Chloe ❤️ @mlitov.bsky.social late night thoughts & bad decisions welcome 😈 💖
Matthew Johnson @matthewfjohnson.bsky.social Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada's centre for digital media literacy. He/him. Open to correction.
@latifekinay.bsky.social @latifekinay.bsky.social
DeAndres Javon Ellis @deandresellis.bsky.social YAHWEH. Eternal. GOD’s Son.
John 3:16. Hail Mary. Roll Tide.
Dierdre Ware, DM @dierdreware.bsky.social Doctoral researcher, author, nonprofit founder, and leadership practitioner. Exploring entrepreneurship, leadership, social impact, and organizational change. Founder of DWFO. Author and lifelong learner.
Shandon Hogan @shandonhogan.bsky.social PhD @crexuio.bsky.social researching violent extremism across Australia, New Zealand & Canada | Director @Radar Solutions | Adjunct Fellow @Victoria University
SavannahLee @savannahleea.bsky.social One of the biggest reasons to use Blue Sky is that I can finally get news in an environment with less advertising interference.
European Research Center for Social Development @social.npo.one We do Research and Policy Recommendation on the Future of Work, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, and Sustainable Building
Alex Schiele @schielonimus.bsky.social 💼PhD student at VU Amsterdam, #terrorism #networkanalysis #policing Associate Fellow at @foepsberlin 🗨Opinions are my own
A Moveable Feed @talentx.bsky.social Moveable Feed: sharp, biased dispatches from Trump’s America and the AI future. Ex‑DC comms hack, still talking. Read + subscribe here → https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
Beltsazar Krisetya @krisetya.com PhD student at UCL and a Dunning-Kruger thrill rider.
The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social Liberal | Anti-fascist | Anti-MAGA | Pro-democracy
U.S. politics + global news explainer
Post Anything Here: interactink.vercel.app
Μ (Μέλι) @malikacoexist.bsky.social Researching online extremist communities (Islamic State, AQ, white supremacy) | @GNET_research contributor
realharleygardner.bsky.social @realharleygardner.bsky.social My mother and stepfather tried to abandon me in Bali. This didn't work so they set me up to get raped for a year in SA. I was kidnapped using drugs and food by a paedophile when I was 14 for 8 or 9 months. My mum used me for breeding then trafficked me.
Andrew Zammit @andrewzammit.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University. Interested in terrorism, security and human rights.
European Centre for the Study of Hate @ecsh-research.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Centre Addressing Group-Based Hate and Hostility. Values-driven impact-focused research. Advancing Europe's values of human dignity, equality and the rule of law from its Western edge.
www.ul.ie/ecsh
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
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
Cyp CAP @ccapdeville.bsky.social Documentation et redocumentation
média, littératies, cultures numériques.
Mêmophilie et cultures des marges numériques. M2 #EMI TLSE JJ
@hansadam.bsky.social @hansadam.bsky.social
Vanja Zdjelar @vanjazed.bsky.social PhD Student | School of Criminolgoy
Simon Fraser University
MaryAnn Cherry @maryanncherry.bsky.social PhD student @CTRG, UCL ~ Emotions + violent extremism
Civil Servant
@hannoschedler.bsky.social @hannoschedler.bsky.social Works at @gruener-vogel-ev.bsky.social
Dîlan Taş @dilantas.bsky.social This, that. Data science, Politics, Philosophy, Photography| privat acc. | Follows & retweets not endorsements | Vienna.
Sofia Koller @sofiako.bsky.social Working on CVE & CT at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Germany | focus on 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 & (returning) foreign fighters | former DGAP | King's College London alumna
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social BREAKING NEWS | RESEARCH | ANALYSIS
Centre for Security, Counter Extremism
Research & Policy (SECRPOL)
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CITIZEN RESEARCH
Washington DC • London • Havana
secrpol.co.uk
Concerned Citizen @concernedcitizen95.bsky.social Concerned Citizen of the collapsing international order. Primarily commenting on Foreign Policy.
UK-based
ben popp @benpopp.bsky.social Lead Threat Analyst, ADL Center on Extremism (COE). Covering nihilistic violent extremism (NVE) and extremism in gaming.
@rosehank.bsky.social @rosehank.bsky.social
Morgan L. Stringer @mostring.bsky.social 🗡️ Making Lies & Dangerous Products Expensive
⚖️ Attorney, Farrar & Ball, LLP
🦈 Defamation | Products Liability | Tech
📖 Law, History, Culture & Society
🔗 https://linktr.ee/morganlstringer
Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social Aspiring interdisciplinary international affairs scholar-practitioner
R. Assoc. @stimsoncenter.bksy.social
Analyst Jamestown Foundation
Bylines include RUSI, The Diplomat, Eurasia Daily Monitor
Shares, articles etc ≠ endorsement/reflect employer
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Humera Khan ✈️🧀🍟 @khanserai.bsky.social Too many years spent in preventing terrorism, hate, extremism | Co-host of true-crime podcast "Stoppable" | 'Muse of Reason' for Divas
Juanjo Medina 🍉🇺🇦 @jmedina1.eurosky.social Social scientist (Andalusian by birth, Manc by exposure) interested in police reform, violence, crime prevention & environmental criminology. Surviving University of Seville (Spain). https://juanjomedina.com
Mary Beth Altier @marybethaltier.bsky.social New York University's Center for Global Affairs professor; researching & teaching transnational security, political violence, political behavior, nationalism, ethnic conflict, foreign policy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-beth-altier-5795459/
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.
Evan McCuish @evanmccuish.bsky.social Associate Professor
SFU Criminology
Michael H. Becker @mbecker.bsky.social PhD @AmericanUniv | Research on Political Violence, P/CVE, and Radicalization.
Here for the hot takes on research, dogs, videogames, and coffee.
https://www.michaelhbecker.com/
Peter Davidson 🇦🇺 Peadar MacDhaibhidh 🏴 @petedavo.bsky.social Retired in Western Australia 🇦🇺
Get your popcorn and enjoy the ride. Scrutiny, exposure, truths, juxtapositions, and scepticism.
Tracking extremists, South East Asian terrorism and insurgency threats.
Was on X as petedavo_au and petedavo_world
蓝天下的瓦济尔 @wxg.dev Your little vizier under the pure blue sky. Not a philologist yet. I’m becoming my zodiac, the Eurasian one, the steppe one.
Emine Ari @emineari.bsky.social Research on interstate and civil conflict, terrorism, and electoral behavior.
emineari.com
Daniel Rio Tinto @driotinto.bsky.social Lecturer at FGV RI and researcher at CEI-ISCTE. Former ICCS/University of Birmingham. Interested in IR Theory, Political Violence, Criminal & Rebel Governance, Civil Wars and Nukes. Aviation, food, wine and beer. All the usual caveats apply.
Lea Brost @leabrost.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Royal Holloway University // Researcher at IFSH // alumna at University of Leeds & KCL War Studies | Researching extremism, terrorism & radicalisation | https://www.ifsh.de/en/staff/person/brost | https://voxpol.eu/member/lea-brost/
Natasha Wood @natasharwood.bsky.social Experimental social psychologist studying extremism, isolation/exclusion, and social technologies | Postdoc researcher in the Terrorism and Political Violence group at Leiden University
www.natasharwood.com
Gina Vale @ginavale.bsky.social Lecturer of Criminology @University of Southampton
📘 Author: "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" OxUniPress 2024
Associate/Fellow @ICCT_TheHague & @Vox_Pol
Study #terrorism, #extremism, #gender, #youth
✉️ gina.vale@soton.ac.uk
Usual caveats
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 🎤
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
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
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
Dr. Kevin W. Jennings @cybercrimedoc.bsky.social PhD in criminal justice from Texas State University. Current Associate Professor with a focus on cybercrime, digital forensics, and police technology. Called a "mediocre scientist" on the hit No Such Thing as a Fish podcast!
Matthias Quent @mquent.de Sociologist. Professor @ University of Applied Sciences Jena (EAH)
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Jason McWhorter @jason-twbs.bsky.social Former CT Analyst, interested in AML / Cyber Security.
Dan Gressang @ozdg.bsky.social Assoc Professor focusing on a grab bag of topics - terrorism and extremism, strategic intelligence, and complex systems
André Gagné 🇨🇦 @profgagne.bsky.social Full Professor & Chair, Dept. of Theological Studies, Concordia University (Montréal) | Research: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity; Religion and Politics; Evangelicalism; Reception of the Bible
• Faculty page: https://shorturl.at/Riclq
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.
Oli Hutt @olihutt.bsky.social Lover of board games and tea. Working in policing and criminal justice research/consultancy. Favourite book title is definitely "My numbers my friends." From the UK now living in Leipzig, Germany.
The Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social The Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) at Royal Holloway University of London. Founding Director:
@akilnawan.bsky.social; Co-Director: @lizzypearson.bsky.social
Alexandra Phelan @alexphelan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University. All things insurgent governance, legitimation theory, gender, and organised crime especially in Colombia. Left my ❤️ in #LatAm. Staunch defender of trampoline fitness.
Mark Brown @m-j-bro.bsky.social Former Associate lecturer in Criminology at University of Soton. Also did a bit of policing in the past
Olivia Gibson @oliviastella.bsky.social Flâneuse, bit deaf, She/Her.
Kolbrun Kristinsdottir @kkristinsdottir.bsky.social PhD student at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Centre for Psychiatry, at QMUL. Researching pathological fixation, overvalued beliefs and lone-actor grievance-fuelled violence.
Tim Cubitt @drtimc.bsky.social Associate Professor - policing, sexual exploitation of children, extremism.
David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social Global security consultant focused on terrorism, counter-terrorism & new technology (particularly AI): Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
Joana Cook @joanacook.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Terrorism and Political Violence, ISGA, Leiden University l Adjunct at Johns Hopkins University. I research terrorism and counter-terrorism www.joanacook.com
Volkan Topalli @volkantopalli.bsky.social Criminologist | @GSUCJC | Andrew Young School | Urban Crime | Future Crime | Offender Decision-Making |🗽
Jen Woronow 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 @thejauntycrow.bsky.social 🔹️What war does to people, communities & the planet.
🔹️Visual Culture of Conflict
🔹️Blogs & art when I feel like it
Not a war hawk or peace dove. Just a jaunty crow. (she/her)
https://thejauntycrow.substack.com/
Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social International politics academic, interested in security, (counter)terrorism, identity, memory, time.
Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgov.bsky.social. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center @johnjayrec.bsky.social JohnJayREC (https://JohnJayREC.nyc) evaluates prevention strategies, tests the effectiveness of interventions, analyzes efforts to improve the impact and equity of justice systems, and helps non-researchers understand the goals & methods of evaluation.
Leah Farrall @allthingsct.bsky.social @allthingsct on Twitter | OSINT, counterterrorism, financial crime, cyber enabled crime, security | Author, http://goo.gl/9tTfsn | Views = personal | Likes for collation only |
Heidi Maiberg @heidimaiberg.bsky.social Terrorism researcher from Estonia. PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Alan Underwood @dralanunderwood.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer @QMUL. Clinician at Stalking Threat Assessment Centre. Co-Author Treating Stalking A Practical Guided For a Clinicians
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
Prof. Rachel Armitage @profrarmitage.bsky.social Prof. of Law and Social Justice & Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange at Leeds Law School
Co-Founder, volunteer & Chair of Trustees @talkingforward.bsky.social
&
🥁@memorialdevice.bsky.social ANT #MDANT
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
Andrew Silke @andrewsilke.bsky.social Professor at Royal Holloway. Terrorism & counter-terrorism, war & conflict, psychology & crime. Not always in that order.
Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social Crime Scientist UK -> NZ Interested in generating and synthesising evidence for better crime prevention and policing policy. Methodologically promiscuous.
Christopher Kehlet Ebbrecht @ebbrecht.bsky.social Postdoc, PhD | Researching radicalization and violent extremism, lone-actors, and grievance-fueled violence
Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social Assistant prof sociology dept Utrecht University | PhD in Security and Crime Science (UCL) | Extremism, hate and threats of violence |
Co-chair @opencriminology.bsky.social | isabellevdv.net
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net College prof, ex-UK cop, host of the Reducing Crime podcast, scientific advisor to the IACP. In my spare time, I try not to crash planes.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BOJIm0QAAAAJ
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-6761
Dr Dilan_Okcuoglu @dilanokcuoglu.bsky.social Kurdish. UKRI/Marie-Curie Postdoc. Fellow in IR, Sussex University, School of Global Studies; Affiliated w the Center for Global (In)Security Research; https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p648193-dilan-okcuoglu
Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI.
Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
Amy Nivette @nivette.bsky.social Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University. Studies crime things. 🏳️🌈- A @andamme.bsky.social @andamme.bsky.social
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, forensic psychology, and school safety📍Atlanta, GA. Seven Summits 🏔️ (5/7). Adopt don’t shop 🐶 Personal account.
Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social TV (mostly sci-fi) writer/producer (Farscape, ST:TNG, &c.); consultant; instructor @ UCLA Extension & ifs filmschule köln. WGA+WGC. He/his. Avatar by Arne Ratermanis.
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Toby Davies @toby-davies.bsky.social Associate Professor at School of Law, University of Leeds. I hate it when people put 'all views are my own' here.- G @gnf92.bsky.social @gnf92.bsky.social
Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social Deranged liberal and Bluesky Elder: public-sector researcher on terrorism and violent extremism, and I am such, such the biggest nerd.
Craig Whiteside @craigwhiteside.bsky.social teach for the Naval War College resident program at NPS in Monterey, CA; The ISIS Reader (Hurst 2020) and Non-state Special Operations (Routledge, 2025); dad, scout, sports fan, and Geronimo https://theisisreader.substack.com/
Josh Ray @jrjr799.bsky.social 🏴🇮🇪 Researcher.
Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
🌐: mattashby.com
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
Darja Wischerath @darja.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Bath | Conspiracy theories, radicalisation, violent extremism and the like
Avid hiker & coffee drinker
Masks save lives
She/They
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
HeadOffSecurity @headoffsecurity.bsky.social Smashing stuff that must not break later.
Be proactive, realistic, fast. Keep your head firmly attached to the rest of your system.
When we build a solution, can we talk about requirements first, please?