David Knowles @davidknowlesy.bsky.social PhD Researcher of VR in police education.
University of Portsmouth @scdtp. Runner.
Matt P. Dryden @mattpdryden.bsky.social Terrorism | National Security | Criminal Justice Reform. Researcher, Practitioner, Policy-Maker. Analysis: BBC News, The Independent, The Spectator, The Telegraph, and academic journals. Writing a book about terrorist behaviour. https://lnk.bio/mattpdryden
Claire Healy @clairehealy.bsky.social Migration, smuggling and trafficking researcher at the UN. Sci fi and sci reality obsessive. Social science, futurisms, ethics, politics and a good cup of black tea with milk. Born 🇮🇪, lived in 🇩🇪 🇦🇷 🇵🇹 and sort of 🇳🇬, now 🇦🇹
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Katerina Papatheodorou, Ph.D. @drpapask.bsky.social
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social
Amira Jadoon @amirajadoon.bsky.social
CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social The Counter Terrorism Research Group (CTRG) are a group of researchers at UCL who analyse terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
Dr Ellie Atayee-Bennett @ellieatayeebennett.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at Southampton Solent University | Research interests inc. everyday sustainable practices, climate action, vegan studies, food, culture, and religion
Sarah Haviland @sarahlhaviland.bsky.social Protection and gender, peace and security | past @fletcherschool.bsky.social @nonviolentpeaceforce.org @americanbar.org @interaction.org | she/her | views my own
Raquel da Silva @raquelbdasilva.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations @ucoimbra │ Researcher @CEI-Iscte │ Interested in #politicalviolence #lifestories #politicalnarratives
Hoshang Waziri هوشنك وزيري @howaziri.bsky.social Playwright, researcher, linguist & media.
I was once told that tea is the panacea, as if the cure were quietly hiding at the bottom of the piyāla.
Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
John F. Morrison @morrisonjf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Society for Terrorism Research (STR) @socterres.bsky.social
Dr. Lucy Neville @drbluestocking.bsky.social Criminologist at The University of Southampton. Amateur academic, occasional poet, aspiring activist, interdisciplinary magpie #sexwork #porn #feminism #fandom #VAWG
Anne Speckhard @annespeckhard.bsky.social CEO/Founder International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), Retired Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. I have interviewed over 800 terrorists, violent extremists, their family members.
Hannah Rose @hannahbrose.bsky.social Hate & Extremism Analyst at ISD • PhD candidate at KCL • Trustee & ex-Pres UJS
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
Writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI
Me & Israel/Palestine: https://bit.ly/4hQmiQl
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/3XbgmJ4
@mathiesonnicola.bsky.social @mathiesonnicola.bsky.social
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
Heidi Maiberg @heidimaiberg.bsky.social Terrorism researcher from Estonia. PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London- D Dr Alasdair Booth @dr-ct-security.bsky.social PhD in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security from Loughborough University. Specialist in the Protection of Crowded Places from Terrorist Threats.
James Khalil PhD @jameskhalil.bsky.social PCVE, Disengagement & Deradicalization Expert
~ The ABC Model of Violent Extremism: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09546553.2019.1699793
~ The 'Off-Ramp' from al-Shabaab: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376521289_The_Off-Ramp_from_a
Corrado Giulietti @corradogiulietti.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Head of School | Economic, Social and Political Sciences. University of Southampton
Andrew Silke @andrewsilke.bsky.social Professor at Royal Holloway. Terrorism & counter-terrorism, war & conflict, psychology & crime. Not always in that order.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
Wassim NASR @simnasr.bsky.social Journaliste spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes FRANCE24
Senior Research Fellow Soufan Center
Auteur de « État islamique, le fait accompli » (Plon)
الناسُ صِنْفانِ: مَوتَى في حَياتِـهِمُ/ وآخَرونَ بِبَطْن الأرضِ أحْـيـاءُ
Samir @obretix.bsky.social geospatial IT – OSINT/IMINT
Hugo Kaaman @hugokaaman.bsky.social Researcher & analyst. Focus on SVBIED design & tactics by non-state actors. Articles @MiddleEastInst @JanesINTEL @EuroEyeRad. IR grad, MENA studies
Caleb Weiss @calebweiss.bsky.social Defections Program Lead for Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Kampala-based. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa.
Sergio Altuna @altuna.bsky.social Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/vincent-foucher/
https://afriquexxi.info/
https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue
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@ramialloiah.bsky.social @ramialloiah.bsky.social
Niamh McBurney @blondearabist.bsky.social
Critical Threats Project @criticalthreats.bsky.social An AEI project focused on understanding threats and tracking global challenges | Contact us: criticalthreats@aei.org | Media requests: mediaservices@aei.org
Charles Lister @charleslister.bsky.social Concept Art/Ilfrustration/TwitchStremr
Commissions📧Charleslisterart@gmail
©ÆgoList
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
Tomasz Rolbiecki @tomaszrolbiecki.bsky.social Security analyst and researcher. Focusing on VEOs in Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily Lake Chad.
Abdul Sayed ترمذی سادات @abdulsayedtarmize.bsky.social I am a research analyst focusing on jihadism, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
|Consultant| |MSc @lunduniversity| |Views are mine| |Share/Like is not always endorsement|
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
sina @rejectionking.bsky.social Bonsai Wolf. Tiny and Mighty™️. Adorkable chihuahua. Tradecraft analyst focused on cloudsec. Dogged and rigorous. Bit of a weirdo. Exhausted historian focusing on extremism. he/they Email: theloopcast@gmail.com
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
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
https://thisguysucked.com
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
Anarcho-Sunni Aqidah Rizz @anarchosunni.bsky.social In the cut. Tipping on four fours. Research, analysis and who is Mike Jones. Author of "Hadith on Lean." Expert of expertise. Rolling in a slab for @ISDglobal
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ PERIL
🏳️🌈
Opinions are my own
My dog’s name is Tofu
Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com Cat photos and opinions
Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@fatecheckpod
Always folklore, fact checking, and disinfo. Covering climate. Sometimes lifestyle/shopping. Sea witch, widow, Lokean 💖 and proud parent 🏳🌈 May or may not be notable 🧿
Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social social scientist studying political groups, civil rights, and political extremism/violence (he/his)
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Cathal McManus @cathalpmc.bsky.social Lecturer in SSESW @ Queen’s University Belfast.
Interested in nationalism; conflict and peace processes. Also research Othering leading to political extremism and polarisation
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/cathal-mcmanus
Reed Van Schenck @reedvanschenck.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ IE University. Researching reactionary digital networks and infrastructures. 🇺🇸 living in 🇪🇸 #TeamRhetoric #MediaStudies
Preorder The Reactionary Web: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-reactionary-web
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
Mike Jensen @mikeajensen.bsky.social Extremism researcher at the START center, University of Maryland.
Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social 23 years as a military ops analyst. Lots on DOD, especially special ops & irregular warfare. Author of a forthcoming book on the history of US CT in Afghanistan (https://a.co/d/00ChSA82). All views my own, RT not endorsement. Be droll, not a troll.
Bernhard Blumenau @bblumenau.bsky.social Historian (terrorism, intern. cooperation, diplomacy & German foreign policy). Senior Lecturer at CSTPV/ School of IR, University of St Andrews. Young Academy of Scotland Member.Views my own https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/international-relations/people/bb57/
Michael H. Becker @mbecker.bsky.social PhD @AmericanUniv | Research on Political Violence, P/CVE, and Radicalization.
Here for the hot takes on research, dogs, videogames, and coffee.
https://www.michaelhbecker.com/
Professor Off-Topic @socialscinerd.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher, analyst. I study extremism, terrorism, and collective violence.
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Jen Robinson @jenrobinson.bsky.social Lecturer in Terrorism and Security Studies, AGSPS, Charles Sturt University. PhD @ ANU. Researcher of extreme ideologies. Research Member AVERT. Mummy to Rufus the Greatest Dane. Former Commissioned Officer, Royal Air Force. A Scot in Oz.
