Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Nicolas Veron @veron.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Bruegel and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Derek Barker @dwmbarker.bsky.social Senior program officer for research initiatives, Kettering Foundation. Leads Kettering-Gallup Democracy for All Project annual survey. Studies democracy, virtue ethics, and Aristotle; Orioles fan.
Peter Frechette @pfrech60.bsky.social Girl dad who cohosts, with my daughter, GirlDad. My memory may be faulty but my heart is pure. https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65bba0f62400b50016549302 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFwi1FP5L0LhlC9NGUur7uA
Tuck Frump ❌👑 @tuckfrump.eurosky.social Founder:
Blond Squirrel Liberation Front
A Blond squirrel? I'm confused 😕
The one that adorns Frump's head
Slogan:
Tuck Frump, Muck Fusk, Tuck Tucker Farlson, and Tuck Tox Fews
#Resist
www.youtube.com/shorts/E3d6o0ktthM
Austin Powers: Golden Diaper
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social https://chakhoyan.substack.com
Ukrainian-American in NL🇳🇱. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim” -Elie Wiesel #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.
Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos. https://www.ft.com/content/d5f80bc5-a204-472e-921f-c1f08aa83989?shareType=nongift
Formerly doing various things in Mitteleuropa.
Also 🎿🚴♂️📚🏔️
Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social Lake kayaker. Small-medium mountains OK too.
On Ngunnawal/Ngambri country - #Canberra, Australia.
Household cats are sucked in by progressive media. Views are theirs; sometimes mine. 
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
Terra Nova, le think tank @terra--nova.bsky.social Le think tank progressiste indépendant
Nos publications et actualités sur tnova.fr
Notre revue La Grande Conversation : lagrandeconversation.com
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
Jon Parry @jonparryhis.bsky.social Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans. https://bio.site/gregolear
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com Authoritarianism, corruption, rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia. Words in WaPo, Slate, Foreign Policy. PhD, political science. He/him.
Subscribe at https://www.readthedetox.com
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social Fed and economy reporter with @reuters.com, ex-WSJ. Failed musician, guitar holdout. Signal: michaelsderby.50
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social British journalist and author
Read me on Substack
https://nickcohen.substack.com/
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Louise Coombe @louisecoombe.bsky.social Singer songwriter; TN girl relocated to MA; college basketball fan; crypto is a Ponzi scheme; no DMs; Fuck Putin
J.D. Souther stan
www.louisecoombe.com
Daniel Wengelin #NAFO 🇸🇪 @danielwengelin.bsky.social Professional in systems engineering, cyber, product strategy, contract in BnHq for SweDef, volunteer for NAFO and related democracy charities. Dropped martial arts for Salsa!
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Fabian Baumann @fabianbaumann.bsky.social Historian of Eastern and East Central Europe, University of Basel. Nationalism and family in late imperial Ukraine; democracy, treason and disloyalty in interwar Czechoslovakia. "Dynasty Divided" out now: https://tinyurl.com/3m6e5f9d
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.
Ekkehard Brose @eejbro.bsky.social German Diplomat (1984-2024); Moscow, Washington, NATO. Former German Ambassador to Iraq and President of Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. My new book: https://buchshop.bod.de/szenenwechsel-ekkehard-brose-9783819231506 , now also in English
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former British Soldier & 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Marine | Author of Live.Fight.Survive | Public Speaker | Defender of Mariupol | Writer & Independent Journalist ✍️
David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social Intelligence, geopolitics, and the Arctic | Vice President of Strategy, Emergent Risk International | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
Jürgen Nauditt @juergennauditt.bsky.social Here to help Ukraine. NAFO. 🇺🇦
Managing director. No AfD.
Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity.
Views own.
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social Democracy is the way. Truth and justice matter.
Russia can end the war today by leaving Ukraine.
Less proud to be an American than I used to be. I really thought we were better than this.
#IStandWithUkraine #NAFO Fellas fan
Marie @madl.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦
Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social Electrical/Power Systems Engineer, Internationally Recognized Queen of Anglo-Saxonia, “Expert”
*sigh* there will be typos and long threads
Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social Actress. Politics, Foreign Policy, Science & RockNRoll. Love animals
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
Scottish Council on Global Affairs scga.scot @scga.scot First all-Scotland international relations institute.
Hub for collaborative policy-relevant research & home for informed, non-partisan debate on all aspects of foreign policy.
scga.scot
@glasgow.ac.uk
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy. Frazzled mom. Owner of 2 🐕🦺
Andreas Steinmayr @andreassteinmayr.net Econ Prof @ Uni Innsbruck ⛰️🇦🇹, fan of evidence-based policymaking, #migration #econometrics #policyevaluation, AE Empirical Economics, opinions are my own. Posts in English and German.
Venetia S-Booth @venetiasb.bsky.social Owner of Venetia’s Yarn Shop in Fakenham, Norfolk (UK), knitter, gardener, cook. And interested in politics.
BadToss @badtoss.bsky.social Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita. Working on a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Edward Stringer @edstringer.bsky.social Retired RAF Air Marshal | Senior Fellow - Policy Exchange | Trustee Imperial War Museum
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.
Gerard DeGroot @groovydegroovy.bsky.social Historian, journalist, dad, dog lover, Emeritus professor. Writes book reviews for The Times. Exile from Facebook and Twitter, still getting the hang of Bluesky. https://gerarddegroot.substack.com, www.begurvilla.net
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social Researcher at Norwegian Defence University College / Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. Specialising on Russian military and maritime strategy. All views my own
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social I have a Masters degree in Leadership and like to cheer on the good guys. We need a court for crimes against the planet and a Professional College to regulate journalism.
I support a #BlueStateNation to end #USRussia.
Mackenzie, BC
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com
alexzfinley.substack.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social International Correspondent German weekly DIE ZEIT (@zeit.de), Cold War kid, cyclist.
„It’s so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind.“
Mein neues Buch zu deutschen Außenpolitik hier bestellen: https://shorturl.at/qf6Zw
Frans Osinga @osinga.bsky.social Prof war studies Leiden Uni
Shannon Monaghan @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social Historian of modern war (PhD, FRHistS) / Ukraine book TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN (Hurst 2025) / WWII-Cold war book A QUIET COMPANY OF DANGEROUS MEN (Viking 2024) www.shannonmonaghan.com
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Jessica Silbey @jessicasilbey.bsky.social Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Law
https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/jessica-silbey/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social European security & defence, global order, EU in US-China competition.
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. PhD Defence Studies, King’s College London. Into running, matcha, 中文. Views my own.
geopoliticaleurope.substack.com
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books! May possibly like Sci-Fi.
Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre at the University of Cambridge. Advancing new approaches to teaching and researching Ukraine since 2008.
www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org
Posts by Rory Finnin
Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social Professor of Military Strategy and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition. Born 🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 9y🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/
Andy Lim @andysaulim.com Deputy Director & Fellow @korea.csis.org
- China's Weaponization of Trade: https://shorturl.at/X3yPG
- Koreanists starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/U3Nm5FX
- Personal website: andysaulim.com
- Moonlighting at @citylightsofchina.bsky.social
Kevin Rowlands @c21st-sailor.bsky.social Editor, RUSI Journal
(Views are my own)
Tim Edmunds @edmundsprof.bsky.social Prof of International Security and Head of School, Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol. Co-Director, SafeSeas. Working on maritime security and ocean governance.
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations.
www.williamdjames.com
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Mariana Budjeryn @mbudjeryn.bsky.social Researcher of nuclear, Ukraine, and nuclear Ukraine. Author of Inheriting the Bomb. MIT Center for Nuclear Security Policy, Brookings and RUSI nonresident, NAS CISAC, ACONA.
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
FRANKY 🇺🇸🪖🛩️ 👊🇺🇸🔥 @jaharamatisek.bsky.social USAF Pilot; PoliSci PhD; Mil. Prof. at US NavalWarCollege; Fellow @PayneInstitute & @EuropeanResilienceInitiativeCenter; 49ers fan; Tweets ≠ DOD endorsement // My Book: https://www.rienner.com/title/Old_and_New_Battlespaces_Society_Military_Power_and_War
Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social Political and Strategic Affairs
Former NATO official
PhD VUB & Royal Military Academy of Belgium
Views my own
Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social 🎙️ Co-Host @sicherheitspod.de
🤓 Head of Research @metis.unibw.de
🐦 https://twitter.com/drfranksauer/ 👈 inactive
🦣 http://mastodontech.de/@drfranksauer 👈 bridged
Ian Isherwood @iaisherwood.bsky.social Professor of War & Memory Studies at Gettysburg College. FWW historian. Books: The Battalion (2024), Remembering the Great War (2017). Cocktails, tweed, angling, etc. Co-host of @theivoryattic.bsky.social
Ben Hodges @general-ben.bsky.social Former CG USArmyEurope, loves the Army Team, FSU football, and Braves baseball.
Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), Anti-corruption Action Center (AntAC). Kyiv, Ukraine.
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social Once was an architect.
Wangal land. DOB 329.43 ppm CO2. #GenXClub 🤞#NoDickheads.
I receive DMs from mates. Any others will be deleted without response.
I can’t send you money. Refusal may offend.
I HATE MICROSOFT.
They’re skeets.
Gustav C Gressel @gresselgustav.bsky.social Security, Defence, Europe; #MilSky
Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst
Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Special Correspondent at the Kyiv Independent - opinions mine alone
Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social American, Texan, Father, former USAF F-16 pilot & NASA Astronaut. Trying to bring some happiness and sanity down here on Earth.
www.terryvirts.com Book a 1 on 1 call with me at: intro.co/TerryVirts
Karrin Vasby Anderson @kvanderson.bsky.social she/her
Professor of Communication Studies @ Colorado State University | The Center for Democracy, Art, and Popular Culture cdapc.colostate.edu | The Conversation https://tinyurl.com/yzbmdpuw | Views represent my expertise, not my university.
Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social Comparative civil-military relations, defense manufacturing, political violence, electoral politics, and foreign policy. Regional foci on South Asia and Latin America, but also the "global south."