Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
Martin Jay @martinrjay.bsky.social Owner of maghrebi.org, ex award winning journalist with big media, loves dogs, lives on the edge of the sahara. Fired by CNN for being a good journalist. The truth really is easier to remember.
I'm not an 'impersonator' as BSK has labelled me ffs
Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social Staff campaigning against cuts and poor governance at the Australian National University.
My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social Gardener. From flack to florist. From PR to peonies. Still fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC
Association for Borderlands Studies @absborders.bsky.social 📚Leading international scholarly association on borders & borderlands
📆 Next annual meeting: March 25-28, 2026 in Albuquerque, NM
https://absborderlands.org/
Kim Correa @kimcorrea.bsky.social PhD candidate @ UBC iSchool | MLIS | she/her
Morgan Banville, PhD @banvillemorgan.bsky.social She/her | Assistant Professor of English, Fairfield University |#firstgen | Surveillance Studies | Technical Communication | @CivicsofTech Board | All opinions are mine
Laura Melnyk Gribble @melnykgribble.bsky.social Psychology Professor & Department Chair, King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada. Research in forensic psych.
https://publish.uwo.ca/~laura/
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
Mobile Info Team @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social NGO based in Greece. We provide accurate information to people disadvantaged by displacement or migration and advocate for a more just #asylum and #migration system.
https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/
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
Victoria M Basham @victoriambasham.bsky.social Posts in a personal capacity (generally about academia and politics, and occasionally about Bristol and craft beer)- T Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com Accidental Economist. Prof at Universities of Warwick & Bonn . Visiting Prof Grantham, Visiting Fellow STICERD @ LSE. ERC STG. Fellow @ CEPR & Associate Editor Economic Journal.
Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social PhD student @ Sciences Po CEE. Institutions, infrastructures, instruments, and imaginaries of environmental politics.
Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca Tech & human rights lawyer | he/him
Director, Privacy, Surveillance & Technology Program, CCLA (https://ccla.org | @CanCivLib.bsky.social)
Formerly: hrw.org | cippic.ca
Jonna Nyman @jknyman.bsky.social Teach and research international relations at the University of Sheffield. Working on security politics, China, & energy/climate issues. Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
https://jknyman.com/
Nadine Voelkner @nadinevoelkner.bsky.social Assoc Prof International Relations @ CIRR, University of Groningen. Director @ NOHA. Researching the political ecologies of microbes, disease, and disasters
Thomas Marois, CRC Public Banking @thomasmarois.bsky.social Thomas Marois is Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster University, Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Banking for Sustainability, Inclusion, and Prosperity.
Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social Lecturer in Geography, @Lborouniversity.bsky.social, author of Sovereign Atonement, #politicalgeography, #borders, #state, #sovereignty, #citizenship, #migration, #refugees, #Finland, #Bangladesh, #UK
Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org 🌏 CFR is a resource for foreign policy news and analysis.
CFR takes no institutional positions on policy. Follows, reposts, likes ≠ endorsements.
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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social International Studies Association - A community of international studies scholars.
https://linktr.ee/intlstudiesassociation
Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social Political Geographer from 🇮🇪
Concerned earthling living in Washington DC
Fabian Hofmann (he/him) @fhofmann.bsky.social Ph.D. Student, Technology and Governance (TaG) @ethz.ch
"Securing Urban Peace" Project, SNSF Doc.CH Grant: https://bit.ly/SecuringUrbanPeace
Communications Officer @jird-jour.bsky.social
Junior Organiser @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
Megan Denise Smith @megandenisesmith.bsky.social Humanitarian practitioner & independent consultant based in BCN (She/Her) | Posting on borders, migration, gender, violence, and sometimes music 🤘 | Personal account - views not those of any employer or client | RTs≠endorsements | megandenisesmith.com
European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social Europe's leading association for International Studies. Home of #PEC2026 | #EWIS2026 | EJIR | Voices in IR
Iuliia Lashchuk @yuliala.bsky.social Migration and gender, ethics and feminist philosophy, research for policy.
Research Fellow at Migration Policy Center, European University Institute
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
Philip R. Conway @prconway.bsky.social 
Henk van Houtum @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social Border Professor, Head Nijmegen Centre for Border Research @Radboud_Uni. Geopolitics of borders, migration and football. www.henkvanhoutum.nl
New book: Free the Map, A new cartography of borders and migration www.nai010.com/en/product/free-the-map/
Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social Border scholar
Prof. International studies/ Études internationales @CMR-SJ 🇨🇦
Dir. of #TeamGeopo 💡@ChaireRaoulDandurand
@UQAM.ca @BIGlobalization @big-lab.bsky.social
Chroni. @LeDevoir.com
#borders & #borderwalls
In english & en français
(views are my own)
Emily Frazier, PhD @efraziergeog.bsky.social human geographer | writing about refugees, resettlement & welcome | researching US resettlement program shifts & faith-based orgs | RT ≠ endorse
Carole G @carolegre.bsky.social 
EMMIR - Migration and Intercultural Relations @studyemmir.bsky.social Erasmus Mundus master's programme: The European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (#StudyEMMIR). 🌍 Reflexivity, identity, dialogue, & learning in 9 partner institutions in Europe, Africa, & Asia.
🔗 Learn more at emmir.org!
Bronte Alexander (she/her) @brontealexander.bsky.social Postdoc researching mobilities and military-humanitarianism
www.brontealexander.com
Jack Resists 'Sic semper tyrannis' 8647 @jack2011.bsky.social 🚫 Kleptocracy/Oligarchy, racists, ICE, the 1%, Republicans, MAGA, the Trump crime family.
💙 Ukraine, LGBTQ, Democracy, Human Rights, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, Voting Rights, the Constitution.
Retired, disabled, veteran. Dogs are the best people cats too.
NIcholas A. R. Fraser @narfraser.bsky.social (he/him) forensic systems auditor, political scientist, migration & multiculturalism expert @utoronto.ca; RT is not agreement/endorsement; #FirstGen
http://nicholasarfraser.com
@polgeographygroup.bsky.social @polgeographygroup.bsky.social https://politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/
Canadianj 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @canadianj.bsky.social Humanist. Psychologist. Social Worker. Dog mom. Friend. Ally. Political enthusiast. Foodie. Always curious!
Waiting for someone to laugh hysterically and exclaim “April Fools”. 🤡
If this is our truth, I’ll take fiction. No one can make this 💩 up!
Department of Peace Studies and International Development @bdpeaceintdev.bsky.social University of Bradford.
First Peace Studies Department in the UK.
Huub Dijstelbloem @huubdijstelbloem.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy of Science, Technology and Politics at the University of Amsterdam & Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
Stefan Manser-Egli @s-manser-egli.bsky.social Postdoc @sozunibas.bsky.social @unibas.ch on sovereign citizens (previously @unifr.bsky.social & @uva.nl); PhD University of Neuchâtel on migrant integration/ism. Vorstand @operationlibero.bsky.social. Mitinitiant @demokratie-vi.bsky.social
Thord Eriksson @thord.bsky.social Writer.
Phone, WhatsApp, Signal, Viber, Telegram: +46709710210
LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography.
We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change.
Find us at livingmaps.org.uk
Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social We are a generalist IR journal addressing contemporary world politics from a plurality of methodological and theoretical perspectives. JIRD is the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).
World Central Kitchen @wck.org WCK immediately prepares & serves fresh, nourishing meals to communities impacted by natural disasters and during humanitarian crises. #ChefsForTheWorld
Learn more: linktr.ee/wckitchen
Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | poet | she/her
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/erinlockwood/
Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social Political Theorist. University of Virginia.
Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido.
All opinions here are only mine
Colin Bennett @colinjbennett.bsky.social Privacy and surveillance author, researcher, teacher, advocate and policy wonk (not necessarily in that order) living in Victoria BC.
www.colinbennett.ca
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all. 
Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 16 and 17, 2026. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Ana Visan @anavisan.bsky.social Balsillie School researcher—borders, surveillance, migration. 
Jennifer Bettis @bittybeetz.bsky.social Research & Program Manager at the @bpri.bsky.social | place-based, policy-relevant, interdisciplinary border research | thoughts = mine #borders #canada #trade #cross-border #transboundary
Jussi P. Laine @jpluef.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Border Scholar, University of Easter Finland. Borders/Migration/Security ｜ Section Editor for the Oxford Intersection on BORDERS
Aishling Mc Morrow @aishlingmcmorrow.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations
Queen’s University Belfast
Franca Kappes @francakappes.bsky.social PhDing @gvagrad.bsky.social || Co-convenor @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social || Resilience, Disaster Migration, Nomadology || IPS, Critical Security & Mobility Studies || Bibliophile Pacifist
International Relations @ Western University @westernuir.bsky.social Collaborative program between the Departments of History and Political Science at Western University
internationalrelations.uwo.ca
ir-inquiries@uwo.ca
urban_james_ @urban-james.bsky.social 🏙 urban studies + border studies
🏳️🌈 lgbtqi+ she/her
all views my own
How fast or slow it becomes a ‘ruin’ is unknown.
– Beverly Buchanan
@urban__james__
https://www.instagram.com/urban__james__
nishat | نشاط @nishaat.bsky.social borders / migration / spatial practice
prof @ UCL urban lab
www.topologicalatlas.net
Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social Forschungsinstitut: Research for the Digital Age 🔎 | Gesellschaft und Digitalisierung 💻 | #TeamCAIS 👥| Bochum 🏙️| Willkommen beim #CAIS!
🌐 Website: https://www.cais-research.de/
📌 Impressum: https://www.cais-research.de/impressum/
Thabani Mutambasere @thabanisere.bsky.social Lecturer: African Studies and International Development @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | International Development | Migration | African Diaspora |
Book: ‘Horizontal Development’ available here: https://bristol-press.co.uk/horizontal-development
Debbie Lisle @debbielisle.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Queen’s University Belfast.
Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social Geographer. Associate Professor @ York University, Toronto. previously University of Melbourne. Political Ecology. Rivers, Borders, Sand, Dams, Climate, Justice, Southeast Asia. https://www.yorku.ca/professor/vanessa-lamb/
Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. Recent book: Violent Impacts https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social Assistant Professor studying immigration at Mercy University
https://www.chris-maggio.com
https://mercy.edu/directory/christopher-maggio
Antoine Bousquet @ajbousquet.bsky.social Martial Empiricist | Author of 'The Scientific Way of Warfare' & 'The Eye of War' | Currently has nukes & AI on the brain | Swedish Defence University
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
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
Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social Criminology lecturer at Loughborough University researching social harm and resistance strategies of people seeking safety and the communities around them. Views own
Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social Fronteriza! Migration and Security researcher at @Georgetown University. Critical border studies; high risk migration facilitation and criminalization; smuggling & trafficking. Tacos & Shawarma. Former @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @diis.dk.
Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University & Assistant Research Professor at UNC Charlotte’s Violence Prevention Center • Research Fellow @ the Kinsey Institute • Focused on gender, sexuality, and body image
Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social I write investigative and narrative stories about immigration and criminal justice for Reuters. 2x Pulitzer Prize winner. Please send story tips!
📍San Francisco
kristina.cooke@reuters.com
Signal: kristinacooke.08
Gabrielle Gagnon @gabriellegagnon.bsky.social 
Andréanne Bissonnette @andybissonnette.bsky.social Reproductive health researcher
Postdoc @bpri.bsky.social
PhD @SciencePo_UQAM
Chercheuse associée #Geopo #US @RDandurand
#ReproJustice #borders #feminism #health #migration
Noran Fouad @noranfouad.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Politics @Manchester Metropolitan University | Associate Fellow @RUSI | Ex @University of Oxford | PhD from @University of Sussex | Cybersecurity, Critical Security Studies, International Relations
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Mike Crawley - CBC News @cbcqueenspark.bsky.social Senior reporter @CBCNews covering Ontario politics on TV, radio & web. Dad, runner, XC skier, reader, cookie baker. #GoHabsGo Tips: DM or email mike.crawley@cbc.ca
Netflix @netflix.com One Last Time
Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Researches borders, human mobilities and social reproduction. Parent and southern feminist. Home is #Canada & #Venezuela #Borders #Haiti #DR #Care #DAWNfeminist Also, #cats 🐱 mllavaneras.com
Katie @katiekats.bsky.social Lapsed PhD/academic. Union thug. Politics. Sports. The politics of sport. Cats.
My favourite reality TV shows are: Toronto Maple Leafs, Arsenal, Motherwell, Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto FC, Buffalo Bills
#MakeTinyChanges
📍Toronto
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social Senior Legal Analyst for the Constitution Project at @pogowatchdog. Trying to annoy CBP for rights violations as badly as I used to annoy the CIA. Personal account; views are my own, etc.
Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com He/Him. I work on security, borders, and migration at the Washington Office on Latin America (my views, not necessarily theirs). I'm also at wola.org, adamisacson.com, borderoversight.org, Mastodon elefanti.co/@adam
Jennifer Lloyd, Ph.D. @jevlloyd.bsky.social 
Amérika García Grewal, M.S. @amerikaintl.bsky.social Infinitely curious Texan dedicated to democracy, the inherent worth and dignity of every person, and a free and responsible search for truth. She/her/ella
Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofGlasgow. Looking at migrants contesting borders/RLOs in Egypt. Critical Border and Migration Studies. I ❤️ Cairo’s Street 🐈 🐈⬛. Always missing NEPA Summer Bazaars. 🍉🇸🇩
Els de Graauw @edegraauw.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Migration Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Love dachshunds & the outdoors. 
Rebecca Galemba @rgalemba.bsky.social Professor at Josef Korbel School. Co-Director DU Center for Immigration Policy & Research. Author: Contraband Corridor (Stanford Press 2017) and Laboring for Justice (Stanford Press 2023). Migration, borders, wage theft, Latin America
Ry Siggelkow @rysiggelkow.bsky.social Co-founder of grassroots migrant justice org Pueblos de Lucha y Esperanza (MN) | somos de la tierra y la tierra no tiene fronteras | Mennonite minister | director & professor | anti-disciplinary theologian | still writing a book on Ernst Käsemann
Emily Mitchell-Eaton @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social Feminist political geographer | migration citizenship race decolonization | Asst Prof @Colgateuniv | Author, New Destinations of Empire @UGAPress | she/her | views my own
Eleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net critical refugee studies, Mediterranean migration, testimony, crisis, new project on protection | asst prof @ UOregon
book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/emergency-in-transit/paper
website: https://eleanorbpaynter.net/
Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social Geographer at the Universitat de Girona. Cities, labor, politics of AI/robots/automation. CAT/ENG/ESP 🏳️🌈
Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social Former US Air Force intelligence officer. Surveillance practitioner turned critic. #AffirmativeEthics #AntiMilitarism #AntiRacism #BanWeaponizedAI #QuestionSuperiority
Corey Robinson @corey-robinson.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in International Relations | University of Glasgow
Human Smuggling, Borders, Asylum, Externalization, Climate Displacement, Deportation, Global Migration Governance, Far-right, Conspiracy Theory, Neoreaction
www.coreyrobinson.ca
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.