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A cartoon woman wearing a stylised VR headset is surrounded by projections of a big city. Featured image for the podcast 'Is the metaverse doomed?'

Is the metaverse doomed?

Ask an internet aficionado what the ‘next big thing’ is, and they might respond with ‘the metaverse’. This is…

Bernie Hogan

Computational Social Scientist

Bernie Hogan’s first computer was a Commodore 64 back in 1989. Since then, he’s done university degrees specialising in…

Jason Nurse

Social Media and Cybercrime Expert

My Story After my A-Levels, I faced the challenging question of what to study at university. One of the…

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'The Gout', a Georgian caricature by James Gillray (1799).

Science and the Satirists

“As we scroll, somewhat aimlessly, through our social media feeds, it seems reasonable to think that we are in…

A network of cartoon people against a backdrop of the Ukrainian flag. Website image for the podcast episode 'How do you use social media to deliver humanitarian aid?'

How do you use social media to deliver humanitarian aid?

Forced displacement of human populations owing to conflict or natural disasters is very difficult to measure. During these crises,…

Doug Leasure

I am a computer nerd, a nature loving hippie, and I often find myself embarrassingly excited about statistics. I…

A cartoon woman wearing a stylised VR headset is surrounded by projections of a big city. Featured image for the podcast 'Is the metaverse doomed?'

Is the metaverse doomed?

Ask an internet aficionado what the ‘next big thing’ is, and they might respond with ‘the metaverse’. This is…

Bernie Hogan

Bernie Hogan’s first computer was a Commodore 64 back in 1989. Since then, he’s done university degrees specialising in…

Jason Nurse

My Story After my A-Levels, I faced the challenging question of what to study at university. One of the…

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