Penny Horwood @pennyhorwood3.bsky.social Technology journalist at https://www.computing.co.uk with strong interest in tech sustainability and workforce diversity.
Mother of three. Difficult. Often cross.
Opinions all my own, and I have plenty.
Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social Director of Editorial at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Journalist. I love trains, opera and books. From León, Spain
Dr. Alexander Apostolides. Economic Historian, now into Fintech @alexapostolides.bsky.social All opinions are my own and like or RT are not an endorsement.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Ben R @reben.bsky.social Interested in 🇪🇺🇨🇳🇩🇪🇹🇷 politics & ☕️✈️🚀🍜🚄, CEE/East Med.
Does media stuff.
Runs on CamAPS FX.
Once upon a time a teacher in 苏州市
Port of Dandong enjoyer
https://boxd.it/efgrhG
David Stansell @daves1412.bsky.social (Green) politics, tech. Trying to answer the question “How?”
Accessible in fediverse as @daves1412.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Please note: Highly unlikely to respond to DM's, unless I know you in the physical realm!
Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk Ex Merchant Navy officer and now Merchant Navy teacher and creator of online training courses.
Author of the Series "The Hormuz Crisis" - Volume 1 The Illusion of Open Seas e-book on Amazon now.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-oro
https://ashoro.co.uk/
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social Dad, Investment Banker, lover of metal, hater of raisins. Alternate account in Norwegian (and on Norwegian themes) at @heszleinnw.bsky.social
Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and now Nilotic...)
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social Hello I used to Tweet but now I only tweet
Extremely Gay, extremely Scottish, mostly angry queerposting, no Yanks in the replies (Nice Americans welcome)
Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social Head of the School of Politics and Economics at KCL. Researching conspiracy theories and democracy. Former 🚒🚑
Marianna Perebenesiuk @perebenemari.bsky.social
Abelardo Gómez @abegomez.bsky.social Boy dad. Political scientist at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. De Nuevo León, México 🇲🇽
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social Bildung, Beteiligung, Demokratie.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
https://rupertbarretttaylor.com
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Sven Becker @beckersven.bsky.social Reporter @DerSPIEGEL in Berlin, Team @EICnetwork, Threema: 2JXJE6XJ
Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social German journalist, Beijing Bureau Chief of dpa German Press Agency for 30 years, Asia-Pacific Head until 2023. Liberty Award 2011. Former correspondent in U.S.
Mary de Sousa @mollyds.bsky.social Irish, Indian, writer, editor, Parisian (after London, Coventry, Aberystwyth, Nicosia, Madrid, Islamabad, Havana).
Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social Professional on LinkedIn, no quote without permission pls. I'm not the news. Often post blue skies. Mainly sports politics (not US) travel. Prof AI & Internet/tech co-regulation: views personal. He/him #FirstGen Liverpool, cricket & cycling tragic #JFT97
Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social Teaches IPE at the University of Sheffield.
Euan Purchase @euanspc.bsky.social Scot 🏴 • Hill walker ⛰• Sometimes Swimmer 🏊♂️ • Often found talking about Nordics 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇮🇸🇫🇴🇦🇽 •
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Mihailiк ᵖᵒ⁶ᵒᵐᵃ @oyin.bo // 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚖𝚎
// 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚔𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚔𝚘 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚘
🇺🇦♥️🇳🇬
𝓌𝓸 𝒷𝓊 𝓂𝓎𝓂 ॽ
Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social Wigan-based diminutive middle-aged would-be punk elfin. Obsessed with all things Scandi, chess, politics, music, languages, cooking, and doing the washing up https://worldlyscandifriend.wordpress.com/
Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social Co-Director for Verification and Monitoring @ VERTIC (he/him) - IAEA Safeguards, Nuclear Disarmament Verification, BW Verification and Monitoring.
Views my own, RT not agreement, etc.
Immigrant, Geek, feminist, queer, foodie.
Heidi Reichinnek, MdB @heidireichinnek.dielinkebt.de Co-Spitzenkandidatin Die Linke zur #BTW25.
Co-Vorsitzende Die Linke im Bundestag.
Antifaschistin.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Zsuzsanna Vegh @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social Political analyst | Hungary | Radical right + intl affairs & democracy | Working with GMF, ECFR | Views are my own
Thomas Müller-Färber @tmuefae.bsky.social Lead Intl. Affairs Protestant Academy LOCCUM Dialogues on security/peace issues (#ArmsControl #MENA #EastEurope) Ex: @diplo.de @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social @swp-berlin.org
https://www.loccum.de/profil/thomas-mueller-faerber
Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social Antropólogo, PhD, vândalo, terrorista urbana
Mozambique
Memory, history debates & Hip Hop especially in #RapMoz (pt, en)
Social scientist and methodology freak
Pro Democracy and Human Rights
Polina Nikolskaya @reporter-polina.bsky.social Investigative journalist focused on #Russia and CIS countries. Currently at @Reuters.com Opinions are all my own.
https://www.instagram.com/polina_reports
Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social Nomad.
Walked away from Omelas.
Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany, the Second World War, and the German Army. Research focus on the German army's ideological, operational, and economic war against the Soviet Union. Teaches at Xavier University.
Hook'em.
