Dave Ross @daveamitri.bsky.social A bit of music. A bit of amateur writing. 'You know, the word amateur comes from the word amour. You must do things out of love or it is stupid' - Orson Welles
https://open.substack.com/pub/daveross100?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=293r7s
@killiemesoftly.bsky.social @killiemesoftly.bsky.social I’m a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of edam.
Love Telly, Film, Comics and Music (not necessarily in that order)
Teuque @teuque.eurosky.social Mi-homme, mipple. Pro-ukrainien primaire. Tout-le-monde-ophobe sincère, sans exclusivité.
"Pas de pro-russes à l'Elysée, on est déjà suffisamment dans la m*rde".
HC Strien @hcstrien.bsky.social Linksliberal. Gegen Extremisten von rechts, links und sonstwo. Team Wissenschaft (Archäologie - nutzlos, aber schön)
Hier wegen Ukraine und Syrien, versuche möglichst sachliche Lagebeschreibungen zu liefern.
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Mehran Haghirian @mehranhaghirian.bsky.social Director of Regional Initiatives, Bourse & Bazaar Foundation | PhD. Gulf Studies, Qatar University | MA International Affairs, American University’s School of International Service | Diplomacy
Sajad Jiyad @sajadjiyad.bsky.social Focus on Iraq
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
Holly Dagres @hdagres.bsky.social Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Dr Cinzia Bianco @cinziabianco.bsky.social Analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations on the Arabian Peninsula/ Gulf and relations with Europe. 
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social An ordinary Ukrainian. Soldier of Ukrainian Armed Forces, callsign Liber🫡. @dzygaspaw.com founder - we bring tech to 🇺🇦 Defenders. Former Software guy. Fun dude.
Just a Ukrainian dude fighting Russian invasion.
dzygaspaw.com
Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Fokus Ukraine - Russian warship - go f*** yourself!
Ako ne znaš šta je bilo, pitaj Zadar i Kotare… i Velebit hladan kamen nek ti odgovara!
Naša rana i lik - Zadar zauvik!
🇭🇷🇪🇺 My Home is Croatia - just living in Switzerland
Taliban inclusif🌈 @fipouf.bsky.social Jupe trop courte, barbe trop longue ici je papillonne.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Les comptes d’élus LFI, Z & RN sont systématiquement bloqués. Il en sera de même pour leurs perroquets.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social We host great author events and have a podcast called Music Maps @musicmaps.bsky.social
https://rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/
Walthamstow, London and beyond…
Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social WILD DONKEY. BROADCASTER. The Fall 78-83. Not a real Doctor. Met Bowie, Woody and Ronno. Ner ner ner ner ner.
COLOSSAL 🛎️end…
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Defmon3 @defmon3.bsky.social 
Conflict Dispatch @conflictdispatch.bsky.social OSINT △ Geopolitics △ Donate to DIU Legion below (not affiliated)
https://linktr.ee/ConflictDispatch
Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social Political Scientist at George Mason U. studying US politics, congressional networks, parties, campaign finance, and other broken systems. Cat person, dog owner. Take my class: https://tinyurl.com/bderak89 Read me: https://substack.com/@misofact
Chytomo @chytomo.bsky.social Chytomo is the largest independent media covering publishing and contemporary literary and cultural processes in Ukraine.
https://www.patreon.com/chytomo
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/chytomo
UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social Ukraine in English: news, analysis, podcasts, videos. Run by Internews Ukraine.
Website: https://ukraineworld.org
Support us: http://patreon.com/ukraineworld
Amy Zegart @amyzegart.bsky.social Stanford professor and Hoover senior fellow. Co-chair of Stanford Emerging Tech Review. I study U.S. intelligence, emerging tech, and geopolitical risk. Latest book: Spies, Lies, & Algorithms. Views are my own.
Tanya Goudsouzian @tanyagoudsouzian.bsky.social International journalist, communications strategist, author and senior editor with extensive experience in Middle East and South Asia Affairs, with a particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. 
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
@halbfinger.bsky.social @halbfinger.bsky.social Politics editor at The New York Times.
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.
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
Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social Personal account. Retired USAF, former Director of CIA & NSA, author, husband, father, granddad. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Blogs of War @blogsofwar.com 
Pete Strzok @petestrzok.bsky.social 26 year FBI and Army veteran. Georgetown School of Foreign Service adjunct professor and alum. NYT/WP bestseller: Compromised
Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social FBI Assistant Director (retired); 25 year veteran Special Agent; Author, Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers; and, The FBI Way; Democracy defender.
Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social legal affairs correspondent // The New York Times
first dot last at n y times dot com
Annie Karni @anniekarni.bsky.social Congressional correspondent, New York Times, co-author of the NYT bestseller “Mad House,” out 3/25/25
Gene Meyer @genemeyer.bsky.social Journalist and Author, former longtime Wash Post reporter and editor, Editor of B’nai B’rith Magazine (2009-2025), Washington Independent Review of Books board, reviews and essays. Blogs at www.eugenelmeyer.com
Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social Reporter @ NYT covering federal courts.
Three-season outdoor enthusiast.
J. David Goodman @jdavidgoodman.bsky.social Texas Bureau Chief for The New York Times. I cover Texas. Previously covered New York politics. david.goodman@nytimes.com
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Matthew Savill @mtsavill.bsky.social Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute; recovering former civil servant; all views expressed here are my own.
Passion Médiévistes Podcast @passionmedievistes.fr 📜 Le podcast sur le Moyen Age et la recherche sous toutes ses formes depuis 2017 / 🎧 A découvrir sur passionmedievistes.fr / Créé par @fannycomo.bsky.social
NICOLAS ARPAGIAN @arpagian.bsky.social Cybersecurity & AI pundit,
Books writer : Editions de l'Observatoire, Mareuil Editions, PUF, Dalloz, Vuibert, Palgrave MacMillan.
Lecturer in 🇨🇵 (ENSP, Sciences Po Saint-Germain...) & 🇲🇦 (UM6P),
Columnist 🗞 @Les_Echos & 📻🎙@franceinfo.fr
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil @mlafontrapnouil.bsky.social 🇱🇻🇫🇷 Ambassadeur en Lettonie @francediplo / Vēstnieks Latvijā @francijalatvija / Ambassador to Latvia.
Ex-@ECFRParis & @CSIS
Personal account, usual caveats
Lauric Henneton @laurichenneton.bsky.social Politique histoire religion Rock US
📚_Atlas historique des États-Unis _ (Autrement)
📚_Rock'n'Road Trip: Les États-Unis en 1000 chansons de l'Alabama au Wyoming_ (Hors Collection)
John Seaman @johnfseaman.bsky.social Research Fellow with @ifri.bsky.social. China-U.S.-Europe. Geopolitics. Economic statecraft. High-tech. Energy. Critical Raw Materials. @ifri-asie.bsky.social
Gustavo de Carvalho @gustavobcarvalho.bsky.social International Relations Analyst/Consultant: Global South geopolitics, peace and security, and multilateralism. Also part-time at SAIIA and PhD @WitsUniversity.
Flora Genoux @floragenoux.bsky.social Journaliste correspondante en Argentine 🇦🇷 | Un œil sur le Chili 🇨🇱 | Aussi 🇺🇾🇵🇾
@lemonde.fr et toujours 📺📻
DGRIS @dgris.bsky.social Direction générale des relations internationales et de la stratégie du ministère des Armées français 🇫🇷
site internet : https://www.defense.gouv.fr/dgris
International Centre for Ukrainian Victory | ICUV @icuv.bsky.social I see 🇺🇦 victory.📍Mobilising the world for victory📍 Fo unders: Daria Kaleniul, Hanna Hopko, OlenaHalushka, Olga Aivazovska, Victoria Voytsitska
La revue européenne des médias et du numérique @laremedias.bsky.social Imprimée tous les trimestres depuis 2006, "La rem" décrypte de manière neutre et indépendante l'actualité européenne et internationale des médias et du numérique / Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas + Francis Balle + ISTC
Abonnez-vous !
https://la-rem.eu
PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu brings together every dimension of Europe's policymaking | News, Debates & Opinions on EU 🇪🇺 & 🌍 global cutting edge issues
Mathilde Velliet @mathildevelliet.bsky.social PhD | Research Fellow in the Geopolitics of Technology Center at Ifri.
Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social Political scientist with a passion for EU affairs, Geek with a passion for technology. Senior Fellow in Europe Division at @SWP-Berlin.org. Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.bsky.social Europe Programme. All views are personal. Journey before Destination.
Jason Davidson @profjwdavidson.bsky.social Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council/ Prof at U of Mary Washington
Research on NATO/ Transatlantic Security
Trying not to suck at bike racing
Kristi Raik @kristiraik.bsky.social Director, International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn. Adjunct Professor, University of Turku. Feeling home in Estonia, Finland and at sea.
