Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
cinnamon 🐇 🏳️⚧️ @plushie.holdings sugar & spice etcetc. bunny plushie in real
tech/music/language. en/fr/한/es ok
less noisy @char.lt
USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social Pictures and photographs from Soviet Union. Soviet Posters: https://ussrpictures-shop.fourthwall.com/
EU in Emergencies @euinemergencies.ec.europa.eu How the EU acts in emergencies.
Disaster preparedness, crisis response & humanitarian aid in Europe and beyond. 🤝
ECHO 🔹 HERA 🔹 FPI 🔹 Copernicus
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Brian T. Rice @briantrice.bsky.social Mad computer scientist; electric motorcycle hacker; software architect; data viz whatever? Navy nuclear tech pre-9/11, always NB. They/them. https://signal.me/#eu/5U6AQo_peWVxKPh5raxwBKUp8UxZm4iwfIb-21fgVSVQFRgfXn1DF42nvXiWSNfu
Eric Kolb @erickolb.me Millennial greybeard and World’s Okayest Miniature Painter.
Science fiction, fantasy, the occasional stars war, and other tabletop and board game geekery.
Find me in #MiniaturePainting and #BookSky.
https://linktr.ee/erickolb
Shodan Safari @shodansafari.lol Posting random entries from everyone's favorite internet security search engine.
Content may be 18+ and NSFW. You have been warned.
Complaints/Takedown requests: @meson.ninja
see also @vnclotto.misentropic.com for more open internet infrastructure
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com a longtime industry vet, I make games and lead design teams, and am looking for my next opportunity. Check out my rarely updated blog at http://www.zenofdesign.com
I'm a white cis straight male (he/him), an ally albeit an occasionally imperfect one.
Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill @handle.invalid Scratcher
Director of Technology/CTO Scratch Foundation
Former Super Hero Leg Model
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/codubee
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
🙏 buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi
📝 panyiszabolcs.substack.com
🗞️ vsquare.org/newsletter
✉️ szabolcs.panyi@vsquare.org
AaronCTI @aaroncti.bsky.social Co-Founder Webamon, Founder @perspectiveintel.bsky.social. Author of Cyber Threat Intelligence: The No-Nonsense Guide for CISOs & Security Managers. Training at Kase Scenarios! Exec/Webinars @osint-community.bsky.social and creator of osintportal.com
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Meduza in English @meduza.io Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social Political & security analyst. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸. FPRI Eurasia fellow, chief editor of Bear Market Brief. Delphi GRC fellow. Ex-CEPA, ESI. Posts about 🇷🇺, 🇪🇺, illiberalism & its limits. My own views.
Здесь вам не Toth.
www.noyardstick.com
minczifra.substack.com
Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social Ada programmer, retired but still at it, on Mac.
At the other place,I was a "Deeply unhelpful cave-dwelling liberal-elite filthy remoaner citizen of nowhere. Moralising cog in an engine of evil."
https://github.com/simonjwright
PLDI @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Website: https://pldi26.sigplan.org/. Official hashtag this year: #PLDI2026. Posts by @jcenzo.bsky.social and @konstantinoskallas.bsky.social.
U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org An independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of seapower.
Andrea (unrepentant) @alt.valkyrie.hacker.gf abolish civility perverts
auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social Every system is a sensor if you hold it right.
Main arena, Baltics. 🇸🇪
mastodon.world/@auonsson , x.com/auonsson backup 🇸🇪
Angry Gunner @fouthtimelucky.bsky.social Nothing Interesting
The Slides @theslides.bsky.social Bot posting 4x daily from Sam Biddle's curated collection of US military slides from the Cold War era.
Sam's intro essay: https://www.patreon.com/MaxRead/posts/true-life-for-i-155014876
Slides courtesy @sambiddle.com
Bot by @brian.gawalt.com
Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au lover of Jesus, Linux, PowerPC, Canberra, housing, trains, unions | we should probably pause AI | Q3'26 AI safety research fellow @ Pivotal | build more homes @greatercanberra.org.au
https://andrew.donnellan.id.au | @ajdlinux | @ajd@ozlabs.house
Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov Official Bluesky account for the 57th Governor of New York State. Social Media Use Policy: https://www.ny.gov/social-media-policy
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org Author of Naval Fiction, Freelance Defence Journalist – Naval & Aeronautical History
MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
Grey ships, black boats
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com Trusted by maritime insurers, oil producers & traders, finance, governments and top news orgs to track down oil shipments. Vessel pronouns are she/her. Got it?
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social PRC and DPRK strategic forces analyst with CNA. BA Reed College, MA Middlebury Institute. NSF GRFP. 
Kristopher Micinski @krismicinski.bsky.social kmicinski.com
Interested in automated reasoning, static analysis, and logic programming and literally nothing else.
Emily Fagan @thatemfagan.bsky.social Journalist with the CBC | formerly with the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail | tips: emily.fagan@cbc.ca
Heather Miller @heathermiller.bsky.social Professing computery things at CMU, doing science at Two Sigma. Co-founder & former Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL. Past life: artist @ Cooper Union
spectre crouton @spectrecrouton.bsky.social Deep diving, original analysis and reporting on the Russian Navy and related maritime topics. Views expressed do not reflect those of my current or past employers, nor do they reflect the views of Vova (you know which one).
Little Red (Sm⬡l but Sw⬡l) @littlered.bsky.social Hacker who is a gaming, writing, programming, ΑΨΩ (acting), hula hooping, hair/body chemist, sewer, and DIYer that runs, and lifts
All comments are my own!
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Caer Sanders @withcaer.com I tell stories about AI, robotics, and interactive media with code and care -- and I transform them into products.
Check out my works and other socials at caer.cc!
Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
Mugwump Jones @mugwumpjones.bsky.social Muppet and consumer of aged memes.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Corporal Frisk @corporalfrisk.com Robin Häggblom, Finnish defence and national security analyst, Senior Advisor at Risk Intelligence. My business card preaches the value of Knowing Risk.
AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social Reliable & fast news provider, collaborator of @bnonews.com.
cameron @orcaorcinus.bsky.social He/him
VA employee
Opinions are my own
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Center for Security & Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit & Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI
🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com
Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
Now: Senior Counsel @freepress | 2026 Bellagio Residency Fellow @rockefeller (writing a book) | Board of Directors @benandjerrys
www.norabenavidez.com
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Matthew Sussex @matthewsussex.bsky.social Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Jayson Harsin @jaysonharsin.bsky.social Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com PhD UCL SSEES, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist at EUObserver, outdoor research fellow.
Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social Political Science, Information Warfare, Political Communication
Mark Jacobson @drmarkjacobson.bsky.social Historian of political and psychological warfare; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center at Salve Regina University; co-host of the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast and host of “You May Have Heard,” Army and Navy vet, and proud University of 〽️ichigan grad.
Joe McReynolds @joemcreynolds.bsky.social Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Evolving Information Warfare (2025). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Paul Lashmar @paullashmar.bsky.social Dr Paul Lashmar, Investigative Journalist, author and Emeritus Fellow at CityStGs UoL, retired Associate Professor. Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
Rūta Kazlauskaitė @rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism.
Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University.
Alberto Fittarelli @fittarelli.com Sr. Researcher @citizenlab.ca, Disinformation & Harassment. Fmr. Meta. Trainer: find & expose covert influence. I like doers. Opinions my own.
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Trevor Hugh Davis @trevordavis-usa.bsky.social Exploring the forces shaping misinformation and institutional trust: uncovering the incentives, disincentives, and impacts driving systemic challenges. Notre Dame research scientist.
Göran Bolin @goranbolin.eurosky.social Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
sh.se/mkv
Clément Renault @clementrenault.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social 🕵️🛰️📡 · Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk · Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po - Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 📚
Website: https://clementrenault.com
Colin Gerard @colingerard.bsky.social Personal account
Head of Threat Analysis @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Maxime Audinet @maudinet.bsky.social Assistant Professor of International Relations & International Communication @inalco.fr
▪️Russian Politics & Media
▪️Influence, Foreign Policy & Authoritarianism
Co-founder @coruscant-eu.bsky.social
Previously Research Fellow @irsem.bsky.social
Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social Head of the School of Politics and Economics at KCL. Researching conspiracy theories and democracy. Former 🚒🚑
Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social Head of the School of Law, Politics, & Society, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Whitney Phillips @whitneyphillips.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com
Rosie Arroyo @rosiearroyo.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Posdoctoral Researcher | UNAM-Mx 🇲🇽
Dis and Misinformation / Public Communication / Sociopolitical Sniffer & Avocado Fan 🥑
Dorian Quelle @dorianquelle.bsky.social PhD Candidate Quantitative Network Science @ UZH, Research Associate @ Oxford Internet Institute, Data Scientist & Disinformation Researcher @ http://Pattrn.AI
Matthias Schulze @percepticon.bsky.social PhD in political science, studying infosec, cyber conflict & information war. Blue Team at SRLabs in Berlin.
Blog and podcast about my work over at https://percepticon.de or https://ioc.exchange/@percepticon