Dejan Mihajlović @mihajlovicfreiburg.com Referent für Demokratiebildung✊🏻 und Digitale Transformation📱• Lehrender Hoch|Schule🏫 • Digitalpolitisches Zuhause🏠: @d-64.org • he/him • gerne per Du • Freiburg | Beograd
https://mihajlovicfreiburg.com
Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social Executive editor INTERNATIONALE POLITIK QUARTERLY @ipq.bsky.social / Editor-at-Large @internationalepolitik.de, published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); International Fellow @congeostrategy.bsky.social; lapsed Londoner.
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Sebnem Gumuscu @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social Political scientist, studies democratic basksliding, Islamist parties, Turkish politics
@06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social
Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social Researching authoritarian politics| Freelance writer| Focus on Turkey and post-Soviet countries | Previously PhD at Coventry| Views my own.
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
Dr. Ilke Toygür @ilketoygur.bsky.social Political Scientist | European Union & EU in the World | Director, Global Policy Center & Professor of (Geo)Politics of Europe, SPEGA, IE University | Senior Associate, CSIS Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Marko Jurčić 🔻φ🍉 @markojurcic.bsky.social Politics, society, law. Mostly in Naški. If it’s in English, it’s either dead serious or deadpan Yugo-Slavic sarcasm. Migrant life. Longer writing on Substack (https://substack.com/@markojurcic).
Aleksandra Tomanic @alekstomanic.bsky.social Board member of SOG. Bochum-born, currently Belgrade-based German Serbo-Croat. Private account.
Natasza Styczynska @natsty.bsky.social Political scientist based at Jagiellonian University @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social
Interested in EUintegration, euroscepticism, populism & party politics in CEE & Balkans.
Co-editor Contemporary European Politics.
Olivera Stajić @oliveras.bsky.social Journalism @derstandard.at, Balkans, ćevapi, Bücher, schlechte Witze. Here for the gifs.
📌Vienna, Austria
Vedran Dzihic @vedrandzihic.bsky.social Senior Researcher @InfoOiip | Lecturer @univienna | Co-director at Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe @cas_see_uniri | Member of @BiEPAG | Autor von „Ankommen“ (Kremayr&Scheriau)
Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social Palaver @ballaballa-balkan.bsky.social
Fabian Eberhard @fabianeberhard.com Investigative Reporter🇨🇭| Expert in Extremism | Journalist of the Year 23 | More: https://www.blick.ch/autoren/fabian-eberhard-id8495493.html?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share-button
Danijel Majić @danijelmajic.bsky.social Journalist & Podcaster. Erzählt "Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan". Kroate nur in Anführungszeichen. Vaterlandsverräter und stolz darauf.
Recherchehinweise:
Danijel.majic@hr.de
Threema-ID: KAHV8DZN
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
@b-eichengreen.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social
@ruslanleviev.cit.ngo @ruslanleviev.cit.ngo
@louiscatheu.bsky.social @louiscatheu.bsky.social
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Sven Giegold @sven-giegold.de Stellvertretender Bundesvorsitzender @gruene.de - Europäischer und Internationaler Koordinator, ehem. MdEP & Staatssekretär @bmwk.de, Ökologie, Wirtschafts- und Wettbewerbspolitik, European Green Deal, Bürokratieabbau, Gemeinwohlorientierte Unternehmen.
James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
@adskankster.eurosky.social @adskankster.eurosky.social "We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself." -- Jerome K. Jerome
Chrystia Freeland @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Proud Canadian, mother, and wife. | Ancienne vice-première ministre du Canada. Fière Canadienne, mère et épouse.
Ellie Knott @ellieknott.bsky.social • Political scientist & Assoc Prof at Methodology, LSE
• identity & citizenship
• Moldova & Crimea 🇲🇩🇺🇦
• methodology & research ethics
Lena @notaterrornerd.bsky.social talk to me about mushrooms or the woods if you must; or don't talk to me at all
lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Flags in the name are the languages I speak and the passports I hold.
Pronouns: he/him/Dad.
Kyruer @kyruer.bsky.social IR graduate, focused on insurgent groups in Syria and in the Sahel.
Kristyan Benedict @kristyanbenedict.bsky.social Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager: Crisis Response, Israel/Palestine, Syria. Also to be found drumming, climbing, and painting - https://www.instagram.com/kristyan_benedict/
Views all mine.
Rami @ramisafadi93.bsky.social Looking for information
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social Professor on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
📍IST/NYC
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics
Katherine Zimmerman @katiezimmerman.bsky.social Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups.
katherinezimmerman.substack.com
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own.
Rawya Rageh @rawya.bsky.social Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Huda Mzioudet @hudamzioudet.bsky.social Conflict studies grad student @saint Paul university. Alum @University of Toronto . Ex: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Brookings Institution.Coauthor Libya's Displacement Crisis: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Libyas-Displacement-Crisis
Reem Ahmed @reemahmed.bsky.social Researcher IFSH | PhD Candidate Uni Hamburg | Researching (counter-)terrorism, extremism, platform regulation | https://ifsh.de/en/staff/ahmed
The Big Pharaoh @thebigpharaoh.bsky.social
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Suraj Lakhani @surajlakhani.bsky.social Academic @sussexfss.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Vox-Pol | Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social | Steering Board @extremismgaming.bsky.social | Ambassador @getwigi.com
Researching all things terrorism, particularly video-games and violent extremism.