Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social Nomad.
Walked away from Omelas.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social Pictures and photographs from Soviet Union. Soviet Posters: https://ussrpictures-shop.fourthwall.com/
Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social linktr.ee/danilic
Investigative Humourist.
Host @ARationalFear Podcast.
Winner 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Australian Podcast Awards Best Comedy Podcast.
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10 ROWS A DAY @10rowsaday.bsky.social Whether you are a beginner or an experienced knitter, take your knitting to the next level with plenty of in-depth knitting tutorials, courses, patterns and classes.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social Be-shadowed music reviewer on YouTube, cohost of
Song vs. Song
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Media/inquiries: toddintheshadows@standard.tv
petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social australian mammal
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social Employment & industrial relations lawyer, Honorary Associate Adjunct Professor, Author ‘Working for the Brand’, tribunal member.
https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/working-for-the-brand-9781761381041
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 
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social Co-founder at GiveInternet.org. From 🇬🇪. Helping Georgian strays through Zero Strays Georgia.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.ukr.monster Spicy Ukrainian and ungrateful bitch 🌚 Volunteer with the charity organization „Angels of Donbas“
All the reports👇
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel-Palestine.
👉 https://linktr.ee/standingtogether.en
André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | "Australian-adjacent person": Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social RAAC Cavalry Officer SF (Rtd) | Socialist | Atheist | Politics | Military, Ancient and Medieval History Buff | NAFO | Art and Archeology | Wine ponce | cat guy. au/ua
Si vis pacem para bellum
Living on the unceded land of Yuggera and Ugarapul people
The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com The First English Language media outlet on the region, est. 1999. Central Asia's independent news source - covering politics, economics, culture, social issues, and foreign affairs. timesca.com Contact us: bit.ly/4g1ijim
Ukraine Cricket @ukrainecricket.bsky.social Since 1993 🇺🇦🏏
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📚 GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War: https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out
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👋🏻 Admin: @jonathancampion.com
Cristian Canțâr @cristiancantir.bsky.social Associate Professor, Oakland University. Foreign policy analysis, paradiplomacy/sub-state diplomacy, role theory, Romania, Moldova, fiction, and TV. Academic work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Vvx23r4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubda
Sher Khashimov @skhashimov.bsky.social Freelance journalist and researcher covering press freedom, regional conflicts, migration, and digital politics in Eurasia.
sherkhashimov.com
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Nicholas Walmsley @hulegu.bsky.social Gentleman at Large | Bishkek, Tokyo| I do what I enjoy and enjoy what I do | IG: ngwalmsley
“Some constipated pedant who will take an eternity to get anything done”
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com Central Asia wanderer 🇰🇿🇸🇱🇰🇬 | Cricket writer 🏏 | Also Norfolk, Eurasia and Ukraine 🇺🇦
🌏 jonathancampion.com
🏏 jonathancampion.com/cricket
📷 lifeincentralasia.picfair.com
📲 youtube.com/@20SecondTravels
Trish Fraser @trishf42.bsky.social Living on stolen land, Wotjobaluk/Wergaia country. (Oz, in case it wasn't clear.) Green leftie. Elderly geek. Braillophile. Ailurophile. she/her
Auxilius Foundation @auxiliusfoundation.org We support unmet needs for humanitarian and animal welfare causes. Donate at https://auxilius.app/donate
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
Borys Kormych @kormych.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Prof., Head of Maritime & Customs Law Department, Odessa Law Academy; Editor-in-Chief Lex Portus
Black Sea security, trade & shipping
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
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:
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RJ 🇺🇦🇦🇺 @srslysemi.bsky.social Cat lover 🐈⬛ Ukraine supporter 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Australian with an unhealthy - nay, pathological - interest in US politics 😕
Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Editor of The Klaxon.
theklaxon.com.au
Gareth Roberts @garethroberts3.bsky.social Welsh/Cymro, Barrister, occasional contributor to Byline Times; author of Whatever Happened To Billy Parks? (Winner of the Jerwood Prize 2014) + Confessions of a Barrister, also enthusiastic rugby fan and collector of vinyl records - what’s not to like!
Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social Journalist writing about politics, culture, migration and society in Central Asia and Eurasia more broadly | PhD candidate in Anthropology at CUNY GC | en-ru-fr-de | кыргызча сүйлөйм
Words in @economist.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @eurasianet.bsky.social
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study very bad things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Seamus Billings @billo15.bsky.social Education, pro climate and fairness,
HFC 🏉 Dad of 2. Wurundjeri Country
Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social Psephologist, polling analyst and poll transparency advocate, political commentator, ecologist, chess player/admin. No party loyalties. Not-A-Pollster.
Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social The Jewish Council of Australia provides an independent, expert Jewish voice opposing all forms of racism and supporting Palestinian freedom and justice
Sajad Alipour @sajadalipour98.bsky.social PhD
Botanist & Ecologist
With a focus on bulbs and alpines
I am looking for a postdoc position.
Hussein Ibish @ibishblog.bsky.social Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute (AGSI), weekly columnist for The National, and writer and speaker at large. Former Bloomberg columnist and New York Times regular contributor, now writing a lot for The Atlantic.
Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, does radio stuff, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona
https://linktr.ee/patstokes
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
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Steve McDowell @cowsmellcj.bsky.social A skeptic with a healthy curiosity.
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Terry Sedgwick 🦘 T.S. un ami. @lordsedgwick.bsky.social 🦘 Age= 4 score and counting. Conceived 1945 in Eastbourne, UK. Delivered 1946 in Carlton, Vic, Australia. 50+ years 3041 resident. 1 of 17 students at Rossbridge Primary & thereafter Ararat High & Trinity College.
Слава Україні 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇺 @cientygrysa.bsky.social Real talk across various topics. Pun, fact & satire enthusiast. Can you pick the difference? 💁 #NAFO. Upgrade your feed. X refugee @cien_tygrysa
Keiran Hogan @keiranh.bsky.social Woke lefty i suppose. Likes trucks /machinery/industrial stuff. Also jazz, running, politics.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Taras Melnyk @taras19921.bsky.social I'm Ukrainian🇺🇦 To understand why I'm here, just scroll through my feed. Ukraine will win!
Twitter: https://x.com/taras19921?t=wvRJjPz5URUCBJw5UhC1Jg&s=09
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Consultancy network: auroramacro.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
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/
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji