Gabriel Brenner @gabrielbrenner.bsky.social Relationship Coach & Blogger
⚖️ Democracy advocate, egalitarian, 🇪🇺 EU supporter. 🏔️ Austrian living in 🇵🇱 Poland.
Jakub Kalenský @kalenskyj.bsky.social Countering disinformation. Currently Hybrid CoE in Helsinki; previously Atlantic Council & EUvsDisinfo. Before that a journalist in Czechia
Yaroslava Bukhta @yaroslavabukhta.bsky.social 📚Doing PhD in the Oxford University on Russian war against Ukraine media coverage | 🎙️co-host at Fog of War podcast (Spotify, YouTube, ApplePodcasts) on journalism in times of conflict | 📝 former journalist
Maria Romanenko @rommari.bsky.social Multi-award-winning journalist, activist, event host, and public speaker || from Ukraine 🇺🇦, now in Manchester 🇬🇧 || Instagram/Twitter: @rommari || 📩: maria@mariaromanenko.com
Adam Reichardt @areichardt.bsky.social Editor of @neweasterneurope.eu, co-host of the Talk Eastern Europe podcast.
Web: www.neweasterneurope.eu
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TalkEasternEurope
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/areichardt/
Michael Andersen @michaelandersen.bsky.social https://twogrumpyoldmenonukraine.substack.com/
Storyteller, Constant Gardener, 🇺🇦, Central Asia, Spain, football, books, occasional rant.
Alexander Khrebet @alexkhrebet.bsky.social Reporter at the Kyiv Independent
European Press Prize 2023
AllForJan Award 2023
Middle East aficionado
Donetsk guy in Kyiv, Ukraine
a.khrebet@kyivindependent.com
khrebetis@gmail.com
Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social Expert Ukraine & mer Noire | 15+ ans journaliste
📝 Correspondant @la-croix.com
🎥 YouTubeur: https://www.youtube.com/@sebagobert
📕Auteur: L'Ukraine, la République et les oligarques
☕ Soutenir mon travail: https://buymeacoffee.com/sebagobert
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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David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social Journalist, photographer, broadcaster, painter. Contributing Foreign Editor @heraldscotland @ScotNational Contributor @BBCScotland @BBCWorld - www.davidpratt.co.uk - views own
Anastasia Rodi (exMagazova) 🌻 @anastasiarodi.bsky.social Journalist | PhD Candidate in Political Science, HU Berlin.
Building bridges between 🇺🇦&🇩🇪.
Ex-corr for DW, RFERL. From Crimea.
Board @n-ost.bsky.social
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social 🖋️Journalist, Editor at @pravda.ua
📑 Here you can find stories about Russian-Ukrainian war
😻 And cats
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social Syrian political activist from #Daraa #Syria Freedom. Ya Hala 👋 8.12.2024
buymeacoffee.com/nedal
Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net ❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And
(@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) 📸 Member in ( IFJ ) ( SJA )
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Razan S @razanspeaks.bsky.social Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories.
Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social Military affairs reporter with The Washington Post. State-school alum. Beer-league softball enthusiast. Dog guy. Signal for encrypted tips: danlamothe.30
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures.
https://www.markhertling.com
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social Droa Party Foreign Affairs. Lecturer, researcher. CEE Europe & Central Asia. University of St Andrews alumna.
Aspiring to foster a tangible Democracy, Inc.
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Giorgi Koberidze @koberidze.bsky.social Political analyst;
Professor at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).
Political commentator on International Security.
Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social Military Analyst • Former Senior Advisor at the NSC of Georgia• Focused on Russian Foreign and Security Policy • Views my own https://russiaanalyzed.substack.com
Mariam Nikuradze @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social Reporter and photojournalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-founder and Executive Director at OC Media
Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social Journalist and editor, providing news and analysis on the drastic reversal of liberal democratic values in Georgia 🇬🇪 Supporting Ukraine with all my heart and passion 🇺🇦
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
James Miller (Millermena) @jamesmiller.bsky.social The Casual Analyst: https://www.thecasualanalyst.com/
Expert on pro-democracy movements & the fight against autocrats in Ukraine, Russia, Syria & beyond. Liveblogging & OSINT pioneer, Twitter OG turned refugee (Millermena). Trying to save my own Republic
Syria Notes @syrianotes.org Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability.
Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908
Bashar Deeb / بشار ديب @bdeeb.bsky.social Digital investigations @lhreports.bsky.social
Free Syria
He\him
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
Andrew Gilmour @ajgilmour.bsky.social fmr UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights; recent author of book on climate change and conflict "The Burning Question"; fellow SOAS; fmr visiting Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
Kristyan Benedict @kristyanbenedict.bsky.social Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager: Crisis Response, Israel/Palestine, Syria. Also to be found drumming, climbing, and painting - https://www.instagram.com/kristyan_benedict/
Views all mine.
Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social Senior fellow @obi-belonging.bsky.social Berkeley. Founding ed at The Lead, co-founder +972 Magazine. Bylines NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz etc. Exploring long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
🍉 🗝️ 🌻
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Antoine Hasday @antoinehasday.bsky.social Journaliste raisonnablement indépendant. Marottes: défense, sécurité, IA, environnement, sports de combat. Chez @collectifyoupress.bsky.social, @ajdpresse.bsky.social et au bureau de @ajtransparence.bsky.social. Crie aussi dans des micros.
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018), "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), and host of Balkanomnicon podcast.
🌐 https://jasminmujanovic.com
🌐 https://balkanomnicon.com/
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social Associate Professor, St. Mary’s University (TX). Fmrly Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, University of Essex. Mostly posting: human rights, business & human rights / #BizHumanRights, international economic law & transitional justice. And Taylor Swift.
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Gianluca Mezzofiore @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social Editor, OSINT and visual investigations @CNN
Email: gianluca.mezzofiore@cnn.com
Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social Journalist/factchecker. Co-host podcast @computerenpodcast.bsky.social
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com
🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
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
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
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
Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social Report + edit @us.theguardian.com | Past: visual investigations @forensicarchi.bsky.social (The Murder of June Knightly https://vimeo.com/913426020) and @theintercept.com (Meet the Riot Squad https://vimeo.com/935228869) | +2,500 @nytimes.com bylines
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
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
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian , writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social A Syrian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with 20+ years’ experience, founder of the Prisons Museum. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
https://amermatar.com
https://prisons.museum
https://linktr.ee/amer.mattr
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
www.politico.com
Olivier Knox @oknox.bsky.social Senior national political correspondent, US News & World Report. Not “Oliver.” Something retweets something something. Views here are my own, not my employer's. Duh.
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
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu President of the European Council
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social Technology & emerging threats | Research Fellow, Atlantic Council. Views my own. 🇺🇦