Simulating Influence Operations
An interesting paper caught our eye from Brookings entitled The Breakout Scale: Measuring the impact of...
Eight Examples of Popular Culture Used to Symbolise Protest
Popular culture in protests: When young people challenged the establishment in Thailand this...
Simulating the Human Terrain in Crisis Exercises
“Human terrain” is a term used to refer to the social and cultural aspects of an environment. When we’re...
Visual Identity in Social Media – How To Choose Your Persona’s Profile Picture
An interesting research paper fell across our desks this week. We thought it would be helpful to unpack...
COVID-19 is not the only virus we need to prevent
Of course it wouldn’t be long before misinformation and disinformation campaigns surfaced around...
Sensing the Real World
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the Circuit Playground Express (CPX)! It’s a £20...
Ditch crisis exercises with PowerPoint.
Crisis management exercises with PowerPoint will only get you so far. Let me explain. Watch out for...
Living on Mars
Excitement around a manned mission to Mars has been building over recent years and now it seems to have...
Mindset beats strategy
The first take-away from this great podcast, spoken by a former FBI spy, is that “mindset beats...
Simulating a Tweetstorm
A “tweetstorm” is a high volume of tweets about or around a certain topic. We often want to...