Ivan U. KŁYSZCZ @ivanklyszcz.com Insights on int'l security, intel, Russia | Research Fellow @ICDS-Tallinn.bsky.social | ivanklyszcz.com | Tweets reflect my views only
Mireya Solis @mireyasolis.bsky.social Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies
Knight Chair in Japan Studies
The Brookings Institution
Views are my own
ARES Group - EU @aresgroup-eu.bsky.social Armament Industry European Research Group
An @institutiris.bsky.social coordinated high-level network of European security & defence specialists
🔗 iris-france.org/ares/
Alain Berset @alain-berset.coe.int Secretary General of the Council of Europe / Secrétaire Général du Conseil de l'Europe
Ifri - Institut français des relations internationales @ifri.bsky.social 🇫🇷 Leading French think tank dedicated to the analysis of international issues and global governance.
🌐 Website: https://ifri.org
🎧 Podcast: https://smartlink.ausha.co/le-monde-selon-l-ifri
Laurence Nardon @laurencenardon.bsky.social Chercheuse US à l'Ifri
Justine Brabant @justinebrabant.bsky.social Journaliste. Guerre en Ukraine et questions militaires chez @mediapart | Habitera toujours un peu Bukavu | justine.brabant(at)mediapart.fr
Alexandra Dalsbaek @alexdalsbaek.bsky.social Journaliste 🎥 passée par France télévisions, AFPTV, RTS, 7 à 8, BFMTV, France 24 ; journaliste-producer en Russie de 2014 à 2024 ; finaliste Prix Bayeux des correspondants de guerre 2023 catégorie TV “Les deux visages de Marioupol occupée” (France 2)
Pierre Haroche @pierreharoche.bsky.social Associate Professor of European and International Politics, Catholic University of Lille
Gulliver Cragg @gullivercragg.bsky.social Correspondent for France 24 in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2013. Born in London.- A Anissa El Jabri @aeljabri.bsky.social Correspondante à Moscou pour RFI
ECFR @ecfr.eu European Council on Foreign Relations: the only pan-European think-tank. We foster coalitions for change and promote debate on Europe's global role.
Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM
Democracy in Wartime/GeoPol/EU/DisInfo/Elections/Protest/Identity/Surveys 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺
📚Zelensky Effect
📚Mapping Mass Mobilization
VProf College D’Europe
Prev @ox.ac.uk Nuffield/StAntonys @harvard.edu @uoft.bsky.social
Marc Julienne @marcjulienne.bsky.social Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
Associate Lecturer at Inalco
Ph.D. from Inalco
@ifri-asie.bsky.social
@ifri.bsky.social
Views are my own
Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). Moral clarity enjoyer. Ally of Ukraine. Own views only. 🇪🇪
Lukas Aubin @lukasaubin.bsky.social Docteur en géopolitique (Russie)/Auteur : La Sportokratura sous Vladimir Poutine (Bréal) et Géopolitique de la Russie (La Découverte)/Directeur de recherche à l'IRIS
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.
Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social Associate Professor in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, (post-)Soviet wars.
Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), Anti-corruption Action Center (AntAC). Kyiv, Ukraine.
Doug Klain @dougklain.bsky.social Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill | Views mine 🫡
Maria Romanenko @rommari.bsky.social Multi-award-winning journalist, activist, event host, and public speaker || from Ukraine 🇺🇦, now in Manchester 🇬🇧 || Instagram/Twitter: @rommari || 📩: maria@mariaromanenko.com
Tanya Lokot @tanyalokot.bsky.social Ukrainian academic living in Ireland. I study digital media, civic mobilisation, & networked authoritarianism. Nature & cats keep me sane. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social I write about Ukraine and eastern Europe, literature and culture, memory and cities. I translate Ukrainian literature. I'm from Scotland.
Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social Reader (Associate Prof), City St Georges, University of London. IOs, international inequalities, international security (including Russia's war against Ukraine), peacekeeping. http://kseniya-oksamytna.com
Dr Sasha Dovzhyk @dovzhyk.bsky.social Ukrainian killjoy. Based in Lviv after 10 years in London. Writing in New York Times, CNN, Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.
http://sashadovzhyk.com
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll.bsky.social Foreign Correspondent at The Economist
www.olliecarroll.uk
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Steven Lee Myers @stevenleemyers.bsky.social New York Times in California. Previously in Beijing, Moscow, Baghdad and DC. Author of "The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin" http://bit.ly/3bbpinS
https://www.nytimes.com/by/steven-lee-myers
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult