Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social Author of The Revolutionists: the story of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s, Baillie Gifford shortlist, lots of nice reviews, out now https://shorturl.at/aLfVb. Apparently "veteran" foreign correspondent etc too. Oh, and a dad.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
https://rupertbarretttaylor.com
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
Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social Head of the School of Law, Politics, & Society, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Ignas Karvelis 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @karvelis.bsky.social Intelligence | Counterinsurgency | Hybrid war | LatAm | documentary photography | tacos | beer. Not necessarily in that order. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Dr Yulia Nesterova 🦢 @yuliasnesterova.bsky.social Researching: militarisation/authoritarianism and education, reconciliation, education and peace, intergenerational engagement for peace, youth and peace
Feminist, researcher, peacebuilder
📍University of Glasgow 🏴🇬🇧
👩🏻💻 https://www.yulia-nesterova.com
CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social The Counter Terrorism Research Group (CTRG) are a group of researchers at UCL who analyse terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social 
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Philosophy at RHUL @philosophyrhul.bsky.social Philosophy department at Royal Holloway, University of London
linktr.ee/rhulpirp
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/departments-and-schools/philosophy/
Yoav Galai @yoavgalai.bsky.social Formerly a photojournalist, a project manager in an NGO, now an academic based in London writing about visual politics and memory
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
Alice Martini @alicecmartini.bsky.social Just another IR scholar @CCPPySOCUCM | (Counter-)Terrorism, Security, (b)orders, MENA | Punk-rock listener
Adam B. Lerner @adamblerner.bsky.social Associate Prof working on IR, pol theory, etc.
Ninian Frenguelli @ninianjames.bsky.social 🔍Postdoctoral researcher @ Swansea University
📚 PhD mapping gender on extreme right websites.
💻 Previous analyst in online harms.
Criminologist, book lover, dog dad
Views my own
https://bsky.app/profile/socialrepair.bsky.social
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
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
Eleanor Cotterill @ellycotterill.bsky.social Human Geographer at Royal Holloway interested in feminist geopolitics, everyday statelessness, citizenship and creative methodologies
John F. Morrison @morrisonjf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social Associate Professor and head of Music at RHUL, working on Slavonic studies and analysis. Also a runner and TU organiser (@rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h
https://danielelphick.co.uk
Philip Luke Johnson @phillegitimate.bsky.social Studying how gangs and govts do things with words. Teaching students to do things with words. Very occasionally doing things with words. Lecturer @ Flinders Uni
Updates: https://philipljohnson.com/
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Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs.bsky.social Military History/Defence and Security/Leadership/Organisational Culture. PhD equipped. Book in early 2026, Tanks in Unexpected Places.
Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social Gun violence prevention activist and survivor advocate. Knitter, cat lady, grey hair evangelist. Oh, and I box. Lots of strong opinions that are all my own.
Check out my essays at: https://dot-connecting.ghost.io
Ainoa Cabada @ainoacabada.bsky.social Political theorist researching the UN Charter, R2P, Refugee Migration, Blacklisting and Authoritarianism.
Mostly interested in UN stuff 🇺🇳 Philosophy 🧐 and Metal🤘🏽
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Joas Wagemakers @joaswagemakers.bsky.social Associate prof. of Islamic & Arabic Studies, Utrecht University.
Islam in the modern Arab world, (intellectual) history of modern Islam, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Salafism, Islamism, theology, sectarianism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Hamas.
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Avital Livny @avitallivny.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Pol Science @ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethnicity & religion; Turkey & Middle East; measurement
More here: www.alivny.com
Laura Roselle @lauraroselle.bsky.social reader, writer
former prof
curious about storytelling and how we shape our world - always
Pieter Nanninga @pieternanninga.bsky.social Associate Prof. Middle Eastern Studies, University of Groningen | Middle East, extremism, jihadism, religion, violence, propaganda | http://www.rug.nl/staff/p.g.t.nanninga
Amanda Haynes @amanda-haynes.bsky.social Sociologist researching criminal justice inequalities, hate crime, hateful ideologies, algorithmic harms. T&L interests in ethical AI, EDI, UDL. Fan of all creatures, furry, feathered and scaly. University of Limerick/ECSH. Opinions my own after coffee.
Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Author of ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
Peter Johnston @peterajohnston.bsky.social Director, Narrative and Content at Imperial War Museums. Military historian, museum professional, and frequent explorer of museums, memorials and battlefields. All views here are mine alone
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Society for Terrorism Research (STR) @socterres.bsky.social 
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social CEO/Founder International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), Retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. I have interviewed over 800 terrorists, violent extremists, their family members.
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Jessica Sciarone @jsciarone.bsky.social PhD Candidate Political Science @UW - Studying extremist ideologies and conspiracy theories || Arnhems meisje in Seattle
CSTPV @cstpv.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence is Europe's oldest Centre of its kind.
Jana Krause @janakrause.bsky.social Professor, Political Science @UniOslo; ERC ResilienceBuilding; Author of Resilient Communities
Dr Rhiannon Easterbrook @rhiannone.bsky.social Classicist, reception and theatre person
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/
Michele Prado @micheleprado.bsky.social Baiana. 🇧🇷
Writer, independent researcher, and founder of Stop Hate Brasil.
Focus: far-right radicalization, extremism and online terrorism.
Fellow @sci-belfast.bsky.social
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Amelie Freiberg @ameliefreiberg.bsky.social Technische Universität München
Ph.D. @ Trinity College Dublin
Former Postdoc @ University Mannheim
Former Fellow @ Civil War Paths Fellow, University of York
Focus on Armed Conflict & Political Violence
Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi Unjust society is unsustainable -> democracy is non-negotiable.
Sustainability transition & modeling circular economy @ Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) as a profession; defence of Finland and democracy as a hobby.
Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social Associate Professor of IR, editor of CJIR (cjir.iir.cz) and @jird-jour.bsky.social. Environmental/climate politics, Asia, EU. Prague.
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
Nick Brooke @nstb.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
I study terrorism (and the state's response) where it is not.
Views mine.
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social ⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
Heidi Maiberg @heidimaiberg.bsky.social Terrorism researcher from Estonia. PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr. Nicole Matejic @nicolematejic.bsky.social Author, PRVE Pracademic & NatSec Behavioural Economist.
Radicalisation, Violent Extremism, Info Disorder, IO, AI, Cyber Crime, FICINT.
Adj Lecturer @Terrorism_AU
Views mine. Fan of acronyms.
🖖🐾🦻| 🦘& 🇳🇿
Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social Professor @au-spa.bsky.social
Pol Violence | Pol Psychology
New Book: “NO OPTION BUT SABOTAGE”
Substack: https://zeitzoff.substack.com
1st Book: "Nasty Politics"
Website: www.zeitzoff.com
Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social IR prof (security, civil conflict, peacekeeping, terrorism, climate change), bicoastally migratory (PDX-NYC), dog lover, horse lover, mediocre knitter, avid composter. 
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
Carly Wayne @carlynwayne.bsky.social Associate professor @WUSTLPoliSci.
@umichpolisci alum.
Studying the psychology of political violence, war, and terrorism
Michael Rubin @rubinmichael.bsky.social Asst Prof, UConn. Political Science & Human Rights. Researching civil wars, armed conflict, political violence, human rights.
Web: http://www.michaelarubin.com/
Mark Berlin @markberlin2.bsky.social Assistant Professor at American University. Previously a postdoc at Princeton SPIA. Political violence, civil wars, and Middle East politics. markberlin2.com
Roya Talibova @royatalibova.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying political violence, historical political economy, and political economy of conflict & development. royatalibova.com
Ilayda B. Onder @ilaydaonder.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M, studying political violence, civil conflict, and rebel organizations.
https://www.ilaydaonder.com/
Christian Oswald @christianoswald.bsky.social Research Associate @ Center for Crisis Early Warning, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | PRIO Research School Member | pol. violence & instability | analog player in a digital world | aggressively mediocre
https://christianoswald.net 
Burcu Savun @burcusavun.bsky.social Political scientist studying political violence and forced migration at Pitt. Feline and canine enthusiast 
Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Political Science; armed conflict, terrorism, women combatants, women in peace processes, and veteran reintegration. Personal views only. 
Efe Tokdemir @efetokdemir.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @bilkentuniv.bsky.social, PI @counster.bsky.social, Director of Research @cfppr.bsky.social
Research on peace&conflict processes, strategic use of force, foreign policy & public opinion, Türkiye
www.efetokdemir.com
Sedef Asli Topal @sedefaslitopal.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
Navin Bapat @nbapat.bsky.social 
Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود @nihadaboud.bsky.social Limbo | PhD in Government | Senior Research Officer @ Essex Law School | Conflict & terrorism | Strategies & behaviors of militant groups | Previously ETH & AUC
بين غربتك ف ديار أهلك… و غربتك ف بلاد الله
——
https://sites.google.com/view/n-aboud
Blair Welsh @blairwelsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, formerly NYU Abu Dhabi. Researching armed violence, conflict, and development.
www.blairwelsh.com
charliecarter.bsky.social @charliecarter.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ LSE, Department of International Relations. Conflict, Terror, Networks, Text Analysis, Experiments.
charlieacarter.com
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Danielle Jung @dfjung.bsky.social Emory Political Science. Legitimacy, Governance, Elections, and Illicit Organizations.
Dave Siegel @daveasiegel.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University.
Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social Associate Professor at Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Good Authority Fellow. PhD, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Ex-World Bank (Dev Research). Website: www.neerajprasad.com
Enzo Nussio @enzonussio.bsky.social Political scientist studying peace, violence, and institutions, currently working on consolidator project www.decadesofpeace.com @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich.
Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social Berkeley Ph.D., Sylff Fellow at Uppsala University
Scholar of civil conflict peace agreements and international interventions. Lost southerner. She/her.
Oliver Kaplan @oliverkaplan.bsky.social Prof @JosefKorbelSchool.bsky.social @UofDenver
📚Books:
RESISTING WAR (2017)
SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2024) Nonviolent action | Research + Policymaking Ethics | @KorbelAsylum ⛷️🚵♂️🖖
linktr.ee/oliverkaplan
Eylem Kanol @kanol.bsky.social Lecturer and research fellow at Free University of Berlin | Guest researcher at WZB | Researching religious & political violence, social movements and prejudice | PhD at HU Berlin | Publications: https://ekanol.github.io/publications/ 
Stephen Nemeth @iamnemeth.bsky.social Associate Prof at Oklahoma State Univ., Union College alum, Iowa PhD. Probably just reposts of pol violence stuff, Simpsons, Arsenal, BBQ, and dogs. Hopefully not "a brain smoothed out and polished into a mirror-like surface"
Brian Nussbaum @ilnuttree.bsky.social Researcher and teacher on security issues at UAlbany.
Interested in terrorism/CT, transnational crime, and - of course - the cybers.
Manuel R. Torres @mrtorsor.bsky.social Catedrático de Ciencia Política en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Director de @UPOComPol. Miembro del Consejo Asesor del Real Instituto Elcano y Senior Fellow en el Centro de Estudios Andaluces
Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: https://law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Alex Braithwaite @thebraith.bsky.social Political scientist, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona. Research on concentration camps, refugees and forced migration, violent and nonviolent conflict. 
Leena Malkki @leenamalkki.bsky.social Director | Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki | Political violence and extremism in post-war Europe | blogs.helsinki.fi/leenamalkki/
Xander Kirke @xanderkirke.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at Northumbria University. Research: extremism, terrorism, political myth, and ontological security. Also vice Chair of Chelsea Pride, the official LGBTQ+ supporters group for Chelsea FC.