Ashton Kingdon
LightNews LightNews
banner
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Ashton Kingdon
@ashkingdon.bsky.social
10K followers 1.1K following 250 posts
Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
ashkingdon.bsky.social
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 🍾🍾🍾
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK
Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPadda👇👇#ResponsibleAI
rai.ac.uk/new_projects...
A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms – Responsible AI
rai.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
audreygagnon.bsky.social
Join us in 2 hours for @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES's first webinar of 2026 on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics! @draamattheis.bsky.social will discuss how to negotiate the ethics of extremism research online
www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Ashley A. Mattheis, University of Manchester
www.sv.uio.no
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social
On the killing of Renee Nicole Good, I just published a piece in @foreignpolicy.com arguing the Trump administration is weaponizing the narrative of “vehicular terrorism” as a shortcut to justify an unlawful killing: “death squad logic, adapted to American streets”

foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/13/v...
Claims of Vehicular Terrorism in Minnesota Don’t Hold Up
The U.S. government is adopting dangerous language to justify unlawful killing.
foreignpolicy.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
🎓Fully Funded PhD Alert🎓AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #Retweet #PhD #phdlife 👇👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
www.findaphd.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
bschcnetwork.bsky.social
🚨Meet the Authors: Hate Crime Perpetrators Event🚨Thursday 26 January 2025, 1:00–2:00 pm GMT (online)
Join us for a presentation + Q&A on the Two Volumes Hate Crime Perpetrators: New Perspectives from Theory, Research and Practice (Vol. I & II).👇👇👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Beyond Excited to See This Review of My Book - The World White Web - Published in Terrorism and Political Violence
Written By The Legendary @willallchorn.bsky.social
Thank You So Much For Taking the Time to Write Such Kind Words ♥️♥️👇👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda
Published in Terrorism and Political Violence (Ahead of Print, 2026)
www.tandfonline.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:45 AM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
🚨New Project Alert🚨I am Investigating the AI-Climate-Conflict Nexus With a Particular Focus on Data Centres as a Target for Terrorism and Cybercrime. If You or Someone You Know are Interested in #AISustainability #WaterWeaponisation #AIEthics #ClimateChange #Conflict Please Reach Out 👇👇
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Just Registered for This Bad Boy 🎉🎉🎊🎊 Buzzing to Attend My First #BSA and First Time in #Manchester 🥂 I Will Be Presenting My Research on #UniteTheKingdom and Running a Special Event on Sociologists at Risk of Harm #Ethics #ResearcherSafety #OnlineHarms
January 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #ShareWidely 👇👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
www.findaphd.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
bschcnetwork.bsky.social
Happy New Year Everyone 🎉🎉 Please See a Link to Our Latest Podcast Episode Where #LaurenStecklesYoung Discusses Her Groundbreaking #DigitalEthnography into Platforms like Reddit and Tattle Life #DigitalHarm #BodyPolitics #HateCrime 👇👇
open.spotify.com/episode/1nda...
A conversation with Lauren Steckles-Young
open.spotify.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Delighted That My Roundtable on Ethics Has Been #Accepted for the Terrorism and Social Media Conference Going to be Joined by a Bunch of Legends 💃🏆If You Are Attending This Year Don't Forget to Vote for #BarryIsland as the Day Trip Option #TASM2026 #StuartLetMeDoIt 🍻🍻
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Myself
#TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. Please Share Widely 👇👇

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
www.findaphd.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
bschcnetwork.bsky.social
🚨Free Online Event Alert🚨Sign Up Below For Our Meet the Authors: Contemporary Issues in Transphobic Hate and Prejudice: Transforming the Narrative Event With #bencolliver #JaneHealy #KatieMcBride, and #GinaGwenffrewi 10 December 1-2 GMT 👇👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
My Techno Harms Students Were Treated to an AMAZING Guest Lecture by the LEGEND That Is @maurolubrano.bsky.social Who Came In To Discuss His Book Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism 😍😍 Buy It Now People 🎊🎊🎉🎉🙌🙌
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Avoid Marking Deadlines By Decorating Your Tree With Complete Symmetry and #Precision I Love Christmas So Much 😍😍🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 #HolidaysAreComing #ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
drjennings.bsky.social
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Nov 18
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:

"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
lubardab.bsky.social
The recording of last Friday's panel on 'Far-right ecologies', organised by @futureearth.bsky.social is now out (see comment)!

I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
bschcnetwork.bsky.social
NEW from the British Society of Criminology: Hate Crime Network Podcast! 🎙️
We're exploring Hate Crime in Spain. Hosts Dr. Rachel Keighley and Simone Taghavi are joined by academic pioneer Dr. Abel González García, Director of the department of Criminology at UDIMA. 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/1QVy...
A conversation with Dr. Abel González García
open.spotify.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
bschcnetwork.bsky.social
Please See Below a Link To Our Next Writing Group. Mon 17 Nov 2025 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT. If You Have a Writing Goal, Want Relaxed Feedback on Your Work, Or Just a Space to Stay Motivated as you Write 💪💪Join Us 😀😀👇👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
Check Out The Latest Podcast from @revdem2020.bsky.social Which Features Myself and the Wonderful @lubardab.bsky.social Talking About Our Work On When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge and When Environmentalism Becomes a Battleground of Competing Ideologies 👇👇
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...
Radical Ecologies of the Right and Left: A Conversation with Ashton Kingdon and Balša Lubarda | Review of Democracy
In this new episode of the “When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge” series, which shares fresh research from a workshop organised by the CEU DI Democracy in History Work Group, we discuss with D...
revdem.ceu.edu
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
lizziereed.bsky.social
Some people will tell you sociologists and criminologists are broadly the same. I submit to you these images, one hangs in my office, the other next door in my colleague @ashkingdon.bsky.social's office. Match the flag to the person in the comments!
A pendant flag. It shows an applique lions head which is smiling. In script below it says "be bold, be brave, be you" A pendant flag. It features a cartoon raven, mid -squawk. It reads "eat the rich"
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
ashkingdon.bsky.social
I Have Always Admired @lubardab.bsky.social
and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇
revdem2020.bsky.social Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · Nov 7
🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
revdem2020.bsky.social
🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Ashton Kingdon
johnhorgan.bsky.social
Ideological promiscuity, so-called "NVE", "salad-bar extremism", and a bazillion related new terms. If you're in or near the University of St. Andrews later this month, I'll be there to talk about all this stuff and what it means. Come say hi.

events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/prof-...
The (Rapidly) Changing Face of Terrorism and Implications for Psychology Research
Terrorism is the use or threat of use of violence by non-state actors against non-combatants in the furtherance of some
events.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM