Ken McDonagh @kenmcdonagh.bsky.social Associate Prof in IR, DCU, research EU security & defence, occasional runner, dad of triplets, mo thuairim fèin
Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social Feminist philosopher, University of Tasmania
🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙 (she/her)
#philsky
https://sites.google.com/site/louiserichardsonself/
Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social Associate Professor @ucddublin.bsky.social • party competition, public opinion, political communication, computational social science • Maintainer @irishpollingind.bsky.social • Young Academy Ireland
stefanmueller.ie
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social Economic geographer in Swansea, Wales
Ashwin Nagappa @ashwinnag.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Queensland University of Technology
ashwinnag.com
Sindhoora @sindhooora.bsky.social PhD researcher @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research interests: Antifeminism in South Korea, Webtoons, and more...
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University.
Co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network.
Lover of cats and music.
Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Julia Simon, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, and Peter Marshall
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
James Steinhoff @stnhfj.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ ICS, University College Dublin
Yuening Lyn Li @yueninglynli.bsky.social PhD in Sociology | Postdoc at UCD ICS | AI Ethics | Platform Labour | Digital Money
Páraic Kerrigan @paraickerrigan.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Author and hoping for a plot twist
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/- J Julia Simon @jusimon.bsky.social political scientist @Universität Bremen, associate editor @Global Society
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Ann-Str-Dav @annettestrdavey.bsky.social Siarad Cymraeg ...
... Science runs on good Data.
Germany runs on Excuses.
2026.
& tief im Westen 😊😍🎧🎶🎶
https://www.uni-wh.de/forschung/uwh-forschungsdatenmanagement
Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social Virgin Media News Correspondent but these are my own views and not those of my employer.
Ireland.
The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ all views my own except those im paid to express by the global jewish conspiracy, obvz
Polling stuff: irishelectionprojections.com
Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social Solicitor, consultant, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter.
Visiting Lecturer. Law Society External Examiner in Data Protection law.
Joshua Farrell-Molloy @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social MSCA PhD Candidate in Global Political Studies at Malmö University @vortex-europe.bsky.social IR, digital subcultures, extremism, foreign fighters.
Words: https://gnet-research.org/author/joshua-molloy/
Conor O'Mahony @conorom.bsky.social Dean of the School of Law, University College Cork. Teaching and researching constitutional law and children's rights. Father of two. Sports fan. Hillwalker and cyclist.
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/conor-omahony/
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social Reader in Digital Media & Rhetoric Birkbeck, University of London.
researching reactionary digital politics
and the politics of shitposting (https://tinyurl.com/yc72aaah)
recovering lurker
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
European Centre for the Study of Hate @ecsh-research.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Centre Addressing Group-Based Hate and Hostility. Values-driven impact-focused research. Advancing Europe's values of human dignity, equality and the rule of law from its Western edge.
www.ul.ie/ecsh
Hugo Ekström @hugoekstrom.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate in Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg. Study how far-right and adjacent online discourses gain legitimacy and become normalised in mainstream digital communication.
SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social BREAKING NEWS | RESEARCH | ANALYSIS
Centre for Security, Counter Extremism
Research & Policy (SECRPOL)
FOLLOW US TO TAKE PART
CITIZEN RESEARCH
Washington DC • London • Havana
secrpol.co.uk
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow @WZB Berlin Social Science Center | Democracy, Far Right, Political Communication
Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum.
Katy Brown @k8ebrown.bsky.social Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice at Manchester Met, researching far-right mainstreaming, media and discourse. She/her
https://www.drkatybrown.com
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social The LSE Department of Media and Communications. World-leading research http://bit.ly/39QSDVA and teaching excellence http://bit.ly/2Y5xPV2 #LSEMedia #partofLSE
Yifei Yang @yifeiyangucd.bsky.social She/they🖤
PhDancing with ics-UCD| digging into queer fan culture globally
Connect me on LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yifei-yang-a000b6292?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social The Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN) brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics
Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
Jonathan Collins @joncollins.bsky.social PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
#extremism #alt-tech #far-right #conspiracies #socialmedia
Mesut Akçay @mesutakcay.bsky.social https://independent.academia.edu/AK%C3%87AYMESUT historian | phd |doctor in history | social sciences studies | #ideologies #kemalism #populism
FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.
Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
UCD Centre for Digital Policy @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social An academic research centre on all aspects of tech and digital policy. Part of UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. Dublin, Ireland. https://digitalpolicy.ie/
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
Lydia Bigley @lydiabigley.bsky.social Social justice activist |Social Democrat |Dublin| Runner 🏃🏽♀️ EN-DE 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇬🇱
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Nicolle Lamerichs @nicolleness.bsky.social 🔸️Media studies scholar
🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech
🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social Research and Library stuff @ UCD. Views my own
Giraffes! 🦒 Badminton! 🏸 Exclamation marks!
Contentedly discontent. #OABooks #ResearchCulture 
@errorfied.bsky.social @errorfied.bsky.social 
Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social Law academic living in the west of Ireland. Interested in law, politics, history, theatre, music, books, art, people and dogs…not in that order.
PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social Media and Politics Specialist Group of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/media-and-politics
Co-convenors: @katyjparry, @jameswilldennis, @abirhodes, @ellenfelicity, and Jen Birks
Helen ^_^ @myvirtuallife.bsky.social Constantly striving to be a better person today than I was yesterday.
Human rights should be non negotiable.
My blind cat can't see my physical disablities, just like must.
Late diagnosed #Audhd
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Stefano Carlino @thehattedpug.bsky.social Gaymer, gymer, rocker, devourer of all things cake.
IT guy by day, amateur chef / baker by dinnertime.
Here to share the things I love.
Based in London.
Be Kind
Rebekah McCabe/ Ríobcha Ní Cába @rebekahmccabe.bsky.social Head of Northern Ireland for Involve. All about democracy, cities, wild places, and people.
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Dr Frank Maracchione - 马峰澜 @frankmaracchione.bsky.social Postdoc SOAS University of London - Global Political Economy, South-South development, China, Central Asia, Uzbekistan. With SPERI - Sheffield Pol Economy Inst and Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. (he/him)
Alexis @juiceandrind.bsky.social 
@spars0ns.bsky.social @spars0ns.bsky.social 
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Catherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow @ResearchIreland @DCU. Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism.
Researching misogyny, the manosphere, gender disinfo & digital media 
Dr Samuel Finnerty @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social Wellcome Trust Funded Senior Research Associate @LancasterUni. Research Culture, Personal & Collective Identity, Moral Values, Prosocial Action, Climate Activism https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/about-us/people/samuel-finnerty#publications
Gabriela Ramos @gabriela-ramos.bsky.social Co-chair, Task Force on Inequalities and Financial Disclosure, former @Unesco and @OECD high level official. Working on #ethics of #artificialintelligence, #inclusivegrowth #genderequality
Melissa Kinch @melissa-kinch.bsky.social PhD candidate UCD | Child, Adolescent & Family Research | Patient Voice & Engaged Research | Rare Disease Research | Methods Enthusiast | All views are my own
Brooks DeCillia @bdecillia.bsky.social Journalist, assistant professor at Mount Royal University, skier, mountain biker.
Need help sorting fact from fiction, check out this online misinformation disinformation resource: https://www.mrumisinfo.ca
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
UCD Teaching & Learning @ucdtl.bsky.social We provide support, resources and professional development to the University College Dublin teaching community to enhance our students' educational experience. Find out more on our website: www.ucd.ie/teaching #SpéirGhorm
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
Website >>
https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home
ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
Donnacha Ó Beacháin @donnachadcu.bsky.social Professor of Politics, Dublin City University (DCU)
Ukraine | Russian imperialism | South Caucasus | Central Asia | Belarus | Moldova | unrecognised states | Irish history, politics and foreign policy
Jonathan G. Heaney @jonathangheaney.bsky.social Sociologist (mostly), Queen's University Belfast. Interested in social theory, emotions, power, politics, specfic/sf. RT≠E. Own views. Usually on a bus somewhere on the island of Ireland.
'Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours'
Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
Paul Harkin @paulharkin.bsky.social Director of Strategy, UCD School of Medicine. Opinions my own.
Black sheep of a high performing family. More privileged than most.
#Spéirghorm #UCD #MCIrl
The Parallel Effect Podcast @theparalleleffect.bsky.social The world we inhabit is not inevitable.
This is your portal into worlds that might have been, inspiring the world we want to build.
Subscribe for free here:
https://tinyurl.com/reimaginingpossibilities
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
samuel @flamingtomb.bsky.social static, symbolic ways in which I think
Emma Heffernan @freakyfur.bsky.social Anthropologist & nurse. Equality, health, social justice, public health, poverty, SDoH, clinical research, clinical trials, research ethics #SciComm #Bioethics #FBPE
Dave Kitching @davekitching.bsky.social Advocacy, research & comms. Politics & Music. GAA hobbyist. Mayo interloper in Dublin
Annina Claesson @anninac.bsky.social Media, polcom, how to exist on hellsites. PhDing at
CREST/Sciences Po médialab.
anninacla.github.io
she/her 🏳🌈
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
@robinmansell.bsky.social @robinmansell.bsky.social 
Ruairidh Pritchard @roopritchard.bsky.social Beat me on the bottom with the Women’s Weekly.
Chatting nonsense about TV, mostly.
35//LDN.
Myria Georgiou @myriageorgiou.bsky.social Media and Communications Prof, LSE; digital cities and migration; identity and solidarities; a Londoner and a migrant.
Billy Billy Billy @billybixby.bsky.social is typing...
Dan @alphaquokka.bsky.social Friend of puppies, kittens and Dorothy. Entrepreneur, digital product and design specialist. Naarm (Melbourne). he/they ✌️🏳️🌈
Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire) @kat-hig.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist Prof) in Global Digital Politics @ Goldsmiths
📚 Co-author of Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity)
✍️ Writing about vulnerability politics, violence, (de)criminalization & media
she/her
Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social LSE Prof | Media & Communications | Latest book: ICA Best Book Award “Wronged. The Weaponization of Victimhood” | https://cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged/9780231550239