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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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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We're a long way from equal treatment for all dangling bits of human anatomy.
Had a breast exam today. After being contorted & smushed into a glass shield, then gracelessly crushed w/ a vice, the tech asked if I was okay. I said my neck was stiff. She replied, “And you’re only 50. I put 80-year olds in this thing.” My one thought: No way this device was designed by women.
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"Initially, it creates great departments, but it is easy for groupthink to set in as you don’t have other institutions challenging the dominant paradigm."

UK research faces a radical overhaul www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uk-res...
UK research faces a radical overhaul
The recent skills White Paper foreshadows the shuttering of some or all research in certain UK universities. But what will the effects of that be on teaching – and on research itself? How could it be ...
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Between the BBC and the Dems, it must be International Own Goal Day.
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
More like SNAP in the face.
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Of course Gavin Newsom also speaks about the “crisis” of men in the US, as always adopting the framing of the far right. Not a peep about the progressive turn of young women? Let alone how they could power the Democratic Party?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Seemingly the latest, horrifying example of two trends in terrorism — youth radicalization and the globalization of white supremacy — in #jakarta as a 17-year-old bombs a mosque while carrying a firearm with the marking “Brenton Tarrant. Welcome to Hell.”
Jakarta: More than 50 people injured in mosque blast at high school
Authorities say a 17-year-old suspected of causing the explosion during Friday prayers is in surgery.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"Of the 8,769 referrals where the type of concern is specified, 21%, or 1,798 cases, were due to “extreme rightwing concerns”; 10% or 870, were referrals connected to Islamist ideology; and 56%, or 4,917, were for individuals judged to have no identified ideology" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows
Total referrals reach record high, with 21% being due to ‘extreme rightwing concerns’ and 10% to Islamist ideology
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When I'm done with this hellish thing, it's gonna be all champagne, Young Sherlock Holmes and the Goonies.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I was 11. Stayed with me well into adulthood. Some of your best propaganda, America.
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A dozen LinkedIn connection requests in under 24 hours all from India. Wth
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Decentralized Cross Harm Extremist Networks.

DCHEN

Yeah.

No.

(But NVE is dumb.)
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@sandyschumann.bsky.social will kill me if I say this argument is a little persuasive.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
LNER train from Doncaster to King's Cross. Stopped at Huntingdon. No details yet.
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
10+ years of higher education but people's inner lives remain a mystery.
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I see you, AI chatbots.
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Genius.
November 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Governments on X are directly contributing to the selection of their citizens for exposure to radicalising settings in a radicalising social ecology.

It's like they haven't commissioned years of research from people like me *on that very topic*.
I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...
Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X
The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place
inews.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What body positivity. One step forward, three steps back.
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM