David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social Autonomous vehicle. Self-assembly required. May contain traces of critical theory. Retweets not necessarily a WTF
Blog: fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.co.uk
Dan Hind @dannyhinduk.bsky.social
Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: THE PARTY'S OVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THATCHER TO SUNAK | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social Professor, LSE | Head of the Department of Government | Exec Council of EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social | Chair of EES @eesresearch.bsky.social | Co-Director of POAL @poalab.bsky.social | Fellow of the British Academy | Author of Tribal Politics (OUP)
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods. www.benwansell.com
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com 🇺🇸 Service, democracy, and the last mile. From 4-H to the Peace Corps to the Foreign Service, one belief held: the Constitution is kept, not inherited. We keep it for each other.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social Blackburn-Irish exile in the imperial metropolis · President of @democracycollab.bsky.social · There are real alternatives · Views strictly personal
World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social In-depth news and expert analysis on global affairs. Subscribe here: https://wpr.pub/subscribe
PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social Exclusive stories and insight from Westminster via PoliticsHome and The House magazine. Read our reporting at https://www.politicshome.com and subscribe to The Rundown podcast: http://bit.ly/3M8d963
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Esther Webber @estwebber.bsky.social Senior correspondent, POLITICO
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf Crypto & Frauds | Co-host: @cryptocriticscorner.com | Research: @protos.com | https://youtube.com/@bennettftomlin | Newsletter: @thefudletter.com | bennettftomlin.com
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip.
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social The people of the District of Columbia deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join our movement to win it. #FreeDC
freedcproject.org
Mainstream @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social The home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change.
Join us to unlock the transformative potential of the Labour Party.
http://mainstreamlabour.org/
Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social Global climate justice reporter
@DrilledMedia.bsky.com
Before: Guardian, Independent
Author: Who killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads & an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet
Contributor: Gaza. The story of a genocide
Ex-mental health nurse.
Michael Chessum @michaelchessum.bsky.social Socialist writer and activist /// 📕 book - This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left /// ecosocialist Green, candidate for Brixton Acre Lane /// Personal account, all views my own.
Global Witness @globalwitness.org We expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back.
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Umesh Moramudali @umeshmoramudali.bsky.social
EQUAL GROUND Sri Lanka @equalgroundsl.bsky.social Equality for all sexual orientations and gender identities; human rights for everyone!
https://www.equal-ground.org/
Richard Illingworth @rji95.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at @UofGSPS | Researches the Responsibility to protect and mass atrocity prevention | Author of 'Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect'
Fred Carver @arbeider4fred.bsky.social Advice for hire. Occasional writing, editing, speaking. Atrocity Prevention, Peacekeeping, UN, South Asia. Based in Bergen, NO. https://frederichcarver.com
DSC Mediation @doughtystmediation.bsky.social Doughty Street Chambers houses several barristers who are also experienced mediators, who offer an effective way of resolving disputes without the need to go to court.
Lorenzo Biondi @lorbiondi.bsky.social Speechwriter to @vonderleyen.at.ec.europa.eu at @ec.europa.eu
Philipp Frisch @phfrisch.bsky.social Germany Director at Human Rights Watch @hrw.org / @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia.
Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods.
Past: RAND and CPOST.
Wolves. Lynx.
www.erikemueller.com
Lavinia Pletosu @laviniapletosu.bsky.social Project Manager, EU Advocacy and Research @crisisgroup
Camilo Sanchez @ncamilosanchezl.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law
Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, writer, editor, strategist.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton/
• https://christopherallbritton.com
Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
Nick Barker @nickbarker.bsky.social Studies the causes and consequences of armed conflict. My book: https://www.routledge.com/States-Secessionists-and-De-Facto-Control-after-Separatist-Wars-Strategies-f
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social Climber. Assistant Prof Drexel University. Studying police, repression & conflict. Fmr Carter Center, USIP, & Dartmouth Dickey Center. PhD Emory Polisci. Views are my own.
Guy Patrick Banim @guybanim.eurosky.social EU preventive diplomacy, mediation & digital peacebuilding | Build Up ˆ | Visiting Professor @collegeofeurope | Feminist | Irish or British or both - always European | live from Tirana
🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🇵🇹 🕊️
https://howtobuildup.org/about-build-up/team/guy-banim/
Anna Marie Obermeier @amobermeier.bsky.social Ceasefires & gender | Currently PhDing | 🇨🇦🇩🇪 | Formerly at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Uppsala’s DPCR, and Civil War Paths Fellow | FirstGen | She/Her amobermeier.squarespace.com
Susan H Allen @susanhallen.bsky.social Prof of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Opinions my own, not the institution’s. Scholar-Practitioner, Action Research, South Caucasus, Cohousing, dogs.
Katri Pynnöniemi @katri.bsky.social Professor, Mannerheim Chair of Russian Security Studies, University of Helsinki and National Defence University of Finland
Martin Petersen @mpetersenmfa.bsky.social
Nigar Göksel @dibanigar.bsky.social International Crisis Group, Turkey/Cyprus Director.
@crisisgroup
Adib Bencherif @abnomadictone.bsky.social Universitaire nomade. Professeur adjoint à l’École de politique appliquée à l'UdeS. Directeur du Laboratoire interdisciplinaire sur les risques et les crises (LIRIC). Expertise: Nomades,Touaregs, Sahara, Sahel, conflits, identités, risques, crises
Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
UNjobs @unjobs.org The original, comprehensive job source for development practitioners, humanitarian workers, and international civil servants.
📍Geneva 🌐 https://unjobs.org
Cedric de Coning @cdeconing.bsky.social Research Prof @NUPInytt @ACCORD_online @EffectivePOps @T4PAfrica #Complexity #AdaptivePeace #PeaceOperations #Peacebuilding #ClimatePeaceSecurity #AfricaNordic 🇳🇴🇿🇦
Sarah Njeri @sndeall.bsky.social Lecturer Humanitarianism & Development @SOAS Development Studies. Humanitarian Disarmament especially Mine Action; Explosive Remnants of War; Environmental Peacebuilding, Communities; Knowledge production. https://linktr.ee/sndeall
Zander Willoughby @zanderw.bsky.social Rotary Peace Fellow at Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research | Deciding if this will be a peacebuilding/mediation account or a Red Wings & coffee account... | He/Him | Posts are mine, but you may have them
Waleed Safi @waleedxafi.bsky.social Journalist at Denmark’s leading weekly, Weekendavisen. Exploring the dynamics of power, conflict, and culture in the ever-shifting Middle East since 2014.
Site: https://www.weekendavisen.dk/redaktionen/waleed-safi
Instagram: waleedxafii
Bhavani Castro @bhavanicastro.bsky.social ACLED Regional Coordinator. Opinions are my own. Brazil, Latin America, India, gender, political violence, conflict, and the occasional cat meme.
Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social Professor at GMU. Peace and conflict. And everything in between. Girl mom. Karate, cats and wine lover.
Margarite Clarey @margariteclarey.bsky.social Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer @crisisgroup.org in Asia. Ex humanitarian and journo. DMs open 💫 Views my own.
👻 x.com/MargariteClarey
James Joseph @jamesjoseph.bsky.social Int’l Law, politics, Atrocity Prevention, Transitional Justice | 🌱 | Director of The Duty Legacy, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hazaras and The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes
Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social Partner at Humanitarian Outcomes https://humanitarianoutcomes.org
Co-Director BASIC research https://www.ids.ac.uk/programme-and-centre/basic-research/
Mark Leon Goldberg @markleongoldberg.bsky.social Veteran international affairs journalist. Editor, UN Dispatch. Host and founder, Global Dispatches. https://www.globaldispatches.org/
Abby Stoddard @abbystoddard.bsky.social Humanitarian Outcomes
humanitarianoutcomes.org
Aid Worker Security Database
aidworkersecurity.org
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Allard Duursma @allardduursma.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Conflict Management and International Relations at ETH Zurich, working on mediation & peacekeeping. Editor-in-Chief of International Peacekeeping
Shona Warren @shonawarren.bsky.social Migration Policy Analyst at the Center for Global Development, working at the nexus of climate and migration. Leadership Team, Women in International Security UK. Views my own.
