Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social *Journalist, writer & podcaster (en/fr) > Africa, West Asia, Global South + diaspora + arts
*News curator
*Worked w/ RFI, BBC WS, DW, New Arab, CBC, TV5, F24...
*Opinions: my own
https://melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/
https://linktr.ee/melissaontheroad
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Yousra Semmache يسرى @yousrasem.bsky.social Policy expert & systems architect. Founder of Mawjud.org: a movement to exist.
Formerly: shaped aid system reform agendas @ NEAR (Global South network), led advocacy in conflicts, advisor to UN/INGOs.
Algerian-born 🇩🇿 lifelong learner of community power.
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Alex Doherty @redandinexpert.bsky.social Host of @poltheoryother podcast.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
Silas SiBorg @progloverly.myatproto.social left libertarian/libsoc - religious views messy - fan of theater, politics, movies - male - heteroflexible - elder zoomer/baby millenial - he/him.
Minors DNI. Sometimes 18+
I mostly repost, so if it looks like I'm spamming, I'm just bored/doomscrolling
Chloë Mayoux @chloemayoux.bsky.social Nuclear Technology, European Empire, Global Africa | Ernest May Fellow @Harvard | Teaching Military History @BostonU
Michael Allen @ma-allen.com IR Scholar Professor• War, US Foreign Policy, Basing, Troop Deployments, Data, and Political Economy • @boisestate • International Relations • SciFi • Gaming • www.ma-allen.com • https://tinyurl.com/GoogleScholarAllen
Guia Migani @guiamigani.bsky.social Historienne
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social former Staten Islander
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Michael George @mikeyjgeorge.bsky.social PhD candidate studying social and cultural history in 1960s and 70s: sex, secularism, suicide and The Samaritans. University of Huddersfield.
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Christiane Reinecke @chreinecke.bsky.social Historian/Historikerin (migration & borders, postcolonialism, inequality, urban studies).
Professor of Modern European History, Europa-Universität Flensburg
Currently in the process of moving to Bluesky.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social Doing a year for space contempt.
Qualifications: Vanderbilt J.D.
Official Capacity: Just Some Guy
Admissions: only when in a contemplative mood.
Lesley Anne Warner, PhD @lesleyannewarner.bsky.social Posts about African security issues & U.S.-Africa policy. PhD from @warstudies. Usual caveats apply, but any offensive content comes from my toddlers. 🇹🇹-🇺🇸
Giulia Piccolino @giuliapiccolino.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR at Lboro University studying conflict, security and development, mum, would-be runner. Belatedly joining the Great Escape from X. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/staff/giulia-piccolino
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Faisal @faisalahali.bsky.social Freelance journalist reporting on Somalia and East Africa.
🔗 https://www.aljazeera.com/author/faisal-ali
John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social foreign policy, international peace and security, nuclear weapons, antiquity
Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere
seniores tollunt omnia
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Derek Davison @dwdavison.bsky.social @fxnewsletter.bsky.social
@amprestigepod.bsky.social
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. pierrelouisvezina@weebly.com
Ian Bowers @ianbowers.bsky.social Professsor of International Security at Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies - Norwegian Defence University College | Sea power, joint operations, deterrence, Korea | Professional Military Education
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social Highlighting the research, teaching and community activities of staff and students at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, on the west coast of Wales.
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Anne-Laure Mahé @almahe.bsky.social Asso. prof @ Sciences Po Toulouse - Comparative authoritarianism, development studies, qual methods - Sudan; East Africa
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Lina Khan @linamkhan.bsky.social Served as 57th Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social 金玉米, 君子不器, like nothing else in Tennessee.
rhymingchaos.com
thechinaweek.com
Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social 
The Edge of Midnight @eomproject.bsky.social A Narrative of the Federation-Klingon Cold I War (2256-2293) A Star Trek Fan Project by @BadSocialism ||A @TranquilityPress Production
https://edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/
The Last Founder (nascentnovice) @nascentnovice.bsky.social my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair
Thanks for stopping by. I'm Benjamin. I write things.
Currently - The Last Founder: The Presidency of Jonathan Archer
www.nascentnovice.com
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Laura Berlingozzi @lauraberlingozzi.bsky.social Researching security politics | Sahel | Mali | Niger | insurgencies | gender |
Post-doc researcher at @SantAnnaPisa
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Augusta Dell'Omo @augustacaesar.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Center for Presidential History at SMU
"Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War” available for preorder to release March 2026
Historian of global conservatism and the far right, all thoughts my own
Benjamin Roger @benjaminroger.bsky.social Journaliste @lemonde.fr - Service Afrique @lemondeafrique.bsky.social
Judd Devermont @jdevermont.bsky.social Operating Partner, Kupanda Capital | Board Member, Fraym | Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie Africa Program | Former NSC Senior Director for African Affairs | Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa | Personal Account
Gabriella Korling @djamilak.bsky.social Anthropologist interested in infrastructure and politics in Niger. Currently researcher/analyst focusing on security in the Sahel @FOIresearch.
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Kristen Harkness @kristenharkness.bsky.social Professor, School of IR, University of St. Andrews; researching authoritarianism, ethnicity, militaries, conflict, and democratisation.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social Professor of French and African Studies/Head of School of Modern Languages at University of St Andrews
Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social #archives #data #Dakar #Guyane #Lorraine #Vendée
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
Martin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social One man's odyssey through the world of books. Author of 'Land & Labour', 'Kill All the Gentlemen', 'Socialism or Extinction', "The Time of the Harvest has Come!" Interested in Marxism, history, ecology, revolution. SWP.
Giacomo Benati @giacomobenati.bsky.social Ramon y Cajal Researcher @economiaempresaub.bsky.social, teaching at @ubmipe.bsky.social, archaeologist | economic historian | social scientist
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/giacomobenati/home
Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Development at Bath | Editor for Review of African Political Economy (roape.net) | Mining, Energy & Labour | Central Africa & Pacific Islands | www.benradley.com
Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel, PhD @profjoa.bsky.social 
Joanne Brueton @joannebrueton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French Studies, ULIP; 'Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject' (2022); Co-author 'Le compas et la lyre: regards croisés sur les mathématiques et la poésie' (2019); Co-editor French and Francophone Section, Modern Languages Open
Georg Buchholz @buchholg.bsky.social Having opinions on International Forest Policy / Biodiversity/ Climate/ REDD+ & passionate about Basic Income, nature & archery! Views are my own 🏹🌴🌳🦧
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Ones and Tooze @onesandtooze.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com's economics podcast 🎙 Cohosted by @adamtooze.bsky.social and Cameron Abadi | New episodes every Friday
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ones-and-tooze/id1584397047
Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social Ex-CIA Africa analyst. PhD historian. Author of The Missionary Kids (Runner up for RNA Book of the Year).
https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com
@TheBulwark @Lawfare @liberalcurrents @goodfaithmedia
Co-Host @DogShirtTV
Art For Democracy @ Etsy
Isabel Eiser @isabeleiser.bsky.social PhD @coloniallegacy.bsky.social University of Hamburg
#MediaAndCulture #Postcolonial #DigitalHumanities #DiscourseAnalysis #Reparation #BeninBronzes
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Ore Ogunbiyi @oreogunb.bsky.social Africa Correspondent @ The Economist. Lagos 
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Safeguarding Data/Research @safeguardingdata.bsky.social https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about
We’re working on providing a central index of archives, with metadata about who archived what, when, to be disseminated widely alongside torrent files.
Maintainer: @lavaeolus.bsky.social
Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.bsky.social he/him
🏳️🌈 ♥️💜💙 #SmashFascism
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus
Based in Berlin (Humboldt-University); doing #DigitalHumanities / #DigitalHistory things.
Toots in German/English.
"Sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative."
Aaron Swartz 2008
Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | Research fellow @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social in the project "Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security"
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
Robin Toelen @robintoelen.bsky.social Berlin
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social Econ person. VP of Policy and Research, @economicsecurityproject.org. Former NEC. #Rstats, Team Macro, dad, Chicago Guy. newsletter.mikekonczal.com
Survie - Ensemble contre la Françafrique ! @survie.bsky.social Pour en finir avec le (néo)colonialisme français sous toutes ses formes, en Françafrique ou ailleurs, décolonisons!
https://linktr.ee/survie.asso
Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Willem Theo Oosterveld (ويلِّم) @vattel.bsky.social Analyst at EUPOL COPPS/EEAS🇪🇺. Lived in 🇳🇱🇺🇲🇨🇵🇩🇪🇨🇭🇲🇦🇿🇦🇮🇩🇳🇪🇪🇬. Ph.D, history of intl law, Graduate Institute (@gvagrad.bsky.social), Geneva. Usual caveats apply.
Dr Ashley Harris @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social French Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Research: contemporary French authorship (écrivain médiatique), gender, banlieues, visual culture & sociological approaches.
Harry Konstantinidis @xkonstantinidis.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, University of Massachusetts Boston. Χάρης Κωνσταντινίδης.
Conway Waddington @conwaywaddington.bsky.social Focused on African conflict and security - water wars, UAVs, mercenaries, OSINT stuff.