Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn @ajbeall.bsky.social Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
Prof Barbara Bompani @barbara-bompani.bsky.social Academic working on Public Religion & Int Development in Africa. Dipartimento Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali & Imprese Culturali. Universita’ di Parma, Italy
Julia Mourão Permoser @julia-mp.bsky.social Professor of Migration and Integration, Danube University Krems
Tadeas Cely @celytadeas.bsky.social Postdoc in political science (Aarhus University), on the job market
Working on ideology, polarization, and how to save democracy from ourselves
https://tadeascely.github.io
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Thomas Paster @thomas77.bsky.social Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University
https://thomaspaster.wordpress.com/
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social Prof at Denison University; Political Scientist studying US religion and politics. blogging at religioninpublic.blog. Riding all over (hilly) Ohio.
Claire Castles @clairecastles.bsky.social (She/her) PhD Candidate in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast Interested in race & racism in N. Ireland; evangelical missions; qualitative methods; critical theory
Also into cooking, crafting, podcasts, and my dog
Views my own and not those of a LLM
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Manoel Gehrke @manoelgehrke.bsky.social Political Scientist, FGV CEPESP / FAPESP Fellow
www.manoelgehrke.com
Political Accountability | Corruption | Threats to Democracy | Money & Politics | Courts and Politics | Latin America
Petra Alderman @petraalderman.bsky.social Researcher | Writer | Policy Advisor | Podcast Founder & Host - People, Power, Politics @CEDAR_Bham, University of Birmingham
Interested in #authoritarianism #elections #nationbranding #SoutheastAsia #Thailand. Author of 'Branding Authoritarian Nations'
Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social Historian of politics & ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History & The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition.
Dr David Jeffery @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social Senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool. Expect academic work, parkrun/triathlon spam, and graphs. Views my own 🏳️🌈
Book: Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Free ebook (& other links)--> https://linktr.ee/david_jeffery
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
King's YTL Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law @ytlkings.bsky.social The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law - an interdisciplinary centre in the heart of legal London. 
Sonya Cotton @sonyacotton.bsky.social Post-doc at @dublincityuni.bsky.social
Thinker about community, apartheid and the social (and spatial) worlds made possible through international law
(previously part of the amazing @property-injustice.bsky.social)
Jason Brickhill @jason-brickhill.bsky.social Advocate | Academic | constitutional law, human rights, strategic litigation | ed-in-chief @SA-ConLaw.bsky.social
Ashis Basu @ashis.bsky.social Knowledge is Power. Share it. 
Laurent Cesari @laurentcesari.bsky.social Professeur honoraire d’histoire des relations internationales contemporaines #HelloESR
ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is an interdisciplinary, student-led research association. RT ≠ endorsement. https://linktr.ee/asenevents We live in a world of nations.
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies @plaasuwc.bsky.social The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is an independent policy research hub within the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Prof Diana Jeater @jeater.bsky.social Professor of African History
Quaker
Mother
Troublemaker as required
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
https://www.transactual.org.uk/
Info: info@transactual.org.uk
Press: press@transactual.org.uk
Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
Rhys Ting @rhysjamais.bsky.social A former qualitative researcher in public health nutrition policy making the leap into philosophy. [MPH → MA]
3rd-culture thing & skeet bricoleur
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Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
MambaOnline.Com @mambaonline.bsky.social Southern Africa's leading LGBTQ+ news and community platform. 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ
Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social The University of Michigan's Center for Political Studies (CPS) posts about social science research, politics, policy, and free data resources.
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University studying political marginalization, immigrant integration, and moralization. https://sites.google.com/view/kristinabsimonsen/
Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social Political Science Research and Methods: The journal of the European Political Science Association, edited by John Griffin, published by Cambridge University Press
Andre Vlok @andrevlok.bsky.social Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, author
Email : andre@conflict1.co.za
Blog : http://conflict-conversations.co.za
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. It’s not AI it’s automation
Raeesa Pather @raediology.bsky.social Ink spills, pencil shavings, glowing keyboard. Blank document. Investigative journalist and writer in South Africa. 
Andrew Trench @andrewtrench.bsky.social Recovering journalist and editor. AI entrepreneur. Strategic communications consultant. Open water swimmer (for sanity). Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Lynne Smit @lynnesmit.bsky.social Senior editor at Nature Africa, changing the narrative around African scientific achievements, one story at a time.
Hamilton Wende @hamiltonwende.bsky.social Author Journalist documentary maker
Hamiltonwende.com
Caryn Gootkin @caryng.bsky.social SA-based book lover, justice seeker, puzzle doer
Jean le Roux @jeanleroux.bsky.social Senior Investigator, Graphika.
Cape Town, South Africa.
Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social African socialist feminist political junkie, loves all who make the world beautiful. Work in Ottawa, live in Toronto, love in Johannesburg. Knitting my way to sanity.
Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social Writer and director living in Cape Town, South Africa. New novel “The First Murder On Mars” out now https://www.samwilsonwriting.com/order-now.php
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
News24 @news24southafrica.bsky.social Trusted News. First.
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social Author and hedgewitch.
Phumzile Van Damme @phumzile.bsky.social Changemaker. Award-Winning Counter Disinformation Strategist. @Harvard Technology & Human Rights Fellow. @VitalVoices Global Leader. Ex-MP. INFJ. Virago.
AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
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Obsolescent isolate losing hearing & sight at the end of this brief life.
Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, columnist. My new novel 'A Second Shot' is now available at all good bookshops. Penguin Random House SA.
anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com
John Robbie @johnrobbiesa.bsky.social British & Irish Lion #574, Ireland, Leinster, Dublin Univ, Cambridge Univ, Greystones, Transvaal. 1 of 5 Players of the Year 1987. Former 702 morning host.
Matthias Frey-Konrad @matzefrey.bsky.social #polisky Researcher & PhD-Student #tudo interested in Party politics, legislativ studies, religion & politics, text & network analysis | European citizen
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
TheAfricaDailyPost @theafricadailypost.bsky.social Your go-to source for quality journalism across Africa, covering breaking news, business, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and diplomacy. TheAfricaDailyPost.com
Andy Lim @andysaulim.com Deputy Director & Fellow @korea.csis.org
- China's Weaponization of Trade: https://shorturl.at/X3yPG
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- Personal website: andysaulim.com
- Moonlighting at @citylightsofchina.bsky.social
Agitational Dave @agitationaldave.bsky.social Communicator, strategist, activist.
Chris Vick @chrisvick3.bsky.social Spindoctor
Tess from South Africa @satess.bsky.social Married old cat lady who's also into data, plants, nature, wildlife, books, art, kindness and genuine curiosity.
💚 Human rights belong to all humans, not just the ones you approve of ♿✊🏾✊🏿🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️ Be an Ally. She/her
Axolile Notywala @axolilenotywala.bsky.social Organiser. Activist Politician.
RISE Mzansi Western Cape Provincial Convenor & National Leadership Collective
GOOD Party City of Cape Town PR Councillor
Spotlight @spotlightnsp.bsky.social In-depth, public interest health journalism from South Africa. Reporting and analysis on TB, HIV, NCDs, health systems, and much more. www.SpotlightNSP.co.za
Robyn Porteous @robynporteous.bsky.social Intersectional Feminist. Writer. Runner. Bibliophile. Anti-Racist. She/Her. Disinformation destroys democracy. #BlackLivesMatter. Views my own.
Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social Agricultural economist from South Africa
Blog: https://wandile.substack.com/
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@agriviewwandile
Email: wandile@agbiz.co.za
Kerry Cullinan @kerrycullinan.bsky.social Cape Town-based health journalist. 🇿🇦 Passionate about people's right to live with dignity. Deputy editor of Geneva-based Health Policy Watch. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/
Open Secrets ZA @opensecrets.org.za Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power.
https://linktr.ee/opensecrets_za
Charles Leonard @charles257.bsky.social Progressive journalist, editor, podcaster, card-carrying Joburger, Arsenal fan, amateur DJ and obsessive record collector.
Unfortunately no gofund requests will be considered — I’m a poor journo.
Andrew Fraser @arfness.bsky.social Opinions. Comms. OSINT. Analysis. Marketing strat. Some snark. Radical apanthropist.
NB: It's probably more complicated than you think - whatever it is.
Clive Simpkins @clivesimpkins.bsky.social Anti Trump-Musk-MAGA
🇿🇦 SouthAfrican veteran strategic communications coach. Still helping folks make the most of their best. Whether interpersonally, in any media, presenting, or public speaking.
Love what I do, do what I love.
#RescueCatDadx3
Redi Tlhabi @reditlhabi.bsky.social Award winning broadcaster, author, moderator. South African. http://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org. http://ModerateThePanel.Com. Ex BBC, Aljazeera. MA: IR
Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.
Koketso Sachane @koketsosachane.bsky.social I tell stories, create content and curate events.
From Below 🍉 @thinkfrombelow.bsky.social Free Palestine always
Dr of struggle and other things
Antifascist
Ayal Belling @ayalbelling.bsky.social Founder at the SA jobs party, Progress and unemployed people's organisation, Organising for Work (www.ofw.org.za). Live between South Africa and Germany.
Carin Bosman 🇿🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🇯🇴 💧🦎 @watershare.bsky.social making a difference by pursuing good water governance @ the interface of law and science, for judicious use & protection of our resources because #BLM #XResister.
I instablock crypto creeps, thirst traps, MAGATs, and other #SadWankers
AntonHarber @antonharber.bsky.social Journalist, free speech activist, executive director of the Henry Nxumalo Foundation
Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com Web developer born in the last millennia. Former vice-chair somersetstrikers.co.za. South African. 1/64th Irish.
OpenUp @openup.org.za We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and helps communities and governments work better, together.
https://openup.org.za
uKhanyisile Mlambo @ukhanyisilemlambo.bsky.social A social scientist with the skills of a five year old, I write, laugh & cry. Reads mainly foreign policy, & more recently agriculture & developmental studies.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Jane Flanagan @janeflan.bsky.social Africa Correspondent, The Times
Murray Hunter @muzhunter.bsky.social Digital rights and surveillance oversight.
Underperforming in mischief-making.
South Africa.
Michael Moss @michaelmoss101.bsky.social Media & Tech Policy | Expression | Protection | Development
Jaffer A. Mirza @jmirza.bsky.social Researcher
PhD candidate at King’s College London focusing on Islam in Britain.
Here to regain our lost sense of civility.
Moxii Africa @moxiiafricaza.bsky.social Striving for Open and Trusted Information.
Media Monitoring Africa is rebranding to Moxii Africa.
Jeff Wicks 🇿🇦 @jeffwicks.bsky.social Investigative Journalist at News24. Co-author of Eight Days in July. Projects: #Silenced #BloodBrothers #KillingKinnear
Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com
We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions.
Email me for collaboration opportunities: nick.hedley@theprogressplaybook.com
@sonofbaldwin.bsky.social @sonofbaldwin.bsky.social 
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social Africa correspondent @TheEconomist
Author, "The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia”
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Still on X (for now) @tomgardner18
Eshèté Bekele @eshete.bsky.social Ethiopian Journalist, 
Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
Benjamin Roger @benjaminroger.bsky.social Journaliste @lemonde.fr - Service Afrique @lemondeafrique.bsky.social
Khalifa Said @thatboykhalifax.bsky.social Writer and editor at The Chanzo, a Dar es Salaam-based digital media outlet in Tanzania | Politics & Social Justice | Socialist | Anti-imperialist | https://thechanzo.com/
Tochukwu @victorejechi.bsky.social Journalist / Data / Business 
Nicolas Réméné @nikosp23.bsky.social Documentary photographer currently based in Dakar (SN). Covering the Sahel and West Africa for some fifteen years. https://bit.ly/4g3NtWS
https://www.nicolasremene.com - https://www.instagram.com/nicolas_remene/
Caitlin Kelly @caitlin-kelly.bsky.social Freelance Multimedia Journalist
France24 West Africa Correspondent
Based in Dakar