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Noémie Bouhana

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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.

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · Feb 17

Most accessible overview of what I do: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8b79...

The moral ecology of extremism: a systemic perspective

Dr Noémie Bouhana, University College London.

www.gov.uk

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 1d

An inflatable characters dance-off, for one thing.

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Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 3d

I think Brown is very shrewd to identify internationalism as the key battleground.

Far too many on the centre-left and left are still indulging their economic nationalist fantasies – despite Biden and Starmer as clear examples of the shortcomings of such an approach.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 3d

A moving and intelligent call to action here from Gordon Brown. And yet another reminder of why he is my political hero.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1d

Encouraging.

But all is not lost. The cement is still wet, and even as it hardens we can find hope in the common sense of the global public. In a survey by Focaldata, of 36,000 people in 34 countries we find a clear majority are more resistant to an exclusionary nationalism and more willing to embrace international cooperation than many of the leaders who rule over them.

Across the world there is, perhaps surprisingly, only a small group of hardened anti-internationalists representing 16.5% of the global population (even if 25% in today’s US) who either feel coexistence between ethnic and religious groups is impossible or have a zero-sum mindset that if they or their country do well, it has to be at the expense of others doing badly.

But there are another 21% at the opposite extreme, whom we might call committed internationalists, who either still see cooperation across borders through open trade as a positive sum win-win, or are what the US philosopher and writer Kwame Anthony Appiah calls “rooted cosmopolitans”.

From Gordon Brown at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/reform-nigel-farage-hard-right-politics-gordon-brown-labour

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 1d

We are, eventually.

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 1d

The peace deals, the Nobel: he's desperate for tangible proof he'll be let in. A signed piece of paper. A visa he paid for. Which he didn't get. That last health check wasn't good news.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 1d

Any pope in a storm.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 1d

Big fan of "I'll get there when I get there" science myself.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously a lot of politicians and media are struggling to cope with a modern trade war when they still think governments created globalisation and can now undo that.

And we'll have continued turbulence until there's a better understanding of today's world. ecipe.org/blog/alterna...

Finding an Alternative to Populist Trade Policies

Even before the chaos of Trump’s second term, bringing back factory jobs and talking about tariffs were the predominant trade policy discussions in many countries. While these clearly have some sign

ecipe.org

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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 1d

La récupération de la mort de Charlie Kirk montre à quel point l’extrême droite européenne est devenue supplétive du trumpisme, qui fonctionne comme une API idéologique synchronisant toutes les factions réactionnaires.

www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Assassinat de Charlie Kirk : comment l’extrême droite européenne a fait allégeance au trumpisme

Dans les heures qui ont suivi la mort du militant ultraconservateur américain, des représentants des extrêmes droites européennes ont repris à l’unisson le discours du monde MAGA, faisant de cet Améri...

www.lemonde.fr

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 1d

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Meera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · 1d

Basic, curiosity driven, sometimes very exploratory, research is the seed corn that leads to the biggest scientific advances
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't think of it. I never take photos... except that time I lived in LA with E for 3 months. Am I glad we took hundreds of photos then. It was lovely to see you, too. The current situation as many worst parts; selfishly, it's knowing that I can't just hop on a plane and go see my peeps anymore.

Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 2d

I really hope you're holding up. x

Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 2d

On the upside, I'm not Sebastien Lecornu.

Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 4d

My (work) life for the next 4 weeks is a perfect storm. Nuts. CRAZY. Adjust your expectations accordingly. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 2d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Klausie @klausiedaimler.bsky.social · 3d

Now I see it this for the pure genius that it is.

There were hoping for scary young men throwing molotov cocktails to fit their narrative so they could start shooting people.

Instead they got dancing cartoon characters showing the country and the world how ridiculous their nazi coslplay is.

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 2d

When the world's gone crazy
And it makes no sense
There's only one voice
That comes to your defense

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 3d

This is awesome.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 2d

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 5d

Even a pause in the killing and displacement would be good and I share the cautious optimism that this could end this phase of the catastrophe. But it is wild that people are treating this as if it’s the negotiated end of the Russo-Japanese War, or even Camp David 1978.

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 4d

All the devils are here.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

he’s gonna end up inventing antisemitism from first principles lmao

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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