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IEEE-PES.org , CIBSE, SAIEE.org.za, IBPSA.org
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Nyathikano @nyathikano.bsky.social Award winning South African Journalist at CBC News
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Herman Wasserman @hwasser.bsky.social Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University. Director of Centre for Information Integrity in Africa. Interested in information integrity, disinformation, journalism with a focus on the Global South. https://ciia.africa email: hwasserman@sun.ac.za
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🔎 Expert analysis.
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Sarah Mersch @sarah81m.bsky.social Tunis-based freelance correspondent for German language media & journalism trainer; Kefteji-lover; RT # endorsement, ♡ = bookmark, opinions my own etc
Abdulla Moaswes @karakmufti.bsky.social Know a few things about global Palestine in Asia and Africa.
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Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Ne’er do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
Rob Symons 🇺🇦 @muthimuthi.bsky.social Activist, Humanist, Anarchist, Anti-authoritarian, Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, Environmentalist, Rationalist, Empiricist...🇿🇦
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Leonie Joubert @leoniejoubert.bsky.social Science writer, journalist, disobedient woman. Quit business-as-usual to report from the frontline of the climate crisis is Africa - from a van. Follow the @StoryArkDiaries 
James Granelli @jamesgranelli.bsky.social he/him | Comm’s Officer @ Environmental Humanities South [EHS] - UCT | MPhil - EHS | Storyteller #envhum #multispecies #cliamtejustice 🇿🇦
Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social Science and medical journalist|Freelance.🇿🇦
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https://thestoryofemily.com/stories-of-emily
Òlúségùn Èhínfún @olusegunehinfun.bsky.social Management Consultant. PhD. Researcher (Politics & Environment) on Lake Chad Basin (LCB) & the Sahel. @UoY York, England.
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Ian Graham-Parker @onegreenparker.bsky.social Open Source Software | VICIdial | Raspberry Pi | South African 🇿🇦 | cxcalling.co.za | DM's are seldom answered
Africa Check @africacheck.org We hold public figures accountable for what they say, and debunk dangerous false statements. Get the facts: http://africacheck.info/m/fact-check-HQ
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#FreePalestine to the tune of ‘Sweet Caroline’
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Mary Alexander 🇿🇦 @marycalexander.bsky.social South African writer, editor, web publisher, factchecker, mosaicer (?) and slow-blinker at cats.
https://southafrica-info.com/
Magdel @magdeldp.bsky.social Copy editor. Words matter. She/her.
Paula Fray @paulafray.bsky.social African Feminist Storyteller
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Clive Simpkins @clivesimpkins.bsky.social Anti Trump-Musk-MAGA
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#RescueCatDadx3- L Laura López González @llopezgonzalez.bsky.social Science & health writer ✍🏼 VICE, Al Jazeera, Guardian, et. al. Tips? DMs open | laura(at)lauralopezgonzalez.press
Paul McNally @paulmichaelmcnally.bsky.social Journalist. Develop AI. Develop Audio. 
Dylan Bush @dylanbushza.bsky.social Multimedia Strategist @ The African Alliance | Activist | Photographer | Reader | Trans
Fiona MacLeod @fionamacleod.bsky.social Cancer Research UK Science Media Officer in Scotland. 
Adriaan Basson @adriaanbasson.bsky.social Editor-in-chief: News24, South Africa. Journalism, democracy, freedom of speech.
Caryn Dolley @caryndolley.bsky.social Tiny particle in a tiny particle. Author of Man Alone, Clash of the Cartels, To The Wolves, and The Enforcers.
www.caryndolley.com
Pontsho Pilane @pontsho.bsky.social Writer. Lurker. Voyeur. Researcher of things often left unsaid. Author of Power and Faith: How evangelical churches are quietly shaping our democracy.
Hennie van Vuuren @hennievanvuuren.bsky.social Open Secrets | Open Sesame Stop: graft/grift/greed. For secure messaging and tipoffs - pls contact me on Signal.
www.opensecrets.org.za
Marché Arends @marche.bsky.social Investigative Journalist 🇿🇦
2025 Pulitzer Center AI Accountabilty Fellow
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Kim Harrisberg @kimharrisberg.bsky.social Journalist with www.context.news
Covering (mainly) climate change, tech and inequality in Southern Africa
Proud Joburger, mama, aspiring luddite
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John Stupart @handle.invalid Co-founder, African Defence Review
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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. It’s not AI it’s automation
Tebogo T @tebogotshwane.bsky.social Struggling Adult
| Mother Figure 🐶🌱
Investigative Journalist at the AmaBhungane Centre For Investigative Journalism (Non-Profit News Organisation in South Africa).
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com
We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
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Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer.bsky.social Writer, researcher on organised crime. Previously at Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, TRAFFIC and Africa Check. Author of 'Killing for Profit’. Views my own.
@ansgardh.bsky.social @ansgardh.bsky.social Associate Professor | Global Journalism, Conflict Reporting and Disinformation | University of Groningen | Dutch base - German roots
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https://www.guykelly.co.uk
Brendyn Lotz @leetbee.bsky.social Technology journalist in Africa covering infosec, startups, telcos, games, hardware. Find my words here https://htxt.co.za/author/brendyn-lotz/
Richard Hay🌾 @harvestofhay.bsky.social Mostly I just grow things hey🌱
Curator: Future Africa Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection, University of Pretoria
Conservation Project Coordinator: Botanical Society of South Africa
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social Agricultural economist from South Africa
Blog: https://wandile.substack.com/
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@agriviewwandile
Email: wandile@agbiz.co.za
Rob Forbes @robforbes.bsky.social Humanist. Cultural architect.
Award-winning broadcaster of 20+ years.
"Gives the best hugs".
Other interests available on request.
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Justin @askittenasacat.bsky.social Cats. Birds. Cycling. Arsenal. Shoegaze. Post-Punk. Tofu.
Owl Arcana 🇿🇦 @owlarcana.bsky.social Editor at @carteblanche.co.za and relentless news junkie. Often staring at the ceiling at 3 in the morning. Owns two cats but wants to own them all. Perpetually playing catch-up on TV series from a decade ago. 
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Carl Spies @carlspies.com Robotics Curriculum Designer | IoT & STEM EdTech Dev | Arduino-ist | Open-Source & Agile Advocate | Linux Guy | Systems Thinker | Neurodivergent | Autodidact | Bridging tech & education, unleashing curiosity | 4IR-Envoy
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Nicola Righetti @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist
https://www.nicolarighetti.net/
Find me on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nicolarighetti79
vera.ai @vera-ai.bsky.social VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence. Research project co-funded by HorizonEU. Makers of InVID-WeVerify-vera.ai verification plugin, plus much more! Focus: countering disinformation. Here: project owners’ views.
https://www.veraai.eu/home
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
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Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
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Obsolescent isolate losing hearing & sight at the end of this brief life.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social ProPublica reporter | Email me at joshua.kaplan@propublica.org | Contact info & stories here: propublica.org/people/joshua-kaplan
Shaun, not Sean or Shawn @bad-at-usernames2.bsky.social 
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
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Warren Robertson @sawarren.bsky.social With his unique style and iconic fashion sense, Warren is, without a doubt, the Monty Python of comedy. He/him #WhatsTheFactPodcast
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
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We report human rights stories across South Africa.
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Alastair Otter @alastairotter.bsky.social Editor of The Outlier, data communications and visualisation expert. theoutlier.co.za
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
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