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and strategy | 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
Michael S. Smith II @michaelssmithii.bsky.social Terrorism Analyst ● OSINT Specialist ● P/CVE Consultant ● “Mogul” in Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers ’16 ● 14 in Fast Company mag’s 100 Most Creative ’16
Miraj_HMohamed @mirajhmohamed.bsky.social Researcher #extremism, #gender, #p/cve
modus | zad @modus-zad.bsky.social Non-profit org working on solving practical & theoretical issues related to P/CVE & derad by linking innovative research with long-standing practical experience
- R M. Ruf @rufmaks.bsky.social 🥨 || P&CVE, CT researcher, consultant & manager || views my own
Kris McGuffie @mcg.bsky.social P/CVE, Disinfo, Online Harms, and Ethical AI
Hirah Azhar @herazhar.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum | War & influence in digital age | Prev: York + LSE, 🗞️, CVE policy | Sandwiches, cats, duvet caves | Really just all over the place | Views mine
Laila Riedmiller @lailaried.bsky.social Research assistant (Political Theory/Intellectual History) @fau.de
Focus on feminist theory, conservatism, far right ideology, conspiracism, antisemitism. PhD project on far right accelerationism.
reading books @notwithoutmybooks.bsky.social
Miriam Peck @miriampeck.bsky.social Researcher on crime, criminal law, criminal justice policy, terrorism & civil liberties at the House of Commons Library Research Service 1985-2007. Music & art-lover interested in law, public policy, philosophy, evolution & mental health.
Emine Ari @emineari.bsky.social Research on interstate and civil conflict, terrorism, and electoral behavior.
emineari.com
Isabelle Stephanblome @isabelleste.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt @prif.org I Research Group Radicalization I Critical Security Studies, Discourses and Practices of National Security, Rule of Law
Ali A. Isse @issemehdi.bsky.social 𝕻𝖍.𝕯. 𝕮𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖊 | 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚐𝚢 & 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 @Princeton.edu | 𝐍𝐒𝐏 𝕱𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 @Yale.edu|𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚜: 𝚆𝚊𝚛 • 𝚆𝙼𝙳 • 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚖 • 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚝 |
𝖂𝖊𝖇𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖊: https://𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖊.𝖈𝖔𝖒/
Dr Aviva Guttmann @guttmannaviva.bsky.social Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, research and teaching in intelligence, strategy, history, IR, terrorism & CT
Joshua Farrell-Molloy @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social MSCA PhD Candidate in Global Political Studies at Malmö University @vortex-europe.bsky.social IR, digital subcultures, extremism, foreign fighters.
Words: https://gnet-research.org/author/joshua-molloy/
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
WhatsApp 📱: https://bit.ly/4h0M5FQ
PERIL @perilresearch.bsky.social Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, School of Public Affairs. We design, test, & scale up evidence-based tools to help communities prevent & respond to hate & violence. https://perilresearch.com
Alexandra Brewsaugh @alibrew.bsky.social Extremism researcher and avid baker.
Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social Ass Prof @SciencePoULB
Deputy director #Cevipol
Migration politics
Far-right parties & movements
www.farpo.eu
AS Roma 🔴🟡
Daniel Wehrend @danielwehrend.com he/him/his
Interdisciplinary research on anti-Semitism @tuberlin.bsky.social
hier privat
danielwehrend.com
ImranCrim @imrancrim.bsky.social Canadian Cat Dad | Far-Right Extremism Researcher | Gamer |
Reach out! - imrancrim@gmail.com
Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social Senior digital investigation journalist covering online mis- and disinformation for AFP • Formerly with PolitiFact and the Raleigh News & Observer • Duke alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
https://factcheck.afp.com/Bill-MCCARTHY
Robert Bentley @robertbentley.bsky.social German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation living in Berlin and researching punks and right-wing extremism | Host: Archiv der Jugendkulturen
Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social researcher studying digital threats; society and tech.
www.ngamita.xyz
Dr Neelam Raina @neelamraina.bsky.social Feminist. Academic. Activist.
Post Conflict Reconstruction/APPG Afghan Women & Girls Secretariat.
Interested in culture/knowledge/Grand challenges (ex UKRI-GCRF)
Director of Research @MiddlesexUni
https://thegenderhub.com/stories/culture-and-conflict-2/
Nick Brooke @nstb.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
I study terrorism (and the state's response) where it is not.
Views mine.
Hailey Sadler @haileycsadler.bsky.social Photojournalist | Researcher | National Geographic Explorer
📍DC / NYC
Focusing on the psychological, ecological, and intergenerational impacts of trauma related to conflict, terrorism, war crimes, and genocide.
haileysadler.com
William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social Political theorist. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College CUNY. Political ecology of the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social