By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Poohsticks @poohsticks.bsky.social Stick dropper, photo maker, occasional movie goer and saké drinker ... #plushiesrule
FM103.8 Brest
All photographs I post are my own, unless otherwise stated.
Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social I design games, especially tabletop roleplaying games (Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark). I also write books on storytelling (Play Unsafe) and drift into interactive fiction (39 Steps) and LARP (Will That Be All).
And I love theatre, art and history.
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
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
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Owen Dowling @owenjdowling.bsky.social PhD @camhistory.bsky.social | International solidarity campaigns and the British left, 1960-1990 | Words in Tribune and Jacobin
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/owen-dowling
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Designer of Root, Oath, Arcs, and lots of historical games. Focuses on strategy games with strong emergent narratives and responsive systems. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Thomas Mareite @thomasmareite.bsky.social Historian @ehess.fr École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Slavery & Emancipation / Revolutions & Refugees; Age of Revolutions (US, Greater Caribbean & Spanish America).
3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com #ActualPlay from friends keen on adventures old and new.
• Trans Rights are Human Rights.
• We don't truck with fascists.
Watch | Listen : https://3d6dtl.carrd.co/
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Effekt Publishing @effektpodcast.org Dave and Matthew, hosts of a fortnightly audio magazine about Year Zero Engine TTRPGs, and now, creators of an award winning RPG. Tales of the Old West.
podcast: www.effektpodcast.org || game www.effektpublishing.com
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social Academic, (outer) Space Governance. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Writing a book on space mining and how we think about natural resources. He/him.
Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current book project: Palestinians and the New Left in West Germany, 1950s-1980s
Jonathan Chatwin @jmchatwin.bsky.social Non-fiction writer.
Writes about travel, China, sometimes both simultaneously.
‘The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future’ (2024).
‘Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China’ (2019)
‘Anywhere Out of the World’ (2012)
Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca
Contact: nithincoca.com
Ming Xia 夏明 @mingxiany.bsky.social Prof. of PoliSci (International Political Economy, Monsoon Asia @CUNY/GC), Bibliophile, Amateur Photographer, Global Traveller, Friend of LGBTQIA+, homepage: https://www.dr-ming-xia.org/
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Benjamin Cheung | 張煦 | 장후 @ubcdrbench.bsky.social Posts are my own. Teaching, hockey, language, culture, gaming enthusiast. UBC lecturer @ubcpsych @ubcacam. Bad @ everything, somehow eking by. He/his
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
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
Ellen J Ravndal @ejravndal.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Stavanger. Research interests: history of IOs, UN secretary-general, ghosts of empire, the North Sea, international order
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social Political Economist at City Uni
Kevin Wei Luo @kevinweiluo.bsky.social assistant professor of political science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. China / Taiwan / Asia, politics of state building. usual caveats. 中英俱劣. https://www.kevinweiluo.com/
Christian Jacobs @christianjacobs.bsky.social Historian interested in social movements and ideas, colonial histories, and transimperial histories in the 19th and 20th century | Book: "The Politics of Culture. Far-right, Feminist, and “Immigrant” Movements in France, ca. 1965 to 1985" | He/him
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social 中文名：姜大翼｜AP Journalist in Beijing | 美联社北京分社的一位伟大时代的记录者｜你可以用微信联系我（dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: dakekang@protonmail.com
Sarah E @seewrites.bsky.social Writer, singer, book lover, musical theater fan. All opinions my own.
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social A longform editor at The Economist. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s 
Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist
#BondianColdWar book
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https://martindbrown.substack.com/
https://www.routledge.com/The-Bondian-Cold-War-The-Transnational-Legacy-of-a-Cultural-Icon/Brown-Granieri-Blaive/p/book/9780367569365
Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social Accidental military historian
Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social Horror film history, theory, and production school since 2010 - Online & In person in London, UK
Upcoming events and archives miskatonicinstitute.com
Always accepting submissions via our contact page
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social @cfmeyskens.bsky.social 
Tom Long @tomlongphd.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at University of Warwick; Latin America; Historical IR; small states
Francesca Chiu @francescachiu.bsky.social Researcher & lecturer at CityU Hong Kong. PhD from Copenhagen & UEA. I study urban planning, property, citizenship, migration and social mobility in Southeast Asia.
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Alexa Rodríguez @alexarodriguezphd.bsky.social Assist Professor @UVA ✍🏽 Crafting Dominicanidad (forth. UNC Press) about education and citizenship during the 1916 US occupation of the Dominican Republic & director @dominicanvoices.bsky.social bilingual digital archive documenting education and childhood
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
Sharon Yam @sharonyamsy.bsky.social Diasporic HongKonger. Rhetoric professor at the University of Kentucky
Teacher, writer, and book author on feminism, repro justice, and social movements
Bylines in NYT, Foreign Policy, and more
Books: Inconvenient Strangers; Doing Gender Justice
Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Uni of Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
Agent, @agentbal.bsky.social
www.alinautrata.com
Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social Associate Professor and Chair, International Relations Program (Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History)
| #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance
http://santinoregilme.weebly.com
你法我笑的Dictator Yang📄🏳️🌈🌻🍉🐚 #pray4jade @y-wenli.bsky.social S.I.N.O.(Socialist.In.Name.Only)-phobic 中特社掘墓人，「馬鹿主義接班人」，anti-支黑，anti-大中華膠，World’s #1 Luol-Dengist🏀🐐(dengoids dni)
战无不胜的罗尔·邓思想万岁！！！
(he/him/他)
Begum Zorlu @begumzorlu.bsky.social Interested in contentious politics, gender and the dynamics of solidarity. Based at the Department of International Politics at City, St. George's University of London.
@cindyewing.bsky.social @cindyewing.bsky.social 
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy.
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@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
https://www.brianjgriffith.com
https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com
https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com
@rookewilliam.bsky.social @rookewilliam.bsky.social Historical sociology, international relations, empire, the Grenada Revolution. All views my own. RTs != endorsements. Formerly @lseir.bsky.social @css.ethz.ch
Robert Ralston @robertralston.bsky.social Lecturer (assistant prof) at University of Birmingham. Grand Strategy; Politics of Decline/Declinism; Civil-Military Relations
https://sites.google.com/view/robert-ralston/home
Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, commissioning in the social sciences. Views my own.
https://press.princeton.edu/our-people/rebecca-brennan
Mike Tierney @miketierneyir.bsky.social Director William & Mary's Global Research Institute | Prof. of International Relations | TRIP Survey (Bridging Academic-Policy Gap) | AidData (China's Development Finance) | International Organizations | Beer | Miami Dolphins https://mjtierney.weebly.com
History of South China Workshop @southchinahistory.bsky.social Workshop on the histories of South China, based on new sources, methods, and approaches.
4 July 2025, @ox.ac.uk
For more info: https://bit.ly/HistoryofSouthChina
Katharine Millar @drkmillar.bsky.social Associate prof LSE IR, she/her. Feminist academic, writes about gender and violence (and sometimes militarism. and cybersecurity. also, death).
Website: www.katharinemillar.com
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Dr Yuna Han @dryunahan.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer, Oxford University. Mostly thinking about international criminal law and human rights, sometimes about pandemic politics.
Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social @mongabay.com Past: @hongkongfp.com HKU @factcheck.afp.com @time.com @nytimes.com Storyful, @cnn.com, SCMP, etc. 🐦: yennikwok 🧵: yenni_kwok
Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social On the job market | Visiting Scholar, East Asia Center @UCSB | I teach at American University and San Diego Mesa College| PhD, International Relations, American University | international order, global governance, historical IR | www.friederdengler.com | 🇩🇪
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Kingsley Edney @kingsleyedney.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations of China, University of Leeds. Propaganda, ideology, media, culture, public opinion. Editor, British Journal of Politics and International Relations https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/76/dr-kingsley-edney
Théo Bourgeron @theobourgeron.bsky.social Apologetic academic
Researching health, financial capitalism, the far-right at the University of Edinburgh
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Professor at Political Science, Aarhus University
🔍 International Relations | Middle East | social movements | sectarianism | labour | diaspora | focus on 🇱🇧, 🇮🇶 and 🇪🇺.
CIRR | Centre for International Relations Research at Groningen @cirr-ug.bsky.social Research unit of the Department of International Relations & International Organization (IRIO) at the University of Groningen's @facultyofartsug.bsky.social | www.rug.nl/let/cirr | cirr@rug.nl
Current Director: Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Sara Silvestri @sarasilvestri.bsky.social Politics Europe Religion Migration Christianity Islam Interfaith, Ecumenism Environment Peace | Academic: City StGeorge, UniLondon; Cambridge uni: StEd college & Divinity | trustee CCADD & CCatholicSTP | contemporary visualart with marcellosilvestri.com
History @ City St George’s, UoL @cityhistory.bsky.social ✨ Modern History cluster based at City St George’s - University of London ✨ account run by @drmargottudor.bsky.social
Greg @jamyang.net 
@nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social Associate Professor at Polsci Leiden. Associate Editor at International Studies Review. Trained at Indiana University and Sciences-Po. IR, FPA, security, migration politics, India. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/nicolas-blarel#tab-1
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Maryia Rohava @marrohava.bsky.social Autocracies and identity politics| Ethnography| Qualitative methods | Nationalism studies | East European Politics | Own views
Christian Bueger @cbueger.bsky.social Professor at University of Copenhagen | Maritime Security | Global Ocean Politics | Author | Expert | Professional Vagabond
visit www.bueger.info
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
Giuseppe Grieco @giuseppegrieco.bsky.social Historian of political thought: international law, Two Sicilies and 19th century Mediterranean, Planetary thinking
Lecturer in Modern History @citystgeorges.bsky.social
PhD @qmul.bsky.social alumnus @sns.it
Air-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social China and the world in data and graphs
一点浩然气 千里快哉风
airmovingdevice@gmail.com
Helen Davidson @heldavidson.bsky.social Foreign corro previously for the Guardian in Taiwan. Via Guardian Australia covering immigration and the Pacific and three wild years as the Northern Territory corro.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/helen-davidson
helendavidsonreports@gmail.com
Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social International order, ignorance, recognition, Middle East, and other cool stuff
karimeltaki.com
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Historian of China and the U.S., specializing in global historical and digital methods.
Alvina Hoffmann @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies at SOAS, University of London | international political sociology of human rights struggles | writing a book on human rights elites at the UN
Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇭🇰 foreign policy & s+t policy researcher @ Stanford. Out in National Security New Voice + Foreign Policy for America NextGen.📍old gold mountain. 混血, 🏳️🌈 menace, new yorker.
Anguilla Noticer @myopicduck.bsky.social My job is literally just history
🇹🇹🇩🇰 PhD student on 1800s Caribbean political culture @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
Kim Rathcke Jensen @kimrjensen.dk International press & science communication at Aalborg University🔬 Journalism | Strategic communication | BA in China studies. China correspondent 08-16. Ex @berlingske, @politiken, @DRNyheder.
Alexandra Steinlight @asteinlight.bsky.social Historian of France’s archives, memory, secrecy, aftermath of war. Contingent lecturer and exhausted parent.
Andrew Dougall @abdougall.bsky.social Communication technology and international order. Departmental Lecturer in IR at Oxford. Author of Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World (OUP, 2024)
Shruti Balaji @shrutibalaji.bsky.social British Academy postdoctoral fellow, POLIS & Research Associate, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
📚20th C. Indian women thinkers, history of international thought, race, gender, empire. Often thinking about flowers, cricket, and tea.
Kanis Leung @kanisleung.bsky.social Correspondent @AP, covering Hong Kong, Macau and sometimes mainland China. Interested in politics, econ and culture. Formerly with SCMP and Reuters. ✉️ kleung@ap.org
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Fiona B. Adamson @fionaadamson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations @SOAS.
Selina Cheng @selinacheng.bsky.social Hong Kong Journalists Association chair.
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social losing faith in social media and not here very much
📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
💻 https://www.rahulrao.net/
@bergmanjonaso.bsky.social @bergmanjonaso.bsky.social Bloomberg editor in Hong Kong. 
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net