betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Rachel Morley @rachelmorley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Russian & Soviet Cinema & Culture. Co-Convenor of SSEES Cinema Research Group. Academic Director of Education. All @uclssees.
Eurasianet @eurasianet.bsky.social Critical perspectives and on-the-ground reporting from the #Caucasus and #CentralAsia, with analyses you won't find elsewhere: 🔗 https://eurasianet.org/
Brent Hierman @bhierman.bsky.social Political Science, Central Asia, Land Reform, Political Economy
Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social Edinburgh Diamond is the University of Edinburgh's Library Publishing Partner for Diamond Open Access books and journals that are led by our academics, professional staff and students.
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Daddy's queer academy @gayslaveacademy.bsky.social Welcome to daddy queer academy🔞🌈.. A bold LGBTQ+ space to learn, discuss, connect, and discover exactly who you are.
💬 Real talk, queer education & identity exploration. DM 🚪
👑 Guided by Daddy, where community, confidence, and self-expression lead the way.
Serian Carlyle @serianc.bsky.social PhD student at UCL SSEES working on youth film in the late Soviet Union. She/Her.
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
UE Queer Memory Project @uequeermemory.bsky.social Where queer history, student voices, and justice meet.
Student Rights Scotland @scottishraceaction.bsky.social Bluesky account giving help and advice to students of all ethnic and social backgrounds who feel they have been abused or discriminated against because of anti-Scottish racism at a Scottish University or College,
Programmed With Pride @programmedpride.bsky.social Queer film lovers hosting & programming LGBTQ+ screenings & film events in Edinburgh, Scotland. Established in 2018 - currently in partnership with @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
Film posters created by: @uniquelyabbie.bsky.social
Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social #StandUpToRacism #StopTheFarRight No to Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or scapegoating migrants. #RefugeesWelcome #JusticeForShekuBayoh #BlackLivesMatter
Head to https://linktr.ee/sutrscot to get involved!
UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
Leiden Asia Centre @leidenasiacentre.nl The Netherlands’ expertise centre for socially relevant and applicable knowledge on modern Asia
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
Europe-Asia Studies @europe-asia.bsky.social Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.
ASIAC Studies on Central Asia & Caucasus in Italy @asiacitalia.bsky.social ASIAC is an academic association based in Italy that promotes knowledge exchange on Central Asia and the Caucasus. (RT/likes are not endorsements). Website and newsletter: https://www.asiac.net/
Aijan Sharshenova @aijanco.bsky.social Political analyst
Academic tamada
Research: political populism, foreign policy analysis, political risk analysis, occasionally sustainable energy
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
Yuliya Yurchuk @yuliyayurchuk.bsky.social Historian. Intellectual history, memory, heritage, Ukraine. 
Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring comparative research on current and historical developments in the communist and post-communist world.
Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
The Russian Review @russianreview.bsky.social Histories, Cultures, and Politics across Eurasia
russianreview.ku.edu
UChicago Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies @ceeres-uchicago.bsky.social The Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago.
ceeres.uchicago.edu
UT CREEES @utcreees.bsky.social Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin https://linktr.ee/UTCREEES
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social Central Eurasia in Focus: Advancing Research, Building Community
Bard College @bardcollege.bsky.social Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation. Visit bard.edu to learn more.
Kamila Smagulova @kamilask.bsky.social PhDing in history, Leiden University
Colonial history | Civic activism | Anti-nuclear movements in Kazakhstan
#peacemovementsproject
Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies @iarcees.bsky.social Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies is an interdisciplinary association of academics and researchers interested in CEECs.
https://www.iarcees.org/index.php
Aleksanteri Institute @aleksanteri-uh.bsky.social Aleksanteri Institute is the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/aleksanteri-institute
UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. The UK's largest university library collection on Russia and Central, Eastern & South-Eastern Europe.
Slavic and East European Journal @seej-journal.bsky.social https://seej.org/
Association for the Study of Nationalities @asn-org.bsky.social 
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program @erep.csis.org The CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program produces forward-looking analyses on transatlantic relations & political developments across Europe, Russia, & Eurasia.
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon @ksvarnon.bsky.social Historian of Russia, Ukraine, the USSR, and East Germany.
Assistant Professor at Morehouse College.
Writer and Foreign Policy Commentator with Regional Expertise.
Texan. Perpetually behind PhD Candidate.
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
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GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social Showcasing excellence in gender and sexuality studies teaching, research and KEI at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, powered by @uoe-sps.bsky.social #UoE_genderED
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary global research collective. Uniting a Higher Education network of scholars and research students
Find out more: https://tvce.cargo.site
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social News from King's College London | King’s is a multi-faculty research-led institution & one of the top 10 UK universities in the world | Contact: comms@kcl.ac.uk
Martyna Miernecka @mmiernecka.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in the "Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism" research group at the University of Regensburg
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
David Rypel @davidrypel.bsky.social Sociologist of (queer) everyday security, belonging, and marginalisation in Georgia and beyond. PhD from @uclssees.bsky.social. He/they.
https://davidrypel.com
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies @basees.bsky.social For more information visit our website www.basees.org
UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS)
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
Elliot Napier @elliotnapier.bsky.social PhD student from Scotland 🏴 studying queer migration, focused on Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 Sometimes in Glasgow, sometimes Astana, sometimes Almaty.
Olga Doletskaya @oadoletskaya.bsky.social Early career anthropologist researching LGBTQ+ families in Russia, PhD at UCL SRI and SSEES, she/they
Aya Parker @ayamisart.bsky.social Indigenous (Atikamekw Cree) & Black Ancestry ✨ Queer ✨ Poly ✨ Chronically Ill ✨ Be A Good Ancestor 🇵🇸🇱🇧🏳️⚧️🌍 #LandBack
Sci-Fi + Horror + Gamer 💜⛓️👾 #RenewTheAcolyte
Joel White @joeljoel.bsky.social Friends In Common out now, come say hi on the tour : https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon @friendsincommon.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🍉
GLARC tapes / Communal Leisure
Writing about solidarity, Islamophobia, antiracist & Queer history, No Borders, music.
Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) is housed at Virginia Commonwealth University and highlights scholarship queer and trans studies in education. It is a fee-free open-access journal. www.jqtsie.com
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). Equalities officer for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
Meryl Kenny @merylkenny.bsky.social Head of Politics & IR at University of Edinburgh | gender & politics, political parties, parliaments, territorial politics, political representation | views own
Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua Official English page of Ukrainian media outlet "Ukrainska Pravda"
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
Niginakhon Saida @niginakhon.bsky.social Central Asian(ist). PhDing in memory studies. Researcher and writer. Sometimes a journalist. (Gender issues, Islam, memory and identity). My pronouns are u/uning
Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social professor at the University of Texas at Austin, maphead, dog lover, Go Bills, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
Sher Khashimov @skhashimov.bsky.social Freelance journalist and researcher covering press freedom, regional conflicts, migration, and digital politics in Eurasia.
sherkhashimov.com
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com #RussianColonialism storyteller-in-chief. author of award-winning “Russian Colonialism 101”🪆🪓
Almut Rochowanski @almutrochowanski.bsky.social Feminist activist. Working on women's rights, peace, justice, civil society in post-Soviet Eurasia while harboring grave doubts about how this work is done. Non-resident fellow @quincyinst.bsky.social.
Niccolò Pianciola @niccop.bsky.social Historian
Asel Doolotkeldieva @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social Protest & contentious politics. Autocracy, populism.
Geopolitics, critical raw materials, extractive industries.
Knowledge production, Central Asia
asel.doolotkeldieva@gmail.com
Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social ❤️🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻
** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social CEO of LGBTQ+ health charity, former academic geographer. Still a theory slut who likes to think around.
Ben Trott @bentrott.bsky.social “Queer Studies: Schlüsseltexte” co-editor.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/queer-studies-t-9783518299081
Max Schnepf @mxschnepf.bsky.social he/they | queer & medical anthropology | researching HIV-PrEP & intimacy | PhD candidate & research associate at FU Berlin
https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/forschung/arbeitsstellen/medical_anthropology/personen/mitglieder/schnepf/index.html
Jessica Van Meir @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social
This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social Senior FNS Researcher @ceg-unil.bsky.social. Co-editor of “Transnational Anti-Gender Politics” (Palgrave, 2024) | Researching anti-trans clinical activisms | él/he
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54223-7
University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social World-leading research and teaching on all aspects of gender and sexuality across the disciplines at the University of Cambridge. MPhil and PhD degrees. www.gender.cam.ac.uk. 
David Eichert @davideichert.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer in IR at Oxford. Sexual violence, law, feminist/queer/decolonial methods. Any pronouns 🌈
Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social PhD candidate | Gender Studies, Stockholm University 🇸🇪 | Fulbright, Philosophy, Columbia University 19/20 🇺🇲 #recognitiontheory #phenomenology Researching gender and chronic illness
Omar Kasmani @kasmanio.bsky.social Berliner-by-love & cultural anthropologist @FU_Berlin | intimacy, post-migrant be/longing, queer + affect theory | author of Queer Companions (2022, Duke UP)
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Hannah Loney @hannahloney14.bsky.social Visiting Prof in Gender Studies @ CEU, Vienna; women’s & gender history (esp. Timor-Leste & Indonesia), feminist theory, oral history; she/her.
Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social bibliophile in um, meadville
gender studies prof at allegheny college, writing on the clinical history of gender, political economy of sexuality, experimental poetics
short forays on ephemeral literatures on IG: mimeodrome
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Val Webber @publicpubics.bsky.social Public health, porn OHS, SW labour & debanking. Working with PASS, Stepping Stone, CAL-HRM, and the SHaG Lab. He/him flavoured. Previously naked on the internet.
https://valwebber.com
Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social Gender Prof @SNF Agora @Johns Hopkins; Co-Founder of EGEN — The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network; editor of Comparative Political Studies. Mom of 2 tweens. www.dawnteele.com.
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social 
UCD Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social Gender Studies at UCD | Interdisciplinary MA in Gender Studies | programmes, news, events | RT is not an endorsement. https://www.ucd.ie/genderstudies/
Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social Feminist sociologist writing on reproductive & environmental injustice, bodies, racial capitalism
Author of "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" (2026, UC Press)
galarexer.com
Ely Strömberg @elystromberg.bsky.social PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam.
Interested in intersectionality, discrimination, and pretty books. Like to measure categories continuously, eg. gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality. They/them
https://elystromberg.github.io/About/
European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social The EJPG publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender
Q1 journal with a JCR Impact Factor of 2.5
Co-edited by: @maarja.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social
Webpage: https://rb.gy/ri37fh
Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social Sociology Prof (social psyc, methodology, and some demography!). Usually thinking about food, sexualities, masculinities, and sneakers. 🏳️⚧️
He/they/them/him
NOLA/France
Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
Megan Carroll @mcsociology.bsky.social Associate Professor, sociologist of gender, families, (a)sexualities, and social movements. Organizer of Ace/Aro Scholars Support Network. She/her
Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social Prof of Sociology @ Monash; Interim Head, School of Social Sciences; sociologist of masculinities and/or youth. Board Director, Respect Vic; Assoc Ed, Journal of Youth Studies; Committee member, AWCA; Spurs fan 😳😬
Tina Fetner @fetner.bsky.social Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦.
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
KenHanson.bsky.social @kenhanson.bsky.social Sociologist
Sexualities, Technology, Deviance
Katie Kaufman Rogers, PhD @drkatierogers.bsky.social 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵 🌻 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳 👩🏼🏫 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘯 🏀 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 🏳️🌈 🍉
Mitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social Professor housed in @lsjleeds.bsky.social at University of Leeds. Former Socio-Legal Studies Association trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)