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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Mu’izz Liew @myuizzu.bsky.social Comparative-historical scholar interested in autocratic monarchies within the Global South (especially Southeast Asia). Currently a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University.
keanwong @keanwong.bsky.social seasianista via nusantara, editor of (banned) http://bit.ly/2XpANUG
& https://bit.ly/m/keanwong
Stanford APARC @aparc.stanford.edu The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is @stanford.edu's hub for research and education on contemporary Asia. We're part of @fsi.stanford.edu. Reposts ≠ endorsements. Visit us at aparc.stanford.edu
@jannois.bsky.social @jannois.bsky.social 
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
@rusi.bsky.social 
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
Oona Paredes🌺 @oonaparedes.bsky.social Southeast Asian Studies + Indigenous Studies @UCLA🎓Author of "A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao" (Cornell SEAP, 2013)📕Mindanawon🌏she/her/siya🥥🥭🍉🇺🇦
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marypcallahan @marypc.bsky.social 
Christopher Choong @chrischoongww.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Shane Barter @profshane.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof, Canucks fan, Dad
NUS Press @nuspress.bsky.social Publisher of academic titles and high quality general non-fiction on Singapore and Southeast Asia. Based at the National University of Singapore.
https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/
Guillem Riambau-Armet @griambau.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona
Shawna Tang @shawnatang.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies. University of Sydney. On unceded Gadigal land. From Singapore.
Lee Badgett @lbadgett.bsky.social Chief economist of Koppa LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab; recovering academic and professor emeritx at UMass Amherst.
Marco Bünte @buente.bsky.social Professor of Asian Politics at FAU - political science with Southeast East Asia focus -
Co-editor: Journal of current southeast Asian affairs
Greg Raymond @gregoryvraymond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. Mainly SE Asia, mostly Mekong, a lot on Thailand. AMSEAS President. IR editor Asian Studies Review.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/greg-raymo
Stefan Rother @srother.bsky.social Guest researcher at University of Hamburg. Migration, Development, Global Governance, Human Rights…
Yaungchi @yaungchi.bsky.social Political Science PhD student at UAlbany
Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
Alexander Arifianto @alexarifianto.bsky.social Senior Fellow/Coordinator of Indonesia Programme, Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. All views my own/Repost # endorsement 
Darsh Ra @darshanonearth.bsky.social Eco anarchist.
@masjaliza.bsky.social @masjaliza.bsky.social 
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
@uhcseas.bsky.social @uhcseas.bsky.social A National Resource Center for the study of #SEAsia in the US and a coordinating body for University of Hawaiʻi Southeast Asian studies🙏🏼🤙🏼
Vannessa Hearman @vhearman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Writes on Indonesia, East Timor, Cold War, decolonisation and related topics.
Loren Ryter @lryter.bsky.social person of interest
Charlotte Setijadi @csetijadi.bsky.social Lecturer in Asian Studies, University of Melbourne | 📚 Memories of Unbelonging (UHP 2023) | Tweets identity politics in SE Asia (esp Indonesia) and cats | Retweet≠endorsement
charlottesetijadi.com
Politics and Rights Review @polrightsrev.bsky.social A trilingual, open-access journal making recent research in human and social sciences accessible to a global audience. Visit us at: https://politicsrights.com
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Dara Strolovitch @darazed.bsky.social 
Glenn A @raksiam.bsky.social Music. Photography. Travel. Soccer. Aussie Rules. Current events. Gay issues.
Gil Turingan @letsgiltheworld.bsky.social 🇵🇭 A Filipino scholar and educator focusing on democracy and memory studies
🇵🇱 Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warsaw, Poland
🇹🇭 A newly-minted Ph.D. in Thai Studies from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Thamora Fishel @thamora.bsky.social 
Malaysiakini @malaysiakini.bsky.social Unofficial. Malaysiakini is an award-winning news provider built on fast, accurate and independent news with diverse and well-informed views.
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Julien Labonne @jblabonne.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Oxford
https://jblabonne.leaflet.pub
Nick Kuipers @nickkuipers.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton
nicholaskuipers.com
Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social Law prof teaching human rights, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 25. ⚖️ 🏳️🌈 🏃
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
Andrew R. Flores @aflor017.github.io Political science
LGBTQ politics 🏳️🌈
Assoc Prof @American University
Distinguished Visiting Scholar @Williams Institute
Affiliated Scholar @PRRI.org
https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/aflores.cfm
https://aflor017.github.io
Queer Historian @queerhistory.bsky.social Sharing Queer History and gender/sexuality history 
Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social Academic (poli sci, law, and US political development), administrator, gymnastics fan, resident of upstate New York. Go Great Danes! Views expressed here are solely my personal opinions. Born at 321 PPM CO2. #polisky #skystorians
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social Retired political scientist in NH & Boston who still scholars. Also making believe I'm a historian, farmer, cook, baker. I do love democracy, knowing stuff, looking at art, listening to music. Current research: history of higher education in the U.S.
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Bridget Welsh @dririshsea.bsky.social Independent Scholar & Political Analyst focused on Southeast Asia / Consultant Geopolitics/Governance / Podcaster - Straight Talk Southeast Asia / Columnist Malaysiakini/Benar News/ Love Food, Nature and Animals / w/beloved dog Surya / Global Citizen 🇮🇪🇲🇾🇺🇲🍉
Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social The University of Michigan's Center for Political Studies (CPS) posts about social science research, politics, policy, and free data resources.
Ariel Heryanto @arielheryanto.com https://linktr.ee/arielheryanto
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.
Barbara Sutton @barbarasutton1.bsky.social Professor/Profesora, University at Albany, SUNY
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social WFU English / WFU Humanities Institute / Melville's Democracy: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35599 / Leviathan: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/601 / Should be going for that run.
@mvatikiotis.bsky.social @mvatikiotis.bsky.social Writer, Private Diplomat - based in Asia.
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
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.
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.
Yatun Sastramidjaja @yatunsastra.bsky.social Anthropologist in Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/a/y.sastramidjaja/y.m.sastramidjaja.html?cb
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social 
Valerie Yeo @valerieyeo.bsky.social 
Zurairi A.R. @zurairi.bsky.social 📰 Journalist
🕌 International Assoc of Religion Journos rep theiarj.org
✉️ zurairi@pm.me
🌐 zurairi.carrd.co
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Asia Research Institute, NUS @arinus.bsky.social Inspiring new knowledge and transforming insights into Asia. A strategic initiative of the National University of Singapore.
Melissa Bradshaw @missybradshaw.bsky.social Feminist modernist studies, American poetry, material culture, textual studies, periodical studies, DH, and all things diva at Loyola University Chicago. President of the Modernist Studies Association, Director of the Amy Lowell Letters Project.
Aries Arugay @ariesarugay.bsky.social Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman | Visiting Senior Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute | Editor-in-Chief, Asian Politics & Policy
Shahriman Lockman @slockman.bsky.social Director (Special Projects), Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia • Malaysian foreign relations, Asian security, South China Sea • Views expressed are my own.
Charmaine N. Willis, Ph.D. @cnwillis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University.
Research: USFP, civ-mil, East/Southeast Asia, contentious politics, pedagogy, fieldwork.
Website: cnwillis.com
She/her 🏳️🌈#BLM
The views expressed are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.
Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social UW-Madison | Chair, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) | Liverpool School of Law + Social Justice | Chair, Myriad/Give2Asia | China Medical Board | Latitude Global | https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/mark.sidel
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
Susan R Burgess @srburgess.bsky.social Distinguished Prof. Emerita, Ohio University, law/courts, LGBTQ politics, social movements, radicals, pop culture. I edit a book series in LGBTQ politics at NYU Press - contact me re your project. Also a fan of music, animals, nature. Chicago. Dublin.
Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
Sandra Hamid @sandrahamid.bsky.social cultural anthropologist who does development and often thinks about the relationship between the two; and the intermingling between development, activism, politics, and democracy. 
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at ANU @anubellschool.bsky.social A world-leading research school for the study of Asia-Pacific and international politics, society, strategy, security, and diplomacy.
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Dotan Haim @dotanhaim.bsky.social Dad. Political Scientist. Assistant Professor at Florida State. Studies conflict, policing, social networks, and Southeast Asia.
🔗 dotanhaim.com
Critical Asian Studies @criticasianstds.bsky.social Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
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.
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
Elvin Ong @elvinongpolsci.bsky.social Political scientist at the National University of Singapore. Currently, Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale. I study democratization and opposition parties in autocratic regimes. Mostly East and Southeast Asia. Especially Malaysia and Singapore.
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.
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Mai Van Tran @vmtran.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, studying mass contention & social media in Southeast Asia, PhD Cornell. For more stuff: https://maivantran.weebly.com/
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
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
Htet Thiha Zaw @htetthihazaw.bsky.social Education Researcher at International Rescue Committee. PhD from the University of Michigan. Research on state building & education in colonial and post-independence Southeast Asia.🧋 connoisseur. 🏳️🌈
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Kevin McGahan @kmcgahan.bsky.social Former Convener in Global Studies and Lecturer in Political Science | Public Policy Expert (Asia) | Award-winning Educator | Risk, Legal, Sustainability Consultant | Community Engagement Facilitator
Nienke Boer @notnienke.bsky.social Academic, lover of dogs and oceans, living and working on unceded Gadigal land. Author of _The Briny South_(Duke UP 2023).
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)
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
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
📚📝🎓🎧🆘🌱🪴🌶️🌌🪐🇺🇸🇮🇩🇳🇿🇦🇺🏳️🌈
He/Him
Jaylene @jaylene.bsky.social LGBTQ+ safe with me
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed."
William Gibson
Jeff Seelbach @sievefistedfind.bsky.social Documentary Film & TV including jams like Philly DA (PBS), Queer Futures (Criterion), 16 Shots (Showtime), Dear Mr. Brody (Discovery+)
Old Haunts: Topic, AJ+, Wide Angle/PBS, WNUR, Dusted Mag
Header: God Bless América
Avatar: use in case of Purple Rain
Resto Cruz @restocruz.bsky.social Social anthropologist of kinship, siblingship, social and geographical mobility, generation, inheritance, Philippines and Southeast Asia, and the UK.
📍Edinburgh
Claudia Merli @claudiamerli.bsky.social Cultural & medical anthropologist. Biopolitics, body, disasters, trauma, cosmologies. Research in Thailand, Japan, Italy. EuroSEAS board member. Assoc Prof @ Uppsala University. Psychodynamic conversational therapist. She/Her. https://eirapsychotherapy.se- L Lena Rethel @lenarethel.bsky.social University of Warwick | International Political Economy | global finance | Southeast Asia | Islamic finance
Emi Donald @emithemole.bsky.social History, Southeast Asia, Gender Studies. I'm currently PhDing at ezra's upstate school for ambitious boys.
Elin Bjarnegård @elinbja.bsky.social Professor at Uppsala University. Member of UPPGAP. Director of FIIN. Studies gender and masculinities in politics, authoritarianism, violence, corruption.