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
Christopher Solomon @chris-solomon.bsky.social Posting about Syria, Ukraine, Russia, and foreign affairs. 🇸🇾🇺🇦
Author of "In Search of Greater Syria." https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/in-search-of-greater-syria-9780755641826/
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Marga Zambrana @zambranamar.bsky.social Periodista, ahora en Turquía y Oriente Medio, antes en China
https://www.elespanol.com/autor/marga-zambrana/
John F. Morrison @morrisonjf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University- D Dr Alasdair Booth @dr-ct-security.bsky.social PhD in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security from Loughborough University. Specialist in the Protection of Crowded Places from Terrorist Threats.
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
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
@paulgillucl.bsky.social @paulgillucl.bsky.social 
@carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social Director at the New Lines Institute researching military withdrawal, the captagon trade, and security in the Middle East | Adjunct Professor teaching on the crime-conflict nexus at Georgetown University | Past: MENA+Europe Analyst at Geopolitical Futures
Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social Political Scientist @leiden.
PI of ERC MIDEBT project studying opinions on public debt (midebt.org), AI, and security.
Assc. Editor ISR.
Co-founder REALdegrees.ai
Wassim NASR @simnasr.bsky.social Journaliste spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes FRANCE24
Senior Research Fellow Soufan Center
Auteur de « État islamique, le fait accompli » (Plon)
الناسُ صِنْفانِ: مَوتَى في حَياتِـهِمُ/ وآخَرونَ بِبَطْن الأرضِ أحْـيـاءُ
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
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
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
Sareta Ashraph @saretaashraph.bsky.social ICL barrister. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, intl justice, genocide, gender, armed groups, ISIL. Co-founder @atlaswomen.bsky.social #EndGenderApartheid 🇹🇹
The Global Coalition @theglobalcoalition.org The Global Coalition against Daesh is a unique partnership of 90 governments and institutions working to degrade and defeat Daesh. https://theglobalcoalition.org/en/
Tricia Bacon @triciabacon.bsky.social Professor at American University. Former State Department CT analyst.
NCITE @ncite.bsky.social The National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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
Thomas Renard @thomasrenard.bsky.social Attaché de presse Le Havre et Le Havre Seine Métropole
Jeff Seldin @jseldin-news.bsky.social VOA National Security Correspondent, former Pentagon Correspondent
Ex WTOP/Federal News Network | Syracuse University-Newhouse
(RTs ≠ endorsement)
DM for Signal
Barbara A Leaf @safiraleaf.bsky.social 
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social Building a threat intelligence company in the depths of the Nordic forest - www.Revontulet.co. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
Michael Kenney, aka “The Enemy Professor” @mkenney.bsky.social I study drugs, high-risk activism, and political violence. I support my students and my country. I reject 47’s efforts to turn our country into a competitive authoritarian regime.
Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social Author and academic | Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Canberra | Empathy, Emotions, Strategy, Security, Politics, Diplomacy, Asia-Pacific | 🇬🇧in 🇦🇺| https://claireyorke.me/
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
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
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/
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Grant Rumley @grantrumley.bsky.social Senior fellow at The Washington Institute; PhD student at King's College London. Formerly DoD. Tracking arms transfers, great powers, and Michigan State sports. 
NaureenCFink @naureencfink.bsky.social Executive Director at GIFCT. Interests in counterterrorism, sanctions, tech, international affairs and global security. Cosmopolitan nomad and jewelry maker. All posts in my personal capacity; quotes not endorsements.
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Jenn Williams @jennruth.bsky.social Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy. Host of The Negotiators podcast. 
Negah Angha @negah-angha.bsky.social 
Liz Dent @lizydent.bsky.social Senior Fellow @WashInstitute primarily covering U.S. foreign and defense policy towards the Gulf | Former DoD and State | @MiamiUniversity & @AU_SIS alum
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/ 
👍🏻😬👍🏻 @coolfacejane.bsky.social 
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social Associate Prof Security Studies School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Visiting Prof at NetLab Federal Univeristy of Rio de Janeiro. Co-founder Erasmus IMSISS. Into conspiracies & disinformation lately (academically)
Elizabeth Neumann @elizabethneumann.bsky.social Violence prevention advocate; Former DHS Asst Sec for CT; Author, Kingdom of Rage; Builder, the Path Back to Peace. @NeuSummits on other platforms.
