Matt P. Dryden @mattpdryden.bsky.social Terrorism | National Security | Criminal Justice Reform. Researcher, Practitioner, Policy-Maker. Analysis: BBC News, The Independent, The Spectator, The Telegraph, and academic journals. Writing a book about terrorist behaviour. https://lnk.bio/mattpdryden
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Sofia Koller @sofiako.bsky.social Working on CVE & CT at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Germany | focus on 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 & (returning) foreign fighters | former DGAP | King's College London alumna
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Stuart Macdonald @s-macdonald.bsky.social Professor of Law, Swansea University. Coordinator, VOX-Pol Network. Director, VOX-Pol Institute. Co-Director, CYTREC.
Counterterrorism, online harms, criminal law, human rights.
CTRG @ UCL @ctrg.bsky.social The Counter Terrorism Research Group (CTRG) are a group of researchers at UCL who analyse terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
Arash Pourebrahimi @arash-p.bsky.social Lecturer at Leiden University, FGGA
Quantitative Methods | International Political Economy
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Shandon Hogan @shandonhogan.bsky.social PhD @crexuio.bsky.social researching violent extremism across Australia, New Zealand & Canada | Director @Radar Solutions | Adjunct Fellow @Victoria University
John F. Morrison @morrisonjf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Jelke Boesten @jelke.bsky.social Prof at King’s College London, feminist and VEM-inista
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/visual-embodied-methodologies-network
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@paulgillucl.bsky.social @paulgillucl.bsky.social 
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods. www.benwansell.com
VOX-Pol @vox-pol.bsky.social Academic network focused on researching prevalence, contours, functions, & impacts of online violent extremism and terrorism. Website: http://www.voxpol.eu 
Nicholas Rasmussen @njr1965.bsky.social On here for Nat Sec and Sports. Former NatSec focused civil servant.
Skip Gilmour @skipgilmour.bsky.social I like: Trust & Safety, Counterterrorism, Investigation, Theory, and being a li’l practical as a treat.
All posts are in my personal capacity. Quotations and reposts are not endorsement.
Natasha Wood @natasharwood.bsky.social Experimental social psychologist studying extremism, isolation/exclusion, and social technologies | Postdoc researcher in the Terrorism and Political Violence group at Leiden University
www.natasharwood.com
Sareta Ashraph @saretaashraph.bsky.social ICL barrister. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, intl justice, genocide, gender, armed groups, ISIL. Co-founder @atlaswomen.bsky.social #EndGenderApartheid 🇹🇹
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University- D Dr Alasdair Booth @dr-ct-security.bsky.social PhD in Counter-Terrorism Protective Security from Loughborough University. Specialist in the Protection of Crowded Places from Terrorist Threats.
Collectif des Familles Unies @famillesunies.bsky.social Droits humains
Droits de l'enfant
Etat de droit
@famillesunies.bsky.social
www.famillesunies.fr
#RapatriezLes #RapatriezLesTous
James Khalil PhD @jameskhalil.bsky.social PCVE, Disengagement & Deradicalization Expert
~ The ABC Model of Violent Extremism: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09546553.2019.1699793
~ The 'Off-Ramp' from al-Shabaab: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376521289_The_Off-Ramp_from_a
Gina Vale @ginavale.bsky.social Lecturer of Criminology @University of Southampton
📘 Author: "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" OxUniPress 2024
Associate/Fellow @ICCT_TheHague & @Vox_Pol
Study #terrorism, #extremism, #gender, #youth
✉️ gina.vale@soton.ac.uk
Usual caveats
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
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Carola García-Calvo @carola-garciacalvo.bsky.social Senior Analyst, Programme on Violent Radicalisation & Global Terrorism, Real Instituto Elcano. Associate Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
Interested in international affairs, gender, violent radicalisation & terrorism | P/CVE & CT.
The Global Coalition @theglobalcoalition.org The Global Coalition against Daesh is a unique partnership of 90 governments and institutions working to degrade and defeat Daesh. https://theglobalcoalition.org/en/
Tom Parker @tdgparker.bsky.social Counterterrorism practitioner and former UN war crimes investigator. Author of Avoiding the Terrorist Trap. Personal tweets, retweets ≠ endorsement 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
Dr Bibi van Ginkel, LLM @bibivanginkel.bsky.social Programme Lead PCVE at International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)|Senior Researcher ICCT| Owner and founder The Glocal Connection - Platform for Shared Security | Member of Advisory Commission on Public International Law
Els De Busser @elsdebusser.bsky.social Associate Professor Information Law | Institute for Information Law (IViR) | University of Amsterdam
Unesco expert AI & Rule of Law
Board of Directors Siracusa Institute for Criminal Justice & Human Rights
Tech | Human Rights | Data Protection- D @drlauraesq.bsky.social @drlauraesq.bsky.social
Tricia Bacon @triciabacon.bsky.social Professor at American University. Former State Department CT analyst.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Dr Georgina Holmes @drgholmes.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies @OpenUniversity and Lecturer in Politics at Imperial College London; Peacekeeping, military, UN, gender, global governance, SSR, Classical/Spanish guitar player
Graig R. Klein @graigklein.bsky.social Asst. Prof. at Leiden University Institute of Security & Global Affairs. PI of ERC funded TERGAP project studying how terrorist groups respond & adapt to government counterterrorism & behavior. Terrorism & Political Violence Research Group. Views my own
Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
Caitlin Clemmow @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social Manages Jill Dando Institute Research Lab for UCL Crime Science. Researches risk & protective factors for grievance-fuelled violence.
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Prof.dr. Rik Peels @rikpeels.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy & Theology of Radicalisation | Faculty of Religion & Theology | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | www.extremebeliefs.com | De extremist en de wetenschapper | Leven zonder God | Extreme Belief and Behavior Series Oxford University Pres
Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
Brian Fishman @brianfishman1.bsky.social National security, technology, California. Cinder co-founder, led DOI at FB, created Palantir disaster relief, Research Director at CTC @ West Point.
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Orla lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social Psychologist working on extremism, CVE, victimology and other stuff - Prof of Criminology - UCC - Cork Ireland
jjfforest.bsky.social @jjfforest.bsky.social Professor & Director of Security Studies, UMass Lowell; Editor-in-Chief, Terrorism & Political Violence; Editor-in-Chief, Perspectives on Terrorism; Visiting Professor Fletcher School; published 22 books (http://amzn.to/2zW8brk)
Dr. Erin Kearns @kearnserinm.bsky.social Director of Law Enforcement Partnerships at NCITE_COE.
Associate Professor at UNO SCCJ.
Avid traveler, casual yogi. 
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.
Alexandra Phelan @alexphelan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University. All things insurgent governance, legitimation theory, gender, and organised crime especially in Colombia. Left my ❤️ in #LatAm. Staunch defender of trampoline fitness.
Ayse (Aisha) Lokman @aysed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University; Political Com & Computational Methods. Middle Easterner, she/her
Ryan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social Associate Professor, Michigan State University; a criminologist mostly studying on- and offline behaviors and patterns of the extreme right.
ryanscrivens.com
Jason Blazakis @jason-blazakis.bsky.social I am the Executive Director (and Professor) of the Middlebury Institute's Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. I am sanctioned by Vladimir Putin and once headed up the State Department's counterterrorism sanctions office.
Rajan Basra @rajanbasra.bsky.social Researching how terrorists think and act.
KCL War Studies PhD and postdoc / CSNS / XCEPT
Vera Mironova @mironovavera.bsky.social Author of “From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists. Human Resources of Non State Armed Groups”(OUP). Affiliations @Harvard @MiddleEastInst and @ForeignPolicy.
Veronica Kitchen @vmkitchen.bsky.social University of Waterloo prof. I study security. www.teamkitchenresearch.ca
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Mary Beth Altier @marybethaltier.bsky.social New York University's Center for Global Affairs professor; researching & teaching transnational security, political violence, political behavior, nationalism, ethnic conflict, foreign policy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-beth-altier-5795459/ 
Stewart Bell @stewglobal.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Global News.
https://globalnews.ca/author/stewart-bell/
Leah West @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social SJD. Associate Prof at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Sr Fellow @CIGI. Ex Armoured Officer & DOJ Nat Sec lawyer. Write about the law of spies, robots and terrorism. Sanctioned by Russia.
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
JJ MacNab @jjmacnab.bsky.social Fellow, George Washington University's Program on Extremism. UC Berkeley alumna. Cats are badass.
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
Dr. Julie Chernov @drjchernov.bsky.social Professor. #PSC #IR. Author. Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization & Commitment in Southeast Asia @ oxfordacademic. Why Terrorists Quit @Cornellpress. Terrorist Behavior. CVE. How Terror Cells are Constructed. Repatriation. SE Asia. Equality for all.
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 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
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
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
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://tinyurl.com/barnesandnobletph
► https://bookshop.org/shop/jmberger
► https://amzn.to/4qJhTE7
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
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
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.
Assaf Moghadam @assafmoghadam.bsky.social Prof, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University. Fellow @ ICT and Institute for Policy and Strategy @ Reichman.
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
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 🎤
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
@ColinPClarke @colinpclarke.bsky.social I study terrorism, geopolitics, international security
Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social Author and academic | Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Canberra | Empathy, Emotions, Strategy, Security, Politics, Diplomacy, Asia-Pacific | 🇬🇧in 🇦🇺| https://claireyorke.me/
Devorah Margolin @devorahmargolin.bsky.social Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute; Teach at Georgetown; PhD from War Studies at KCL; All views mine.
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
Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity.
Views own.
A/Prof Josh Roose @joshroose.bsky.social Extremism and Terrorism
Political and Religious Violence
Ideology
Masculinity / Masculinities
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)
Counter Terrorism
Law and Society
and…
Rugby Union, Wallabies
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social Global security consultant focused on terrorism, counter-terrorism & new technology (particularly AI): Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
Michael Kenney, aka “The Enemy Professor” @mkenney.bsky.social I study drugs, high-risk activism, and political violence. I support my students and my country. I reject 47’s efforts to turn our country into a competitive authoritarian regime.
Olivia Kearney @oliviakearney.bsky.social Head of Insights + Partnerships @plenitudefcc.bsky.social | Assoc. Fellow CFS RUSI
Tahir Abbas @tahirabbas.bsky.social Academic
Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
Adam D.M. Svendsen @intstrategist.bsky.social (Prof./Dr.) // An international intelligence + defence strategist, researcher, educator (Oslo | Georgetown | Salamanca), analyst, adviser + consultant - learn more via: http://www.intstrategist.com
@apschmid.bsky.social @apschmid.bsky.social 
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
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