Strategikon @strategikon.bsky.social Geopolitics · Technology · Cyber · Comics · Grimdark
Systems, strategy and signal over noise.
Uhu @couchoud1983.eurosky.social 
Johan Stub 🌹🇳🇴🇸🇪🇺🇦 @johanstub.bsky.social Used to be math, cybernetics, programming, key account manager and svp cash management but now it’s grandad, husband, owner of two dachshunds, model railroader and retirement.
No PMs please.
Kjell Anderson @kjellanderson.bsky.social Law professor @umanitoba studying genocide, global justice, and how societies confront mass violence. Helping human rights stories resonate. 🔗 Bio & books https://linktr.ee/kjellanderson
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
Jane Kirkpatrick @janekirkpatrick.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Politics and International Relations UWE Bristol. Director E-International Relations. Civil society, resistance, Parliament, teaching using videogames and other stuff.
Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social Former US Air Force intelligence officer. Surveillance practitioner turned critic. #AffirmativeEthics #AntiMilitarism #AntiRacism #BanWeaponizedAI #QuestionSuperiority
Tanushree Rao @tanushree.bsky.social IR PhD candidate at Stockholm University • aid, inequality, IOs, climate and humanitarian crises • #rstats, critical and blended methodologies • parent to small beings • meme connoisseur • 🇸🇪 based, 🇮🇳 born, 🐨🦘 raised
Kirsten Scrimshaw @kirstenscrimshaw.bsky.social Founder and Partner, Ally Workplace Law; employment & labour lawyer; investigator; West Coast-er; Meme Historian; and grammar pedant. She/her. (Skeets are not legal advice.)
Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social Senior Editor @lawfaremedia.org. Previously: Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Yankee Stadium 🌭 vendor. NYC born and bred. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
@benjaminpohlberlin.bsky.social @benjaminpohlberlin.bsky.social Foreign policy, climate crisis, Berlin & rants on random stuff. May contain sarcasm.
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Nicholas Marsh @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social Work on arms trade, security assistance, disarmament, governance of digital security tech, defence industry and many other things. Likes are bookmarks. About me https://www.prio.org/people/5082
Also at: @NicholasMarsh@sciences.social @MarshyNic
Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social Professor of International Law and Security, UNSW Canberra. ARC Future Fellow. International law & maritime security. Sewing my own wardrobe one garment at a time. Podcaster (Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks). He/him.
David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social TV Writer - Person of Interest, Law & Order, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, etc. Proud WGA Member. Pro-Democracy. Anti-Evil.- A @aphillipsintrel.bsky.social @aphillipsintrel.bsky.social
Maciek Zając @maciekzajac.bsky.social Ethics of war, wrote a doctorate on autonomous weapons, currently a postdoc at Polish Academy of Sciences. All things ethics, philosophy and history. English language account focused on scholarly stuff. Still on Twitter for UA and PL policy matters
Tatiana Vargas-Maia @tatiana.bsky.social Professora de Relações Internacionais na UFRGS
ela/dela
@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]
Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social She/Her. Senior Lecturer International Law. The original #ProcedureGoblin. OT8 Stay (🐰🐿️). AuDHD. Sanctioned & cited by Russian govt 🫰 보따람쥐 포에버 30+
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social Australian political theorist & international relations professor. Climate, justice, biodiversity, ecodemocracy. He/him. New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic About: https://www.anthonydburke.net
Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social Negotiator. Conflict Advisor.
Former Harvard Negotiation Project
Former Kennedy School & NUS Lecturer
Managing Director, Sea-Change Partners
Co-author, "Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists"
Photographer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithfitz
Kenneth Payne @indescribable.bsky.social Shall we play a game?
Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social
https://matthiasleese.com
love&peace, heidi 🦋 @heidichronicles.net Philosopher. Writer. Becker Fellow. Tea. It's never too late to do the right thing.
@CityPhilo Research Group
#MFA #PhDlife #philsky #EduSky #skybrarians
she/hers
Victoria M Basham @victoriambasham.bsky.social Posts in a personal capacity (generally about academia and politics, and occasionally about Bristol and craft beer)
Katherine T. Tyson @katherinettyson.bsky.social Day job policymaking on climate change/adaptation gap. Research public goods provision (IR, IPE, Law)
Nature | Academia | Disability | Politics | LGBTQ+ | BookTok | Writer | Anime | Gamer | Fandoms | Photography
☕️📚🇨🇦🇬🇧🔸🏴🏳️🌈🐈⬛🍵
Oxford | UBC | Columbia | Waseda
Dmitry Stefanovich @dvsteff.bsky.social Nukes, missiles, military, space, tech, music, cats, #STRATDELA and #HYPERHYPE 
Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
victoriaausten.com
Daisy Dixon @daisydixon.bsky.social Philosopher of Aesthetics at Cardiff University
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs.bsky.social Military History/Defence and Security/Leadership/Organisational Culture. PhD equipped. Book in early 2026, Tanks in Unexpected Places.
Cornelia Baciu @corneliab.bsky.social Postdoc @Saarland_uni ▪ Orders, Governance, Norms and Organizations of Peace & Security
🌍 Saarland
https://www.uni-saarland.de/forschen/nachwuchskolleg-europa/mitglieder/kollegiatinnen/baciu.html
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 🎰
Christian Bueger @cbueger.bsky.social Professor at University of Copenhagen | Maritime Security | Global Ocean Politics | Author | Expert | Professional Vagabond
visit www.bueger.info
Emily St.Denny @estdenny.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Public policy, gender, health, inequality reduction 📚 She/they
Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller.bsky.social Professor of International Law & Security, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies. Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (UK). Arsenal, Bears, Magpies, All Blacks.
Fiona B. Adamson @fionaadamson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations @SOAS.
kayla greenstien @kgreenstien.bsky.social Former DFV/SA response worker
Non-prohibitionist critical psychedelia
Euphorically queer and childfree by choice
Anti-fascist 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
https://deeepbreaths.substack.com/
Richard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social Naval & diplomatic historian with a side gig in maritime strategy | Senior Lecturer at UNSWCanberra
| #PomInOz
Helen M Kinsella @hmkinsella.bsky.social U of MN Political Science & Law, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, HHH School of Public Policy: gender, laws of war, violence. Feminist. She/her
Minneapolis, MN. helenmkinsella.com
Sassan Gholiagha @sassangholiagha.bsky.social Political scientist. Currently interim professor for International Relations at Leibniz University Hannover. Here as a privat person with my own opinion. Norms. Security. Also: Dad. Husband. Feminist. pic (c) Katja Ruge. More at www.sassangholiagha.de
Rebecca Bamford @rebeccabamford.bsky.social Philosopher. Reader. Ailurophile. She/her. Book: http://bit.ly/39XmsnL Edited books: http://bit.ly/3onVSN7 & https://shorturl.at/4N5ON Views here personal & individual.
Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός. Hon Professor, Sheffield. Mind, consciousness, illusionism, cog-sci, Ελλάδα. Friend of @philosynthesis.com
Website: https://keithfrankish.com
Manages Philosophy Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/5aps8sbv
Paul L. @paul9876.bsky.social Retired, Married, Off-grid in the Cariboo BC, goat herder, dog feeder, left of Liberal, Canadian by chance of birth, #Antifa, no dm's, no marketing, no porn
Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social We are a generalist IR journal addressing contemporary world politics from a plurality of methodological and theoretical perspectives. JIRD is the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Joshua Rigsby @joshuarigsby.bsky.social Contributor to Oh Reader Magazine, The Atlas Obscura Podcast, Thrillist, LAist, Southern California Public Radio, Los Angeles Review of Books & the Atlantic. Curator of thepickledcucumber.com. Tea clipper enthusiast. Taskmaster superfan.
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
Ben Baxendale-Smith @bbaxendalesmith.bsky.social Defence Studies PhD student at King’s College London researching UK, Australian and Canadian Indo-Pacific strategies. 
Daniel Keohane @keohanedan.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Relations at Dublin City University (DCU) - mostly focused on European security, national strategic cultures in Europe (i.e. France, Germany, UK), European military cooperation, EU, NATO, US strategy
Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social Tech reporter @euractiv.com | AI, startups, digital administration | maximilian.henning@euractiv.com
Lotje Boswinkel @lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social Deterrence & US alliances in Europe & IP | PhD researcher @CSDS | Morgenthau fellow @ND_ISC | prev. @HCSSnl | @SciencesPo alumna
Tobias Flessenkemper @flessenkemper.bsky.social On freedom and history, arts and culture, human rights, democracy, rule of law, diplomacy, international cooperation & European unity | views my own | follow/like/repost≠endorse |
Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology @University of Cambridge | researching infidelity & intimacy | https://simone-schneider.github.io
Maria Amjad @mariaamjad.bsky.social Lecturer @PolSci Leiden; PhD in Security, Risk and Vulnerability 2025.
#peaceprocesses; #rebeldiplomacy; #civilwar; #Afghanistan; #Pakistan #HistoricalInstitutionalism
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maria-amjad
Charli Carpenter @charlicarpenter.bsky.social only-slightly-mad scientist, int’l law prof, author of books on civilians & war. fears tyrants & nukes; welcomes spiders & refugee children. loves whitewater.
Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
Benjamin Coates @benjamincoates.bsky.social History Prof at Wake Forest studying US & the World, empire, law. Writing a history of the Us and economic sanctions. Co-editor, US in the World book series w/Cornell UP. Wrote a book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/legalist-empire-9780190055585
Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; President, American Society of International Law; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social Duffy Prof @YaleLawSch, legal history. Germantown born and bred. Fisherman, orchardist, baseball. Profile photo sitdowners park in Flint. The Radical Fund is out from Simon & Schuster.
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Antoine Bousquet @ajbousquet.bsky.social Martial Empiricist | Author of 'The Scientific Way of Warfare' & 'The Eye of War' | Currently has nukes & AI on the brain | Swedish Defence University
Dr. B. Duygu Özpolat (she/her) @biyolokum.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Regeneration, germ cells, segmented worms
Junior faculty representative for SDB
I also make Science Art (mostly pottery)
#SciArt #WormWednesday #Annelida
www.ozpolatlab.org
Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Director of @Cambridgegender. She/her. Should be writing.
Daniel Kostic @danielkostic.bsky.social Philosopher working on theories of explanation, understanding consciousness and AI (http://daniel-kostic.weebly.com).
One half of KOKHA (https://kokha.bandcamp.com/album/mental-health)
Alex Danvers @drdanvers.bsky.social Social Psychologist, Data Scientist, Baseball Fan, Dog Dad, Improviser
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social Postdoc at @opioidcobre.bsky.social. Translational transdisciplinary drug scientist, harm reductionist, artist, paramedic, chemistry enthusiast, Texan. she/her/ella
Shop: pinpenmerger.etsy.com
Venmo: claireifc
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Alex Homolar @alexhlar.bsky.social Language, Psychology, Politics.
Professor of International Security, University of Warwick.
New Book: The Uncertainty Doctrine (CUP 2023)
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics @ucriverside.bsky.social.
PhD 2024 @uzh-econ.bsky.social
Studying labor unions -
political economy and economic history.
Friûl-Barcelona-Zürich-
-Chicago-Zürich-Riverside (CA)
https://miriamventurini.github.io
Tom F.A. Watts @tfawatts.bsky.social IR scholar working at the intersection of war, technology, and culture | Interested in US foreign policy, military applications of AI, and great power competition
Jamie Johnson @jamcjo.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations. Researches liberalism's wars, crises, and scandals.
Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social Professor @supolisci.bsky.social and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, @maxwellsu.bsky.social, @syracuseu.bsky.social. Latest book: Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction. http://amzn.to/3gdhiFe
Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
My book, Contemporary SF and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, is available here: https://tinyurl.com/4p55avcy
Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social Author and academic | Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Canberra | Empathy, Emotions, Strategy, Security, Politics, Diplomacy, Asia-Pacific | 🇬🇧in 🇦🇺| https://claireyorke.me/
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
Peter Edge @edge-law.bsky.social Law Professor, Oxford Brookes University. Specialises in Manx law, small jurisdictions, and the interaction of religion and law. Blogs as @edge_law on wordpress.
Nikki Ikani @nikki-ikani.bsky.social Assistant Prof Intel & Security ISGA | writer | NWO Veni Laureate | Research Fellow KCL | Snr Fellow NATO Defence College | researching warning | editor Poets Reading the News | @Kortschrijvers | she/her
Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182937/
Co-Ed of Environmental Humanities journal.
Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider @jackieschneider.bsky.social Hoover Fellow, Director Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Stanford University. Research on international security, emerging technology, wargames. Views are my own. 
Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson @profejzrobinson.bsky.social Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics | Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment (currently on sabbatical) |
Repost ≠ endorsement
Born @ 321 ppm CO2
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net 
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Mary Ann Rennick @marennick.bsky.social Tech writer/editor. Boomer. Liberal. Swiftie. Farm girl living in the city. Love books, music, dogs, trees, baseball, history, hope. Peace.🫶
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Emmie Hine @emmiehine.com AI governance research @ Safe AI Forum
Fellow @ Yale Digital Ethics Center
Interests: AI, XR, most other tech, China, climbing, baking.
ex-Oxford, ex-SWE
My tech newsletter: https://www.techreckoner.substack.com
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com