Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group @epir-bisa.bsky.social The Emotions in Politics and International Relations BISA (British Association for International Studies) working group aims to promote the study, research and teaching of emotions in politics and international relations.
Ellen J Ravndal @ejravndal.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Stavanger. Research interests: history of IOs, UN secretary-general, ghosts of empire, the North Sea, international order
Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social Research Fellow @ London School of Economics. Human rights, climate, international law, global gov. Also Swedish, UK, US politics (for ‘fun’). PhD, PoliSci from Stockholm Uni. Trade unionist. Chair @lseucu.bsky.social Views mine, ibland på svenska. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Rebecca Turkington @rcturk.bsky.social Historian of feminism, colonialism, and conflict. Museum enthusiast, former think-tanker. Currently at Cambridge working on a global history of women's/gender studies.
Critical Military Studies WG at BISA @cmsbisa.bsky.social Critical Military Studies Working Group at the British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social
https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/cms
Conveners: @gabicosta.bsky.social, @lauramills.bsky.social, Hannah Richards and Alice Cree
Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice @4genderjustice.org We advance gender justice and accountability in international justice mechanisms through survivor-centred legal advocacy.
African Initiative Of Women Human Rights Defenders @whrdinitiative.bsky.social We exist because WHRDs exist.
We are WHRDs weaving the safeguarding ecosystem & the conditions we need to be: Safe. Visible. Resourced. Connected. In Motion.
Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition @whrdic.bsky.social The Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD-IC) is a transnational, intersectional feminist coalition of women human rights defenders, feminists, trans and non-binary activists and organisations, and their allies.
NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social Noor is a global feminist & movement-driven think & do tank, devoted to building the power of gender justice & progressive movements.
wearenoor.org
Dr Sanjukta Basu, PhD @sanjuktabasu.bsky.social Journalist, Researcher, Communication Specialist. PhD in Women's Studies. Research areas: Women, gender, politics, digital public space, trolling, right wing trolls. Author, Photographer. TED Fellow, TEDx Speaker. Founder, Feminist Alliance Trust, NGO.
Women Techgether 💕 @techgether.bsky.social
Women Techmakers Korea @wtmkorea.bsky.social
Women In Industries of Tomorrow Europe @wiit-europe.bsky.social Women in Industries of Tomorrow empowers women across emerging fields from AI to climate, quantum, health, and space. Rooted in community, we connect, inspire, and equip women to lead the industries shaping Europe’s future.
Data Platform Women in Technology @data-wit.bsky.social The Data Platform Women in Technology (WIT) Virtual Chapter https://dataplatformwit.com
Women in Tech SEO Community @womenintechseo.bsky.social Certified B Corp™
A free global community in search, marketing & tech. A place to ask any industry question, anytime.
Cynthia Zanoni | Women in Tech @cynthiazanoni.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Cloud Dev Advocate @microsoft.com @vscode.dev ☁️🐱
🦋 Founder @ WoMakersCode.org
🔗 https://linktr.ee/cynthiazanoni
Gender Violence Collaboration Network @gvrcn.bsky.social We are global community of 11,000+ early and mid-career researchers and practitioners in Gender-based Violence (GBV). We aim to increase collaboration, well-being and knowledge sharing through collaboration with advanced-career professionals in the field.
DASTAK Foundation @dastakfoundation.bsky.social Feminist Movement Building | Feminist Climate Justice | Sexuality, Gender and Health & Rights
Take Back The Tech! @takebackthetech.bsky.social Take control of technology to end violence against women! An @apc.org campaign working with grassroots movements around the world since 2007.
Jacqy_sw @jacqy.bsky.social Long time sw and swactivist
Valeria Betancourt @valeriabet.bsky.social Digital rights activist. Sin música, nada. Detesto los lunes. Fotos, mías.
Anne-Floor Dekker @annefloordekker.bsky.social Executive Director @genderplatform | Human rights & democracy | Freedom & equality | Inclusive peace & security | Dochters, wijn & olijven
Emine Kaya @eminekaya.bsky.social Program Manager Gender, Peace & Security WO=Men, Dutch Gender Platform
Nadia van der Linde @nadialinde.bsky.social Intersectional Puta Feminista | A better world ☆ is ☆ possible | #CSW tweets | WO=MEN @genderplatform.bsky.social | typos are my middle name | ❤ Amsterdam
Full Stack Feminism @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' is a 2 year project, funded by AHRC & IRC (UK-Ireland Collaboration in the DH awards), and part of the IFTe Network.
WO=MEN, Dutch Gender Platform @genderplatform.bsky.social 🎯Gendergelijkheid is een recht, geen luxe.
💪Grootste genderplatform in Nederland
🤝Wij strijden met onze (inter)nationale leden voor Gender Equality.
https://www.wo-men.nl/
Global Fund for Women @globalfundwomen.bsky.social We fund bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Queensland.
Colnodo @colnodo.bsky.social 30 años cambiando vidas a través de las TIC con procesos de apropiación, innovación, incidencia y uso de tecnología para el desarrollo social.
Derechos Digitales @derechosdigitales.org ⚖️ Defendemos los derechos humanos en el entorno digital
🌎 América Latina
🤖 IA, privacidad, seguridad, acceso, internet ¡y más!
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods. www.benwansell.com
Beverley Loke @beverleyloke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Australian National University | Co-Convenor of the ANU China Seminar Series | Great power politics, Hierarchies and Hegemony, Global Order, Global IR, China’s foreign policy, US-China, Indo-Pacific.
Allison Pytlak @apytlak.bsky.social Sr. Fellow & Cyber Program Director @StimsonCenter. Recovered New Yorker, Canadian in DC. Runner, dancer, karaoke legend✌️✨️ Views my own
Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; environment rep, Durham UCU. Writing a book on non-reciprocity.
janabacevic.net
Dan Öberg @warrhizome.bsky.social War, Defense, Military Creativity/Innovation.
Senior Lecturer at the department of Systems Science for Security and Defence, Assoc Prof, War Studies, Swedish Defence Uni. @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
Big believer in obscure military theory. Views own.
Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social We undertake path-breaking investigations into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance and excessive militarism, predominantly in the global arms trade.
ED: @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social
Luca Belli @1lucabelli.bsky.social Prof at FGV Law School, heading CTS.FGV.br and CyberBRICS.info
Director of CPDP.lat
Personal Views
Peace Medie @peacemedie.bsky.social
Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, commissioning in the social sciences. Views my own.
https://press.princeton.edu/our-people/rebecca-brennan
Leonie Stamm @leoniestamm.bsky.social Research Fellow at German Council on Foreign Relations (@dgap.org) | foreign policy, gender & security | ex @KoerberIP | @WIIS_de | views my own
Ñusta Carranza Ko @ckonusta.bsky.social political scientist at UBalt, human rights/gender/reproductive rights person, mother to an amazing kid, Indigenous Peruvian, SKorean
Dr. Katharina Kehl @katkehl.bsky.social Queer & feminist approaches to power, identity, subjectivity. Studies nationalism, war, conflict, militarisation.
Author of “Boundaries of Queerness” @brisunipress.bsky.social
she/her 🏳️🌈
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katharina-Kehl
Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic @sandrabisk.bsky.social Researching and teaching about gender, security, and institutional change
Denise M Horn @drnisey.bsky.social Feminist IR scholar, First Gen, Daughter of an Immigrant, moved from China to Rhode Island and now to Japan for a bit of cultural whiplash. All views my own, of course.
Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social IR/IPE,aesthetics,feminism, Balkan,ephemera. Co-Lead Editor @ripejournal.bsky.social & Ed Team of International Political Sociology.
Katerina Krulisova @katkrulisova.bsky.social Feminist, researcher and lecturer, Nottingham Trent Uni, interested in WPS in Central and Eastern Europe, women and political violence, opinions mine
Karoline Faerber @karolinefaerber.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Erfurt | Member of Polis180 think tank | institutional ethnographer thinking about feminist foreign policy, knowledge production, and diplomacy and gender, race and class | she/her
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
Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
Jenny Hedström @hedstrom.bsky.social Feminist. Teaches and researches Myanmar, war and politics at the Swedish Defence University.
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
María Villellas Ariño @mariavillellas.bsky.social Feminista, madre. Conflict, peacebuilding and feminism at Escola de Cultura de Pau. Formo parte de WILPF @wilpf-espana.bsky.social. Muy agobiada por el cambio climático. Aquí feminismo y paz. Veïna de NouBarris.
Miriam Anderson @miriamjanderson.bsky.social IR prof | Toronto Metropolitan University | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Women, Peace, Security, LSE | Editorial Board, WPS Series, de Gruyter press | Books - Windows of Opportunity (OUP 2016) Trnsn’l Actors in War&Peace (GUP 2017)
Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social Assistant professor, Keough School, University of Notre Dame. Researching transitional justice, agonistic peace, gender, identity, politics of divided societies. she/her
Cai Wilkinson (she/they) @caiwilkinson.bsky.social Genders & sexualities in IR; queer in/security; queer/ing knowledges; interpretive research methods; experiential learning. A/Prof @ Deakin Uni (Melbourne & Geelong); MethodsNET co-convenor; HEA Fellow; Intercultural Readiness Check and Hogan certified. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Thomas Gregory @tom-gregory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR at Auckland University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Author of Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan https://shorturl.at/WsC02
Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com Political sociologist @uni-kiel.de
Non-Resident Fellow @gppi.bsky.social
Private account
Author, THE POLITICS OF MILITARY FORCE (2020)
Co-editor, POPULISM AND WORLD POLITICS (2nd ed. 2026)
🏠 https://www.frankstengel.com
https://linktr.ee/frankstengel- M Marsha Henry @mghacademic.bsky.social Out of place feminist
Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org Association for Progressive Communications is a worldwide network supporting the use of internet and ICTs for social justice and sustainable development.
