Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Political Scientist, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Rural Politics and Health Disparities.
Website: https://www.michaeleshepherd.com
Book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo271447648.html
عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt
Aditi Malik @aditimalik.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross. Author of Playing with Fire: Parties & Political Violence in Kenya & India (CUP 2024). Political Violence | GBV | Africa & S. Asia
Boston - Delhi - Cape Town
aditimalik.net
Adam Auerbach @adamauerbach.bsky.social Associate Professor @Yale | India, South Asia, Cities, Political Economy of Development | https://tinyurl.com/4nz9v7rw
Ginny Monk @ginnymonk.bsky.social Writer, baker, runner. '26 Pulitzer winner. Investigative reporter + running an intern program for CT Mirror. Formerly investigations at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sara Kallis @sarakallis.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science @ipz.bsky.social | autocratic politics, human rights, computational social science
Matt Nelsen @mattnelsen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science | Assistant Director of GenForward Survey | Author of The Color of Civics | Civic Education Advocate | Race, Place, and Young People | All Things Chicago
Shiro Kuriwaki @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University. I study elections and representation, American Politics, and applied statistics.
www.shirokuriwaki.com
Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing https://www.ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona
https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Monika Nalepa @monikanalepa.bsky.social Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab, Global Transitional Justice Dataset, PI
"After Authoritarianism" and "Skeletons in the Closet", author.
Owned by #Badshah, the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Zhaotian Luo @luozhaotian.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science @UChicago
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Yeganeh Torbati @yjtorbati.bsky.social Reporter at The Washington Post; co-author of forthcoming book on Iran for Doubleday
kchriswell.bsky.social @kchriswell.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Miami | I study crime, violence, and citizen-state relations in Latin America
Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Researching dictatorships and the dark side of politics | https://www.adamscharpf.net/
Author of "Making a Career in Dictatorship", OUP | https://tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
azimwazeer.bsky.social @azimwazeer.bsky.social DPhil/PhD Candidate in Politics, University of Oxford
Saudi Arabia, West Asia, political economy, et al.
alexandra-blackman.bsky.social @alexandra-blackman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell, former NYU Abu Dhabi postdoc, Stanford PhD, CASA & Carnegie Endowment Fellow. Into Picasso, poetry, MENA politics, and Pittsburgh.
Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social A magazine of political commentary, analysis, and amusements.
https://linkin.bio/currentaffairsmag
Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social Assistant professor of Government @ Harvard. Studies identity, race, and immigration. https://www.marcelroman.com/
Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org The Washington, DC, region is great, and it can be greater. Transportation, housing, land use. Inquiries: info@ggwash.org
Jack Paine @jackpaine.bsky.social Political science, Emory University
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her
https://www.federica-genovese.com/
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Natan Skigin @natanski.bsky.social • Asst. Prof. at UGA (@ugaintl.bsky.social)
• Researching violence, migration, identity, and democracy in Latin America
• Website: natanskigin.com
The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of Economics in the English language. Edited by the Department of Economics at Harvard.
Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salmamousa.bsky.social Political science prof at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social Social scientist @uc3m @ic3jm.bsky.social & http://pimlab.org | political behavior, misinfo., identity (PI ERC POLARCHATS) | Before: Dartmouth, SIPA, Leiden | Works on 🇮🇳🇧🇷
www.pimlab.org
www.simonchauchard.com
Winthrop Rodgers @wrodgers2.bsky.social Journalist and analyst focused on Kurdistan and Iraq | Virginian | Bates College and Queen's University Belfast | Washington Capitals and Washington Spirit |
Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Oxford.
How liberal democracies respond to extremism and illiberalism. Liberal democracy and its others.
Washington DC, Oxford, Rome.
More info: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/ 
Amanda Weiss @amandaweiss.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cornell Department of Government.
Political methodology, causal inference, ethics, and criminal justice policy.
www.amandakweiss.com
Opinions my own, reposts not (necessarily) endorsements, etc.
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Focus on representation, elections, & public opinion. Co-Author: Dynamic Democracy, PlanScore.org, & TrueViews.org.
Mohamed Shedeed @mshedeed.bsky.social PhD Candidate @osupolisci | Data Scientist - NYC | free 🇵🇸
Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social Educator. Trumbull Town Council D5. CT Parking Reform Co-founder. UConn alum. Personal account.
Pro: homes, safe streets, utility regulation, hiking, local beer
Anti: parking mandates, snob zoning, gestapo shit
CT’s a beautiful place: let’s share it.
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Sean Gailmard @sean-gailmard.bsky.social University of California, Berkeley
Akshay Dixit @akshaydixit.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Dartmouth. Studies political economy and identity in South Asia.
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Gabriella Levy @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social AP @ U of Washington | former postdoc @ Brown U | Ph.D. from Duke U | civil wars, political violence, political psychology | gabriellalevy.net
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed @a-ezz-mohamed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science @iast.fr, ex-fellow @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social, PhD @columbiauniversity.bsky.social| MENA politics, religion and politics, distributive politics, autocracies, mixed methods
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social Reader in Politics and IR at @soasuni.bsky.social. Researcher @UJoburg. Co-Editor-in-Chief @comppol.bsky.social. Studies crime, police, vigilantism, ethnographic, interpretive, qual methods, 🇿🇦.
daraa 24 درعا24 @daraa24.org درعا 24: شبكة إعلامية مستقلة لا تتبع لأي جهة سياسية أو عسكرية، متخصّصة في نقل الأخبار والتعبير عن هموم سكان جنوب سوريا، وخاصّةً محافظة درعا، وذلك عبر فريق من المراسلين المنتشرين في معظم مناطق الجنوب.
هادي 🇸🇾 @hadealahmad.com مدونتي https://hadealahmad.com
Mateo Nelson @mateonelson.bsky.social Editor & Arabic ➡️ English translator focused on Syria
(Formerly @syriadirect.bsky.social)
Walid AL NOFAL @walid-alnofal.bsky.social صحفي سوري 🇸🇾🇸🇾
Waleed K. Salem وليد سالم الشوبكي @waleedksalem.bsky.social Egyptian scholar & journalist. Authoritarian politics; comparative judicial politics; politics of the Gulf States. صحافي مصري وباحث في العلوم السياسية
A Hoya, a Husky, and currently of Simon Fraser University.
Ronda Kaysen @rondakaysen.bsky.social Reporter @nytimes Find my work at nytimes.com/by/Ronda-kaysen
Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Bremen & WZB; political parties, social groups, Western Europe. Writing a book about identity politics, past and present.
Prev: Vandy, Stanford, EUI, MPIfG. PhD: Harvard.
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Michael Zanger-Tishler @michaelzt.bsky.social PhD candidate in sociology & social policy at Harvard, working on punishment, discrimination, predictive algorithms & quantification.
Isaac Scher @isaacscher.bsky.social reporting in The Guardian, The Intercept, Jewish Currents, etc. // master's student in history, CUNY // researcher at NYT Opinion
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
Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. Reposts ≠ Endorsement. https://linkin.bio/jodemocracy
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social History professor, author of PAPER CADAVERS, co-president of Harvard’s AAUP chapter
Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe @maranzazuru.bsky.social Political economist working at the intersection of development & conflict. Understanding & countering the effects of conflict on human capital accumulation. PSE & Sciences Po. PhD Princeton. An unapologetically loud woman.
https://www.arodriguez-uribe.com
Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social Incoming Postdoc KU Leuven and Yale ISPS || DPhil in Politics at Oxford DPIR || suffrage & migration & parties & mixed methods || 🍂🫖 klaudiawegschaider.com
Aykut Öztürk @aykutozturk.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.
https://aozturk.net
MIT Center for International Studies @mit-cis.bsky.social The Center for International Studies (CIS) supports and promotes global research and education at MIT.
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us A network of local organizations working to fix the US housing shortage. Our members win pro-housing policy change. We can help you do the same. welcomingneighbors.us.
Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social State & local politics + computational social science.
tylersimko.com
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Abbie Fielding-Smith @abbiefs.bsky.social Deputy ed of the Economist's long read section, 1843. Fan of things that are surprising, and immersively reported subcultures 
Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Associate professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.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
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/
Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social PhD student, Harvard
Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy
https://marchvidkjaer.com/
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social Volunteer Immigration. Former tracker of ICE Air flights. Retired J.P. Morgan
Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social Lawyer for people at Kline & Specter. Teach @Duqklinelaw, “Faith and Democracy.” Former representative, Marine, prosecutor. Town hall participant.
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Broadstreet Blog @broadstreetblog.bsky.social Broadstreet is an interdisciplinary blog dedicated to the study of Historical Political Economy (HPE). We are now on substack at broadstreet.blog
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
@carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social Director at the New Lines Institute researching military withdrawal, the captagon trade, and security in the Middle East | Adjunct Professor teaching on the crime-conflict nexus at Georgetown University | Past: MENA+Europe Analyst at Geopolitical Futures
David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow in political science at Aarhus University, by way of the University of Zurich. Research on deservingness, solidarity, and social cleavages in politics.
Website: https://www.davidattewell.net/
Lucy Right @lucyeright.bsky.social Postdoc @ Yale studying authoritarian politics in Cambodia
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social Union Organizer. Writer. Yinzer.
Director at Starbucks Workers United.
Author of ON THE LINE, Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
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
Ruofan Ma @ruofan-ma.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow @ MIT CIS | he, him 🏳️🌈| Labor & Human Rights, International Organization, and (in whisper voice) Methodology
https://ruofan-ma.github.io/
Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social Prof at UC Berkeley. Formal theory, political beliefs, democracy.
Associate Editor at @ajpseditor.bsky.social
https://anthlittle.github.io/
Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social government PhD student @ Harvard. alumna @ Mount Holyoke.
parties, core-periphery, always inequality.
https://www.ameliamalpas.com/
Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social Chief economics correspondent at The Wall Street Journal
Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social Climate, pollution, clean/renewable energy
Stanford U Prof, Civil & Env Eng; Director, Atmos/Energy Program
Cofounder-Solutions Project; Appeared on Letterman
Testified Held v Montana
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
Stanford.io/Jacobson
Melody Huang @melodyyhuang.bsky.social Currently @ Yale, working on causal inference & cutting down on caffeine.
Website: melodyyhuang.com
Phil Gordon @philgordondc.bsky.social Sydney Stein Jr Scholar @BrookingsInst. White House, NSC and State Department under Biden, Obama and Clinton. Only posting articles here, commenting on X.
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education