Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social Rebellion and liberation and direct action and anarchism and queer stuff and militarism and policing and empire and cricket and cats and tired grumpy academia
BISA CRIPT Working Group @bisacript.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the British International Studies Association (BISA) Contemporary Research in International Political Theory (CRIPT) Working Group.
https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/cript
cript.group@bisa.ac.uk
Anya (Anna) Tolstukhina 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anyatolstukhina.bsky.social (imposter)researcher of hegemonic femininity and militarism, full-time silly goose
she/her
@hizza80.bsky.social @hizza80.bsky.social
Yrsa Landström @yrsaland.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Swedish Defence University.
Deradicalisation, terrorism, affect/feelings, relational-process ontology, assemblages, becomings, micropolitics.
Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social The UK based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
Anna Danielsson @dradanielsson.bsky.social Associate Professor (Docent) in War Studies, Swedish Defence University. Researching urban war and warfare, urbicide, military epistemics, politics of knowledge and expertise, urban peacebuilding, social theory.
Morgane Desoutter @morganedes.bsky.social PhD researcher and lecturer at the university of Magdeburg, Germany. She/Her. Co-Editor of the Popular Culture & World Politics book series. Working on films, TikTok, war and gender.
Jamie Johnson @jamcjo.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations. Researches liberalism's wars, crises, and scandals.
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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Sven Altenburger @svenaltenburger.bsky.social Political Theorist. Postdoc, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford. Military Institutions, Conscription, Citizenship. svenaltenburger.com
Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities @sussexcgi.bsky.social The Centre for Global Insecurities is a research centre at the University of Sussex that rethinks the formations, geographies and embodied experiences of insecurities to reimagine pathways to security in our complex and interconnected world.
Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social Academic @york.ac.uk
Sociology of Professions / Critical Management Studies / History
Lara Montesinos Coleman @laramonteco.bsky.social Professor of International Law, Ethics and Political Economy | Author Struggles for the Human (Duke 2024), lyrics and other writings | Moonlighting singer |
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social Arms trade, militarism, global insecurities and global (dis)order @ Uni Sussex and Shadow World Investigations
David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social Assoc Prof in IR at Sussex Global Studies | Student of borderworlds, conflict & karaoke in and around Myanmar | Author of Rebel Politics: https://bit.ly/RebPol
UofG School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsps.bsky.social Welcome to the School of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Through teaching and research, we're tackling the key social and political challenges of our time. Join #TeamUofG | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/
Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social Hi 👋 this is the official page for Politics and International Relations @dmuleicester🎓
School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social The School of Politics and Economics at King's College London, home to the Department of Political Economy, Department of European and International Studies, the King's Russia Institute and the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.
E-mail: spe@kcl.ac.uk
Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social This account posts updates from the Centre of Advanced International Studies at the University of Exeter.
Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social Highlighting the research, teaching and community activities of staff and students at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, on the west coast of Wales.
Politics at Southampton @sotonpolitics.bsky.social News and updates from Politics & International Relations at University of Southampton
A top 20 UK Politics Department.
POLIS @oupolitics.bsky.social Department of Politics and International Studies at The Open University
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social Home to Criminology, Social Statistics, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Law, Social Anthropology and Sociology at
@official-uom.bsky.social
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/
Newcastle University Politics @nclpolitics.bsky.social Newcastle University Politics Department. Engaging with past and present staff, students and the wider political community. Prospective students get in touch!
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/about/about-politics/
SwanseaUni_PPIR @swanseaunippir.bsky.social Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations at Swansea University, Wales, UK.
POLIS at Leeds @polisatleeds.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds
School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social
Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social Top 100 globally in QS 2025 World University Rankings. Part of @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social at @tcddublin.bsky.social
https://www.tcd.ie/political-science/
UCD Politics and International Relations @ucdpolitics.bsky.social Official account of the UCD School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe). University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
https://www.ucd.ie/spire/
Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social PAIS are great at what we do; Comparative Politics, IR & Security, Political Theory, IPE, Environmental Politics and more.
INCORE Ulster University @ulsteruniincore.bsky.social INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster University. Research, teaching and action addressing the causes and consequences of conflict.
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social Academic working on IR with occasional forays into other disciplines.
Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social Lecturer in IR and Political Theory at University of St Andrews. Interested in: Migration | Rights | Borders | Digital Tech | Activism
When not working, I’m travelling, eating nice food, and being a mum to Chocolate Labrador Bonnie.
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
Marine Guéguin @marinegueguin.bsky.social Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds |
Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast
Rabea M. Khan @rmkhan.bsky.social Lecturer in IR at Liverpool John Moores Uni, Co-convenor of BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
Critical Religion | Race | Gender | Discourse | Post- and Decolonial Theory | Abolition
Profile: https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/17835-rabea-khan
Alice Finden @aliceellafinden.bsky.social Assistant Professor of International Politics at Durham University. Research in areas of feminism and gender, counter terrorism, colonialism, archives, methods she/her
Ebony Young @ebonyyoung.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. Researching posthuman approaches to space, climate change and sovereignty. BISA ECP co-convenor.
Raquel da Silva @raquelbdasilva.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations @ucoimbra │ Researcher @CEI-Iscte │ Interested in #politicalviolence #lifestories #politicalnarratives
Daeun Jung @daeunljung.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick | Peacekeeping, Legitimacy & legitimation, AU-UN partnership
European Political Science Review @epsrjournal.bsky.social European Political Science Review (EPSR) is an #OpenAccess journal of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
Adam Simpson @simpsonaj.bsky.social Academic with an interest in authoritarian regimes, democratisation, conflict, genocide and environmental politics particularly in Myanmar, Thailand and the Russia-Ukraine conflict
SGIA Durham @sgiadurham.bsky.social School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University
https://durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/school-government-international-affairs/
Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social Specialist 'by and for' BME organisation. Over 40 years upholding Latin American & other migrant women's rights in the UK. Leading the #StepUpMigrantWomen coalition.
Emma Huddlestone @emmahuddlestone.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at UEA. Interested in critical military studies, military families and social justice.
Sulagna Basu @sulagnabasu.bsky.social Teaching Fellow, SOAS University of London
PhD, University of Sydney
cyber/tech, settler colonial studies, geography, gender and a few other things
she/her
Juan Agulló @jagullo.bsky.social 🌎 #Sociologist without #borders. Professor of ILAESP. Executive Board of @CLACSO. Regional Editor at Journal of Borderlands Studies (LATAM) #Geopolitics
Unsweetened Black Tea ☕️ or Mate 🧉
vitoria @crodavit.bsky.social brazilian 🇧🇷 in london 🇬🇧
phd candidate at loughborough uni
amateur cook, expect food pics
posts are a mix of PT/EN
Dan Öberg @warrhizome.bsky.social War, Defense, Military Creativity/Innovation.
Senior Lecturer at the department of Systems Science for Security and Defence, Assoc Prof, War Studies, Swedish Defence Uni. @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
Big believer in obscure military theory. Views own.
Thomas Gregory @tom-gregory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR at Auckland University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Author of Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan https://shorturl.at/WsC02
Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
Synne Dyvik @syndyv.bsky.social Humanitarianism, refugee hosting, feminism, militarism, conflict. Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Sussex. Co-ed of https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/gender-sexuality-and-global-politics
Gail Ritchie @ritchieart.bsky.social Visual Artist. PhD International Relations. Sometimes writing, always thinking - usually about dogs and monuments. Based at QSS Studios and Gallery Belfast.
Www.gailritchie.com
Alexandria Innes @andri-i.bsky.social Researcher in international politics, critical security and migration @ City St George's, University of London: migrant advocacy, migrant rights, open borders
EJIR @ejir.bsky.social This is the official account of the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR), the journal co-owned by the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) & the European International Studies Association (EISA)
CWS - Center for War Studies @cwswarstudies.bsky.social Center for War Studies at SDU: https://sdu.dk/en/cws. We deliver an MSc in International Security and Law: https://sdu.dk/en/uddannelse/kandidat/securitylaw
Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Keen cyclist, guitarist in The Dee Street Band. Free Palestine from the river to the sea.
Hannes Hansen-Magnusson @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations | Cardiff University
global governance, polar politics, oceans, IR
Yazid Benhadda @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social Fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb | PhD, University of Exeter | Migration, North Africa, Colonial History, EU Foreign Policy, Historical international studies
Amya Agarwal @agarwalamya.bsky.social Teach & Research at University of Sheffield
Author of ‘Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir’ (2022); associate editor, IFJP
Views my own
University of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Scotland's first university. Founded 1413.
Useful links: hootbio.com/www.st-andrews.ac.uk
#EverToExcel
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
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.
Jason Palmer @historystudent.bsky.social WIS Veteran, collector of books currently studying for MPhil in Contemporary Military History @University of Salford. Interested in Military History and Geopolitics, Middle East, MENA, Africa. Current research area: British Defence Policy & Suez Canal Zone
BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group of the British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social
https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/girwg
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Global Souths Hub @globalsouthshub.bsky.social Global Souths Hub is a news site developed alongside the teams behind the two leading journals, Third World Quarterly (TWQ) and Central Asian Survey (CAS). Visit us at https://globalsouth.org/
#globalsouth
Jens Hälterlein @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social STS scholar interested in Military AI, Swarming, Autonomous Weapons, Surveillance Technologies,Governmentality; he/him
else: Cycling, Jazz, Dogs
Dr Natalie Hammond @nataliejane.bsky.social Sociologist - Gender, health, climate, security & violence. Researching extreme environments from HIV, to conflict injury to climate disruption.
Likes reading, running, animals, the beach & being outside.
Manchester/Sheffield/Wales when I can.
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Marina Zucker Marques @marinazucker.bsky.social Economist • Sr. Researcher at @GDP_Center • Former @UNCTAD, @SOAS • PhD @FU_Berlin • sovereign debt, China, international monetary system. Views are my own.
https://www.marinazuckermarques.com
Simon Rushton @simonrushton.bsky.social Professor of International Politics at University of Sheffield, UK. He/Him.
Amira Jadoon @amirajadoon.bsky.social
Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social Prof at Institute for Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College/senior associate fellow at NATO Defence College |Warfare, alliances and geoeconomics | Assoc ed of the European Journal of International Security |🇫🇷 in 🇩🇰| https://olivier-schmitt.com/
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Seb Kaempf @sebkaempf.bsky.social A/Prof in Peace and Conflict Studies at UQ: https://polsis.uq.edu.au/profile/1237/sebastian-kaempf
Lover of good conversations, coffee, music, art, and seeing where life will take me.
Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social Feminist lesbian asking queer questions about peace & security | Lecturer at Uni. of Manchester | Jamiejhagen.com | picturesofbirds.tumblr.com/
Queering Women, Peace and Security out now with Oxford University Press http://bit.ly/45NJMBJ
Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social London Academic- Tracking the American Empire’s foreign policy establishment and its forging through wars and imperial international system building, and its crises; role of Trump and Trumpism in US and globally
Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social History, IR, Oxford, Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. First Gen academic. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of award-winning Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased
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
Gustavo Glodes Blum @glodesblum.bsky.social Geopolítica c rigor e justeza ;) Geography, Law, Security. Post-Doc Geography Dept @unicampoficial.bsky.social - Geosci Institute. Visiting Fellow at CCDP/ @gvagrad.bsky.social
Ben Farrand @benfarrand.bsky.social Prof in Law & Emerging Technologies. Interactions between law, geopolitics and technology governance. Currently writing about EU Digital Sovereignty. Probably just here to post synthwave and talk about microchips.
Anna Raposo de Mello @annacomdoisenes.bsky.social International Relations PhD @uspoficial.bsky.social @kcl.ac.uk | Researcher and Project Coordinator @alameda.institute
Digital Politics, Digital Identities, far-right speech and everything Brazil. 📍Paulista no Rio
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
flor @malajine.bsky.social Political Science PhD and migrant 🇬🇧, ReTIRED from academia, but always critically thinking about the world.
Internationalist; by conviction, action and degree (IR)
Latina Brasiguaia 🇺🇾🇧🇷
Sentipensando luchas!✌🏼❤️🔥
gabo @grabagabo.bsky.social Tradutor, geógrafo, reclamão e mora longe 🏴
Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social PhD Student in History| Tô doutorando em história| Scholar of the Inter-American Drug Wars in Brasil and the U.S.| Psalm 109/Salmo 109
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
Sophy Higgins @sophyhiggins.bsky.social PhDing @ Freeman Air and Space Institute (KCL) & RAF Museum on gender, class & interwar aviation | she/her
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Jack Newman @jacknewman.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics & Public Admin, Uni of Liverpool • UK Politics • English devo • spatial inequality • place-based policy • healthy urban development • critical realism
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jack-newman
Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at Uni of Bristol | Feminist peace scholar | Member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective | she/таа
Centre for Military Justice @cmjhq.bsky.social The CMJ provides free, independent, expert legal services to serving or former members of the Armed Forces. Inquests, public law, human rights, discrimination.