Eric Schmitt @erschm.bsky.social
Tomi McCluskey @tomi-mcc.bsky.social Conflict researcher at Airwars · Bylines in Bellingcat, DropSite News, The Intercept & CLIP · OSINT trainer · US Military veteran
Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social Father, husband, citizen, professor, focusing mainly on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy issues. Faculty lead for Harvard's Managing the Atom project: www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom
My website: matthewbunn.scholars.harvard.edu
Yevgeniy Golovchenko @golovchenko.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Dep. of Political Science/Copenhagen Center For Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen | Political Communication and International Security | RU and Ukraine | Disinfo, propaganda, censorship | 🇩🇰 🇺🇦
Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social Senior Maritime Pilot | Master Mariner - unlimited | Master's degree Nautical Science | Forensic Medicine | Glass blower |
https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0H7RMV7Q2
Fredrik Dahlgren @dahlgrenf.bsky.social Diver since 2016 and love to talk about it!
Liberty CCR MOD1 and CCR Mine diver.
Shipping ⛴️ on the Swedish west coast🇸🇪
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social RussiaUkraine war|Middle east | Europe|East asia| South Caucasus
#news
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc.
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RT/Fave/etc ≠agree
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Oliver Sesemann @geoedu.bsky.social Enthusiastic about Ships and the Sea | Photography | Geography | Education
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
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social Retired former US Ambassador, NSC Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, NSC Director for Nuclear Materials Security, and Deputy Exec. Dir. of the International Energy Agency
Russian Shadow Fleet @fleetmapper.bsky.social Mapping the Russian shadow fleet
Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com PhD UCL SSEES, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist at EUObserver, outdoor research fellow.
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Pjotr Sauer @pjotrsauer.bsky.social Reporter covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia for The Guardian. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social Politics, economics, info-sec(from the outside), history, climate, occasional joke/meme 25% 🇪🇪 75% 🇬🇧 (War time switch)
Tips, to cover sat imagery and certain news sites I pay for and 🍺 usage, are appreciated https://ko-fi.com/svenerikvolberg
James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social Formerly with Dutch military intelligence (MoD) and counter-terrorism (MoJ)
Former optimist
(Opinions are mine, usual caveats apply, etc.)
Re-posting is not by definition endorsement
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12
Newsletter: letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. Managing Director Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey. Docent (Assoc. Prof.) of and pontificator on international relations. Opinionated. Painter.
Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi Unjust society is unsustainable -> democracy is non-negotiable.
Sustainability transition & modeling circular economy @ Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) as a profession; defence of Finland and democracy as a hobby.
jazz lover 🇵🇱 @jazzlover.eurosky.social Translator, Ukraine supporter.
Thomas Hansen 🇪🇺 ☁️ Danish 🇩🇰 @tbhdk.eurosky.social En del af kernegruppen bag https://cryptohagen.dk. Husere også på det sociale netværk Mastodon: @tbhdk@social.data.coop Signal-brugernavn: tux.60 Matrix: @tbhdk:data.coop
The Baltic Sea Diving Resort @balticseadivingr.eurosky.social Tinker, sailor, solderer, shy
@formerlab.eu team member | When ignorance reigns, life is lost | Profit is for cowards?
Human-first, cost-effective platforms
spectre crouton @spectrecrouton.bsky.social Deep diving, original analysis and reporting on the Russian Navy and related maritime topics. Views expressed do not reflect those of my current or past employers, nor do they reflect the views of Vova (you know which one).
Russia Maritime Watch @rfnosblog.bsky.social Independent maritime intelligence on Russia's naval and commercial fleets. Providing strategic insights, movement tracking, and predictive OSINT reporting.
Sophie Witte @sophiewitte.bsky.social Hybrid Threats & Martitime Security as Non-Resident Fellow @ ISPK | Strategic Resilience & Civil Preparedness in Healthcare @ University Clinic Ulm | Bundeswehr Reserve Officer | Prior: Defense Policy Advisor @ Munich Security Conference | Private Account
Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social 👊🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇮🔥
Director, Institute for Security Policy @ Kiel University (@ispk.bsky.social) | ⚓ Vice President, German Maritime Institute | 🇺🇸 Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council | ex-naval analyst, TKMS | ex-Sinology professor, Uni Hamburg.
David @puca.bsky.social Wolkenjägerblicker
Signals Eta @signalseta.bsky.social Listening to voices from the void.
Dylan Spaulding @dkspaulding.bsky.social Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security Program. Views are my own.
Blog: blog.ucsusa.org/author/dylan-spaulding/
Edwin Lyman @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social Director of Nuclear Power Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC.
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Reuters @reuters.com
Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social Electrical/Power Systems Engineer, Internationally Recognized Queen of Anglo-Saxonia, “Expert”
*sigh* there will be typos and long threads
Christian Panton @pa.nton.cx OSINT Specialist @ DR Verificerer (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
Prefers Signal over DM/chat: panton.01
Personal, long form, seldom updated: https://christian.panton.org/
All posts and views are my own, and might contain traces of nuts.
@vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social Maritime / Shipping / Politics / Defense
Focus on Baltic Sea, North Sea and Arctic
Nikolaj Houmann @nikolajhoumann.bsky.social Independent journalist | Work w. @airwars investigations featured @AJEnglish @informeren @FT @derspiegel and elsewhere | nikolaj.houmann@protonmail.com
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
https://linkedin.com/in/malwaretech
https://marcushutchins.com
Niels Krause-Kjær @krausekjaer.bsky.social Journalist og forfatter med særlig omsorg for journalistkollega Ulrik Torp
Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social Journalist with Follow the Money. All things tech, EU, transparency. FOI curious. Find me as "fanta.99" on Signal.
