Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉

In Gaza, water kills too Providing water, searching for water, drinking water, swimming in water can all get you killed.

"workers trying to make repairs or operate water infrastructure have been directly targeted and killed. Working in the water sector has now become a deadly job."

When you strip away humanity

What are the new UK online safety rules and how will age checks on adult content be enforced? From 25 July websites and apps will be required to protect children by filtering out harmful content and verifying ages

Maybe Tea should have deleted users' driver's license scans after verifying identities. But as is often the case, there's no follow-through.

The UK www.theguardian.com/technology/2..., and Australia will learn the consequences of their new laws sooner or later. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These age verification laws are a goldmine for the identity theft monitoring industry. When a breach happens and one will, the best that most victims can hope for is a year of free fraud monitoring, if anything at all. After that, they’re stuck with a lifetime of constant vigilance and fraud.

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

"They are criminal... I have never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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Given the gravity of the topic, we're doubling down at @natureportfolio.nature.com on fighting misinformation with a special collection on health misinformation I'm (co)-editing.

Please share and submit your work! Open for submissions.

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Lord Foster asks in the House of Lords: whether [the UK Government] will publish the report assessing the implementation of loot box industry self-regulation conducted by PUBLIC and commissioned by DCMS.

Government says: Yes. The findings are being finalised, and will be published “in due course.”™

Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and @duncanastle.bsky.social is soon! 26 July.

The student must be a woman (because it’s based at Newnham College) and eligible for UK home fees.

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You know, AI isn't so bad once you ignore the moral implications, the educational implications, the environmental implications, the economic implications, the epistemological implications, the...

Finding 1: Moralization increased significantly on social media. Rate of moral words increased on Twitter/X by 41% from 2013-2021 (1.28% of words in posts to 1.80%) and word embeddings showed topics shifted .296 SD toward morality. Moral words also increased on Reddit, to a lesser degree: by 6%

I spent 50 bucks on Pokémon Mezastar so you don’t have to.

This is an arcade game that was released in Japan back in 2020 but was just released in other Asian territories earlier this year.

It dawned on me in Singapore that this looks like a gacha game IRL. So how does it work? 🧵👇

My former position at @univie.ac.at is now being advertised again.

If you're doing research on interactive communication, media effects, or media psychology, I can very much recommend applying!

Happy to give additional thoughts and information. Just reach out.

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This sounds so interesting!! On the to read list now!

Saad Riaz on screen presenting his work remotely. The phot shows a screen at the front of the room with an audience looking at him in it. He was answering questions about his brilliant work on online discourse in the Noor Mukadam case

Christine Redmond presenting her research proposal on therapy speak in online dating standing at a podium in front of her opening slide

This year we also had a big cohort of our MSc Cyberpsychology students presenting and they did us so proud! I do t have pictures of them all unfortunately!

Photo is me standing at a podium with my slides behind me. The slide in the picture shows some text describing my theoretical framework but it’s not readable behind me

I had a brilliant time at the @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference this year (it’s always the best conference!). Incredible research being done in important areas. I got to present my work in progress research on online dating during covid too!

We aren’t just a regular conference - we’re a cool conference because we have the @inbitspodcast.com with us talking about all things cyber #cyber25 😎

This was such an important and interesting panel. It’s a highly complex area - no straightforward answers!

We had the best time at the @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference this week. It’s the friendliest and most interesting conference. So many incredible presentations from researchers doing interesting and important work! And we got to chat to some of them!

Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do About It Amazon.com: Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do About It: 9780231205054: Facciani, Matthew: Books

The ebook of Misguided is now 50% off via Amazon. And the paperback is 20% off the Columbia Press website using code CUP20.
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My new book, Misguided, officially launches tomorrow! Here’s the back cover — I’m deeply grateful for these kind words from authors and researchers I greatly admire.

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I did that with a book a while back. Except I spent about four hours frantically searching and then accused my husband of moving it 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

New nemesis unlocked! 😭

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As someone who spends much of her day thinking about how we can and should measure online behaviours, this article really struck a nerve with me and I’d like to comment on a few important issues it raises

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Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Truly awful reporting here by The Guardian. The fact that 38 men in the manosphere thought that it was just banter and open debate shouldn't be reported as 'overblown fears'

As unpalatable as some will find the bar chart on the left, it's the truth.
#ireland #ballymena

I had the pleasure of seeing Sophie Gilbert in conversation with Caroline West about her book Girl on Girl for the Dalkey book fest today. It was such a fascinating conversation about women in pop culture and I can’t wait to read the book!

Episode 1: Why does (digital) parenting feel so hard? Listen now | How should we think about parenting in a digital age?

Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...