TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Hadja Lahbib @hadjalahbib.bsky.social European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management 🇧🇪🇪🇺
@martlin.bsky.social @martlin.bsky.social
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Angelika Markowska @angelikamarkowska.bsky.social Trainee in Research Communication (#Wisskomm) at @zois.bsky.social | Slavist & Political Scientist
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Alight @wearealight.org A global nonprofit reimagining humanitarian work through co-creation. Not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, and purpose.
🔗Learn more: https://linktr.ee/wearealight
💙Donate today: https://bit.ly/SupportAlight
Gauthier Marchais @gauthiermarchais.bsky.social Researcher at the Institute of Development studies. Views are my own. ‘Seule la route connaît le secret’
Ally Freischmidt @allyfreischmidt.bsky.social journalism student at UoP
local and national politics
Eddie Monkman @eddiemonkman.bsky.social Yorkshire-based journalist. York Press, The Line of Best Fit and News Associates.
Benjamin Krick @benckrick.bsky.social Duke University PhD Candidate studying the legacy of violence, forced migration and authoritarian nostalgia in Iraq.
Amaury Cooper @amaurycooper.bsky.social
Malin Oud @malinoud.bsky.social Co-founder and Managing Director, The Decoding China Project
Affiliated scholar, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Vice chair, Expert Group for Aid Studies
Advisory board, MERICS
Mark Moran @markmoran.co.uk Photography, darkroom, drawing, music, words, letterpress, analogue.
www.markmoran.co.uk
Prints available.
Dr Lisa Denny @lisadenny.bsky.social Systems Thinker. Demographer. Researcher. Educator. Mum.
www.lisadenny.com.au
Adrienne Testa @adriennetesta.bsky.social Senior Research & Learning Manager at www.UKHIH.org
Passionate about stronger #Partnerships for #CrisisResponse through #RapidResearch #MortalityEstimation #CapacityStrengthening #ResearchUptake. Views own.
Let’s connect to drive #Research&Innovation.
Khin Ohmar @khinohmar.bsky.social Founder and Chairperson @pvamplify.bsky.social, Myanmar human rights research and advocacy organization. progressivevoicemyanmar.org
kohmar.substack.com
@nicolanixon.bsky.social @nicolanixon.bsky.social
@gopathampi.bsky.social @gopathampi.bsky.social
Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, @uu-polisci.bsky.social, Uppsala University 🇸🇪 • Climate Change • Crisis • Disasters • Global Environmental Politics • International Relations • Public Policy.
Leslie P. @leslieprosy.bsky.social Research | NYU MA International Relations | EU Law | International Law | ITCILO M&E | Governance
Claudia Meier @claudia-meier.bsky.social Head of the Protection Department, Member of the Executive Management
Swiss Refugee Council / Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe SFH
Emilie Poisson @milipoisson.bsky.social Director at IMPACT initiatives @impact-initiatives.bsky.social
Former Executive Director at Convergences
Former Aidworker #Africa (#DRC, #Chad, #SouthSudan & Regional) & #Calais & #Haiti
Raj Rana @rajrana.bsky.social | Peace + Human Rights Advisor | Swiss Embassy Myanmar | @SwissMFA + @SwissPeaceHR | Eclectic views all mine |
Paula Gil Baizan @paulagilbaizan.bsky.social Exploring the Psychology of Creativity @Harvard | Consulting on Humanitarian Innovation + Futures + Systems Design @SomethingMeaningfulCo | Mexican living in Myanmar
Sam Huckstep @samhuckstep.bsky.social Working on climate, migration, governance & green transition at CGDev. Any views mine.
@nathshaw.bsky.social @nathshaw.bsky.social disaster studies, socio-environmental justice, social vulnerability, equity, intersectionality, disaster recovery, disaster housing
Stephen Thompson @stephenthomo.bsky.social Research on development, geography, and inclusion.
Fellow - Institute of Development Studies/University of Sussex
Jennifer (Trenholm) Ferguson-Mitchell @chanler.ch Former United Nation, World Economic Forum & WWF. Using communications to change the world 🌍 & having fun along the way. Focused on #SDGs to create a better world for people and the planet. Based in US & Switzerland, working globally.
www.Chanler.ch
Leigh Mitchell @leighmitchell.bsky.social 🇰🇭🇳🇵🇲🇲🇹🇱🇦🇺 | planning, governance, coordination, development finance/effectiveness & investment | Husband | Father | Usual disclaimers apply
Andy Norton @andynortondev.bsky.social Various including climate science, climate finance/politics, inequality. Applied anthropologist. Professor of Practice SOAS.
Laure-Hélène Piron @lhpiron.bsky.social Director at The Policy Practice (@thepolicypractice.bsky.social). Democracy, justice, human rights, governance, development.
ex-DFID, ex-ODI, ex-tango dancer
Duncan Green @duncangreenlse.bsky.social LSE Prof in Practice & Director of its 'Activism, Influence & Change programme/blog'. Recovering Exfamer. Current passion teaching/training next & current gen of change makers, both at LSE and beyond. Author How Change Happens, From Poverty to Power
Jenniina Kotajoki @jkotajoki.bsky.social PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University & visiting fellow, Geneva Graduate Institute. International interventions, non-state armed groups & civil war dynamics.
Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social Proud 🇨🇦 maritimer and humanitarian; CEO ICVAnetwork.org 🇨🇭 previously based in 🇽🇰🇰🇪🇵🇰🇦🇫🇵🇭🇹🇭🇲🇲🇧🇩🇮🇶
I have two decades of experience in international aid programming, strategic development, NGO coordination, & policy formation
Chris Lockyear @chrislockyear.msf.org
Mariana Duque-Díez @marianaduqued.bsky.social
Thea Hilhorst @theahilhorst.bsky.social Professor of humanitarian studies at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University. #TheHagueHSC #bikepacking #SafeFieldwork #030 @flyingless
Ziad Achkar, Ph.D. @ziadachkar.bsky.social Working on ICT4D and Organizational Learning
Young Lives @yloxford.bsky.social A longitudinal study of poverty and inequality following 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, & Vietnam since 2002.
Local2Global @local2global.info Supporting locally-led crisis response and mutual aid to change how aid is understood and carried out.
local2global.info
Md Zubair @nur6348.bsky.social A Rohingya Human Rights Defender, Researcher,and Reporting in Rohingya crisis.Email: mdjubairkhan309@gmail.com
Riley Sparks @sparksriley.bsky.social Journalist. Reporting on Gaza, migration/borders, human rights & aid @newhumanitarian.bsky.social. Researcher @ Canada Press Freedom Project.
Signal: sparksriley.01
sparksriley@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/sparksriley
Veronique Barbelet @verobarbelet.bsky.social Independent Humanitarian Policy Research Consultant. Former HPG at ODI Global, WFP, Geneva Call. 🎓 Uni of York (UK) Graduate Institute (Geneva) UWC Pearson College (Canada).
Brian Mc Donald @brianmcdonald.me Humanitarian Aid Worker. Occasional whitewater kayaker.
Based in Nairobi
https://brianmcdonald.me
https://fosstodon.org/@brianmcdonald
Jeff Pugh @jpugh00.bsky.social Dad, peacebuilder, UMass Boston migration & conflict resolution prof, Latin Americanist. Southern exile. Author: The Invisibility Bargain (Oxford University Press 2021).
Stephen McDonald @mcdonald.link Ethical Leadership & Strategy - Humanitarian, Climate, Environment.
Centre for Humanitarian Leadership founder.
NFP Executive Leader / Consultant @ Duntulm Partners
Vol firefighter & District Pres VFBV
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbmcdonald/
Emmanuel @eraju.bsky.social Director, Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen
Femke Mulder @femkemulder.bsky.social Research Fellow Disaster Management Science | Humanitarian Studies at University College London
Catalina Jaime @catalinajaime.bsky.social Head of Secretariat Risk-informed Early Action Partnership REAP - IPCC lead author AR7 & Trustee @MapAction 🇨🇴
Kevin Blanchard (he/him) @drrdynamics.bsky.social Working to contribute to a truly inclusive disaster risk reduction
system = my raison d'etre.
Plus politics (UK, EU & USA), travel & my own (amateur) photography
🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇺🇳
Maximillian Morch @maxmorch.bsky.social Humanitarian aid along the Thai/Myanmar border.
Author of "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal's Tarai".
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Andrea Novellis @andreanovellis.bsky.social Postdoc @ University L'Orientale of Naples
Now focus on EWS and international organizations
Also: Rebel governance, power-sharing and ethnonationalism
Focus on Sri Lanka, Kurdish issue, Syria, Turkey
Lindsay Hamsik @lindsayhamsik.bsky.social Humanitarian aid | Enterprise risk management | PNW native always missing my motherland | I like solving hard problems.
DW NOLa @dwolnik.bsky.social Activist, writer, researcher. Direct action, community food, and systemic justice including reparations and radical power shifting.New Orleans, NE OH,farmers markets,baseball, knitting,bikes,climate action but any good conversation welcome.
Kerry Albright @kerryalbright.bsky.social Bluesky newbie! @ADB.org evaluation. Former Deputy Director-Evaluation @UNICEF.org. Proud evidence champion and knowledge broker for children, science and international development.
Charles Tellier @charlestellier.bsky.social Civil servant. Diplomat at French MFA, working on UN Ocean conference UNOC3. Formerly with: DFID, World Bank, AFD, IFAD. My heart is in Africa. #SaveourOcean
Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social Strategy, futures and impact | London | andymartin.net
Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social Visual investigations at Reuters
James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists.
Before: Head of Global Education Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children & Theirworld; advocacy at White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Dr Yvette Selim @yvetteselim.bsky.social 🌍 Researcher & practitioner passionate about #communityengagement and #peacebuilding.🔍 Exploring #transitionaljustice and #humanrights, I aim to amplify the voices of #survivors and #everyday people.
UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se Associate Professor at the Dep. of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University (@uupeace.bsky.social). Researching dynamics of civil war, rebel governance, civil resistance, electoral violence, postwar violence, Côte d’Ivoire.
www.sebastianvanbaalen.se
Harem Karem @haremkarem.bsky.social PhD | Cyberdemocracy Specialist | Information Disorder | Elections | NGO Leader Driving Policy Change and Social Impact. (Views mine)
Rania AbdelNaeem @raniaabdelnaeem.bsky.social Social protection specialist with expertise in social assistance and social insurance programmes across the MENA region.
Isabel Ortiz GSJ @isabelortiz.bsky.social Director Global Social Justice; former Director at the United Nations' ILO and UNICEF
http://www.isabelortiz.info/
Costanza de Toma @cosdetoma.bsky.social Passionate about social justice. Enthusiastic trainer @ITCILO and advocate for #socialprotection. Mother of three. All posts are my own.
Stefan Granlund @stefangranlund.bsky.social 🇸🇪 PhD Social Protection/Development studies. Anthropologist. Arsenal fan and projectionist at independent cinemas. Love movies 🎥
Mara Junge (she/her) @marajunge.bsky.social Research Associate/Doctoral Researcher |
University of Bremen & German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) & London School of Ecomics (LSE)|
Migration, Social Policy, and Civil Society.
Jules Gazeaud @gazeaud.bsky.social Development economist at CERDI
https://julesgazeaud.com
Andaleeb Rahman @andaleeb.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/andaleebrahman/
Jack Calland @jackcalland.bsky.social Our goal lies far in the distance, clearly visible. PhD in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government & Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Working on employment & social protection. 🇿🇦 🇬🇧
Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social Associate Professor at @tcddublin.bsky.social | Acting Head of @tcdsociology.bsky.social | child wellbeing, education, mental health, poverty, inequality | Formerly UNICEF, Nuffield College | Member of @learnineq.bsky.social https://learnineq.eu/
Thomas Paster @thomas77.bsky.social Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University
https://thomaspaster.wordpress.com/
Rod Hick @rodhick.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy at Cardiff University. Poverty | social security | work | housing www.rodhick.com
Mariana Balboni @marianabalboni.bsky.social Coordinator of the socialprotection.org platform and Senior Programme Officer at UNRISD
Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social Social scientist, political economy, development and social policy, activist for academic freedom
Hisham Al-Omeisy @omeisy.bsky.social Conflict Analyst. Senior Advisor @eurpeace.bsky.social, SGH @YemenPathways, prev IRC Director @USEmbassyYemen, @UNDPYemen, Coral Group. Views personal. E: omeisy@gmail.com
@marinalandrade.bsky.social @marinalandrade.bsky.social
Sandra Silva @sandrasilvasp.bsky.social International development professional with over 20 years of expertise in social protection and post-conflict reconstruction.
RICHARD CHIRCHIR @richardchirchir.bsky.social Richard Chirchir is the Principal Digital Technology Specialist at Development Pathways. Working on digital technologies that empower vulnerable individuals to secure their rights to social protection and achieve financial security.
Christoffer Berg Larsen @christofferberg.bsky.social Humanitær analyse hos Dansk Røde Kors
Ryan McNeill @mcneill.bsky.social Reuters deputy editor, data journalism. Europe, Middle East, Africa. #okstate alum....... send tips: ryan.mcneill@tr.com- S Sara Murray @saramurray.bsky.social
A. de la Paz @adelapaz.bsky.social Asst. prof, BUPardeeSchool | PhD, Columbia PolSci | war, history, international law and ethics, human foibles, and more | columbia.edu/~ad3085/
Kevin Savage @savagekevin.bsky.social
Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
Alex @alexmoodie.bsky.social Co-founder
@PVamplify
Researching Myanmar
Ashley Jackson @ashleyajackson.bsky.social Co-director at The Centre on Armed Groups @armedgroups l Nairobi
Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Libération (Chroniques du Sahel) https://www.liberation.fr/auteur/yvan-guichaoua/ • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
Katharine Fortin @katharinefortin.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at SimUtrecht, Editor in Chief NQHR, editor AGIL, OUP http://shorturl.at/flsEH, international law, armed groups, civilian agency, everyday life, still 🇪🇺😅 postcast host: https://open.spotify.com/show/5NINbmVLSewFRZjlVjDQuy
Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, scholar and investigator. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.
Florian Weigand @weigand.bsky.social Co-Director, Centre on Armed Groups I Research Associate, LSE & IHEID I ✏️📚: Waiting for Dignity (http://bit.ly/3DY2QhB) I Conflict & Transnational Crime I Handbook of Smuggling