Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House |Author of "Deep Connections: the hidden battles to control undersea cables" (Polity, Sep 26) | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, tech sovereignty | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
The Diplomat @thediplomat.com The premier international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, covering politics, defense and society from China and Kazakhstan to Myanmar and Australia. thediplomat.com
@seanpkrezanoski.bsky.social @seanpkrezanoski.bsky.social Independent researcher specializing in Medieval Eurasia, Military Operations, interactions between East and West, and historiography. My current research focuses on developing cross-corroboration methodologies across traditions to uncover intent.
Peter Schrijver @psguu.bsky.social PhD student Faculty Military Sciences Breda | Leiden University | interests: influence, intelligence, drones | BA History Utrecht, MA Military Strategic Studies Breda
Latest article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2026.2669810
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Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social The leading publisher of illustrated military history
Bence Nemeth @bencenemeth.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London | Defence Cooperation, Defence Innovation, Defence Management | Author: ‘How to Achieve Defence Cooperation in Europe?’- M Maria Burczyńska @mariaeb.bsky.social Lecturer in defence studies at the King's College London, based at the United Kingdom Defence Academy, Shrivenham. Editor @balloons2drones.bsky.social
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Political scientist who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Posts ≠ endorsement.
https://drrossmahoney.substack.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social Political Geographer from 🇮🇪
Concerned earthling living in Washington DC
Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈 
Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR 
The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
IntelArchive @intelarchive.io Sharing publications, events, conferences, and calls for papers from the most comprensive database on intelligence studies, IntelArchive: Intelligence Studies Database (https://intelarchive.io/).
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism @jpict.bsky.social The Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an international forum for new research and analysis of contemporary security issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpic20
Molly T. Blasing @mtblasing.bsky.social Associate Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky | literary studies, poetry and poetics, theatre and performance, history of censorship, language pedagogy, environmental humanities, limits of ai for language and literature research
Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai Reality Matters. #Environment #Climate #Ecology #Rainforests #Water #Ocean #Rewild #Science #Indigenous #Peace #AI | Big Earth Data https://bigearthdata.ai - EcoSearch, EcoChat, RSS & APIs | Existential Gaia Essays - https://existentialgaia.bigearthdata.ai
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Judith Janssen @verotsjka.bsky.social Slavist & Lecturer. Loves Ru&Ukr literature. Guided literary trips to Ru&Ukr&Caucasus. #nafo #fella #supportsUkraine #antivatnik www.russischeliteratuur.nl
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_
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
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social Writing the technological history of how America really got to space, while trying to keep my sanity in this fascist takeover of what used to be called the United States of America. Officially a Twitter refugee. 
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social Legal/Political Anthropology, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Lacan, Arendt
📙Rethinking Community in Myanmar https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/rethinking-community-in-myanmar
🖋️: statelessness, expert activism, listening
www.judithbeyer.com
private account
TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social Trans-led non-profit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people. Over 200 member organisations across 50 countries in Europe & Central Asia 🏳️⚧️
Co-funded by the EU
https://linktr.ee/tgeuorg
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) @olyaoliker.bsky.social Director, European Security @crisisgroup.org / Feminist / Migrant / ❤️ punk rock (but not only) / Opinions own / Endorsements clearly marked / podcast: https://www.crisisgroup.org/pod/europe/war-peace
Eilish Hart @eilishhart.bsky.social Writing, editing, and translating stories about Russia, Ukraine, and beyond. Former @meduza.io deputy editor, best known for The Beet. DM for 📧 or📱
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Mark Duursma @markduursma.eurosky.social Buitenlandredacteur NRC. Posts over Midden- en Oost-Europa, Balkan, Kaukasus, Oekraïne, Rusland / Foreign desk NRC. Posts about Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Ukraine, Russia
www.nrc.nl
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹
www.decodingchina.eu
www.deconspirator.eu
Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
Nick Fraser @nicholasfraser.bsky.social Urban Transport, Air Pollution, Tropical Birds, Cycling, Plov.
Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social A cat who took showers. 💔 Kittens who romp. 😻 My hooman is interested in cats, politics, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, and nuclear weapons and nonproliferation but mostly cats
Sasha Slobodov @sashaslobodov.bsky.social Editor, Researcher & Journalist | Russia & Belarus Researcher at ACLED | Formerly: News Editor at Meduza in English, International Fellow at Caucasus Research Resource Center | South Caucasus, Central Asia & Russia | Portfolio: sashaslobodov.com
Kathleen Hermans @kathleenhermans.bsky.social Geographer and senior researcher @iamo.bsky.social
Environmental change, land use, human migration
Central Asia and East Africa
Eli Lee 🧿 @eelilee.bsky.social DC resident and rat lover. Nerdy about a lot of things, including US/UK politics; Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia; punk music; fighting games; and securities and finance law (but in a cool chill way)
Pavel Bacherikov @pbacherikov.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley Haas • Econ History, Development, Urban-Spatial & Political Economics • https://pbacherikov.github.io
Alex Yusupov @alexyus.bsky.social Director @ Russia Programme // Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, previously Myanmar-Afghanistan-Central Asia, со-ведущий «Канцлер и Бергхайн»
Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social Anthropologist. Member of @Allegra_Lab editorial collective. Interested in law, human rights, humanitarianism, global justice.- C Claudia Eggart @ceggart.bsky.social PhD @UoMAnthropology, ISRF First Book Fellow @ZMO Berlin, researching lived geopolitics, markets and infrastructure in and in-between Moldova, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
Begimai @begimai.bsky.social ✔️Public Affairs, Gender, Diplomacy
📍Netherlands/Kyrgyzstan
marins @marinsoxo.bsky.social Nintendo enthusiast and fanartist🎨
18 y.o. (she/her)
currently playing: M&L: Bowser's inside story🔥🐢
twt: @marins_oxo
Plita @plita.bsky.social He/him
Made from Asia
I'm aspiring artist. I usually draw portraits and sketches
Infp-a
National: Kyrgyzstan
Uzbek Forum for Human Rights @uzbekforum.bsky.social Defending Human Rights in Uzbekistan
https://www.uzbekforum.org/
Jamshid Muslimov @jamshid-muslimov.bsky.social Trying to think
Islam
Philosophy
Jadids and NeoJadids
Uzbek, Uzbekistan
TURAN
Sabina Sagynbayeva @sabinastro.bsky.social (astro)Physics PhD. Astrobites alum. From Kazakhstan 🇰🇿. She/her.
Musical theater nerd, so pretty much insufferable.
Statistics, planets, and stellar cartography.
https://ssagynbayeva.github.io
Info Shymkent @infoshymkent.bsky.social A passionate 🇰🇿-🇩🇪 traveler couple is bringing #CentralAsia closer to you.
All photos & texts are ours - unless otherwise stated.
Our online magazine: www.shymkent.info 
Peer Teschendorf @peerte.bsky.social Dealing with European Foreign and Security Policy at Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Formerly based in Russia and Kazakhstan. All tweets are only my personal views.
Hugo Estecahandy @hugoesteca.bsky.social PhD candidate at French Institute of Geopolitics / GEODE project.
#Geopolitics, #cryptocurrency and #mining #Russia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan. Working group "Digital Materialities" at CIS/CNRS : https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/digital-materialities/
Jennifer @pennifer.bsky.social Environmentalist, wildlife conservation, raptors and felids, Indigenous ally
Katherine E. Young @katherineeyoung.bsky.social Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Winner (w/ Akram Aylisli), 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
Leila Seiitbek @leilaseiitbek.bsky.social 
Simon Berger @chakarchinggis.eurosky.social Docteur en histoire. Chercheur postdoctorant au CeRMI (UMR 8041). Étudie l'Empire mongol et les sociétés médiévales des steppes eurasiatiques.
Setsen Altan-Ochir @setsen.bsky.social A mongolian killjoy stranded in Paris, focused on broken worlds, running along the Seine with fibromyalgia and depersonalization-derealization.
Earth science (MSc@ENS) & history of science (MA-in-making@EHESS) & all things Mongolia.
Truelle la Vie @truellelavie.bsky.social Dr. en archéologie. Venez découvrir mon coup de truelle inimitable sur la chaîne #Youtube dédiée à l'#archéologie de #Japon , #Corée & #Chine #préhistoire #histoire
Elle nous déterrera tous ! ⛏️⛏️⛏️
https://youtube.com/@TruellelaVie?si=XjYN_kIlk2TTl06k
Ed Schatz @edwardschatz.bsky.social Political Scientist, Central Asianist, University of Toronto
Posting about politics, authoritarianism, and Central Asia.
Eugene Huskey @eehj.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stetson University. Deland, Fl and Tulsa, Ok. Interests in politics and law in Eurasia and American populism.
Abby Scripka @abbyscripka.bsky.social chinese-lithuanian american-thai studying tengrism in central asia
phd zzf potsdam + ceu comp his
researching in kazakh and sometimes russian
📍Berlin + Central Asia
Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social Bostonian expat living in New York. Human rights. Academic freedom. Languages/linguistics. Russia, Central/Inner Asia. Politics of memory/commemoration. Books. The occasional lighthouse. Personal account, views expressed are my own. Repost≠endorsement. 🇺🇦🍉
David Hansen @bioarchnomad.bsky.social Bioarchaeology PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder | Central Asia + Central Europe | Black Death | Paleodemography | Gamecocks fan 🤙🏼🐓
Women’s Center “Gulrukhsor” @gulrukhsor.bsky.social Khujand, Tajikistan, Central Asia. The largest provider of free of charge services to women victims of domestic violence. Shelter. Crisis center. Defender of women’s rights. Follow for real life insights into responding to and preventing vaw. 
björn reichhardt @bjoernr.bsky.social social anthropologist with a love for
• community
• film photography
• radical liberation
• mongolia and central asia
[he/him]
Małgorzata Kot @malgorzatakot.bsky.social Archaeologist interested in Neanderthals and their lithic technologies.
Usually somewhere between Central Asia and Central Europe.
Professor at the #University of Warsaw- G Giulia 施朱丽 @giuliasciorati.bsky.social
Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social Journalist&researcher on Central Europe, Central Asia, China, Taiwan. Literary translator&reporter. Cosmopolitan found between Taipei, Tashkent and Prague. Drinks tea only. GlobalVoices CapsUnlock Asymptote Journal. All views my own. All about context
Diyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social work in progressive comms, occasional journalist and writer 🌿
hothouse bookclub co-organiser
email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com
website: diyorashadijanova.xyz
she/they
Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social 
Sherzod Eraliev @shrzd.bsky.social Lund University & University of Helsinki.
State & Society, Migration, International Relations
Aijan Sharshenova @aijanco.bsky.social Political analyst
Academic tamada
Research: political populism, foreign policy analysis, political risk analysis, occasionally sustainable energy
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) @zois.bsky.social Independent, int., publicly funded research institute focusing on Eastern Europe & sharing the results with policymakers, media & public.
Site details: http://bit.ly/41AvEZC | Privacy policy: https://bit.ly/3FoYKnC
(Mural by Sasha Korban in Kyiv © IMAGO) 
Olivier Ferrando @olivferrando.bsky.social Enseignant-chercheur en science politique à l'Université catholique de Lyon
Chargé de cours à SciencesPo Paris
Spécialiste de l'Asie centrale 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 🇪🇸
Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social Historian of 19th & 20th century Russia/Europe (mostly pre-1921); science fiction author & fan; lover of cats, dogs, chocolate, books, movies, television, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, cricket, Hawaii.
Follow my Substack! https://thomasbeck.substack.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/White House Staff.
Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social Fmr US Intelligence +36 yrs. Expert MENA/SWA & US Terrorists | x5 NYT Bestselling Author, Navy Senior Chief, Widower, Ukrainian army Intl’ Legionnaire.
Malcolmnance.Substack.com
Meduza in English @meduza.io Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social News and views from Ukraine. We are independent & community-funded. Support us:
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com Independent news from Russia since 1992.
https://linktr.ee/moscowtimes
Photo: Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency
чулася потужна бавовна @bigbo4ek.bsky.social http://sustainukraine.org/
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies @umnchgs.bsky.social Preserving memory and awareness of mass violence at the University of Minnesota since 1997.
cla.umn.edu/chgs
The Moscow Times (RU) @moscowtimes.bsky.social Взрыв, а не хлопок. Война, а не спецоперация. Более 30 лет пишем о России и называем вещи своими именами, теперь и на русском языке.
За «дискредитацию решений руководства РФ» признаны нежелательной организацией.
ru@themoscowtimes.com
Matthew Friedman @friedman.bsky.social Historian, journalist, Jew, Canadian expat in MAGAmerica.
Kyiv Insider @kyivinsider.bsky.social 𝙐𝙠𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨, 𝙒𝙖𝙧 & 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨
Unfiltered daily updates from Ukraine, Russia, and beyond—covering politics, society, business, economics, and war.
𝘞𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦: https://www.kyivinsider.com
𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴: https://lnk.bio/kyivinsider
Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com Ukraine's Global Voice since 1995.
The first and oldest English-language newspaper about Ukraine.
Zhylianska,68 , Kyiv, Ukraine, 01033
044 591 33 44
news@kyivpost.com
Online media registration number: R40-05383
Up To Ukraine @uptoukraine.bsky.social Page about Ukraine
Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social 🖋️Journalist, Editor at @pravda.ua
📑 Here you can find stories about Russian-Ukrainian war
😻 And cats