Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Loh Soon How @lohsoonhow.bsky.social PhD-ing at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • culture, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, nationalism, racialisation • lohsoonhow.com
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social Professor at LSE| Feminist Political Theorist|Own Views|
Thinking and writing on human rights|Anti-imperial epistemic justice|Conceptual Diversity| Rights politics in most of the world| Recent book📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social Director, Research & Analysis @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Migration + Cities, Asian digital diaspora. Pediatric transplant mom.
@renusingh.bsky.social @renusingh.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Durham University | Scholar, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown Law | Research Ambassador, DAAD | Ed Board, PLOSGPH | Bay Stater | Public School Kid | website: http://renu-singh.com/
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) is a centre of advanced research, debate and dialogue across any kind of boundary, intellectual or institutional.
Jan Eijking @janeijking.com International Relations Theory & History. Postdoc at University of Antwerp, formerly University of Oxford.
Out now:
"The Technocratic International" (OUP)
"Experts in a Turbulent World" (ed) (OUP)
www.janeijking.com
Silvia Almenara Niebla @silviamaresia.bsky.social Feminist 🇮🇨 | Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid| ECHO member at Vrije Universiteit Brussel| Vice-chair at ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media| Researching #Media, #Migration, #Borders and #Emotions
Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University.
AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
https://provokedeconomy.net/
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 殷莉 @elengebretsen.bsky.social she/they
Professor of Gender Research; scholar activist; researching gender+sexual diversities, global anti-gender politics + queer resistance; future of democracy; climate justice; China, Sinosphere + Nordic Europe. Captain of SV Rabagast (HR P28 1973).
Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social IR theory, world order, non-state actors, hybrid and irregular warfare, new medievalism, postmodernity.
Research Associate at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Fellow at the Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
Helen Jin Kim @helenjinkim.bsky.social Associate professor of American religious history at Emory | Author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (OUP 2022) | Book interview: https://youtu.be/uDcAF3oJtTg?si=LiVT_sRwf74xOU-W
Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social I like big navies and I cannot lie. Navy Reservist | CIMSEC | Asian Security | ex-Citi, AEI, USSC, Twitter, Pacific Forum, US Pacific Fleet | Proud Idahoan | Opinions mine, but you're welcome to adopt them
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue Freelance writer/editor/translator | Last seen managing the China Media Project | Before that: TaiwanPlus, The Washington Post, Hong Kong Free Press, TIME, dpa
📍 Hong Kong
Kiwi Ting @kiwiting.bsky.social Political Scientist | Formerly @lsegovernment.bsky.social @UniofReading | Parliamentary studies | Political career | 🇬🇧 & 🇭🇰 politics | Views are mine
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social Social sciences journal publishing new research on #identities, #race, #ethnicity & #culture since 1994. Published by Taylor & Francis. https://linktr.ee/identitiesjournal
Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social Research in service of movement building. We connect feminist thought, organising, and racial justice strategies.
🔗 linktr.ee/thefeministcentre
Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social Professor of Dutch Politics at Leiden University | Extremism, populism, radicalism scholar | Board member IISG Amsterdam and Wiardi Beckman Foundation | Allotmenteer | Zeeuws meisje |
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social Lecturer in the politics of race & decolonial studies / IR lover researching terror & migration-security/ Black Muslim feminist killjoy | https://colouredacademia.wordpress.com
Debbie Lisle @debbielisle.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Queen’s University Belfast.
Kristy Bryant 徐愛童 @kristybryant.bsky.social Fellow at Oxford China Policy Lab | Head of Research @ The British Asian Collective | China-West relations, media, AI, tech, governance, identity politics| https://hsukristy.substack.com/
DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social Un sy'n ceisio cerdded i ffwrdd o Omelas. Ffuglen wyddonol ac yn y blaen. "Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood." -Lu Xun
Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in international political economy at University of Durham, working on neoliberalism, Silicon Valley and psychoanalysis
Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social "I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Jack Copley @jackcopley.bsky.social Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere.
Host: @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Producer: @alexjrlewis.bsky.social
Listen at http://thedigradio.com
Give $$ http://patreon.com/user?u=4839800
SGIA Durham @sgiadurham.bsky.social School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University
https://durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/school-government-international-affairs/
Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social disaffected glass-half-empty type; starting to think belatedly about more than humans
📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
Sixth Tone @sixthtone.bsky.social Fresh voices from today's China — news, features & commentary from a human perspective. Also on Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, & YouTube.
Website: www.sixthtone.com
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Shaun O'Dwyer @shaunodwyer.bsky.social Professor, Kyushu University
Author, "Confucianism's Prospects" (SUNY 2019), Editor, "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" (AUP, 2022), editor "Confucianism at War, 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2024)
https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/100017990_en.html
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social Campaigning on and off the water to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and for freedom of movement for all Palestinians.
https://linktr.ee/freedomflotillacoalition 
YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social I really f**king love Hong Kong, and Funassyi!
Bluesky user #55,617 -- joined in May 2023! -- but am also "over there" too. Yes, I'm still straddling between Twitter and here (because there still are not enough Hongkongers and Funassyi fans here!).
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford
Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social The home of Political Studies since 1950. We advance, support & promote the global study of Politics & International Relations. psa.ac.uk
Become a PSA member http://psa.ac.uk/members
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
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Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech
https://linzhangweb.org/
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social Researching US-China in outer space and nuclear politics at the University of Copenhagen.
https://ritualdeterrence.eu/
Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group | A Welcoming Space for Creative, Critical, and Experimental Research in IR
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Jo Sharp 🏳️🌈🏴🇪🇺 @profjosharp.bsky.social Geographer, feminist, bidie-in, unapologetic sci-fi nerd (she/her).
Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social The Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN) brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics
Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Elif Kalaycioglu @elifkalay.bsky.social Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama. Writes on world heritage politics, cultural diversity, politics of humanity.
I have a book - "Politics of World Heritage" - https://academic.oup.com/book/59660
Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one
My Triptych newsletter:
https://triptych.oxus.net/
Ian Liujia Tian @ianliujiatian.bsky.social Queer marxism and other historical materialism tendencies. X survivor, Assistant pro of WGS, Mount Saint Vincent University, Mi'kmaq Nation.
你法我笑的Dictator Yang📄🏳️🌈🌻🍉🐚 #pray4jade @y-wenli.bsky.social S.I.N.O.(Socialist.In.Name.Only)-phobic 中特社掘墓人，「馬鹿主義接班人」，anti-支黑，anti-大中華膠，World’s #1 Luol-Dengist🏀🐐(dengoids dni)
战无不胜的罗尔·邓思想万岁！！！
(he/him/他)
Ben Mulvey @benmulvey.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) @UofGlasgow, researching and posting about China, higher education, Sino-African engagement, academic freedom.
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
Newsletter:
bostonreview.net/newsletter
Subscribe:
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social British International Studies Association - Engaging the global international studies community. We're known for our working groups, journals, postgraduate network, funding, conference and more!
Website: www.bisa.ac.uk
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post.
Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics.
All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Resul Umit @resulumit.bsky.social Political scientist. Associate professor in comparative politics, @durham.ac.uk.
https://resulumit.com/
Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social Asst Prof. in media studies @UoGroningen. Comparative research on digital vigilantism, visibility, participatory surveillance & digital cultures.
https://qianxeniahuang.super.site/
Space and Polity @spaceandpolity.bsky.social a peer-reviewed international journal featuring critical work on politics and space: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cspp20
Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social Associate Professor University of Sussex | Director Centre for Advanced Intternational Theory | FRHistS. Historical IR, Intellectual History, Practices, Emotions. Personal account. RT ≠ endorsement
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at Uni Sussex working on libidinal & political economies of (liberal) war and violence in the 'colonial present'; Feminist, queer & anticolonial thought & struggles.
London | Aqueerius, middle-aged | she/her
Personal account
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in IR and Security, University of Warwick.
I write about the far-right and borders, sometimes emotions and sometimes memes.
Strong opinions about Science Fiction. 
Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
CADAAD Network @cadaad.bsky.social Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
An open community of researchers who critically engaged with discourse and society
niharika pandit @niharikaan.bsky.social research/write/teach on gender, militarism, coloniality, everyday politics & anti-imperial feminisms. co-plotting insurgent knowledges. lecturer in sociology QMUL. she/they
part-time poet, talib-e-ilm//talib-e-qalb
Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him
Articles/publications here: https://monash.academia.edu/BenjaminMoffitt
Linjie Dai @linjiedai.bsky.social PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison