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Dr. Ashley Mattheis
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Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
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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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tibetcurator.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers 📣

Please share widely.

I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international
conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social

Scan the QR code for further details.

#Museums
#Dissidence
#PoliticalDisagreement
#Conference
#MuseumActivism
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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vox-pol.bsky.social
One of the best ways to keep up-to-date with our publications, events, etc. is via our monthly newsletter. Sign-up on our website voxpol.eu.
#PleaseRS
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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crexuio.bsky.social
Is it okay to engage with extremists? Join our webinar with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London, on Oct. 16, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online. Moderated, as always, by the one and only @audreygagnon.bsky.social! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Is it ok to talk to extremists? Navigating gender and avoiding legitimisation in ethnography with the far right - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Elizabeth Pearson, Royal Holloway, University of London
www.sv.uio.no
October 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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post-doc-club.bsky.social
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...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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socialrepair.bsky.social
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
September 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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willallchorn.bsky.social
🚨 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...
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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crexuio.bsky.social
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
September 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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crimepsychblog.bsky.social
📢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
May 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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cfiesler.bsky.social
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
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
draamattheis.bsky.social
Feelin' the 💕. This was lovely to see. Thanks @alicetiara.bsky.social
alicetiara.bsky.social alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · May 2
We will DEFINITELY cite this in the next version of the guide! 👏👏👏👏
ejpgjournal.bsky.social 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...
May 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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ejpgjournal.bsky.social
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...
May 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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aoir.bsky.social
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...
Cover Image for: 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.
May 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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norocel.bsky.social
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
April 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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cfiesler.bsky.social
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. 🧵
sarahagilbert.bsky.social 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
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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ejpgjournal.bsky.social
🚨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...
April 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
draamattheis.bsky.social
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
April 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
draamattheis.bsky.social
Very happy to see this article out and to have the opportunity to work with the original #REASSURE team. Check it out 👇👇
March 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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franetwork.bsky.social
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
March 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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memorieschild.bsky.social
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
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
draamattheis.bsky.social
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 . 👇
cvtrc.bsky.social 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
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ashkingdon.bsky.social
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
January 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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baffellierica.bsky.social
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
January 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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lizzypearson.bsky.social
'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
January 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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jmberger.com
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.

amzn.to/427qzdu

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.
amzn.to
January 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ashkingdon.bsky.social
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 🍾🍾🍾
January 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM