Thomas Hegghammer
Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThose who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerIf you’re having trouble accessing my book The Taliban Courts: War through Law, feel free to contact me. It’s been unavailable and, since OUP won’t do a paperback, the hardback is very expensive for individuals. I’m happy to help you find a way to read it.
- Reposted by Thomas Hegghammer14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
- Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerRSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerPay librarians, teachers, and archivists
- Når så mye penger skal brukes på så kort tid, kommer det nødvendigvis saker som dette www.vg.no/nyheter/i/L4...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerI do get a kick out of edited volumes on settler colonialism that make no mention of either China or Russia...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerQuite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThe headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerPhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerFake sources using my name keep cropping up. Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s... It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerUPDATE: Americans who use YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X (Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% Full Pew Research Center report: pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20…
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- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerGood piece, reminded me that ARM and DeepMind (both game changers) were allowed to leave the UK under the Cameron / Osborne regime. Appalling. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerScholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era - Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-labs… #AI #GoogleScholar
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerTrump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
- Reposted by Thomas Hegghammer📢 Our colleagues in the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law this week published the final report of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice. Read it here 👉 buff.ly/jRTN4Zl
- Reposted by Thomas Hegghammer📢 ONE WEEK REMINDER!: the Department of Politics and International Relations and Oxford School of Global and Areas Studies seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in the Politics of Latin America.🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (GMT), Mon 24 Nov: www.politics.ox.ac.u...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerTwo explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.” www.reuters.com/world/explos...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThe Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is now acceptable applications for the 2026-27 year. Please share and encourage people to apply! Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609 Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613
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- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerSheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment. It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers. Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
- Finally got myself an old MacBook Air M2 and installed @asahilinux.org on it. It's mindblowing. I've never experienced a PC as fast and snappy as this. Build is terrific and battery 10+ hours. Everything except external display works. This ends the search for the optimal Linux laptop afaic
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerBritish police say 10 people have been taken to hospitals after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train, nine of them with life-threatening injuries.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThinking about a postgraduate degree in Politics & IR at Oxford? 🎓 Join our online Q&A panels on 24 & 28 Nov (at 10am & 4pm each day) to hear from students & staff about MPhil & DPhil programmes. Register online before your session!: ow.ly/3TCH50XjzRJ
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerA person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...
- "– Jeg kan ikke fatte og begripe at politikerne nekter å høre på sikkerhetsmyndighetenes gjentatte, årlige advarsler, sa Ståle Ulriksen [i juni]" www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/ru...
- Men det er ikke så veldig vanskelig å forstå hvorfor dette skjer: Det presses på for elektrifisering, og kinesiske elbusser er mindre dyre enn de europeiske www.ey.com/en_fi/insigh...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerPlease repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
- Ser på Lånekassens satser og konstaterer at det ikke lenger er mulig for en ubemidlet norsk student å studere på gode universiteter i England. Skolepenger for en bachelor på OxBridge starter på NOK 575k per år, uten kost og losji. Lånekassen gir totalt 550k (190k stip + 360k lån)
- Jeg kom ikke fra penger, men kunne likevel ta bachelor i Oxford på slutten av 1990-tallet med hjelp fra Lånekassen og jobb i alle sommerferier. Det hadde jeg ikke kunnet gjøre i dag
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerWow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Reposted by Thomas Hegghammer#UK removes Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham from terrorist organisation list
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerA glitch with an obscure Amazon database disrupted life for millions of people across the U.S. as core internet services failed to function for an array of companies www.wsj.com/tech/aws-outag…
- "executed for taking part in protests against the treatment of Shias when he was 17"
- ‘Cruellest violation’: Saudi Arabia executes second child offender in two months - middleeasteye.net/news/cruellest-viol…
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerIraq says some US military personnel will stay due to Islamic State threat in Syria flip.it/Avgwpp
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerDeeply honoured to have presented my research at Everytown’s summit in NYC on the evolving threat of 3D-printed firearms. I discussed findings from my dataset of 50+ cases involving extremist actors, highlighting patterns, operational trends, and indicators. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThe book is finally out in the US too www.amazon.com/Transformed-...
- Betting agency data strongly suggest an information leak of some kind in connection with the Nobel Peace Prize award. Between 00:40 and 02:00 last night, the Polymarkets probability of a Machado win rose from 4 % to 73 % www.vg.no/nyheter/i/o3...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThere's been a 300 PERCENT increase in FBI domestic terrorism investigations this year www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerMore details on the social media influences on synagogue attacker …
- Reposted by Thomas Hegghammer“it is the unrelenting focus on refineries which is doing most to change the narrative about the war, even appearing to help change Donald Trump’s mind about Ukraine’s prospects.” Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis economist.com/europe/2025/...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerA government that extrajudicially kills foreigners abroad will also (try to) extrajudicially kill its own citizens at home.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerMen in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Thomas Hegghammer🚨 Exciting postdoc opportunity at the Institute of International Relations Prague! Join the INTERFER Project (Oct 2025–Dec 2028). Research focus: foreign interference, disinfo, cyber sec & digital politics. Apply by 12 Oct 2025 👉 www.iir.cz/postdoctoral... #Postdoc #ResearchJobs
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerAt least four people are injured following a stabbing and car-ramming at a synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar jrnl.ie/6832892
- Brits being contrarian (again). Norway has had this for years and I can tell you 1) it simplifies everything from online banking to gov services enormously & 2) it is less of a threat to privacy because data are kept properly in one place instead of in tens of different places with varying security
- For me, moving to the UK and getting a family set up with all the services one needs has been a bureaucratic nightmare. Just do this
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerOkatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
- Key graph. IMO the main story here is the dramatic decline in the incidence of far right terrorism in 2024-25, not the slight increase in far left attacks (from ~3 to ~7 a year)
- Thanks all for the various replies. Agree? Disagree? Here's the study so you can make your own mind up: www.csis.org/analysis/lef...
- It's also worth remembering that these are incident counts, not fatality counts. Deaths are often a better measure for scale/consequence. The report doesn't graph fatalities by ideology over time, but notes in the text that far left terrorism is very low lethality (causing only 2 deaths since 2020)
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerEr du over 35 og i ferd med å bli gradvis mer interessert i lokalhistorie? Nasjonalbiblioteket trenger hjelp med å plassere sin samling av historiske flyfoto på kartet. bibliotekutvikling.no/nyheter/flyf...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerOK, but it should be 30 and the maximum should be 50.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerVil tre norske oljefelt ta livet av 100 000 mennesker? Det er påstanden i rettssaken om Yggdrasil. Men tallet er meningsløst. At akademikere i praksis stiller seg bak, er alvorlig for deres troverdighet. @oysteinsjolie.bsky.social tegner og forklarer: www.minerva.no/gass-global-...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerPoland's statement to Russia at the UN. "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerTirsdag 4. november er det akkurat ett år siden Trump ble gjenvalgt. I den anledning utkommer min nye bok, "USA: En nekrolog?" Der tar jeg for meg *waves at everything*. Den kan allerede nå forhåndsbestilles (signert versjon, if that's your jam) hos Norli: www.norli.no/978828282293...
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerThe President of the #Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Ahmad Al-Sharaa, arrives in #NewYork on a historic visit to participate in the #UnitedNations General Assembly meetings the first #Syrian president to do so since 1967.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerWhy is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerEgypt deploys Chinese HQ-9B missiles in Sinai, heightening Israeli fears
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerJust comparing estimated deaths in the Siege of Aleppo with Gaza. Gaza has resulted in nearly twice as many deaths in less than three years for a comparable population. The photo on the left is from Aleppo; that on the right is from Gaza.
- Reposted by Thomas HegghammerIsrael’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10th, marks the deadliest global attack in 16 years and the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded. cpj.org/2025/09/isra...
