Critical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social Resources & open reading groups for collective study of early Critical Theory.
Website: https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/
Podcast feed: https://media.rss.com/critique-of-the-podcast-form/feed.xml
BIDDEFORD GAZETTE @biddefordgazette.bsky.social A non-profit, digital news source for Biddeford, Maine
https://biddeford-gazette.com/
Southwestern Social Science Association @sssaonline.bsky.social Welcome to the Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA). Founded in 1919, SSSA is the oldest interdisciplinary social science association in the US.
John Ishiyama @jtiresearch.bsky.social Political scientist. Study comparative politics. I like horror and sci-fi films. Sit around a lot
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com Communication Studies PhD student, Concordia University. AI, Synthetic Media, and Monsters. Leftist. He/Him
Training isn't theft
Everything for everyone. All of us first.
Toulouse-Lautrec @toulouselautrec.bsky.social Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was a 19th century French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/lautrec_artbot
Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies @ieres-gwu.bsky.social Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at GWU Elliott School for International Affairs. Home of @illsp.bsky.social
Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in DC. Author of Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico, NYT, The Atlantic.
www.lkfield.com
Also with American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW.
Illiberalism Studies Program @illsp.bsky.social Illiberalism Studies Program at @ieres-gwu.bsky.social at GW. Studying the different faces of illiberal politics and thought in today’s world
Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of GW University
Basak Kus @basakkus.bsky.social Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan. OUP author. SER editor. Writes about political economy, public policy, state, finance, climate, American politics. Lives in New Haven and NYC.
Daydreams about Mediterranean 🐟☀️🌊
🧿 basakkus.net- M Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social Former tech guy. Writer. Standing somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see. Observations here: http://notesfromthecircus.com
Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social Compiling the best resources on Elon Musk’s siege of the American government, the extremist philosophy of Curtis Yarvin, and the beliefs of Silicon Valley elites.
Dr. Marina Archer @drmarinaarcher.bsky.social Social psychologist. Survivor extraordinaire. Made in Italy.
Notable quotes: "Once in dystopia there are no limits."
"An autocracy, if they can keep it." 
Philippe Duhart @philippeduhart.bsky.social Professor of sociology and criminology at Cal Poly Pomona researching state repression, counterterrorism, and postfascism.
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social dolly -- lower-case 'd' is an intentional orthographic choice. please use it.
ethnomethodological conversation analyst; recovering angel; frustrated autist; horny mystic.
https://www.dolly-net.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elle-Henderson-2
@minardi-bloke.bsky.social @minardi-bloke.bsky.social 
◢◤◢◤◢◤$╽⑊╿☰Δ]{ヅ⍴╠╣!§ㅒ◢◤ @sneakyphish.bsky.social "Fascism is a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of ultra-nationalism."
- The Nature of Fascism, Roger Griffin, 1991
"The Fascist cries out in pain as they strike you."
Maximilian Kreter @maximiliankreter.bsky.social Research Fellow @hait-tud.bsky.social |
Researching: right-wing extremism | music | political violence | football history |
Content: Research | #Sciomm / #WissKomm | (Freedom of) Press |
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev Software developer living in Berlin
https://travisbrown.dev for contact info
Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social Hi. Hello. PHX local. Tired af. Antifascist researcher and occasional writer | Make zines dammit | Find some of my BS at LeftCoastRightWatch.org or linktr.ee/az_rww 🏜️🌵
Not John Pork. Not Penis Man. Haley Orion.
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
WizardAFA @wizardafa.bsky.social 
Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social Host of the Did Nothing Wrong Podcast/Politics at the intersection of extremists, propaganda and Cold War 2.0
BJJ Faixa Preta 1 Grau
Griff@didnothingwrongpod.com
grzabjj on Discord
Stay Free
www.didnothingwrongpod.com
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙♀️ @skywitchy.bsky.social 🔞 | She / Her / Hers / Hēoweorðan
Anti-hatred maven
Die Himmel in dir, wie kann ich sie wissen, kann sie seh'n? Wir tanzen im Fluge, wie Sterne, die ihrer Wege zieh'n |x)
❤️🔥Kira❤️🔥Potzer❤️🔥
Liberty & Justice for ALL or GTFO
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com
“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social Attorney. Fighting Christian Nationalism. Defending the 1st Amendment. Author.