ElizabethNeumann.org
Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social Historian | Distinguished Professor Utrecht University | „Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
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 | 
Megan A. Stewart @meganastewart.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Ford School, University of Michigan. Civil wars, political violence, revolution, rebellion, state building. Otherwise meandering or making food. She/her.
www.meganastewart.org
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Vera Mironova @mironovavera.bsky.social Author of “From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists. Human Resources of Non State Armed Groups”(OUP). Affiliations @Harvard @MiddleEastInst and @ForeignPolicy.
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
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
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
Natan Sachs @natansachs.bsky.social Senior Fellow
Middle East Institute
Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/natansachs
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Francesco Marone @fmarone.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science UniVdA, Aosta, Italy.
Fellow / Associate ISPI, ICCT-The Hague, GWU–PoE.
Research and analysis on International Politics, Security, Violent Extremism.
Guy Van Vlierden @guyvanvlierden.bsky.social Journalist @HLN_BE. Here I report on extremism/terrorism of all kinds, mostly in English.
Brian Carter @briancarter.bsky.social Research Manager and Fellow at AEI’s Critical Threats Project. Focused on military affairs. Opinions own.
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
Chris Blanchard @cmblanchard.bsky.social Citizen. MENA Analyst on a Hill. Objectively speaking. Views expressed are my own.
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Álvaro Vicente @alvarovicente.bsky.social Assist. Prof. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos & researcher Real Instituto Elcano | radicalization, terrorism and prevention of violent extremism
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro-Vicente-2?ev=hdr_xprf&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6ImhvbWUiL
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Brian Fishman @brianfishman1.bsky.social National security, technology, California. Cinder co-founder, led DOI at FB, created Palantir disaster relief, Research Director at CTC @ West Point.
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Caleb Weiss @calebweiss.bsky.social Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
Louis Dugit-Gros لوي دوجيه-غرو @louisdugit.bsky.social French diplomat | ex @franceintheus.bsky.social | former fellow @washinstitute.bsky.social | Parisian, Cairene, Beiruti, Rbati
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/
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
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
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
Mike Jensen @mikeajensen.bsky.social Extremism researcher at the START center, University of Maryland. 
Assaf Moghadam @assafmoghadam.bsky.social Prof, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University. Fellow @ ICT and Institute for Policy and Strategy @ Reichman.
Maddie Cannon @madcan0.bsky.social GNET Project Manager struggling to come to terms with using yet another social media platform | far-right, radicalisation, gender and youth | oh and also baked goods. 
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.
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Reem Ahmed @reemahmed.bsky.social Researcher IFSH | PhD Candidate Uni Hamburg | Researching (counter-)terrorism, extremism, platform regulation | https://ifsh.de/en/staff/ahmed 
Matthew Levitt @mattlevitt.bsky.social Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy @washinstitute.bsky.social Advancing a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East. (Reposts & Follows do not constitute endorsement.)
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
https://tinyurl.com/te8cmzmr
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
Shandon Hogan @shandonhogan.bsky.social PhD @crexuio.bsky.social researching violent extremism across Australia, New Zealand & Canada | Director @Radar Solutions | Adjunct Fellow @Victoria University
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
Andrew Zammit @andrewzammit.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University. Interested in terrorism, security and human rights.
Clara Süß @clarasuess.bsky.social PolSci PostDoc @ GIGA Hamburg, Outreach & Transfer Manager of MECAM • Tunisia & Maghreb, social movements, pol. violence • Alumna Goethe Uni Frankfurt and PRIF
📍Berlin
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/
Sarah Binder @sarahbinder.bsky.social Political scientist by day (and night). GWU and Brookings. Co-editor, https://goodauthority.org/
sarahbinder.weebly.com 
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia.
Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods.
Past: RAND and CPOST.
Wolves. Lynx.
www.erikemueller.com
Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social Senior Analyst @CrisisGroup. Posts on Philippines, Peace Processes+Deterrence and Durians. 
Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social Research Professor at PRIO.
Mostly Palestine, Israel, US related stuff.
Mostly in English, sometimes in Norwegian.
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own. 
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Lisa McInerney @skeptic999.bsky.social Tech policy 
Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
J.M. Berger @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://www.jmberger.com/publications/books
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social Dog shepherd.
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