Empty Bag of Ducks📎 @emptybagofducks.bsky.social Ex-Army officer. Retired DoD civil service/SES. Historian. Battling advanced metastatic bile duct cancer. Hoya. Diehard Packer fan. Fighting the dying of the light, the dying of liberal democracy and the death of the American Republic.
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social I research, teach, and write about about the causes and consequences of the proliferation of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (CBRN) weapons to states and terrorists. Views are my own.
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Delusionally Optimistic Officer @wargamesandtheory.bsky.social The army once paid me to write some papers, now I think people care about my thoughts...
Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social Writer. My latest is The Art of Forgiveness, from @galleon-books.bsky.social, a collection of linked short stories about three boys growing up (roughly) in the suburbs outside Halifax. I also advocate for sustainable energy. https://chris-benjamin.ca
Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social Senior Adviser, Asia @crisisgroup.org | Strategic narratives on China, Indo-Pacific, geopolitics, geoeconomics, philosophy and values. Ex-diplomat. Don't start none, won't be none. 实事求是。己所不欲,勿施於人 https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelkovrig
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca Investigations on the Alberta-led drug war revival: www.drugdatadecoded.ca
✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee
PhD Microbiology
Banner: Access to information in Alberta
Icon: Headshot of me in blue t-shirt
John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli
jm_mcgrath.01 on signal
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
VassB @vassb.bsky.social policy designer + writer
I run the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca), where we make sovereignty make sense.
Subscribe to our newsletter, The National Interest.
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
hailey @hailey.at spreadsheet pusher.
agents, safety, and atproto.
opinions are my own, especially the bad ones.
Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social Actor/comedian/writer in Toronto. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, The Toronto Star, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlackwoodComedy
Security Dilemmas @securitydilemmas.bsky.social I'm Richard Purcell, Louisiana native, proud UNC alum, former Capitol Hill staffer, SAIS grad, and (hopefully) keen observer of foreign policy and national security. Nukes are my specialty.
Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social Chief Market Strategist, Corpay by day. Nerd by night.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social wannabe linguist+tutor • social meaning, semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, film, lit, animals, mental anguish • San Francisco boy —> Massachusetts man
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
Autumn Chen @red-autumn.itch.io interactive fiction writer - https://red-autumn.itch.io/
she/her ↙↙↙
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social Director, Center for Climate and Security, DC
Former US Nat'l Intelligence Council
Wisconsinite at heart
Posts my own
Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social the only moral position on immigration is open borders.
she/her. socialist in the liberal tradition. Reconstructionist. Liberal Currents Contributing Editor, i guess???
boycott the New York Times
Pessimismus intellectus, optimismus voluntatis
ponder @ponder.ooo
director of research @ponder.technology
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social China, PLA, Taiwan, defense, & nukes | IAF @CFR.org | Opinions mine
John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net Machine learning researcher, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer.
All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.
Julie McDowall @nuclearwar.bsky.social Author of Attack Warning Red. Get it here: https://linktr.ee/attackwarningred
Presenter of Atomic Hobo podcast. Get it here: https://podfollow.com/the-atomic-hobo
@burtont.bsky.social @burtont.bsky.social 
Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social Read my books: http://amzn.to/36pzbf9 Freelance editor, writer, poet, humorist. OEF veteran by way of BFE. Admin: The Aiming Circle. Opinions & jokes my own. https://linktr.ee/randysherpabrown
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social Distinguished Risk Pokemon will be my final form. Cthulhu cultist, lawful good. Yay Seattle! Opinions belong to my autocorrect, not my employer. /her
Also 0xdaeda1a@infosec.exchange
Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social Nautilus Island's hermit heiress (settler, she)
Books, bread, cloth, cyclamen, snow, roses, rooms
Walking—looking—liberation
PINK THEORY! (Milkweed, 2027), PATTERN-BOOK(Carcanet, 2025); rep: Wylie
profile, Corita print; banner, campion/gorse
ohbara.com
Speedegg @speedegg.bsky.social The internet isn’t the only place to surf. Non-work, semi-judgemental account. Powered by coffee. NY to SF
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
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Geek, Nerd, former Army WO IP (60s), current Coastie. Personal account.
He/Him, White, Cisgender, Allosexual, Heteromantic, unmedicated Introverted Neurotypical.
Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Coms, internet & media industries, regulation & history. Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. https://www.gmicp.org
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social Professor at SLU | Balthasar, Blondel, Péguy, Lonergan | théologienne, monstre | pensées sont en rapport avec la vie de l'âme
Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social I bleat about the history of global economic development
https://pseudoerasmus.substack.com/
https://pseudoerasmus.com
https://medium.com/@pseudoerasmus
Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social Woke Aristotelian
Nick Bradbeer @nickbradbeer.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Submarine Design @ UCL. Nerd, maker, gamer, wargame builder. He/him.
I mostly post about games I'm playing for fun and games I'm creating for work, with the odd diversion into submarine design.
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University. 
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Movie enjoyer. Animal lover.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social Retired former US Ambassador, NSC Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, NSC Director for Nuclear Materials Security, and Deputy Exec. Dir. of the International Energy Agency
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social The donuts and beers one. Certified Barracks Lawyer. Guardian of the Thermostat. Consumer of Food and Drink. Actually forklift certified. Semper Gumpy. Drunken BBX Advocate. Writing at: https://inconvenientwarstudies.net/
Russell “RPG” Ziskey @rpg-volley.bsky.social We’re in the shit now, somebody’s gotta shovel it.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com Ph.D./P.E. nuclear engineer and nuclear educator who runs https://whatisnuclear.com. Thinks about how to deliver nuclear power reliably and cheaply, advanced reactors, reactor history, energy.
Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social 
E-Hoe in the 47th Skyfang Logistics Brigade (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social Skyfang Brigades Trauma Medic. Number one C9H13N enjoyer. Cypherpunk and linux nerd. Geosocialist. Chinese-American. Sun Yixian's number one fangirl. Likes to read shitty sci fi novels. Makes a mean soup. 21 years old. She/They. Anglican. Transfemme.
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org Author of Naval Fiction, Freelance Defence Journalist – Naval & Aeronautical History
MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
Grey ships, black boats
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/rebecca-ingber
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
spectre crouton @spectrecrouton.bsky.social Deep diving, original analysis and reporting on the Russian Navy and related maritime topics. Views expressed do not reflect those of my current or past employers, nor do they reflect the views of Vova (you know which one).
Arnaud Orain @arnaudorain.bsky.social Directeur d’études - Full professor
EHESS Paris
Economist and Historian
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 www.hanvanderhart.com
Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, and attachment. Wrote: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." Blog/essays here: jgcarpenter.com
Alex Rudolph @cyberincontext.ca PhD (Carleton University): State/national approaches to cyber conflict and warfare.
I research Canadian cyber policy, focusing on CAFCYBERCOM.
CGAI & NAADSN Fellow. Cyber Yeoman.
I run Canadian Cyber in Context: cyberincontext.ca
Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/), journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: glyn.moody@gmail.com
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social Author of Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Murders of Old China, Peking Noir, The Defectors, Her Lotus Year. The Last Emperor of China is out now. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City now on BBCSounds. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social Ore Deposit geologist turned SAHM. I love rocks and books. Loves sustainable mining and hates coal.
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Associate Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer.
www.scottmcconnaha.com
Valerie Morkevičius @vmorkevicius.bsky.social Assoc Prof Political Science @ColgateUniv. Author of Realist Ethics: https://bit.ly/RealistEthics Ramblings here from a just war perspective on #security & #infowar. Personal views only.
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social Senior reporter, provincial affairs. CBC Calgary. Formerly: Toronto Star investigations. Interested in: Misinformation, politics, culture.
Signal: alexboyd.56
alex.boyd@cbc.ca
Simon Denny @simondenny.bsky.social Artist
Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social Boardgamer. Cyclist. Taipei Times feature writer every Mon & Thurs with Notes from Central Taiwan.
Taiwan's status under int'l law remains unresolved. It isn't part of China.
Starter pack for Taiwan: https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/EM1VG8y
QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social he / him, 🏳️🌈 ✝️. i mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. makes silly games about politics/history. design lead for TNO.
Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA
Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP);
on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP)
Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening
Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism
www.nomiclairelazar.com
Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social International Trade Analyst, Transportation enthusiast, Public interest advocate. Family man. Posts are my own. Reposts & Likes don't necessarily mean endorsement. Also wallylms on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social Historian. With Michelle Kuo, a newsletter on #Taiwan: http://ampleroad.substack.com
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social diaspakora
Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social I write and yak for CBC in Calgary. DMs open, Signal, WhatsApp, and such
jason.markusoff@cbc.ca
Eric M. Murphy @ericmmurphy.bsky.social Birds, Math, Literature, & Air Power. BoD Member @Strategy_Bridge, #Strategy, #Development, #NationalSecurity, #MilitaryAffairs. Repost is not endorsement. Nothing interesting to say.
Kingston Reif @kingstonareif.bsky.social Senior International/Defense researcher at the RAND Corporation. Former DASD for Threat Reduction and Arms Control + Arms Control Association. Wisconsin sports fanatic. Personal account.
Brian Bartholomew @bpbartholomew.bsky.social Power markets, batteries, niche memes. Grid modeling and analysis at Merit Order Energy. Living in NY 🗽
Ashwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social Currently: MD Student @UTHealthSA. Former: Associate @BCG, Clinical Trials @MDAndersonNews, External R&D @Celgene, Summer Associate, @Lux_Capital. Views my own.
Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social 👊🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇮🔥
Director, Institute for Security Policy @ Kiel University (@ispk.bsky.social) | ⚓ Vice President, German Maritime Institute | 🇺🇸 Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council | ex-naval analyst, TKMS | ex-Sinology professor, Uni Hamburg.
George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social IT/Cloud/SRE/PE, rockets & missiles, nukes not going bang, space, CS, ships. YIMBY & amateur transit geek. Part time adjunct @ miis.edu teaching Missiles & Missile Defense. I speak for myself only not $DAYJOB. V95.45XA I do #OSINT against nuclear missiles.
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
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social Mostly energy, supply chains, and transportation. Toto and Art Deco enthusiast. Still a MENA student at heart. Views my own.
Onward, Rocinante!
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Anthropic Intimacy Coordinator Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social Cyber space chicken
M Hunter Nebula (thereabouts)
Carol Cohn is Always Right
Views own
He/Him