Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social Unfrozen caveman political economist. In my day, we didn't have fancy tools like causal identification, but we knew how to ask: “cui bono?"
Former political scientist. Now I do research for an internet thing. The good one, though.
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Washington, DC
Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social Europeanist [literature, thought, politics] | Directing @uclei.bsky.social | Working with @ucl-global.bsky.social | Curating @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine
🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Jason De León @jasondeleon.bsky.social Anthropologist,
Nikon F2 owner, rockero, bass player in The War Pigs, author of Soldiers and Kings and Land of Open Graves, catch me in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology- M Matt Davis @mdintllaw.bsky.social Research interests in IHL IHRL ICL PIL. Teach law and still dabble in human rights. Gooner. He/him. I may repost something or like something, but these reposts and likes may not reflect my views nor the views of my employer.
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Xianfeng [咸豐] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
Babadookakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social Movie 🚬
Occasional thirst-trap poster
Screenwriter
📍LA
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg The IGAs is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the indie scene where developers take center stage.
🗓️ December 2026
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🌎 Curated & Voted on by Showcases, Media, Creators, & more.
Gonzalo Di Landro @gdilandro.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social | Comparative political behavior, gender & representation | Political Science Ph.D. @ricepolisci.bsky.social
www.gdilandro.com
UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social UCL Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and teaching on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.
UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social UCL’s hub for research, engagement and teaching on Europe & the EU.
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Özgür Toprak @ozgurtoprak8303.bsky.social Kurdischer Politiker und Aktivist
Soziologie der Universität Eskisehir, Abteilung für Lederbekleidung der Universität Usak.
ZÜRICH🇨🇭
X Mein Konto &: @komunalistx
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
@kangli.bsky.social @kangli.bsky.social
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social #OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de Focusing on current development and emerging topics in Greater China
Publisher: SAGE @sagepub.com
Editors-in-Chief:
Kerry Brown and Sinan Chu @chusinan.bsky.social
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CCA
E @yayaguoyi.bsky.social From Changchun. MSc Social and Cultural Theory. BA English Lit. Migrant in the UK. Navigating racial trauma and activist burnout. In my spare time, I garden, do crafts, and obsess over my cat.
Anna Joe Baum @anna-jb.bsky.social Labour Sociology PhD student, researching care work, Leicester University
Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Centre for Geopolitics @camgeopolitics.bsky.social Historically grounded approaches to enduring geopolitical problems
UCL Arts and Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social The @ucl.ac.uk Faculty of Arts and Humanities is recognised globally for teaching & research excellence. Arts and Humanities subjects ranked 7th in world Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 by subject.
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). Moral clarity enjoyer. Ally of Ukraine. Own views only. 🇪🇪
Xiang Li 向莉 @alicedreamss.bsky.social Xiang Li, Journalist, writer, Human rights activist, Founder of Asian Woman Refugee Collective. Fight for freedom and human rights!
Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
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
Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
Dimitrios Stroikos @dstroikos.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna. Head of the LSE IDEAS Space Policy Project.
Neysun Mahboubi @neysunm.bsky.social Administrative law/Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host, China Studies podcast.
https://global.upenn.edu/global-initiatives/person/neysun-mahboubi
Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social Geographer | University of Utah
Co-Founder @scwobservatory.bsky.social
Editor @globalchinamap.bsky.social
PIP Fellow @ncuscr.bsky.social
*political ecology, Global China, development, geopolitics*
www.jessicadicarlo.phd
Opinions here are my own.
Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social Historian at Tsinghua University. Focus (more or less) on Chinese and East Asian histories from early modern to contemporary period, history of cartography, and urban studies. Love painting, music, arts, and antique maps
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
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
@rusi.bsky.social
Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social China Anthropologist | @snsf.ch Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital, global
https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego
New book: _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/
#EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
Anne Gerritsen @annegerritsen.bsky.social historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
Brian Spivey @bspivey.bsky.social Historian of modern China, postdoc at CIW @ Australian National University. Writing a book about Maoist environmentalism during the Cultural Revolution. Also ئۇيغۇر and Xinjiang.
UC Irvine History PhD, editor at large at LAReviewofBooks.
ZLarchives.com
Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social History prof, visual artist, book author w/ projects on infrastructure, colonialism, Cold War mobilization, and (mis)information. <http://tonglam.com>
Roland Kappe @rolandkappe.bsky.social Elections and voting, education politics and policy, bureaucracy, coffee, sunshine. Latte papa, citizen of nowhere, lecturer in political economy at UCL
UCL EISPS @ucleisps.bsky.social UCL's European and International Social and Political Studies department, home of multidisciplinary education on Europe and the world https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-international-social-political-studies
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
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Guopeng Chen @gpchen.bsky.social DPhil in archaeology, University of Oxford
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Gabriele Vogt @gabrielevogt.bsky.social Professor (Chair) in Japanese Studies at LMU Munich ➡️ studies: politics & society | migration & labor market | demography & democracy | cultures of vigilance (SFB 1369) | Okinawa
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
The People's Map of Global China @globalchinamap.bsky.social The People's Map of Global China is an open platform for discussions about the social, environmental, and political implications of Global China from a grounded perspective. We also publish the Global China Pulse journal.
https://thepeoplesmap.net
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com.
A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity.
store:
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Haochonger @haochonger.bsky.social Filmmaker trying to impress
Ivan Franceschini @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social Founder and chief editor of the Made in China Journal, The People's Map of Global China, and Global China Pulse. Researching ethnic Chinese transnational crime, especially in the online scam industry.
UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS)
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Eric Schluessel @ericschluessel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ.
Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
Ann Marie Wilson @annmariewilson.bsky.social Historian at Leiden University College. Environmental history, Dutch history, gardens, birds, city parks. Oh and lots of dusty old nature guides.
Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures |
Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landscapes
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc @ TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social working on the history of Japan and Korea, seaweeds, nomads, peasants, and merchant capitalism.
Chun Xu @xuchun.work Historian. Dragons and bureaucrats in Song, Yuan and Ming China.
Wen-Yi Huang @wenyihuangtw.bsky.social Historian of China & Taiwan | Migration & environmental history | An Wang Postdoc at Harvard, 2018-2019. McGill Uni Ph.D.
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
https://sensehofstede.nl/
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.
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国(及び日ソ・露)近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
Aiden Heung @aidenheung.bsky.social Chinese poet, gay, reader, squash player, Poet at WashU, Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal. Winner of 2024 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Debut All There Is To Lose forthcoming 2026
Chun Han Wong @chunhanwong.bsky.social China-focused reporter for The Wall Street Journal. 《華爾街日報》記者。我東寫西讀。 Author of "Party of One," an account of Xi Jinping's rise to power and how he changed China: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Party-of-One/Chun-Han-Wong/9781982185749
Anna Scott @annascott.bsky.social Work on China human rights (religion, civil society) & ramble around the beaches of Seattle with a 75 pound arthritic pitbull. All opinions my own, thank God.
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
New China Books 📚 @newchinabooks.bsky.social All the books you could ever read about China.
Formerly on Twitter, please follow me here and spread the word!
Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social Associate Professor, Lund University. Chinese rural development, migration, resource extraction. Co-editor @madeinchinajournal.com. Views my own. @ndloubere@toot.community
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
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.
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)
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com