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    Lollipop, Cupcake, and Viagra: Gender in Trolling and Hacktivism

    Siân J.M. Brooke, DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute (2016) You use social media. Be it Facebook, Twitter, or even a MySpace you haven’t visited since the early ‘00s, the clear majority of us now have an online presence. The most widespread social media sites will often display your profile with your real name, Continue reading

  • Lights, Camera, Immuno-action! Research on Cancer Immunotherapy

      Melissa Bedard, DPhil in Medical Science (2015) We all know the classic plot line featured in countless spy and action movies. An intelligence team is defending a country against a foreign enemy or quelling an internal revolution. The team discovers that there is a traitor in their midst, trying to bring the team down Continue reading

  • Extinction: Lessons from the Past

      Ronald Guthrie, DPhil in Environmental Research (2016) Life on Earth has been punctuated sporadically by mass extinctions. Evidence of these events are preserved in the rock record. A change in the environment can result in a sudden and widespread decrease in biodiversity, increasing extinction levels above the background rate, leading to a mass extinction. Continue reading