Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
Alexandra Masciantonio @a-masciantonio.bsky.social I research social media, algorithms & digitalization 🧠📱 | Postdoc at Utrecht University
Darja Wischerath @darja.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Bath | Conspiracy theories, radicalisation, violent extremism and the like
Avid hiker & coffee drinker
Masks save lives
She/They
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Nullius In Verba @nulliusinverba.bsky.social Nullius in Verba is a podcast about science—what it is and what it could be. Hosted by Smriti Mehta (@smritimehta.bsky.social) and Daniël Lakens (@lakens.bsky.social). nulliusinverba.podbean.com
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
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 Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social Building a threat intelligence company in the depths of the Nordic forest - www.Revontulet.co. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Miro Dittrich @mirod.bsky.social Researching German far-right-extremism/terrorism, QAnon, and content moderation policies
Senior Researcher @cemas.io
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://tinyurl.com/barnesandnobletph
► https://bookshop.org/shop/jmberger
► https://amzn.to/4qJhTE7
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Accelerationism Research Consortium @arcglobal.bsky.social ARC is dedicated to a collaborative, empirical approach to understanding and addressing the threat of accelerationism to democratic societies. 
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social Prof. Royal Military College of Canada
Expert on tech, far-right extremism & terrorism tactics | Ph.D. in International Relations | Author of 'How Terror Evolves' and currently working on 'Uniformed Threats.'
Views = Mine
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social MSc Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies Royal Holloway, UoL. Assoc Fellow ICCT, RUSI.
Author: Extreme Britain https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/extreme-britain/
Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder.
email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
Aoife Gallagher @aoifegall.bsky.social Fellow at @isdglobal.
Previously, Investigations @ Storyful.
**Taking a break**
Author of Web Of Lies: The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories.
https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/web-of-lies-9780717195121
🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social Global security consultant focused on terrorism, counter-terrorism & new technology (particularly AI): Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
Jonathan Collins @joncollins.bsky.social PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
#extremism #alt-tech #far-right #conspiracies #socialmedia
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitz2.bsky.social Associate Prof Security Studies School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Visiting Prof at NetLab Federal Univeristy of Rio de Janeiro. Co-founder Erasmus IMSISS. Into conspiracies & disinformation lately (academically)
Vidhya Ramalingam @vidhya.bsky.social Founder & CEO Moonshot
www.moonshotteam.com
Our mission is to end online harms, applying evidence ethics & human rights. 
Arthur Bradley @abrad.bsky.social Independent specialist in open-source investigations, OSINT, terrorist/violent extremist use of online platforms
Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) @extremismgaming.bsky.social 🎮 Network of over 155+ members working together across sectors to uncover how terrorist and violent extremist actors exploit gaming, to build resilience in gaming communities, and to use gaming for good. 👾Learn more @ extremismandgaming.org 
NaureenCFink @naureencfink.bsky.social Executive Director at GIFCT. Interests in counterterrorism, sanctions, tech, international affairs and global security. Cosmopolitan nomad and jewelry maker. All posts in my personal capacity; quotes not endorsements.
Katy Vaughan @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law.
Member of CYTREC, VOX-Pol, Christchurch Call Advisory Network.
Legal Ed, Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights, Digital Rights.
Sean McCafferty @seanmccafferty.bsky.social Researcher and OSINT analyst | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow EU-GLOCTER 🏴
ICSR @icsr.bsky.social 
Lisa McInerney @skeptic999.bsky.social Tech policy 
Tech Against Terrorism @techvsterrorism.bsky.social Saving lives and preventing harm by disrupting terrorist activity online and upholding human rights. Supported by UNCTED
🔸 Website: https://techagainstterrorism.org/home
🔸 Podcast: https://podcast.techagainstterrorism.org/- M Meghan Conroy @mconroy.bsky.social Research Fellow @dfrlab.bsky.social. Former J6 Committee Investigator. Really only interested in extremism, social media, Taylor Swift, Love Island, and the epic highs and lows of high school football.
NCITE @ncite.bsky.social The National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Ayse (Aisha) Lokman @aysed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University; Political Com & Computational Methods. Middle Easterner, she/her
Lisa Sugiura @drlisasugiura.bsky.social Ass Prof in Cybercrime and Gender. Researches online gender-based violence and incels. Currently in my Red era. 
Karmvir Padda @karmvirpadda.bsky.social #FirstGen PhD Candidate @UWaterloo | 2021 SSHRC_CRSH (CGS) Doctoral Scholar | Researching radicalization & ideologically motivated violent extremism, computational social science
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social Assistant Professor at U of Ottawa, affiliated with @crexuio.bsky.social / National identity & immigration; ethics and methods when researching the far right; far-right movements in Québec & Canada / Co-editor of the newsletter of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgov.bsky.social. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
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
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Suraj Lakhani @surajlakhani.bsky.social Academic @sussexfss.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Vox-Pol | Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social | Steering Board @extremismgaming.bsky.social | Ambassador @getwigi.com
Researching all things terrorism, particularly video-games and violent extremism.
Lewys Brace @lewysbrace.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and extremism researcher at University of Exeter, Co-Director of the Centre for Computational Social Science (@C2S2exeter.bsky.social) and .gif connoisseur.
Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social Shaping future services for vulnerable people through research. Based at @york.ac.uk & @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Funded by the ESRC.
https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/
Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social Social science. Policy. Open science. Inequality. Meta science. Education.
https://sites.google.com/site/nbreznau/
https://crowdid.hypotheses.org
@diebonn.bsky.social
CREST @crest-research.bsky.social The Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) is the UK’s hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/
UCL Crime Science @uclcrimescience.bsky.social UCL Department of Security and Crime Science. We’re not really here yet, but stay tuned.
🌐 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/scs/
Joe Whittaker @joewhittaker.bsky.social Lecturer at Swansea University. Research on terrorists' and extremists' use of the Internet.
CrimRxiv @crimrxiv.com crimrxiv.com is criminology's global open access hub & repository. Home @ University of Manchester. Powered by Knowledge Futures. Sustained by its Consortium.
Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social Professor of Global City Policing at University College London
Toby Davies @toby-davies.bsky.social Associate Professor at School of Law, University of Leeds. I hate it when people put 'all views are my own' here.
Ryan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social Associate Professor, Michigan State University; a criminologist mostly studying on- and offline behaviors and patterns of the extreme right.
ryanscrivens.com
Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social Assistant prof sociology dept Utrecht University | PhD in Security and Crime Science (UCL) | Extremism, hate and threats of violence |
Co-chair @opencriminology.bsky.social | isabellevdv.net
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
Amy Nivette @nivette.bsky.social Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University. Studies crime things. 🏳️🌈
The Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social The Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) at Royal Holloway University of London. Founding Director:
@akilnawan.bsky.social; Co-Director: @lizzypearson.bsky.social
Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
Orla lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social Psychologist working on extremism, CVE, victimology and other stuff - Prof of Criminology - UCC - Cork Ireland
Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social Professor of Dutch Politics at Leiden University | Extremism, populism, radicalism scholar | Board member IISG Amsterdam and Wiardi Beckman Foundation | Allotmenteer | Zeeuws meisje |
PERIL @perilresearch.bsky.social Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, School of Public Affairs. We design, test, & scale up evidence-based tools to help communities prevent & respond to hate & violence. https://perilresearch.com
Caitlin Clemmow @caitlinclemmow.bsky.social Manages Jill Dando Institute Research Lab for UCL Crime Science. Researches risk & protective factors for grievance-fuelled violence.
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social Professor (michaelinzlicht.com), Podcaster (www.fourbeers.com), Writer (www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com)
Bart Schuurman @bartschuurman.bsky.social Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University
Andrew Silke @andrewsilke.bsky.social Professor at Royal Holloway. Terrorism & counter-terrorism, war & conflict, psychology & crime. Not always in that order.
C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
VOX-Pol @vox-pol.bsky.social Academic network focused on researching prevalence, contours, functions, & impacts of online violent extremism and terrorism. Website: http://www.voxpol.eu 
Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCL Experimental Psychology; math psych & cognitive psychology; statistical and cognitive modelling in R; German migrant worker in UK
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Ana-Maria Bliuc @anamariab99.bsky.social Social & political psychologist at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Interested in the study of polarisation and online communities in political and health domains (including addiction recovery). 🇹🇩🇦🇺🏴
CSTPV @cstpv.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence is Europe's oldest Centre of its kind.
BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social Housed at @cega-uc.bsky.social at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences promotes openness and integrity in social science research. https://www.bitss.org/
#openscience #reproducibility
Guidance, Skills & Opportunities for Researchers @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social Society needs research. Research needs supporters.
We offer independent, innovative, and scalable solutions for researchers and institutions – with a measurable ripple effect.
Lisa Poettinger @lisapoettinger.bsky.social Kinderpflegerin. Lehramtsanwärterin https://lasstlisalehren.de Buch➡️oekom. Klimaaktivistin. Marxistin. 📸Sandra Singh. #RefugeesWelcome, #Antifa 🏳️🌈🚩
Bildungsstätte Anne Frank @bs-anne-frank.de Politische Bildung zu Antisemitismus, Rassismus & Menschenfeindlichkeit
Hansaallee 150, Frankfurt a.M.
bsaf.info/m/links
Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social Social psychologist & professor at Rutgers University.
Studying how to reduce prejudice and discrimination.
Opinions are my own. he/him
calvinklai.com
Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social Metascience, statistics, psychology, philosophy of science. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Omnia probate. 🇪🇺
Simon Lolliot (he/him) @simonlolliot.bsky.social Associate Professor of Teaching in Psychology at UBC. Interested in embedding best practices for memory and learning into OERs. Also, classroom diversity, intergroup contact, creating classroom community and how to foster social and academic belonging.
Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.
i4replication.org
Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social social psychologist at UMass Amherst, studying intergroup relations, social division, status inequalities, and bridging differences; passionate about translating academic research to make the world a better place.. and dogs 🐾 more at: www.lindatropp.com
British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Page for the BSC Hate Crime Network. Follow for News, Updates, Conferences, Discussion Groups and Latest Developments.
Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social Ecology, conservation, statistics, reproducibility https://camargue.unibas.ch Retire statistical significance https://nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org Serving Reproducibili☕️ at 100+ locations: Blends include transparency, openess and robustness + spoonfuls of research.
Find out more on our website: https://reproducibilitea.org/
Check out our podcast: https://soundcloud.com/reproducibilitea
German Reproducibility Network @germanrepro.bsky.social The German Reproducibility Network (GRN) is a cross-disciplinary consortium that aims to increase trustworthiness and transparency of research. https://reproducibilitynetwork.de/ #AcademicSky 🧪 #OpenScience
Norwegian Reproducibility Network @norrepro.bsky.social The Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN) is a peer-led network that aims to promote and enable rigorous, robust and transparent research practices in Norway
ReproducibiliTea Portsmouth @reproportsmouth.bsky.social Discussing Reproducibility and Open Science at the University of Portsmouth.- R Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling @reprobiomodels.bsky.social Making biomedical models understandable, reproducible, reusable, and composable.
reproduciblebiomodels.org
Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social https://forrt.org
In a nutshell, FORRT is a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and meta-scientific research.