Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social Historian. Loves the Adriatic.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
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Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social International Correspondent German weekly DIE ZEIT (@zeit.de), Cold War kid, cyclist.
„It’s so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind.“
Mein neues Buch zu deutschen Außenpolitik hier bestellen: https://shorturl.at/qf6Zw
Aija Kažoka @aikazoks.bsky.social Veselības, medicīnas un zinātnes komunikācija, mediji un žurnālistika.
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Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
Axel-Wolfgang Kahl @awkahl.bsky.social Promoviert an der Universität Potsdam zur "Transformation der ostdeutschen Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften in den 1980/90er Jahren". Arbeitet im Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt Brandenburg.
Chair in European Values (UCLouvain) @values4eu.bsky.social Dedicated to promoting debate on European values in their diversity & complexity | Focus: refugees, values & emotions, history of "European values", ... | Former chair-holder: @wimweymans.bsky.social |En|Fr|Nl|De www.uclouvain.be/europeanvalues
James Ryan @yasharyan.bsky.social Historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Reader (Associate Professor) in Modern European History,
Cardiff University.
Currently writing an intellectual history of inter-war Soviet state violence.
stefanihrig.bsky.social @stefanihrig.bsky.social History prof @ Haifa University, head of Haifa Center for German & European Studies, co-editor Journal of Holocaust Research, author of "Germans & Turks" (2026) www.stefanihrig.com
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
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Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Regina Kantorowicz @rkantorowicz.bsky.social freie Lektorin, mit einer großen Liebe zur Literatur, aber auch zu modernen Kommunikationsformen, interessiert an dem, was man 360° Publishing nennen könnte
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Philipp Greifenstein @rocktoamna.bsky.social freier Journalist & Referent, Co-Gründer, Redakteur & Geschäfteführer „Die Eule“ (@eulemagazin.de)
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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
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social Conversational curser. Externally processing. Friendly, happy; will hunt jerks for sport.
Feminist, political, far left epic fantasy top selling novelist. Anticapitalist. Adult Dx #audhd (psych, counselling, fiction editor, coaching, novelist, sociology)
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Sam Čermák, PhD @sam-cermak.bsky.social Art History in Performance Studies | Dissidence, Czechoslovakia, Theatre | Awardwinning Scholar | Lecturer | Visual Cultures and Performance Art | Middling Cosplayer | Queer | No LGB without the T | He/They |
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Dr Anna McEwan @annamcewan.bsky.social Historian of the GDR, state socialist women's organisations & post-socialist women's activism
@LeverhulmeTrust postdoc at @zzfpotsdam & @UofGGenderHist
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Medwyn @medrobs.bsky.social Tynnu ambell i lun. I point cameras at things. Mostly Cymru, with occasional forays into the wider world 🏴 - Film, Digital, Phone as per mood.
Steevy Sarafian @steevysarafian.bsky.social 📚 Intern at Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA). History student. Prev at Sciences Po Grenoble.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/- C Claudia Eggart @ceggart.bsky.social PhD @UoMAnthropology, ISRF First Book Fellow @ZMO Berlin, researching lived geopolitics, markets and infrastructure in and in-between Moldova, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social Kyiv-based journalist with Lawfare. I go by Nastya
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Paris Pin-Yu Chen @parispinyuchen.bsky.social Taiwanese Estophile. Postdoc "Landowning Subjectivities" @UBham; Historian of race, eugenics & land reforms in the Baltic states
Steve Gutterman @sgutterman.bsky.social Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Klaus Pohlmann @klaus-wp.bsky.social "For all ways it is not to be looked at who said something, but whether it is rightly said or not."
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hist4dem @hist4dem.bsky.social Netzwerk von Historiker*innen, die rechtsextremen und demokratiefeindlichen Strömungen etwas entgegensetzen.
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Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social Writer, researcher of Kharkiv, PhD student at St Andrews University.
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The Typist @typist.eurosky.social Dyslexic humanist in search of a light switch. Geopolitical news junkie. Posting from 🇪🇺
Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social Recent emigrant from the Other Place. 
abi karas @abikaras.bsky.social likes roofs 𓆏 leverhulme ECF uni of st andrews. (post-)soviet urban space, local politics + identity. she/her/она
PRIF @prif.org PRIF – Peace Research Institute Frankfurt //
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social Die einzige nur von Björn Höcke anerkannte Terrororganisation. Werde jetzt Kompliz:in! Wir machen für Dich Stress und radikalen Humanismus: https://werde-komplizin.de
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Toms Zariņš @zarinstoms.bsky.social Vēsturnieks, LU HZF pētnieks, redaktors | Comms at Progresīvie
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
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Fisher Center at Bard @fishercenterbard.bsky.social Presenting world-class performing arts in an architecturally bold and dynamic environment in New York’s Hudson Valley. fishercenter.bard.edu
Gideon Lester @gidlifecrisis.bsky.social Artistic Director, Fisher Center at Bard. Dramaturg, creative producer.
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
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Frau Müller @fraumueller.bsky.social Lebe in BY. Schon auch schön.
Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America - Regensburg @europeamerica.bsky.social Area Studies research cluster on European-American connections & entanglements, historically & today. A joint platform of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) & the University of Regensburg. Funded by the Leibniz Association.
@annien.bsky.social @annien.bsky.social « Dans la Russie d’aujourd’hui, le simple fait de rester un humain est déjà un exploit « - Valeria Novodvorskaya
Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR
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Edgars Engīzers @edgarsengizers.bsky.social Historian. Thinking about Baltic history, Russian history, History theory and Use and abuse of history. Teaching @CollegeofLaw, Riga.
Ïne Back Ïversen @ineiversen.bsky.social International journalist, writer & reporter.
Living, breathing working in Ukraine, covering news & developments from the capital of the brave.
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Instagram @ ineback & @ ineukraine
Twitter/X: @ inebackiversen
Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network @udsn.bsky.social Interdisciplinary platform for decolonial thought on Ukrainian culture and history.
https://ukraine-decolonial.org
Nina Neuscheler @ninane.bsky.social historian // digital inequalities & gender // PhD candidate @ ZZF Potsdam // curious - particularly about Bluesky
Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social Expert Ukraine & mer Noire | 15+ ans journaliste
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social Media industries in East Central Europe | streaming platforms | production studies | Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Prague
Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social Literature prof, Eastern Michigan U // Anticolonial internationalisms, Cold War, and migration studies // Author, Narrating Post/Communism; Uncommon Alliances; Nonaligned Imagination.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
Emily Hoge @emilyehoge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
Die Capuccinogruft @thomas.escritt.eu ̶F̶T̶ ̶R̶e̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ Bloomberg correspondent in ̶B̶u̶c̶h̶a̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶A̶m̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶m̶ ̶B̶e̶r̶l̶i̶n̶ Budapest. You should all be on mastodon
Sébastien Martineau @martineauseb.bsky.social Frenchman in Germany. Former projectionist, back in the days when we still used film. Journalist. Posting in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧 Based in Hamburg
Daniel @daniel12345.bsky.social 
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Wayfaring Writer & Photographer
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Michael David-Fox @michaeldavidfox.bsky.social historian, writer, director of Eurasian, Russian, and East European studies at Georgetown, student of communism and fascism
Steven E. Harris @steveneharris.bsky.social Historian of Russian and Eurasian History, expert on Russian aviation from Stalin to Putin. Professor of history at the University of Mary Washington.
Connor Doak @docdoak.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Russian, University of Bristol
Languages, literature, travels, gardens
Posts in a personal capacity
Julia Herzberg @montecordio.bsky.social Professorin für die Kulturgeschichte des östlichen Europa an der Uni Leipzig; stellvertretende Direktorin des GWZO; Mitinitiatorin von #metoohistory
Paul David Gould @pauldavidgould.bsky.social Author: Last Dance at the Disco for Deviants, a state-of #Russia novel/ #LGBT #thriller set in 1990s Moscow | buy @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social | alum @unibirmingham.bsky.social + @faberacademy.bsky.social | #Brighton based | sub-editor @financialtimes.com
Sierra Salazar @sierrasalazar.bsky.social Graduate Student | Ukrainian Studies 🌻🇺🇦
M.A. in Russian, Eurasian, & Eastern European Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
social movements, women's activism, nationalisms, shistdesiatnystvo
Ivo Neto @ivocamposneto.bsky.social Journalist and editor @PUBLICO.pt. Teaching at UMaia.
I like well-told stories 📚, foreign affairs 🌏, and dark t-shirts. I have two cats 🐈
Iryna Skubii @irynaskubii.bsky.social Inaugural Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, University of Melbourne
PhD Queen's U in Kingston | Cand. of Sciences Kharkiv Karazin U.
Ukraine, Soviet Union, materiality, famine, environment & sunflowers
https://irynaskubii.com
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
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social Professor @supolisci.bsky.social and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, @maxwellsu.bsky.social, @syracuseu.bsky.social. Latest book: Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction. http://amzn.to/3gdhiFe
Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social Pianist & Tastenterrorist
Nikolay Sarkisyan @nikolaysarkisyan.bsky.social Scholar of Russian and Soviet history and culture.
Visiting Lecturer at HSE St Petersburg.
Currently working on museums of revolution in the early Soviet Union and on the revolutionary tradition in the Russian Empire.
Ludivine Broch @lmebroch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer History @ UoW. Historian of 20C Europe - France, 2WW, transatlantic relations, cultural history, gratitude, objects
Fabio Lampert @flampert.bsky.social Philosophy buff
News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯➔ Founded by a small group of purged academics, http://newsaboutturkey.com offers critical news, views, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
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Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung @hait-tud.bsky.social Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung. Interdisziplinäres Forschungsinstitut zur vergleichenden Diktatur-, Transformations- u. Extremismusforschung @tudresden.bsky.social
@gesinekruger.bsky.social @gesinekruger.bsky.social Professorin für Geschichte, Universität Zürich
Geschichte der Gegenwart https://Geschichtedergegenwart.ch
Right Livelihood Schweiz https://www.sustainability.uzh.ch/de/community/rlz.html
Africa Art Archive https://africa-art-archive.ch/
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
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Egbert Hartman 🇪🇺 @ruslandwoordbeeld.bsky.social Ruslandkenner. Ruslandreiziger sinds 1978. Vertaler. Pensionado na 35 jaar Teletekst Sport. Fotograaf bij ANP. Zat met twee kalasjnikovs in een trein naar A'dam. Schrijver van hét NL Ruslandblog: ruslandinwoordenbeeld.com
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social University Lecturer in International Relations at Tampere University. Global Political economy, labour migration, critical raw materials, Central Asia, art-research interface.
Pieter Jan Smit @pieterjan.bsky.social Tbilisi, СССР, cinema, Berlin, Rotterdam, ceterum censeo moskva delenda est.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Hanna Feesche @hannafee.bsky.social Historikerin/Kuratorin @Museen Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Tempelhof Museum
Informationsort Schwerbelastungskörper
Gedenkort SA-Gefängnis Papestraße
Robert Mueller-Stahl @robertmuellerstahl.bsky.social neues Buch: „Das Leben festhalten. Deutsch-jüdische Privatfotografie in den 1930er Jahren“ (Wallstein)
https://zzf-potsdam.de/institut/personen/mitarbeiter_innen/robert-mueller-stahl
Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social Prof @StAModLangs/Ukraine, extractivist politics, colonial encounters/Rep'd by Sophie Scard @UnitedAgents
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East: https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/life-in-spite-of-everything/
Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social Historian; Professor for Central European Studies & Judaism and Diaspora Studies @UniLeiden.bsky.social; _Uprooting the Diaspora_ @IUPress.bsky.social; PI of @ERC.europa.eu “CareCentury” carecentury.eu; Director, Austria Centre Leiden; Lover of cortados
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