CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social We're a network of civil society green groups making international public finance work for people and the planet 💚
development banks • EU funds • environment • human rights • energy transition • fossil free future
📌 Based in CEE
www.bankwatch.org
Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net
All tracks are:
- More than 25 years old
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John Crowther @john-crowther7bsky.bsky.social Respect nature and biodiversity. In the fight to grow a fairer, greener, sustainable future. #BuildBackFairer #BuildBackGreener #MakeBritainWetAgain
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
Nicholas Allott @nicholasallott.bsky.social Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Cat bed. Pragmatics, related philosophy, politics and cat photos, not necessarily in that order. Neotenous, crepuscular and thigmotactic.
Mélanie Joly @melaniejolycan.bsky.social Députée d’Ahuntsic-Cartierville | Ministre des Affaires étrangères | Minister of Foreign Affairs 🇨🇦
Chef Finney @cheffinney.bsky.social Executive Chef, Culinary Consultant, Guerilla Improv Comic, Anti-Fascist/Racist, Irish Polymath, Former Lots of Stuff, I am Stabby the MF Leprechaun. NSFW
(Ridire Créachta on Fashbook)
"I paint houses..."
"Tiocfaidh ár lá!"
"There is NO THEM!"
NO DM's
Nicholas Orsillo @nickorsillo.bsky.social I'm an academic copy editor, proofreader, and Czech-to-English translator; would-be historian; and keeper of life in glass boxes. www.nicholasorsillo.com
Kieran Williams @kieranwilliams67.bsky.social Comparative political scientist. Author of books on the 1968 "Prague Spring", intelligence services, electoral systems, Václav Havel.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mDF8dbEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://kdwilliams7.medium.com/
Gabriela Preda @gpreda.bsky.social Linguaphile containing multitudes 🌐✍️🗣️👩🏫🗞️🎓 Busy with #WordsAndWorlds Doubting everything except #democracy Roving when not still #MadeInEurope
Benjamin Couteau @benjamincouteau.bsky.social Research Fellow EU Enlargement, Balkans, 🇹🇷, Influences @delorsinstitute.bsky.social Centre Grande Europe 🇪🇺🇫🇷 • Académie Notre Europe ex-education manager • dwelled in 🇱🇹 • he/him
👉 https://fr.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-couteau-5a498bba
Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) @pepinneff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy. Focus on the role of emotions in the policy process, including moral panic agenda-setting, LGBTQ+ politics, and human-shark interactions. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
La Cartita News @lacartita.com 📢 We are La Cartita News!
We provide the latest binational updates on Mexican and US developments. We cover LATAM 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇴
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https://lacartita.com
Isabelle Ioannides @isabelleioannides.bsky.social EU affairs and international relations geek - all things peace and security, crisis management, EU enlargement, impact evaluation/policy learning. Balkans & Med aficionado. Strictly my views.
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change!
Luis G. Prado @luisgprado.bsky.social Author of "Budapest Twilight: Hungary in the Time of Orbán"
https://tienda.cyberdark.net/budapest-twilight-hungary-in-the-time-of-orban-n256079.html- C @carolehodge.bsky.social @carolehodge.bsky.social
Jens Woelk @jenswoelk.bsky.social Professor in Comparative Constitutional Law @UniversityTrento (Italy). Interested in European integration, EU enlargement, South Eastern Europe, Rule of Law, Democracy, Federalism, Autonomy, Minority Rights and many more topics
Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue Just a vibe, you know?
From the UK, jetzt in Deutschland.
Used to wrangle code, coders, and customers for a living. Now just for fun.
Interested in complex systems and how they fail us. Oh, and jokes.
Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR
quirkglobalstrategies.com
linkedin.com/in/christinequirk
Quirkglobalstrategies: Substack
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
Tamara Brankovic @tbrankovic.bsky.social Deputy Program Director @CRTA crta.bsky.social | democracy, election & information integrity 👀 📢 🏛️ | MA @ UniBelgrade & UniGraz
AH @arminkahelic.bsky.social 
Nicolas Bouchet @nickbouchet.bsky.social German Marshall Fund Senior Visiting Fellow.
US foreign policy, democratization, democracy promotion, civil society. Throw in some Eastern Europe and Russia and we're mostly good to go.
Marcus How @marcus-how.bsky.social Head of Analysis at VE Insight (formerly ViennEast). Interested in Austria & CEE. Austro-Essexian hybrid. Opinions expressed are my own.
@rm111.bsky.social @rm111.bsky.social 
Janny @jannylu.bsky.social Between BiH and Germany, but left my heart in Sarajevo
Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social Thinking about accountable governance, the flavors of state capture being innovated & how people can learn the good from each other & not just the bad… an unexpected life journey from Buffalo to Sarajevo....my dog keeps me human...
Heleen Touquet @heleentouquet.bsky.social Researcher. Gender & violence, feminism, conflict, masculinities, former Yugoslavia. Runner. Biker. Queer stuff. 🏳️🌈
Matuzalem11 @matuzalem11.bsky.social
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Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social Co-Founder and Senior Associate @DPC_global.bluesky.social; former Fulbrighter - PhD at St. Andrews; Angry Optimist
Troels Halken 🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇷🇸🇺🇦🌻 🇱🇧🇵🇸🍉 🇸🇩 🇨🇺🇻🇪 @halken.eurosky.social EU 🇪🇺
Antifa,-Zionist, -Israel, -genocide, -autoritarian, -tech&media broligarchs.
Freedom & democracy🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉🇻🇪🇸🇩🇨🇩🇬🇪🇸🇰🇨🇿🇧🇾🇷🇸🇮🇷
We, the people🇪🇺🇽🇰🇧🇦🇲🇰🇦🇱🇲🇪🇦🇲🇲🇩🏴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇬🇱🇨🇦🇹🇼
Rebel. Femi-Woking DEI&HR ⚛️🚃♻️CC&nature🐳🐺
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🇪🇺⚔️ #EUTechSovereignty #EUArmy #EUFederalista #EUCarabinieri
nimionidrag @nimionidrag.bsky.social never complain, never explain.
Tina @timarie.bsky.social Librarian, Pacific Northwest. Go Mets!
@leftriver.bsky.social @leftriver.bsky.social Ako imaš ranu, sam sipaj vrelo olovo na nju!
p0werm0de @p0werm0de.bsky.social Alien research 🖤🌈💜👽🫣
here since 2023. Queer anarchist / base democratic
Emmanuel Kopp 🇪🇺🇫🇷 @stefan8315.bsky.social Stand with 🇺🇦 🇬🇪
Liberal/center left.
Geopolitics, Democracy, Europe, Georgia, Iran, Baltics..
Focus on Ukraine.
Our War...Slava Ukraini.
Pavel Hradecky @pavelhradecky.bsky.social Health, healthcare, biotech, data.
Adam Moore @conflictgeog.bsky.social Geographer studying political violence, war, peacebuilding, U.S. military, geopolitics, empire, Bosnia. UCLA professor.
Author of Peacebuilding in Practice (2013), Empire's Labor (2019), and The Difference Place Makes (2026)
Richard Johnson @richardgjohnson.bsky.social 
Elke Smalley @elkerose.bsky.social Birds, cats, nature. Norfolk. Politics. EU #FBPE. British-German. Feminist. Blue Side. Interested in nearly everything, pls no OF accounts
kimberly grace @grace8ming.bsky.social freelancer • traveler • empathizer • analyzer • problem solver • dreamer • re-poster • a fan of curiosity & the cat it killed • she/her • formed in kalamazoo • now in the pnw
Jennifer Rankin @jenniferrankin.bsky.social Brussels correspondent, the Guardian
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Filip Ejdus @filipejdus.bsky.social Professor of security studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. Spare time democracy activist. www.filipejdus.com
Harun @harunb.bsky.social Raised between SJJ and DTW. Balkans, Ottomans, and deadpan humor. History Ph.D. via Columbia. Recovering academic. Twitter muhadžir.
Aleksandar Brezar @brezaleksandar.bsky.social Journalist. Words in Euronews, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Haaretz, Tagespiegel. Poynter and Europa Nostra award winner. LFC fan.
Marcos Moschovidis @moschovidis.bsky.social Founder and Editor-In-Chief of EU FOR YOU.
🇬🇷+Yugoslav+🇩🇪. Mostly EU politics & Balkans. Trying to make both better. Coming to you live from Vienna. Exclusively private views on here.
adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social In their silences, I returned home.
https://criticalmuslim.com/explore/issues/halal/german-redemption-theology
Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social puns about life, politics, international relations and such
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Mladen Erjavec @mladenerjavec.com Located in Qatar. Made in Sarajevo. Married to a Jamaican.
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Berbic Azra @berbicazra.bsky.social average Bosnian village girl • loud but kind • human rights, environmental & peacebuilding activis • lawyer • aspiring storyteller & flower farmer 💙💛
Teuta Skenderi @teutas.bsky.social 
Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social Poster of posts. Comparative politics, memes, and the occasional update about my ducks. Bluesky's premier advocate for Bushidoliberalism 🫡 🗡️⛩️
Designs (mostly) inspired by and derived from 19th century political Americana at 👁 wideawakes.army 👁
Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social Third-country national in Brussels writing on EU policies and politics, Balkans, migration, democracy, information manipulation. Former reporter (RFE/RL, European Voice).
Co-founder @dpcglobal.bsky.social.
Views personal; em dashes mine.
Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018), "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), and host of Balkanomnicon podcast.
🌐 https://jasminmujanovic.com
🌐 https://balkanomnicon.com/
Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura @arnesa.bsky.social Genocide Researcher & Scholar | Organiser | Writer | Lecturer & Educator | Scholars of Genocide Expert Group @GenocideExperts | Sociology & Social Criticism | Bosnian Genocide Survivor | “the worst bitch on twitter” | l
https://substack.com/@arnesakustura
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
Sasha/Cielo Hemon @sashahemon.bsky.social Writer
Screenwriter
Music Producer and DJ (as Cielo Hemon)
Professor
Dipleša
Sarajevo
Princeton
John Paul Newman @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social Historian of Central and Southeastern Europe, Maynooth University. Find me in Dublin, Prague, Zagreb, Sofia.
Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social IR/IPE,aesthetics,feminism, Balkan,ephemera. Co-Lead Editor @ripejournal.bsky.social & Ed Team of International Political Sociology.
Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social write(at)womenwritethebalkans.com
IG: @womenwritethebalkans
womenwritethebalkans.com
Support us: ko-fi.com/womenwritethebalkans
Harris Mylonas @harrismylonas.bsky.social ▫️Prof. of Political Science @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Director of IERES @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Editor-in-chief of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social
▫️Nationalism | nation-building | migration | diasporas
🔗 https://harrismylonas.com
Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at#
Rinë @rinel.bsky.social curious about critical geopolitics, digital surveillance & data ethics. also diaspora & the balkans. 
Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing mostly about Turkey. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc.
Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
Davide Denti @davidedenti.bsky.social PhD @sisunitn. BXL-based. EU, Italy, Malta, Bosnia. Personal opinions only.
Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.eurosky.social 🇮🇹🇬🇧 Political scientist | SEI, Sussex PhD | MA in 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 | Euroscepticism, Poland, CEE, Italy, EU early women | @repjournal.bsky.social co-editor & founding co-editor of @PRXjournal.bsky.social | Montalcini scholar 2014| FRSA | #EUsky 🇪🇺 | #Firstgen
Adem Ferizaj @ademferizaj.bsky.social decolonial/postcolonial studies in continental europe
Srdjan Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social Prof @gspia-esapi.bsky.social, something-or-other @cepi-cips.bsky.social, @cdsn.bsky.social ...work updates mostly
srdjanvucetic.wordpress.com
Aline Cateux @acateux.bsky.social France/Bosnia-Herzegovina
Social and political anthropology, ISPOLE-UCLouvain.
https://linktr.ee/alinecateux
A VENIR : "Mostar : ceci n'est pas une ville", Éditions Actes Sud, Janv.2026
#BosniaHerzegovina #anthropology #urbicid #violence #memory #landscape
Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social UCD Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. New books: 'Nationalism as a Way of Life', 'Why Humans Fight', 'Contemporary Sociological Theory', 'Grounded Nationalisms' and 'The Rise of Organised Brutality'.
Dino Abazović @dabazovic.bsky.social Sociolog(ist); osposobljen za naučni i nastavni rad u području / the holder of a university chair. Posts/objave in/na English/BCS here&there/tu&tamo
Loïc Tregoures @tregs.bsky.social Proche de l'école militaire. Un peu de Balkans en dehors des heures de travail.
Auteur du livre "Le football dans le chaos yougoslave" (2019)
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Jelena Đureinović @jelenadj.bsky.social Historian. University of Vienna. Antifascism, anticolonialism & veterans’ internationalism between Yugoslavia & Africa in the global Cold War. Memory studies. Football.
Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social Palaver @ballaballa-balkan.bsky.social 
Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social 🦫, professor, coordinator BiEPAG, director CSEES Uni. Graz, President ASN, in english, Deutsch i naški. Seriously Balkans Podcast.
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
Lura Limani @lurali.bsky.social Writer & editor.
Vedran Dzihic @vedrandzihic.bsky.social Senior Researcher @InfoOiip | Lecturer @univienna | Co-director at Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe @cas_see_uniri | Member of @BiEPAG | Autor von „Ankommen“ (Kremayr&Scheriau)
Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social Text editor at the Associated Press, London. Previously BBC News website and BBC na srpskom. Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024. Ukraine, Balkans, climate change, bicycles and the rest. 
Dženeta Karabegović @dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social I teach, research, consult on #diaspora #justice #education #humanrights #migration #Balkans. PhD. Refugee. Vermonter. Transnational Bosnian American. 
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.
Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social Formerly in international development and in local government. Now in Bonn, Germany. Learning German, also following news from Europe and especially the Balkans in BCMS, Turkish, English.
Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at Uni of Bristol | Feminist peace scholar | Member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective | she/таа
Dennis Miskić @dennismiskic.bsky.social freelance journalist, mostly Balkans
Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the Faculty of Law and the Center for Southeast European Studies (CSEES), University of Graz | Europeanization through Judicial Reform in the Western Balkans (WB6): Albania’s Case | 2026 BiEPAG Fellow | Based in Österreich 🇦🇹
edin h @edinh.bsky.social 
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social plant dad and dog mom 🏳️🌈
https://www.ervinmalakaj.com
Una Hajdari @unawrites.bsky.social Journalist.
Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Into history of international law, courts and dogs. Lives in and loves Den Haag <3
Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social All about: sociology, Balkans, good cooking, jazz, dogs. No patience for: racists, nationalists, sexists, creeps, bad methodology.
“East of Ethnia” -- politics, sociology, and culture from the Balkans and other places: https://eastethnia.wordpress.com