Q Origins Project @qop.bsky.social
The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social aka the Rabbit Hole Cartographer.
Mapping the folklore and history of the borderland sciences.
Conspiracism Taxonomist.
I study horrible people who believe weird things.
patreon.com/QuacksAnonymous
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Jeff Yates @jeffyates.bsky.social Journaliste à Radio-Canada, Décrypteurs. Je gosse les gens avec les fausses nouvelles depuis 2014. Parfois barbu. Peut-être un lézard.
Toutes les choses ici:
https://linktr.ee/jeff__yates
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Pia Lamberty @pialamberty.bsky.social Psychologin & Autorin | Psychologie für turbulente Zeiten: Psychologische Beratung • Trainings & Workshops • Vorträge |
➡️ Mehr unter pialamberty.de
📚 Mein neues Buch: „Der Untergang kann warten - Wie wir in Krisenzeiten Hoffnung schöpfen“
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Chris Dehghanpoor @ckd.sh OSINT reporter, Washington Post investigations • @chrisd9r on twitter • https://ckd.sh
Tristan Mendès France @tmf.bsky.social Observateur de l’extrême. 📍Paris/🇫🇷/🇪🇺/🌍
Podcast : radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/podcasts/complorama
Team : conspiracywatch.info
Me : tristan.pro
Johanna @discomedusae.bsky.social Hi!
I'm a feminist, a science-based nurse and a QAnon casualty. I use sarcasm when sarcasm is needed ☺️
📍Sweden
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social 🧱 💥
Lea Frühwirth @leafruehwirth.bsky.social All things digital discourse and its impact on society and politics | Disinformation & Propaganda | Senior Researcher @ CeMAS
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
raeuberhose / Karolin Schwarz @karolinschwarz.de writer / speaker / analyst / the far right, mis/disinformation, AI slop, CYBER / Schabernack
karolinschwarz.de / ohje-internet.de
hampton. @hampton.bsky.social rhetoric PhD student @ UGA | senior researcher @ Princeton | staring into the abyss at: state violence & paramilitarism + radical memes & graphic media + paranormal realities & haunted presents
Reddo Panda @reddopanda.bsky.social Anti-conspiracy, data nerd
tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social Father, amateur photographer, rockhound, lit professor, conspiracy theory theorist, Minnesotan/Montanan; deemed “poorly disposed for productive conversation” by the Bluesky chapter of the Friends of Roko’s Basilisk
Bobby Amour @kunstderfuge.bsky.social Data things @ Q Origins Project (@qop.bsky.social).
Currently building dchan.qorigins.org
Pianoist (derogatory) 🎹
#ActuallyAutistic
Kaleigh Rogers @kaleighrogers.bsky.social Reporter focused on elections, polls, and dabbling in science stories. Past @nytimes @fivethirtyeight et al.
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇲
DaemonSky @dsky.bsky.social Biosecurity, outbreaks, apocalypses, language & conspiracy. Former Fed. Intellectual magpie. Dogs, SciFi, nerdery. Views my own.
Mitsuwo @3wochan.bsky.social Anti-Online violence/former 5chan Staff/non-expert QAnon Researcher/Anti-Fascism/Anti-Nazis/Anti-KKK. Born in Japan🇯🇵, currently living in Germany 🇩🇪
https://open.substack.com/pub/mitsuwo?r=dzub5&utm_medium=ios
Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: https://linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
peter forberg @peterforberg.com UC Berkeley sociology // prev UChicago
technology, political mobilization, governance, ideology, birding
peterforberg.com // signal: pforberg.26
Alex Mendela @alexmendela.bsky.social Analyst at Alethea | Interested in Conspiracy Theories, Extremism, International Affairs |
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Irish dancer. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
Jim Weatherall @jamesowenweatherall.com Philosopher, physicist, mathematician / Chair of LPS @ UC Irvine / EiC of Philosophy of Science / Poultry enthusiast fancier / Irish Step Dancer
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Beth Daviess @bdaviess.bsky.social Extremism, conspiracy theories, housing. Recovering housing attorney.
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Asbjørn Dyrendal @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social Conspiracy beliefs, apocalypticism, extremism, new religious movements. Skeptical Norwegian. Professor, Religionswissenschaft.
Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com MS Biology, MPH, MS Cybersecurity |
Evolutionary Biologist 🪼| SciComm ✍🏻|
Bioinformatician 🖥️🧬| Public Health 🛟|
PNW 🌲|
>Art 🎨 & T-shirts 👕:
https://crvscience.com
>Books 📕 ✏️ 🖊️
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bryan-P-White/author/B0HDM8WX1S/allbooks
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com Philosopher of conspiracy theory theory. Editor (but not the) of “Social Epistemology” & the “Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy”
they/them
Website: https://www.mrxdentith.com
Podcast: https://zencastr.com/The-Podcaster-s-Guide-to-the-Conspiracy
mat marques, ph.d. @mdmarques.com bicycles, coffee, and social psychology.
researches the causes and consequences of #conspiracytheories
he/him. woiworung land.
https://mdmarques.com
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Daniel Zuidijk @dzuidijk.bsky.social Journalist covering digital culture and video games.
Brigitte Noël @brigitte.bsky.social Journaliste d’enquête / Investigative reporter @ Radio-Canada / CBC
(brige_noel on other site)
https://linktr.ee/brigitte.noel
E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com Public health + national security • Johns Hopkins alum • Tracking mysterious weaponized pigeons and FIMI
Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Media Studies. Researching participatory culture e.g. fan cultures, digital play, extremism, and conspiracy theories online. University of Copenhagen. Co-coordinator of smidgeproject.eu. She/her. Obsessive knitter and yarn dyer.
Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Philipp Pflegerl @ppflegerl.eurosky.social Political Scientist based in Vienna | Research @ IRKS | Online-Monitoring on Conspiracy Theories @ Federal Office for Cult Affairs | PhD @ UIBK at the intersection of far-right studies and social movement research | part of www.filmclubtacheles.com
Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social She/her - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. Research and community education countering fascist movements, hate, and Christian nationalism
I also really like rivers and trees
http://joanbraune.com
Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social Social Psychologist: Categorization, Stereotypes, Conspiracy Mentality; EASP Executive Committee; https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PJwzk1EAAAAJ
Shan Buncha Lastnames @parasocialmomma.bsky.social US Home of Caffeinated Nerds Clusters
Subject matter expert: Prevention & Disengagement/Rehabilitation violence-based extremism
"No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars."~Ursula K. Le Guin
https://patreon.com/shannonfoleymartinez?utm
David Griffin @linguistlawyer.com American lawyer and linguist interested in the nature of law, pseudolaw, and the semiotics of authority. He/him
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists
Currently researching climate disinformation in alt-media
But I seem to mostly post about movies
Newsletter: feijoadispatch.nz
buy me a coffee http://ko-fi.com/byroncclark
Keenan Chen @kcinbk.bsky.social - Data investigations for @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org
- Formerly First Draft News, brownpublichealth.bsky.social, Columbia Journalism Investigations
- Lang: 普通話, 廣東話
- Email: kchen[at]chicagopublicmedia.org
- Personal site: kcinbk.github.io
Steffen Göths @steffengoeths.bsky.social Communication Scholar at FU Berlin | Research on Conspiracy Theories and Alternative Media | Loves Fantasy, Video Games and Metal.
André Gagné 🇨🇦 @profgagne.bsky.social Professeur titulaire - Full Professor, @Concordia | Recherche - Research: Pentecôtismes - Pentecostalisms; Religion et politique - Religion and Politics; Évangéliques - Evangelicals
• Lien à ma page facultaire - Faculty page: https://shorturl.at/Riclq
Emily Godwin @emilygodwin.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @ University of Bristol Business School | PhD student @ University of Bath | Social scientist | Researching all things digital culture, specifically conspiracy theories
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/emily-godwin
Darja Wischerath @darja.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Bath | Conspiracy theories, radicalisation, violent extremism and the like
Avid hiker & coffee drinker
Masks save lives
She/They
Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social Researcher in conspiracy theories, religion, gender, extremism, end times, and hate. Lecturer at the University of Waterloo.
Carmencelestini.com
https://drcarmencelestini.substack.com/?r=19nlu2&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist
My Book GodsAngryMen.com
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social Professor of social psychology at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Daily 🚴 .
Kenzo Nera @kenzonera.bsky.social Social psychologist into conspiracy theories, jazz, and video games - not necessarily in this order of priorities.
FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology (Université libre de Bruxelles).
Paul Bertin @paulbertin.bsky.social Junior lecturer at UNIL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Conspiracy beliefs, sport fandom, metascience
Sylvain Delouvée @slvdlv.bsky.social Social Psychologist (Associate Professor) at Rennes 2 University — Social Representations; Collective Beliefs; Conspiracy Theories; Rumors; Propaganda; Risk; Radicalisation
Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social Former conspiracy theorist. Head of DOUBT - Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together support group for formers.HONR Network volunteer. Pub in Skeptical Inquirer & AIPT. tinyurl.com/StephKemmerer DOUBTIsTheWayOut@proton.me
Sims 4 CC creator
The Last Peter Smith @petersmith.bsky.social Freelance journalist & researcher | Words in Militant Wire, Lawfare, CTC Sentinel, EurasiaNet, antihate.ca & more | Interested in conflict, technology and underground movements | People's First Runner Up
heidi ippolito @heidiipp.bsky.social Dr. of religion, conspiratorial belief, memes, and pop culture • exploring intersections of on-screen storytelling (film/TV), memes, religion, & conspiratorial communities • https://linktr.ee/apocalypsehow
Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social Professor, researcher, consultant, trainer.
Political violence, social movements, OSINT, (cyber)security, tech & law.
Director @ prosecutionproject.bsky.social & peacejusticestudies.org
Ⓐ/Ⓥdad x 4+🐶🐶
https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu
Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social Fighting disinformation/misinformation. Film/TV producer (The Walking Dead, The Terminator, Aliens, T2, Tremors, Armageddon) and documentaries (The YouTube Effect, Mankiller) & a bunch of stuff you've never heard of. Full-time Gooner. Part-time Cassandra.
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters.
#BillsMafia
Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
sina @rejectionking.bsky.social Bonsai Wolf. Tiny and Mighty™️. Adorkable chihuahua. Tradecraft analyst focused on cloudsec. Dogged and rigorous. Bit of a weirdo. Exhausted historian focusing on extremism. he/they Email: theloopcast@gmail.com
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, forensic psychology, and school safety📍Atlanta, GA. Seven Summits 🏔️ (5/7). Adopt don’t shop 🐶 Personal account.
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social Your Lady of Chaos (Theory) | Cassandra of Geopolitics | MENA - Nazis - ISIS - political violence - etc. | @MsEntropy on all platforms
https://substack.com/@msentropy
Mark Berlin @markberlin2.bsky.social Assistant Professor at American University. Previously a postdoc at Princeton SPIA. Political violence, civil wars, and Middle East politics. markberlin2.com
Shea Minter @minter.bsky.social Pittsburgh resident and enthusiast, PhD Candidate at Georgetown University studying the racist far right in elections and political violence. Also sports.
Email me at sheaminter@proton.me
Anarcho-Sunni Aqidah Rizz @anarchosunni.bsky.social In the cut. Tipping on four fours. Research, analysis and who is Mike Jones. Author of "Hadith on Lean." Expert of expertise. Rolling in a slab for @ISDglobal
Μ (Μέλι) @malikacoexist.bsky.social Researching online extremist communities (Islamic State, AQ, white supremacy) | @GNET_research contributor
Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI.
Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
The Loopcast @theloopcast.bsky.social Official account of the podcast hosted by Chelsea Daymon & @rejectionking.bsky.social | Contact us: theloopcast@gmail.com
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
JJ West @jjwest.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ PERIL
🏳️🌈
Opinions are my own
My dog’s name is Tofu
Dan Olson 🔜 PAX West @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com Cat photos and opinions
Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@fatecheckpod
Always folklore, fact checking, and disinfo. Covering climate. Sometimes lifestyle/shopping. Sea witch, widow, Lokean 💖 and proud parent 🏳🌈 May or may not be notable 🧿
Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social social scientist studying political groups, civil rights, and political extremism/violence (he/his)
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia