Lucy Right @lucyeright.bsky.social Postdoc @ Yale studying authoritarian politics in Cambodia
David Szakonyi @szakonyi.bsky.social Associate Professor at George Washington University
Co-Founder, Anti-Corruption Data Collective (@acdatacollective.bsky.social)
Researching corruption, kleptocracy and authoritarianism in Russia and the West
The WhoGov Project @whogov.bsky.social The WhoGov Project seeks to extend our knowledge on political elites. It expands, integrates & manages several existing datasets, such as the WhoGov dataset, Paths to Power, and AutGov. It also has an annual conference. Webpage: https://whogov.net/
Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social Policy Advisor for @Amnesty_Norge 📝Sports & Human Rights 📝🇨🇴🇻🇪🇧🇷. 📝Ethical investments 🇮🇨🇳🇴
Stanis Elsborg @staniselsborg.bsky.social Head of @playthegame-org.bsky.social • Sport, history and politics • +45 61774915 • stanis@playthegame.org
Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social Professor of Political Science | University of Cologne | ERC MINORITYRULE | svenoliverproksch.com
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
More at www.vicentevalentim.com
Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM
Democracy in Wartime/GeoPol/EU/DisInfo/Elections/Protest/Identity/Surveys 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺
📚Zelensky Effect
📚Mapping Mass Mobilization
VProf College D’Europe
Prev @ox.ac.uk Nuffield/StAntonys @harvard.edu @uoft.bsky.social
Democratization @democratization.bsky.social Leading scholarly journal on how democratic norms, institutions and practices evolve and disseminate or retract within and across national and cultural boundaries.
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Jens-Bastian Eppler @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de Das deutschsprachige @RealScientists.
Echte Wissenschaft von echten ForscherInnen, AutorInnen, KommunikatorInnen, KünstlerInnen... Diese Woche: Jens-Bastian Eppler
Lucas Leemann @lucasleemann.bsky.social Professor University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social — interested in comparative politics & data science — representation, participation, direct democracy — @leewas.bsky.social — @bjpols.bsky.social — DigDemLab — Co-founder of
https://leewas.ch/
Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social Univ. of Konstanz. European Politics, International Solidarity, Riesling
JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social The investigative football journal
Tips? Josimar1986@protonmail.com
Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social Researching autocratic politics, ministers & international cooperation at the University of Oslo.
Benjamin Best @benbest.bsky.social ARD Sportschau / WDR Sport inside
Howard Liu @howardhliu.bsky.social howardhliu.com
Assistant Prof @UofSC | Repression | Violence | Authoritarian Politics | Network analysis
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
Oscar Jonsson @oajonsson.bsky.social Russia, modern warfare and old literature.
Yves Wegelin @yvesgwegelin.bsky.social Economics and Politics - journalist @Republik.ch, previously @woz.ch.
Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social I teach comparative politics at the University of Bremen, Alumnus @jungeakademie.bsky.social, Autor: "Stadt, Land, Frust. Eine politische Vermessung"
Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
Chaled Nahar @chalednahar.bsky.social Arbeitet bei der Sportschau und beim Deutschlandfunk
https://www.sportschau.de/sendung/reporter/chaled-nahar,autor-chaled-nahar-100.html
Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, host of Civic Forum with Rory Truex. https://linktr.ee/civicforumpod
Clara Vandeweerdt @claravandeweerdt.bsky.social Social data scientist working on political psychology, climate politics, and movements · Quant methods, experiments and NLP · Assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen
Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de I used to scan brains, now I talk about science for a living. Science editor, science podcaster, SPIEGEL-bestselling writer. Founder of @realscientists.de and trainer at @nawik.de. Looks even worse IRL. He/him.
NEW BOOK OUT NOW!
🔗 https://jensfoell.de
Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social Research and postgraduate centre in Social Sciences | Carlos III University
(Formerly known as IC3JM). Current direction: Pablo Fernández-Vázquez (director), Sebastián Lavezzolo, Simon Chauchard.
Sam Kunti @samindrakunti.bsky.social Journalist. FIFA, labour rights in the Gulf, sports betting. Featured in Josimar, World Soccer, Daily Mirror and The Blizzard. Author 'Brazil 1970'. Columbia J-School. Views my own.
Steve Cockburn @stevecockburn.bsky.social Amnesty International. Sport, human rights, workers rights, inequality. NUFC.
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. 🏳️🌈
Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
Federico M. Rossi | www.federicorossi.site @federicorossi.bsky.social Prof. studying pol econ of soc mov at UNED Spain|Books: The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation (Cambridge)|Reshaping the Political Arena (Pittsburgh)|The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements|Democracia y Movimientos Sociales (INE)
Felix Schulte @felixschulte.bsky.social 🧜🏻♂️ Senior Researcher/ Head of Conflict & Security Cluster @ ECMI Flensburg
💭 Ethnic Conflict, Conflict Dynamics, Minorities, Territorial Autonomy
📝 Book Reviews Democratization, Editor ECMI Minorities Blog
📌 https://www.felix-schulte.de
Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social danbischof.com
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
@perfandersson.bsky.social @perfandersson.bsky.social
NetBlocks @netblocks.org The Internet's Observatory: Tracking cybersecurity and digital governance • connectivity and democracy • tools and policy for change • https://netblocks.org
Elizabeth Svoboda @svobodster.bsky.social Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Contributing writer, Boston Globe Ideas. Words in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc. New book: THE ART OF PACING.
Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social Law prof + sociologist thinking and writing about property, land, cities, democracy, sometimes Philly. Posts ≠ speaking for the institution where I work (obvs).
nateela.net | SSRN: bit.ly/ElaSSRN
DVPW-Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft @dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social Hier twittert die Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft in der DVPW Webseite: https://www.dvpw.de/gliederung/sektionen/vergleichende-politikwissenschaft
Sprecherinnen: Iris Reus, @thomaserichter.bsky.social, @kweissenbach.bsky.social
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
Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/perspectives-on-politics/
Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social The Journal of Peace Research is an interdisciplinary and international bimonthly journal, covering scholarly work in peace research.
https://www.prio.org/journals/JPR
https://academic.oup.com/jpr
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at Politik, Medien & Sonstiges | Kein ORF-Account | Blog: arminwolf.at | Foto: Peter Rigaud
Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgov.bsky.social. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy.
Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social Professor of Global Security at Oxford, Co-director of ELAC (IHL, Law & Ethics of War, Attitudes toward Violence)
Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social The first public workshop on autocracies. Hosted by @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social Siyun Jiang @emisimison.bsky.social Ikromjon Tuhtasunov
Subscribe at http://eepurl.com/iJc9FY
www.apsg.work
John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
Fritz Bauer Institut @fritzbauerinstitut.bsky.social Forschungs-, Dokumentations- und Bildungseinrichtung zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust.
https://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/impressum
Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
Political Research Exchange @prxjournal.bsky.social Gold Open Access journal from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/prxx20/current
European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social Georgetown prof. Expect content on international politics, climate, soccer, and other random stuff. Views my own. Website: https://erikvoeten.georgetown.domains/
European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social ECPR is an independent, scholarly association with a mission to advance political science ▪ https://ecpr.eu/ ▪ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ecpr/ ▪ @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
Friedolin Merhout @fmerhout.bsky.social Sociologist and Social Data Scientist at University of Copenhagen. Duke University PhD. Intergroup relations & computational social science. He/him/his. https://fmerhout.github.io Photo: Freja Wille
Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social Postdoc at @ipz.bsky.social || Excited about historical political economy and political institutions || NYU Politics PhD || 🇩🇰 she/her
Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social
Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @UZH
Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social WZB Berlin, Humboldt University, TCD
https://macartan.github.io/
Politics, conflict, inequality, political economy of development, causal inference
Sara Hagemann @sarahagemann.bsky.social Professor in European Politics and Public Policy, University of Copenhagen. Visiting Prof at LSE School of Public Policy
EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social The European Political Science Society: the not-for-profit professional association for political science in Europe and beyond
https://epssnet.org/
Alexander Cooley @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. Global authoritarianism, Kleptocracy, Eurasia, International Order, and Geopolitics & the Academy.
Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. International organizations + international influences on autocracy/democracy. https://www.christinacottiero.com/
https://ucigcc.org/research/future-of-democracy/illiberal-regimes-and-glob
Prof Anastasia Shesterinina @ashesterinina.bsky.social Chair in Comparative Politics @york.ac.uk | #UKRIFLF Civil War Paths project @civilwarpaths.bsky.social | Award-winning author @cornellupress.bsky.social Mobilizing in Uncertainty | mom
Adam Crafton @adamcrafton.bsky.social ✍️ I am a journalist at The Athletic
🏆 British Sports Writer of the Year
🇺🇸 Recently relocated to NYC
Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social Director @fairsq.bsky.social
Martin Vinæs Larsen @mvinaes.bsky.social political scientist | politics of housing | local politics
martinvlarsen.com
Uppsala Conflict Data Program @ucdp.bsky.social World’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war. ucdp.uu.se
Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social Human Rights and Social Sciences, Uni Oslo // Global Governance, Graduate Institute Geneva
www.ninareiners.com
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita @ethanbdm.bsky.social Studying accountability, national security, electoral accountability, political economy, tech & society, applied game theory @HarrisPolicy
.
Chris Claassen @chrisclaassen.bsky.social Professor of political behaviour at the University of Glasgow
Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa.
danieltavana.com
Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ leads research group at WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social International Security is America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues. International Security is edited at @belfercenter.bsky.social.
Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social Political Science Research and Methods: The journal of the European Political Science Association, edited by John Griffin, published by Cambridge University Press
Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social Edited by Nathaniel Hendren and @wwwojtekk.bsky.social
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-public-economics
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Dan Pemstein @danpemstein.com Political economist working mostly on democratic institutions, tech, political careers and party org, and measurement. http://www.danpemstein.com
https://digitalsocietyproject.org
Katrin Paula @kpaula.bsky.social Professor of Security and Political Conflict at the Technical University of Munich
World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social World Politics is an internationally recognized journal that is devoted to advancing the scholarly discipline of political science through the publication of novel theoretical and empirical contributions in comparative politics and international relations.
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social 🎖celebrating the most significant contributions to political science
https://www.skytteprize.com/
Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social
Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Maria Debre @debremaria.bsky.social Professor for International Relations @Zeppelin University | Studies Autocracies, IOs, Global South
Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @ University of Salzburg 🇦🇹. Comparative politics and 🐈
🇨🇦 expat
Jonathan Homola @homola.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCLA | jhomola.com
Københavns Universitet @ucph.bsky.social Officiel profil for Københavns Universitet (oprettet af @kristiangranov.bsky.social for verificering) [inaktiv]
Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social www.robertasinatra.com
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
Mara Pfeiffer @wortpiratin.de || she/her || Journalismus | Fußball | Katzen | Bücher | Haltung | Feminismus || 💖 Stepmom || 🎙️ Flutlicht an! | 👩🚀 Co-Founderin "Bolztribüne" und "Becker & Pfeiffer. Der Fußballpodcast" mit Annika Becker | 💚💛 Part of FRÜF-Crew ||
Frau Nora @fraunora.bsky.social Freie Journalistin • Podcasterin • Autorin
🎙️ "Seweryna und die unsichtbaren Nazis" (NDR)
🎙️ "Die Anachronistin"
🎙️ "Was denkst du denn?"
🎙️ "Sport inside" (WDR)
🎙️ #zumfeindgemacht
https://www.norahespers.de
Sarah Brierley @sarahbrierley.bsky.social Associate Professor LSE Government | Bureaucracy, Corruption, Elections, Campaigns, African politics | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow| www.sarahbrierley.com