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Ashton Kingdon

@ashkingdon.bsky.social

Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight

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06.02.2026 12:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The rise of online harm | 16 | Individual, community, and institutiona In an increasingly polarized and reactionary world, researchers are more and more likely to be the target of online harm. Faced with this reality and

For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇

05.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 23    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

🚨Call For Abstracts Alert🚨If you have a presentation related to hate crime and would like to present at the British Society of Criminology conference please e-mail your abstracts of no more than 250-words to Ben Colliver (ben.colliver@bcu.ac.uk) no later than 18/02/2026 😃

06.02.2026 08:14 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

Really looking Forward to Participating in this Researcher Safety Workshop on 25th February 12-2:30pm hosted by NABS+ Focused on Keeping ECRs/PhDs Safe. I will Focus on #Opsec and the Best Ways to Keep Safe Online and Offline 👇👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdd8f...

02.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We'll be focussing on three themes, each with a fantastic guest speaker and opportunity for you to share your experiences, advice, & questions:
👉 Mental & emotional wellbeing: Allysa Czerwinsky
👉 Operational security: @ashkingdon.bsky.social
👉 Disseminating sensitive research: Antonia Vaughan

30.01.2026 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

🚨 ECR wellbeing workshop 🚨

Calling all early career researchers (in and outside of academia)! On 25th February 12-2:30pm NABS+ is hosting a online workshop focused on keeping ECRs safe and well when conducting potentially dangerous or harmful research.

30.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
RAI UK Awards £200,000 Collaboration Grants to support the UK’s Mission for Advanced Research in Responsible AI – Responsible AI

Excited to be Funded by Responsible AI UK to Study how Gen-AI Enables Visual Hate Speech & Extremism, Working with #AllysaCzerwinsky #KarmvirPadda & #ShanaMacDonald. We'll Develop Evidence-Based Recommendations For Platforms & Policymakers 💃💃#AEthics rai.ac.uk/press_releas...

26.01.2026 12:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms – Responsible AI

Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK
Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPadda👇👇#ResponsibleAI
rai.ac.uk/new_projects...

20.01.2026 11:57 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism with Ashley A. Mattheis, University of Manchester

Join us in 2 hours for @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES's first webinar of 2026 on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics! @draamattheis.bsky.social will discuss how to negotiate the ethics of extremism research online
www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

15.01.2026 13:59 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Claims of Vehicular Terrorism in Minnesota Don’t Hold Up The U.S. government is adopting dangerous language to justify unlawful killing.

On the killing of Renee Nicole Good, I just published a piece in @foreignpolicy.com arguing the Trump administration is weaponizing the narrative of “vehicular terrorism” as a shortcut to justify an unlawful killing: “death squad logic, adapted to American streets”

foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/13/v...

13.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 111    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 2
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

08.01.2026 21:13 — 👍 7196    🔁 2498    💬 108    📌 261
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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...

🎓Fully Funded PhD Alert🎓AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #Retweet #PhD #phdlife 👇👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

13.01.2026 12:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚨Meet the Authors: Hate Crime Perpetrators Event🚨Thursday 26 January 2025, 1:00–2:00 pm GMT (online)
Join us for a presentation + Q&A on the Two Volumes Hate Crime Perpetrators: New Perspectives from Theory, Research and Practice (Vol. I & II).👇👇👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...

13.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda Published in Terrorism and Political Violence (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Beyond Excited to See This Review of My Book - The World White Web - Published in Terrorism and Political Violence
Written By The Legendary @willallchorn.bsky.social
Thank You So Much For Taking the Time to Write Such Kind Words ♥️♥️👇👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

12.01.2026 09:45 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨New Project Alert🚨I am Investigating the AI-Climate-Conflict Nexus With a Particular Focus on Data Centres as a Target for Terrorism and Cybercrime. If You or Someone You Know are Interested in #AISustainability #WaterWeaponisation #AIEthics #ClimateChange #Conflict Please Reach Out 👇👇

06.01.2026 15:43 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Just Registered for This Bad Boy 🎉🎉🎊🎊 Buzzing to Attend My First #BSA and First Time in #Manchester 🥂 I Will Be Presenting My Research on #UniteTheKingdom and Running a Special Event on Sociologists at Risk of Harm #Ethics #ResearcherSafety #OnlineHarms

05.01.2026 13:17 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...

Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #ShareWidely 👇👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

05.01.2026 09:54 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A conversation with Lauren Steckles-Young

Happy New Year Everyone 🎉🎉 Please See a Link to Our Latest Podcast Episode Where #LaurenStecklesYoung Discusses Her Groundbreaking #DigitalEthnography into Platforms like Reddit and Tattle Life #DigitalHarm #BodyPolitics #HateCrime 👇👇
open.spotify.com/episode/1nda...

05.01.2026 09:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted That My Roundtable on Ethics Has Been #Accepted for the Terrorism and Social Media Conference Going to be Joined by a Bunch of Legends 💃🏆If You Are Attending This Year Don't Forget to Vote for #BarryIsland as the Day Trip Option #TASM2026 #StuartLetMeDoIt 🍻🍻

11.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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02.12.2025 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...

🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Myself
#TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. Please Share Widely 👇👇

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

02.12.2025 10:36 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

🚨Free Online Event Alert🚨Sign Up Below For Our Meet the Authors: Contemporary Issues in Transphobic Hate and Prejudice: Transforming the Narrative Event With #bencolliver #JaneHealy #KatieMcBride, and #GinaGwenffrewi 10 December 1-2 GMT 👇👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...

01.12.2025 13:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My Techno Harms Students Were Treated to an AMAZING Guest Lecture by the LEGEND That Is @maurolubrano.bsky.social Who Came In To Discuss His Book Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism 😍😍 Buy It Now People 🎊🎊🎉🎉🙌🙌

25.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Avoid Marking Deadlines By Decorating Your Tree With Complete Symmetry and #Precision I Love Christmas So Much 😍😍🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 #HolidaysAreComing #ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas

20.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

18.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 1155    🔁 289    💬 31    📌 6
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The recording of last Friday's panel on 'Far-right ecologies', organised by @futureearth.bsky.social is now out (see comment)!

I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.

18.11.2025 18:18 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A conversation with Dr. Abel González García

NEW from the British Society of Criminology: Hate Crime Network Podcast! 🎙️
We're exploring Hate Crime in Spain. Hosts Dr. Rachel Keighley and Simone Taghavi are joined by academic pioneer Dr. Abel González García, Director of the department of Criminology at UDIMA. 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/1QVy...

17.11.2025 10:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Please See Below a Link To Our Next Writing Group. Mon 17 Nov 2025 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT. If You Have a Writing Goal, Want Relaxed Feedback on Your Work, Or Just a Space to Stay Motivated as you Write 💪💪Join Us 😀😀👇👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/bscha...

13.11.2025 11:30 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Radical Ecologies of the Right and Left: A Conversation with Ashton Kingdon and Balša Lubarda | Review of Democracy In this new episode of the “When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge” series, which shares fresh research from a workshop organised by the CEU DI Democracy in History Work Group, we discuss with D...

Check Out The Latest Podcast from @revdem2020.bsky.social Which Features Myself and the Wonderful @lubardab.bsky.social Talking About Our Work On When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge and When Environmentalism Becomes a Battleground of Competing Ideologies 👇👇
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...

12.11.2025 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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11.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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