Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social Open Source Analysis of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, BMD, DPRK, & PRC.
Vice President of Nuclear and Technology Security Programs, Exiger.
Making podcasts over at https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
All opinions my own.
David B Larter @davidblarter.bsky.social Navy vet. Tweets on Navy, space, watches, scotch, history & other random unserious musings. All opinions mine, not employer's. Formerly Defense News, Navy Times
Steve Lookner @lookner.bsky.social News Anchor & Founder of Agenda-Free TV. Specialize in breaking news.
Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social 24, ukrainian-american
Print FPV drones like money and we’re hyperinflating
janus🎭 @repligate.bsky.social 🔄Bing Orchestrator🔄
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Richard stclair @comprichard.bsky.social Supporter of Ukraine and its valiant fight against the Russian invaders.
Father to three ojibwa girls.
No porn no dms. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Nafo
Download clearskys app gives you info on yourself and others. See what list your on
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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social San Francisco stuff, tech, politics, stock markets, economics, science, fiction
ran for Congress to try to prevent this future one time...
no direct message for now please; @ me first
skooks @skooks.bsky.social ride the liger
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
bowser @browserdotsys.bsky.social undignified yearnings
mimi10v3 @mimi10v3.com
✨ 🍭 🦆 🚶♀️🌟 💖 🌌 🍃
vegan, yimby, ❤️ ai swe in dc
Daniel @growingdaniel.bsky.social I’m asking you to do something well
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
fofr @fofr.ai AI at Google DeepMind
https://fofr.ai
Replicate @replicate.com Run AI with an API
replicate.com
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social Tech lawyer. Generates plausible bullshit in 6 minute increments. More active on https://x.com/lefthanddraft
norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social charts and graphs
follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/norvid_studies
https://substack.com/@norvidstudies/posts
Tenobrus @tenobrus.bsky.social this endless blue sky is driving me insane
roon @tszzl.bsky.social
Richard Ngo @richardngo.bsky.social What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? Ex DeepMind, OpenAI
Robin Hanson @robinhanson.bsky.social Let’s skip witty repartee & discuss fundamental questions. Views are mine, not GMU’s or Virginia’s. Books: http://ageofem.com, http://elephantinthebrain.com
Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social Recent writing at https://grantslatton.com/latest
Formerly built the world's fastest filesystem at AWS, now the fastest spreadsheet at http://rowzero.com
tautologer @tautologer.com It's been like this since man first came and chased a wild bear and gave a part of himself to please the gods.
Taelin @victortaelin.bsky.social
QC @qchu.bsky.social irrationalist | substack: qchu.substack.com | twitter: @QiaochuYuan
peepeepoopoo @deepdishenjoyer.bsky.social i have approximate knowledge of many things
chaotic neutral
Boston, MA
deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com cofounder Grove Research @grove-research.bsky.social
Matt Popovich @shark.lol optimist. mpopv on twitter
Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.
James Pirruccello 🌉🇺🇸 @jamespirruccello.com AI slop enjoyer
Sebastian Bordt @sbordt.bsky.social Language models and interpretable machine learning. Postdoc @ Uni Tübingen.
https://sbordt.github.io/
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
thebes @vgel.me ꙮ surfed on by the information superhighway
ꙮ 💕 @linneaisaac.bsky.social
ꙮ she/they 🏳️⚧️
ꙮ fiction/art/blog/games @ https://vgel.me
ꙮ llms at acsresearch.org
Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴🏳️🌈 🚀🛰
Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n
“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Fred Kaplan @fredmkaplan.bsky.social Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
Dmitry Stefanovich @dvsteff.bsky.social Nukes, missiles, military, space, tech, music, cats, #STRATDELA and #HYPERHYPE
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Gregory Kulacki @gkucs.bsky.social Director, East Asia, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists. Non-Resident Fellow, Research Center for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons at Nagasaki University. Cross-cultural sojourner.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social Covering Asia at The Washington Post. Mom to two needy cats & a rambunctious golden retriever. michelle.lee@washpost.com
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
Support the work of Jonathan's Space Report:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social Lecturer in optical Space Situational Awareness at Delft Technical University, faculty of Aerospace. Spy sats, missiles, meteorites, asteroids. Asteroid (183294). Lapsed Archaeologist (PhD). Rowing. CFS. Opinions my own.
blog: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.c
Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social I'm an editor/correspondent for NPR. Mostly smart on the radio. Mostly stupid on everywhere else.
ChatGPT describes me as: "Aerospace sleuth, nuclear nerd and NPR Superfan — with a side of surreal humor."
Signal: gbrumfiel.13
https://geoffbrumfiel.net/
Mariana Budjeryn @mbudjeryn.bsky.social Researcher of nuclear, Ukraine, and nuclear Ukraine. Author of Inheriting the Bomb. MIT Center for Nuclear Security Policy, Brookings and RUSI nonresident, NAS CISAC, ACONA.
Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social
Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com Senior Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org working on nuclear weapons policy. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own.