Jenna Russo @jennarusso.bsky.social IPI Director of Research, Head of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations
Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social ⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
Philippe Hensmans @phensmans.bsky.social Human rights activist and consultant, former director Amnesty International Belgium (fr) — Carpe that f...... diem
Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com Writer, author, journalist, cat lover, walker, traveller. X Exile. No tolerance for fascists,racists, liars, or making your country great again…wherever it is. Weekly newsletter at: mattcarr.substack.com
Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth.bsky.social Deputy Director for Latin America @crisisgroup.org. Past lives in the Arabian Peninsula and West Africa. Ex-journo, @economist.com @foreignpolicy.com. Runner.
Maya Ungar @mayaungar.bsky.social posting about all things UN & international conflict 🕊// currently UN Analyst at International Crisis Group (@crisisgroup.org) // she/her // all views are my own
Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social Proud San Diegan and lover of June gloom
Fan of 🚴♀️, ⚾️ and good 🥃.
PFP credit: Fabio Napoleoni
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at UTS, research on the United Nations and the prevention of atrocity crimes.
Monograph 'Inside the UN Security Council' with OUP 2023.
🏳️🌈
Enrica Picco @enripicco.bsky.social Central Africa Director @CrisisGroup | #Cameroon #CARcrisis #Chad, and #Russia in the region | Italian in Kenya 🇮🇹🇰🇪 | Usual caveats.
Antônio Sampaio @antoniosamp.bsky.social Independent researcher and PhD candidate at the War Studies Department, King's College London. Focused on urban safety, violence prevention, crime and conflict. Previously Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, IISS. Former journalist.
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
LSEblogs at London School of Economics. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/48VNXdo
Claire Cozens @clairecozens.bsky.social Freelance editor and recovering foreign correspondent (Delhi and Beijing). Now mostly in south London, with occasional time out for good behaviour
Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social Writer/Journalist/Storyteller/ On an adventure. Bylines featured on The Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC, The New Humanitarian, New Humanist. Podcaster and Newsletter Writer at Have You Thought About. Public Speaker and more. www.dhrutishah.com
Juliette Rousselot @jrousselot.bsky.social Deputy Director for #Asia at @fidh-official.bsky.social
Brussels-based. Covering mostly (but not just) #SouthAsia, #Iran, #deathpenalty, #EU policy on Asia.
Lisa Musiol @lisamusiol.bsky.social Head of EU Affairs @crisisgroup.org. Working on EU Foreign and Security Policy, Conflict Prevention, Early Warning, Crisis Management. Based in BXL.
Roy Eidelson @royeidelson.bsky.social Psychologist, author of "Doing Harm: How the World's Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror" (McGill-Queen's University Press), president of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (APA Division 48)
Kannan Arunasalam @kamalakkannan.bsky.social British–Tamil filmmaker. New feature docs: ‘Republic of Amnesia’ (2025 UK 78 mins) & ‘Possible Landscapes’ (2025 US 105 mins)
Glasgow — Colombo — Jaffna
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian, writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
Michele Kelemen @michelekelemen.bsky.social Covering diplomacy for NPR
Glaeldys González @glaeldys.bsky.social Analyst, South Andes @crisisgroup.org
Anastasia @anastasia-austin.bsky.social Freelance investigative journalist and security analyst in LatAm focusing on organized crime, corruption, and the people who fight it.
Former InSight Crime investigator. Read my work: https://muckrack.com/anastasia-austin-1
Laurence Defranoux @laurencedefranoux.bsky.social 👱♀️ Journaliste Libération
📰 Suit la #défense. Membre de l'Association des journalistes de défense @ajdpresse.bsky.social, auditrice @IHEDN
📚 ''Les Ouïghours, histoire d'un peuple sacrifié'', Tallandier (nouvelle édition en poche, janvier 2025)
Christina Boutros | كريستينا بطرس @christina-boutros.bsky.social Senior Communications & Advocacy Officer for the Middle East & North Africa @crisisgroup. Ex @msf in Syria & Ukraine.
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu