Annette Idler @annetteidler.bsky.social Associate Professor @UniofOxford, Director @GS_Oxford, former Visiting Scholar @Harvard, #globalsecurity #armedconflict #illiciteconomy author #BorderlandBattles http://tinyurl.com/y2q www.annetteidler.com
Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.
Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Katy Robinson @katyrob.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rice University | Stanford & UMich alum | Studying armed groups & the international politics of civil war | https://kaitlyn-robinson.com/
Nick Barker @nickbarker.bsky.social Studies the causes and consequences of armed conflict. My book: https://www.routledge.com/States-Secessionists-and-De-Facto-Control-after-Separatist-Wars-Strategies-f
The Quantitative Peace @quantitativepeace.com Empirical conflict research, made accessible. Academics, policymakers, and the curious. → quantitativepeace.com
Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Leeds. Editor, @conflictmanagement.bsky.social Armed conflict, authoritarian politics. And Basketball. Website: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/2078/dr-marius-mehrl
Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info Alt Library of Congress #TheResistance 🇺🇸&🌏Political commentary. "Science is vital for progressive society." Verified by @snopes 👍🏼MLS📚 #AltGov cartoonist, doctoral candidate.
I stand in support of those under siege or occupied by the same regime. 🇺🇸 🇬🇪 🇺🇦
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.
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Vox @vox.com Making sense of it all. Become a member today. 👇
https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/z3EPda
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
The Military Emissions Gap @militaryemissions.org We monitor and analyse military and conflict emissions data and advocate for accountability for the military's contribution to the climate crisis, a @ceobs.org project. www.militaryemissions.org
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Maria J. Stephan @mariajstephan.bsky.social Civil resistance, nonviolent action, social movements, democracy, authoritarianism, political violence, peacebuilding.
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social Senior Economist, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies; macroeconomics, economic policy, public finance, political economy, meta-science.
Rachel Kleinfeld @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social Democracy & political violence expert, work globally and U.S., lover of street food, fiddle music, unforgiving landscapes, and my kiddos. All views my own.
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Alex Lew @alexlew.bsky.social Theory & practice of probabilistic programming. Current: MIT Probabilistic Computing Project; Fall '25: Incoming Asst. Prof. at Yale CS
Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison, Professor of Physics,
EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science.
@policingproject.bsky.social @policingproject.bsky.social We partner with communities and police to promote public safety through transparency, equity, and democratic engagement.
Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social News from the editors of Econometrica
Andy Timm @andytimm.bsky.social Data scientist @ Grow Progress, testing Dem ads. Usually thinking about methods for survey weighting, efficient causal inference, or scalable Bayes. https://andytimm.github.io/
Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
International Growth Centre @theigc.bsky.social The IGC works with policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research.
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
Read us at theconversation.com/africa
International Peace Institute @ipinst.bsky.social Advancing Solutions for a Peaceful Planet
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
The Carter Center @cartercenter.bsky.social Founded in 1982 by President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, The Carter Center wages peace, fights disease, and builds hope worldwide.
Austin L. Wright @austinlw.bsky.social Assistant Prof @HarrisPolicy + @UChicago; Visiting @YaleSOM; @Princeton PhD; political econ of conflict/crime/Covid-19; #FirstGen Grad; URM; Father.
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios.
K. Chad Clay @kchadclay.bsky.social Human Rights Person (@humanrightsperson.bsky.social). Co-Founder, HRMI (@rightstracker.bsky.social). Center Director & Associate Professor. Music Enthusiast. Views are my own and are not endorsed by my employer; reposts & likes are not endorsements. He/Him
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
Erik Melander @erikmelander.bsky.social Professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Director of the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
Uppsala University, Sweden
RAND @rand.org We arm leaders with the information they need to tackle the toughest policy problems. Nonprofit, nonpartisan. 📥 Get our newsletter: https://bit.ly/4haSUVK
www.rand.org
American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social The premier scholarly research journal in political science. Read here: http://bit.ly/3fJQsoQ
Conflict Management and Peace Science @conflictmanagement.bsky.social Conflict Management and Peace Science publishes work focused on the scientific study of conflict and peace. Affiliated with Peace Science Society (International).
Editors: Margherita Belgioioso, @dainachiba.bsky.social, Wakako Maekawa, @mehrl.bsky.social
Michael Greig @michaelgreig.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @ the University of Utah. Frequent dog walker. Florida Gator. Not always in that order.
Research interests: conflict management, civil & interstate wars
Dr. Holley Hansen @h-hansen.bsky.social Teaching Associate Professor at Oklahoma State. Studies conflict mediation and political violence. Stress baker.
Ben Dension @denisonbe.bsky.social Golfer, Recovering Academic, Data Scientist (Time Lord)
Enzo Nussio @enzonussio.bsky.social Political scientist studying peace, violence, and institutions, currently working on consolidator project www.decadesofpeace.com @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich.
Sebastian Schutte @sschutte.bsky.social Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Editor of the Journal of Peace Research. I mostly focus on communal conflict, the effects of social media on politics, and geographic research methods.
Florian Weigand @weigand.bsky.social Co-Director, Centre on Armed Groups I Research Associate, LSE & IHEID I ✏️📚: Waiting for Dignity (http://bit.ly/3DY2QhB) I Conflict & Transnational Crime I Handbook of Smuggling
Corinne Bara @corinnebara.bsky.social PhD, Senior Researcher at ETH Zürich, passionate about peace and conflict research and data science.
Gabriella Levy @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social AP @ U of Washington | former postdoc @ Brown U | Ph.D. from Duke U | civil wars, political violence, political psychology | gabriellalevy.net
Christian Oswald @christianoswald.bsky.social Research Associate @ Center for Crisis Early Warning, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | PRIO Research School Member | pol. violence & instability | analog player in a digital world | aggressively mediocre
https://christianoswald.net
Hanne Fjelde @hannefjelde.bsky.social Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Elections, political violence and democracy.
Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social ‘And No One Cheered’ is the best book title ever because it’s about us and power.
Reem Ahmed @reemahmed.bsky.social Researcher IFSH | PhD Candidate Uni Hamburg | Researching (counter-)terrorism, extremism, platform regulation | https://ifsh.de/en/staff/ahmed
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kreft @annekreft.bsky.social 👩🎓 political violence, SGBV, armed conflict, civil society
https://anne-kathrinkreft.com
Ostwestfälischer Knötterpott
❤️ travel, photography, squirrels
Hier privat. Opinions my own
Boaz Atzili @batzili.bsky.social Political Scientist, borders, territoriality, Middle East, South Asia.
Justin Conrad @justinconrad.bsky.social Professor and Head of the Department of International Affairs
University of Georgia
BOOKS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Justin-Conrad/author/B09851KHF8
Ryan D. Griffiths @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
ryan-griffiths.com
New Books: The Disunited States (Oxford UP, 2025) and Before Colonization (Columbia UP, 2025, with Charles Butcher)
Howard Liu @howardhliu.bsky.social howardhliu.com
Assistant Prof @UofSC | Repression | Violence | Authoritarian Politics | Network analysis
Rob Blair @robertblair.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science & International & Public Affairs, Brown University. Co-Founder and Co-Director, http://democratic-erosion.com
Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social Econometrics professor and author. Dogs = 2, cats >= 10.
Jeremy Springman @jrspringman.bsky.social Research Scientist at Meta studying AI. I run surveys, produce data, conduct experiments, and model stuff. Former Research Prof at UPenn. Duke postdoc, UPenn PhD, Pitt alum.
jrspringman.github.io
Eduardo Moncada @emoncada.bsky.social Crime, violence and resistance in Latin America. Associate Prof @Barnard College @Columbia University
Danielle Jung @dfjung.bsky.social Emory Political Science. Legitimacy, Governance, Elections, and Illicit Organizations.
Graeme Blair @graemeblair.com Professor of Political Science at UCLA
Deportation Data Project (deportationdata.org)
Organizer at UCLA Faculty Association (AAUP+AFT)
Posts do not represent the positions of any of these organizations
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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social Human, Learner, Voyager, Citizen. Polisci research on the state, development, and conflict. Assistant Professor @ LSE Department of Government. Previously Oxford and ETH Zurich. http://carl.muller-crepon.com/
Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.
Cyanne E. Loyle @cloyle.bsky.social Associate Prof, Penn State, Political Science, Global Fellow, PRIO, Studies Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Transitional Justice
Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social Senior researcher @PRIOresearch and deputy editor @JPR_journal, Non-violence, security force behavior, democratization & peace processes. Opinions are my own. Webpage: www.mariannedahl.com
Jana Krause @janakrause.bsky.social Professor, Political Science @UniOslo; ERC ResilienceBuilding; Author of Resilient Communities
Caroline M. Brandt @cbrandt.bsky.social Berkeley Ph.D., Sylff Fellow at Uppsala University
Scholar of civil conflict peace agreements and international interventions. Lost southerner. She/her.
Alex Braithwaite @thebraith.bsky.social Political scientist, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona. Research on concentration camps, refugees and forced migration, violent and nonviolent conflict.
Isak Svensson @isaksvensson.bsky.social Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in peace and conflict research, Uppsala University. Research on mediation, religion and conflict, civil resistance.
christian davenport (aka "science", "bittah ninja" [wutang]) @christiandavenport.bsky.social charles tilly distinguished prof of conflict/violence, peace & (soon) love at the university of michigan but more broadly a thinker, writer, human, lover of life/freedom/power & artist (not necessarily in that order). for more: www.christiandavenport.com
Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social #CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Dotan Haim @dotanhaim.bsky.social Dad. Political Scientist. Assistant Professor at Florida State. Studies conflict, policing, social networks, and Southeast Asia.
🔗 dotanhaim.com
Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org We use the law to advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people by defending progress, disrupting extremism, and building for the future. Join us at democracyforward.org
Harris Mylonas @harrismylonas.bsky.social ▫️Prof. of Political Science @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Director of IERES @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Editor-in-chief of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social
▫️Nationalism | nation-building | migration | diasporas
🔗 https://harrismylonas.com
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social Recent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. SamForNJ.org.
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
Javier Osorio @javierosorio.bsky.social Associate Professor @UArizona.
I study political and organized criminal violence using Computational Social Science tools, experiments, and quasi-experiments.
Please say Hi to your dog :)
https://javierosorio.net/
Views are my own.
Michael T. Heaney @michaeltheaney.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods, University of Glasgow. Interests include social movements, protest, social networks, political parties, interest groups, the United States, Scotland, and Ireland.
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Bruce Desmarais @brucedesmarais.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State
The Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL) @grailcenter.bsky.social The Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL) supports research on the social, ethical, and governance implications of artificial intelligence and other emerging or impactful technologies.
AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Ethical Legal Societal laboratory focused on the implications of AI for Media and Democracy 🤝 CWI, HvA & UvA #ELSAlab
CSDP @csdp.bsky.social The Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) at Princeton University supports research and educational programming on democratic political institutions and behavior.
https://csdp.princeton.edu/
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social Political Science Prof at University of Southampton. I study misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American in the UK. he/his (y'all whenever possible). Spurs #COYS.
Andreas Forø Tollefsen (UiO & PRIO) @andriiish.bsky.social Associate Professor Human Geography @UiO & Senior Researcher @PRIO
Conflict, migration, institutions, spatial analysis. Occasionally fit academic with preference for running regressions.
See https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Bfy0azAAAAAJ&hl=en
Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social The Journal of Peace Research is an interdisciplinary and international bimonthly journal, covering scholarly work in peace research.
https://www.prio.org/journals/JPR
https://academic.oup.com/jpr
Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop @jqconworkshop.bsky.social Workshop for emerging scholars in quantitative conflict research. Twice monthly Thursdays, 1-2:30 PM EST. Grad students, postdocs & junior faculty welcome to apply!
Now accepting applications:
https://junior-quant-conflict-workshop.github.io/
Michael Soules @michaeljsoules.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. Studies rebel recruitment and indoctrination, gender and conflict, and terrorism during civil wars.
https://www.michaelsoules.com