Nuke policy starter pack! https://go.bsky.app/8jiQV43
James Pearson @pearswick.press Visual Investigations Journalist at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang and cyberspace. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
- North Korea ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
📞Signal ID: pearswick.01
💻: pearswick.press
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Zachary Keck @zacharykeck.bsky.social Nuclear Weapons and Indo-Pacific. Former: DoD, Congress, Belfer Center, The Diplomat, others. Views mine and subject to change.
Aaron Stein @aaronstein1.bsky.social President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
Elena Chernenko @elenachernenko.bsky.social Kommersant newspaper, special correspondent (based in Moscow). Personal area of interest: arms control, non-proliferation, cyber diplomacy. Views are my own.
Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) @olyaoliker.bsky.social Director, European Security @crisisgroup.org / Feminist / Migrant / ❤️ punk rock (but not only) / Opinions own / Endorsements clearly marked / podcast: https://www.crisisgroup.org/pod/europe/war-peace
Matthew Harries @matthewharries.bsky.social Research director at the Labour Movement for Europe. Previously director of nuclear policy at RUSI, managing editor of Survival/senior fellow at IISS, and specialist for the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Constanze Stelzenmüller @constelz.bsky.social Director CUSE, Germany explainer etc. @ Brookings; FT contributing columnist; Wizards Fan (I know). When the going gets tough, the tough go blonde. Pic: Marc Darchinger. Views my own, people.
Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider @jackieschneider.bsky.social Hoover Fellow, Director Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Stanford University. Research on international security, emerging technology, wargames. Views are my own.
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
@douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social Imaginary provost of the make-believe university of human survival; promoting the creation and dissemination of knowledge to prevent nuclear war
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social Formerly known as atomic_pickles, but still thinking about atomic pickles. Fancies: gardens, birds, mountains & rocks, satellites, Delftware, N95s. She/her. Only personal views reflected.
Eric Brewer @ebrewer.bsky.social Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
Lauren Sukin @laurensukin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College, University of Oxford | Nuclear Weapons | Alliance Politics | Emerging Technology | Contact: lauren.sukin@politics.ox.ac.uk |
Andreas Persbo @persbo.bsky.social Programme Director at the One Earth Future Foundation, formerly with UNIDIR, European Leadership Network, and VERTIC.
Lindsay Rand @lrand11.bsky.social Research scholar @ Berkeley Risk and Security Lab || Carnegie Non-Resident ||socio-technical analyses for nuclear, quantum, and “emerging” tech || PhD from UMD
David La Boon @davidlaboon.bsky.social Anti-C Wearing Lab Rat | Nuclear Nonpro | Nerd Stuff | 🚀 | frmly @JamesMartinCNS @MIIS @CNS_Updates | @DavidLaBoon on X
Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social PRC and DPRK strategic forces analyst with CNA. BA Reed College, MA Middlebury Institute. NSF GRFP.
Jamie Withorne @jamiewithorne.bsky.social Nuclear weapons, international politics, and “”emerging”” technology.
Doctoral Research Fellow in Political Science, University of Oslo
LearnWMD Spreadsheet and Substack: www.jamiewithorne.com
Michael Duitsman @duitsmanms.bsky.social Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rocket propulsion and radiological security (usually not at the same time). Opinions my own. Faves/RTs ≠ endorsements
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social IT/Cloud/SRE/PE, rockets & missiles, nukes not going bang, space, CS, ships. YIMBY & amateur transit geek. Part time adjunct @ miis.edu teaching Missiles & Missile Defense. I speak for myself only not $DAYJOB. V95.45XA I do #OSINT against nuclear missiles.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc.
QUEER
RT/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro
http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://osf.io/46sfd/
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social Dog shepherd.
Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book #1 : "Weapons in Space" | Book #2 "Wiring an Empire" (contracted w/ MIT Press)
Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social Research Program Head, @apln.network
Adjunct Fellow, @eastwestcenter.bsky.social
Opinions my own, reposts ≠ endorsement.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-o-donnell-b84675158
James Schmeling @jschmeling.bsky.social Founder, Arsenal Industrial Restoration Partners. Restoring capacity. Rebuilding Readiness. Matching/restoring facilities with defense and commercial manufacturers. USAF veteran (AFTAC). President & CEO, National Defense University Foundation.
Alex Bollfrass @bollfrass.bsky.social Nuclear weapons and intelligence history.
Christopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany; Nonresident Fellow, Stimson Center
Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social Research and Project Manager @ Federation of American Scientists - Nuclear Information Project
Mother to a demonic chihuahua named Pippin 🐾
Views are my own
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social Nuclear Fellow @ Pax Sapiens, former Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and State Department International Sec Advisory Board, CNAS Sr. Fellow, former National Security Council. No #manels, Yankees/Gunners.
Eliana Johns @elianajjohns.bsky.social Senior Research Associate with Nuclear Information Project @ Federation of American Scientists & Grad Student @ Georgetown SFS | Talks about nukes and satellite imagery | (views are my own)
Jamie Kwong @jamiekwong.bsky.social Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | KCL PhD | Nukes and nonpro | RT≠endorsement
Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky