Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
Elena Grossfeld @kloosha.bsky.social PhD Researcher
War Studies, Kings College London
Russia | Intelligence | Strategic Culture | Cold War
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
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Roland Elliott Brown @rolandebrown.bsky.social Wrote Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda. Contributor to New Lines. Older articles in Foreign Policy, Guardian, Spectator, Critic, Globe and Mail, others. Host: The Orwellians podcast.
Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social Co-host of “The Rest is Classified” podcast
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Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social Academic publisher of books, journals, eBooks, textbooks, software, and online learning resources. 📚💡
USF Media Relations @usfca-pr.bsky.social Media Relations for the University of San Francisco (USF). Contact Kellie Samson for academic experts or USF news. ksamson(at)usfca(dot)edu
Tom Griffin @tcgriffin.bsky.social Author of State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory (Routledge 2022). Writing on intelligence history on substack. https://intelligencehistory.substack.com
Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social Public historian; host of The Great War and Real Time History channels on Youtube via Real Time History; History lecturer; Host of the Both Sides of the Wire podcast via Battleguide Productions.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
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joez58 @joez58.bsky.social Joe Myers Jr. Retired Navy DoD physicist. Designed lasers and other devices for assorted military and civilian purposes. Love to windsurf, ski, mountain bike. Hate fascism, xtian nationalism, science deniers, magats, ….you get the idea. Unabashed atheist.
Bill Mitchell @modalbluesky.bsky.social Musician
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Elizabeth Feifer @elizabethfeifer.bsky.social Editor, teacher, mom, married to @gregoryfeifer.bsky.social of @icwa.org (truly amazing overseas fellowship program) and compass.icwa.org (new journal about global issues)
Institute of Current World Affairs @icwa.org We advance American understanding of international cultures and affairs by sending young professionals abroad on two-year independent writing fellowships.
Rex Bowman @rexbowman.bsky.social Antifa-approved writer (ALMOST HEMINGWAY et al), translator (THE SHALONSKY FAMILY), polyglot with no gift for languages. Writings in Literary Heist, Parhelion, Great Lakes Review, Smart Set, Literary Yard, Full Stop, elsewhere.
Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social Visiting Fellow
Centre for European Studies
Australian National University
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/jon-richardson
https://theconversation.com/profiles/jon-richardson-1510140
https://insidestory.org.au/authors/jon-richardson/
Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social Research Associate at The John Carter Brown Library; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
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New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
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betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social Founded in 1901, UTP is Canada's leading scholarly publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America. utppublishing.com
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Hoover Institution @hooverinstitution.bsky.social Ideas Advancing Freedom.
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...
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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social Writer, Novelist, Raconteur - International bestselling author of the #ShadowWarriors and #LionofGod thrillers
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social How many forward rolls could you do in an emergency
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Matthijs R. Koot @cyberwar.nl IT, privacy, security, democracy. PhD. PGP: 51F9 8FC9 C92A 1165 (http://keybase.io/mrkoot). Employed as IT security specialist.
Mastodon: @mrkoot@infosec.exchange
LinkedIn: /in/mrkoot
Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
Dr Anna Marhold @drmarhold.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Director of LLM Public International Law at Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden Law School | Member of Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs | Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇨🇿🇺🇦
Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social Professor @supolisci.bsky.social and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, @maxwellsu.bsky.social, @syracuseu.bsky.social. Latest book: Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction. http://amzn.to/3gdhiFe
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) @kcsi.uk KCSI is a diverse group of leading intelligence scholars & practitioners working together to better understand the evolving global security landscape. https://kcsi.uk/ 
Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Carsten Søndergaard @carsten1634.bsky.social Former Danish Ambassador to Russia, Ireland, NATO, Germany and Turkey.
Andrei Soldatov @andreisoldatov.bsky.social Author of The Compatriots, The Red Web, The New Nobility, Senior Fellow at CEPA, King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, editor of http://Agentura.ru telegram: http://t.me/agenturaru
The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social 
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other- M Mike Nelson, Digital Policy Pioneer @michaelrnelson.bsky.social Scholar, Carnegie Endowment; Former Tech Strategy, Georgetown, Cloudflare, U.S. Senate, Clinton/Gore White House, FCC, IBM, BGOV, Microsoft. Accelerating the future of the Net and the Cloud
Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social waking up everyday in a full sprint. cyber(punk) & counterintelligence. bloody inertia interspersed with bouts of bloody frenzy. i see kanly today in everything.
#FUZZYSNUGGLYDUCK
opinions are my own.
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Jennifer Davis @jadavisdc.bsky.social Associate Professor of Intelligence Analysis, Faculty Advisor for JMU WINS, James Madison University. International law and human rights sections, ISA, research on social media and democracy, war crimes, and European affairs. jadavisdc.01 on Signal
Dan Black @danwblack.bsky.social Previously Google, NATO, 🇨🇦 Government. Views mine and mine only.
Stephen Marrin @smarrin.bsky.social Full Prof at James Madison University & Director of Intelligence Analysis program. Former CIA analyst. Editor of journal Intelligence & National Security https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
Canada Declassified @canadadeclassified.bsky.social Canada Declassified shares government documents released under the Canadian Access to Information Act-WWII, the Cold War & the Global War on Terror. By Prof. Tim Sayle. Substack➡️ canadadeclassified.ca
Full archive➡️ https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/
Conor Tobin @drconortobin.bsky.social Historian/lecturer at UCD and Maynooth University. Previously IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Book project on Carter, Brzezinski, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/44/2/237/56992
David Sterman @davidsterman.bsky.social Deputy Director, New America Future Security program
“All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror” https://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Wars-Twenty-Five-Americas/dp/1324124067/
Justin Rohrlich @justinrohrlich.bsky.social Senior news reporter in the US bureau of The Independent, lots of state and federal courts, some police, et cetera. Previously at The Daily Beast, Qz, Vice, etc. Say hi: justin.rohrlich@independent.co.uk; justin.rohrlich@the-independent.com
IntelArchive @intelarchive.io Sharing publications, events, conferences, and calls for papers from the most comprensive database on intelligence studies, IntelArchive: Intelligence Studies Database (https://intelarchive.io/).
Proudly sponsored by @kcsi.uk.
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
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Melanie Brand @melaniebrand.bsky.social Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Associate Editor, Intelligence & National Security; JPICT. Historian interested in intelligence, analysis, warning, secrecy, accountability and espionage pop culture.
Dr Aviva Guttmann @guttmannaviva.bsky.social Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, research and teaching in intelligence, strategy, history, IR, terrorism & CT
Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist
#BondianColdWar book
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https://martindbrown.substack.com/
https://www.routledge.com/The-Bondian-Cold-War-The-Transnational-Legacy-of-a-Cultural-Icon/Brown-Granieri-Blaive/p/book/9780367569365
Emma Burrows @eburrows.bsky.social AP European Security Correspondent. Previously with CNN in Moscow & ITN in London. Speak Russian & Spanish
School of International Studies @mqsois.bsky.social From international security, politics, and criminology, to languages and emerging global cultures, our world-leading researchers provide policymakers, practitioners and students the knowledge and skills needed to navigate international affairs.
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
Igor Cașu @icasu.bsky.social Historian of Soviet Union; Soviet State Terror; Soviet Famines; Soviet Nationalities Policy; Soviet Moldavia. Director at Nat.Agency of Archives, Chișinău, Moldova.
Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social International Relations @ University of South Florida & The National Security Archive. Interest: international law, CIA, covert action, secret law, human rights, and criminal accountability.
Jonathan Z Ludwig @jonathanzludwig.bsky.social Researches/writes about spies, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Taiwan, and foreign language education/national security policy. Owner/author of www.viewsfromtheheartland.com.
Michael S Goodman @msg77.bsky.social Professor and Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social Strategist || Military Writers Guild Board Member || #MilSky Admin || Intersection of Foreign Policy, Conflict, Economics, Politics, History, and Writing || Non-partisan, but not amoral || Opinions my own.
