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Shandon Hogan
@shandonhogan.bsky.social
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PhD @crexuio.bsky.social researching violent extremism across Australia, New Zealand & Canada | Director @Radar Solutions | Adjunct Fellow @Victoria University
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ncrenic.bsky.social
'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
shandonhogan.bsky.social
My latest publication, analysing severe violence motivated by far-right beliefs in Canada across the past three decades. Thank you to the @crexuio.bsky.social team for your guidance and support. Open access for those interested www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Evolution of Far-Right Violence in Canada
Canadian researchers, politicians and security services have expressed concern regarding the rise of the “far right.” However, it remains unclear whether this has also translated into an increase i...
www.tandfonline.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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grahammacklin.bsky.social
Trump Administration Abandoning Efforts to Combat White Supremacist and Far-Right Terrorism and Violence
Trump Administration Abandoning Efforts to Combat White Supremacist and Far-Right Terrorism and Violence
Since Trump returned to office in January, several government programs to combat domestic terrorism from white supremacists, militias, and other radicalized far-right extremists have been curtailed or...
globalextremism.org
March 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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crest-research.bsky.social
🚨 Don’t miss the chance to apply for the UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

💡Fellowships are designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities

🗓️ Deadline: 29 April 2025 🔗 Apply here: https://crestresearch.ac.uk/opportu…
UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Applications now open! These Fellowships are designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities.
crestresearch.ac.uk
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
David Icke, notorious English peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about lizard people, is calling out Elon Musk on Twitter and it is fascinating to watch:
David Icke @davidicke Follow The vast majority of these people have families and kids to support, but you don't give a fuck you arrogant spoilt elitist child. You are a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant working with a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant and yet people who call themselves adult hang on your every syllable no matter what you say. The world needs to grow up - starting with you Musk. PS: Apologies to 13-year-olds. x.com/elonmusk/statu... O Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • Feb 23 Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. ¿ Rate proposed Community Notes → 6:01 AM • Feb 23, 2025 • 575.1K Views David Icke & @davidicke Follow No, I am not advocating for government. I am advocating against tyranny as l have decade after decade. I am advocating for people to be seen for what they contribute and not to be judged as a single group for the corruption of the few. Black and white is how we got here and that's how you are being manipulated to finish the job. How many federal workers are we talking about who will produce lists that have to be processed? Will they ever be processed? Of course not - that's not the idea. Firing as many as possible to deregulate the oligarchs and open the way for Al dystopia is the WHY this is happening. My God - the naivety. 7:30 AM • Feb 23, 2025 • 21.9K Views
February 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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financialtimes.com
FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...
February 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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grahammacklin.bsky.social
An opportunity to work with the amazing Cynthia Miller-Idriss and her great colleagues at Peril!
February 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ctpuzzlepieces.bsky.social

NZ Herald: Power grid saboteur - The Parole Board has set conditions on his release and Philip will be monitored by the Probation Service for the next six months, with electronic monitoring and a ban on using an internet-capable device without permission
www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...
New Zealand’s only convicted saboteur released from prison but will still be monitored
Taupō man served full prison sentence of three years and one month.
www.nzherald.co.nz
January 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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elizajbarr.bsky.social
Exclusive: One of Sydney’s most prominent Muslim leaders was allegedly almost mowed down by a female motorist accused of ‘overtly threatening’ behaviour towards Muslims, it can be revealed.

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaus...
www.dailytelegraph.com.au
December 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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crexuio.bsky.social
The 7th Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism will be hosted by Aarhus University. The call for abstracts is now open: ps.au.dk/fileadmin/St...
December 7, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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maargentino.com
A Quebec man has pleaded guilty to attempting to manufacture multiple firearms with a 3D printer, including an AR-15, and spreading hate speech about the Jewish community.

montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-man-p...
Quebec man pleads guilty to spreading hate speech about Jews, trying to make 3D-printed guns
A Quebec man has pleaded guilty to attempting to manufacture multiple firearms with a 3D printer, including an AR-15, and spreading hate speech about the Jewish community.
montreal.ctvnews.ca
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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davidwellsct.bsky.social
Considering the % of the 300m ChatGPT users who are students, I don't think anyone is ready for the impacts of Gen AI on future literacy & even shared concepts/facts
spavel.bsky.social Pavel* @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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statsvitenskap.bsky.social
📣We are hiring! Please share!
👉2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science
🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
📅 Deadline: February 3rd, 2025
🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo
Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
December 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
shandonhogan.bsky.social
ASIO and Australian federal police … warned that “shocking” numbers of their priority cases involve young people.

amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
AFP and Asio warn of ‘shocking’ numbers of teens in terrorism cases | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian
Agencies urge parents, teachers and healthcare workers to be vigilant for signs of radicalisation
amp.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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seamushughes.bsky.social
The full price is here. My thanks to my colleagues Brooke, Camden and Clara for their hard work on the report and the support @ncite.bsky.social provides to allow us the space and time to think about these issues and propose policy solutions

www.icct.nl/sites/defaul...
www.icct.nl
December 5, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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maargentino.com
A teen accused of plotting terrorist attacks has written notes about attacks on police & trans people and. The 19yr old is facing explosives offences after planning multiple terror attacks in Melbourne including a school shooting, bombing & train derailment

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883894...
Concern at jail writings of accused teen terror plotter
Police have raided the jail cell of a teen accused of plotting terror attacks after prison staff found...
www.canberratimes.com.au
December 5, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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washinstitute.bsky.social
To understand current dynamics in Syria, read @azelin.bsky.social's book on HTS, the rebel group that captured Aleppo.
The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
The Syria-based group now functions more like a government than a nonstate actor, portending a reorientation for the larger jihadist movement.
www.washingtoninstitute.org
December 3, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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nstb.bsky.social
📢 We are hiring 2 Associate Lecturers in International Relations @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, with a focus on Conflict and Security.

Both will play a central role in supporting and teaching on a new online Postgraduate programme in Conflict & Security in Policy and Practice
December 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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fmarone.bsky.social
"Australia’s official definition of ‘terrorism’ to be reviewed for first time since September 11 attacks.
Independent monitor to conduct ‘first principles’ review of what constitutes a terrorist act in wake of Bondi and Wakeley stabbing attacks"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s official definition of ‘terrorism’ to be reviewed for first time since September 11 attacks
Exclusive: Independent monitor to conduct ‘first principles’ review of what constitutes a terrorist act in wake of Bondi and Wakeley stabbing attacks
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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mattlevitt.bsky.social
New Zealand designates all of #Hezbollah as a terrorist group, expanding on prior listing of just terrorist wing. Gratified to see statement of the case cite to my work @washinstitute.bsky.social, including a presentation at @interpol.int www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
www.police.govt.nz
November 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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andrewzammit.bsky.social
@yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Just came out: www.courts.sa.gov.au/download/sen... (wish it was more detailed)
VASILYEV, Artem - CAA
IN THE SUPREME COURT CRIMINAL JURISDICTION ADELAIDE THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2024 AT 12.01 P.M. BEFORE THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE MCDONALD NO.SCCRM-23-019891 R  V  ARTEM VASILYEV HER HONOUR IN SENTENCING SAID: Artem Vasilyev, you have pleaded guilty to and are to be sentenced for the offences of aggravated possessing a prescribed firearm without a licence, 18 counts […]
www.courts.sa.gov.au
November 20, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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grahammacklin.bsky.social
My employer the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-Rex) at the University of Oslo is migrating from Twitter. If you’re interested in the far right and right-wing extremism you should give them a follow 🙂
crexuio.bsky.social C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social · Nov 10
C-REX has a multi-dimensional, cross-disciplinary, comparative and global approach to the study of right-wing extremism and far-right politics. On our website, you can read more about our research on themes such as ideology, violence, mobilization, prevention, gender and July 22.
Home - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.sv.uio.no
November 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
shandonhogan.bsky.social
My latest analysing far-right terrorism and violence in New Zealand. Thank you to the C-REX team for your fantastic guidance and support. Open access link below for those interested. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
January 5, 2024 at 2:09 PM
shandonhogan.bsky.social
Two brothers accused of lighting bushfires in 2021 after "pledging allegiance to Islamic State and vowing to burn Australian families alive"
Brothers accused of terror-fuelled bushfires filmed vow to burn cities
The pair accused of lighting bushfires in the name of terror group Islamic State were living at home with their parents in Epping at the time of their alleged offences.
www.theage.com.au
October 10, 2023 at 10:54 AM
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jessmarindavis.bsky.social
Canadian accused terrorist inspired by Christchurch shooter: "Veltman ended his own manifesto with the nearly identical sign-off used by the New Zealand shooter"

apple.news/AbnNvmGL5Tze...
Accused terrorist Nathanial Veltman wrote racist manifesto, researched New Zealand killer
“Below are my political views, for whoever is interested,” the document begins.
apple.news
October 5, 2023 at 11:19 AM