Noémie Bouhana
Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaSpain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate. “We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”
- Goosebumps. (One of my best memories of living in Cambridge: I bumped into him on my birthday - literally - coming out of the Arts theater, after the show. He was in search of dinner on King's Parade, I imagine, in cow-print pajama pants and a pair of slippers. I was too tongue-tied to say hello.)
- Bunch of rich dudes who think they're Thomas Crown, when they're - at best - Napoleon Dynamite. At worst - Patrick Bateman.
- meant to post it earlier, but this is so good and disturbing by @helenrumbelow.bsky.social on the collective mindset the Epstein files reveal www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
- Sometimes you don't know why, in the middle of all the insane shit that happens in a day, something gets to you even more than the rest.
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....
- I couldn't pick Josh O'Connor out of a lineup before Knives Out. Now I'm willing to try everything he's in.
- I forgot this creature existed.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaTechnological sovereignty is discussed as if it were a problem simply of access to critical technologies. It is not. It is a resilience strategy for complex systems operating under contestation. @profserious.bsky.social sets out a UK approach. profserious.substack.com/p/technology...
- Self-delusion is the truest engine of human action.
- Girl, stop buying books.
- My mother blames my grandmothers for my choice of profession. One let me watch the Friday night horror movies on Canal+ (bedtime? what's that?). The other loaned me The Black Dahlia. I was, like, 14. I adored both of my grandmothers dearly. Even if I have flashbacks to this day.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaI promised you a reading between the lines of President Zelenskyy's—literally—sublime speech in Davos. This is the topic of my 162nd long read on my strategy blog. It is urgent that Europe becomes Zelenskyyan: a lesson in intelligence and willpower. tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/europe-mus...
- Not uplifting per se but I can't put it down.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaLes amphithéâtres se remplissent, mais les postes disparaissent. En dix ans, plus de 200 000 étudiants supplémentaires ont rejoint l’université, sans que les moyens suivent. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/ZqX
- We could bear witness to the first negative Rotten Tomatoes rating.
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- These guys are a life-size Stanford experiment.
- ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
- Read the room.
- I am so torn. This is quite possibly Teen Me's favorite movie ever and therefore should not be touched. But Cavill as McLeod? This could actually work.
- Made me wonder what Prince would have done.
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana📅 The schedule of the 5th @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Summer School on Concepts & Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics now online! tinyurl.com/f73yym3b ⏳ One month left to apply @casmudde.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @andreapirro.it @albertostefanelli.bsky.social
- Stealing for next week's future of extremism horizon-scanning workshop.
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- Grassroot leveraging of the counter-radicalizing potential of third spaces.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaThe UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaPlease. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.
- “If anyone thinks here… that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming,” Nato SecGen Mark Rutte told the European Parliament. “You can’t.” “It will make things more complicated. I think Putin will love it. So think again.” as.ft.com/r/25718b02-2...
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana📌 Hiring one postdoctoral and two predoctoral researchers for the @erc.europa.eu project #COUNSTER, each position for up to 3 years to start on May 2026. Postdoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline Feb 20) Predoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline March 1)
- The Trump administration aimed to surf on Charlie Kirk's "martyrdom". Wouldn't it be some sort of poetic justice if it were washed over by the martyring of Renée Good and Alex Pretti?
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- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaWe're consumed by stories of murder, but how much do you know about homicide in England and Wales? Every day this week I'm going to post a thread summarising a different aspect of what data can tell us about the nature of homicide. 🧵
- "Resistance."
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaI am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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- Going full China.
- About as useful as "thoughts and prayers".
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana📢 Post-doc position – Toulouse (France) 🇫🇷 A post-doctoral position (12 months) is open at CNRS in Toulouse to work with me on the relationship between signal detection theory, conspiracy beliefs, and perceptions of corruption... 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Feel free to share!
- Un moment de grâce dans un monde de brutes.
- They managed to kill people named Good and Pretti. Feels like rather blunt signposting from the universe as to which side is which.
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhanathe nyt style section vs. der spiegel
- Macron is going to sort out the trade deficit after all.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaI am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
- Cause toujours.
- No fun being a woman today, trapped between AI-generated ideals of beauty and an endless parade of bodies pared down by semaglutide.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaThis is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.
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- Watch-parties in Beijing, ditto.
- The EU leaders watch-parties each time he does this. To be a fly in that WhatsApp group.
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- Except The Row doesn't make arctic gear. Probably.
- This is what we need. Less Coalition of the Willing and more Reservoir Dogs.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaSéquence hallucinante d'une juge française révélant les pressions américaines dont elle a fait l'objet dans l'affaire Le Pen. Le RN veut faire campagne sur le slogan "on est chez nous"? En tout cas, ses sponsors se sentent déjà comme chez eux.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaThrow away the freaking spy robots in your house.
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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- French Public News radio on a Sunday morning discoursing on the ins-and-outs of emulating fanfiction sex - and concluding: "Sure, fine, but manage your expectations and for goodness sake be careful." New world, indeed.
- Benevolent innovation.
- About time.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaWhat Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaThey expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.
- Calendar should jump straight from Epiphany to Easter.
- Into each life some Marvel Jesus should fall. #DvWRewatch13
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaThe American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
- Reposted by Noémie BouhanaLe Monde gets it www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
- Sister, grow a pair.
- Every new year has a flavour. 2026 is: unsafe.
- Reposted by Noémie Bouhana“…the creators of these [nonconsensual, violent AI] images often seemed to be treating the action like a game or meme, with an air of laughter & detachment.”
- NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...
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- "Without a broader system perspective, leaders misdiagnose problems as immediate performance failures. They respond by setting...more granular targets...more centralised management...which...may exacerbate the situation." Not looking at anyone in particular. profserious.substack.com/p/what-is-sy...
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- I couldn't pick Taylor Swift out of an lineup. I'm here for the healthy masculinity role models, whatever form that takes.
