Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social IR PhD candidate at Stockholm University • aid, inequality, IOs, climate and humanitarian crises • #rstats, critical and blended methodologies • parent to small beings • meme connoisseur • 🇸🇪 based, 🇮🇳 born, 🐨🦘 raised
Jakub Eberle @jeberle.bsky.social Researching and teaching International Relations, social theory, German politics and politics of Central Europe. Associate Professor at Charles University | @ims.fsv.cuni.cz | @prcp.bsky.social | Last book: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32703-2
Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social Former US Air Force intelligence officer. Surveillance practitioner turned critic. #AffirmativeEthics #AntiMilitarism #AntiRacism #BanWeaponizedAI #QuestionSuperiority
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.
P. Anh Nguyen @anhphnguyen.bsky.social PhD in International Relations at @StAndrewsIR
David Eichert @davideichert.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer in IR at Oxford. Sexual violence, the politics of international law, feminist/queer/decolonial methods. Any pronouns 🌈
Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social Erstwhile researcher in human computer interaction/tech, accessible environments, sociology, politics, transport/urbanism and rare diseases: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oSEzsOoAAAAJ&hl=en
Andreas Papamichail @apapamichail.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Global Health, Queen Mary University of London. Teaching and researching on health inequity, health governance, health security, mpox, queer health, racism and health, and more. He/him.
Simon Obendorf @obendorf.bsky.social Studying/teaching international theory, post/decolonial praxis & queer worlds. Proud Chair of Cheka Sana UK. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 He/Him
Tony Lang @proftonylang.bsky.social International Political Theory; University of St Andrews; Golfer
Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) @pepinneff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy. Focus on the role of emotions in the policy process, including moral panic agenda-setting, LGBTQ+ politics, and human-shark interactions. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
Emil Edenborg @emiledenborg.bsky.social Political scientist and gender researcher at Stockholm university. Affiliated researcher at the Swedish institute of international affairs. Interested in the global politics of sexuality and gender. https://www.su.se/english/profiles/emed6198-1.393777
Thomas Fraise @thfraise.bsky.social Nuclear weapons, deterrence, secrecy, and democracy.
Currently, Univ. of Copenhagen & Nuclear Knowledges. Co-editor in chief of PARISS Journal.
Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social Lecturer at QMUL • editor at Historical Materialism • author of Eros and Empire (SUP, 2025)
https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
Malte Breiding (he/him/his) @mbreiding.bsky.social PhD in Political Science. Doing research at the intersection of political theory, EU studies and global queer politics.
Nora Söderberg @soderbergnora.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the European University Institute. Migration, climate mobility, environmental justice, IOs, practice theory, qualitative methods.
Antoine Bousquet @ajbousquet.bsky.social Martial Empiricist | Author of 'The Scientific Way of Warfare' & 'The Eye of War' | Currently has nukes & AI on the brain | Swedish Defence University
Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social Looking awry at global and local politics. Trauma | Memory | Missing Persons | Disappearance | Hunger | Disasters. Poetry and story-telling as method. Grenfell 💚
Prof @ Manchester & Aberystwyth. Tanguera, yogini.
https://tinyurl.com/2krunykv
Andrea Gilli @aagilli.bsky.social
Mark Howard @mrshoward.bsky.social Humanistic Social Scientist and Political Economist; writing a book on venture capital, disruptive innovation, and society titled “Hypergrowth: A Poltical Economic Theory of Venture Capital”
https://ucsc.academia.edu/MarkHoward
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
Martin Zubko @martinzubko.bsky.social Scholar (seeking a PhD supervisor) | Energy Geopolitics • Critical Infrastructure & Cyberspace • Global Governance • Small States Foreign Policy • IR Theory
(Reposts≠Endorsement)
https://martinzubko.com/
Luise Bendfeldt @luisebendfeldt.bsky.social Thinking and writing on feminist IR, war preparedness and protection, misogynistic incel violence, sex and international security
Nicole Van Rooijen @nicolevanrooijen.bsky.social Executive Director @ Stop Killer Robots
#TeamHuman
Nathan Wood @woodnathang.bsky.social Researcher working on #AutonomousWeapons, #Military #AI, #SpaceConflict, and (the future of) #Warfare. Mainly here as a #NAFO #Fella though.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Martina Berggren @martinaberggren.bsky.social PhD student in military history at the Swedish Defence University. Human- Animal relations in war and military preparations (Sweden and Finland, 1917-1970)
Danielle Flonk @danielleflonk.bsky.social Assistant Prof International Relations @ Hitotsubashi Uni Tokyo | global internet governance | former MWP @ EUI | former PhD @ Hertie School
Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
Frank Kuhn @frankkuhn.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher @PRIF.org // Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control // Cold War History // Military Technology, Operations and Strategy // Opinions my own
Yf Reykers @yfreykers.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations at Maastricht University | Research on European security and defence | Co-Editor 'Contemporary Security Policy' @cspjournal.bsky.social | Wish I had more bikes
Myriam Dunn Cavelty @myducave.bsky.social Senior Scientist, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich
Cyber-Security Politics
Co-editor of Contemporary Security Policy
Marc Jacobsen @marcjacobsen.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College | Researching Arctic security politics and diplomacy | www.marcjacobsen.info
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
Jonathan Gilmore @drjohnnygilmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Author of The Cosmopolitan Military. Lover of learning, planes, peace and love…
Debbie Lisle @debbielisle.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Queen’s University Belfast.
Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social losing faith in social media and not here very much
📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
💻 https://www.rahulrao.net/
Miranda Loli @miranda-loli.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute // International Relations, Transnational Corruption and Anti-Corruption // Writing on International Cooperation in Ukraine
https://www.eui.eu/people?id=miranda-loli
Thomas Streinz @streinz.bsky.social Prof of Law & Regulatory Theory
@eui-law.bsky.social
@eui-schuman.bsky.social
@eui-eu.bsky.social
📚 Researching European/global data/tech law & governance
Ingvild Bode @profbode.bsky.social Global governance of AI in the military | norms & practices in international security | critical study of technologies || Professor International Relations University of Southern Denmark || Director Center for War Studies || PI ERC Autonorms & DFF HuMach
Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social Professor of Military Strategy and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition. Born 🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 9y🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/
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!
Kye Allen @kjallen.bsky.social PhD, University of Oxford | Studies Far-Right Extremism, AI Safety, the History of International Thought, & Fascism
Isabel Bramsen @isabelbramsen.bsky.social Associate Professor, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, Lund University
Cedric de Coning @cdeconing.bsky.social Research Prof @NUPInytt @ACCORD_online @EffectivePOps @T4PAfrica #Complexity #AdaptivePeace #PeaceOperations #Peacebuilding #ClimatePeaceSecurity #AfricaNordic 🇳🇴🇿🇦
Anders Wivel @anderswivel.bsky.social Small States in World Politics. Foreign Policy. Peaceful Change. Political Realist and Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen. https://anderswivel.com/
ISA Nordic Caucus (NOCA) @nordic-isanet.bsky.social Established in 2025, the Nordic Caucus (NOCA) of the ISA caters to IR scholars based in the Nordic countries and scholars interested in the politics of the Nordic region.
Alissa Siara @alissasiara.bsky.social PhD at EUI | Visiting UZH & FGV | Political Economy & Social Policy of the Global South
Curro Peña 🏳️🌈 @currikitaum.bsky.social He/Él. 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 PhD International and EU Law (UMA & UNIMI). Human Rights Consultant. Queer issues. Freedom of Speech. Refugee Law. Researcher at ILGA World. Contacto, blog y newsletter: linktr.ee/currikitaum 🦓
Lucas Perez Florentino @lucasperezfl.bsky.social Global | Aesthetics | Affect | Governance
Nuclear | Materialities | Science | Technology
PhD candidate in IR&PS @gvagrad.bsky.social
MA in IR from IRI PUC-Rio
(He/him)
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/discover-institute/lucas-perez-florentino
EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-eu.bsky.social.
We focus on contemporary challenges facing European politics and society.🌐 eui.eu/SPS
Elin Berg @elinberg.bsky.social PhD student in War Studies | Gender, Peace & Security at the Swedish Defense University. Previously @GVAGrad & @UU_Peace. Views my own. I like politics, peace, parmesan & Paris (she/her)
Teemu Vaarakallio @vaarakallio.bsky.social Doctoral researcher. ecology, (anti)security and geo-politics.
He/Him
Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social PhD Researcher @EUI | international relations, security, peace operations, protection
Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @Hague_Jour_Dipl | Prof | Think-Tanker-turned-Academic | 📚| @ISGA_Hague @Uantwerpen | 🌳| Posting infrequently.
Clara Weinhardt @claraweinhardt.bsky.social Research on trade and development. EU-Africa | China | WTO | negotiation dynamics. Assistant Professor in IR
@MaastrichtU, Fellow @GPPi
Ben Christian @benchristian.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @goetheuni.bsky.social // International Organizations: learning & change, internal criticism, self-legitimation, cynicism, trust
https://ben-christian.com/
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology@VUB/replacement lecturer @KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Pam Ugwudike @pamsoton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology | Researching AI & implications for justice
Co-Editor-in-Chief Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/crj
Diana Miranda @dianamiranda.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Stirling). Surveillance, Biometrics, Tech (and Tea). EU citizen 🇵🇹🏴🇪🇺
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
ON A SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Nils Zurawski @doctornilz.bsky.social Soziologe, Ethnologe, Kriminologe, Mediator / Überwachung, Konflikt, Sicherheit, Doping, Ethnographie, Polizei, Mit-Herausgeber kommunikation-gesellschaft.de
m leal causton @mlealcauston.bsky.social [researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social Professor of Global City Policing at University College London
Marijke Roosen @marijkeroosen.bsky.social Feminist | STS scholar | welfare and penal surveillance | digital welfare state
Associate researcher @ université de Lausanne
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social Academic lawyer, philosopher | Postdoc at Max Planck Institute CSL, working on criminal law, personhood, human rights, technology facilitated violence, image-based sexual abuse | DPhil (Oxf), LL.M, MA (Leiden)
Prof. Rachel Armitage @profrarmitage.bsky.social Prof. of Law and Social Justice & Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange at Leeds Law School
Co-Founder, volunteer & Chair of Trustees @talkingforward.bsky.social
&
🥁@memorialdevice.bsky.social ANT #MDANT
Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social Law academic @ University of Sussex. Research interests: cybercrime and criminal law; digital surveillance, investigations & evidence; privacy law. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. (Views are my own.)
issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and Hot Girl General. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Very serious about hobbies.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.com
Shane Horgan @drshanehorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Edinburgh Napier University.
Associate Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
Intel Night OWL 🦉🇺🇸 @intelnightowl.bsky.social RePost ≠ endorsements | OpenSource RnD | OSINT COMINT SIGINT CYBINT ELINT GEOINT ADINT MetaData | ADSB AIS SAT | SDR IoT Arduino Linux | COFFEE
🔥 Follow OSINT Starters 🔥
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social Professor Michael Salter, criminologist and specialist in the prevention, detection and treatment of child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence and complex trauma. Director of the Childlight Hub @ UNSW https://www.childlight.org/east-asia-pacific-hub
Amy Stevens @amystevens.bsky.social Sociologist/Criminologist
Researching surveillance, resistance, encryption, human rights, law enforcement, and tech
Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
Lisa Sugiura @drlisasugiura.bsky.social Ass Prof in Cybercrime and Gender. Researches online gender-based violence and incels. Currently in my Red era.
Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social Assistant prof sociology dept Utrecht University | PhD in Security and Crime Science (UCL) | Extremism, hate and threats of violence |
Co-chair @opencriminology.bsky.social | isabellevdv.net
Nandor Knust @nan-knust.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Law at Arctic University of Norway | Research on Crime Control | Atrocity Crimes & TJ | Environmental Crimes | Law&Tech
ECO-CRIM-NET:Network for the Monitoring & Investigation of Crimes against Ecosystems
Eintracht Frankfurt Supporter
Richard Kjellgren @kjellgren.bsky.social Quantitative criminologist @ University of Stirling. Data linkage, administrative data, justice, health, vulnerability and exploitation #rstats 🇪🇺🏴🇸🇪
Criminology, Sociology & Policing, Hull. @crimsochull.bsky.social School of Criminology, Sociology & Policing at University of Hull.
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
Beth Weaver @bethweaver.bsky.social Professor of Criminal and Social Justice at University of Strathclyde, Assoc Dir of Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Spanning Probation, Desistance, Health and AI along with all the things in between.
Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
🌐: mattashby.com
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Tom Daems @eurocriminology.bsky.social Gewoon hoogleraar KU Leuven - director Leuven Institute of Criminology - member CPT - pic: Bram Belloni - www.tomdaems.com
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both.
Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice.
An ‘elitist’ is anyone who can function from the neck up, according to populists.
Isak Ladegaard @ladegaard.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, interested in org deviance & alt markets/platforms. I use comp & qual methods. Asst Prof @ UIUC ➡️ HKU. PGP: E1FC377D. Author of Open Secrecy (UCP 2025). https://isakladegaard.com/
Sharda @sharda24.bsky.social Senior Lecturer interested in Policing & Criminal Justice research. Spare time taken up by Mummy-duties and BCFC 💙