International Centre for Counter-Terrorism @icct.bsky.social The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) is an independent knowledge centre that focuses on the preventative and international legal aspects of CT.
🔗: icct.nl 📍: The Hague
CSTPV @cstpv.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence is Europe's oldest Centre of its kind.
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social Independent. Intelligent. Influential. Send tips to tips@thedailybeast.com
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social Interim President and Rector, Central European University (CEU) |
Political Science prof, political regimes, methods (QCA) | here in private and as ex-vintner 🍷
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Accelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social ARC is dedicated to a collaborative, empirical approach to understanding and addressing the threat of accelerationism to democratic societies.
Shandon Hogan @shandonhogan.bsky.social PhD @crexuio.bsky.social researching violent extremism across Australia, New Zealand & Canada | Director @Radar Solutions | Adjunct Fellow @Victoria University
Bruce Hoffman @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social I have been studying terrorism & insurgency for 50 years and am a senior fellow @CFR.org. My own opinions. Re-postings are not necessarily endorsements.
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
@ColinPClarke @colinpclarke.bsky.social I study terrorism, geopolitics, international security
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, forensic psychology, and school safety📍Atlanta, GA via Ireland. Seven Summits 🏔️ (5/7). Adopt don’t shop 🐶 Personal account.
Intel Girl 🤓 @intelgirl111.bsky.social Analyst studying emerging trends in violent extremism and terrorist use of social media. Opinions expressed are my own.
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.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social Research Professor at PRIO.
Mostly Palestine, Israel, US related stuff.
Mostly in English, sometimes in Norwegian.
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Andrew Zammit @andrewzammit.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University. Interested in terrorism, security and human rights.
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
Uppsala Conflict Data Program @ucdp.bsky.social World’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war. ucdp.uu.se
Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem
Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social Conspiracy beliefs, apocalypticism, extremism, new religious movements. Skeptical Norwegian. Professor, Religionswissenschaft.
Leena Malkki @leenamalkki.bsky.social Director | Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki | Political violence and extremism in post-war Europe | blogs.helsinki.fi/leenamalkki/
Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social Political Science Professor at University of Oslo. Working on political violence, war, democracy and autocracy. Visiting 24-25 Nuffield College & DPIR Oxford University.
Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social Har fortsatt konto på Det Andre Stedet, men etter hvert som mer og mer av aktiviteten overflytter seg hit, kommer antagelig denne kontoen til å bli ca. samme nivå av frustrasjoner over samfunn og media som den gamle.
Lasse Josephsen @blodsephsen.bsky.social The Face That Launched a Thousand Shits. The Fresh Prince of Darkness.
I write about fascists, neo-Nazis, NRx, Alt-Right, tankies, redbrownists, MAGA, the manosphere, and all sorts of creeps.
https://linktr.ee/LasseJosephsen
Arnfinn Pettersen @arnfinnp.bsky.social Oslo, Norway. He/him with a camera. Well ... to be honest, way too many cameras.
Be the chaos you want to see in the world!
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
ICSR @icsr.bsky.social
Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Patrick @ps-on.bsky.social PhD Political Science | Postdoc CES U.Coimbra | populism, comparative politics, far-right
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social Fellow @epik-ukraine.bsky.social & Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social. Editor, book series SPPS & Ukrainian Voices: www.ibidem.eu/en/Series/Society-Politics/. Assoc. Prof., Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-4646.
Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists.
Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social Antifascist researchers in Australia.
Email: thewhiterosesociety@protonmail.com
We don't get DMs here -- email us instead.
Blog: https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/
RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social Promoting research on the Radical Right in Europe, one post at a time. Powered by the Extreme Right Bibliography. Occasionally oiled by @kai-arzheimer.com
PERIL @perilresearch.bsky.social Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, School of Public Affairs. We design, test, & scale up evidence-based tools to help communities prevent & respond to hate & violence. https://perilresearch.com
AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social AUTHLIB - Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response.
Research project led by CEU Democracy Institute, co-funded by the European Union.
Web: https://www.authlib.eu/
#AuthlibEU
CTEC @ctecmiis.bsky.social Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Find us here: https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec
Aoife Gallagher @aoifegall.bsky.social Fellow at @isdglobal.
Previously, Investigations @ Storyful.
**Taking a break**
Author of Web Of Lies: The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories.
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/web-of-lies-9780717195121
🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Pablo del Hierro @pablo1981.bsky.social Associate Professor Global History Maastricht University. Not very good with labels. Interested in all sorts of histories and the challenges of multidisciplinarity. Big Atlético de Madrid fan.
Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com PhD UCL SSEES, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist at EUObserver, outdoor research fellow.
Morgan Finnsiö ⤦⤦⤦ @morganfinnsio.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Late Platonist. I monitor, research, analyze, write, and educate about far-right politics, right-wing extremism and fascism in Sweden and transnationally, mainly for the Expo Foundation: @stiftelsenexpo.bsky.social
He/him
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social Ass Prof @SciencePoULB
Deputy director #Cevipol
Migration politics
Far-right parties & movements
www.farpo.eu
AS Roma 🔴🟡
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social Political theorist. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College CUNY. Political ecology of the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social Resisting Authoritarianism. Protecting Democracy. Preserving Human Rights. globalextremism.org
Heidi Beirich @heidibeirich.bsky.social Co-Founder // Chief Strategy Officer Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Expert on right-wing extremism. Opinions here are my own. globalextremism.org
Wendy Via @wendyvia.bsky.social co-founder/president
@globalextremism.bsky.social, extremism expert. globalextremism.org
Resisting authoritarianism. Not obeying in advance, if at all. Protecting human rights critical to inclusive democracies. Opinions and thoughts strictly my own.
Bartek Pytlas @bartekpytlas.bsky.social Autor 'Rechtsradikale Politik in Europa: Vom Rand in den Mainstream' (utb) | Award-winning researcher of the radical right | Equality & Anti-Discrimination Data | Worker kid in academia #FirstGen
https://bartekpytlas.wordpress.com/
Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Andy Campbell @andybcampbell.bsky.social Senior Enterprise Editor @MS.NOW
Signal: @andyMSNOW.411
Author, “WE ARE PROUD BOYS: How A Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In A New Era Of American Extremism.”
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
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 🎤
Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian
ContrarianNews.org
Portland, Oregon
Send tips via Signal: TimD.503
Stay connected: TimDickinson.co
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. Working on my Spanish. He/him. Todos somos americanos.
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social Writer, IDSGpod co-host, antifascist, Shoggothic Marxist. He/Him.
patreon.com/cw/jackgraham
idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/author/jack
Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social Author - "A Beautiful Year" and 11 other books on faith, culture, politics & history. Duke PhD. Myriad bylines. The Cottage newsletter: https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com. Opposed to theocrats. Struggling gardener and dog mom.
Karma2023 @karma2023.bsky.social Michael Protzman aka -48 cult researcher.
Conspiracy theories/QAnon researcher.
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
John S. Huntington @johnshuntington.bsky.social Historian and community college professor. Author of Far-Right Vanguard. Fan of soccer, acoustic guitars, and black labs. Posts are my own.
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Michele Prado @micheleprado.bsky.social Baiana. 🇧🇷
Writer, independent researcher, and founder of Stop Hate Brasil.
Focus: far-right radicalization, extremism and online terrorism.
Fellow @sci-belfast.bsky.social
Alessio Scopelliti @scopelliti.bsky.social Political scientist interested in Right-Wing, Euroscepticism, Populism, Text and data analytics
Sabine Volk @sabinedvolk.bsky.social Postdoc at the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), University of Tübingen, Germany I Far right, populism, memory, social movements.
Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social Researcher, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) @crexuio.bsky.social | nationalism, far right, social movements, & methods and ethics
Annelotte Janse @annelottejanse.bsky.social Dr. | Historian of German, European, and transnational far-right extremism since 1945 | 📍 Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Germany
https://zzf-potsdam.de/en/institution/people/staff/annelotte-janse
Poker And Politics @pokerpolitics.bsky.social QAnon is a cult that ruins lives.
Greta Jasser @gretajasser.bsky.social Researcher | Political Science | Researching the far-right and misogyny online | Co-founder of @theIRMS
Jill Moria @jillem.bsky.social Perpetually bruised boulderer. She/They
Ozge Ozduzen @ozgeozduzen.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media & Society/Research on media activism, visual politics, online radicalisation (e.g. digital racism/sexism)/She/her
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado @pinheiromachado.bsky.social Professor of Global Studies, UCD 🇮🇪 | Director DeepLab labdeep.com | PI #WorkPoliticsBIP - ERC Consolidator Grantee | Far-right, digital economy, precarity | Global ethnographer 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇵🇭🇨🇳
Maik Fielitz @maik.machine-vs-rage.net Head of Research on Digital Conflict Studies @idz-jena.bsky.social
Research on right-wing extremism, protest, digital platforms and Greece
Co-Editor of @machine-vs-rage.net