Esben Vest @esbenvest.bsky.social Journalist på Nordjyske. Deler kloge menneskers tekster. Mener ting (om demokrati og høns).
TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com Trusted by maritime insurers, oil producers & traders, finance, governments and top news orgs to track down oil shipments. Vessel pronouns are she/her. Got it?
Corporal Frisk @corporalfrisk.com Robin Häggblom, Finnish defence and national security analyst, Senior Advisor at Risk Intelligence. My business card preaches the value of Knowing Risk.
Xavier Vavasseur @xaviervav.bsky.social Naval reporter, @navalnews.com founder and chief editor. Interest in Defense⚔️, Navy⚓, F1🏎️, Sci-Fi👽. Born in 🇼🇫, 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸
Tayfun Ozberk @tayfunozberk.bsky.social Defence Analyst | Navy Veteran | Analyses of emerging technologies from naval warfare perspective | Correspondent at Defense News, Naval News & Shephard News ⚓️
Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social Uncrewed, autonomous, robotic systems and Artificial Intelligence. Russian and Ukrainian weapons development. CNA, CNAS and CSIS. Opinions my own.
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Hossam Elhendy @hossamhendy.bsky.social Factchecking بالعربي
Arabiya التحقق بالعربي
Fact Checker MENA
حسام الهندي صحفي أو صحافي/ مدقق حقائق وعلى الله حكايتي
Bora Erden @boraerden.bsky.social space, politics, forensics | spatial investigations @nytimes | previously @situ_research
boraerden.info
Cat Rainsford @cat-rainsford.bsky.social Transition minerals investigator for Global Witness | Formerly InSight Crime | Views my own.
Covers crime, corruption and environment, focus on LatAm and West Africa.
Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social Borders, osint, & digital investigations / investigations @lighthousereports.com , sometimes more
ms noor @afosint.bsky.social OSINT | Afghanistan | Politics and Security
INPACT - Investigations with Impact @aeowinpact.bsky.social Cyber and analytical investigations
Investigations with Impact.
All Eyes On Wagner: Project on #Wagner mercenaries & GRU upcoming ops in Africa |Tips: tips.aeow@proton.me | Media: contact@investig-impact.org
Jerome @jeromegill.com I build tech for charities and NGOs and the private sector, usually in the sustainability/environmental space
Interested in tech, modern propaganda, and cleaning up information spaces
0x786d @0x786d.bsky.social Pentesting, malware analysis, threat hunting & intelligence, OSINT, AI & ML
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
Bashar Deeb / بشار ديب @bdeeb.bsky.social Digital investigations @lhreports.bsky.social
Free Syria
He\him
Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social visual investigations @nytimes / sanjana.varghese@nytimes.com
@christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social
Riley Mellen @rileymellen.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter for NYT. Let's chat: riley.mellen@nytimes.com, Signal, DMs, etc.
Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social Journalist, doing OSINT at Sky News.
Galen Reich @galen.reich.me.uk Bellingcat | Formerly BBC | PhD in Electrical Engineering | He/Him
🌐 https://galen.reich.me.uk
Eoghan @eoghanmacguire.bsky.social Journalist. Editor @Bellingcat.com. @jskstanford.bsky.social alum
Imogen Piper @imogenpiper.bsky.social Visual Forensics Reporter, The Washington Post
Meg Kelly @megkelly.bsky.social senior visual forensics reporter
@washingtonpost
tips/ ideas: meg.kelly@washpost.com
usual caveats, dm for whatsapp, signal
Chris Cook @chriscook.news FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Muyi Xiao @muyixiao.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times Visual Investigations team. Mostly covering China.
Previously with ChinaFile, Tencent, Reuters.
Alexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social JD PhD Co-Director, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley + Co-Founder, Investigations Lab #BerkeleyProtocol
Recovered Performer, Eternal Optimist
Forthcoming books: Digital Witness 2 and At the Intersection
picture thx: Jason Madara for The Resistance
Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha.bsky.social The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead. Currently writing a book. tech x conflict x human rights. friend to cats. manishaganguly.com
Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social Creative Director at the Financial Times. I lead visual journalism strategy and oversee visual investigations, visual stories, design and pictures.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social ProPublica reporter. Email tips/comments/complaints: justin@propublica.org
Signal: https://www.propublica.org/people/justin-elliott/
More: justinelliott.co
Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes.bsky.social New York Times intelligence reporter.
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
Martha Bellisle @marthabellisle.bsky.social AP Reporter. 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Investigative Journalism for the Lethal Restraint project. Frontline documentary a finalist for two Emmy Awards.
Covering Biathlon at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Stories: https://apnews.com/author/martha-bellisle
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at @freedom.press. Interested in reducing overclassification, FOIA reform, enforcement of the Presidential Records Act, and preservation of federal records. Opinions mine. Signal leharper.89
Matthias Stahl @higsch.com | Husband & dad^3
| head data & visualizations at @spiegel.de
| #Svelte and #D3
| biochemistry & computational biology PhD
| 🇸🇪🇩🇪🇪🇺
| https://spiegel.de/duv
| https://higsch.com
Max Harlow @maxharlow.bsky.social Data reporter @bloomberg.com. Previously @financialtimes.com. I also run @journocoders.bsky.social. Views are my own. mharlow4@bloomberg.net
Miro Dittrich @mirod.bsky.social Researching German far-right-extremism/terrorism, QAnon, and content moderation policies
Senior Researcher @cemas.io