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Academic, lecturer, writer, loud music lover, real ale fan, biker.

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The Dynamics of Emotional Attachments and Identity Formation within Protest Movements: Exploring Expressive Behaviours during the Nigeriaโ€™s Protests: Javnost - The Public: Vol 32 , No 2 - Get Access Browse all journals

Great to see our paper on emotions, identity and protests published in Javnost - big shout out to Michael George who will hopefully be Dr George this year www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

01.07.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that theyโ€™re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But youโ€™re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why donโ€™t *you* try proving to the NKVD that youโ€™re not a camel.

27.03.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13727    ๐Ÿ” 4902    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113
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Russia flooding training data to influence chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (โ€œTruthโ€) has influenced leading AI chatbotsโ€™ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the botsโ€™ training data, a new report fromโ€ฆ

A Russia-based disinformation network published 3.6 million online articles last year for the primary purpose of influencing AI chatbots' output โ€”ย and succeeded, according to a new report.

07.03.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 155    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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Bournemouth University International Summer School 2025

Great opportunities for non-UK students wishing to enhance their knowledge and skills @bournemouthuni.bsky.social summer schools. More info here www.bournemouth.ac.uk/bournemouth-... do share to prospective students

28.01.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Electoral communication in 2024: Responding to a year of turbulence in media and politics Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 2024-25

Our January conference programme is now live!

Across the two days we have panels on elections, political journalism, culture wars, gender representation, social movements and AI.

Keynotes @patyrossini.bsky.social and @profdgl.bsky.social open both days

www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

16.12.2024 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
The dangers of hate speech on social media
YouTube video by Cogitatio Press The dangers of hate speech on social media

The dangers of hate speech on social media, promoting a paper authored with Marta Perez-Escolar which remains a serious issue for political communication #polcomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnNu...

04.12.2024 10:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Front cover of the US Election Analysis 2024 report.

Front cover of the US Election Analysis 2024 report.

๐Ÿ“ฃU.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ

Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. General Election.

๐Ÿ”—https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
๐Ÿ“„https://bit.ly/USElectionAnalysis2024_Jackson-et_al_v1-COMPRESSED

15.11.2024 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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a door with a hole in it that says guess what came this morning . ALT: a door with a hole in it that says guess what came this morning .
03.12.2024 20:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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