Virtual Routes @virtualroutes.bsky.social Virtual Routes tackles the impact of digital and emerging technologies on global affairs. Also check out @bindinghook.bsky.social, our media outlet.
Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social One of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. Author of ‘The New Age of Genocide’, and ‘What is Genocide?’. Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona/University of Sussex. martinshaw.org, martinshawx.substack.com
Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath | ESRC New Investigator - Feminist Foreign Policy | https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/jennifer-thomson
@rookewilliam.bsky.social @rookewilliam.bsky.social Historical sociology, international relations, empire, the Grenada Revolution. All views my own. RTs != endorsements. Formerly @lseir.bsky.social @css.ethz.ch
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Victoria M Basham @victoriambasham.bsky.social Posts in a personal capacity (generally about academia and politics, and occasionally about Bristol and craft beer)
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Kye Allen @kjallen.bsky.social PhD, University of Oxford | Studies Far-Right Extremism, AI Safety, the History of International Thought, & Fascism
Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social Human Rights and Social Sciences, Uni Oslo // Global Governance, Graduate Institute Geneva
www.ninareiners.com
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Jeremy Moulton @jeremymoulton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics @uoypolitics.bsky.social
Board Member @aspirenetwork.bsky.social
Regular columnist @alpsblog.bsky.social
HEA Senior Fellow
Interested in climate action, political myth, the EU, the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social Researching transnational conflicts, violence, struggles for justice, change, knowledge politics at INTERACT | FU Berlin | Book: https://tinyurl.com/yckxdh62 | she/her
Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social History, IR, Oxford, Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. First Gen academic. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of award-winning Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased
Don Beaudette @donbeaudette.bsky.social Lover of Ireland, bicycles, border collies, and Kacey Musgraves, in no particular order.
John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social Political Scientist. Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Experiments, data analysis, guitar, drums, fan of comedy. Make guides for @statacorp.bsky.social users. Two boys and exhausted all the time. More at www.johnvkane.com
Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech pragmatic, progressive multidisciplinary creative, data scientist, full stack dev & designer. occasional avid beach goer. always learning.
🔗 https://marko.tech 🏠 https://startyparty.dev
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social APSA Preprints is an open research platform that provides a home for early research outputs in political science and related fields. Free to submit, access, and download at preprints.apsanet.org.
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social Associate Professor and Chair, International Relations Program (Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History)
| #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance
http://santinoregilme.weebly.com
Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social A journal of the International Studies Association (ISA). Publishes cutting-edge research on global security and global aspects of debates in security studies.
Dr Lindsay Clark @lindsaycclark.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations @ University of Sussex, Researching and teaching: gender, war, technology, feminism and IR.
Keeps a list of "Articles I wish I had Written" - send me yours!
Dr. Cindy May @cindylmay.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics (US Politics), Lancaster University, UK; US Politics, US Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Military Interventions, Insurgency
Formerly LSE, QMUL, KCL, Cambridge
Mareen Buschmann @mareenbuschmann.bsky.social Coffee-junkie, feminist, intl. development and women’s rights at CARE International UK. Love nature, music, books. Passionate about justice and ending poverty. Views my own.
Juanita Elias @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social Professor University of Warwick, Politics & International Studies | gender, political economy, care, migration, SE Asia | http://I-peel.org | Editorial board Review of International Political Economy | vice chair BISA | she/her
Shruti Balaji @shrutibalaji.bsky.social British Academy postdoctoral fellow, POLIS & Research Associate, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
📚20th C. Indian women thinkers, history of international thought, race, gender, empire. Often thinking about flowers, cricket, and tea.
Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of children’s lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social Expert commentary on emerging tech and security. Send us your article ideas at pitch@bindinghook.com. Project from @VirtualRoutes.bsky.social
Synne Dyvik @syndyv.bsky.social Humanitarianism, refugee hosting, feminism, militarism, conflict. Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Sussex. Co-ed of https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/gender-sexuality-and-global-politics