Rory Peck Trust @rorypecktrust.bsky.social Global NGO working to protect independent journalism by empowering freelance journalists with the resources, resilience and knowledge they require to remain safe.
Producer of the #RoryPeckAwards
www.rorypecktrust.org
Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social Journalist covering #Ukraine with the Financial Times / Also seen in La Croix, Les Jours, Foreign Policy & others
Daryna Antoniuk @darynant.bsky.social Cybersecurity Reporter at Recorded Future News. Ex at The Kyiv Independent/Forbes/The Kyiv Post
📍Kyiv, Ukraine
Killian Cogan @killian-cogan.bsky.social Turkey correspondent for the French & Swiss press @ Libération, Les Echos, La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune de Genève, Bilan magazine.
Based in Istanbul since 2019.
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
@christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social 
Abbie Cheeseman @cheesemanab.bsky.social Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
Francesca Ebel @francescaebel.bsky.social I write about Russia and Ukraine for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/francesca-ebel/
Ex North Africa correspondent.
POPULAR FRONT @popularfront.co 🔥 Live from the frontlines
www.popularfront.co
Ethan Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social Freelance journo | Pursuing an MLIS @ CUNY Queens College
Work in SPLC, LA Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, CJR, VICE, Quartz, NowThis, Mongabay, DNAinfo (RIP), Phnom Penh Post, BOMB, The Diplomat, UpperEastSite, more
🗽🪬 ✡︎ 📚🗞️
Selin Girit @selingirit.bsky.social Senior Journalist @BBC | Covering Turkey, ME and beyond @BBCWorldService | Previously BBC Turkey Bilingual Correspondent | Instagram: selingirit
Aron White @aronwhite.bsky.social Team Lead, Southeast Asia & Africa at @earthsight.bluesky.social
Chris(tian) Feiland @feiland.com German Media Man with a 150 Year Family History in Turkey
Berlin-Istanbul
- TV journalist, DOP, Director, Producer, Media Advisory @Frame34.com
- Running The Street Animal Portal @KirikKuyruk.com
- Co-founder & 5 year Chair FMATurkey.org
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Eva Cossé @evacosse.bsky.social Europe senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. Focusing on #Greece and #France.
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.
Joost Bastmeijer @joostbastmeijer.bsky.social Herstellend Afrika-correspondent, integrerend Parijzenaar
Joanne Stocker @joannestocker.bsky.social Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Sira Thierij @sirathierij.bsky.social Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Senegal | Pulitzer grantee | Former BBC foreign news producer & VJ | 🗣️ 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇳🇱
www.sirathierij.com
Instagram: @Sirithiery
Denys from Ukraine @glushko.bsky.social 🇺🇦✍️ Ukraine’s voice to the world (ex-Denys from Kharkiv). Editor-in-Chief of Apostrophe Media. All views are my own | Follow me & Support: buymeacoffee.com/glushkoua
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
Nini Gegidze @ninigegidze.bsky.social 🇬🇪 Political Analyst | Focused on Russia, Caucasus & Eastern Europe | UW Political Science grad | Advocate for Georgia's Eurointegration & democracy
Somdeep Sen @somdeepsen.bsky.social IR, race, settler colonialism, Palestine; Decolonizing Palestine @CornellUP; Globalizing Collateral Language @UofGeorgiaP
Hannes Laan @beingtowardhannes.bsky.social 
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring 
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Nina Lamparski @ninaism.bsky.social Global deputy chief editor, AFP Fact Check. Ex-BBC. Now in Paris, previously Brussels, Sydney, Phnom Penh, London, Vienna. Always YNWA🔴 Opinions allegedly mine
Lilli Tnaib @lillitnaib.bsky.social Strategic communications and outreach focusing on refugees and humanitarian issues. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Gustav C Gressel @gresselgustav.bsky.social Security, Defence, Europe; #MilSky
George Barros @georgewbarros.bsky.social Russia Team & GEOINT Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War. I study war, 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺, & 🇧🇾. Maker of maps and fan of GIS. Led grassroots effort to provide Ukraine Javelins in 2014. W&M alum.
https://understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/g
Alex Ward @alexward.bsky.social National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Olga Belogolova 🌻 @olgs7.bsky.social Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) | CEPA’s mission is to ensure a strong and democratic transatlantic alliance for future generations. Media inquiries: press@cepa.org- J @jarujabar.bsky.social @jarujabar.bsky.social
Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social Dog shepherd.
Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
Kateryna Stepanenko @katstepanenko.bsky.social Russia Research Fellow @TheStudyofWar.bsky.social | Russian Cognitive Warfare, Kremlin Drama, Drones & Force Generation | opinions my own
https://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/kateryna-stepanenko
Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Author of SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT and THE PRICE OF LIFE. http://jennykleeman.substack.com
jennykleeman.com
Rachel Chason @rchason.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Maria Jo. @mariajo121.bsky.social Political Scientist @GIGA Hamburg working on authoritarianism, repression and legitimation, mainly in Middle East & North Africa
MECAM Publication Manager
She/her
No Covid. Mom. Cyclist. For future
Matthieu Boisdron @mtthboisdron.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com. Author of When Rebels Win https://tinyurl.com/whenrebelswin
Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social Marie Curie Fellow @ShefUniPolitics- #criminology and #sociology scholar- critical studies on men and masculinities, gendered violence, anti-gender movements, psychosocial studies, migration studies, LGBTQ studies, gender sensitive design and research
Semuhi Sinanoglu, PhD @semuhi.bsky.social @idos-research.bsky.social
Ph.D., University of Toronto.
German Marshall Fund MMF
I study propaganda, polarization, and state-business relations. Previously, forecasting work at Maidan Analytics.
https://semuhi.github.io
Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social Founder of Mongabay, a platform that delivers news & inspiration from Nature's frontline via a global network of reporters. I'm not very active on this platform. You can find me on LinkedIn and/or follow Mongabay's BlueSky account.
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
Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
Yogita Limaye @yogital.bsky.social South Asia and Afghanistan Correspondent, BBC News; occasionally in other parts of the world
Ben de Pear @bendepear.bsky.social TV journalist and documentary maker, founder @basementfilms, former editor @channel4news
Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social Postdoc in Sociology at Utrecht University; PhD from @EUI_EU
Polarization | Cleavages | Social Networks | Political Sociology www.jonadejong.com
Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. 
Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social Professor of Government at UT-Austin. Research on European politics, parties, elections, and voters. Close follower of everything Turkish, European and American.
Damon C. Roberts @damoncroberts.io PhD | senior data scientist | bayesian stats
damoncroberts.io
Reposts are not endorsements.
I do not represent anyone’s views.
Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social Political scientist at UMBC. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning.
Dad, husband, author, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast
www.iananson.com
Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University. Political Psychology. Polarization. Political Communication.
Wayde Z.C. Marsh @wzcmarsh.bsky.social Asst Prof, University of Tennessee | PhD Notre Dame | MDiv Duke | BA Washington & Lee | American political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, trauma, local political economy 🏳️🌈 he/him #firstgen
waydemarsh.com
Caitlin Kelly @caitlin-kelly.bsky.social Freelance Multimedia Journalist
France24 West Africa Correspondent
Based in Dakar
Zeynep Erdim @zeyneperdim.bsky.social Journalist BBC News
Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social Finance | History | Trance
Patreon http://patreon.com/isaacsamuel64
Substack https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/
Shannon Monaghan @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social Historian of modern war (PhD, FRHistS) / Ukraine book TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN (Hurst 2025) / WWII-Cold war book A QUIET COMPANY OF DANGEROUS MEN (Viking 2024) www.shannonmonaghan.com
Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com Senior Markets Correspondent at the Financial Times. Previously insurance, finance, stocks, pensions, you get the idea. This is my real account: I never promote crypto or any other investment
Stories: https://www.ft.com/ian-smith
Contact: ian.smith@ft.com
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
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Georgi Kantchev @georgikantchev.bsky.social Wall Street Journal correspondent based in Berlin | Bulgarian abroad | georgi.kantchev@wsj.com |
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
Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈
he/him
https://turnbulldugarte.com
[trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social Professor of Politics - New York University - diversity, migration, Western Europe (https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rmaxwell)
Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, RH University of London
elections | new parties | cordons sanitaires | hate speech | militant democracy | political communication
Bitcoin and politics, media & public opinion
ERC Consolidator Grant | NWO Veni & Vidi
Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social Political scientist at FDU, Executive Director of the FDU Poll, studying masculinities and research methods.
Simon Persico @simonpersico.bsky.social Directeur de Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA, Professeur de science politique à Sciences Po Grenoble et au laboratoire Pacte.
Démocratie, partis, élections, écologie politique, et plein d'autres choses.
Katharina Lawall @katharinalawall.bsky.social Quantitative social scientist. AP/Lecturer at University of Reading. PhD LSE Government. I work on polarization and emotions, the radical right and gender.
www.katharinalawall.com
Jørgen Bølstad @boelstad.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Uni. Oslo. Into causal inference and statistical modeling. Posting data science projects at Estimite.com. 
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia. 
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Adam A. Blackler @adamblackler.bsky.social Historian of Germany, colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad.
https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html
Guy Peterson @guypeterson.bsky.social Freelance photojournalist based in Dakar covering West and Central Africa represented by Panos Pictures shooting mainly for De Volkskrant, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Telegraph, Courrier International, NPR, The FT and stringing for AFP.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Justin Vogt @jvogt.bsky.social Executive Editor at Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs.com)
Nataliya Vasilyeva @nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
Michele Kelemen @michelekelemen.bsky.social Covering diplomacy for NPR
Nigel Gould-Davies @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Victims' rights advocate. Views mine.
Zeynep Bilginsoy @zbilginsoy.bsky.social Filmmaker, producer, freelance journalist. Based in Istanbul, Turkey.
zeynepbilginsoy.com
James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org
Currently reading Andrew Graham-Dixon / Vermeer
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Simon Schlegel @simonschlegel.bsky.social East Europe buff, recovering anthropologist, Ukraine Program Director @libmod.de Zentrum Liberale Moderne Berlin, interested in small places and big issues.