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Associate Professor of Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Civil resistance, nonviolent action, social movements, democracy, authoritarianism, political violence, peacebuilding.
Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
PhD @crexuio.bsky.social researching violent extremism across Australia, New Zealand & Canada | Director @Radar Solutions | Adjunct Fellow @Victoria University
Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at University of Portsmouth, UK. Special interest in memory performance and memory elicitation techniques. Views own.
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Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
Too many years spent in preventing terrorism, hate, extremism | Co-host of true-crime podcast "Stoppable" | 'Muse of Reason' for Divas
Militant Accelerationism. Radicalization. Digital Extremism. Trust & Safety.
Executive Director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE) and Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC)
www.counteringextremism.org
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Professor, researcher, consultant, trainer.
Political violence, social movements, OSINT, (cyber)security, tech & law.
Director @ prosecutionproject.bsky.social & peacejusticestudies.org
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University. All things insurgent governance, legitimation theory, gender, and organised crime especially in Colombia. Left my ❤️ in #LatAm. Staunch defender of trampoline fitness.
Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
I study terrorism, geopolitics, international security
Proud 🇺🇸✡️ & Zionist who has been studying terrorism & insurgency for nearly 5 decades and is a senior fellow @CFR.org. My own opinions. Re-postings are not necessarily endorsements.
PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Website: https://www.lizziedearden.com/
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Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Historian | Distinguished prof Utrecht University | Visiting Fellow Cambridge University/Catz | “Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
Lecturer at UCL, Department of Security and Crime Science | UKRN local chapter co-lead | research extremism/hate/terrorism online and offline
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
The Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an international forum for new research and analysis of contemporary security issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpic20
Academic network focused on researching prevalence, contours, functions, & impacts of online violent extremism and terrorism. Website: http://www.voxpol.eu
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.
Professor @politihogskolen.bsky.social & Affiliate Reseacher @crexuio.bsky.social. I study the development and policing of terrorism, political violence and extremism in liberal democracies. Check out my research at https://tinyurl.com/3hesd4un
ESRC Funded PhD Candidate University of St Andrews | Non-Resident Fellow Program on Extremism (GWUPOE) | War Studies Alumnus KCL | Researching family influences on radicalization and extremism.
We publish research and set the standard for risk assessment and management practice in Scotland, to reduce reoffending and the harm that it causes. Shares/follows are not necessarily endorsements. #RMAScot
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First all-Scotland international relations institute.
Hub for collaborative policy-relevant research & home for informed, non-partisan debate on foreign policy.
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Professor in sociology at the University of Oslo
CIDOB is an international affairs think tank that analyses the global issues that affect political & social dynamics, from the international to the local level.
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The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is an academic research initiative backed by The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a special project delivered by @csns-uk.bsky.social.
A regional hub for research & innovation in policing. A collaboration between N8 Research Partnership universities & policing partners.
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Preventing terrorists & violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.
Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgov.bsky.social. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
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.
Executive Director at GIFCT. Interests in counterterrorism, sanctions, tech, international affairs and global security. Cosmopolitan nomad and jewelry maker. All posts in my personal capacity; quotes not endorsements.
🎮 Network of over 155+ members working together across sectors to uncover how terrorist and violent extremist actors exploit gaming, to build resilience in gaming communities, and to use gaming for good. 👾Learn more @ extremismandgaming.org
Independent specialist in open-source investigations, OSINT, terrorist/violent extremist use of online platforms
Founder & CEO Moonshot
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Our mission is to end online harms, applying evidence ethics & human rights.
Associate Prof Security Studies School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Visiting Prof at NetLab Federal Univeristy of Rio de Janeiro. Co-founder Erasmus IMSISS. Into conspiracies & disinformation lately (academically)
PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
#extremism #alt-tech #far-right #conspiracies #socialmedia
Lecturer at Swansea University. Research on terrorists' and extremists' use of the Internet.
Global security consultant focused on terrorism, counter-terrorism & new technology (particularly AI): Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
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Associate Professor, Michigan State University; a criminologist mostly studying on- and offline behaviors and patterns of the extreme right.
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MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI.
Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
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Author. Extremism, dystopia, fiction.
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Rep @therightsfactory.bsky.social
Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
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My Oath Keepers book: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
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Academic @sussexfss.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Vox-Pol | Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social | Steering Board @extremismgaming.bsky.social | Ambassador @getwigi.com
Researching all things terrorism, particularly video-games and violent extremism.
The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
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Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
🥇No.1 ranking in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
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Research: gender, CT, security; @RUSI Terrorism and Conflict Research Group, @ExtremismGaming, prior US Navy; views my own, RT ≠ endorsement; she/her
The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) is an independent knowledge centre that focuses on the preventative and international legal aspects of CT.
🔗: icct.nl 📍: The Hague
ECPR is an independent, scholarly association with a mission to advance political science ▪ https://ecpr.eu/ ▪ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ecpr/ ▪ @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
The official @ECPR.bsky.social Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy. We also publish the e-Extreme newsletter.
Steering Comm: @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, @profannikawerner.bsky.social, and @dafnoukos.bsky.social
Jonathan Hall KC
Barrister appointed in 2019 to review UK terrorism legislation and (since 2024) state threat legislation
The Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) at Royal Holloway University of London. Founding Director:
@akilnawan.bsky.social; Co-Director: @lizzypearson.bsky.social
Saving lives and preventing harm by disrupting terrorist activity online and upholding human rights. Supported by UNCTED
🔸 Website: https://techagainstterrorism.org/home
🔸 Podcast: https://podcast.techagainstterrorism.org/
Assistant Professor at U of Ottawa, affiliated with @crexuio.bsky.social / National identity & immigration; ethics and methods when researching the far right; far-right movements in Québec & Canada / Co-editor of the newsletter of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
Associate Professor of Political Science UniVdA, Aosta, Italy.
Fellow / Associate ISPI, ICCT-The Hague, GWU–PoE.
Research and analysis on International Politics, Security, Violent Extremism.
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Research on revolutionary leaders, external support for rebel groups, and armed group fragmentation.
The CGLG is the home of outstanding research and practice in international law, institutions, and governance at the University of St Andrews 🏴
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Lecturer in IR & Politics at Uni Bath. PhD from St Andrews. Political violence & terrorism, anti-tech extremism, insurrectionary anarchism and left-wing extremism, leaderless resistance, innovation processes.
Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both.
Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
I study terrorism (and the state's response) where it is not.
Views mine.
The National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
The International Academic Partnerships for Science and Security (IAPSS)🌐
https://crestresearch.ac.uk/iapss/
Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
ARC is dedicated to a collaborative, empirical approach to understanding and addressing the threat of accelerationism to democratic societies.
Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Find us here: https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec
Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. MSNow columnist. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, School of Public Affairs. We design, test, & scale up evidence-based tools to help communities prevent & respond to hate & violence. https://perilresearch.com
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
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