New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
alexandercoppock.com
Persuasion in Parallel: https://alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2022.html
Research Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign: book.declaredesign.org
azimwazeer.bsky.social @azimwazeer.bsky.social DPhil/PhD Candidate in Politics, University of Oxford
Saudi Arabia, West Asia, political economy, et al.
Rajeev Kinra @rkkinra.bsky.social Historian, etc
Nathaniel M. Smith @nathanielmsmith.bsky.social Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Rick Green @bcbrews.bsky.social Writer with an interest in 🍺☕🍴🧳🤘🏻📰 culture, history, politics • #WW2TV SLK • #NAFO 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 
Elías Chavarría Mora @tarnov.bsky.social Lecturer at Universidad de Costa Rica, PhD from University of Pittsburgh. PolSci. Focus on behavior/LatAm. Non-polsci stuff: anime, comics, literature and punk/post-punk.
Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social 
Nat Henry @nathenry.com Director of Henry Spatial Analysis | Professional Geographer | Seattleite | Into maps, health data, walking places
Colleen Berry 白凯琳 コリーン・べりー @jcolleenb.bsky.social Copyeditor, traveler, border collie lover, Canadian/American, ret. professor (Chinese, Japanese, Asian studies), LGBTQ2S person, liberal, tennis player, hiker, reader, sumo lover, mushroom forager
Yuhua Wang @yuhuawang.bsky.social Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Representation and inclusion in democratic societies, mostly in Africa
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
Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
Maggie Lewis @margaretklewis.bsky.social Professor at Seton Hall Law working on China, Taiwan, criminal justice, and human rights. Can otherwise be found hanging with my boys (including Brodie 🐾).
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
Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own.
Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social Professor @UChicago Political Science | Democracy, dictatorship, conflict, property, the Americas | Author of Land Power
Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social JRF in politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Saudi Arabia, Middle East politics & computational social science
Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science・Political sociology of class, morality, political divides・🔗 linuswestheuser.com
Just out: "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization" (BUP) 🔗 tinyurl.com/yn42x79t
tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social Writing a book (+ some papers): "The Liberal Origins of Fascism"
Postdoc at the Cluster of Excellence, The Politics of Inequality
PhD from Penn, via many places
The political origins of hate: parties, voting rights, historical data, CEE
lotemhalevy.com
Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown (lizhiliu.com); Political Economy, Tech & China; Author of From Click to Boom (https://t.co/UL6RIfmdTm)
Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin.bsky.social Nationality: journalist. Made in the BBC, now freelancer. Reporting what you need to know, not what you want to hear. Co-author of En Eiropeisk Tragedie, a book about the roots of Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Also, many Lonely Planet titles. 
Suzanne Scoggins @suzannescoggins.bsky.social Political Scientist, Author of Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest
Christina Cooke @christinajcooke.bsky.social I wrote BROUGHTUPSY, yr next fav novel | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | “Best of”—Elle, CBC Books, others | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke | lemme at yr snacks- M Michael Szonyi @michaelszonyi.bsky.social 宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
Jen Pan @jenpans.bsky.social Professor of Communication @Stanford
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
Tim Cheek @cheekytim.bsky.social China historian at UBC, Vancouver.
Jane Hayward @drjanehayward.bsky.social Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
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.
Tom Hancock @tomhancock.bsky.social China/economics etc, fmr Bloomberg/FT etc. still posting charts on LinkedIn
Johana Gallup @jinberlin.bsky.social Manager of Fellows Program at American Academy in Berlin • Czech in Berlin • Alpine hiker scared of heights
Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
Şener Aktürk @senerakturk.bsky.social Author of "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe.” Professor at Koç University. Comparative Politics; Nationalism; Religion; Regimes of Ethnicity; History of Ideas; Grand Strategy. www.senerakturk.com
Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social Co-ED, Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) @chrdnet.bsky.social. Visiting Scholar at Stanford CDDRL 2024, HRW China director 2006-2023. Still think music makes everything better (see https://youtu.be/k9avKq94DGY?si=I7xvXwRcgovRnF1v).
Kathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social Author of BLOOD MONEY
Journalist, found all over
https://kemc.substack.com/
https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kathleen-McLaughlin/179283499
Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱 @rmostern.bsky.social World & Chinese history, environment & climate, space & place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Academic freedom & labor. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social Tuesday-Friday at 9pm ET on MS NOW.
https://linktr.ee/psaki
Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
Ralph Litzinger @raferlitz.bsky.social 
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
Jessica Pickett @pickettjessica.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based health economist in the vaccine industry. Interested in everything; knowledgeable about demand for medical care & politics of service delivery.
Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social Political Science @umich. book: https://bit.ly/3YQWgEi. US Reconstruction & nation building w/ David Waldner; policing w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social + @dziblatt.bsky.social; race & democratic attitudes w/ V. Hutchings & @jardina.bsky.social.
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Jean Hong 洪知延 홍지연 @jeanhong.bsky.social keep calm and post academic stuff. working @umich. formerly @HKUST. study authoritarian politics and legacy. East Asia. https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/jeanhong
Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social Professor at Emory. Co-editor Sociological Theory 27-29. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity)
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Andrew MacDonald @profandrewm.bsky.social Asst Prof at @DukeKunshan
Previously a PhD student @UniofOxford
Completely amateur runner and Trader Joe's aficionado
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Michael Davidson @michaeldavidson.bsky.social Assoc prof in policy and engineering at UC San Diego. Decarbonizing world’s toughest grids @ Power Transformation Lab. pwrlab.org
Jan Rovny @jrovny.bsky.social Professor at Sciences Po | political competition | political parties | ethnic politics in Europe | guitar music 
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social Study China maritime strategy & int’l security policy
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Book: China’s Law of the Sea yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256475/chinas-law-of-the-sea/
Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
Adnan (Dann) Naseemullah @dnaseemullah.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & South Asian Politics, Fellow at Wolfson, University of Oxford | www.naseemullah.com | Author: Development after Statism (Cambridge UP 2017); Patchwork States (Cambridge UP 2022); co-author, Righteous Demagogues (Oxford UP 2024).
Stephen R. Platt @stephenplatt.bsky.social Historian. Books include Imperial Twilight (Knopf, 2018) and Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Knopf, 2012). New book: The Raider (Knopf, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618088/the-raider-by-stephen-r-platt/
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 
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Angie Ocampo-Roland @angieocampo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pitt | Latina/o/x politics, REP, political behavior
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Dan Galvin @djgalvin.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University. Labor politics & policy, alt-labor, wage theft, APD & APE.
https://sites.northwestern.edu/danieljgalvin/
Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Northwestern, studying hostage taking in international security. Director with Bridging the Gap, contributor to Good Authority. She/her. Hiking, biking, mostly plants 🌱 #COYS
Blake Miller @bamiller.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. I specialize in Chinese politics, authoritarian politics, and computational social science methods. (they/them) http://blakeapm.com
Political Science Department at Northwestern University @polisciatnu.bsky.social Official account of Northwestern University's Political Science Department. https://lnk.bio/polisciatnu
Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social Political scientist at Penn. Comparative politics, parties, elections, electoral systems, representation, Japanese politics.
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/utcountydems
Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Previously a postdoc at Stanford Ethics. Alumna of the University of Chicago and El Colegio de México.
Political theory + ethnographic methods 🌱
www.yunablajer.com
Hans H. Tung @hanshtung.bsky.social Political economy, political communication; University Excelsior Chair Professor, Yageo Prof of Political Economy/Associate Dean, School of Political Science and Economics @NTU_TW; formerly @Harvard
https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~hanstung/Home.html
Mark Bell @marksbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minneota, mostly studying nuclear weapons, international security, and US foreign policy. Opinions mine. www.markbell.org 
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
Nicole Wu @nicolewu.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Previously @ Michigan & Princeton. Political economy of job automation/technology & globalization.
http://nicolewu.com
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Harris Doshay @hdoshay.bsky.social Teacher, former China-studying-guy.
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Chloe Thurston @chloethurston.bsky.social Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief. 
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com