Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
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.
ColePowered Games @colepowered.bsky.social Developers of @detectivesim.bsky.social and Concrete Jungle.
https://linktr.ee/colepoweredgames
Tuta @tuta.com Tuta is a secure email, calendar and drive provider with quantum-safe encryption. Open source & forever free! 🔒
Visit us 👉 tuta.com
#TurnONprivacy
Schu (Omelet You Cook) @danschumacher.bsky.social Game designer. Animal lover. Big baller
Play Omelet You Cook:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3205380?utm_source=BSky
Lily Czukay @lily-czukay.bsky.social She/her. Interested in history, historiography, political economy, finance. Data worker by day. 🇮🇩
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
Christoph Frey @chrstphfr.bsky.social he/him | game dev in Linz, Austria | IGF Nuovo Award 2020 winner | The Space Between | Letters To A Friend - Farewell | http://chrstphfr.itch.io | http://patreon.com/christophfr
Errant (COMMS OPEN) @errantsquam.heckingsne.cc local 🇸🇬 man (he/him bronouns only 👍), en/中文 ok
we post 🐦, 🐍, and OCs here. sometimes mechs or jrpgs
feel free to ask me about my process :)
Comms: https://heckingsne.cc/commissions (open)
Store: https://ko-fi.com/errantsquam/shop
OC tag: #A70D
Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Smith College. a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social Trans medicine, AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between. @hcde.uw.edu PhD, @uml-online.bsky.social Postdoc, @bostonfleet.com obsessive. https://ironholds.org/
Spooky Doorway @spookydoorway.com Multi award winning indie game developers. Makers of darksidedetective.bsky.social and @BlakeManorGame.bsky.social, tellers of spooky tales 👻 Discord - http://discord.gg/spookydoorwaygames
The SCP Foundation 🏳️⚧️ @scpwiki.com The official account for the fictional SCP Foundation. Follow us for announcements, art boosts, article features, and fun! Website: http://scpwiki.com
Ji Heon @kimjiheon.bsky.social PhD Candidate @SSHSPH, NUS | MSc Public Health @LSHTM | Health Economic & Infectious Disease Modelling | Bouldering 🧗🏻
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social ProPublica reporter | Email me at joshua.kaplan@propublica.org | Contact info & stories here: propublica.org/people/joshua-kaplan
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.
ICIJ @icij.org Stories that rock the world. We expose wrongdoing so the world can make it right. Find us at ICIJ.org. #UberFiles #EricssonList #PandoraPapers #FinCENFiles #PanamaPapers
Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu European independent investigative newsroom.
Become a member: www.ftm.eu
Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social Moderately popular YouTube game critic and travel author.
Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social Eisner & Ringo winning writer: ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN, BUFFY, ANGEL, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN LIVES, BLACK CLOAK, THE CULL, BLACK WIDOW, STORYKILLER, TGWWBK, etc. Co-creator of JEFF THE LANDSHARK 🦈 REPS: Art/Work Ent & Verve. She/Her.
United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social Official account of United Wizards of the Coast, for more information unitedwizardsofthecoast.com
MTG Arena @mtgarena.com like the irl card game but not irl
Bryce Tetraeder @brycetetraeder.bsky.social Global Tetrahedron CEO, chairman, media proprietor, entrepreneur, human trafficker, thought leader, and venture capitalist.
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
Will Coldwell @willcoldwell.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Words in The Guardian, GQ, FT Mag, Wired, 1843 Magazine, Prospect, The Observer and beyond
Get in touch: w.coldwell@gmail.com
willcoldwell.com
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com Staff writer @niemanlab.org, previously telling climate/science stories in text and audio at Heatmap/Vox/Audubon/Radiolab. 
Anthony Ha @anthonyha.bsky.social Writer, @TechCrunch.com weekend editor, Original Content co-host, loud karaoke singer
Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social youtube.com/bigjoel
Yeganeh Torbati @yjtorbati.bsky.social Reporter at The Washington Post; co-author of forthcoming book on Iran for Doubleday
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
NetBlocks @netblocks.org The Internet's Observatory: Tracking cybersecurity and digital governance • connectivity and democracy • tools and policy for change • https://netblocks.org
James Tynion IV @jamesthefourth.bsky.social I write a lot of your favorite comic books about monsters, UFOs, dead kids, and murder ladies. Eisner Award Winner. GLAAD Media Award Winner. NYT Bestseller. Tiny Onion Boss Guy.
Brooklyn, NY | He/Him | 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/jtynioniv
Zoë Bernard @zoesaintbernard.bsky.social writer for hire
Vanity Fair, Business Insider, Vox, GQ, Esquire yadda yadda
Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social #1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
Madeleine Schwartz @mmschwartz.bsky.social Editor at The Dial (@thedialmag.bsky.social), writer there and elsewhere
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social A podcast on media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Liz Kelly Nelson @lizkellynelson.com I run projectc.biz | newsletter/community about/for creator-model journalists. Co-created Going Solo, a 6-week online workshop for journos launching independent projects. I :heart: collaborating with smarties. Ex Vox, WaPo, USA Today.
