Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social Journalistin/Politikwissenschaftlerin/Ärztin
Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social Kommunikation und andere Unwahrscheinlichkeiten
Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social Sociologist, working mostly on social theory, qualitative methods, protest, critique, and their discontents. 
Jochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social Human(e)
Media, politics and stuff
Dep Head DW Deutsche Welle R&D
Boards: EDMO, CEDMO, GADMO
Lecturer: Free University Berlin
Media Literacy Trainer: Lie Detectors
More: https://about.me/jospang
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin
Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
DVPW-Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft @dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social Hier twittert die Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft in der DVPW Webseite: https://www.dvpw.de/gliederung/sektionen/vergleichende-politikwissenschaft
Sprecherinnen: Iris Reus, @thomaserichter.bsky.social, @kweissenbach.bsky.social
Anna Fruhstorfer @annakfruhstorfer.bsky.social Political scientist @FU Berlin and @WZB.bsky.social |
PI ERC research group LOOPS | Studying autocracies through protest, legal norms, and elite conflict | fruhstorfer.me
Book on Constitutional Change under Autocracy: fruhstorfer.me/book
Julia Leininger @jleininger.bsky.social Democracy, social cohesion & scenarios ⚪️Head of research program "Transformation of political (dis-)order" @IDOS_research (new name, same quality research & policy advice)
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
Ulrich H. W. Berger (er/he) @uhwberger.de Geschäftsführer bei D64 - Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt e. V. Davor: Polisphere, Diskutier Mit Mir, Kleiner Fünf. Politik, Lindy Hop & gefüllte Weinblätter. 🌻
Philipp Neubauer @ph-neubauer.bsky.social PhD in Political Science - Peacebuilding, Police Reform, Civilian Crisis Management, CSDP
Jakob Hensing @jhensing.bsky.social Head of Political Economy @ Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. Mainly working on economic statecraft and critical technologies.
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Computational Social Science Uni Bremen
guest fellow WZB Berlin | PhD EUI | interested in protest, party competition, populism #FirstGen
Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social Professor of Global Security at Oxford, Co-director of ELAC (IHL, Law & Ethics of War, Attitudes toward Violence)
Emadeddin Badi @emadbadi.bsky.social Eyes on #Libya, MENA geopolitics & security.
Dr Sonja Marzi @sonjamarzi.bsky.social Human Geographer & feminist researcher interested in resistance to violence, activism, urban challenges. Assistant Professor @Radboud University (Anthropology & Development Studies), Visiting Fellow @LSE Department of Methodology
Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, detention, and torture & ill-treatment.
Fabio Ellger @fabioellger.bsky.social PolSci Postdoc @WZB Berlin: Political behavior and institutions, polarization and representation
Sophia Maier @sophiamaier.bsky.social https://shop.autorenwelt.de/collections/signierte-buecher/products/herz-aus-stacheldraht-von-sophia-maier
TV-Reporter | Speaker | Award-winning Journalist
Conflict areas & War zones. Middle East. Far-right Scene.
Charlotte Wiedemann @chawi.bsky.social Writer. Foreign reporting, narrative nonfiction books. Recent: "Understanding the Pain of Others. Holocaust and World Memory"
James Ozden @jamesozden.bsky.social Founder of socialchangelab.org, doing social movement research. Previously organising grassroots climate & animal advocacy movements.
Now working in philanthropy to help end factory farming.
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social Senior researcher @IFSHHamburg | Critical security and resilience, climate change and the Anthropocene, technology and surveillance. Views my own
Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social Prof of Pol Sociology @University of Bamberg, Fellow @DeZIM, Berlin // Pol Psychology: Emotions & Identities / Immigrants / Pol Behavior / Survey Research // sabrinajmayer.de
Magdalena Beljan @studiodisko.bsky.social Wissenschaft & Hochschulpolitik // Körpergeschichte & Gender Studies // https://bsky.app/profile/afgberlin.bsky.social
Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social Journalistin & Autorin. Denkt nach & weiter über Zeitpolitik, Zusammenhalt, Kinderrechte, sexuelle Selbstbestimmung | Pronomen: sie/ihr
Aktuelles Sachbuch: »ALLE_ZEIT. Eine Frage von Macht und Freiheit«
NDR Sachbuchpreis 2023
https://teresabuecker.de/
Allison McCulloch @allimcculloch.bsky.social Political Science, travel, dogs. Not in that order.
Editor-in-chief, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics
Philipp Rotmann @rotmann.net Peace & security, conflict, stabilization, foresight & war/policy gaming | Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
First and Foremost Lieutenant Adler @einsteinadler.bsky.social Lover of Tactics and Good Leadership, views Military as Observational Comedy (otherwise it's just sad)
Matheus Souza @matheussouza.bsky.social PhD candidate in PolSci, Umeå University || Researching spatialities and temporalities in spatial narratives of post-war Mostar, BiH || All things urban
Christian von Soest @cvonsoest.bsky.social Head of Policy Exchange and Berlin Office @GIGA_Institute | Honorary Professor @uniGoettingen | Columnist, https://www.faz.net/premium/weltwirtschaft/
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
Denis Tull @denistull.eurosky.social Researcher I Conflict I Intervention I Politics I Sahel
@swp-mea.bsky.social I @megatrends-afrika.de
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/denis-m-tull
Views strictly my own
Michelle D. Weitzel @mweitzel.bsky.social Assistant Professor The Graduate Institute Geneva
Sensory politics, MENA, security, conflict, emotions, interpretive polisci. New Yorker/Hawaiian at heart.
Simon Engelkes @englks.bsky.social Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ramallah // previously Middle East Desk
Christin Jänicke @chjncke.bsky.social Social Scientist @WZB & @FU Berlin.
Research on far right and civil society.
Sozialwissenschaftlerin mit Fokus auf extreme Rechte und Zivilgesellschaft in Ostdeutschland
https://www.wzb.eu/de/personen/christin-jaenicke
Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine
Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
Konstantin Witschel @kons1982.bsky.social PhD (Dr. phil.) in Political Science | Policy Advisor MENA | Former @AuswaertigesAmt, @Welthungerhilfe Syria | Conflict Research | Married | Private blabla 
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
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
Johannes Schmitthenner @richtennach.bsky.social Thinking about Islam, Marxism, Philosophy, Economy, few other things 
Matthew Levitt @mattlevitt.bsky.social Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
Anna Schwarz @annaschwarz.bsky.social Human Rights. Foreign Policy. (Forced) Migration. Intersectional Feminism.
Katharina Natter @knatter.bsky.social assistant professor @LeidenUniv | comparative politics & migration policies | North Africa, Latin America & Europe | board member @Asylos | always dancing 
Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social PostDoc FU Berlin & Research Affiliate WZB | PhD from EUI | Populism, Parliamentary Behaviour, Party Communication, Protest Behaviour, Text-as-Data | https://rebecca-kittel.eu/
Julia Friedrich @juliafriedrich.bsky.social Research Fellow @GPPi. Ex-EUAM Ukraine. Peace & security in Russia & Ukraine. Berlin-based.
Johannes Wagner, MdB @yoohannes.bsky.social 🏛️ MdB @Die_Gruenen im Gesundheitsausschuss |🚑 Arzt in Weiterbildung zum Kinderarzt |🚲 Fan von Fahrrädern & evidenzbasierter Medizin | #Klimakrise = #Gesundheitskrise
Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy. Research on protest, radical democracy and communalism. Member of @doorbraak.eu. Has a trombone and is not afraid to use it. Opinions my own.
Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social WZB Berlin, Humboldt University, TCD
https://macartan.github.io/
Politics, conflict, inequality, political economy of development, causal inference 
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Gil Shohat | גיל שוחט @gilshohat.bsky.social Historiker | Leiter des Israel-Büros der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Tel Aviv
Stefan Schmalz @stefanschmalz.bsky.social Sociologist | Labor | Global China | Property | | Globalization | Research on Tesla | @uni-jena.de
Hannah Franzki @hfranzki.bsky.social Researcher at Free University Berlin and senior legal advisor at ECCHR | corporations, violence, critical legal theory
Niklas Balbon @balnik.bsky.social Research Fellow @GPPi | PhD’ing @FUBerlin | passionate for researching conflict, development and gender| 🇺🇦 and the Balkans | he/they
Nour Halabi @nourhalabi.bsky.social Race, migration and media academic, IDR Fellow at University of Aberdeen. Author #RadicalHospitality @RutgersUPress. Pronouns: she/هي
Inga Matthes @ingamatthes.bsky.social Lawyer
BLN
🍉
Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social PhD in Political Science | she/her |
either political or science communication |
running & feminism |
#firstgen #ihadablackdog
Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
Anna-Lena Hönig @annalenahoenig.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher, @excinequality.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social
Protest & repression, civil society, social networks, Central Asia
Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social Russia | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr Associate @csiserep | Fellow @kennaninstitute | Book: WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM | http://hannanotte.com | Berlin-based
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Uğur Ümit Üngör @uungor.bsky.social Professor of Genocide Studies @ NIOD Institute & University of Amsterdam. Research on mass violence, Middle East. Books: 'The Making of Modern Turkey' (2011), 'Genocide' (2016), 'Paramilitarism' (2020), 'Syrian Gulag' (2023), and 'Assad's Militias' (2026).
Maria Debre @debremaria.bsky.social Professor for International Relations @Zeppelin University | Studies Autocracies, IOs, Global South 
Samar Elhussieny @selhussieny.bsky.social #HumanRights defender and researcher| Executive Director @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social Forum Prev| Associate manager @Sutherlandcorp | Master’s @unitartu |MENA coordinator| @CFWIJ |
Dana Schmalz @danaschmalz.bsky.social International law & legal theory. Migration, democracy, population numbers. Senior research fellow at MPIL Heidelberg.
Akin Unver @akinunver.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of International Relations at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. Data Science, Emerging Tech, War, TechnoPolitics. P.I. of DE-CONSPIRATOR (HorizonEU). Associate Editor; @gsqjournal.bsky.social Fellow; Carnegie Endowment Fellow. (akinunver.org)
Beste İşleyen @besteisleyen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Amsterdam
President (2023-2025) of the European International Studies Association (EISA)
Editor at International Political Sociology
Kiteboarder 🤙🏽
Dr. Benjamin Abrams @bdmabrams.bsky.social Deputy Chair @UCLSociology.bsky.social
Chief Ed. Contention (https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/contention-overview.xml)
Melissa Li @melissali.bsky.social Research Fellow @GPPi; Conflict & stabilization, civil society groups & protest movements.
Patrick McCurdy @pmmcc.bsky.social Professor, uOttawa. Research: Canadian energy culture, tar sands, social movements, protest camps. Expect typos.
Markus Bickel @bickel.bsky.social Middle East • Defence • Diplomacy
Head of Security Desk @table.media
Based in 🇧🇦🇱🇧🇪🇬🇮🇱 since 9/11, now Berlin
Journalist
Dalia Ezzat @dalezzat.bsky.social Mom. Storyteller. Bollyphile.
Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.
Somdeep Sen @somdeepsen.bsky.social IR, race, settler colonialism, Palestine; Decolonizing Palestine @CornellUP; Globalizing Collateral Language @UofGeorgiaP
Oliver von Dobrowolski @vondobrowolski.de • er/ihm
• Polizist • Kriminalhauptkommissar • Sachbuchautor
• Antifaschist lebenslang
• Antirassismus • Fehlerkultur • FCKNZS
• Melancholie & Weltschmerz
• https://www.von-dobrowolski.de
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
Archives: https://eliaayoub.com
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Franziska Grillmeier @grillmeier.bsky.social Journalist
Focus: Migration and forced displacement; EU borders & beyond // Climate and Water Crisis in Europe
contact.grillmeier@gmail.com
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Dr. Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social Political Sociologist University Duisburg-Essen. Migration, refugee protection, EU external relations, IOs, gender, feminist approaches, practice theory. And cats. She/her. 
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire' (2026) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807810153
Evin Dalkilic @evinale.bsky.social former head of publishing @verfassungsblog.de
May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social Associate Professor, IR of the Middle East, University of Birmingham Author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (CUP).
Noura W. @nouwahby.bsky.social Urban researcher. Cairo always. Asst. Prof @CamUniLandEconomy. Previously w/ @CSIC_IKC @Dept_of_POLIS @Cambridge_uni @CamUniGeography and @GAPP_AUC. Editing @araburbanism
Moritz Schmoll @moritzschmoll.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science at
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Rabat. 
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social Political economist and attempts at internationalism. Prof of International Relations and Political Economy at Bielefeld University
Clara van den Berg @claraberg.bsky.social Researcher @wzb.
🔎🔎democracy, social cohesion, civil society
🚀Political enthusiast & feminist 
Andrea Terlizzi @andreterliz.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Florence • Editorial manager @ Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche / Italian Journal of Public Policy • Public policy • Policy design • Policy process • Public administration • Public management • Napoli ⚽️
Stefan C. Aykut @stefanaykut.bsky.social Sociology of the Climate Crisis
Mercator Chair on the social dynamics of ecological transformation (@gklimawende.bsky.social)
Humanities Centre 'Futures of Sustainability' at University of Hamburg (@fos-uhh.bsky.social)
Views here are my own.
Tamer Badawi تامر بدوي @tbdwi.bsky.social Analyst & field practitioner | Violent conflicts, climate, & governance. چا تره تامر مو ثامر
Tamerbadawi.org
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
ilyssa Yahmi @ilyssa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris | PhD, Temple University | smuggling, borders, violence & (in-)security, identity | Former @USIP @DoDMinerva Peace Scholar & @XCEPT_Research | Sahel & North Africa
Anna Luo @annaluo.bsky.social PhD candidate at VUB studying emotions and journalism. Storytelling & media enthusiast.
Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social Political Ecologist/Economist at SOAS
Ilyas Ibn Karim @ilyasibnkarim.bsky.social Progressive #Muslim, #Socialist, #Marxist ☭ M.A. #Religiousstudies, Solidarity with Kurds ☀️, Palestinians 🇵🇸 and Sahrawis 🇪🇭, against Antisemitism ☪️💓✡️
Anna Hörter @aannaakh.bsky.social Research and Comms somewhere in Berlin‘s think tank bubble; current deep dives: (gendered) disinformation, all things AI, good recipes and book recs. 😏
Colin J. Beck @cjbeck.bsky.social Revolutions and so forth. Next book without a red spine. https://colinjbeck.sites.pomona.edu
IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz If you want something done right, do it yourself.
[Bob Vylan chant]