Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social Reader in Digital Media & Rhetoric Birkbeck, University of London.
researching reactionary digital politics
and the politics of shitposting (https://tinyurl.com/yc72aaah)
recovering lurker
Or Goldenberg @orgoldenberg.bsky.social 📝Journalist @groene.nl en @investico.bsky.social | 💡Goldenberg@groene.nl
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
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Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) @csohate.bsky.social CSOH is a Washington, DC based nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank, advancing research and informing policies to combat organized hate, extremism, radicalization, and online harms.
Website: https://www.csohate.org
Lina Khan @linamkhan.bsky.social Served as 57th Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Elaine Godfrey @elainegodfrey.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Politics, etc. Iowan 🌽
Lake Faith @contentking.bsky.social Freelance sex & lifestyle writer. Previously Cosmo UK. Author of Bi The Way & Pink Pilled. Founder of bi survivors network. Dyslexic AF ✨
nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social Presenter, The Interface - a new tech show from the BBC
https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/theinterface-NW
Contrib Ed, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
I also make investigative podcasts! Finding Q, The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome, Fur & Loathing
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Tariq Modood @tariqmodood.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol
Leading author on multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia and cultural racism
RTs are not endorsements and may be sent while I print it to read later.
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.
Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian
ContrarianNews.org
Portland, Oregon
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Julie Kohler @juliekkohler.bsky.social Host of White Picket Fence podcast.
Articles in CNN, Washington Post, The Hill, MSNBC. Senior Advisor, The New School’s Institute for Race, Power, and Political Economy.
www.juliekkohler.com
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social Resisting Authoritarianism. Protecting Democracy. Preserving Human Rights. globalextremism.org
Prof. Amy Mack (she/her) @acmack.bsky.social PhD | Canada Research Chair in Digital Extremism and Assistant Professor | Co-director of Research at the Canadian Institute for Far Right Studies | Alienated Westerner
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/
On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social Hosted by Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. MR is an unbought, unbossed daily political talk show. Awarded @PodcastAwards Best Political Podcast 5 times #LeftIsBest https://majorityreportradio.com/about
Vera Bergengruen @verambergen.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at TIME Magazine
Talk to me ➡️ vera@time.com
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social Researcher in conspiracy theories, religion, gender, extremism, end times, and hate. Lecturer at the University of Waterloo.
Carmencelestini.com
https://drcarmencelestini.substack.com/?r=19nlu2&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist
My Book GodsAngryMen.com
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Charlène Calderaro @calderarocha.bsky.social PhD, postdoctoral researcher at @ceg-unil.bsky.social & @dessociales.bsky.social Studying Feminism and Femonationalism... 🚩 Membre @contretemps-revue.bsky.social
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Jacob Aasland Ravndal @jacravn.bsky.social Professor @politihogskolen.bsky.social & Affiliate Reseacher @crexuio.bsky.social. I study the development and policing of terrorism, political violence and extremism in liberal democracies. Check out my research at https://tinyurl.com/3hesd4un
Manès Weisskircher @manesweisskircher.bsky.social Head of the Research Group REXKLIMA at TU Dresden & Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University | Researching far-right politics, social movements, political parties, climate politics & democracy
Matt Kriner @mattkriner.bsky.social Militant Accelerationism. Radicalization. Digital Extremism. Trust & Safety.
Executive Director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE) and Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC)
www.counteringextremism.org
www.accresearch.org
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Juliana Chueri @julianachueri.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics at VU Amsterdam | Latinoamericana
Birgitte P. Haanshuus @bphaanshuus.bsky.social Interdisciplinary media scholar focusing on political communication, right-wing extremism, hate speech and digital media.
Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
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Kai @handle.invalid I write about the overlooked, obscure, seemingly trivial things reshaping life in Singapore. 🇸🇬🏳️🌈 www.kaixiang.info
Catherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow @ResearchIreland @DCU. Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism.
Researching misogyny, the manosphere, gender disinfo & digital media 
Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social Research, Analysis, and Intelligence on the U.S. Radical Right | Published by Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social | Contact: radicalreportsnewsletter@gmail.com | Newsletter: https://www.radicalreports.org
Debbie Ging @debbieging.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media and Gender at DCU
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social Comparative political analyst. Populism, authoritarianism, social and political identities. Fellow @EUI_Schuman
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social Senior writer at Wired, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
Dr. Lisa Gaufman @lisares.bsky.social Assistant professor @ University of Groningen.
