David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
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Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
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Paulson Institute @paulsoninstitute.bsky.social The Paulson Institute is a non-partisan, independent “think and do tank” dedicated to fostering global relationships that advance economic prosperity, promote sustainable growth, and maintain global order in a rapidly evolving world.
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Ashley Belanger @ashleybelanger.bsky.social Cursed to love reading legal docs.
Senior policy reporter for Ars Technica
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Rhiannon Williams @rhiannonwilliams.bsky.social Reporter at MIT Technology Review, writing about AI, robots & what's next.
I write The Download, officially the Best Technology Newsletter 2025: https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/download-newsletter/
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
karson @kelmgren.bsky.social 徐森凱 | currently RAND; prev CSET, OpenAI, etc | AI, China, languages, rock climbing, various miscellany
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
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books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
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Vincent Chow @vincentchow1.bsky.social Writer and translator focusing on Chinese society, culture, and AI. Also exploring my roots in China. Formerly Sixth Tone, ALM, and Reuters.
Juliet Lu (she/her/hers) @profjulietlu.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Environmental Governance & Business
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social History Never Ended Substack. Author The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself. Host ABC Saturday Extra. Former BBC US correspondent
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
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Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social Random story stuff to get you writing. Run the gauntlet by responding to all 150 prompts, found here -> https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5czgnb5wwkj2jlu7mdqciavg/feed/aaahxs3zqd77m
Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social Independent publisher of literature from the Global Majority.
Read international. Read intersectional.
Alexa Olesen @ouleishan.bsky.social China-focused researcher & consultant. China Leaks & Panama Papers for ICIJ. Ex-AP China.
Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social five out of eight computers on a scale of computers
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
Alasdair Lane @alasdairlane.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Guardian, Economist, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Atlantic, BBC, NBC, etc. I also run a journo / writer jobs newsletter – writeathome.beehiiv.com
Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own.
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Cory Combs @coryjcombs.bsky.social Climate researcher focused on Chinese, US, and EU energy and industrial policy. Guitar and fiction in my off-time. Based in LA. Travel for speaking engagements so long as there's a free water bottle involved.
Joanna Chiu @joannachiu.bsky.social Managing Partner at Nüora Global Advisors — a strategic intelligence and advisory firm focused on technology, geopolitics, and business in Asia. Powered by a global network of investigative specialists and analysts. https://www.nuoraglobal.com/
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social feminist telling stories on identity & power 👩🏻💻 mostly on instagram.com/jessielauwrites
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The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Peter Lorentzen @lorentzen.bsky.social Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media Law and Ethics, UMass-Amherst
Proud UNC J-school PhD alumna
heesoojang.com
Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
Molly McCluskey @mollymccluskey.com Investigative journalist & editor covering public lands, the environment, foreign affairs and diplomacy. Founder & Publisher: Diplomatica Global Media. DC/CA/SE AK
https://www.mollymccluskey.com/
Mekong Review @mekongreview.com A quarterly magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in Asia, written by people from the region or those who know it well.
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
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
Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore
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Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam.bsky.social @kevinkfyam on Twitter.
PhD candidate, Melbourne Law School. Senior Fellow @georgetowncal.bsky.social. Activist/ex-lawyer, #HongKong. Cricket tragic. AFL Hawks fan. Foodie. Views my own.
Holmes Chan @holmeschan.bsky.social Hong Kong correspondent for AFP. Mostly reports on politics, law and culture
Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social writer, translator, cat
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
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Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Antony Dapiran @antd.bsky.social Writer/Lawyer/Photographer, author of “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong”. www.antonydapiran.com
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com 🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net.
Pete Guest @peterguest.bsky.social Journalist: As seen in Bloomberg, Wired, Businessweek, The Economist 1843, MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, etc. Occasional photographer. Bona fides: www.peterguest.co
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
Tamar Herman @tamarherman.com Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait.
Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
karen cheung @karenklcheung.bsky.social writer / the impossible city: a hong kong memoir
bani haykal @fdbckfdfwd.bsky.social musician / artist piecing together schematics for polyphonic futures // intimate machines // inefficient instruments // stories about resisting refusal & repair
website // banihaykal.info
music // banihaykal.bandcamp.com
Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil.bsky.social historian, feuilletonist, clubland habitué, judgemental judge 
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social China Digital Times | Berkeley
John Nery @jnerynewsstand.bsky.social Journalist/lecturer/author. Host, “In the Public Square with John Nery.” Columnist, “Newsstand.”
Rappler. Ateneo de Manila University. Consortium on Democracy & Disinformation. Asian Center for Journalism. World Justice Project.
johnnery.wordpress.com
Peiying Loh @hellopeiying.bsky.social From Singapore 🇸🇬 Head & Co-Founder, Kontinentalist. Data storyteller. Chevening Scholar 23’, MSc Data, Inequality and Society at University of Edinburgh 🏴
Yann Bigant @yannbigant.com Conservation/environment photographer
Birds, wildlife trade, etc. in SEAsia
Video | Fine art photography
DM for assignments
📷📝 SCMP, Dialogue Earth, Mongabay
📍Phnom Penh, Cambodia
🌐 https://yannbigant.com/links
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Jolene Tan @acertainjolene.bsky.social Novelist: AFTER THE INQUIRY / A CERTAIN EXPOSURE
rewording.substack.com
From Singapore, live in England
EN | DE | FR | CN | BR-PT
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @ University of Eastern Finland｜🌲 transimperial histories of forestry 🌲｜previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Connla Stokes @connla-stokes.bsky.social Writer - Flâneur/ Cycleur ~ Saigon/ HCM City.
Author of 'Falling for Saigon', a collection of essays about life in contemporary Ho Chi Minh City.
https://connla.substack.com 
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
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Rishad @rishad.bsky.social Co-founder of Splice. Lives in #lisboa Product + brand designer, trainer, mentor, speaker, writer, editor, builder, media startup lover. How can I help you build your media product?
Alan Soon (Splice) @alansoon.bsky.social Splice Media co-founder, CEO / Media entrepreneurship coach / #splicebeta / ICFJ Knight Fellow / Student pilot
Seulki Lee @skidolma.bsky.social Independent backpacking journalist since 2011 🎤Korean, English
지금은 서울에 있어요🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
thedunia.org | asiaundercovered.org
Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン pp@hrmi.ngo ppoon@asianlawyers.net @ppoon.bsky.social @tsukikagecoffee.bsky.social｜ex- @amnesty.org researcher｜may continue my PhD at @univrennes2.bsky.social｜Board @asianlawyersn.bsky.social｜East Asia Lead @rightstracker.bsky.social｜ sometimes write @fleursbleues.bsky.social｜
📍Tokyo
Erin Hale @erin-hale.bsky.social A journalist and noted cat person based in Taiwan.
Nicholas Yong @incoherentboy.bsky.social Veteran journalist. Ex-BBC, Yahoo News and Straits Times. Author of short story anthology Seven Sacks of Rice https://www.amazon.sg/Seven-Sacks-Rice-Other-Baggage/dp/9815084585
Sarah Milne @mtmajura.bsky.social Associate Prof @ANU, thinking about political ecology, carbon, conservation, environmental justice
Ann Ang @ann-ang.bsky.social Assistant Professor at NIE-NTU, DPhil English (Oxon)
poco, anglophone Southeast Asia, South Asia, all things Malaya & Borneo | views mine
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social Author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It (Nation Books). https://orbooks.com/catalog/obsolete/
Bylines: NYT, Nature, BBC, Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, TIME + others
Lili Pike @lilipike.bsky.social China & climate reporter @bloomberg.com
Jonathan 柯致远 @returnjon.bsky.social 🇺🇸 🇱🇹 🏳️🌈 | Formerly Shanghai, now Chicago traveling to Asia whenever I can. Bibliophile, wannabe 字体设计师, lover of plants.
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com