Lewys Brace
@lewysbrace.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and extremism researcher at University of Exeter, Co-Director of the Centre for Computational Social Science (@C2S2exeter.bsky.social) and .gif connoisseur.
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🚀 VOX-Pol Institute webinar on Chatbots & Extremism 🚀
14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time)
- Do extremist actors misuse chatbots?
- What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms?
- How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE?
To attend, please email [email protected]
14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time)
- Do extremist actors misuse chatbots?
- What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms?
- How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE?
To attend, please email [email protected]
October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚀 VOX-Pol Institute webinar on Chatbots & Extremism 🚀
14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time)
- Do extremist actors misuse chatbots?
- What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms?
- How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE?
To attend, please email [email protected]
14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time)
- Do extremist actors misuse chatbots?
- What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms?
- How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE?
To attend, please email [email protected]
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⚡ Final hours. Extremists won’t wait.
Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure.
This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content.
Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct
Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
#VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism
Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure.
This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content.
Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct
Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
#VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism
VOX-Pol Institute | Shaping Responses to Online Extremism
Join us in Munich for a hands-on, expert-led workshop designed to deepen your understanding of the challenges and strategies in addressing violent extremism and terrorism content online. This interact...
www.voxpolinstitute.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
⚡ Final hours. Extremists won’t wait.
Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure.
This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content.
Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct
Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
#VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism
Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure.
This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content.
Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct
Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
#VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism
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I am Excited to be Editing a Special Journal Issue Titled Terrorism, Radicalisation and Social Order: Perspectives on Emerging Threats and Responses. If You Have Something to Say about the Future of Terrorism/Extremism Research Check Out The CFP 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/ejdcaehbha
October 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I am Excited to be Editing a Special Journal Issue Titled Terrorism, Radicalisation and Social Order: Perspectives on Emerging Threats and Responses. If You Have Something to Say about the Future of Terrorism/Extremism Research Check Out The CFP 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/ejdcaehbha
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The entire special issue on terrorist motivation has just been published, with several pieces #openaccess.
Check it out.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...
Check it out.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...
Terrorism and Political Violence
Revisiting Terrorist Motivation, Guest Edited by John Horgan and Max Taylor. Volume 37, Issue 7 of Terrorism and Political Violence
www.tandfonline.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The entire special issue on terrorist motivation has just been published, with several pieces #openaccess.
Check it out.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...
Check it out.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...
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🚨 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...
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...
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨 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...
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...
This programme offers a unique blend of substantive knowledge of how emerging technologies (particularly #data and #AI) are impacting contemporary and future #security, #defence, and #lawenforcement issues with practical training in #datascience methods (no prior data/coding experience necessary).
Applications are open for UoE's MSc Security and Data Science starting in September 2025!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions
#security #defence #lawenforcement #data #datascience #AI
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#security #defence #lawenforcement #data #datascience #AI
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Security and Data Science MSc | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This programme offers a unique blend of substantive knowledge of how emerging technologies (particularly #data and #AI) are impacting contemporary and future #security, #defence, and #lawenforcement issues with practical training in #datascience methods (no prior data/coding experience necessary).
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Check out my new paper with Andra Pascu-Lindner @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Using survey experiments, we show that voters do not view potential women PMs as less competent in forming governments or less influential over policy outputs when compared to men. Read more:
🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨
Check out Andra Pascu-Lindner & @kaitlinsenk.bsky.social's new experimental paper "Competent and influential: how do voters evaluate women prime ministers?"
It's ✨OPEN ACCESS✨
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
Check out Andra Pascu-Lindner & @kaitlinsenk.bsky.social's new experimental paper "Competent and influential: how do voters evaluate women prime ministers?"
It's ✨OPEN ACCESS✨
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Check out my new paper with Andra Pascu-Lindner @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Using survey experiments, we show that voters do not view potential women PMs as less competent in forming governments or less influential over policy outputs when compared to men. Read more:
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🫵 Are you an Early Career Researcher in behavioural or social science for security and defence? Gain one-to-one support from an experienced mentor through the NABS+ Mentorship Scheme. Deadline: 15 August
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c... for full details and application form
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c... for full details and application form
ECR Mentoring
The NABS+ Mentorship Scheme connects Early Career Researchers with experienced mentors in behavioural and social science for security and defence.
crestresearch.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🫵 Are you an Early Career Researcher in behavioural or social science for security and defence? Gain one-to-one support from an experienced mentor through the NABS+ Mentorship Scheme. Deadline: 15 August
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c... for full details and application form
👉 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c... for full details and application form
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🚨 ICYMI: EPOP 2025 registration open, and draft programme released! 🚨
Join us in Exeter 4-6th September on our Streatham campus for some stellar papers. Early bird rates open until 4th August, registration closes 28th August.
Those staying in Holland Hall will wake up to this view!
Join us in Exeter 4-6th September on our Streatham campus for some stellar papers. Early bird rates open until 4th August, registration closes 28th August.
Those staying in Holland Hall will wake up to this view!
July 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🚨 ICYMI: EPOP 2025 registration open, and draft programme released! 🚨
Join us in Exeter 4-6th September on our Streatham campus for some stellar papers. Early bird rates open until 4th August, registration closes 28th August.
Those staying in Holland Hall will wake up to this view!
Join us in Exeter 4-6th September on our Streatham campus for some stellar papers. Early bird rates open until 4th August, registration closes 28th August.
Those staying in Holland Hall will wake up to this view!
My long-term collaborator Prof. Stephane Baele is recruiting for a funded PhD position to work with him in the area of digital extremist communications. Details can be found here:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353560
If you have any questions, please contact Stephane ([email protected]).
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353560
If you have any questions, please contact Stephane ([email protected]).
1 Full-time PhD Fellowship in Social Sciences (digital extremism)
The Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) is looking for strong candidates for a generous, full-time PhD fellowship in the field of digital extremist communication.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
June 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My long-term collaborator Prof. Stephane Baele is recruiting for a funded PhD position to work with him in the area of digital extremist communications. Details can be found here:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353560
If you have any questions, please contact Stephane ([email protected]).
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/353560
If you have any questions, please contact Stephane ([email protected]).
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🚨NEW🚨
@surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071
@surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071
The Sociology of Violent Extremism: Theoretical and Sociological Approaches
This book is an essential collection addressing key challenges in studying violent extremism. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, terrorism
academic.oup.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨NEW🚨
@surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071
@surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071
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Dr @hannahbunting.bsky.social has outlined what to look out for in tomorrow's #localelections25 in this @uk.theconversation.com article 🗳️
theconversation.com/local-electi...
theconversation.com/local-electi...
Local elections: what would a good night look like for Nigel Farage’s Reform?
Council seats are up for election across Tory heartlands and Nigel Farage is looking to gain hundreds of them.
theconversation.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Dr @hannahbunting.bsky.social has outlined what to look out for in tomorrow's #localelections25 in this @uk.theconversation.com article 🗳️
theconversation.com/local-electi...
theconversation.com/local-electi...
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The Closing Date (28th) is Approaching for Two Posts at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
A Lecturer in Criminology and a Teaching Fellow in Crim/Sociology. Come and Join this Wonderful and Supportive Department. 👇👇 #SpreadTheWord jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
A Lecturer in Criminology and a Teaching Fellow in Crim/Sociology. Come and Join this Wonderful and Supportive Department. 👇👇 #SpreadTheWord jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer
Be part of the dynamic development of Sociology social policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton.We are seeking to appoint a criminologist as Lecturer to expand our vibrant academic Depa...
jobs.soton.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Closing Date (28th) is Approaching for Two Posts at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
A Lecturer in Criminology and a Teaching Fellow in Crim/Sociology. Come and Join this Wonderful and Supportive Department. 👇👇 #SpreadTheWord jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
A Lecturer in Criminology and a Teaching Fellow in Crim/Sociology. Come and Join this Wonderful and Supportive Department. 👇👇 #SpreadTheWord jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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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 👇👇
April 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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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Out now in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression:
We used group-based multi-trajectory modeling to explore how users’ online behaviors evolved as they engaged with users on the largest white supremacist forum.
The study is #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We used group-based multi-trajectory modeling to explore how users’ online behaviors evolved as they engaged with users on the largest white supremacist forum.
The study is #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Out now in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression:
We used group-based multi-trajectory modeling to explore how users’ online behaviors evolved as they engaged with users on the largest white supremacist forum.
The study is #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We used group-based multi-trajectory modeling to explore how users’ online behaviors evolved as they engaged with users on the largest white supremacist forum.
The study is #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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👉 “This is the kind of experience I wish I’d had earlier in my career.”
– Future you, after joining the NABS+ ECR Steering Group 😉
Apply now to co-lead with us & make an impact.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
📢 Deadline: Mon 28 April
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
– Future you, after joining the NABS+ ECR Steering Group 😉
Apply now to co-lead with us & make an impact.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
📢 Deadline: Mon 28 April
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
Opportunities
Check out the latest opportunities from the NABS+ community.
crestresearch.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
👉 “This is the kind of experience I wish I’d had earlier in my career.”
– Future you, after joining the NABS+ ECR Steering Group 😉
Apply now to co-lead with us & make an impact.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
📢 Deadline: Mon 28 April
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
– Future you, after joining the NABS+ ECR Steering Group 😉
Apply now to co-lead with us & make an impact.
🔗 crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
📢 Deadline: Mon 28 April
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
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Looking to grow as a leader in behavioural science?
Join the NABS+ ECR Steering Group:
✅ Shape national-level research activity
✅ Gain governance experience
✅ Plan impactful events
✅ Represent your peers
📢 Apply now: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
Join the NABS+ ECR Steering Group:
✅ Shape national-level research activity
✅ Gain governance experience
✅ Plan impactful events
✅ Represent your peers
📢 Apply now: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
Opportunities
Check out the latest opportunities from the NABS+ community.
crestresearch.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Looking to grow as a leader in behavioural science?
Join the NABS+ ECR Steering Group:
✅ Shape national-level research activity
✅ Gain governance experience
✅ Plan impactful events
✅ Represent your peers
📢 Apply now: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
Join the NABS+ ECR Steering Group:
✅ Shape national-level research activity
✅ Gain governance experience
✅ Plan impactful events
✅ Represent your peers
📢 Apply now: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...
#ECR #BehaviouralScience
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Vol.12, Iss.4 of our monthly Newsletter appeared in subscribers' inboxes yesterday.
Includes info on new VOX-Pol Institute's (VPI) forthcoming Dublin workshops on 'The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, Platforms, & Technologies.'
Access the Newsletter online at voxpol.eu/category/pub...
Includes info on new VOX-Pol Institute's (VPI) forthcoming Dublin workshops on 'The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, Platforms, & Technologies.'
Access the Newsletter online at voxpol.eu/category/pub...
April 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Vol.12, Iss.4 of our monthly Newsletter appeared in subscribers' inboxes yesterday.
Includes info on new VOX-Pol Institute's (VPI) forthcoming Dublin workshops on 'The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, Platforms, & Technologies.'
Access the Newsletter online at voxpol.eu/category/pub...
Includes info on new VOX-Pol Institute's (VPI) forthcoming Dublin workshops on 'The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, Platforms, & Technologies.'
Access the Newsletter online at voxpol.eu/category/pub...
A pleasure to write this short piece on what certain themes from Netflix's #Adolescence tell use about #incels and the #manosphere
More in-depth peices can be found on
@crest-research.bsky.social's site:
crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra...
More in-depth peices can be found on
@crest-research.bsky.social's site:
crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra...
NEW ARTICLE: What Does Netflix’s Drama ʻAdolescenceʼ Tell Us About Incels and the Manosphere?
Dr. Lewys Brace highlights how crime drama 'Adolescence' offers insight into the very real and troubling rise of the incel and manosphere culture online.
Dr. Lewys Brace highlights how crime drama 'Adolescence' offers insight into the very real and troubling rise of the incel and manosphere culture online.
What Does Netflix’s Drama ʻAdolescenceʼ Tell Us About Incels and the Manosphere?
While Netflix's psychological crime drama 'Adolescence' is a work of fiction, Dr. Lewys Brace highlights how its themes offer insight into the very real and troubling rise of the incel and manosphere…
crestresearch.ac.uk
April 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A pleasure to write this short piece on what certain themes from Netflix's #Adolescence tell use about #incels and the #manosphere
More in-depth peices can be found on
@crest-research.bsky.social's site:
crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra...
More in-depth peices can be found on
@crest-research.bsky.social's site:
crestresearch.ac.uk/projects/tra...
Happy to share that our new paper is out. Here, we show how advances in computer vision is making it easier to implement bespoke image classifiers and object detection models to detect and classify memes and images on #extremist/#terrorist online spaces. #DataScience
pt.icct.nl/article/more...
pt.icct.nl/article/more...
More is More: Scaling up Online Extremism and Terrorism Research with Computer Vision | Perspectives on Terrorism
Scholars and practitioners investigating extremist and violent political actors’ online communications face increasingly large information environments containing ever-growing amounts of data to find,...
pt.icct.nl
March 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Happy to share that our new paper is out. Here, we show how advances in computer vision is making it easier to implement bespoke image classifiers and object detection models to detect and classify memes and images on #extremist/#terrorist online spaces. #DataScience
pt.icct.nl/article/more...
pt.icct.nl/article/more...
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Doing cool research on elections, public opinion and/or parties? Don't forget to submit your abstract for EPOP 2025 before the end of April. Link to the form here: forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi
Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact [email protected] 😊
Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact [email protected] 😊
Microsoft Forms
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March 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Doing cool research on elections, public opinion and/or parties? Don't forget to submit your abstract for EPOP 2025 before the end of April. Link to the form here: forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi
Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact [email protected] 😊
Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact [email protected] 😊
Our new open-access paper proposing the use of socio-semantic networks to augment traditional URL outlink analysis by including thematic proximity info into the networks and their applications in the study of online #extremist/#terrorist ecosystems is now out.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Socio-Semantic Network Analysis for Extremist and Terrorist Online Ecosystems
How to best chart and analyse extremist digital ecosystems? This paper proposes to complement standard mapping methods based on URL outlinks, which are typically deployed but present several critic...
www.tandfonline.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Our new open-access paper proposing the use of socio-semantic networks to augment traditional URL outlink analysis by including thematic proximity info into the networks and their applications in the study of online #extremist/#terrorist ecosystems is now out.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Out in the latest issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KTSQH...
50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KTSQH...
March 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Out in the latest issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KTSQH...
50 free online copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KTSQH...
Applications are open for UoE's MSc Security and Data Science starting in September 2025!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions
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Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions
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Security and Data Science MSc | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Applications are open for UoE's MSc Security and Data Science starting in September 2025!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions
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For anyone interested in the study of #extremism, #terrorism, and other related issues, you should absolutely follow the Vox-Pol network. The open-source resources they provide are as useful as they are extensive.
Thanks to all our new followers! Please help us to spread the word about our new Bluesky account widely by mentioning it on the 'bird platform,' LinkedIn, and any other platform you're active on.
March 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
For anyone interested in the study of #extremism, #terrorism, and other related issues, you should absolutely follow the Vox-Pol network. The open-source resources they provide are as useful as they are extensive.