Isabelle Stephanblome @isabelleste.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt @prif.org I Research Group Radicalization I Critical Security Studies, Discourses and Practices of National Security, Rule of Law
Roa Powell @roapowell.bsky.social senior research fellow at IPPR working on AI.
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and extremism researcher at University of Exeter, Co-Director of the Centre for Computational Social Science (@C2S2exeter.bsky.social) and .gif connoisseur.
Alex MacEachern @alexmaceachern.bsky.social Recovering lawyer with a decade of experience in digital transformation and the scars to prove it. Loves this stuff 🌊🐶📚🥋From Ottawa but now on Vancouver Island. Works @publicdigital
m mosier @mmosier.bsky.social democracy, risk & resilience | law + emergent technology |
Jeffrey Love @jj-love.bsky.social Sanctions and Economic Statecraft
International Relations at Oxford
Joshua Shangobiyi @joshuashangobiyi.bsky.social Writer | Recent Graduate (BA in International Relations and Politics)
Jessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social
@muniramustaffa.bsky.social @muniramustaffa.bsky.social
@conorgearty.bsky.social @conorgearty.bsky.social
Rumyana van Ark @rvanark.bsky.social Senior Researcher @tmcasser.bsky.social/ @uvalawschool.bsky.social
#HumanRights #internationalLaw #Counterterrorism #Extremism. Mum 🐥🐣 tri-lingual ruminations and (re-)posts all my own.
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social Associate Prof Security Studies School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Visiting Prof at NetLab Federal Univeristy of Rio de Janeiro. Co-founder Erasmus IMSISS. Into conspiracies & disinformation lately (academically)
Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social International politics academic, interested in security, (counter)terrorism, identity, memory, time.
Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social BMFTR-Forschungsverbund "Deutungskämpfe im Übergang" | Peace and Conflict Research | comprising the Universities of Augsburg, Bayreuth, and Erlangen-Nürnberg & Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History | https://conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/
Michael Soules @michaeljsoules.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. Studies rebel recruitment and indoctrination, gender and conflict, and terrorism during civil wars.
https://www.michaelsoules.com
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Stuart Macdonald @s-macdonald.bsky.social Professor of Law, Swansea University. Coordinator, VOX-Pol Network. Director, VOX-Pol Institute. Co-Director, CYTREC.
Counterterrorism, online harms, criminal law, human rights.
Vanja Zdjelar @vanjazed.bsky.social PhD Student | School of Criminolgoy
Simon Fraser University
Alice Martini @alicecmartini.bsky.social Just another IR scholar @CCPPySOCUCM | (Counter-)Terrorism, Security, (b)orders, MENA | Punk-rock listener
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
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
Amar Mustafa | امار مصطفى @amarmustafa.bsky.social Co-founder of @atharmagazine and @banatarchive | Historian | MA student at @MonashPolsIR | own views, RT & likes ≠ Endorse
UBC SPPGA @sppga.ubc.ca As an interdisciplinary hub, the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) leads in research, innovation & learning on policy & global affairs.
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca
Zach Brown @zachthebrown.bsky.social UW PhD Student, Department of Sociology. Interested in political radicalization, online social movements, and conspiracy theories.
Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social Global advocacy lead for child protection & development @Unicef in New York. Author, campaigner, Dad & work in progress. First book Trauma Proof out soon. Literary representation by https://www.foliolit.com/ NYC
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
@ericabarbarossa.bsky.social @ericabarbarossa.bsky.social
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social Washington correspondent for The New York Times focused on cyber conflict, digital espionage and intelligence. Prior stops at WSJ, Reuters, National Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dustin-volz
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Nate Persily @persily.bsky.social James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Del Harvey @delbius.bsky.social Still optimistic about people. Trust & Safety believer. Community theater enthusiast.
More about me at delbius.com!
David Sullivan @davidsullivan.bsky.social Tech policy, human rights, trust & safety. Raised in Brooklyn, based in Boulder. @david_msullivan elsewhere. Posts auto delete.
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
Charlotte Willner @charlottewillner.bsky.social You fell victim to one of the classic blunders: following me for trust and safety content. Enjoy the egg memes.
Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. I’ve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :)
Naomi Shiffman @naomishiffman.bsky.social data & implementation at the Oversight Board | formerly academics + researchers at CrowdTangle / Meta | fellow at the Integrity Institute and Atlantic Council’s DFRLab | advisor at Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity
Eli Sugarman @elisugarman.bsky.social Personal account. Trust and safety/philanthropy/cyber/tech policy. All views are my own and not those of my employer. Following and re-blueskying(?) =/= endorsement.
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Stanford Internet Observatory @stanfordio.bsky.social The Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program studying the abuse of the Internet and providing thoughtful policy and technical solutions.
Oversight Board @oversightboard.bsky.social Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook and Instagram through binding decisions on content and policy recommendations.
www.oversightboard.com
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social International Studies Association - A community of international studies scholars.
https://linktr.ee/intlstudiesassociation
ROOST @roost.tools We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a non-profit building and maintaining open source, accessible, high-quality, transparent safety tools for digital organizations of all kinds.
roost.tools
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Thomas Fraise @thfraise.bsky.social Nuclear weapons, deterrence, secrecy, and democracy.
Currently, Univ. of Copenhagen & Nuclear Knowledges. Co-editor in chief of PARISS Journal.
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social PhD | Canada Research Chair in Digital Extremism and Assistant Professor | Co-director of Research at the Canadian Institute for Far Right Studies | Alienated Westerner
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Katy Vaughan @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law.
Member of CYTREC, VOX-Pol, Christchurch Call Advisory Network.
Legal Ed, Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights, Digital Rights.
Jason Blazakis @jason-blazakis.bsky.social I am the Executive Director (and Professor) of the Middlebury Institute's Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. I am sanctioned by Vladimir Putin and once headed up the State Department's counterterrorism sanctions office.
Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social Building a threat intelligence company in the depths of the Nordic forest - www.Revontulet.co. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
Jonathan Collins @joncollins.bsky.social PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
#extremism #alt-tech #far-right #conspiracies #socialmedia
Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas.
https://foreignpolicy.com/
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Sara Zeiger @sarazeiger.bsky.social TikTok Trust & Safety. Counterterrorism nerd. Ex Hedayah.
RAND @rand.org We arm leaders with the information they need to tackle the toughest policy problems. Nonprofit, nonpartisan. 📥 Get our newsletter: https://bit.ly/4haSUVK
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Accelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social ARC is dedicated to a collaborative, empirical approach to understanding and addressing the threat of accelerationism to democratic societies.
Counter Terrorism Policing @terrorismpolice.bsky.social Account occupied to prevent misuse. Do not report crime here.
Report at http://gov.uk/ACT, or 999 in an emergency
All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social Our organization is committed to tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned w/ the public interest. Join us at AllTechIsHuman.org | Hello@AllTechIsHuman.org
PERIL @perilresearch.bsky.social Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, School of Public Affairs. We design, test, & scale up evidence-based tools to help communities prevent & respond to hate & violence. https://perilresearch.com
MIT Technology Review DE @technologyreview.de News aus Wissenschaft und Technik 🔬
http://t3n.de/impressum | http://t3n.de/datenschutz
Rim-Sarah Alouane, Ph.D. @rim-sarah.eurosky.social Ph.D. in Public Law | Researcher in Constitutional Law, Discrimination, Human Rights, Religious Freedom & Civil Liberties in France, Europe, & North America | Open Science| Opinions my own | Team Chocolatine.
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.
Jenifer Vaughan @jenifervaughan.bsky.social Chief External Relations @crisisgroup ex 🇺🇳 UNEnvoySyria UNHCR, OCHA, Al Jazeera, CNN, Yale Fellow; Peabody, Gracie award winner
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
Orla lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social Psychologist working on extremism, CVE, victimology and other stuff - Prof of Criminology - UCC - Cork Ireland
David Lawrence @dlhnh.bsky.social Senior Researcher at HOPE not hate: @hopenothate.org.uk
Adam Ravnkilde 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @adarav.bsky.social Counterterrorism Coordinator @DanishMFA.bsky.social | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark | P/CVE/CT | Peace and Security | Personal account.
https://dk.linkedin.com/in/ravnkilde
https://um.dk/en
Mike Jensen @mikeajensen.bsky.social Extremism researcher at the START center, University of Maryland.
Ruiqian (Richie) Li, Ph.D. @lordrichie.bsky.social Posts are mine. RT ≠ Endorsement. Research Assistant Professor at American University, Senior Researcher at perilresearch.com. Social scientist on religion, politics, and nationalism. Big foodie.
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
Becca Lucas @beccalpaine.bsky.social PhD candidate at KCL studying defence industry through the manufacture of UAVs. Turkish policy wonk in my spare time. Formerly of RAND Europe and RUSI. All opinions my own.
@svanhildur.bsky.social @svanhildur.bsky.social Assoc Prof of political science and public admin at Uni of Iceland. Live in Reykjavik. Study international organizations, bureaucracies, quant methods.
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
WhatsApp 📱: https://bit.ly/4h0M5FQ
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social Dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social Professor, researcher, consultant, trainer.
Political violence, social movements, OSINT, (cyber)security, tech & law.
Director @ prosecutionproject.bsky.social & peacejusticestudies.org
Ⓐ/Ⓥdad x 4+🐶🐶
https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu
Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social Counterterrorism practitioner and former UN war crimes investigator. Author of Avoiding the Terrorist Trap. Personal tweets, retweets ≠ endorsement 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
Paul Evans @pdevans.bsky.social Interested in influence, terrorism, and conflict. Former FCDO. From Bristol.
Rebekah Tweed @rebekahtweed.bsky.social Executive Director of All Tech Is Human | Responsible Tech | AI Governance
House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social House Committee responsible for foreign policy legislation and oversight | Ranking Member (RM) Gregory W. Meeks
Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social Foreign and national security Advisor to 22nd Prime Minister of Canada. Director of Policy for two Foreign Ministers. NatSecurity, nuclear, energy, and climate.
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night, apparently
THE POPE'S HITMAN (10/27/2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture