Ashton Kingdon

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾

Hate Crime Awareness Week 10–17 Oct Hate isn’t always physical. Verbal abuse, harassment and targeted microaggressions are valid, serious and reportable. When does ‘low-level’ hostility stop being something to tolerate? 👇 #HateCrimeAwareness #ReportHateCrime

Hate Crime Awareness Week, 10–17 Oct 💭 Disability isn’t always visible. Questioning if someone is “disabled enough” causes real harm and stops people reporting hate crime. Microaggressions infographic: lnkd.in/er39_wEX #HiddenDisabilities #StopDisabilityHate

Great To Recieve My Physical Copy of this AMAZING Volume 'The Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism' I Was Pleased to Contribute Two Chapters, One on Ecofascism 🌳🌲 and One on Visual Analysis 💃💃💃 🥂🥂🎉🎉🎊🎊

Hate Crime Awareness Week (10–17 Oct) 💬 Is online hate treated as seriously as offline hate? Learn how to recognise it with Stop Hate UK’s guide: lnkd.in/eBwWiRN9 #StopHate #OnlineSafety #HateCrimeAwarenessWeek

New Article Out from Me "Riots on Demand: Digital Infrastructure, Narrative Laundering, and Far-Right Mobilisation after Southport" in Criminology and Criminal Justice 💃💃 I Look at the Role #AltTech and #AI In Propaganda Dissemination 👇👇👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

These include: 🎓 Expert advice from Allysa Czerwinsky, @ashkingdon.bsky.social, and Antonia Vaughan 📚 Pre-existing resources, from organisations like @vox-pol.bsky.social and prior research projects 🙋‍♀️ Suggestions from the research community (thank you to all who completed or shared our survey!)

On Route to My Fave Conference Ever #TASM (Terrorism and Social Media) Looking Forward to Presenting Some Research and Chairing Some Panels/Roundtables as Well as Catching up With So Many Friends 😍😍🥂🥂🥂🍷🍷🍻🍻 Also Excited to Run a Session at the VOX-Pol Summer School 💃💃💃💃

Great to See My Latest Chapter 'Fighting Fire with Facts: Detecting, Decoding, and Dismantling Online Propaganda' Out In the AMAZING New Volume Propaganda Studies in Criminology. 💃💃♥️ So Many Incredible Chapters to Check Out 👇👇👇 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Great to Receive My Copy of The Sociology of Violent Extremism Edited by the AMAZING @surajlakhani.bsky.social and @amaramarasingam.bsky.social I Wrote a Chapter With The One and Only #CraigWebber Applying Joseph Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' to Islamic State and Al-Qaeda's Propaganda Strategy 😍 😍

One Week Left to Sign Up to The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research Sign Up 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa

Was Great to Join Friends and Colleagues #SimoneTaghavi and #RachelKeighley from the @bschcnetwork.bsky.social to Discuss My Book and Doctoral Work ‘The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda’ 👇 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/47tZ...

Our Latest Podcast Features Our Very Own @ashkingdon.bsky.social Who is Discussing Her Doctoral Work and Book 'The World White Web' Join Us to Hear About How #Memes are Used as a Weapon and how Technology and Imagery are Accelerating #Radicalisation 👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/47tZ...

🚨Event Coming Soon- The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite 🚨 Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research Sign Up 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa

🚨Event Alert - The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite 🚨 Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research Sign Up 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa

🚨Event Alert - The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite🚨 Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research 😍 Sign Up Here 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa

🔈New Publication Alert🔈I Was Delighted to Contribute the Chapter on Extremism to the IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts and Work with the Wonderful Editors 😍 Check Out the Volume it is AMAZING 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Heading to Manchester Today for Our Collaborative Responsible AI UK Research Grant Investigating how Generative AI Enables Visual Hate Speech and Extremism. It Is My First Time in the City 😍 and I am Buzzing to Work With #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald and #KarmvirPadda ♥️ #ResponsibleAI

Really Excited to Speak at This Early Career Researcher Safety & Wellbeing Online Workshop on Wednesday 25th February 12:00-2:30pm GMT I Will be Talking All Things hashtag #Opsec and How to Keep Safe Online and Offline events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdd8f...

❗ Early career researcher safety & wellbeing workshop: next week❗ Come along on 25th Feb to hear from our expert speakers (Allysa Czerwinsky, @ashkingdon.bsky.social, and Antonia Vaughan) and to share your own experiences and advice for other ECRs. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdd8f...

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

🚨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 😃

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...

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

🚨 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

🧵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

🎓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...

🚨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...

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....

🚨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 👇👇

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

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...

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...

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 🍻🍻

🎓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...

🚨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...

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 🎊🎊🎉🎉🙌🙌

Avoid Marking Deadlines By Decorating Your Tree With Complete Symmetry and #Precision I Love Christmas So Much 😍😍🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁 #HolidaysAreComing #ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear #ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

I Have Always Admired @lubardab.bsky.social and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇

🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a