Michael Slezak @mikeyslezak.bsky.social Environment reporter for ABC in Australia, doing a mix of news and investigations.
+ Co-chair ABC MEAA House Committee
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹
www.decodingchina.eu
www.deconspirator.eu
Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Open Measures @openmeasures.io Open Measures is an open-source threat intelligence and social media research platform created to assist those who investigate and track the spread of harmful online content.
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📬 Newsletter: https://blog.openmeasures.io/
UN SDG Action Campaign @sdgactioncampaign.org A UN initiative to engage, campaign, and catalyze positive change for people and the planet. Website: sdgactioncampaign.org
The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social A view on politics at home & abroad, while bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably with Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell. Powered by Fuse Energy⚡
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social Communications @hrw.org (Associate Director, Europe)
Board of Directors @sportrightsall.bsky.social
Past: Foreign Desk, Dutch newswire ANP
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Michael Altman Rosen-Lupu @michaelaltman-lupu.bsky.social Head of Asia-Pacific Region at PEN International
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com Journalist and writer.
Writing about the Middle East at http://seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at http://burntnitrate.com.
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social Deputy digital editor, ABC Melbourne. PhD from Melbourne Law School. Bad opinions are my own
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
FCCThai @fccthai.bsky.social The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand is the largest press club in Southeast Asia and plays a leading role in promoting press freedom and following regional developments.
Phil Robertson @reaproy.bsky.social Human rights & labor activist, working mostly in SE Asia. FCCT Board member and chair of Programs Committee. Boston sports fan, rock & roll lover, fisherman. JHU SAIS. Cape Cod, Korat, Khon Kaen, Bangkok. Thai/Lao speaker
Shao Jiang @shaojiang.bsky.social Survivor of 1989 Tiananmen massacre, who lives and works in exile in London. Author of Citizen Publications in China before the Internet (Palgrave, 2015)
https://shaojiang1989.blogspot.com/
https://insidechina.rti.org.tw/author/view/id/10
Collective Study @collectivestudy.bsky.social 🟨 Independent news, research and investigations on human rights and authoritarianism in the PRC
🟥 Free issues https://buttondown.com/collectivestudy
🟨 collectivestudysession@protonmail.com- T Tania Branigan @taniabranigan.bsky.social Foreign editorials writer at the Guardian. Author: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, winner of the Cundill History Prize. UK paperback: 1 February https://linktr.ee/redmemory and US: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324051961
Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social feminist telling stories on identity & power 👩🏻💻 mostly on instagram.com/jessielauwrites
• editor at Translator
• lecturer at Kingston Uni
• founder of New Tide
• board @nuvoices.bsky.social
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Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
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Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social Historian of modern China - childhood, mobilisation, material culture and gender. Research Associate at SOAS @soashistory.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Mareike Ohlberg @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
J. M. Vidal-Illanes @jmvidal-illanes.bsky.social Vicepresident del PENcatala a les Illes Balears. Darrer 📚: «Estats(temporals)de connivència». Blog: http://aillat.jmvidal-illanes.cat #Writer #Écrivain
日本ペンクラブ @japanpen.bsky.social 言論の自由、表現の自由を守るために、世界の平和を希求するために、言語の違いを超えて連帯する組織。P(詩人、俳人、劇作家)、E(エッセイスト、エディター)、N(作家) →http://japanpen.or.jp
Mahi Ramakrishna @mahiramakrishna.bsky.social Am a consultant for forced migration with a focus on women, peace & security in Southeast Asia. Plus a researcher & documentary filmmaker, who uses these platforms to shed light on some of the most pressing human rights violations of our times…
Elkun @azizisaelkun.bsky.social 📍London
Uyghur Scholar | Poet | Activist
Learning for Life 🌱 Spreading hope
www.azizisa.org/en
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in IR and Security, University of Warwick.
I write about the far-right and borders, sometimes emotions and sometimes memes.
Strong opinions about Science Fiction.
Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Umit Ozturk @umitozturk1.bsky.social Poet, editor, broadcaster, playwright, linguist, curator. Creative writing and media trainer. Coordinator @euromernet. Cultural heritage, philosophy, cinema, books and.. cats! ❤️🕊✊🐈🐾
Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social Broadcaster | Producer
Samira@onthelinemedia.org
Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. I research Japan's Politics/Nationalist Activism/History Disputes/Pop Culture. Shares/Likes ≠ endorsements. https://linktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
Joshua Citarella @joshuacitarella.bsky.social Artist and internet culture writer. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
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
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. Lives in Glasgow. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and information around the world. 🔴 Support our work: http://article19.org/donate/
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Mina Thabet @minathabet.bsky.social HRD and writer. Expert on minorities issues and freedom of expression in the MENA region
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Anisota @anisota.net A peaceful social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky & the Atmosphere. Made by @dame.is in Appalachia.
Enter the forest: anisota.net
Waxing Crescent, 27% Lit 🌒
Pen Cambodia @pencambodia.bsky.social PEN Cambodia is an NGO founded by Cambodian writers and ratified by Pen International in 2010. Our Purpose is to promote freedom of expression and Cambodian writers.
@shahalpa.bsky.social @shahalpa.bsky.social
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
SMEX @smex.org SMEX is a nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding human rights in digital spaces across West Asia and North Africa.
@samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de Tracking and translating content on censorship and other human rights issues in China. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is. Will stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Eric Lai 黎恩灝 @ericyhlai.bsky.social Senior Fellow @GeorgetownCAL | PhD (@SOAS) | Law, Politics, Human Rights & Non-profit | HK&PRC| RTs=/endorsem’t
Kai von Carnap @kavocabo.bsky.social Politics | Sinology | Internet Governance
Thinking about "China + Cybersovereignty" atm; PhD Candidate @University of Trier, Associate Fellow @DGAP; BLOCS Fellow @ Aletheia Research Institution
#EU-China #DSA #GeoEconomics #DigitalSilkRoad #GlobalOrder
Svenska PEN @pensweden.bsky.social Svenska PEN bevakar, kartlägger och motverkar hoten mot det fria ordet, i Sverige och internationellt.
Länkar: https://linktr.ee/svenskapen
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social Public/Scholarship on Justice in Southeast Asia: Translation, Workshops, Lectures | Based in UW-Madison Center for SEAsian Studies | Coordinated by @turtelista.bsky.social
Web: https://seasia.wisc.edu/sjsea-project/jsealab/
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
ATHAN @athan-info.bsky.social ATHAN was founded in 15th January, 2018 and it is led by the youths who believe and respect freedom of expression.
www.athanmyanmar.org
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression @cgfoe.bsky.social Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to strengthen freedom of expression worldwide by advancing the understanding of international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information.
Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social Founding Director of The Rights Practice. Human rights, especially China.
🇬🇧🇩🇰🇪🇺
Juliette Rousselot @jrousselot.bsky.social Deputy Director for #Asia at @fidh-official.bsky.social
Brussels-based. Covering mostly (but not just) #SouthAsia, #Iran, #deathpenalty, #EU policy on Asia.
@penintwomenwriters.bsky.social @penintwomenwriters.bsky.social
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Ege Dündar @ege-dundar.bsky.social Writer and Board Member @peninternational.bsky.social
Co-Creator @youngwriterspen.bsky.social
Project Lead @ www.tomorrowclub.world
Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social A worldwide network of young writers united by PEN International's 100-year history defending freedom of expression, promoting literature and cross border solidarity. Amplifying young voices ignored or marginalised with a focus on shared future challenges
Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social Was @xinwenxiaojie on the app formerly known as Twitter, where I was allegedly a bot and "sell-out blue-check boba Asian", possibly simultaneously.
Hongkonger, South Londoner.
Teaching journalism at City St George's, University of London.
PEN Chile @penchile.bsky.social
Fredrik Fällman 杨富雷 @yangfulei.bsky.social #Swedish #Sinologist with many interests, e.g. #religion, #Xinjiang & #electronicmusic. Lives in Stockholm, works at University of Gothenburg, vice chairperson @pensweden.bsky.social
High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social "Ocean, As Much As Rain" by Tsering Woeser - published by Duke University Press OUT NOW 🌧️ https://linktr.ee/highpeakspureearth
Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore
Follow me on IG: @ilariamariasala
Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights. Head of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social (opinions my own, obvs.)
Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u
Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social & editorial board @cpcs.bsky.social
Cartooning for Peace @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social ✏ 374 press #cartoonists from 80 different countries drawing for a better understanding & respect between people of different cultures and beliefs.
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights @appghumanrights.bsky.social Raising the profile of human rights at the UK Parliament as a foreign policy objective. RTs not endorsements. Not official publication of, or approved by, HoC/L
Ma Thida @mathida.bsky.social Writer, Chair of Writer in Prison Committee, PEN International
China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.
Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social Press freedom is your freedom 🗞️
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide.
➡️ Website: cpj.org
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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social Chinalawtranslate.com is a cooperative website for translations and commentary on Chinese Law.
Jeremy Daum is a Sr. Researcher at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, focussing on criminal justice and policing.
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
@hannanordell.bsky.social @hannanordell.bsky.social Managing Director PEN Sweden. Art historian, curator, former ICORN-coordinator. Reader and Arsenal fan.
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Sara Whyatt @sarawhyatt.bsky.social Researcher on freedom of artistic expression. Member of expert facility for UNESCO 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions & Council of Europe Free to Create| Create to be Free program. Currently research director for @Freemuse.
Jay Wu Lee🇮🇪/🏴 @jaywulee.bsky.social Actor.Writer.Promoter.
PEN INTERNATIONAL
(Young Peoples Representative for Wales)
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social CCP‘s least favorite artist/Cartoonist/Activist/Human rights/Anti-racism/ IG @badiucao
/ DM for collect original art / badiucao.com & http://patreon.com/badiucao
Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen.bsky.social Taipei-based journalist. Author of Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025).
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
IFEX @ifex.org IFEX is a nexus for free expression expertise contributed by over 100 member organisations, spanning 70 countries.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.