Beth Gardiner @bethgardiner.bsky.social Journalist, author of PLASTIC INC. Buy US http://bit.ly/4hTHGFh Buy UK http://bit.ly/3LTjHdi And CHOKED #airpollution book. Bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, NatGeo, Scientific American, & more. AP alum. bethgardiner.com
Konstantin Kakaes @kkakaes.bsky.social Editor, Reporter and Writer.
Anna Colletto @agcolletto.bsky.social Education Reporter, Tulsa Flyer | optimist, loud-talker | #mizzoumafia | Tips/comments? Email me at anna@tulsaflyer.org
The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social The human, budgetary, environmental, and social costs of U.S. wars and military operations, at home and abroad. Housed at Brown University's Watson School of International and Public Affairs at costsofwar.org.
Andy Orrock @andyorrock.bsky.social Dallas, TX, USA
Kansas City Public Library @kclibrary.bsky.social The Kansas City Public Library cultivates connection through experiences that educate, empower, and celebrate our stories.
@sophieleonard.bsky.social @sophieleonard.bsky.social 
Michael Hudson @michaelwhudson.bsky.social Pulitzer-sharing journo + author
current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS
prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times
linktr.ee/michaelwhudson
Ted Genoways @genoways.bsky.social • Author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
• Senior editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network
• Contributing writer at Mother Jones
tedgenoways.com
Paul Glasgow @paulglasgow.bsky.social 
Bryce Oates @bryceoates.bsky.social I write about rural people, places, policy, and politics. No billionaires. No bullies. Smartassery encouraged. Read my newsletter on rural politics and policy: https://thecocklebur.substack.com/
Oliver Gottfried @olivergottfried.bsky.social Recovering political staffer : Pork Enthusiast : Campaigner at Oxfam but snarky posts are my own.
Pete Tucker @petetucker.bsky.social Slow runner and writer. Contributor at FAIR, Truthdig and Counterpunch. Also on Substack
Ben Lilliston @benlilliston.bsky.social Tracking the intersection of trade, climate and farm policy. @iatp.bsky.social
Kristin Bowen @kristinbowencomo.bsky.social editor. Hickman High School PTSA president, 2023-24. Missouri volunteer for Moms Demand Action. my posts are mine.
Vaughn Wheat @vaughnwheat.bsky.social kansas city 📍| photo editor for JCCC’s student newspaper | photography intern for @thebeacon.bsky.social | he/him
Jeannie Berg @jeannierb.bsky.social Rural progressive, serious organic apple growing aficionado, fan of cats and outdoor art. Forging a path through scleromyositis, ILD and PAH.
Mel Creveling @melcreveling.bsky.social Army brat turned KC native (Go Chiefs!), teacher, wife to super Bills fan, boy mom of 3 brainwashed super Bills fans
Clara Bates @clarabates.bsky.social 
Kathy Gilsinan @kgilsinan.bsky.social Midwesterner. Rugged indoorsman. "Glorious weirdo" per @dgraham.bsky.social.
Senior staff writer, @Politico.com Magazine. Author for @wwnorton.com. Formerly @Puck.news, @TheAtlantic.com, @wpr.bsky.social.
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Dónal Griffin @donalgriffin.bsky.social Bloomberg News finance reporter in London.
Tips at dgriffin10@bloomberg.net//Signal: donalgriffin.97
Stories: www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQDQOc_taYU/donal-griffin
Steve Reddicliffe @steveredd13.bsky.social Editor, new NYT Essential Book of Cocktails. Prev: NYT (Intl Edition, Travel, Media), TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly.
Sarah Scoles @sarahscoles.bsky.social Journalist, universe liker, mountain scaler, Custer County Search and Rescue member, contributor to Undark and Scientific American, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons. Etc.
Emma Steiner @emmasteiner.bsky.social sr researcher @ campaign legal center, views my own. lover of voting rights, birds, ancient rome.
Katherine Krueger @kathkrueger.bsky.social are we having fun yet
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social Cartoonist
Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/
Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social Senior Editor, Lawfare. Practiced law a long time ago. Email: roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org ; signal rparloff.61
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Austin Carr @austincarr.bsky.social Features writer at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine & Bloomberg News.
Signal: acarr.54
X: https://x.com/AustinCarr
Edgar Underboss Binsky @edgubbins.bsky.social 
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
Jenifer Vaughan @jenifervaughan.bsky.social Chief External Relations @crisisgroup ex 🇺🇳 UNEnvoySyria UNHCR, OCHA, Al Jazeera, CNN, Yale Fellow; Peabody, Gracie award winner
James Sadri @halfiranian.bsky.social migrant. one leg of @ledbydonkeys.org
Joanna Wren @1962wrenbskysocia.bsky.social 'Rise like tigers after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few'
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Peter Bouckaert @bouckap.bsky.social I am a passionate human rights activist, conservationist, permaculture farmer, father. Current senior director at Fortify Rights, building local human rights capacity in Asia. Living in Madagascar.- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Brian Whitaker @brianwhitaker.bsky.social Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East', plus several other books about the region. Website: al-bab.com
Paul Conroy @reflextv.bsky.social Kramatorsk based Photojournalist and author of Under The Wire. Covering the war in Ukraine since March, 22. @Noosphere contributor . UK board member RSF.
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social Associate Prof in Media and Global Development @ University of East Anglia
Researching borders & camps | resistance & solidarity | transparency, #FOI & public spheres
Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social Professor on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
📍IST/NYC
Razan S @razanspeaks.bsky.social Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories.
Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
Daragh Murray @daragh.bsky.social Reader in International Law & Human Rights @QMUL_HSS. @UKRI_News FLF project on human rights impacts of AI & surveillance technology (Jan 2021). He/His. Newsletter: http://AIHumanRights.Blog
Benzion Sanders @benzi.bsky.social Tired father in Jerusalem
Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social Senior fellow @obi-belonging.bsky.social Berkeley. Founding ed at The Lead, co-founder +972 Magazine. Bylines NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz etc. Exploring long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
🍉 🗝️ 🌻
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Antoine Hasday @antoinehasday.bsky.social Journaliste raisonnablement indépendant. Marottes: défense, sécurité, IA, environnement, sports de combat. Chez @collectifyoupress.bsky.social, @ajdpresse.bsky.social et au bureau de @ajtransparence.bsky.social. Crie aussi dans des micros.
Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018), "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), and host of Balkanomnicon podcast.
🌐 https://jasminmujanovic.com
🌐 https://balkanomnicon.com/
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social Associate Professor, St. Mary’s University (TX). Fmrly Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, University of Essex. Mostly posting: human rights, business & human rights / #BizHumanRights, international economic law & transitional justice. And Taylor Swift.
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
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/
Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم @fadahjassem.bsky.social Head of Data Visualisation 📊@TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi
#Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists)
(Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social Poetician and Antifa from Iceland.
Former Captain in, and co-creator of, the Pirate Party. 8 years as an elected activist in parliament. Co-produced Collateral Murder. A annoying fly in the tent. Care about: Mother Earth & all her creatures 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌏
Gianluca Mezzofiore @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social Editor, OSINT and visual investigations @CNN
Email: gianluca.mezzofiore@cnn.com
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social Journalist/factchecker. Co-host podcast @computerenpodcast.bsky.social
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com
🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha.bsky.social The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead. Currently writing a book. tech x conflict x human rights. friend to cats. manishaganguly.com
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social Report + edit @us.theguardian.com | Past: visual investigations @forensicarchi.bsky.social (The Murder of June Knightly https://vimeo.com/913426020) and @theintercept.com (Meet the Riot Squad https://vimeo.com/935228869) | +2,500 @nytimes.com bylines
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact