Future of Life Institute @futureoflife.org We work on reducing extreme risks and steering transformative technologies to benefit humanity.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social Associate Professor & Methodological Artist
London School of Economics
Discourse, Knowledge, Reflexivity, International Relations
PhD Sciences Po Bx
https://www.audreyalejandro.com/publications.html
Stefan C. Aykut @stefanaykut.bsky.social Sociology of the Climate Crisis
Mercator Chair on the social dynamics of ecological transformation (@gklimawende.bsky.social)
Humanities Centre 'Futures of Sustainability' at University of Hamburg (@fos-uhh.bsky.social)
Views here are my own.
Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social Researcher, educator, enthusiastic but terrible dancer, writing about gender, governance, security, pop culture. Views mine. She/they.
Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social University of Tübingen professor interested in EU, Cyprus, Turkey, climate change, security, discourse, and all things IR. Love travel, nice hotels and good food. 
Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at @glasgow.ac.uk. But mostly hiking, cycling, and running around Scotland.
Senem Aydın-Düzgit @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center; Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University
Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social Critical discourse analyst. Racism, colonialism, immigration.
Currently working on Zionism and Anti-Zionism in the UK (1910-2025)
Head of CADAAD network | 5-time NBA All-Star
Ever bought a fake picture, Toby?
Katja Freistein @ksailormoon.bsky.social IR scholar: discourse, visuality, narratives, rightwing populism & gender, global inequalities, Southeast Asia, Japan, critical beach studies
📡 https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=F4PUxv8AAAAJ&hl=de
🩷🐥cat content & K-drama & 日本
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Frank Gadinger @gadinsky.bsky.social Political Scientist I U OsnabrückI International Relations I Peace and Conflict I Practice Research I Narrative Analysis I Visual Politics I Global Cooperation I Pfälzer
Dr. Carina van de Wetering @carinavandew.bsky.social Lecturer @Leiden; PhD @Bristoluni.
International Relations, US foreign policy, critical theory, discourse and power, trust and meaning, populism and marginalized voices.
Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social Work: Professor and APVC (R&I, Environment and Social Science). Edit BJPIR.
Research: IR, security, terrorism. US, UK, Australia (AUKUS). Discourse, culture, narrative. Own views. https://profjackholland.com
Life: Dad, Arsenal, running, 90's guitars.
Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.
Rabea M. Khan @rmkhan.bsky.social Lecturer in IR at Liverpool John Moores Uni, Co-convenor of BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
Critical Religion | Race | Gender | Discourse | Post- and Decolonial Theory | Abolition
Profile: https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/17835-rabea-khan
Laure Gosselin @lauregosselin.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Pol Sci @universitelaval.bsky.social & TU Dresden. Critical IR. Discourse Analysis. Norm Contestation.
Can talk for hours about environmental justice in global governance & how to develop more sustainable food systems.
Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Edinburgh.
Emmanuel Valax @evalax.bsky.social PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics 💧 unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance 🌍 while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries 💭 (views my own)
Arthur Duhé @arthurduhe.bsky.social Postdoc at Université Paris 8 (ANR Access ERC, 2025-2027)
D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in International Relations (University of Oxford)
Historical IR / Political Theory / History of Political Thought
Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of York. Researching public moods, emotions, and ontological security in International Relations 
Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Oxford - researching Emotions, EU integration, Ontological (in)security, Political psychology, the everyday, narratives, Brexit.
Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social Ice hockey and global politics, in that order. Author: International Relations and the Problem of Time (http://tinyurl.com/wosn65o). 
Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy
at the U.S. Army War College. Indo-Pacific & Eurasian Security, Strategy, and Development Politics.
Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social Strategist || Military Writers Guild Board Member || #MilSky Admin || Intersection of Foreign Policy, Conflict, Economics, Politics, History, and Writing || Non-partisan, but not amoral || Opinions my own.
Marcus Nicolson @mnicolson.bsky.social Post-Doc Researcher: Bolzano, 🇮🇹. From Shetland!
