Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net 🇪🇺💙💛 Consultant, author | Former war reporter | #InformationIntegrity #ProtectDemocracy #TwitterDelendaEst | Posts FR & EN | DM for Signal/Tchap | Hosted by Eurosky
Dr. Noura Chalati @nourachalati.bsky.social Advocacy @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de |
Affiliate Fellow @unierfurt.bsky.social & @zmo-berlin.bsky.social
🔎 Syria & Middle East/ MENA politics
🔎 Transnational repression & free press
🔎 Intelligence & security
🎓 on SYR-GDR intelligence relations at FU Berlin
Angeliki Martinou @angmartinou.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Brunel University of London. Chair, Early Career Network, Political Studies Association @psaecn.bsky.social. Editor, European Studies Review. Intelligence, IR, PoliSci.
European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social Publishing theoretical, methodological and empirical papers at the cutting-edge of research into international and global security challenges.
Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
Hedvig Ördén @hedvigorden.bsky.social Assistant Professor, International and Regional Politics, Department of Political Science and Public Management.
Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies.
Dr Aviva Guttmann @guttmannaviva.bsky.social Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, research and teaching in intelligence, strategy, history, IR, terrorism & CT
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social Working at Imperial College London & doing data stuff | PhD researcher at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies in intelligence history | Member @kcsi.uk | Founder @intelarchive.io | Love🚴♂️
https://linktr.ee/yusufozkan
Stephen Marrin @smarrin.bsky.social Full Prof at James Madison University & Director of Intelligence Analysis program. Former CIA analyst. Editor of journal Intelligence & National Security https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
Lars Berger @larsberger.bsky.social Professor, Federal University of Administrative Sciences/Berlin, Research and teaching on US foreign and counterterrorism policy, Islamist terrorism, MENA international politics, Views my own.
Black Bird Group @blackbirdgroup.bsky.social @Black_BirdGroup
Finnish OSINT group. Currently following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Casus Belli @casusbelli.bsky.social Slightly French Analyst | #OSINT #IMINT and monitoring | Mostly Africa and ex-USSR | RT ≠ endorsement
NLwartracker @nlwartracker.bsky.social Tracking usage/capture/destruction of weapon systems in #Ukraine theater of operations. Sharing combat footage and more follow @nlwartracker to keep up-to-date!
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Ronan Mainprize @ronanmainprize.bsky.social Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication
Research on intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
Intelligence and National Security @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social Intelligence and National Security is a leading journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations and politics.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
@patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.
Dutch_OsintGuy @dutchosintguy.bsky.social Dutch guy with Open Source Intelligence & Analysis skills • OSINT • Certified Instructor @SANSInstitute • SVP of Engineering& Chief Innovator @ shadowdragon.io
Joseph Henrotin @josephhenrotin1.bsky.social Directeur de recherche au CAPRI ; chercheur, ISC ; chercheur associé, IESD ; red'chef Défense & Sécurité Internationale (@dsimagazine.bsky.social). Stratégiste jamais loin de ses fourneaux. 
jjoerlemans @jjoerlemans.com Universitair docent Strafrecht | Universiteit Leiden | Cybercrime | Cybersecurity | Digitale onderzoeken
https://jjoerlemans.com/
Camille Grand @camillegrand.bsky.social Secretary General @asdeurope.bsky.social Previously Distinguished Policy Fellow @ecfr.eu Former senior official @NATO, Ministère des Armées, Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères and think tanker at FRS…
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
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Joshua Rovner @jrovner.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Nikki Ikani @nikki-ikani.bsky.social Assistant Prof Intel & Security ISGA | writer | NWO Veni Laureate | Research Fellow KCL | Snr Fellow NATO Defence College | researching warning | editor Poets Reading the News | @Kortschrijvers | she/her
Peter Schrijver @psguu.bsky.social PhD student Faculty Military Sciences Breda | Leiden University | interests: influence, intelligence, drones | BA History Utrecht, MA Military Strategic Studies Breda
Latest article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2026.2669810
Tony Comer @tonycomer.bsky.social Former Departmental Historian at GCHQ.
DSI Magazine @dsimagazine.bsky.social DSI, la revue de référence sur les questions de défense, en France et dans le monde depuis 2005.
Indépendant. Pertinent. Précis. De référence.
www.areion24.news
Stéphane Taillat @staillat.bsky.social Assoc. Prof (MCF HDR) French Institute of Geopolitics/Univ. Paris 8 & AMSCC. Member GEODE
IR/Strat. Studies. Pols de cybersécurité. Post 9/11 US National Security/Foreign Pol.