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Gabriella Elgenius @elgenius.bsky.social Professor of Sociology University of Gothenburg
Political Sociology; research on nationalism, nostalgia and the Radical Right; migration and integration; civil society in conditions of socioeconomic challenge and diversity.
Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social Toronto Star investigations. Misinformation, politics, culture.
Still in Alberta.
Signal: alexboyd.56
aboyd@thestar.ca
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Far-right politics & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine, but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind | gabrielagreilinger.com
Joana Cook @joanacook.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Terrorism and Political Violence, ISGA, Leiden University l Adjunct at Johns Hopkins University. I research terrorism and counter-terrorism www.joanacook.com
Harald Sick @haraldsick.bsky.social Network Scientist @idz-jena.bsky.social and @machine-vs-rage.bsky.social &
Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz | Right-Wing Extremism | Lobbyism | Social Network Analysis | QCA | Data Science
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
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.
Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI.
Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Previously: University of Amsterdam.
Interested in voting, elections, discrimination, conjoint/field experiments, CV experiments, employer discrimination, immigration attitudes, politics, representation.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Sofia Koller @sofiako.bsky.social Working on CVE & CT at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Germany | focus on 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 & (returning) foreign fighters | former DGAP | King's College London alumna
Heidi Beirich @heidibeirich.bsky.social Co-Founder // Chief Strategy Officer Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Expert on right-wing extremism. Opinions here are my own. globalextremism.org
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Daphne Halikiopoulou @dafnoukos.bsky.social Chair in Comparative Politics, University of York
Research on far right, populism, nationalism and European Politics
Joint Editor-In-Chief of Nations and Nationalism, Political Studies
Steering Committee ECPR Extremism&Democracy
LSE PhD
Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism.
www.balsalubarda.com
Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social Political communication and media scholar. Macquarie University postdoctoral research fellow. Researching: the far right, media, populism, fascism, and democracy 🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WfjJQqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social Associate Professor | SciencesPo_CEE| Editor @ejprjournal.bsky.social | Political parties | Political participation | Media | Far right
Marta Lorimer @mlorimer.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University and Editor, PRX Journal. Visiting Fellow at LSE European Institute. Researches far right and European integration. Personal website: www.martalorimer.com
ALI BRELAND @alibreland.bsky.social writer, reporter at the atlantic
alibreland.com
Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social Academic, historian, degenerate
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
UK-based.
Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social Assistant Professor at U of Ottawa, affiliated with @crexuio.bsky.social / National identity & immigration; ethics and methods when researching the far right; far-right movements in Québec & Canada / Co-editor of the newsletter of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
Ryan Hopkins @iamryanhopkins.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Researcher of Digital Extremism, Gendered Violence, and Online Misogyny | ✌🏻✌🏻
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
Milo Comerford @milocomerford.bsky.social Counter extremism research and policy @isdglobal.bsky.social
Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social Extremism researcher, AVERT Research Network member, professional dilettante, bringing nonsense, tinsel and dirt.
Nicole K. Stewart @nicolestewart.bsky.social Views are my own. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
Researches: platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social Associate Prof Security Studies School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Visiting Prof at NetLab Federal Univeristy of Rio de Janeiro. Co-founder Erasmus IMSISS. Into conspiracies & disinformation lately (academically)
Paul Taggart @paultaggart.bsky.social Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex.
Populism Euroscepticism Unpolitics
Inés Bolaños Somoano @inesbsomoano.bsky.social • PhD Political Science, EUI Firenze
• Visiting & postdoc Radicalisation, ISGA Leiden
•Lecturer International Security, IBEI Barcelona
• EU counter-terrorism, Islamophobia & right wing (online) radicalisation
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2805-5269
Devorah Margolin @devorahmargolin.bsky.social Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute; Teach at Georgetown; PhD from War Studies at KCL; All views mine.
Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social Historian | Distinguished prof Utrecht University | Visiting Fellow Cambridge University/Catz | “Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
Cath Stinton @cstinton.bsky.social Researcher of race, gender and far-right extremism. Here for criminology musings, academia suffering, and cats. She/her
Katy Vaughan @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law.
Member of CYTREC, VOX-Pol, Christchurch Call Advisory Network.
Legal Ed, Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights, Digital Rights.
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now! 
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.