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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social I (try to) advance our knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://whogov.net/.
Yuhua Wang @yuhuawang.bsky.social Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Xiaobo Lü | 吕晓波 @xiaobolu.bsky.social Comparative Political economy, Authoritarian Parties, Chinese Politics
Associate Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley. Very infrequent social media user.
Howard Liu @howardhliu.bsky.social howardhliu.com
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Adam Wu @adamwt.bsky.social PhDing in Political Science at UCSD. Once journalist. Authoritarianism | China | bureaucracy | diplomacy | text analysis | mixed methods
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Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social Political scientist studying how oppositions challenge dictators at home and abroad. Opposition parties, authoritarianism, elections, foreign policy, Southeast Asia. Postdoc @ Stanford CDDRL orensamet.com
Maurice P. Schumann @realmps.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ the Hertie School | Authoritarianism, the Internet, and Civil War | Sports and Cats
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow | DEMED project @ERC_Research | Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social | Main interest: Democracy and Autocracy, Public Opinion, Civic Education, Higher Ed. #FirstGen
Felix Wiebrecht @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) University of Liverpool | Research Associate V-Dem |
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Fabio Angiolillo @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Gothenburg, V-Dem Institute
Comparative politics, autocracies, political parties | China & East Asian politics
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Marcin Jerzewski 葉皓勤 @yehaoqin.bsky.social #taiwan | #foreignpolicy | #hybridthreats | #democracy | #humanrights
Head of Taiwan Office, @europeanvalues.bsky.social
Marcin Król Fellow, @visegradinsight.bsky.social
Young Leader, Pacific Forum
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Roy Ngerng 鄞義林 @royngerng.bsky.social Wage advocate. Work in labor rights. Activist sued by Singapore prime minister. Based in Taiwan.
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Simon Obendorf @obendorf.bsky.social Studying/teaching international theory, post/decolonial praxis & queer worlds. Proud Chair of Cheka Sana UK. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 He/Him
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
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Russell Yap @russellyap.bsky.social PhD student in Anthropology at the National University of Singapore | medical anthropology + gender & sexuality studies
Dhevarajan Devadas @historyogi.bsky.social Historian 🇸🇬 | History MA @ NUS | History BA (Hons) @ Unimelb | Producer of Historyogi Podcast & TikTok on Singapore history & heritage
Gino Lopez @ginollopez.bsky.social 🏳🌈🇵🇭 in 🇹🇼 | 盧培德 | ICI NCCU ‘25 | S.P.A. Taoyuan Migrant Rights Volunteer | Karapatan Human Rights Alliance PH | Project Gunita | Taiwan Stands With Ukraine | #MilkTeaAlliance #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦 #光復香港
Loh Soon How @lohsoonhow.bsky.social PhD-ing at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • culture, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, nationalism, racialisation • lohsoonhow.com
Bhavan Jaipragas @jbhavan.bsky.social Deputy Opinion Editor, The Straits Times. Previously Asia Editor of South China Morning Post in HK. Only sleuthing, no posts here. https://hk.linkedin.com/in/jbhavan
Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social Assistant professor of feminist and queer cultural studies at National University of Singapore, PI of @casmidaproject.bsky.social @queermeninsg.bsky.social @cleansportssg.bsky.social, & Author of #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social (use code: E25MHSHO)
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Oliver Claire Watkins @owat.bsky.social Analytical chemist interested in vitamins, mycotoxins, lipids, clinical metabolomics in pregnancy and bioluminescent metabolites.
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
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Amy Stevens @amystevens.bsky.social Sociologist/Criminologist
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Liliana Gil @gilanthro.bsky.social Ethnographer of tech primarily in Brazil - skill, inequality, and creativity
Asst Prof Comparative Studies (STS) Ohio State University
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Aykut Öztürk @aykutozturk.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
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Kai @kaixiang.info I write about the overlooked, obscure, seemingly trivial things reshaping life in Singapore. 🇸🇬🏳️🌈 www.kaixiang.info
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
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Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
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Katrina Leclerc, PhD @leclerck.bsky.social Youth, Peace & Security (YPS) + Women, Peace & Security (WPS).
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Yasmin Ullah @yasminjullah.bsky.social Rohingya 🇲🇲, 🇨🇦, poet & activist for human rights, FemiList100-2021, UN Minority Fellow 2023 & Founder of Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network
Asia Research Institute, NUS @arinus.bsky.social Inspiring new knowledge and transforming insights into Asia. A strategic initiative of the National University of Singapore.
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter
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Radical Catalyst Art & Literary Journal @radicalcatalyst.bsky.social SUBMIT NOW! Queer feminist art and literary journal committed to igniting change at the intersection of art, literature, politics, and social justice.
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Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy @catalystjournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal developing a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target. Published by Jacobin magazine.
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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
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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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com.
A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) @searac.bsky.social As representatives of the largest refugee community ever resettled in the US, SEARAC stands together with other refugee communities, communities of color, and social justice movements in pursuit of social equity.
searac.org
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Future Southeast Asia @futuresoutheastasia.com News about transport and urban development in Southeast Asia. Sign up for weekly updates at https://futuresoutheastasia.com/newsletter/
SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium @sunycunyseac.bsky.social https://www.sunycunysoutheastasiaconsortium.org/
Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia @boellsea.bsky.social Southeast Asia Regional Office of Heinrich Böll Stiftung (hbs)
making green connections, working on gender and social justice, climate action + energy transition
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CSIS Southeast Asia Program @seasia.csis.org The Southeast Asia Program at CSIS is the premier forum for sustained elevated policy dialogue on Southeast Asia and US interests in the region.
Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network @adpan.bsky.social ADPAN is a regional network committed to the abolition of the death penalty in the Asia Pacific. Reposts, likes, & replies are not necessarily endorsements.
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Rita Machado @nesimachado.bsky.social Professora (alemão/inglês).
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com
Jolene Tan @acertainjolene.bsky.social Novelist: AFTER THE INQUIRY / A CERTAIN EXPOSURE
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
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New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social A forum for anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia since 2006. Want to contribute? See: https://www.newmandala.org/contributing-to-nm/
Edward Aspinall @edwardaspinall.bsky.social Researches Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian, politics at the Australian National University.
Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
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Contact: nithincoca.com- P PJ Thum @pjthum.bsky.social Historian of Malaya. Author of “Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore, 1953-63”. Founder of New Naratif.
Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
Elvin Ong @elvinongpolsci.bsky.social Political scientist at the National University of Singapore. Currently, Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale. I study democratization and opposition parties in autocratic regimes. Mostly East and Southeast Asia. Especially Malaysia and Singapore.
Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
Tom Grundy @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com Director, Founder, Firefighter at @hongkongfp.com - Non-profit, 100% independent impartial #HongKong news since 2015. Views own. Not leaving. #PressingOn https://tomgrundy.org/
Meredith Weiss @merweiss.bsky.social Professor of political science at SUNY Albany. Activism, elections, democracy/reversal, rights, reform, etc. Often in Southeast Asia, or wanting to be there.
Bridget Welsh @dririshsea.bsky.social Independent Scholar & Political Analyst focused on Southeast Asia / Consultant Geopolitics/Governance / Podcaster - Straight Talk Southeast Asia / Columnist Malaysiakini/Benar News/ Love Food, Nature and Animals / w/beloved dog Surya / Global Citizen 🇮🇪🇲🇾🇺🇲🍉
Fadzilah Yahaya @nfyahaya.bsky.social Historian at Yale
Writing book on history of land reclamation in British Empire https://debris.substack.com
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social Leading the way in Myanmar news. Sign up for our membership programme at https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/membership/
Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social Public/Scholarship on Justice in Southeast Asia: Translation, Workshops, Lectures | Based in UW-Madison Center for SEAsian Studies | Coordinated by @turtelista.bsky.social
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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social Author, Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, journalism, religious freedom and belief, freedom of expression, West Papua https://www.andreasharsono.net/
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
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