Richard @richd028.bsky.social
Omar Kadkoy @omarkadkoy.bsky.social Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social Ex- consultant, manager, marketer, engineer. Interested in Complexity, Systems and Collective Intelligence. GSOH (Brit)
Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca Recalcitrant Canadian. Political scientist at UBC in Vancouver. I research, teach and talk international relations, BCpoli, comparative democratic institutions, and contentious politics. stewartprest.ca | https://stewartprest.substack.com
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social Government litigator with interests in antitrust, IP, cyberlaw, and privacy. Views = own != legal advice. He/him/y’all. Follow me at: https://belowtheconversation.substack.com
Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social Russia | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr Associate @csiserep | Fellow @kennaninstitute | Book: WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM | http://hannanotte.com | Berlin-based
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
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.
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
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
Stijn van Kessel @stijntvankessel.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Studies populism, radical right, politics of European integration. Staff page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/vankesselstijn.html
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Madeleine Sumption @msumption.bsky.social Director of Migration Observatory @ University of Oxford. I research migration policy, mostly in the UK
Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
Sophia Parker @mssophiaparker.bsky.social “What if what we see of the world around us is really just what we’ve been told to see?… when we start to let our curiosity wander, we start to see there are other ways things can be” — Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
https://www.jrf.org.uk/our-people/sophia-parker
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
David Lawrence @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social Shooting for UK growth & progress with @britishprogress.org
Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate.
Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
Jack Copley @jackcopley.bsky.social Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social UK housing market analyst. Personal account.
Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/
Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.
Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
reijer hendrikse @reijer.bsky.social geographies, histories, intersections of finance, politics, tech, world order
postdoc, vrije universiteit brussel; nonresident fellow, illiberalism studies program, george washington university
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reijer-Hendrikse-2
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
John Handley @jwhandley.bsky.social
Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Flinders University 🇦🇺
populist radical right • political parties • women’s and youth political participation
sofiaammassari.com
Talmon Joseph Smith @talsmith.bsky.social New York Times economics reporter:
https://www.nytimes.com/by/talmon-joseph-smith // New Orleans Native // author of 'What Can We Afford' forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (March 2027) // mostly on Twitter
talmon.smith@nytimes.com
Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social 25 | ✝️ 🏳️🌈
Alex @blangry.bsky.social Final year DPhil anthropology of civic tech. Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social Labour Dublin MEP. #ForTheLoveOfDublin
Labour Party Dublin Spokesperson.
Email: aodhan.oriordain@ep.europa.eu
Phone: 0872928150
Daddy x 3
"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart" - James Joyce
Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne | IPE & Geoeconomics | Trade imbalances 🚢 & EV battery value chains 🔋
https://palmapolyak.weebly.com/research.html
Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Public and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham
Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social Third-country national in Brussels writing on EU policies and politics, Balkans, migration, democracy, information manipulation. Former reporter (RFE/RL, European Voice).
Co-founder @dpcglobal.bsky.social.
Views personal; em dashes mine.
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social PhD. Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia-UK. Interested in the investigation of different political forms, political theory of authoritarianism, democratic political theory, rhetoric and political speech.
András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social Political & security analyst. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸. FPRI Eurasia fellow, chief editor of Bear Market Brief. Delphi GRC fellow. Ex-CEPA, ESI. Posts about 🇷🇺, 🇪🇺, illiberalism & its limits. My own views.
Здесь вам не Toth.
www.noyardstick.com
minczifra.substack.com
Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social USAID, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian assistance veteran.
Missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield
Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Chris Kendall @ottocr.at Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | personal capacity
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social Working to make stuff without baking the planet. Penchant for well-informed opinions. Industry Program Director, ClimateWorks Foundation. Views my own.
Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social Champagne socialist. UK politics, foreign affairs & overreacting to stuff we'll all have forgotten about in a week.
Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social Military Historian. Author, ‘The Age of Mammon and Mars: Money and War in the Twentieth Century’ (OUP, March 2027). Economic Statecraft; Strategy; Money.
Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk Political Scientist at the University of Manchester
Co-Director of the British Election Study
https://www.jack-bailey.co.uk
annasturman.bsky.social @annasturman.bsky.social Feminist political ecology for the climate and biodiversity crises. Thinking through emerging agencies, strategic terrains, and political economic programmes at USyd. Also being furious, generally.
Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor, ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute & UNSW | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | @contemporarycriticalthought.org
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Law @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social Obtained by Contexte. Managing editor for energy. Previously Euronews, CoinDesk, MLex and general policy wonk. Brussels-based. Tips? https://about.contexte.com/eu/secure-contact
Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social Sovereign Debt “veteran” (retd.) apparently. Finance stuff, opinions and Bottlejob FC.
@jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social Director of Groundwork Research and Policy Fellow, The Productivity Institute. 'Veteran local government advisor'.
Read my Notes on Local Government Substack: https://substack.com/@notesonlocalgovernment
Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland│Swiss & Comparative Politics, Democracy, Political Institutions, Federalism, (Intergovernmental) Lobbying│Also @leewas.bsky.social @chplusplus.bsky.social │Views my own
Chris Fleming @chrisfleming.bsky.social Historian of Economic Thought and Social Science, Constitutional Political Economy, and Economics & Religion
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social A very social democrat
Win Monroe @winmonroe.bsky.social Another economist.
Views and bad hot takes are my own, if even that.
Likes & RTs =/= endorsements.
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
Paul Blustein @paulblustein.bsky.social Ex-newspaper guy (WashPost, WSJ) turned book author
Latest book, "King Dollar," on USD dominance
(Yale Univ. Press, pub. date 3/18/25)
Sr. Associate @CSIS.org
Resident of Japan, perpetrator of many gaijin faux pas
www.paulblustein.com
Emma Quinlan @emmaquinlan.bsky.social Nature, dogs, horses and craic - in that order. Climate and nature / the hand that feeds us. In the centre and a bit to the left
Movies over 2 hours should be illegal.
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Andre Pagliarini @apagliar.bsky.social Historian writing about Lula, nationalism & mass politics / @LSU / @BrownHist PhD / @QuincyInst / @Brazil_Office / @Fulbrightprgrm / 🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social
Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
@edwardfishman.bsky.social @edwardfishman.bsky.social
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social Brussels stuff, in English but please reply in any language.
Journalism is online.
Adam Watson Brown @awb58.bsky.social Rentner
David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social Science & knowledge for policy, democracy, public governance and public administration at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre but personal views only.
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/evidence-informed-policy-making_en
Louise @selkies.bsky.social Illustrator & melt of Dublin, now in Brussels.
Please assume I am not talking about the US.
selkiesstudio.com
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social Climate columnist at @opinion.bloomberg.com. Migrant from London to Warrane/Sydney. These are my views. If you don't like them, well, I have others.
Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. www.asmusolsen.com & https://paopa.org/
Foto: Freja Wille.
Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Gabor Scheiring @gscheiring.bsky.social Asst Prof of Comparative Politics Georgetown Qatar • Economic shocks, inequality, authoritarianism, class relations, populism, health • Political economy of development • FirstGen • former Fellow @ Harvard CES & Cambridge Sociology • gaborscheiring.com
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own.
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman.bsky.social I invest in developing economies and study how sanctions are reshaping West Asia and the world. CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. Adjunct Prof at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Phil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social "Research fellow" (i.e. retired) at MMU, still writing. Interests: legal theory, folksong, real ale, the Left, cinema, Bowie, Aickman. Blogs: gapingsilence.wordpress.com & ohgoodale.wordpress.com .
If I was left to my own devices, I possibly would.
Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at LSE. Posting mostly about energy/enviro research. https://stephenjarvis.github.io/
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social We're just going to talk about Irish now, like a couple of cool guys
Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.
website: https://joenoonan.se/
Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social Foolish but energetic officer. I work at a grocery store
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social Yes, that one. British by birth, Australian by choice. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
@segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social Great power competition turned collusion; international order and disorder; things that go boom.
Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social Academic and author of a recent book on the Abraham Accords. Interested in the Gulf states, conflict diplomacy, progressive ideas.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380/
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com