Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Sienna Nordquist @siennanordquist.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Bocconi 📚 Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po 🕵🏻♀️ CWAR Alumna at Wolfson College, University of Oxford 📜 Posts about 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🗳️💡🍨🌅🌄
siennanordquist.com
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Lars Erik Berntzen @leberntzen.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Bergen 🇧🇻 | activism, norms, political violence
Isabela Zeberio @isazeberio.bsky.social PhD student at University of Amsterdam | European identities 🇪🇺
Prof. Carl LeVan @democracyprofdc.bsky.social Professor at American University. Defender of democracy. Lover of decency. Seeker of truth. Author/co-editor of books on Nigeria, constitution-making, and the American national security state. Editorial boards: Governance, Journal of Modern African Studies
Avi Ahuja @avi-ahuja.bsky.social PhD candidate at NYU Politics. I study development, aid, political behavior & governance in Africa.
Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UPenn | Comparative inequality, urban & distributive politics, climate change and environmental politics, Latam | https://alicezxu.com/
Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social Political scientist, studying politics in multilingual places
https://giacomolemoli.github.io/
Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social Political scientist / Assistant professor of European politics at LSE / WUSTL PhD www.miguel-m-pereira.com
Alice Park @alicecpark.bsky.social Publisher @LSE Press. We publish open access books and journals in the social sciences.
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Making sense of our political hell every Tues and Fri. From Podmasters UK.
Listen: https://linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
Back us: http://patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Posts without signatures from the production team.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social CPS offers scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels. Edited by Ben Ansell, David Samuels, and Dawn Teele.
jpfaguet.bsky.social @jpfaguet.bsky.social LSE Professor of the Political Economy of Development. Author. Opinions my own.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS. NBER Research Associate
Fields: development, political economy, environment, economic history, inequality
https://sites.google.com/view/belinda-archibong/home
Reda Tamtam (he/him) @redatamtam.bsky.social PhD Student in Politics @Princeton
redatamtam.com
Matthew K. Ribar @mattkribar.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in political science @weidenbaumcenter.bsky.social. I study the political economy of land, development, and informality in West Africa. https://matthewkribar.com/
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social Climber. Assistant Prof Drexel University. Studying police, repression & conflict. Fmr Carter Center, USIP, & Dartmouth Dickey Center. PhD Emory Polisci. Views are my own.
Stephanie Wanga @stephaniewanga.bsky.social :) happy human.
african politics, african philosophy, african history, african statehood and anarchy, aesthetics, african everything.
stephaniewanga.com
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social Doctor of History at LSE International History. Freeman of the Glaizers. Book Failure of Russian Democratic Transition 1990-1993 coming in 2028. I use to live in DC and do geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him
Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social 
Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow & Dean's Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Department Chair. APSA Treasurer.
saragoodmanphd.com
citizenship | migration | comparative politics | Europe
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social Writing a book (+ some papers): "The Liberal Origins of Fascism"
Postdoc at the Cluster of Excellence, The Politics of Inequality
PhD from Penn, via many places
The political origins of hate: parties, voting rights, historical data, CEE
lotemhalevy.com
Narrelle Gilchrist @narrelleg.bsky.social PhD candidate at Princeton Politics | Researching prejudice reduction, peace-building, and conflict legacies in Africa (🇳🇬🇰🇪)
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)
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
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Chitralekha Basu @chitbazoo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Empirical Democratic Theory, University of Cologne. 🇮🇳 🇸🇬 🇬🇧
www.chitralekhabasu.com
Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social Minnesota, data, transit/urbanism, miscellaneous ramblings
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
Stephanie Burchard @smburchard.bsky.social Covered in toddlers at the moment (probably), otherwise occupied by questions about elections, violence, security, WPS, and Africa. Adjunct prof at GWU.
Nancy Birdsall @nbirdsall.bsky.social development economist, president emerita Center for Global Development (@cgdev.org), hoping some of my Twitter followers move over to BlueSky
Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social Social scientist @uc3m @ic3jm.bsky.social & http://pimlab.org | political behavior, misinfo., identity (PI ERC POLARCHATS) | Before: Dartmouth, SIPA, Leiden | Works on 🇮🇳🇧🇷
www.pimlab.org
www.simonchauchard.com
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Development at Bath | Editor for Review of African Political Economy (roape.net) | Mining, Energy & Labour | Central Africa & Pacific Islands | www.benradley.com
Myfanwy James @myfanwyvjames.bsky.social Assistant Professor at LSE International Development | Research on humanitarianism, conflict, health, development 🇨🇩
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social The UK based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
EthnicGoods @ethnicgoods.bsky.social Funded by @erc.europa.eu and hosted by @ibei.org, we explore variations in nation-building policies on a global scale and identify their unique consequences for identity, conflict, and development.
#NationBuilding
Visit us: http://ethnicgoods.org
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
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'.
Boni Dulani @tallmanfromzomba.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and farmer. Zomba, Malawi
Andrea Vaccaro @anvaccaro.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute • comparative politics • global development • www.vaccaroandrea.com
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. 
Chase Foster @chasefoster.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, King’s College London.
http://www.chasefoster.com
aoifemccullough.bsky.social @aoifemccullough.bsky.social Blueskies (and darkskies) on militarisation in the Sahel. PhD candidate at the London School of Economics. Research Associate at ODI Global.
aoifemccullough.com
https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/research-students/Aoife-McCullough 
@tomlavers.bsky.social @tomlavers.bsky.social 
Erin Jenne @erinjenne.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, specializing in nationalism, populism, ethnic conflict, and foreign policy.
Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity @queensucsdd.bsky.social Interdisciplinary centre at Queen's University, Canada, aimed at advancing research and teaching on the intersections of #democracy and #diversity.
🌐 https://www.queensu.ca/csdd/
Natalie Wenzell Letsa @natalie-letsa.bsky.social Associate Professor, Political Science, University of South Carolina. African Politics - Political Behavior - Authoritarianism - Historical Legacies
Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️
Sandra Joireman @sjoireman.bsky.social Political scientist studying property rights, forced displacement and customary law. Avid hiker and outdoorsy person. Optimistic, but often unsuccessful, gardener and lover of family gatherings.
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social feminist #abortion & repro (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social. [don't DM me, i can't see it]
she/her/dr/killjoy
🌐rnandagiri.com
Denisa Kostovicova @denisakost.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/kostovicova-denisa
Moritz Schmoll @moritzschmoll.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science at
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Rabat. 
Roberto Valli @robertovalli.bsky.social Political scientist @Princeton | PhD from @ETHZurich.
Maria Jose Hierro @mjhierro.bsky.social Lecturer. Political Science. Yale University.
Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Gov, Univ of Essex, governance in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; ESRC MCCRA; East Westphalian
https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social Official account for the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science #partofLSE #LSE
ODID, University of Oxford @odid-qeh.bsky.social The focus for postgraduate teaching and research on international development @ox.ac.uk
Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social Professor @iobua.bsky.social, @uantwerpen.be
Senior Associate Fellow @egmontinstitute.bsky.social
Researching conflict, governance and geopolitics in Central & Eastern Africa
DRC / Uganda
www.kristoftiteca.com
Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se Associate Professor at the Dep. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University (@uupeace.bsky.social). Researching dynamics of civil war, rebel governance, civil resistance, electoral violence, postwar violence, Côte d’Ivoire.
www.sebastianvanbaalen.se
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education @UVA.
I share social science.
Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine
Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
Pia Raffler @piaraffler.bsky.social Political Science Assistant Prof
@Harvard. PE of development, CP. Political accountability. Experiments. African politics
Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social Political scientist @ Texas A&M Bush School of Government. Interests: business politics/corruption, Middle East, measurement, Bayesian statistics
The Bayesian Hitman: https://a.co/d/e4QmtKo
Website: www.robertkubinec.com
Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Yale || Studying International Relations with a focus on territorial conflicts, rivalries, and nationalism
https://www.soyoungleeresearch.com
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social BA, PPE @warwickuni / MPhil, Comparative Government @UniofOxford / DPhil student in Politics @NuffieldCollege & @Politics_Oxford
Link to my website: https://jacob-edenhofer.github.io
Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social Political science professor, Director of MIT Center for International Studies and Global Diversity Lab. I study democratic governance, climate policy, ethnic politics, mostly in Africa.
Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social Assistant Professor @lsehy.bsky.social | Great War + Morale + Crisis + Resilient Gardening + Mesopotamia + Technological Innovation
Written a book for Cambridge University Press | Past me: University of Birmingham, LSE100 and LSE LIFE.
Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.- P Philipa Mladovsky @pmladovsky.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Development, LSE. Global health, universal health coverage, migrant health
LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 💥A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/subscribe-via-email/
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Fiona Shen-Bayh @feiyonah.bsky.social Associate Professor of government and politics at UMD | autocracy, law and courts, African politics | author of "Undue Process" https://www.amazon.com/Undue-Process-Persecution-Punishment-Autocratic/dp/1009197142
Merete Bech Seeberg @mbechseeberg.bsky.social Associate professor, political science, Aarhus University. Elections, authoritarianism, democratization, women in politics, Africa.
https://meretebechseeberg.weebly.com/
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 📝 Occasional commentary on global politics + policy
📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi
🌐 http://rachelstrohm.com