๐My final post here and I share 2 new pre-prints. Join me at ๐ฆ@sandyschumann.bsky.social to hear about my work from now on.
1) Led by my former student Victoria Bowland, we examined the victim-perpetrator nexus in the context of online radicalisation crimrxiv.com/pub/tosz8zd9/reโฆ
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๐My final post here and I share 2 new pre-prints. Join me at ๐ฆ@sandyschumann.bsky.social to hear about my work from now on.
1) Led by my former student Victoria Bowland, we examined the victim-perpetrator nexus in the context of online radicalisation crimrxiv.com/pub/tosz8zd9/reโฆ
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2) With Jonathan Kenyon and Jens Binder, we identified distinct types of internet use that predict the likelihood of planning/committing a terrorist attack (in England and Wales) - crimrxiv.com/pub/wrjm1zdy/reโฆ
This autumn, we were excited to deliver two Project Unity sessions in partnership with MOPAC, bringing powerful exchanges on counter-extremism to London universities.
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I am proud of my student Yue Jia who just had his first paper on the impact of counterspeech (to hate speech) accepted. Unfortunately, Yue passed away before he could hear the good news. I thank the editor of @CyberPsy_jn for her support in the last weeks. (1)
Read the paper here: osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/9โฆ
We show that common types of counterspeech have likely no impact on subsequent bystander behaviour intentions. (2)
I am excited to join @LDN_VRU steering group on online harms! I look forward to working with a wide range of stakeholders to explore how online harms facilitate violence offline and prevent violence in London.
Our work on attitudinal inoculation in the context of violent extremism is now published - "attitudinal inoculation conferred resistance to violent extremist propaganda for a short period and for individuals who are perhaps less at risk of being persuaded" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/โฆ
๐จ Just out in @PNASNews ๐จ
Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility:
Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online.
But - against common stereotypes of online haters - so does having high school grades when you grew up. The reason: Hostility is about politics and those from an affluent background are much more likely to tweet about politics.
All in all, hostility is not just about algorithms and the features of online discussions. Individual offline dispositions matter too.
Thank you for another great collaboration to @stighebbelstrup and @boralexander1!
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I am excited that Kirsty Wallis from @UCLopenscience and I were awarded Research Culture Seed funding to run a @I4Replication game at UCL next spring! Stay tuned for details and registration information.
New paper! The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science.
Check a novel interactive platform hosting 1,239 originals paired w/ replication findings
forrt-replications.shinyappsโฆ.
Published in @up_jopd led by @aufdroeseler doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101
The second issue of our Open@UCL Newsletter has arrived! ๐You will find out about:
UCL Open Science Conference 2024 ๐
UCL Discovery has hit 50 million downloads! ๐
UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards ๐
Digital Accessibility at UCL
Read more: r1.ddlnk.net/6T0X-10CXO-32/sโฆ
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Itโs a wrap! We concluded our 5-day @lorentzcenter workshop on Methods for Studying Hate and (Violent) Extremism Online. An amazing group did a lot of heavy intellectual lifting. @Isabellevdv@R_Scrivens and myself are grateful for everyoneโs contributions. Next stop: our book!
Had a great time discussing and presenting on the many research methods for studying extremist communities online. Thanks a lot to @Sandy_Research@Isabellevdv@R_Scrivens for organizing the workshop and excited to be a part of what is to come next. @lorentzcenter
Applications are now open for the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards! Time to celebrate and recognise outstanding contributions to open science at UCL. Showcase your exceptional research โ apply now and spread the word! buff.ly/45RmHgr @uclypay @UCLLibraries
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We were delighted to host our 4th annual conference today with an amazing array of speakers, projects and ideas on all things open science! Thank you to everyone who joined us, and watch this space for recordings and more photos! #UCLOpenScienceConference2024
Applications/nominations are open for the 2nd #OpenScience and Scholarship Awards at @ucl. Apply or nominate colleagues here to celebrate transparent and reproducible research practices across the university: ucl.ac.uk/library/open-scienโฆ
๐จNew today in @PNASNews โผ๏ธw/ @helenmargetts:
In a pre-registered experiment (n=8,587), we find little evidence that 1:1 personalization โ aka microtargeting โ enhances the persuasive influence of political messages generated by GPT-4.ย
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24โฆ
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Excited for my student @TiagoRGMarques who published his first first-author paper in Crime Science. We (w/ @EnricoMariconti) explored positive behaviour interventions that can be used to reduce disruptive behaviour in online gaming: link.springer.com/article/10โฆ