Arend Jan Boekestijn @ajboekestijn.bsky.social Podcastmaker, Boekestijn en de Wijk, Europa Draait Door. Associate Professor International Relations, UCU
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Mark Millar @mpmillar.bsky.social PhD researcher at SOAS | Former FCDO, UN & NATO practitioner | Exploring how institutions understand and judge conflict | Author of The Peacekeeping Failure in South Sudan
Omer F. Orsun @omerorsun.bsky.social Political Scientist at NYU Abu Dhabi | Interested in international security and machine learning
European Political Science @epsjournal.bsky.social The professional journal of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), publishing contributions written by and for the political science community.
Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social A journal of the International Studies Association (ISA). Publishes cutting-edge research on global security and global aspects of debates in security studies.
European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Mehmet Erdem Arslan @mehmeterdemarslan.bsky.social Lecturer in GCGA, Türkiye | PhD in Government, University of Essex | MA in Security Studies, TOBB ETÜ | Bsc Turkish Military Academy | CT Veteran
SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social BREAKING NEWS | RESEARCH | ANALYSIS
Centre for Security, Counter Extremism
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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ripon College. I study social interaction, organizations and religion. PhD from UCLA.
Find me at www.andrewchalfoun.com
Taufiq E Faruque @taufiqef.bsky.social Political Science PhD Student at CU Boulder
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science @cndsofficial.bsky.social The Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, CNDS, is a national platform for research on the nexus between socio-technical vulnerability and extreme events, affiliated with Uppsala University, Swedish Defence University and Karlstad University.
Daniel T. Roberts @danieltroberts.com PhD Candidate @Harvard Gov. Political Economist researching on the politics of opportunity. Credit Access, Education, and Labor Market policy in US, Germany, and Japan + affects on global financial stability. On the market.
https://www.danieltroberts.com/
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Ayse Busra Topal @abusrat.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @UTAustinGov | Political psychology & behavior | Race & ethnicity | Religion & politics
aysebusratopal.com
Rusty Allen author @rustyallenauthor.bsky.social New novelist. Vine Leaves Press author of ELLA'S WAR, award-winning debut historical fiction. http://linktr.ee/rusty_allen_author
Next up from VLP: my new thriller QUEEN OF THE BAY - release date Feb. 2027. 
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Prof Anastasia Shesterinina @ashesterinina.bsky.social Chair in Comparative Politics @york.ac.uk | #UKRIFLF Civil War Paths project @civilwarpaths.bsky.social | Award-winning author @cornellupress.bsky.social Mobilizing in Uncertainty | mom
Jacob Fortier @fortierjacob.bsky.social PhD candidate Northwestern @polisciatnu.bsky.social
Political violence, social movements, IR
Maria Wani @mw4789.bsky.social New to Blue sky!
MACIS @ ETH Zurich
Formerly Political Science @ NYU Abu Dhabi
Danielle Summer @daniellesummer.bsky.social Freelance Foreign Correspondent with a focus on women’s rights and foreign affairs.
Leon Kouider @leonkouider.bsky.social Journalist at Maghrebi.org specialising in Sudan and Egypt.
Ally Freischmidt @allyfreischmidt.bsky.social journalism student at UoP
local and national politics
Kate Bunn @katebunn.bsky.social Reporter for online newspaper, Maghrebi.org, focusing on news from the Sahel region.
Eddie Monkman @eddiemonkman.bsky.social Yorkshire-based journalist. York Press, The Line of Best Fit and News Associates.
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Civil War Paths @civilwarpaths.bsky.social Researching #civilwar from pre- to post-war stages. Funded #UKRIFLF | led @ashesterinina.bsky.social | hosted Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War @york.ac.uk
Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social Tenant rights, social movements, organizing against authoritarianism.
Assistant Professor @sjsu
https://www.kentoncard.com/
Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social The Centre for European Reform (CER) is an award winning think-tank, devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the EU.
London, Brussels, Berlin
Website: www.cer.eu
Podcast: soundcloud.com/cer_london/ Spotify: https://buff.ly/7aKvyUs
Nikki Ikani @nikki-ikani.bsky.social Assistant Prof Intel & Security ISGA | writer | NWO Veni Laureate | Research Fellow KCL | Snr Fellow NATO Defence College | researching warning | editor Poets Reading the News | @Kortschrijvers | she/her
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Martin Jay @martinrjay.bsky.social Owner of maghrebi.org, ex award winning journalist with big media, loves dogs, lives on the edge of the sahara. Fired by CNN for being a good journalist. The truth really is easier to remember.
I'm not an 'impersonator' as BSK has labelled me ffs
Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and support democratic deliberation.
Scott P. Johnson, MLIS @scottpjohnson.com Sociotechnical systems analyst, research and data engineering, critical information and data studies
Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social Editorial Director at National Security Archive. FOIA enthusiast. Colombia specialist. Bluegrass guitarist. He/Him nsarchive.gwu.edu
Emma Mateo @emmamateo.bsky.social Researching protest, civil society and war - mostly in Ukraine and Belarus
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Formerly NYU Jordan Center & Columbia U Harriman Institute
PhD in Sociology from University of Oxford.
Meghan Leonard @meghanleonard.bsky.social Professor - Political Science @ Illinois State University: judicial politics & state supreme courts. cats. women's sports. basketball. she/her
Volkan H. @volkanhto.bsky.social Game Designer | Research Assistant @buggamelab | Computer Engineer | Enkindler Worshipper | Secular | All Around Smartass |
My feed is VERY random
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social Furious feminist philosopher, author, likes to draw pictures
British Academy Global Professor at University of York till August 2028
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism @jpict.bsky.social The Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an international forum for new research and analysis of contemporary security issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpic20
Emre Önkibar @oentaeb.bsky.social Dr. (PhD) International Relations | Academic'N Roll
Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social Emeritus Prof European International Politics, Oxford University. International History. European security
Damir Hadzic @dahadzic.bsky.social Bosnian in Amsterdam. International development and politics. 🐈 person and 🐶 owner. Antifa, naturally 😉Poguzija&ManUtd. Views and comments my own.
Joakim Kreutz @joakimkreutz.bsky.social Associate professor at Department of Government, Uppsala University. Scholarly interests include armed conflict onset, dynamics, and termination; repression and peacemaking, sanctions and trust. Other interests include football, food, travel, and more.
Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, detention, and torture & ill-treatment.
Pliny Soocoormanee. 🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇲🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 @plinys23.bsky.social #LGBT+ & Human Rights Activist.
#SocialJustice #Liberation.
#EconomicDemocracy.
Exec. Officer @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social.
#NDA24 #Bluecrew
Historian & Historical reenactor.
https://linktr.ee/pliny23h
🚫DM
#LGBTHM #Gymrat
Kiran Stallone @kiranstallone.bsky.social Sociology PhD | Senior Researcher at Ladysmith | armed conflict, gender + civilian agency | based in Bogotá
Brett Lewis @itsbrett.bsky.social Arctic and International Relations researcher | ESRC-funded PhD student @CardiffUniversity | F1 & WEC enthusiast and Swansea City fan🦢 #InternatioanalRelations #Arctic
Fabian Hofmann (he/him) @fhofmann.bsky.social Ph.D. Student, Technology and Governance (TaG) @ethz.ch
"Securing Urban Peace" Project, SNSF Doc.CH Grant: https://bit.ly/SecuringUrbanPeace
Communications Officer @jird-jour.bsky.social
Junior Organiser @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
Christophe Chowanietz @edelweiss20.bsky.social Systems thinker & Prof. of political science at John Abbott College. Raising awareness about energy & material blindness / Il n’y aura pas de futur sans décroissance. Auteur de Bombs, Bullets & Politicians at MQUP.
Susanna @susannaomg.bsky.social between Madrid and Wisconsin, de vez en cuando en Colombia, UK, Chicago // 🏳️🌈 // 26
🎓B.A. in International Relations. Teacher fighting fascism
Julia Zulver @jzulver.bsky.social 📍 Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Swedish Defence University
📍 Senior Researcher at Ladysmith
📕 Author: High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Eng http://bit.ly/36wtfGz Esp http://bit.ly/3BGTNlQ
International Relations @ Western University @westernuir.bsky.social Collaborative program between the Departments of History and Political Science at Western University
internationalrelations.uwo.ca
ir-inquiries@uwo.ca
Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
Amelie Freiberg @ameliefreiberg.bsky.social Technische Universität München
Ph.D. @ Trinity College Dublin
Former Postdoc @ University Mannheim
Former Fellow @ Civil War Paths Fellow, University of York
Focus on Armed Conflict & Political Violence
Benoît Rihoux @benoitrihoux.bsky.social Full Prof, political science, UCLouvain | Chair of MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social, global hub for #researchmethods #innovation & accessible #training | Into #QCA, comparison, #mixedmethods, multidata & cool collaborative projects | #methods pluralist
Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/perspectives-on-politics/
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social APSA Preprints is an open research platform that provides a home for early research outputs in political science and related fields. Free to submit, access, and download at preprints.apsanet.org. 
Ripon College @riponcollege.bsky.social Founded in 1851 and located in Ripon, Wisconsin, our liberal arts and sciences curriculum and active residential campus prepare students for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship.
ripon.edu
Huseyin @huseyin.bsky.social Researcher. Mostly Eurasian Politics, Russian Studies, and the Media | Retweets ≠ endorsements | Opinions are my own
Laura Alonso @colmenares73.bsky.social Journalist. Middle East Correspondent RNE. Jerusalén. laura.alonso@rtve.es
David Fitzjarrell @ddfdba.bsky.social Senior database administrator with a Chemistry degree. Have been a professional Chemist and DBA, still the latter, 35 years now. I follow the BEST people.
No DMs, you will be blocked.
Blog: dfitzjarrell.wordpress.com
War Studies @warstudies.bsky.social Government defence official who holds PhD in War Studies and publishes in various academic and policy venues. 
Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, writer, editor, strategist.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton/
• https://christopherallbritton.com
David Camus 🇺🇦 @davidcamus.bsky.social Disabled worker | Horror translator (EN/FR) | Former editor & literary agent & SFFF professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University | Writer | Book lover | 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 | Électron livre✨
https://substack.com/@davidcamus?r=3d1111&utm_medium=ios
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
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
Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social Building a threat intelligence company in the depths of the Nordic forest - www.Revontulet.co. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯➔ Founded by a small group of purged academics, http://newsaboutturkey.com offers critical news, views, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
➔ https://newsaboutturkey.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Peter Forman @pjforman.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Northumbria University (UK). Researches energy transitions, security and infrastructural politics. Specialises in natural gas and hydrogen. He/Him
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/f/peter-forman/
Manasi Bose @manasibose.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Princeton University studying civil war, international intervention and rebel governance.
https://sites.google.com/princeton.edu/manasibose
Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social IR and political history @erasmusuni | Expert on friendship in international politics, especially US politics and Franco-German relations | #History #International #Relations #Politics | PhD @UniversityLeeds
Victor Bouemar Dinocheau @vbouemardinocheau.bsky.social PhD candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen - Center for International Conflict: Analysis and Management. I research victorious rebellions and postwar civil-military relations. Civil War Paths fellow 2025-2026. Former 🇫🇷 navy guy.
Geraldine Bustos Zamora @geraldinebustos.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich
Political Science | Ideology | Patterns of Violence | Armed Groups | Civil Wars | Colombia | Machine Learning
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Michael Nuding @michaelnuding.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate @UniFAU @FESonline 🏛️ | Politics in WANA 🌍 | Arabic student 📚 | Socialist & Democrat🌹| Antifa ✊🏼 | Berlin based 🌆 | @Villigst | er/he
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social Political Scientist ABI Freiburg; research on politics of forced migration in Africa; head of research cluster "Patterns of (Forced) Migration"
Daniel Rio Tinto @driotinto.bsky.social Lecturer at FGV RI and researcher at CEI-ISCTE. Former ICCS/University of Birmingham. Interested in IR Theory, Political Violence, Criminal & Rebel Governance, Civil Wars and Nukes. Aviation, food, wine and beer. All the usual caveats apply.
Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social Founder Green String Network (@GSNAfrica.bsky.social) || Healing-centered peacebuilder || Author of "Healing is what makes peace work" 🌿 #SDGs #Peacebuilding 🫘
Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social Head of Research Area "Societal Peace and Internal Security" at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg @ifshhamburg.bsky.social 
Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: https://www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles
ák @lankee.bsky.social she/they, queer AF, exhausted, librarian. half sweet half sour. Iranian American.
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
Political Violence New Publications and Working Papers @polviolencepapers.bsky.social Sharing new publications and working papers on political violence: armed conflict, civil war, insurgency, terrorism, extremism, post-conflict state/society.
Tag @polviolencepapers.bsky.social to get reposted.
Currently managed by @ilaydaonder.bsky.social
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
Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social Investigative journalist @OCCRP.org
ZackKopplin@Protonmail.com, Zachary.Kopplin@occrp.org Signal: +1-225-715-5946 (Opinions my own)
James Worrall @jamesworrall.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies @ the University of Leeds. Specialist in the Gulf and Levant, Conflict, Order, Global Governance etc.
Co-Editor Civil Wars
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/112/dr-james-worrall
Emily K. M. Scott @emilykmscott.bsky.social Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org
Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social ⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
Danae Dholakia @danaedholakia.bsky.social British Deputy Ambassador in Moscow. Formerly Beijing, Pretoria, Brussels, National Security, Prosperity, Climate, Health, Inclusion.
Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
Dominic Rohner @dominic-rohner.bsky.social Economics Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute & the University of Lausanne, studying conflict, development & institutions. Leader of several expert groups on armed conflict. Associate Editor of the "Economic Journal". Author of "The Peace Formula".