Noémie Bouhana
@noemiebouhana.bsky.social
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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Noémie Bouhana
@noemiebouhana.bsky.social
· Feb 17
The moral ecology of extremism: a systemic perspective
Dr Noémie Bouhana, University College London.
www.gov.uk
Most accessible overview of what I do: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8b79...
We live in an age when facts are leaving fiction in the dust.
L’Italie enquête sur des « safaris » macabres pendant le siège de Sarajevo
L’Italie enquête sur des « safaris » macabres pendant le siège de Sarajevo
Durant le siège de Sarajevo dans les années 1990, plusieurs étrangers auraient payé une somme d’argent conséquente pour aller « jouer à la guerre » et tuer des civils, rapporte la presse italienne.
www.nouvelobs.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We live in an age when facts are leaving fiction in the dust.
What's the verdict on Witcher without Cavill?
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What's the verdict on Witcher without Cavill?
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📢 In an article published by @theguardian.com, the #SmidgeProject was highlighted as one of the few initiatives exploring how conspiracy theories and disinformation spread among middle-aged adults.
Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📢 In an article published by @theguardian.com, the #SmidgeProject was highlighted as one of the few initiatives exploring how conspiracy theories and disinformation spread among middle-aged adults.
Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Reasons to still love the internet.
Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reasons to still love the internet.
I spent 6 months working on a thing and it wasn't until I started fleshing out the written proposal that it actually made sense. It's always like this. The ideas-brewing-fun stage is indispensable. The writing-it-all-down slog is crucial.
AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!).
Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.
Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I spent 6 months working on a thing and it wasn't until I started fleshing out the written proposal that it actually made sense. It's always like this. The ideas-brewing-fun stage is indispensable. The writing-it-all-down slog is crucial.
I hear you. The biggest conference of the year is in Washington DC right now and I'm still here.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I hear you. The biggest conference of the year is in Washington DC right now and I'm still here.
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QAnon: The powerful pedophiles have invented elaborate codes to secretly discuss their crimes that require decades of interpretation
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
QAnon: The powerful pedophiles have invented elaborate codes to secretly discuss their crimes that require decades of interpretation
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
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Introducing Information Wasteland, a package about misinfo on the internet –– from AI iterations of digital blackface to a growing "alt-right pipeline" among wellness influencers –– edited by former features director @brittneymac15.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/information-...
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Introducing Information Wasteland, a package about misinfo on the internet –– from AI iterations of digital blackface to a growing "alt-right pipeline" among wellness influencers –– edited by former features director @brittneymac15.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/information-...
Yes.
whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yes.
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We're excited to announce a newly published joint statement on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evidence synthesis along with Cochrane, @jbiebhc.bsky.social, and the @envevidence.bsky.social.
Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OSF
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We're excited to announce a newly published joint statement on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evidence synthesis along with Cochrane, @jbiebhc.bsky.social, and the @envevidence.bsky.social.
Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
When I fell in love with the web, way back when, it was about the long form of expression. Sprawling blog posts. Novel-length fanfiction. Someone, somewhere, would care enough to scroll all the way down.
Then we brutally went down to 140 characters.
Then we brutally went down to 140 characters.
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
When I fell in love with the web, way back when, it was about the long form of expression. Sprawling blog posts. Novel-length fanfiction. Someone, somewhere, would care enough to scroll all the way down.
Then we brutally went down to 140 characters.
Then we brutally went down to 140 characters.
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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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
*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
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*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
*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
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
We're a long way from equal treatment for all dangling bits of human anatomy.
"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 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
"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 www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uk-res...
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
Between the BBC and the Dems, it must be International Own Goal Day.
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."
"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
More like SNAP in the face.
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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
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?
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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
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.”
"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
"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...
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
When I'm done with this hellish thing, it's gonna be all champagne, Young Sherlock Holmes and the Goonies.
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
I was 11. Stayed with me well into adulthood. Some of your best propaganda, America.
Me too, buddy.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Me too, buddy.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM