Emma Barrett

This is only going to get worse, folks.

"a Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated our Claude Code tool into attempting infiltration [of] 30 global... tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies."

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

Yikes.

#ClaudeAI used for "large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention."

"... a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities... using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks"
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

Usual feeling in the last few weeks in the run up to Christmas break. #AcademicSky

Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories A reporter’s perspective on conspiracy theories with Gabriel Gatehouse, journalist and creator of 'The Coming Storm' podcast.

🐇 Follow the White Rabbit: In Defence of Conspiracy Theories

Join journalist Gabriel Gatehouse (The Coming Storm Podcast) & Gary Younge for a deep dive into conspiracy theories and why they matter.

🗓️ 3 December
⏱️ 18:00–19:30

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/follow-the...

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Beautiful, book friendly, wildlife friendly. This is the way to mark Halloween 🎃 👏

Footnotes?

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Research Associate – Women’s Road Safety in Greater Manchester
0.6 FTE for 12 months
To work with my colleagues Caroline Miles and Rose Broad
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

this is fine meme but with sam altman instead of the dog

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Postcard showing an image of a mummified baby mammoth. The wording underneath reads "Dima from Siberia. Baby mammoth. Found 23 June 1977 in Siberia. Age 39 thousands years plus 7-8 months. Weight 90 kgs. Wants to meet you." Aww. But also a bit creepy...

And this is Dima, the baby mammoth.

Awww.

But also, kinda creepy.

A rectangular badge the size of a pound coin saying MOSCOW 1980 under a stylised picture of a gymnast

A big fuck off foot long red pencil with Cyrillic lettering (transliteration: MOSCOW 1980) next to a pound coin for scale.

Anyway, I still have some Olympics swag. Here’s a giant pencil and a tiny badge.

My mother was tight-lipped when I told her. My grandfather muttered something about missed opportunities to argue the socialist case. Thatcher's security detail no doubt reviewed their procedures.

I can't remember what I said.

Probably the baby mammoth.

Thatcher had been PM for about 3 weeks at this point. She was also the most loathed person in my household, and I knew it. Even aged 10.

I don't know which of us was more surprised but she regained her composure faster than me and asked me "And what did YOU enjoy seeing the most?"

I went off on a wander alone, and noticed a crowd of people. Being rather nosy, and (at the age of 10) rather small, I wormed my way into the scrum and popped up in the middle to find myself mere inches from the most famous woman in Britain.

The exhibition was basically a big propaganda exercise for the Soviet Union, with lacquer work, paintings, dioramas, a moon rover on a simulated lunar landscape, lots of Olympics 1980 tat, and a baby mammoth called Dima.

In May 1979 my mother took me on a daytrip to London to the USSR Exhibition, a cultural and industrial showcase that had taken over the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.

As we are marking her 100th birthday, I think it's finally time to tell the story of when I met Margaret Thatcher.

#Thatcher

European Journal of Social Psychology The European Journal of Social Psychology is an international social psychology journal for research at the intersection of psychology, sociology & behavioural science.

Call for papers - The Social #Psychology of Anti-Gender Movements and the #Manosphere

Deadline for expressions of interest 15 Nov 2025

#AcademicSky

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🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

Enough of puff pieces on AI in academia, THIS is the guidance we've been waiting for 😂

#AcademicSky

Learning BASIC on a Research Machines 380z.

My 1kb ZX81. The joy of a 64kb RAM pack.

Next, a ZX Spectrum and - what magic is this? Colour! The feeling of achievement after entering pages of machine code - and creating a game.

Happy days.

Yes I am also old. (And older than you my friend!)

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Terrorism and Political Violence Revisiting Terrorist Motivation, Guest Edited by John Horgan and Max Taylor. Volume 37, Issue 7 of Terrorism and Political Violence

The entire special issue on terrorist motivation has just been published, with several pieces #openaccess.

Check it out.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/3...

Project Partner Challenge: Evaluating Fraud and Cyber Crime Behaviour Change Campaigns We are excited to announce that our first Project Partner Challenge, with the City of London Police (CoLP), is now live.

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We welcome applications to co-develop an outcome evaluation of public awareness campaigns with the City of London Police.

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