Auteur: De la cybersécurité en Amérique (PUF, 2024)
La cyberguerre (QSJ,2026)
Clément Renault @clementrenault.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social 🕵️🛰️📡 · Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk · Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po - Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 📚
Website: https://clementrenault.com
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
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/- E egflo @egloff.bsky.social
Joe Devanny @joedevanny.bsky.social Senior Lecturer | National Security & Cyber | Department of War Studies | King’s College London | All views mine, etc.
American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social The AJPS is the official journal of the MPSA, committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. Co-Editors: Adam Berinsky and Dan Reiter.
Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Mathilde von Bülow @muvonbulow.bsky.social Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Raphael Ramos @raphaelramos.bsky.social 🎓 History PhD
✒️ Writes and teaches -- history, intelligence, and foreign policy
📚 Author, *La puissance et l'ombre. 250 ans de guerres secrètes de l'Amérique* (Editions du Cerf, 2025), *Une chimère américaine* (PULM, 2018)
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Austin Carson @carsonaust.bsky.social Prof, dad, travel, outdoors, Pistons
At UChicago since 2015
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social Prof at Institute for Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College/senior associate fellow at NATO Defence College |Warfare, alliances and geoeconomics | Assoc ed of the European Journal of International Security |🇫🇷 in 🇩🇰| https://olivier-schmitt.com/
Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Primarily on LinkedIN.
https://www.paulpoast.com/
Dr. Claudia Hillebrand @ckhillebrand.bsky.social 👋 I mainly share posts about contemporary intelligence 🕵🏼♀️🕵️♂️, state secrecy 🤫, politics 🌍, and cats 🐈⬛ 🐈.
Dr Steven Wagner @stevenbwagner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Security at Brunel University
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social Assoc Professor, Virginia Tech Dept. of Political Science; Director - Tech4Humanity Lab (http://tech4humanitylab.org) Former #UARPCV Kivsharivka 🇺🇦 Head of Research, Center for European Union and Transatlantic Studies at Virginia Tech. Opinions are my own.
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.
Diana Bolsinger @dianabolsinger.bsky.social Public Policy scholar; Assistant Professor, @UTEP Intelligence & National Security Studies (INSS); @ClementsCenter alum; @SocIntelHist; IC veteran.
Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book #1 : "Weapons in Space" | Book #2 "Wiring an Empire" (contracted w/ MIT Press)
Vince Houghton @intelhistorian.bsky.social Fmr Dir Nat. Cryptologic Museum, NSA. Formerly IntlSpyMuseum; Miami native living in DMV; Author - Nuking the Moon, The Nuclear Spies, and Covert City; has “Grave Lack of Discretionary Judgment”-The Catholic Church; lesser half to @jordanspeak.bsky.social
Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider @jackieschneider.bsky.social Hoover Fellow, Director Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Stanford University. Research on international security, emerging technology, wargames. Views are my own. 
Nathaniel Powell @natkpowell.bsky.social Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
Mike Poznansky @mpoznansky.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Naval War College | CFR Term Member | Author of "In the Shadow of International Law" (OUP 2020) | Views my own.
Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com Global Head of Intelligence @ big European corporation, Adjunct Prof in Intelligence at Sciences Po Paris. Author on private intel. Podcasting on dangerous stuff and writing about geopolitics @ EncyclopediaGeopolitica.com
Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati (t.co/uWXN1eLc0u). PhD. 25+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at University of San Francisco.
David Strachan-Morris @drdavidsm.bsky.social Lecturer in Intelligence and Security. Links to recent work on Combat Intelligence at https://shorturl.at/pBDjL and warning intelligence at https://shorturl.at/waeL2
Keen rugby fan and supporter of Ulster Rugby and Ireland.
Max Smeets @maxwsmeets.bsky.social Author of No Shortcuts & Ransom War
Co-director Virtual Routes (https://virtual-routes.org/), previously ECCRI
Managing Editor Binding Hook (https://bindinghook.com)
Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich
JD Work @hostilespectrum.bsky.social Former intel, now academic @NDU_CIC, @TheKrulakCenter, @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA, @CyberStatecraft, @ElliottSchoolGW, @PAISWarwick. Apolitical, views=own
Alex Blackwell @alexblackwell.bsky.social b9a45e5942ca3940f7a811fc93e4ffd0
Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴🏳️🌈 🚀🛰
Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n
“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and the Arctic | Vice President of Strategy, Emergent Risk International | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social 
Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
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
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers