David Pettinicchio @dnpetti.bsky.social Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
Corey Robinson @corey-robinson.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in International Relations | University of Glasgow
Human Smuggling, Borders, Asylum, Externalization, Climate Displacement, Deportation, Global Migration Governance, Far-right, Conspiracy Theory, Neoreaction
www.coreyrobinson.ca
David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum.
https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf
Dr. Frank Laczko @flaczko.bsky.social Former UN Migration Director. Series Editor, Routledge, Global Migration Issues, books. Budapest, Hungary. Geneva, Adviser Multi-Cultural Insights. Son of a refugee.
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Global Refuge @globalrefuge.bsky.social Welcoming newcomers since 1939. Formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS).
www.globalrefuge.org
Policy Sciences Journal @policysciences.bsky.social With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and empirical innovation, together with the potential richness and insight of comparative orientation.
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social Political Science and other things.
Reposts are for information and do not mean agreement.
Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social Researching and teaching refugee history.
No DMs, I'm afraid, please email me (easy to find).
POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social صعلوك الادب
Lama Mourad @lmourad.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CU_NPSIA
| migration, local governance, Middle East politics, Lebanon, research ethics | #FirstGen | she/her | Personal account & opinions
James McDougall @jamesrmcd.bsky.social Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social My animal companions are Benji (cat) and Chester (dog)
Jonathan Wyrtzen @jonathanwyrtzen.bsky.social Studying empire, colonialism, decolonization, nation, collective identity, state formation, non-state political orders, Middle East / North Africa; Global Texas; sociologist and historian. Latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Director of @Cambridgegender. She/her. Should be writing.
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
APSA Mig & Citzp @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social This American Political Science Association section promotes and brings together migration and citizenship scholars. Follow for section news and announcements. https://connect.apsanet.org/s43/
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Dr. Alexander Moore, KC1VVK @amoore.net Lacanian theorist of Math Education
Asst. Dr. Prof., Mathematics
Founding Editor @cppi.me
ham radio
my phantasy-ramblings
Palmer Cursive
“The object that castrates is the only object that can really be numerical.” –Lacan
Find my papers: amoore.net
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social Award-nominated Charity showcasing/supporting LGBTQIA+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths. Skeets by @DrCarpineti.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social Assoc Prof @georgemasonu.bsky.social | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social Quantitative Methods Lecturer & researcher in survey representation of LGBTI+ populations
https://kenglish95.github.io
Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Sexuality and Ageing at the Open University, UK (she/her). Also often tweeting and retweeting about: academic writing | SRHR and sex ed | creative methods | Long Covid/Chronic Fatigue 
Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social Professor of Applied Stats at NYU ASH/PRIISM. Survey design, data analysis, general statistical advice. PI: NYU Queer Data Lab. she/her 🏳️🌈
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Anna Lauren Hoffmann @annalauren.bsky.social “listen up fives, a ten is speaking” / data, tech, discourse, critique / assoc prof @ UW iSchool
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social Biological Boomer, GenX-identified, but sometimes I get passed as even younger because of my sassy attitude and tastes in music and film||I do trans stuff||susanstryker.net
Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social writer - researcher - nerd | professor of science, politics and culture at UCL | queer STS | social justice and science | co-dir. research centre for gender and sexual diversity | he/they | views my own | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social move with care • fan of balcony gardens and parks • socio-legal researcher on migration, law, religion, anti-gender movements • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct and I cite my sources • Hamilton / MTL
they (EN) // iel (FR)
www.rinevieth.com
Tina Fetner @fetner.bsky.social Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦.
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
Laurel Westbrook @laurel-westbrook.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at U.C. Santa Barbara
Studies gender, sexuality, violence, activism, and surveys
Author of Unlivable Lives https://www.ucpress.edu/books/unlivable-lives/paper
Pronouns: They/them
FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social Network bringing together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research & quantitative data/methods. Run by: Jenny Chanfreau, Youngcho Lee, Christina Pao, Heini Väisänen & Nadine Zwiener-Collins.
Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social 黃吉贊 (he/any) | Queer Cantonese 🏳️🌈 researcher working on responsible computational social science using language data. Te Pūnaha Matatini / Fulbright Scholar (US 24/25), Aotearoa NZ.
rainbowR @rainbowr.org A community that connects, supports, and promotes LGBTQ+ people in the R community and spreads awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism.
https://rainbowr.org
Posts by @ellakaye.co.uk, @oberman.bsky.social, @statsrhian.bsky.social
Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social Sociologist. Co-editor of Contexts. Author of Long Live Queer Nightlife (Princeton). www.aminghaziani.net 
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Amanda Baumle @amandabaumle.bsky.social Demography of sexuality, sociology of law. Views are my own.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social I like data, dogs, and my dog named Data. Have I mentioned I like data? I study & teach political science. I live to traipse around the wilds of Newfoundland. www.amandabittner.com
Lauren E Bridges @laurenebridges.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Media Studies at UVA |Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard | Affiliate @UNC_CITAP | PhD from @AnnenbergPenn | environmental politics of the cloud + digital labor + surveillance infrastructures
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Nenad Tomasev @nenadtomasev.bsky.social Developing AI responsibly.
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Opinions are my own.
Shakir Mohamed @shakirm.bsky.social AI, sociotechnical systems, social purpose. Research director at Google DeepMind. Cofounder and Chair at Deep Learning Indaba. FAccT2025 co-program chair. shakirm.com
Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com Award-winning educator 🌱 #SciComm | Geographer 🌍 | 🌳✊🏿🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 | #ClimateAmbassadors Regional Hub Mngr at UEA Tyndall Centre | intersectional feminist 🦸♀️| Host of Coffee & Geography #CoffeeGeogPod | 💭💬 my own. Born at 337ppm. They/She 🖖
Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social Research Fellow | University of Birmingham, Institute for Mental Health | Social Psychologist | Board Trustee The Rainbow Project 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| Belfast
Logan S. Casey, PhD @loganscasey.bsky.social Director of Policy Research at @mapresearch.bsky.social Movement Advancement Project (MAP). Political Science PhD, UMich '16. Go Blue! St. Louis born and raised. I’ve probably got a spreadsheet for that.🌈🏳️⚧️📈📊📉
Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social Assistant Professor, @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Previously, Harvard, Zurich, UC3M, UPO. European politics, public opinion, ethnic and LGBTQ+ politics, far right. 🏳️🌈
The means justify the end.
https://aloport.github.io/
Agustin Blanco @blancobosco.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 He/him - PhD student researching queer politics at UPF (Barcelona) and learning about survey methodology at RECSM & the European Social Survey
Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social linguist » social scientist » privacy pro| author of Queer Roma, Routledge 2021| applied social sciences PhD| queer intersectionality| CIPM| GAC chair|multilingual| opinions mine
🏳️🌈🇧🇲🇨🇿
•sex•gender•race•ethnicity•privacy
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7123-702X
Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social LGBTQ health and education researcher, Cat Enthusiast, assistant professor at UW Madison
Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community Technology for community liberation 🏳️⚧️
https://gfsc.community
https://gfsc.studio
Fedi: @gfsc@social.gfsc.studio
Discord: http://discord.gfsc.studio
Posts by @kim.town
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town She/they. Studio lead @gfsc.community. Aka kimadactyl.
Community organiser, software developer (attempting to retire), researcher.
Trans and very tired.
Mastodon: @kim@post.lurk.org
Work: https://gfsc.studio
WIP blog: https://kim.town
Chan (she/her) @chantelle38.bsky.social Black, queer, London.
Educator, historian, woman in tech, AuDHD, elevating POC, queer, women, disabled & neurodiverse entrepreneurs, UK Black Pride team, mum of 2 humans & many plants, passionate about all things equity, education & social justice.
🏳️🌈
Rebecca Henderson @rebecca-henderson.bsky.social PhD student at Lancaster Uni, researching end of life inequalities in NW England.
Rehana Meeajan @rehanameeajan.bsky.social PhD Student @ UCL
A lifecourse approach to maternal perinatal health, lactation, and cardiovascular disease.
Institute of Epidemiology of Healthcare &
UCL Anthropology (Soc-B CDT/ Med Anth)
NHS GP
📍London
Sophie Greenwood @s-greenwood.bsky.social Statistician and PhD student at University of Aberdeen. Interested in improving clinical trials, particularly regarding missing data and patient participation. https://rb.gy/8flw7k 
Pin Chen @pinchen.bsky.social DPhil (PhD) student in Experimental Psychology @ University of Oxford
Violence experience, family dynamics, and child and adolescent mental health
Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social Interested in #Biodiversity, #BehaviouralScience, #BehaviourChange, #SocialMarketing & illegal wildlife trade #IWT 🐘🌱
PhD 🎓
She/her 🌈
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social PhD student @UCL researching judgement and decision-making & pro-environmental behaviour change. Current focus: social norms & rank-based nudging. Based in Basel 🇨🇭
Mary Fesenko @mafesenko.bsky.social PhD student working on membrane trafficking at the Royle lab, Warwick Uni, UK
In the lab - I’m happiest at the microscope, getting excited about my favourite proteins lighting up
Outside - I get excited about wildlife, art + small plate menus
Holly Pringle @hollypringle.bsky.social 🌱 Ecology PhD student, Biome Health Project, UCL
🦒 Research interests: human & livestock impacts on wildlife, camera traps, mammals
📍 Bedfordshire, UK
🐾 Bipedal companion to retired IED detection dog Charlie
Kat Williams @kat-williams.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD | ESRC funded PhD student (social policy) Cardiff Uni (Role of communication in access to healthcare for autistic adults) | Voluntary non-exec Director Autistic UK | LiRF and Run buddy She Runs Cardiff| She/Her
Anna Wilde @annawilde.bsky.social PhD student at University of Birmingham (UK) researching death positivity - https://deathpositiveresearch.com Works at Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social.
Loves dachshunds, fibre arts, cake, poetry, books and lives in the country.
Thomas Gebhart @thmsgbhrt.bsky.social AHRC CDP PhD student at UAL and the British Library. Researching collecting digital comics in the UK for the British Library. Also a librarian and music maker in hibernation. he/him
Niamh Kelly @niamhkellynutr.bsky.social PhD student - Centre for Food Policy & UK Food Systems Doctoral Training
Working on policy coherence, healthy diets, agriculture, land use and biodiversity 🌱🐝
Ayomikun Kade @kadeayomikun.bsky.social A PhD student at Freya Harrison’s lab in the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
Jennifer Palmer @jenniferepalmer.bsky.social Scientific Researcher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) studying microglial phagocytosis. Also a kayaking, hiking and climbing enthusiast. Views my own.
Rory Byrne @rory.bio Neuroscience PhD student, Cambridge UK. Confused but excited.
"Everything around me was somebody's lifework"
👋 https://rory.bio
🔧 https://compmotifs.com/
Gab Astorga @gabastorga.bsky.social 📍Norwich, UK
Studying E. coli diversity and phylogenomics within a One Health perspective
4th year bioinformatics PhD student
LGBTQ+ & EDI advocate
I like science communications, reading and nerdy things
https://linktr.ee/gabastorga
James Gardner @jadgardner.bsky.social PhD Student @ University of York, UK. I do research on inverse rendering, neural fields, human reconstruction and generative models.
Laura Sharp @laurasharp.bsky.social PhD Student: Understanding and reversing the decline of moorland moths in the UK | Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) | Aberdeen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-sharp-7636a6108?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=andr
Debra Kontowtt @debsadac.bsky.social PhD candidate at Lancaster University researching the continued use of bloodletting 1750-1900🩸
History of medicine: antiquity & early modern
Powered by coffee ☕️ | Owned by dogs 🐶🐶
James Neill @jamesnneill.bsky.social PhD student at STOR-i CDT, Lancaster University — studying high-dimensional inference for models of AMR transmission.
Joseph Richardson @josephmrichardson.bsky.social Economics PhD student at Lancaster University. Interested in labour, education, and health economics. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/joseph-richardson/home
Sophie Standen @sophiestanden.bsky.social PhD student, power, politics, and aquatic food systems at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University