Interests:
- Migration politics, narratives, ontological security, borders, minorities, identities, ultracycling
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
Fabricio Rodríguez @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social social scientist, international relations, global inequalities, nature-society relations, peace & conflict, (de)coloniality, knowledge(s) in dialogue - born latitud 0.
Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social Research Fellow KCL | Voluntary Labour | Global Politics | Health | Kenya | Tanzania | Non-State Actors | Heat Pump Widow
Frederik Carl Windfeld @fredwindfeld.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the EUI | International Relations | Critical Security Studies | Emergent/Disruptive Tech | "Autonomous" Weapons | Sometimes in Danish 🏳️🌈
@bibekch.bsky.social @bibekch.bsky.social Associate Professor
Dept. of Poli Sci & Int’l Affairs
University of North Georgia
Research interests: small states in IR, Sino-Indian relations, Nepal’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific affairs, security studies (broadly).
Website: www.bibekchand.com
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Franz von Lucke @fvonlucke.bsky.social PhD in Political Science. Freelance Researcher & Sustainability Expert. Climate politics and justice, EU, climate security, ontological security
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Mustafa Aydın @mustafaaydin.bsky.social Reader; Thinker; Writer; Talker
President @uikonseyi; Coordinator @TRGlobalAcademy & #GreekTurkishForum; Professor @khasedutr; Editor @uidergisi, @uikpanorama, @guvenlikportali; #Mülkiye
Katherine T. Tyson @katherinettyson.bsky.social Day job policymaking on climate change/adaptation gap. Research public goods provision (IR, IPE, Law)
Nature | Academia | Disability | Politics | LGBTQ+ | BookTok | Writer | Anime | Gamer | Fandoms | Photography
☕️📚🇨🇦🇬🇧🔸🏴🏳️🌈🐈⬛🍵
Oxford | UBC | Columbia | Waseda
Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social Feminist lesbian asking queer questions about peace & security | Lecturer at Uni. of Manchester | Jamiejhagen.com | picturesofbirds.tumblr.com/
Queering Women, Peace and Security out now with Oxford University Press http://bit.ly/45NJMBJ
Vihar Georgiev @vihargg.bsky.social Advising governments, IGOs and NGOs. Teaching. Learning every day.
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Vera Kranenburg @verakranenburg.bsky.social Policy at Economic Affairs | formerly China Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute
Erik Brattberg @erikbrattberg.bsky.social Managing Partner Brzezinski Global Strategies & Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil. Focus on Europe, transatlantic relations, and geopolitics. Based in DC.
Jakub Jakóbowski @jjakobowski.bsky.social Deputy Director, Head of China Dept. at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
China, Europe, the post-Soviet space. Eurasian connectivity.
- F François Godement @fgodement.bsky.social Historian, Special Advisor Asia & America @i_montaigne, non-resident Senior Fellow @CarnegieEndow until February 2025, #China and in spite of the above attempts at humour.
Elvire Fabry @elvirefabry.bsky.social @DelorsInstitute Senior Research Fellow on Geopolitics of #Trade, rapporteur of the EU-China working group. #EU #US #China 
James Crabtree @jamescrabtree.bsky.social Analyst & writer. Billionaire Raj author. ecfr fellow. foreign policy columnist. Ex: IISS, FT, LKY School, UK Govt. LSE / Harvard. 
Björn Fägersten @bfagersten.bsky.social European affairs, political risk, geoeconomics, intelligence. CEO Politea, senior fellow UI Sweden 
Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com Geoeconomics & tech @ecfr.eu • Prof. @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Columnist @foreignpolicy.com • Author, Backfire @columbiaup.bsky.social
Global economy, trade wars, economic statecraft, geopolitics of AI
💌 agathe.demarais@ecfr.eu | 🖥️ agathedemarais.com
Francesca Ghiretti @fraghi.bsky.social Economic security and China
Research Leader China and Economic Security at Rand Europe; Non-resident Fellow at Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies @CSIS; host of the podcast Geoeconomic Competition. Former MERICS, IAI
François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social Senior adviser (Europe), IISS,
Special adviser, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Tim Rühlig @ruehlig.bsky.social Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social, Paris/Brussels. Formerly European Commission, DGAP, UI. China, digital technology, EU-China relations. More at www.timruhlig.eu
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social Political Geographer from 🇮🇪
Slow knowledge producer
Kazuto Suzuki @kazutosuzuki.bsky.social Teaching and learning space policy, economic security, sanctions, export control, geoeconomics etc. Professor of the University of Tokyo and Director of the Institute of Geoeconomics. All tweets are in Japanese.
Janka Oertel @jankaoertel.bsky.social ECFR Asia Director. Personal views only. 
Dr Maria Shagina @mshagina.bsky.social Diamond-Brown Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, IISS | Ex @FIIA_fi and UniZurich | Economic statecraft, sanctions & energy.
Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social Military Analyst • Former Senior Advisor at the NSC of Georgia• Focused on Russian Foreign and Security Policy • Views my own https://russiaanalyzed.substack.com
Kirill Shamiev @kirland.bsky.social Civ-mil, public policy & RU politics. PhD in PoliSci. Fellow at @ECFR. Tweets in personal capacity only. Shamiev.org
Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social Senior Adviser, Asia @crisisgroup.org | Strategic narratives on China, Indo-Pacific, geopolitics, geoeconomics, philosophy and values. Ex-diplomat. Don't start none, won't be none. 实事求是。己所不欲,勿施於人 https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelkovrig
Richard Gowan @richardgowan1.bsky.social Program Director, Global Issues and Institutions, at Crisis Group.
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.
Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Posts on EU, Balkans and International Politics.
Author: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU.
Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/europe
Dr Stefanie Babst @stefaniedrbabst.bsky.social Former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General; passionate Ukraine supporter. 🇺🇦💕Author. Speaker. ELN Senior Associate Fellow. DGAP Board Member. Saluki-mum.
Ben Hodges @general-ben.bsky.social Former CG USArmyEurope, loves the Army Team, FSU football, and Braves baseball.
Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Nathalie Tocci @nathalietocci.bsky.social Professor at John Hopkins University SAIS Europe. Senior fellow, IeP Bocconi University. Views my own
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social CNN Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst, NYT bestselling author, Jackson School teaching fellow at Yale
Lili Bayer @liliebayer.bsky.social European Security Correspondent at Reuters, covering NATO, EU defense and foreign policy in Brussels.
Signal: lilibayer.24
Follow Reuters’ Europe foreign policy team: @andrewramsaygray.bsky.social, @sasilink.bsky.social & @irishjreuters.bsky.social
Eurasia Group @eurasiagroup.net The geopolitical risk firm that helps you understand the world. Founded by @ianbremmer.com. Putting politics first for 25 years.
Michael S. Smith II @michaelssmithii.bsky.social Terrorism Analyst ● OSINT Specialist ● P/CVE Consultant ● “Mogul” in Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers ’16 ● 14 in Fast Company mag’s 100 Most Creative ’16
Nina Wilen @ninawilen.bsky.social Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
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.
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
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
Simon Schlegel @simonschlegel.bsky.social East Europe buff, recovering anthropologist, Ukraine Program Director @libmod.de Zentrum Liberale Moderne Berlin, interested in small places and big issues.
Sina Toossi @sinatoossi.bsky.social senior fellow at the @CIPolicy.bsky.social | write a lot about Iran, US foreign policy, Middle East | bylines Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian & elsewhere | check out my substack: dissidentforeignpolicy.com
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Anna Wieslander @annwieanna.bsky.social PhD.
Director Northern Europe, 🇺🇸 Atlantic Council; Chair Woman Institute for Development and Security Policy; Member, 🇸🇪 Royal Academy of War Sciences.
Sabine Weyand @sabineweyand.bsky.social European Commission; avid reader, news junkie and foodie
Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social Acting Co-Director of Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School Berlin| think-tanking on European economic policy | wwww.delorscentre.eu | www.nilsredeker.net
Matt Zefferman @mzefferman.bsky.social Any views expressed are, at most, my own and do not reflect those of any organization.
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
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