📖The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is un-American
📖American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
Life is too good to waste on bad ideas.
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech researching the translation of 4chan culture to American politics. MILR from Cornell. LGBTQ+ Ally. Former weeb. Militant defender of Democracy. The collapse of democratic rule is the sin of every citizen! 🀄️
Byline: MSNBC
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social أليسا 🧿
Syria📍PDX
Journalist• Antifascist • She/They
Alissa@wewillfreeus.org •
https://linktr.ee/azarpdx
wewillfreeus.org
🖤 بذور الجنة تنتظر نيران الثورة 🖤
Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale
👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 Politics of Age
🇯🇵 Japanese Politics
Ismar Volić @ismarvolic.bsky.social Professor at Wellesley College Mathematics Department
Director of Institute for Mathematics and Democracy
Author of Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
https://ivolic.wellesley.edu/
Marko-Luka Zubčić @miasmafactory.bsky.social senior assistant at Institute for Philosophy in Zagreb / Author of “Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality” (Lexington Books) / Exploring knowledge, pluralism, institutional systems & reason / Usual caveats apply
Miguel Egler @megler.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Philosophy at Tilburg University. Working on topics at the intersection of Epistemology, Phil of Mind, and Democratic Theory. Website: miguelegler.info
Originally from the Brazilian cerrado
Mel Ross @melross.bsky.social Political scientist @unibremen.bsky.social
CoLead @glocan.bsky.social
CoChair @ecpr.bsky.social's Standing Group on Democratic Innovations
📍Berlin
Isak Ladegaard @ladegaard.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, interested in org deviance & alt markets/platforms. I use comp & qual methods. Asst Prof @ UIUC ➡️ HKU. PGP: E1FC377D. Author of Open Secrecy (UCP 2025). https://isakladegaard.com/
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu Helsinki-based researcher of EU integration and supranational democracy | Blogger @foederalist.eu | Visiting professor @collegeofeurope.bsky.social, non-resident fellow @fiia.fi, associated researcher @iep-berlin.de | Views my own, of course
Vanessa Schwaiger @vanessaschwaiger.bsky.social PhD Student at University of Stuttgart | Democratic Preferences, Democratic Values, Inequality @demolabs.bsky.social
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.
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Steve D’Arcy @stevedarcy.bsky.social Antifascism, philosophy.
Author, “Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy” (2013); “Frege and Fascism” (Routledge, 2025).
Ilan Siebert @isiebert.bsky.social #orgdev #democracy #humancollaboration www.kessels-smit.com and Founder www.esgehtlos.org initiator of www.dasende.org
Eva Krick @ekrick.bsky.social Senior Researcher in Public policy & political theory at University of Mainz, Germany
Working on Public participation, Democratic innovation, Democratic theory, Politics of expertise, Political Epistemology, Social inequality
https://evakrick.wordpres
Miquel Pellicer @mqpellicer.bsky.social Professor of Inequality and Poverty, Marburg University. Interested in economic inequality, political attitudes, protest, political inequality, responsiveness, and social policy. Inequality and Distributive Politics (IDP) research team https://inq-dp.eu
Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social The IDP is a research group at ZfK & IfP, University of Marburg, Germany. In our website (https://inq-dp.eu/) you can find more about us, our research, & our outreach activities, including the "Maps of Inequality in Marburg"
Eva Wegner @evawegner.bsky.social Prof. of Comparative Politics at Uni Marburg, political behaviour, inequality, clientelism, and accountability.
Inequality and Distributive Politics Research Group. https://inq-dp.eu/
Laurits Aarslew @aarslew.bsky.social Assistant Professor @AarhusUni.
Researching how public opinion dynamics sustain regimes or facilitate regime change.
Comparative politics | Political behavior | Authoritarianism | Democracy
https://www.lauritsaarslew.com
Vanessa Boese-Schlosser @boesevanessa.bsky.social Postdoc @WZB, Research Associate @V-dem
passionate about democracy, democratization & autocratization (and memes)
Lise Rakner @liserakner.bsky.social Political Scientist. Democracy, autocratization, Human Rights, African politics.Recent research projects: Rights Activism Under Political Uncertainty. Program Director Politics and Governance of Global Challenges, Master's, 2 years | University of Bergen 
Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, specialising in Historical Political Economy.
www.magnusbrasmussen.com
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social Roman historian in South Australia. Current project: “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic breakdown in the 1st century BCE”. Husband and father. I’m the one who set cats and dogs against each other.
The Belligerent Optimist @sharestuff.bsky.social Doing democracy, civic tech, policy, transparency, participation and space things. Occasionally at the same time.
Also writing scifi.
https://thebelligerentoptimist.civian.online
IDIC🖖
Florian Monstadt @fcmonstadt.bsky.social PhD student | Empirical Education Research at Bergische Universität Wuppertal | Political Socialisation, Democratic Values, Civic Education | private account
Kristian Frederiksen @kristianvsf.bsky.social Associate professor at Aarhus University. Democratic erosion, citizens & elites. Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/kristianfrederiksen
Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social Political science, survey methods. m-graham.com
Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU Munich | Registered Reports @ JOP | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵♂️🐶
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Svend-Erik Skaaning @skaaning.bsky.social Professor of political science, Aarhus University
Democratization, autocratization, state capacity, cross-national comparisons, social science history
Paul Taggart @paultaggart.bsky.social Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex.
Populism Euroscepticism Unpolitics
Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social Reader in Comparative Politics & Gender, Newcastle Uni Politics Co-Head, skiing, (conference) running, hiking, mushroom foraging, cooking & eating
Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com Professor of Politics at Flinders University in Adelaide | 🇮🇪🇦🇺 | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/
Dr. Rob Cronin @robcronin.bsky.social UK-based early career researcher (politics) - specialising in online propaganda, campaign videos, and British populism.
(Politics/work account. For my personal account, see: @cronnyberg.bsky.social)
Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social PhD at Ghent University | Political science | Affective polarization, political trust, and democratic legitimacy
What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social a podcast about theory and the history of political thought from a leftist perspective. hosted by Lillian, Owen (@owengw.bsky.social), Gil (@gilmorejon.bsky.social), and Will (@williammparis.bsky.social). leftofphilosophy.com
Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social Forum for the latest thinking, emerging debates, alternative perspectives and critical views on deliberative democracy.
Joe Hamm @istudytrust.bsky.social "truly enthusiastic trust nerd" (Möllering, 2023, p. 96)—assoc prof @ Mich State University—EIC @ Journal of Trust Research
Jens Carstens @jenscarstens.bsky.social PostDoc @ Uni Bern / PhD from Sciences Po: political trust and other things | firstgen
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Matt Bennett @mattpbennett.bsky.social Moral and political philosopher working on trust in people, experts, and institutions, distributive justice (esp. meritocracy), post-Kantian European philosophy (esp. Nietzsche)
https://drmattbennett.weebly.com
Henrik Serup Christensen @henriksc.bsky.social Klodsmajor | Senior lecturer in Political science at Åbo Akademi University | https://research.abo.fi/en/persons/henrik-serup-christensen |Political participation | Political trust | Political behaviour |
Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social Group leader - EawagㅣTrust in science, science-policy interface, environmental psychology
Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social Science studies scholar: #credibility of sci, #trust #collaboration #integrity #food #STS #reform, @ Maastricht University
Also: @bart@akademieNL.social
Tess Neal @tessneal.bsky.social Associate Prof. & Director, Law-Psychology Program. #Metacognition. #OpenScience. Editor-in-Chief @Psychology, Public Policy & Law. #Fulbright. Views mine. https://psych-law.lab.asu.edu/ (new lab website coming soon)
Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social public opinion, behaviour, attitudes, &c.
Associate Prof, @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
Co-Editor, @electoralstudies.bsky.social
ColU, Pompey, music, books, & pubs
https://djdevine.org
Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester
I do research on policing, legal cynicism, procedural justice, and social inequality. I like quantitative methods, causal inference, longitudinal data, and analytical sociology.
thiagoroliveira.com