Josephine McDermott @josephinemcdermott.bsky.social Award-winning BBC World Service presenter and producer behind BBC Radio 4’s Fangirls and Teen Hysteria, Do You Speak English? and The Sound of Soft Power
Alexandra Benedict @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social Also A K Benedict. Internationally bestselling writer of crime/strange/spooky novels, stories and scripts. Pan, audhd. MURDER ON THE CHRISTMAS EXPRESS. THE CHRISTMAS JIGSAW MURDERS. LITTLE RED DEATH out Feb 2025 from S&S. Agent @dianabeaumont.bsky.social
Nora Epstein @noraepstein.bsky.social ❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian
❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
Yvonne Eadon, PhD @yvonnemelisande.bsky.social Lecturer in Info Studies @ Glasgow Uni | info seeking, conspiracy theories, gender & sexuality | they/she 🌈
views my own
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com White boy with some guitar chops. Haole from Hawai'i. Too weird to clank. Uncivil when necessary.
https://littlegreenfootballs.com
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
Tara Isabella Burton @notorioustib.bsky.social Ruins & rites/more poetry!!! Author: Social Creature, Strange Rites, The World Cannot Give; Self-Made; Here in Avalon
Ella Hubber @ellahubber.bsky.social Host of llepodcast.bsky.social
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives. Currently working on a book about John le Carré adaptations on TV (1966 to 2018 and beyond...). Written things for Doctor Who Magazine. I am not a number, my views are my own!
Judith Moritz @judithmoritz.bsky.social BBC Special Correspondent
BBC Panorama
Author: ‘Unmasking Lucy Letby’
https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/judith-moritz/
Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UTK Political Science
PhD, University of Kansas
MA, University of Michigan
BA, Kansas State University
Religion and politics, American political behavior, political psychology, public opinion
Mika Maliranta @maliranta.bsky.social Työn ja talouden tutkimuksen eli Laboren johtaja ja osa-aikainen taloustieteen professori Turun kauppakorkeakoulussa. Aiheita taloukasvu & työmarkkinat.
Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social Prof of Science Communication @ UZH | Director @ CHESS | PI @ Wissenschaftsbarometer Schweiz | Member @ Acatech
Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social Writer, professor, chess player. Obsessed with supply chains. Book LOGISTICS AND POWER out now from UC Press. Views mine.
Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social Written books on
Duke of Monmouth
Elizabeth I
James II & VII.
2BP July 25 Oscar Wilde
WIP Rudyard Kipling
Lipstick junkie, cat mama, Francophile, 90s music fiend.
Stuart Kells @stuartkells.bsky.social History of books, history of money. Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Institute #UniMelb. Editor #LibraryPlanet. Author of Alice, The Library, Shakespeare’s Library, Penguin & the Lane Brothers
Maria Vassilopoulos @mariavbooks.bsky.social Publishing Sales Manager/Book Trade Historian and Archivist. PhD in Book Trade History. Ex- bookseller. Book History Bite Newsletter info ⬇️
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Sarah Clegg @readingartefacts.bsky.social 
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Forbidden Histories @forbiddenhistories.bsky.social Understanding historical complexities of science-magic relationships. By Dr. Andreas Sommer (occasionally foul-mouthed researcher, formerly at Cambridge University). https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/
Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com Unemployed and looking for work. Past bylines at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, @comicsjournal.bsky.social, Gizmodo, HITS Magazine.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Andrew Hsieh @andrewonseeair.bsky.social Autistic. 30. Writer. Lib Dem 🔶. Lifelong #DoctorWho fan. Big Finish listener. Trump/Putin hater. No to generative AI slop! (he/him) #SaveTheDWS5NextTimeTrailers #TrumpIsWrongAboutEverything #NAFO #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦
https://linktr.ee/andrewhsieh96
HoaxEye @hoaxeye.bsky.social Hoax fighter and fact finder. Main tools: reverse image search and coffee. Operated by Janne Ahlberg
Website: https://hoaxeye.wordpress.com
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
@pablo-le-moko.bsky.social @pablo-le-moko.bsky.social 
Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social digital investigator // former @Bellingcat member // former adjunct at Georgetown // https://signal.me/#eu/NgJup15Ma2qMeT4LrMxTSoEjms9VQWtnut6sXW7CNidB5gEkzXJKlKpHsGXzQ9Eq
George Katz @georgekatz.bsky.social Investigations and Training @bellingcat.com
Viktorija Ign @viktorija-ign.bsky.social 6Cs Rule: 🙌 Communication, 🌱 Community, 🗺️ Culture, ☕ Coffee, 🍰 Cake, 🐈 Cats | Community Builder & Strategist | bellingcat.com
Pooja Chaudhuri @poojachaudhuri.bsky.social Researcher and trainer @bellingcat.com
Beau Donelly @beaudonelly.bsky.social Editor @bellingcat.com. Previously @thetimes.com, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald. Author: The Woman Who Fooled The World.
beaudonelly.com
Galen Reich @galen.reich.me.uk Bellingcat | Formerly BBC | PhD in Electrical Engineering | He/Him
🌐 https://galen.reich.me.uk
Eoghan @eoghanmacguire.bsky.social Journalist. Editor @Bellingcat.com. @jskstanford.bsky.social alum
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social Obsessive ship-spotting by the Bosphorus -.-. .-. .. -- . .- / .. ... / ..- -.- .-. .- .. -. . 50501
Merel Zoet @merelzoet.bsky.social Producer @Bellingcat.com
Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social Former member of Bellingcat - Berlin, Germany
Avery Schmitz @averyschmitz.bsky.social Open-source reporting @cnn.com
Views my own | avery.schmitz@cnn.com
Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social Doctoral researcher focusing on right-wing extremism @helsinki.fi | ex-Bellingcat Volunteer
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Brenna Smith @brennasmith.bsky.social WSJ visual investigative reporter.
Past: Baltimore Banner, New York Times, & Bellingcat.
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator.
http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social Digital flâneur | Open Source Researcher| GEOINT| Bellingcat GAP Project | Research 中国 & Central Africa | drinks wine & writes stuff |Views are my own |RSs ≠ endorsements
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV).
Extremely Online at http://discord.gg/bellingcat
CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.
Gabòr Friesen @gaborfriesen.bsky.social Freelance Open Source Researcher.
Studying Research Architecture @Goldsmiths
Geo-&Chronolocation/3D Modeling/CNNs/Social Media Analysis and Remote Sensing
Previous collaborations: Al Haq, Al Jazeera, Airwars/AFP, Bellingcat, CIR, CNN, The Washington Post.
Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring 
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars.
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."
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social Perhaps the real watch list was the friends we made along the way. Keyboard Inghimasi. Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex. --Dire Straits Appreciation Zone-- #Flowers4Qanon
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Attacks on Civilians with Small Drones: A Global Picture @littleflyingrobots.bsky.social Documenting, analyzing, and mapping the growing global problem of attacks on civilians with small drones, from @faineg.bsky.social. View the map of global attacks here: https://map.faineg.com/public/index.html
Konrad Iturbe @konraditurbe.dev cosas varias
Madrid, España
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Miguel Ramalho @msramalho.bsky.social Investigative Technologist @bellingcat.com
Data, Tech, Human Rights, Conflict & Financial Investigations
Signal @miguel.351
https://github.com/msramalho
Michael Sheldon @michaelsheldon.bsky.social Senior Investigator @ CIR
Formerly: Bellingcat, DFRLab
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Hisham Almiraat @almiraat.bsky.social 
Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social Investigator & trainer at Bellingcat
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Annique @annique.bsky.social Just me..
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Kayleen Devlin @kayleendevlin.bsky.social BBC Verify journalist
📧 Kayleen.devlin@bbc.co.uk
Signal: kayd.05
Unity @unitymot.bsky.social Do not try to appeal to my better nature, I don't have one. Evolved from a unisex tadpole and still bullshit intolerant.
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
The Crane Report 🗿 @thecranereport.bsky.social Watch out, watch out, there's a quack about
Preferred pronouns: I/me/mine
#QuackWatch
Dr Retro @retroramblings.bsky.social Writer, film historian, lecturer, Rondo Award-nominated freelance bonus feature creator, Wild, Wild Podcast co-host, husband and father, your man in Beijing
Matt Wardman @mattwardman.bsky.social Active travel, sometimes walking / cycling, politics & a miscellany.
Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social Fighting Disinformation since 2022.
All soups: https://vatniksoup.com/
Debunk of the Day: https://vatniksoup.com/en/topics/debunk-of-the-day/
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Catherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social Historian, filmmaker, author. Leeds.
https://youtube.com/@CatherineWarr
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Poker And Politics @pokerpolitics.bsky.social QAnon is a cult that ruins lives. 
Travis View @travisview.bsky.social Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host.
QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia.
Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, & raising giant isopods in my basement, for fun and profit.
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
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