Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Sciences Po - CERI @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social Le CERI est une unité Mixte de recherche Sciences Po/CNRS qui se consacre depuis 1952 à l’étude des questions internationales.
A joint Sciences Po / CNRS. Research Unit, CERI has been studying international questions since 1952.
sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr
Richard Flowers @richarddominic.bsky.social Supporting Liberal things, queer things and trans things.
Loving beloved husband.
Watching Doctor Who.
Writing tales of time and gods here: https://anarchy-rules.ghost.io/
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.
Graham Usher @bishopnorwich.bsky.social Bishop of Norwich in the Church of England & lead bishop for the environment - seeking life in all its fullness. Born at 325 ppm atmospheric carbon, now at 412. https://www.dioceseofnorwich.org/
Derya Aydın @deryaaydin.bsky.social anthropology / university of minnesota / PhD
https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/aydin040
https://icgc.umn.edu/derya-aydin
Jack Conneely @jackconneely.bsky.social UCL PhD Candidate in Gender Studies, exploring how legacies of colonialism, nationalism, and religion continue to impact the personal and political lives of Queer men in post-conflict Ireland.
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Liberal Democrat Conference 🔶 @conference.libdems.org.uk The latest updates from @LibDems.org.uk Federal Conference 🔶 #LDConf
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
www.libdems.org.uk/conference
Feed of #LDConf: https://bit.ly/ldconffeed
Our BTS insta: https://bit.ly/ldconfbts
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Director of @Cambridgegender. She/her. Should be writing.
TORCH Oxford @torchoxford.bsky.social TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford.
Will Kendall @willkend.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Anna T. @annateedot.bsky.social Artist, academic, curator
https://annatee.co.uk
Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He, they.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social Writer & sociologist. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social Editor, THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) & THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (late 2025) via Saqi Books | 🇱🇧&🇵🇸 | Born/raised on Dharug, Gadigal & Gamaraigal lands (aka Sydney); now a Londoner | He/him | الياس جهشان
https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/this-queer-arab-family/
Can Aciksoz @canaciksoz.bsky.social Anthropologist, author of Sacrificial Limbs
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sacrificial-limbs/paper
Chine McDonald @chinemcdonald.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author, on faith, race, motherhood, and gender. Director of the Westminster-based religion and society think tank Theos.
Vice chair Greenbelt festival, trustee Christian Aid, Canon Theologian at Chester Cathedral
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Josh Babarinde OBE MP @joshbabarinde.bsky.social ☀️Proud MP for #Eastbourne 🚀@ForbesUnder30 Entrepreneur 👮🏾♂️Ex-youth justice worker
🏄🏾♂️SUP-er 🔶 josh4president.co.uk
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social The Liberal Democrats party body for gender and sexual minorities. Campaigning for equality. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Promoted by LGBT+ Lib Dems, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
👉 lgbt.libdems.org.uk
Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social Research Fellow @ London School of Economics. Human rights, climate, international law, global gov. Also Swedish, UK, US politics (for ‘fun’). PhD, PoliSci from Stockholm Uni. Trade unionist. Chair @lseucu.bsky.social Views mine, ibland på svenska. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸
Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon | Chair of the Health & Social Care Select Committee | Here because Musk ruined the ‘other (social) place’ | she/her | Promoted by the Lib Dems, Unit C5 Grange Court, Barton Lane, OX14 3NB
🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️🌈 @rigg.lgbt Senior Queer. Bi Chaos Gremlin.
🦇🤘🔶️🏳️🌈 🐝🍆 💙💜💖 🦀🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵🦀
Autistic. Arthritic. Boozy. Polyamorous. Mother. Yorkshire. Cinephile (esp Horror). Whovian (6). Atheist. Occultist. Foodie. Metalhead. Lib dem. Reluctant accepter of the label "goth".
Often Sweary
LSE UCU @lseucu.bsky.social The London School of Economics Branch of the University and College Union.
Email: ucu.secretary@lse.ac.uk
Website: www.lseucu.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lse_ucu/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lse-ucu-333b16436
Together For The Church of England @togetherforthecofe.bsky.social We are a group of anglicans seeking full inclusion & equality in the Church of England. All are welcome.
www.togethercofe.org.uk
Inclusive Church @inclusivechurch.bsky.social The Inclusive Church network is working together to build a Church that is open and welcoming to all. https://inclusive-church.org
We're not actively monitoring or posting to this account at the moment.
Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at @lse-ei.bsky.social. Interested in history, sociology & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford Anthropology. Interested in theory, resistance, anticolonialism, nationalism, the works.
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-senel-wanniarachchi
öner ceylan @onercey.bsky.social #Turkish #gay #lgbti+ #translator #interpreter #teacher from #Istanbul
Je parle #français
Aprendo #español
ein bisschen #Deutsch
passionate about #languages
amateur #choir #singer
#music #translation #interpretation #politics #queer
#Türkçe #eşcinsel
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences.
Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums
margaretmiddleton.com
Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk For a Fair Deal.
Leader | Ed Davey
Deputy Leader | Daisy Cooper
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
www.libdems.org.uk
ISA LGBTQA Caucus @lgbtqa-isa.bsky.social The official account of the LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association.
https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Caucuses/LGBTQA-Caucus
Kenan Cruz Çilli @kenancruzcilli.bsky.social London-based writer & analyst | Interested in history, languages, cultures of Ottoman Empire & Turkey
LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social The latest social science books reviewed by academics and experts at the London School of Economics and beyond
LSE Eden Centre @edenlse.bsky.social We provide education guidance, technological help and resources for academics. Strengthening and developing teaching and learning at LSE.
UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies @uclhjs.bsky.social University College London is the only UK university with a department dedicated to Jewish Studies. Our programs span from ancient texts to modern politics.
Account run by Dept Admin, CMJ
Aykut Öztürk @aykutozturk.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.
https://aozturk.net
Natasha Tanna @natashatanna.bsky.social emerging with trepidation from digital hibernation | she/they
writer | researcher | teacher (queer and feminist literature, literature and migration, latin american literature, creative-critical form)
www.natashatanna.com
Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social Writer // Critical researcher on cities, racism, borders // PhD from LSE Sociology
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
Pinar Dinc @pinardinch.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden | Mainly working on the conflict-environment nexus in the Middle East | The personal is political
Sezgin Inceel @sezgininceel.bsky.social artist, academic, author, educator (en,tr)
sezgininceel.com
St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social Founded in 1473 and known as ‘Catz’, we’re a welcoming, thriving & vibrant community in the heart of Cambridge. A College of @cam.ac.uk.
Visit caths.cam.ac.uk
arzu @arzupoetik.bsky.social @queerpoetsopenmic host
na makul #transfeminist,
poet, ser-seri ve normdışı-
"feminizm herkes içindir"
şiir, öykü ve sanat:
http://linktr.ee/arzubulut
Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
Sonja Tiernan @sonjatiernan.bsky.social President Women’s History Association of Ireland. National Coordinator Irish Humanities Alliance, RIA. Fellow Royal Historical Society.
Author books including Eva Gore-Booth biography
She/Her
ORCID: 0000-0003-2409-311X
tiernansonja@gmail.com
Robert Pralat @robertpralat.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology and Public Health
Birkbeck, University of London
Seckin Sertdemir @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social Author of Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State, Cambridge University Press (January 2025) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civic-death-in-contemporary-turkey/898D9A2EFDC70B683667087DD11B8AEE#fndtn-metrics
@sibelyardimci.bsky.social @sibelyardimci.bsky.social
Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive.
https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social We work for #LGBTI equality and human rights in #Europe and #CentralAsia, together with more than 750 member organisations in 54 countries. Find out more at https://www.ilga-europe.org/
Enis @enisthemenace.bsky.social
Begüm Başdaş @begumbasdas.bsky.social Regional Researcher @ Amnesty International
Functions better under the Sun 🌞 Based in Berlin. she/her. All views my own.
Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social Author | Anthropologist | Postdoc @ Humboldt Uni | Researching Anthroposophy, spirituality & science | Editorial hats @Culture&Religion + @amanthro.bsky.social | Tarot, knitting & 🐾 Donna's human
@tunayaltay.bsky.social @tunayaltay.bsky.social Sociologist at the Humboldt University of Berlin, writing on #QueerMigration, #racialization, and sexual politics in #MENA #Europe 🏳🌈 Dr. WiMi ✍️ Queer and Trans Life (2024)& Resisting Far-Right Politics (2024)
LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social #Philosophy News from The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at #LSE
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/
Abeyamí Ortega @abeyamiortega.bsky.social media & visual cultures, global art histories, critical race & gender studies. Honorary Research Associate in Social Anthropology, Univ of Manchester. Views my own https://tinyurl.com/4682nmjx
Yener Bayramoğlu @yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of York. media ethnography / queer migration / borders / diaspora / temporalities
J Daniel Luther @jdanielluther.bsky.social South Asian Cultural and Queer Theorist/Practitioner | Associate Consultant | Associate Dir. Rhodes Scholarship | Co-founder 'Queer' Asia.
Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social International theory, feminist political thought, “Women, Peace and Security”, masculinities and the governing of them, critical war studies, statecraft, pop cultures, another university might still be possible. Gender detective.
Katharine Millar @drkmillar.bsky.social Associate prof LSE IR, she/her. Feminist academic, writes about gender and violence (and sometimes militarism. and cybersecurity. also, death).
Website: www.katharinemillar.com
Dr Aiko Holvikivi @aikoiiris.bsky.social Assistant Professor at LSE Gender, feminist curious about knowledge, pedagogy and (in)security.
Yasin Duman @yasinduman.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher. Center for Social & Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven. Mental health & psychosocial wellbeing, intergroup relations, displacement, racism, peace & conflict. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yasin-Duman-4
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social Assc Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own
www.smrodriguez.com
Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/ayca-cubukcu
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
Rebecca Elliott @rfelliott.bsky.social Sociologist at the LSE. Research on climate, insurance, risk, loss, disaster, adaptation. Editor, British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social. Co-organizer, Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social.
Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social Reader & Sociology Subject Co-Lead, @UofGSociology.bsky.social University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, genocide. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social Author - Editor - Translator (Sp-En)
On-and-off academic
#drugpolicy #feminism #harmreduction #veganism
💚 Hackney Greens / Green Drug Policy 💚
Newsletter on #Activism and #Writing
https://peninfist.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/clouhamilton
CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Visit us at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Newsletter via tinyurl.com/crasshnews
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social Professor at LSE| Feminist Political Theorist|Own Views| She/her.
Thinking and writing on human rights|Anti-imperial epistemic justice|Conceptual Diversity| Rights politics in most of the world| Recent book📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social LSE Gender pioneers intersectional, interdisciplinary and transnational research and teaching ➡️ https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender
Terrence Higgins Trust @tht.org.uk The UK's leading HIV charity. Free confidential support: 0808 802 1221
LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social We provide outstanding education in the changing social world, and state-of-the-art, public-facing research on social issues ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology
British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social We publish rigorous, original research that speaks to a general sociological audience and draws on an array of quantitative and qualitative methods ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14684446
LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social The home of human rights teaching, research and outreach at LSE ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/human-rights
Umut Yıldırım @umutyildirim.bsky.social Anthropologist at the Geneva Graduate Institute I Editor, War-torn Ecologies, ICI Berlin Press 23; Author, Resistant Breathing, Current Anthro 24 I War, Forced Migration, Extraction, Development, Decolonial resistance, Political organizing and subjectivity
Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org Founded in 1934 by immigrant refugees in New York City. Carrying the torch of academic freedom and mapping the landscape of intellectual thought at @thenewschool.bsky.social. | socres.org
Yesim Yaprak Yildiz @yaprakyildiz.bsky.social Lecturer @Goldsmiths
Working on political violence, truth-telling and responsibility
The Church of England @churchofengland.org We're a Christian presence in every community across England and in Europe. Learn more about the work we do from churches, cathedrals and Christian communities.
Asiya Islam @asiyaislam.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE | Researching gender, work, digitalisation in the Global South | Editorial roles at Feminist Review & Otherwise Magazine
Elif Sandal Önal @elifsandal.bsky.social Political psychology | PostDoc researcher @ Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence • Uni Bielefeld | Peace and Conflict - Democracy - Uncertainy, Insecurity and Crises
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elif-Sandal-Oenal
British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social Internationally renowned for conducting world-class research and collaborations in #Türkiye and #BlackSea region in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Peter Cherry @peterjcherry.bsky.social Assistant Director, @thebiaankara.bsky.social |Author&researcher: gender,migration,Turkish&UK literature&culture |Co-presenter Heritage Türkiye podcast |Chair of Adults with Dyscalculia Advisory Board, @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social |all views my own
Sinan Aşçı @sinanasci.bsky.social 📍 Dublin, Ireland
Researcher at DCU Anti-Bullying Centre 👨🏻💻 Researching youth culture, online harms & digital literacy.