KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast @kickbackgap.bsky.social #Podcast sparking a debate about #(anti)corruption featuring world leading experts
Hosted by the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption @sussexscsc.bsky.social
Liz David-Barrett @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex
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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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social Professor at Uni of Adelaide: International Security & Public Policy. Researching Authoritarianism and Blacklisting. Follows and posts 🇬🇧 and 🇦🇺 politics. ARC Future Fellow (2025-29).
Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social Political Sociologist - citizen engagement, digital politics, young people, future of work, advocacy, & popular culture.
But prefers dogs, coffee, chocolate
From Sydney 🇦🇺 now living in Glasgow 🏴
Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social Academic. Political scientist researching public policy / admin & occasionally foreign policy via auspol + comparative analyses.
Settler living on unceded Dharug country.
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.
Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Flinders University 🇦🇺
populist radical right • political parties • women’s and youth political participation
sofiaammassari.com
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ
Digitised Archive @digitisedarchive.bsky.social For academics who need archival research without the travel. We digitise your requested documents from London’s libraries and archives, delivering high-quality scans worldwide.
www.digitisedarchive.co.uk
@asianstudiesreview.bsky.social @asianstudiesreview.bsky.social
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
@asiancurrents.bsky.social @asiancurrents.bsky.social
Sukhmani Khorana @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social Scientia Associate Professor at UNSW. Work on Media, Migration & Affect . Editor-in-Chief of 'Food, Culture & Society' journal.
Izmy @izmykhu.bsky.social Anthropologist/Indonesia
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Dr. Julie Chernov @drjchernov.bsky.social Professor. #PSC #IR. Author. Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization & Commitment in Southeast Asia @ oxfordacademic. Why Terrorists Quit @Cornellpress. Terrorist Behavior. CVE. How Terror Cells are Constructed. Repatriation. SE Asia. Equality for all.
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
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.
Ethan Mark @ethanmark.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan and Indonesia at Leiden University. Author, Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History; translator, Grassroots Fascism (吉見義明の「草の根のファシズム:日本民衆の戦争体験」の英訳). Lover and player of funky music
Michael Vann: Orca 5th Columnist @michaelgvann.bsky.social Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", Jacobin Southeast Asia Columnist, mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest, DLL
Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social IR at ANU
International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia
Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
www.deepaknair.org
Evan A. Laksmana @elaksmana.bsky.social Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
evanlaksmana.com
Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social Professor of Global Political History
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏
Photography | Visual Culture
War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
New Mandala @newmandala.bsky.social A forum for anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia since 2006. Want to contribute? See: https://www.newmandala.org/contributing-to-nm/
Lynette Russell @lynetterussell.bsky.social Always was, always will be. ARC Laureate Professor. Posts are my own views. Reposts are often ironic. Historian and political junkie. Always tired,
@MonashUni
I prefer dogs to most people.
Edward Aspinall @edwardaspinall.bsky.social Researches Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian, politics at the Australian National University.
Ian Wilson @iwilson69.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies, Principal Fellow, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch Uni. ISEAS Fellow. Research urban social movements in SEA, Indonesian democracy/authoritarianism, intersections of crime, violence & politics
Ariel Heryanto @arielheryanto.com https://linktr.ee/arielheryanto
Leiden Humanities @leidenhumanities.bsky.social Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. News about research 🔍, teaching 📚 and events ✨.
Zachary Abuza @zachabuza.bsky.social Southeast Asian politics and security. Professor at the National War College, adjunct at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, and columnist for Radio Free Asia/Benar News. Surly New Englander. Views are my own, not NWC/DOD.- R Robert Cribb @robertcribb.bsky.social Historian of Indonesia and other places
Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social Professor of Global History at King’s College London.
Histories of development, non-elite politics, Australia & Asia. Books: ‘Saving the World?’ (CUP, 2021) & ‘Visiting the Neighbours’ (UNSW, 2014). Next: ‘The World vs the World Bank’
Meredith Weiss @merweiss.bsky.social Professor of political science at SUNY Albany. Activism, elections, democracy/reversal, rights, reform, etc. Often in Southeast Asia, or wanting to be there.
Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social Author, Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, journalism, religious freedom and belief, freedom of expression, West Papua https://www.andreasharsono.net/
Janet Steele @janetsteele.bsky.social GW Journalism professor, author of five books including one in Indonesian, dog parent, friend of independent media.
Liam Prince @aciciscd.bsky.social Director of the Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies
(@acicis.bsky.social -- pronounced ah-chee-chis; https://www.acicis.edu.au/).
Opinions definitely my own.
Michele Ford @profmicheleford.bsky.social Labour sociologist and Southeast Asia tragic. Researches industrial relations and the intersection of global and local labour movements in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Timor-Leste. Also interested in gender and disability at work.
Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social global citizen landed in Southeast Asia from Europe - former Asia regional director Rockefeller Foundation & IDRC, senior adviser Ausaid (DFAT) and program officer Ford Foundation, now founding director @seajunction.bsky.social (www.rosaliasciortino.com)
Yatun Sastramidjaja @yatunsastra.bsky.social Anthropologist in Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/a/y.sastramidjaja/y.m.sastramidjaja.html?cb
John Marston @marston52.bsky.social Scholar of Southeast Asia, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México. Religion and the State, Cambodia, Buddhism, Mekong, refugees, movies, bad puns.
Peter Schoppert @psmedia.asia Running a university press in Singapore at https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg. Tracking the legal uncertainty around AI training since October 2022 at https://aicopyright.substack.com. Other stuff at https://psmedia.asia.
Alan Feinstein @ahfeinstein.bsky.social
Vannessa Hearman @vhearman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Writes on Indonesia, East Timor, Cold War, decolonisation and related topics.
Sony Karsono @sonykarsono.bsky.social Historian of the Malay World: modernity, modernism, urban experience. Associate Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Diana Darling @dianadarlingbali.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor and occasional translator, towards clear, fresh English.
riohelmi @riohelmi.bsky.social Indonesian photographer and writer based in bali for half a century, working in regional and international media etc for more than 40 years, Buddhist teacher. www.riohelmi.com / medium.com@riohelmi /
insta @riohelmi + riohelmi_documentary (X refugee!)
Aida Greenbury @aidagreenbury.bsky.social Javanese nemophilist, sustainability, support zero deforestation, the voiceless, climate, SBD. Currently writing my autobiography. IG aida_greenbury
au.linkedin.com/in/aidagreenbury
Wulan K. Wardhani @wulanluna.bsky.social Indonesian freelance journalist. Sports and cat lover. Human rights enthusiast. Coffee drinker. Former urban cyclist. Eternal fan of Iker Casillas.
*Nunca más, ni perdón, ni olvido. Memoria, verdad y justicia*
Herald van der Linde @heraldlinde.bsky.social Indonesiaphile. Majapahit. Jakarta. Bad cook. Asian equities.
Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social Journalism lecturer, writer, Talking Indonesia, Melbourne Press Club, PhD on horror + digital culture + ethnography
I also write and think about food, identity, colonialism, monsters and racism
Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social medical anthropologist | global health | trans studies | author of The Made-Up State | Asia and Pacific Health @KirbyInstitute I FIAS Fellow Institut d'études avancées de Paris & Affiliate Oxford Anthropology 24-25
Pepitorino @postcolsandwich.bsky.social Teaching/researching sustainability & monoculture. Fake geographer, lousy sociologist. Gold medalist in mental gymnastics.
Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social Social/medical anthropologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau - U of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Originally from Schenectady NY, USA. Research in Indonesia. Gardener. Home fermentation. Music nerd. Genre fiction. #AbolishICE
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@mvatikiotis.bsky.social @mvatikiotis.bsky.social Writer, Private Diplomat - based in Asia.
Loren Ryter @lryter.bsky.social person of interest
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