Moises Lino e Silva @linoesilva.bsky.social Anthropologist. Faculty Member at UFBA - The Federal University of Bahia. Author of "Minoritarian Liberalism: a Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela." (2022).
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Dan Gillis 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 @danielgillis.ca Canadian Prof & Interdisciplinary Researcher: public health & ecological risk assessment, community-engaged software design, pedagogy, digital divide. He/Him. #2SLGBTQIAPlusInSTEM
https://allmylinks.com/the-daniel-gillis
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
Dr Kim Foale @kim.town She/they. Studio lead @gfsc.community. Aka kimadactyl.
Community organiser, software developer (attempting to retire), researcher.
Trans and very tired.
Mastodon: @kim@post.lurk.org
Work: https://gfsc.studio
WIP blog: https://kim.town
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Katy Lees (they/them) @iamkatylees.bsky.social Author, psychotherapist, & cat petter. THE TRANS GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING and QUEER MINDS are out now!
https://linktr.ee/IAmKatyLees
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social Sociologist @ Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times https://tinyurl.com/bdep3r4a and Approaches to Mixed Methods Research https://tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8. she/her | queer | radical, apparently
David Murphy @davidmurph115.bsky.social PhD candidate at Lancaster University researching queer British response to queerphobia in Uganda, and notions of international queer solidarity. He/Him 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/davidmurph115
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Annique @annique.bsky.social Just me..
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. New York via Amsterdam and Oregon.
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social Investigator & trainer at Bellingcat
Hisham Almiraat @almiraat.bsky.social
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Michael Sheldon @michaelsheldon.bsky.social Senior Investigator @ CIR
Formerly: Bellingcat, DFRLab
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Miguel Ramalho @msramalho.bsky.social Investigative Technologist @bellingcat.com
Data, Tech, Human Rights, Conflict & Financial Investigations
Signal @miguel.351
https://github.com/msramalho
Konrad Iturbe @konraditurbe.dev cosas varias
Madrid, España
Attacks on Civilians with Small Drones: A Global Picture @littleflyingrobots.bsky.social Documenting, analyzing, and mapping the growing global problem of attacks on civilians with small drones, from @faineg.bsky.social. View the map of global attacks here: https://map.faineg.com/public/index.html
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
Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social War Crimes Investigator focused on the Russian War in Ukraine
Perhaps the real watch list was the friends we made along the way. Keyboard Inghimasi. Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex. --Dire Straits Appreciation Zone-- #Flowers4Qanon
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring
Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Gabòr Friesen @gaborfriesen.bsky.social Freelance Open Source Researcher.
Studying Research Architecture @Goldsmiths
Geo-&Chronolocation/3D Modeling/CNNs/Social Media Analysis and Remote Sensing
Previous collaborations: Al Haq, Al Jazeera, Airwars/AFP, Bellingcat, CIR, CNN, The Washington Post.
Sarah Stoecklin @sarahstoecklin.bsky.social Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV).
Extremely Online at http://discord.gg/bellingcat
CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Dave Brookes @tehuringa.bsky.social Digital flâneur | Open Source Researcher| GEOINT| Bellingcat GAP Project | Research 中国 & Central Africa | drinks wine & writes stuff |Views are my own |RSs ≠ endorsements
Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator.
http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Brenna Smith @brennasmith.bsky.social WSJ visual investigative reporter.
Past: Baltimore Banner, New York Times, & Bellingcat.
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social Doctoral researcher focusing on right-wing extremism @helsinki.fi | ex-Bellingcat Volunteer
Avery Schmitz @averyschmitz.bsky.social Open-source reporting @cnn.com
Views my own | avery.schmitz@cnn.com
Timmi Allen @timmi-allen.bsky.social Former member of Bellingcat - Berlin, Germany
Merel Zoet @merelzoet.bsky.social Producer @Bellingcat.com
Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social Obsessive ship-spotting by the Bosphorus -.-. .-. .. -- . .- / .. ... / ..- -.- .-. .- .. -. . 50501
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
Eoghan @eoghanmacguire.bsky.social Journalist. Editor @Bellingcat.com. @jskstanford.bsky.social alum
Galen Reich @galen.reich.me.uk Bellingcat | Formerly BBC | PhD in Electrical Engineering | He/Him
🌐 https://galen.reich.me.uk
Beau Donelly @beaudonelly.bsky.social Editor @bellingcat.com. Previously @thetimes.com, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald. Author: The Woman Who Fooled The World.
beaudonelly.com
Pooja Chaudhuri @poojachaudhuri.bsky.social Researcher and trainer @bellingcat.com
Viktorija Ign @viktorija-ign.bsky.social 6Cs Rule: 🙌 Communication, 🌱 Community, 🗺️ Culture, ☕ Coffee, 🍰 Cake, 🐈 Cats | Community Builder & Strategist | bellingcat.com
George Katz @georgekatz.bsky.social Investigations and Training @bellingcat.com
Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social digital investigator // former @Bellingcat member // former adjunct at Georgetown // https://signal.me/#eu/NgJup15Ma2qMeT4LrMxTSoEjms9VQWtnut6sXW7CNidB5gEkzXJKlKpHsGXzQ9Eq
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Abdo Jabassini @syrianzo.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow - Central European University | Peace and conflict studies | Syria and the Middle East
RafifJ @rafifj.bsky.social American by birth, Syrian by blood, activist by nature. Shouting from the rooftop: FREE SYRIA. VP, Syrian Liberal Party; board president, Baytna and Nonviolence International. #Resist
Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social A Syrian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with 20+ years’ experience, founder of the Prisons Museum. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
https://amermatar.com
https://prisons.museum
https://linktr.ee/amer.mattr
Mahmud Musa @mahmudmusa.bsky.social Idlib, Syria
Leila Nachawati @leilana.bsky.social Spanish-Syrian writer and researcher, devoted to social justice. I teach at Carlos III University. #CeasefireNow
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Jens Hittrien @jenshittrien.bsky.social Criminologist independently observing Syrian conflict. Bridging between (open source) research, local reporting & journalism, flavoured with proper thoughts.
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
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
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social Research center hosted by the University of Copenhagen's Law Faculty and funded by the Danish National Research Foundation https://mobilitylaw.ku.dk/
Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social Scientia Professor of Law; Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; Director, Evacuations Research Hub, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social Professor of Law, Director - Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law - @MobileUCPH.bsky.social - mobilitylaw.ku.dk
migration/refugee/mobilities law, (X)AI & Law, legal theory, IL/IR
Asta Jarlner @astajarlner.bsky.social PhD fellow at MOBILE, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. Working on AI and credibility in refugee status determination at @mobileucph.bsky.social
Amalie Ravn Weinrich @amalierw.bsky.social Mobility | West Africa | Citizenship | Free movement | Borders
MSCA Postdoc, Center of Global Mobility Law
University of Copenhagen
Regional Mobility Infrastructures #REMOBILISE
https://mobilitylaw.ku.dk/research/research-projects/remobilise/
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social International #refugee law and policy.
Dorina Damsa @dorinadamsa.bsky.social 🍉 Global inequality regimes (incl. citizenship), multispecies justice, politics of nature and climate change adaptation, non/knowledge production.
📍 Senior research fellow at ISF Oslo https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/people/res/dorinada/
Sara Cosemans @saracoos.bsky.social
Chantal Thomas @1cpt.bsky.social
Matthew Scott @matthewscott111.bsky.social International lawyer researching climate-related human mobility with Raoul Wallenberg Institute / adjunct senior lecturer at Lund University
Dr Emilie McDonnell @dremiliemcdonnell.bsky.social Specialist Adviser in Immigration & OPCAT at the Australian Human Rights Commission. All views are my own.
Dion Kramer @dionkramer.bsky.social Assistant Prof European law and its politics @Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: EU citizenship, homelessness, posting of workers and the platform economy. Co-chair Amsterdam Young Academy.
Adel-Naim Reyhani @adelreyhani.bsky.social International Refugee Law
Access to Asylum, Externalization, Role of Courts, Rightlessness
Bologna/Vienna/Ljubljana
Elina Pirjatanniemi @epirjata.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University. Vice-president of the Global Campus of Human Rights. Law and legal research are close to my heart, as well as theatre and literature.
Jesper Lindholm @jesperlindholm.bsky.social Associate Professor, Public Intl. Law, Human Rights and Asylum, Aalborg University, Denmark. Formerly UNHCR and Amnesty International. Menneskerettighedskonferencen.dk
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen @dortemartinsen.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Uni Copenhagen. EU policy-making, implementation, enforcement, social Europe, EU health policy. Co-editor of West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social
Ellen Allde @ellenallde.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow @QMUL School of Law | (B)OrderS Centre Co-ordinator | Called to the Bar of England&Wales | SOAS Law and IR Graduate | Gender, Coloniality and (im)mobility 🇸🇪
Ashley Binetti Armstrong @ashleybinetti.bsky.social Prof @StJohnsLaw. B.A., Cornell University; J.D., LL.M. Georgetown Law. Past: NWC COO, UNHCR, Georgetown Law HRI, NYU Law, UConn Law.
Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova @alexandraancite.bsky.social Senior Fellow @CEU Democracy Institute and Research Affiliate @Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Migration, asylum and human rights
📓Author of The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives (Brill,2024)
Mariza Avgeri @marizaavgeri.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in Law at Open University, DFG postdoc at CeMig University of Göttingen, Lawyer/political scientist. Gender, Disability & Refugee Law, Love sceptic and quantum lover
Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law @refugeestudies.bsky.social, University of Oxford. Trustee @4refugeewomen.bsky.social. Feminist.
Nicolette Busuttil @nikkibusu.bsky.social Lecturer in Law (SOAS University of London) researching the intersection of disability human rights with migration & refugee law | EU Law & IHRL
Food-obsessed Southern Mediterranean immigrant (still) acclimatising to life in London.
Tatiana Cernicova-Dragomir @tatiana-cernicova.bsky.social PhD student, human rights law, refugee law, public international law
Dr S Chelvan (he/him) @drschelvan.bsky.social #SilenceIsNotAnOption #IAmAnActivistLawyer - #Barrister and Human Rights Activist -Head of Immigration, Public Law & Civil Liberties @33bedfordrow-Adjunct Professor @southamptonlawschool -#LegalCommentator -- #QueerRefugees #IAmAnImmigrant- #DachshundDad 🏳️🌈
Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Law at Northumbria Law School • Refugee law/irregularised migration • Co-founder of the Human Trafficking Research Network
Lecturer in EU and International Law @vicky-kapogianni.bsky.social University of Reading
Julian Lehmann @jlehmann.bsky.social Policy & law on migration, humanitarian action, human rights, out of Berlin/Germany for think tank https://gppi.net/. Also interested in climate & environment.
Posts in English & German.
https://gppi.net/team/julian