Burcu Karahan @burcukarahan.bsky.social Ottoman & modern Turkish literature | literary translation | @stanford Complit
NN @ittleennon.bsky.social International Relations, Security Studies, Conflict Resolution (Myanmar). Former sex worker, everybody’s favourite good-time girl. @NNversusNN on X
Tanner Hayes @thayes.bsky.social Substack: Power and Persuasion
Mainly about foreign policy and international politics.
https://open.substack.com/pub/powerandpersuasion
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Jeff Halper @jeffhalper.bsky.social Israeli anthropologist, Director of ICAHD and a founding member of the One Democratic State campaign. Jeff’s latest book is Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: The Case for One Democratic State. Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Ben Tobin @bztobin.bsky.social Filmmaker Photographer Artist Educator
NYU's Kevorkian Center @nyukevo.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies at New York University
- MA Program in Near Eastern Studies
- Public Programs
- K-12 Outreach Teacher Training
- National Resource Center
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Let’s Not Make This Political @letsnotmakethis.bsky.social Local isn’t a place, it’s a level of governance. Covering Plymouth County and Mass. news with the unbiased decoding it deserves. 100% Grade-A sourced data. The journalism is always free. Paid Bonus Humor.
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
Dan Fried @ambdanfried.bsky.social Veteran diplomat now with the Atlantic Council. America’s values & interests are indivisible, as Lincoln taught us. Believer in a Free World strategy, informed by tactical realism and strategic determination.
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social focuses on #logic & #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky #HPS
JAG says it’s legal, but stupid. @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social Former JAG.
I do not suffer fools lightly. It’s a feature, not a bug.
I can tell you the truth, but I can’t understand it for you.
Joas Wagemakers @joaswagemakers.bsky.social Associate prof. of Islamic & Arabic Studies, Utrecht University.
Islam in the modern Arab world, (intellectual) history of modern Islam, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Salafism, Islamism, theology, sectarianism, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Hamas.
@reorient.bsky.social @reorient.bsky.social The home of the Critical Muslim Studies Project.
Anna M. Gade @profannag.bsky.social Academic concerns, religion, environment, Asia/Indonesia | [Envir. Ethics (forth.)] | Muslim Environmentalisms (Columbia UP) | The Qur’an: An Introduction | opinions my own | she/her
UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social Bismillah.
Peace on Muhammad & his Family.
We are a rationalist, spiritualist, supra-legalist academy for UNITY! in Islam and abroad.
Y1 Principles of Islam
Y2 Islamic Jurisprudence
Y3 Islamic Phylosophy
Y4 Islamic Mysticism
https://unityhawza.world
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Zahra Ayubi @zahraayubi.bsky.social Associate Prof of Religion: Islamic Studies at Dartmouth College | Gender-Islam-Ethics | author of Gendered Morality at ColumbiaUP
Tazeen M. Ali @tazeenmali.bsky.social scholar of islam & gender in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own
Anna Bigelow @annabigelow786.bsky.social Walking the dog, learning, teaching, and writing about religion, Islam, South Asia, material culture, death, and other things
Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social Assistant Professor at #BostonCollege. Latin American literature. Food Studies. Dad. Turco. Comparativist at heart. South-South shenanigans. Views mine.
substack: alikulez.substack.com
website: alikulez.com
insta: instagram.com/theprofessoreats
Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography, Durham Uni. Violent conflict, political resurgence, colonial history.
Author of: 'Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land' (Chicago 2025); 'Life After Ruin' (Cambridge 2017)
https://tinyurl.com/mtyd9m
Jakub Koláček @kolacekj.bsky.social Arabist, historian, sociologist, teacher (Charles Uni), family man, nature lover
DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de Nachrichten, Analysen, Kommentare, Videos, Podcasts: Mehr als 500 SPIEGEL-Journalistinnen und Journalisten decken auf, setzen Themen und sorgen für Kontext.
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Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social Est. 2007 | Dedicated to meaningful and honest interreligious learning, dialogue, and encounter | Events, News, Information, & Commentary | RT =/= endorsement
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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social Former US foreign policy senior official (Iran/MENA /energy); now focused on foreign policy in the Anthropocene.
@mirandameyer.bsky.social @mirandameyer.bsky.social 
Olmo Gölz @olmo-goelz.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Islamic Studies and Iranian Studies | University of Freiburg
Brian Nussbaum @ilnuttree.bsky.social Researcher and teacher on security issues at UAlbany.
Interested in terrorism/CT, transnational crime, and - of course - the cybers.
Nate Bowling @natebowling.com Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi since 2019 — Teacher, Traveler, and Sounder
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/natebowling
J. The Jewish News of Northern California @jewishsf.bsky.social J. is the Jewish community newspaper of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Follow us to be the first to know what Jews are doing and saying in Northern California.
Disaffected Dolphin @liberalsubmariner.bsky.social Retired Submarine officer, grandfather, and cat servant.
Formerly liberalsubmariner.
Matt K Scroggs @mkscroggs.bsky.social Assistant Professor w/Term, International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College. University of Virginia Ph.D., studying coercion in IR. I teach/(re)skeet about int'l relations and sports analytics.
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of BBC News (World).
RSS: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml
code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots
maintainer:
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Deadline @deadline.com The Definitive Choice for Industry Insiders
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr French journalism at its best, now in English. With @lemonde.fr 🗞️🌍
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr « Le Monde » est un journal français fondé par Hubert Beuve-Méry en 1944. C'est aussi un compte Bluesky qui poste l'actualité en continu de façon automatisée.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette @nwademgaz.bsky.social Your best source for news in Northwest Arkansas, the River Valley and the Natural State. Subscribe to support local Arkansas journalism: http://nwaonline.com/subscribe
Tobias Lang @tobiaslang.bsky.social Director Austrian Centre for Peace
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Mikkel Dack @mikkeldack.bsky.social Historian of violent extremism and de-radicalization; @hfguggenheim fellow; book on Everyday Denazification (CUP, 2023): http://tinyurl.com/4rmrjk2y
School of Public Health at the University of Maryland @publichealthumd.bsky.social As a top-ranked School of Public Health at one of the nation’s leading research universities, we're at the forefront of research and education to improve health and well-being for all.
University of Maryland School of Medicine @medschool.umaryland.edu Founded in 1807, we are the 1st public medical school in the US & a leader in medical education, research & healthcare.
medschool.umaryland.edu
University of Maryland, Baltimore @umaryland.edu The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is Maryland’s only public health, law, and human services university. Changing the Future Today. #WeAreUMB
Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social VA's loudest Dem with a spreadsheet · Digital strategist · DNC Youth Council · As seen in: WaPo, CBS, Daily Beast, Fox News · AMDG✝️ · Opinions are my own
Amy J. Nelson @amyjnelsonphd.bsky.social Foreign Policy & National Security
Nuclear and AI Futures
Senior Fellow, Future Security Program, New America
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University
John Wills @drjohnwills.bsky.social Prof in Film&Media, University of Kent. Recent Books: Gamer Nation, Disney Culture.
James Kierstead @mrpropter.bsky.social Classicist and think tanker. Democracy or bust, ελευθερία ή θάνατος, Deus sive natura. Kiwi Dorset Canadian
DisMember @dismember.co.uk http://dismember.co.uk/
Hansard: Cheat Mode Activated
Everything interesting MPs said since 2010, easily searchable, sortable, sliceable.
We also uncover interesting moments from the entirety of parliamentary history and share them regularly here.
Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Melina Platas @melinaplatas.bsky.social Political scientist (NYU Abu Dhabi), writer, mom. Current research on education, health, and air quality in Africa. Home is California, Kampala, and Abu Dhabi.
More here: melinaplatas.com
Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford @middleeast.stanford.edu 
FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is Stanford's hub for nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research, teaching, and policy impact in international affairs.
Colin Kahl @colinkahl.bsky.social Director @fsi.stanford.edu. Husband. Dad. Music fan. Game lover. Wonk and all-around nerd. Former national security guy.
Gizem Arikan @gizemarikan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social. Political psychology, religion and politics, democratic attitudes, immigrants and integration. Web site: gizemarikan.com
The Wilson Center @wilsoncenter.org Foreign policy think tank providing counsel and insights on global affairs.
Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.
🌐 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social IR prof (security, civil conflict, peacekeeping, terrorism, climate change), bicoastally migratory (PDX-NYC), dog lover, horse lover, mediocre knitter, avid composter. 
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Stanford CDDRL @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social Official account of Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. CDDRL produces policy-relevant research to advance political development. Visit us at: http://cddrl.stanford.edu
David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social Govt & Politics prof, UMD.
Billy Wilder fan. Has "Someone is wrong on the internet!" tendencies.
Author: Red, Green and Blue & Party Position Change in American Politics. Co-author: The Party Decides. No replies to anons.
https://gvpt.umd.edu/faculty
Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social University of Chicago, Political Science and Harris School. Director, PhD Program in Political Economy. Autocracy/Eurasia/HPE. Blogging at scottgehlbach.bearblog.dev. Cards fan but o/w Chicago patriot. 🇺🇦
tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale.
www.didacqueralt.com
I write and teach about state building from a historical perspective.
Author of Pawned States: https://www.amazon.com/Pawned-States-Building-International-Princeton/dp/0691231524/ref=tm
Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
Monika Nalepa @monikanalepa.bsky.social Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab, Global Transitional Justice Dataset, PI
"After Authoritarianism" and "Skeletons in the Closet", author.
Owned by #Badshah, the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Jane Esberg @janeesberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at UPenn. Authoritarianism, repression,
censorship, and conflict, esp in Latin America. Aspiring cat lady. http://janeesberg.com. https://tinyurl.com/56eytm5e
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.
Javier Mejia @javiermejiac.bsky.social Ph.D. in Economics | Teaches at Stanford | Writes Op-eds for Forbes
History, networks, politics, and entrepreneurship
Website: https://www.javier-mejia.com/
Timur Kuran @timurkuran.bsky.social Professor, Duke University. Economic and political development, social change, Islam, Middle East, Turkey. X: @timurkuran . Website: sites.duke.edu/timurkuran .
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Eric Min @ericmin.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at UCLA (by way of Kansas, NYU, and Stanford). I use a computer to learn things about war and diplomacy.
Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social 
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University @islamicstudies.stanford.edu The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies is the central forum for study and research of Islam and Islamicate societies and communities at Stanford University.
alexandra-blackman.bsky.social @alexandra-blackman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell, former NYU Abu Dhabi postdoc, Stanford PhD, CASA & Carnegie Endowment Fellow. Into Picasso, poetry, MENA politics, and Pittsburgh.
Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salmamousa.bsky.social Political science prof at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Luqman Abu El Foul | لقمان أبو الفول @luqmanabuelfoul.bsky.social PhD student in Political Science at LSE (ESRC) | Research interest: Contentious Politics, Political Violence, HPE, Palestine-Israel, MENA politics
https://luqmanabuelfoul.com
Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed @a-ezz-mohamed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science @iast.fr, ex-fellow @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social, PhD @columbiauniversity.bsky.social| MENA politics, religion and politics, distributive politics, autocracies, mixed methods
Allison Hartnett @ashartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor at USC POIR. Authoritarianism past and present, redistribution & inequality, land, elites. Mostly MENA. www.allisonhartnett.io
Joseph Hermiz @profjhermiz.bsky.social PhD @NELC_UChicago. Researching the international Assyrian community, ~1913-1933; teaching the history of Modern Middle East
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Nick Barr @nicolaaspbarr.bsky.social Translator, Tofik Dibi's DJINN https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Djinn. Race/religion in the Netherlands, other nerdy stuff. Bargain-basement lecturer/uni staff. Trombonist, http://bandavagosseattle.com. he/him. Not my employer's views (obviously)
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Nadeem Elias Khan @neaskhan.bsky.social Consultant on Sunni Jihadism || PhD candidate Medieval History || Lecturer || Tweets do not represent employers, clients, partners || contact.neaskhan@gmail.com
@jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social I don't suffer fools gladly.
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