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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social If you like tweets you’re in for a treat 🤫
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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
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I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
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I like human rights and French cuisine.
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Jamie Martin @jamiemartin2.bsky.social Historian at Harvard. Author of THE MEDDLERS: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard, 2022). Writing a history of the world economy during the First World War.
Hanna Scholten @sokalie.bsky.social PhD Student Researching Political Trust | University of Sheffield
Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social Monotropic semi speaking adult writing about neurodivergent play & adventures. MTB, digital a11y, AAC user, podcast host & lion tamer (he/him)
Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com Education policy analyst. Host of 'Inside Your Ed' podcast (www.insideyoured.com). Former teacher, think tank director and government advisor. Follow my work here: https://linktr.ee/tomrichmond
End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social Board Game Entrepreneur. Hosts @trashfuture.bsky.social, @nogodsnomayors.com, @gluefactory.bsky.social
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social Climate politics
Researcher CNRS, prof SciencesPo, writer (Affluence and Freedom, Polity books, 2021, War Ecology).
Co-founder @construirecolo.bsky.social
Views my own
Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social 19th-century German philosophy (mostly Hegel, with a dash of Marx) | Comparative philosophy of race | Africana philosophy | Philosophy of social science
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social PhD student studying neurodivergent culture and the neoliberal standard of ‘normal’ within universities. Neurodivergent, pan, sea enjoyer, lady-in-waiting to Astrid and Fin the cats. Belle and Sebastian fan, 6music Dad. Tangata Tiriti in-progress.
Jade Farrington (she/her) @jadefarrington.bsky.social ♾️ Disabled, Neurodivergent counsellor & rewind trauma therapist
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Georgia Harper @mindtheflap.bsky.social Autistic autism policy wonk. Co-hosts a podcast about Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker. Views my own. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/mindtheflap
Liam Renouf @liamrenouf.bsky.social Neurocommunist Futures. Critical Autism Studies. ESRC funded PhD Researcher at Uni of Sheffield.
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Sarah Silverman @sarahesilverman.bsky.social Instructional designer and instructor of Disability Studies. Neurodiversity history and applications to teaching, UDL, feminist pedagogy. (she/her) www.sarahemilysilverman.com
Dr. Ben Mitchell @drlibraryben.bsky.social (he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting edu/tech narrative.
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Jenny Sinclair @jennysinclair.bsky.social Wait, what?
https://jennysinclair.substack.com
Research and higher ed skeets at: @jsResearchPro.bsky.social
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social Father of two, husband to one. Professor of Political Theory (University of Sheffield). Author of Post-Liberalism (https://amzn.eu/d/h2w2yXI).
James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall. MD ANT.
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social Thinking Person's Guide to Autism. She/Her. Neutral Good. Earnest AF. Likes cephalopods. Targ herder. “A Vulcan should have a more resilient bladder.” So mamy typos.
Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social 'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and @thewhale1851.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social Athro Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social Political Economist | Green Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UMass Amherst | Political economy of the low-carbon transition, energy and resources in economic growth and development, inequality | Views are my own
@drmeganprice.bsky.social @drmeganprice.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at The University of Western Australia
Legitimacy and violence
Also football ⚽️
Nathan Critch @nathancritch.bsky.social Research associate @manchester.ac.uk working in political economy, governance, and British politics.
Currently doing research on post-crisis public inquiries, British economic governance in wake of GFC, and the political economy of AI.
Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Stefano Ponte @stefanoponte.bsky.social Power, Inequality & Sustainability in Business & the Economy / Prof. of IPE at Copenhagen Business School /
Co-editor Review of Int. Political Economy / New book out in 2025: “Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass.” Born @ 323 ppm
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian | Tips: henry.dyer@theguardian.com/henrydyer.01 (Signal) | Interested in Politics/Media/🚂/CofE
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/henry-dyer
http://direthoughts.com
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social Author of Currency of Nihilism (Stanford 2026). Editor-in-Chief of Finance and Society. Director of Finance and Society Network.
Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi.bsky.social editor of a new magazine called DISPATCH | www.dispatch-media.com
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social I bleat about the history of global economic development
https://pseudoerasmus.substack.com/
https://pseudoerasmus.com
https://medium.com/@pseudoerasmus
Luke Turner @luketurner.com artist // writer // defeated crypto billionaire-funded neo-Nazis in "the free speech trial of our age" // hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨
🔗 luketurner.com
Mosaic of Minds @mosaicofminds.bsky.social Neurodivergent writer on the science of #neurodiversity and individual differences. A unique blend of cognitive #neuroscience, speech/language therapy (#SLP), #education, philosophy, and #disability. https://mosaicofmindss.substack.com/
Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social Radically inauthentic green communist sex witch. Digs occult androgyny & shamanic ecoporn. Skyclad for a ludic revolution. Member International Communist Coven. LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/stewarthome
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Ash @queerash.bsky.social he / him 🏳️🌈⛓️🍉⬆️ "economist" | nsfw | please do not embarrass me in the replies
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
Nick Walker @dr-nicky.bsky.social Writer/co-creator of the WEIRD LUCK webcomic at weirdluck.net. Professor of Psychology & Psychedelic Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies. Aikido teacher at aikiarts.com. Author of NEUROQUEER HERESIES.
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Stephen Holden Bates @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Birmingham, UK.
Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social Associate professor at Leiden University. Political economy, migration, welfare states 🇨🇭🇵🇹 🇳🇱 http://alexandreafonso.me
Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49
Author page: https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social Rock over London, rock on Chicago
WRITING
check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame
MUSIC
youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi
bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social
Seb Kaempf @sebkaempf.bsky.social A/Prof in Peace and Conflict Studies at UQ: https://polsis.uq.edu.au/profile/1237/sebastian-kaempf
Lover of good conversations, coffee, music, art, and seeing where life will take me.
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social Associate Professor University of Sussex | Director Centre for Advanced Intternational Theory | FRHistS. Historical IR, Intellectual History, Practices, Emotions. Personal account. RT ≠ endorsement
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/- N Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack:
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/publish
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social New Yorker abroad. Adam Smith Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Economy at University of Glasgow studying governance by/of corporations. Sometimes journalist. Always feminist.
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social Sheffield's new quality newspaper — sent via email to over 34,000 readers. Join for free at the link below. Always looking for new writers and new stories — DM us.
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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social Reporter @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social — part of @millmedia.bsky.social | Got a story? Email: dan@sheffieldtribune.co.uk 📧
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk