Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social Literature prof, Eastern Michigan U // Anticolonial internationalisms, Cold War, and migration studies // Author, Narrating Post/Communism; Uncommon Alliances; Nonaligned Imagination.
www.emich.academia.edu/NatasaKovacevic
László Róbert Mézes @laszlorobertmezes.bsky.social 📍lives in🇬🇪 - Journalist 📹covering mainly 🇬🇪 - 💗of🇬🇪 | born in 🇭🇺 | “non-establishment mainstreamer”; activist; 📝🇪🇺🇭🇺🇬🇪politics, societies, economies | founder of @eebc.bsky.social
Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War, and currently writing a book about it. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast. Personal account, views expressed are mine alone.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
444 @444.hu A 444.hu független híroldal, 9-től 99 éves korig minden magyar ezt olvassa.
https://linkin.bio/negynegynegy
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Øystein H. Rolandsen @ohrolandsen.bsky.social Prof. at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) https://www.prio.org/people/4704
No glib quips, just a list of some interests: mediation, security assistance, organised violence, foreign interventions, culture, South/Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sahel.
Thomas Sorlie @thomassorlie.bsky.social Writing • Public Speaking • Consulting
Africa • Middle East • Islam
Dept. of Def, al-Hurra TV, VOA, Today's Zaman
Former Student of Imam at Darrus Salam, ATL, GA
MA in Islamic Studies - UGA
Part-time film snob.🎥🎬
Former IATSE Focus Puller.
Wisconsin, USA
Antoine Galindo @antoinegalindo.bsky.social Chef adjoint, service international de @liberation.fr | Un œil sur l’Afrique & MENA |📍Paris | EN & FR
Alice Fereday @alicefereday.bsky.social Senior Analyst, North Africa and Sahel Observatory @Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
Researching illicit economies in the Sahel, with a focus on Niger and Chad
Wazir Khan Isakhail @wazirkhanafg.bsky.social Education Activist.
https://linktr.ee/wazirkhanafg
Reuters @reuters.com
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
Maria Seyrig @mariaseyrig.bsky.social Ukraine: Essays on a Nation's Fight for Survival by Kost Elisevich
www.kostelisevich.com
kostelisevich.substack.com
Views are my own. 🇺🇦
Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social Nationality, statelessness, identification, human rights; Africa & international. Affiliations: @globalcit.bsky.social @icws-sas.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social
https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bronwen-Manby/research
Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social Associate Professor in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, (post-)Soviet wars.
Mariana Kalil, PhD @marianakalil.bsky.social Prof. @ Brazilian War College
Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) @parinstitute.bsky.social PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
Marie Toulemonde @marietlmd.bsky.social Datajournaliste @jeuneafrique.com
⚫️🐦⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests
#TerrorinGeorgia
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini #Fuckrussia
Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social Recovering Cdn diplomat (posted in Mexico, Colombia, Sudan, Pakistan, South Africa & South Sudan). Sails, writes books, treks; opinionated on both Sudans. Home is Salt Spring Island BC. Sailing blog www.bosunbird.com Also at (X) @NicholasCoghlan
Glaeldys González @glaeldys.bsky.social Analyst, South Andes @crisisgroup.org
Anastasia @anastasia-austin.bsky.social Freelance investigative journalist and security analyst in LatAm focusing on organized crime, corruption, and the people who fight it.
Former InSight Crime investigator. Read my work: https://muckrack.com/anastasia-austin-1
k @koslofer.bsky.social Reposts & likes ≠ endorsements
Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com Senior Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict. British Academy Fellow. Cat dad.
Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social Founder Green String Network (@GSNAfrica.bsky.social) || Healing-centered peacebuilder || Author of "Healing is what makes peace work" 🌿 #SDGs #Peacebuilding 🫘
Michele Kelemen @michelekelemen.bsky.social Covering diplomacy for NPR
Peter Bouckaert @bouckap.bsky.social I am a passionate human rights activist, conservationist, permaculture farmer, father. Current senior director at Fortify Rights, building local human rights capacity in Asia. Living in Madagascar.
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
Archives: https://eliaayoub.com
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
The Empire Never Ended @tenepod.bsky.social The Empire Never Ended is a weekly podcast about fascist freaks and Balkan (anti)nationalist history. We mostly cover horrible things. All in great detail.
https://tenepod.libsyn.com/
https://www.patreon.com/tenepod
Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social "I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"
The Wayward Anthropologist coming April 2027
Lisa Musiol @lisamusiol.bsky.social Head of EU Affairs @crisisgroup.org. Working on EU Foreign and Security Policy, Conflict Prevention, Early Warning, Crisis Management. Based in BXL.
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
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- B Bede Márton @bedemarton.bsky.social
Carla D. Martin @carladmartin.bsky.social Harvard Lecturer on African and African American Studies, Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research Board President, author, researcher, reader, musician, polyglot, partner. Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's. she/her
Graeme Smith @graemesmithauthor.bsky.social Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group
Enrica Picco @enripicco.bsky.social Central Africa Director @CrisisGroup | #Cameroon #CARcrisis #Chad, and #Russia in the region | Italian in Kenya 🇮🇹🇰🇪 | Usual caveats.
Federico Tadei @federicotadei.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. Economic History | Development | Africa | Colonization | Trade | Inequality
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/federicotadei/home
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
Erik @egveitikkje.bsky.social English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at UTS, research on the United Nations and the prevention of atrocity crimes.
Monograph 'Inside the UN Security Council' with OUP 2023.
🏳️🌈
Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, detention, and torture & ill-treatment.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"- S @szvbrk.bsky.social @szvbrk.bsky.social
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Isabelle Arradon @isabellearradon.bsky.social Strategic Adviser. Tweets on #ConflictPrevention #CivilianProtection #Gender.
Ex-Research Director for 10+ years @CrisisGroup, and formerly Senior Research Policy Adviser @Amnesty. Based in Europe.
defenceWeb @defenceweb.co.za defenceWeb.co.za is Africa’s leading online aerospace and defence news and analysis portal, delivering timely and accurate information to a global audience of industry professionals, decision-makers, and enthusiasts.
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Poorva Karkare @poorvak.bsky.social Development economist; interested in political economy of economic transformation; Africa focus; Indian at heart
Studied at SOAS; former ODI fellow; currently policy officer at ECDPM
Usual disclaimers..
Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Gov, Univ of Essex, governance in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; ESRC MCCRA; East Westphalian
https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Floor Keuleers @floorkeuleers.bsky.social Strategic Adviser in President's Office @crisisgroup.org | Previously REACH Initiative in #Niger and PhD at KU Leuven
Enyseh Teimory @ezteimory.bsky.social Head of Policy, United Nations Association - UK. Londoner, brit-ish. Working for a better world, an effective UN, and principled UK foreign policy.
https://una.org.uk/ // https://1for8billion.org/ // https://bluesmoke.blog/
Daniel Akech Thiong @jongethon.bsky.social Senior Analyst, South Sudan @Crisisgroup|Books: The Politics of Fear in South Sudan (Zed, 2021) |Climate Shocks & Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth.bsky.social Deputy Director for Latin America @crisisgroup.org. Past lives in the Arabian Peninsula and West Africa. Ex-journo, @economist.com @foreignpolicy.com. Runner.
Maya Ungar @mayaungar.bsky.social posting about all things UN & international conflict 🕊// currently UN Analyst at International Crisis Group (@crisisgroup.org) // she/her // all views are my own
Brian J. Peterson @brianjapeterson.bsky.social Historian of Africa, Prof at Union College (NY). Author: Thomas Sankara https://iupress.org/9780253053763/thomas-sankara/ Interested in Sahel and francophone Africa: French colonialism, revolutions, Cold War, environmental history
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History.
“Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social We unite all social science research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and offer high-quality PhD training
Julia Budka @jubudka.bsky.social Egyptologist & archaeologist, working in Egypt & Sudan, PI of ERC DiverseNile project, LMU Munich
Katie G @ktgarner.bsky.social Words, Photos, Immigration, Emigration, Books, Politics, People, Dogs.
Rwanda/UK.
Portfolio: ktgphotography.com
Roman Deckert @romandeckert.bsky.social Sudan|ese & SouthSudan|ese @❤️ since 1997, #Utopia #HighFidelity. #MediaDev @ MiCT. #Wikipedia 4☮️. Based in Versoix, Geneva.
Justin Lynch @justinlynch.bsky.social Managing Director, Conflict Insights Group, a public benefit analytics and research firm. co-author Sudan's Unfinished Democracy http://tinyurl.com/4mfzbe3n. views my own.
Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social Proud San Diegan and lover of June gloom
Fan of 🚴♀️, ⚾️ and good 🥃.
PFP credit: Fabio Napoleoni
Charlie Werb @charliewerb.bsky.social Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly Sahel) | Terrorism | Conflict | Opinions are my own
Journal of African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal publishing essays in English, French and Portuguese on the economic history of Africa.
Send us your manuscript!
https://aeh.uwpress.org/
The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
Charles Bouëssel @charlesbouessel.bsky.social Analyste sur le Tchad et la République centrafricaine pour International Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org
Declan Walsh @declanwal.bsky.social Documentation, Collections Management, Books and rainbows.