Ben Haring @benharing.bsky.social 
Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
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
Christian Caryl @ccaryl.bsky.social Columnist @ForeignPolicy.com. Writing, insomnia, birds. Frequenter of diners. Ex-WaPo, ex-Newsweek. Own worst enemy. Book: Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social The Definitive Source for Legal News. www.courtwatch.news
Our original reporting has been the basis of hundreds of national and local news stories.
Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social Radical liberal zoomer. Published in Liberal Currents! Big fan of worldbuilding, alt-hist and shitposting (see rest of bio).
Palingenetic ultraglobalist. Pro-Palestine neocon. Woke multiculturalist NatCon. Glorifying diversity, the world's only hygiene.
Kyle Matthews @kylecmatthews.bsky.social Working on defending human rights and democracy in an age of authoritarian alignment
Beatriz Saab @beasaab.bsky.social Digital Methods and Policy Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Ben Nimmo @benimmo.bsky.social 
CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social The Center for Security and Emerging Technology within Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
cset.georgetown.edu | policy.ai
Josh Goldstein @joshagoldstein.bsky.social Research Fellow @Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).
Studying emerging tech, national security, and online manipulation. Trying to bridge the academia/policy divide.
https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/josh-a-goldstein/
Sarah Cook @sarahgcook.bsky.social Independent researcher & consultant; author of UnderReported China newsletter; fmr Freedom House China research director, views my own; underreportedchina.substack.com
Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dartmouth. Director Polarization Research Lab. According to Nate Silver: "Boring. Can't model for shit."
Jessica Silbey @jessicasilbey.bsky.social Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Law
https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/jessica-silbey/
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne / Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Francesco Salvi @frasalvi.bsky.social PhD Student @ Princeton CITP | Computational Social Science, NLP, Persuasion, Politics | he/him | https://frasalvi.github.io/
Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Neuronerd, Prof, head of HIP lab in Experimental Psychology, Oxford. Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute. https://humaninformationprocessing.com/.
Helen Margetts @helenmargetts.bsky.social Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and the Alan Turing Institute, trying to make sense of governance and democracy in a digital world #public policy #digital government #data science #AI #democracy #behavioural science
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Ben Tappin @benmtappin.bsky.social • Assistant professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Persuasion, technology, experiments
• benmtappin.com
Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social data science + political communication @oiioxford @uniofoxford
Joe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social Academic psychiatrist at UCSF and author of the Psych Unseen blog at Psychology Today and the book False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True (Oxford University Press, 2025) drjoepierre.com
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
Daniel Thilo Schroeder @daniel-thilo.bsky.social Computers, graphs, and conspiracies: I'm a computational social scientist modeling global disinformation and conspiracy dynamics. Working on digital twins of human societies.
Website: https://danielthiloschroeder.org/
Google Scholar: bit.ly/40rkhnL
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Valerie Wirtschafter @vwirtschafter.bsky.social Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Poli sci PhD researching all things new media, emerging tech, and democracy.
Shaoyu Yuan @shaoyuyuan.bsky.social shaoyuyuan.com
International Relations Scholar and Civil Servant
Open to DMs and questions
Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research & Development. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. me@lukaszolejnik.com
lukaszolejnik.com/books
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
techletters.substack.com
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social Resisting Authoritarianism. Protecting Democracy. Preserving Human Rights. globalextremism.org
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Foreign Policy for America @fp4america.bsky.social Foreign Policy for America works with a national network of leaders to stand up for strong, principled American foreign policy. Join us. https://fp4america.org/
fp21 @fp21.bsky.social fp21 is an independent, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to transforming the process and institutions of American foreign policy. Learn more at fp21.org. 
National Security Leaders for America @nslforamerica.bsky.social National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is a bipartisan group of former military and civilian leaders committed to defending democracy and countering national and economic security threats.
National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org Public interest 501(c)(3) law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. Website https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome; details on website front page. Media email Media@ NationalSecurityLaw.org, others email Kel there
Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were seeds.
American Foreign Service Association @afsaorg.bsky.social Championing America's diplomats since 1924
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com 🇺🇸 Service, democracy, and the last mile. From 4-H to the Peace Corps to the Foreign Service, one belief held: the Constitution is kept, not inherited. We keep it for each other.
JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social Christian, husband, dad. Vice President of the United States.
jdvance.com
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - Iranian-American - inforezaakbari@gmail.com - I write The Guarded Domains, a Substack newsletter focused on Iran and the broader Middle East region. https://guardeddomains.substack.com
Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.
Mark Fitzpatrick @marktfitz.bsky.social Grandpa. Ex-expat in UK. Former State Dept.
Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social Pitzer prof. Former kindergarten teacher, & sometime swarthy bastard. I work on democratic movements and the politics of postrevolutionary schooling in Iran. www.shervinmalekzadeh.org
AliVaez.bsky.social @alivaez.bsky.social Director of #Iran Project & Senior Advisor @CrisisGroup; Adjunct Prof @Georgetown; Fellow @FPI_SAIS; Ex @UNDPPA @FAScientists @Harvard
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social Progressive; political analyst (US/Middle East, Palestine/Israel). Formerly at IMEU, AAI, & Al Jazeera. Into MMA. Views are mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇸
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian , writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins. MENA/SWANA, disasters, political violence, ethics, humanitarian crises, & qual methods. Wrote a book about Palestinian org evolution & social change in wartime Lebanon: http://bit.ly/3VEw64B. EMT. Opinions my own.
Lamis Abdelaaty @labdelaaty.bsky.social Assoc Prof of PoliSci • IR, Refugees • labdelaa.expressions.syr.edu • she/her • Views own, etc.
Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social Judaism, politics, music, basketball, New York City
Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | your old millennial friend | local politics | palestine | states, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | will strive to listen
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com
https://www.newarab.com/
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us He/him. دمي فلسطيني
Grandson of Nakba survivors. Son of a Naksa survivor. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Support local ⚽️.
مش طالعين.
📍Shawnee, Kaskaskia, & Ofo lands
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social Editor, THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) & THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (late 2025) via Saqi Books | 🇱🇧&🇵🇸 | Born/raised on Dharug, Gadigal & Gamaraigal lands (aka Sydney); now a Londoner | He/him | الياس جهشان
https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/this-queer-arab-family/
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya
Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social Essays at stevesalaita.com 
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
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
hannah draper @jankypants.bsky.social the jankier the pants, the player you get
birdsite asylum seeker (formerly draperha) making this my new home
type-a bureaucrat professionally pushing papers in/around the middle east. history nerd, arabist, turkophile, news junkie, perpetually tired
Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com
🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
+972 Magazine @972mag.com Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine, home to Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc