James Stevenson

Today wraps up the @socterres.bsky.social 17th Annual International Conference - focusing on The Future of Terrorism Research in a Multi-Crisis World. Held at @royalholloway.bsky.social, I presented research on utilising Gen AI in classifying extremist content and conversations online. 📣🕵️

Evaluation In this 20th issue of CREST Security Review we focus on counterterrorism and counter-extremism evaluation. The articles reflect the challenges and opportunities of understanding ‘what works’ in this…

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Today I presented research from @bristoluni.bsky.social exploring the effectiveness of #GenerativeAI and #LLMs at classifying both extremism (based on the UK Gov 2024 definition) and social roles in online Telegram conversations. 📣

Paper below! 🎓📚

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Here's Manifest, a daily email ✉️ that analyses how different newsrooms report stories. 📰 It evaluates aspects like emotional tone, sentiment, and framing techniques. Helping you understand not just the headlines, but the nuances in their presentation across sources 💬

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A blue slide with the text Artificial Intelligence in Behavioural Research. Dr Janna Hastings Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich. Professor Susan Michie, University College London and Professor Robert West, University College London

BR-UK's January 2025 webinar on artificial intelligence in behavioural research is open for registration now.📅
🎙With speakers @jannahastings.bsky.social, @susanmichie.bsky.social and @robertjwest.bsky.social

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Senior Research Associate The Department of Psychology at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a full time Senior Research Associate, to work on the Protecting Ordinary People from Deepfakes Project

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PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

It's that time of year again... The call for our UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! We invite ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to having you in London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025

Sounds great ☕ My academic email is on my orcid if you fancy reaching out there and we can find a slot that works!

Thanks! 📱

Yesterday wrapped up the The Alan Turing Institute's PhD Connect event held at Horizon Leeds. 🤖🧑‍🎓 Was a great opportunity to present back on initial findings from my most recent PhD research in 'Predicting Leadership and Influential User Emergence in Online Far-Right Social Networks'. 🧑‍💻

Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for if anyone comes to mind. 🔎

As part of research on my PhD, I'm releasing LCE, a tool for building synthetic extremist and conspiracy theorist social media posts - for research and experimentation. 🔎

The framework is a work in progress but useful across the board for real and not so real examples! 🧠

github.com/Cartographer...

Could I get an add? Working on using ML and AI in the CVE space 🧠🔍💻

Between Blueanon conspiracy theories running rampant a la QAnon, and the conspirscy theorists that will be in executive positions thought it would be useful to have a conspiracy theory researcher starter pack. This is a work in progress so ask to be included or drop names

go.bsky.app/FP8gwWj

Reposting our starter pack "Experts on German Rightwing Extremism." I've added a lot of people since yesterday. Please repost and let me know if you want me to add you!

Another crucial starter pack to follow -- "Extremism Prevention Starter Pack"

thanks to @mxscottkernest.bsky.social for starting it

I'm also curating a terrorism and political violence starter pack:

go.bsky.app/H8X7YN

As we see an influx of new followers - help us build a list of academics, government & industry in the field of targeted violence and terrorism prevention 🧠🔎📖 Let us know if you'd like to be added or suggest people below! #Counterterrorism #Extremism #Research go.bsky.app/6BwyGDG