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20 
Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social Media reporter at The New York Times. Signal: benmullin.13
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
The Pudding @pudding.cool The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
Email: sup@pudding.cool
Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
Alvin Chang @alv9n.com ● Professor @journalismdesign.bsky.social
● Interactive data journalist pudding.cool
● Moar buttondown.com/charthead // alv9n.com
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
SERRC @serrc.bsky.social The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
"Exploring Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon"
❧ https://social-epistemology.com/
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning editor and data journalist. Now: Data Editor at @statnews.bsky.social
✉️ emory.parker@statnews.com 📸 jemoryparker 🐘 @jaspar@mastodon.online | Signal: jaspar.01
Online Sexual Harms in Singapore @oshsg.bsky.social Bridging Research, Practice, and Policy to Address Online Sexual Harms
oshsg.com
Register for the symposium: https://tinyurl.com/oshsg2026
Open Data Watch @opendatawatch.com From data to action: Empowering development with open, comprehensive, and inclusive data
opendatawatch.com/
Sign up for our newsletter 📰 bit.ly/StayingUpToDataODW
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
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Fabio Angiolillo @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Gothenburg, V-Dem Institute
Comparative politics, autocracies, political parties | China & East Asian politics
Co-founder @apsgworkshop.bsky.social
https://www.fangiolillo.com
Emilia Simison @emisimison.bsky.social Political Science^3 (UBA-UTDT-MIT).
Lecturer at @qmulsse.bsky.social
Co-organizer @apsgworkshop.bsky.social
www.emiliasimison.com
Felix Wiebrecht @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) University of Liverpool | Research Associate V-Dem |
Authoritarianism | Legislatures | China
Co-Organiser @apsgworkshop.bsky.social
felixwiebrecht.com
Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy @ KCL DPE
🏢Bureaucracy, ideology, authoritarianism
🧠Pedagogy + uses of #genAI to foster thinking
BarbaraPiotrowska.com
Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow | DEMED project @ERC_Research | Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social | Main interest: Democracy and Autocracy, Public Opinion, Civic Education, Higher Ed. #FirstGen
Andrew M Leber @andrewleber.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U
MENA politics, some photography, some translation
New Orleans, LA ⚜️
Maurice P. Schumann @realmps.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ the Hertie School | Authoritarianism, the Internet, and Civil War | Sports and Cats
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/utcountydems
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social Political scientist studying how oppositions challenge dictators at home and abroad. Opposition parties, authoritarianism, elections, foreign policy, Southeast Asia. Postdoc @ Stanford CDDRL orensamet.com
Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. Comparative authoritarianism, elite politics, and North Korea. A political science account with some sport 🟡🟢
Austin S. Matthews @austinsmatthews.bsky.social Associate Professor. Clements Center for National Security, UT Austin. Dictatorships, security studies, and political violence.
Adam Wu @adamwt.bsky.social PhDing in Political Science at UCSD. Once journalist. Authoritarianism | China | bureaucracy | diplomacy | text analysis | mixed methods
A feed for Chinese politics & policy: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:doce3n3wwji3qtenc7ktcu5r/feed/aaacdrgczzosm- R Rachael McLellan @rachaelmclellan.bsky.social Opposition and local politics in autocracies.
Dundonian in exile on the West Coast (of Scotland).
Howard Liu @howardhliu.bsky.social howardhliu.com
Assistant Prof @UofSC | Repression | Violence | Authoritarian Politics | Network analysis
Xiaobo Lü | 吕晓波 @xiaobolu.bsky.social Comparative Political economy, Authoritarian Parties, Chinese Politics
Associate Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley. Very infrequent social media user.
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Haifeng Huang @hhuang.bsky.social Information, opinion, and equilibrium. hhuang.org. “as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded.”
Yuhua Wang @yuhuawang.bsky.social Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate for the Center of the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Former USIP Peace Scholar.
Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida.
www.salahbenhammou.com
Hans Lueders @hanslueders.bsky.social Hoover Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University | Researching migration, representation, authoritarianism | Writing a book about the political consequences of internal migration in rich democracies
https://www.hanslueders.com
Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem
𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social I (try to) advance our knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://whogov.net/.
Palina Kolvani @palinakolvani.bsky.social PhD fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Aykut Öztürk @aykutozturk.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.
https://aozturk.net
Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Researching dictatorships and the dark side of politics | https://www.adamscharpf.net/
Author of "Making a Career in Dictatorship", OUP | https://tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
Janina Beiser-McGrath @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social Political Scientist. Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at
Royal Holloway. Researching autocracies and quantitative methods. https://janinabeiser.weebly.com
Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social Associate professor of political science, University of Arizona
Elvin Ong @elvinongpolsci.bsky.social Political scientist at the National University of Singapore. Currently, Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale. I study democratization and opposition parties in autocratic regimes. Mostly East and Southeast Asia. Especially Malaysia and Singapore.
Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social Political Scientist at @griffith.edu.au, Brisbane / Assoc. Editor @democratization.bsky.social/. Interest groups, authoritarian politics, disinformation, electoral integrity, trust.
Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher @UniOslo & non-resident fellow @DigitalSocietyInitiative (UZH): technology, autocracies, contentious politics and quantitative methods (he/him; #FirstGen); https://philipplutscher.net/; occasional promotion of good music!
Adrian Del Rio @adridelrio.bsky.social MSCA Postdoctoral fellow. University of Oslo. Research on elite politics, dictatorships, democratization, and education.
Website: www.adelrio.com
Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social Political Science Professor at University of Oslo. Working on political violence, war, democracy and autocracy. Visiting 24-25 Nuffield College & DPIR Oxford University.
Thalia Gerzso @thaliagerzso.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at @uoypolitics.bsky.social
I study African politics, democracy, and political institutions (mainly courts and legislatures)
www.thaliagerzso.com
Roman-Gabriel Olar @rgolar23.bsky.social Political scientist @ Dublin City University | avid martial artist | amateur chef
Website: rgolar.weebly.com
Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
Josef Woldense @woldense.bsky.social josefwoldense.com
Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
Anne Meng @annemeng.bsky.social Associate Prof of Politics at UVA. Author of Constraining Dictatorship. Authoritarian Politics & Democratic Erosion. http://www.annemeng.com/