Francesco Marone @fmarone.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science UniVdA, Aosta, Italy.
Fellow / Associate ISPI, ICCT-The Hague, GWU–PoE.
Research and analysis on International Politics, Security, Violent Extremism.
Daniela Richterova @drichterova.bsky.social Associate Prof/SL in Intelligence Studies @warstudies @kcl.ac.uk www.KCSI.uk
Interests: #ColdWar #intelligence #covertops, #terrorism, USSR/Russia, CEE, #MiddleEast
Author of 📙 #WatchingTheJackals
👉 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watching-the-Jackals
Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social Assoc Professor, Virginia Tech Dept. of Political Science; Director - Tech4Humanity Lab (http://tech4humanitylab.org) Former #UARPCV Kivsharivka 🇺🇦 Head of Research, Center for European Union and Transatlantic Studies at Virginia Tech. Opinions are my own.
Kiril Avramov @avramovok.bsky.social Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Non-Resident Fellow to the Intelligence Studies Project @LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social Formerly with Dutch military intelligence (MoD) and counter-terrorism (MoJ)
Former optimist
(Opinions are mine, usual caveats apply, etc.)
Re-posting is not by definition endorsement
Paul Sonne @paulsonne.bsky.social New York Times reporter focusing on Russia/Ukraine.
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism @jpict.bsky.social The Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an international forum for new research and analysis of contemporary security issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpic20- G Gill Bennett @gillhistory.bsky.social Intelligence historian, music-lover
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Dr. Noura Chalati @nourachalati.bsky.social Advocacy @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de |
Affiliate Fellow @unierfurt.bsky.social & @zmo-berlin.bsky.social
🔎 Syria & Middle East/ MENA politics
🔎 Transnational repression & free press
🔎 Intelligence & security
🎓 on SYR-GDR intelligence relations at FU Berlin
Milo Jones @inveniam.bsky.social Senior Advisor for Geopolitics & Technology at Arcano Partners | Visiting Professor IE University | Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre | Member IISS | Former Officer USMC
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Joshua Rovner @jrovner.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Damien Van Puyvelde @dvanp.bsky.social Associate Professor | Head of Intelligence & Security Research Group @unileiden.bsky.social
Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History @usf.edu 📚 previously postdoc @durhamhistory.bsky.social & @ucddublin.bsky.social | PhD @cornelluniversity.bsky.social 👩🎓 Historian of spies, humor, and fascism in modern Europe 🕵️
Website: https://benedettacarnaghi.com
Jonas Mueller-Töwe @jmuellertoewe.bsky.social Senior Investigative Editor @t-online.de, Berlin / Reporting on Foreign influence operations, National security, Lobbying and Crime (Threema: 4E6EXA2Y)
John Sorensen @johncsorensen.bsky.social Doc filmmaker, I make podcasts and nonfiction stuff, usually about #policy, #history, #defense, #natsec, #cocktails, #movies. Snark is my own. Dog is my copilot.
Dr Steven Wagner @stevenbwagner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Security at Brunel University
Rob Person @rtperson3.bsky.social Prof. of International Relations at West Point, CFR Member. Specialist on Russian and post-Soviet politics, Eurasian foodie, partisan of tweed. Views & плов recipe my own.
Sara C @sarabcastro.bsky.social Historian and strategic thinker focused on China, global security, intel studies; all views my own -- personal account
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity.
Views own.
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Douglas Selvage @deselv.bsky.social Independent Historian. Expert on Soviet-bloc history, active measures, Stasi and KGB. RT does not mean endorsement. Views are mine, not those of my employer.
Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook. 
PJ Neal @pjneal.bsky.social By day: CEOs and corporate boards.
By night: Doctoral student at Northeastern University.
Even later at night: Historian and writer. Chef and baker. Muddling photographer. Woodworker who somehow still has all his fingers. Manservant to a cavapoo.
Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.