latest for @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/elon-musk-an...

Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women

The world’s richest man has been quite selective in the causes he champions.

theconversation.com

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · Jan 8

I meant to run a $0.99 promotion for Optimal, but I accidentally clicked the free promotion button, so guess what, y'all can get it free the next couple days.

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The book's not-too-distant future is getting less and less distant by the day, so, um, there's that to look forward to.

Optimal

Optimal - Kindle edition by Berger, J.M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Optimal.

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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · Jan 6

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾

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