Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com Reporter at Guardian US. Ex-@APNews
Investigating the forces behind attacks on science and public health
Reach me on Signal: mrsmith.123
michelle.smith@theguardian.com
Based in Providence, Rhode Island
R Del @delexical.bsky.social Veering westerly. Strong coffee, salt water, heather-bedded hillside.
Europe West
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God's Own Monster @scabbyscribe56.bsky.social My account on Twitter is scabbyscribe56/God's Own Monster. Anti imperialist, urbanist, psychogeographer.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social 
Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social Arkie. Anti-Dirtbagist. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contrib. Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com
Words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net
Writing a book (Broadleaf)
Go Knicks
He/Him
Phil Arena @filarena.bsky.social Former political scientist.
Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social Journalist
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/nina-zeelen-b65651106
@crackingtheframe.bsky.social
Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social - LSE Fellow in political behaviour at @lsegovernment.bsky.social
- PhD from Bocconi (2025) on electoral accountability for illiberals & authoritarians + quant methods
- 🏳️🌈 he/they
https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/academic-staff/konstantin-bogatyrev
Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social Assoc Prof in Russian, University of Leeds. Not the views of my employer.
Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social political theory, international relations, running
Kansas, New School, Tufts
https://storrente.com
Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social Basic Prog Brit Woke Remoaner Centrist Dad.
He/Him, Bi, ADHD, the usual.
Former Splash Damage game dev.
Full-Stack Narrative Designer/Game Writer available for hire:
https://www.sternword.co.uk/
The Next Best with Marcel Dirsus @thenextbest.bsky.social A politics podcast. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social economics and computer science professor at Northwestern
bengolub.net
social and economic networks
originally from Ukraine
Boo-cey Kwiatek 💀 @lucykwiatek.bsky.social Friend of Blahaj, Cascadian navalist, professional worrywart, transit lover, former JO in the world's okayest Navy ('24-'26), DSA MIGS. Opinions my own. She/her.
"There is no good news! Just bad news and weird news."
@svateboje.bsky.social @svateboje.bsky.social My take: Using Berger & Luckmann we can helpfully synthesize poli sci results on affect polarization + partisan media/internet/social-media.
also, i tend to talk too much re folks like Voegelin & Ricoeur
or, notes to self from another planet 
Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk Political Scientist at the University of Manchester
Co-Director of the British Election Study
https://www.jack-bailey.co.uk
Michael Goodier @michaelgoodier.bsky.social Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team
London and Brighton
Ignore my silly posts
Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social Seismologist, investigates the Andes and subduction zones, currently complexly affiliated with St. Louis University and looking for new projects.
Replies to my geoscience posts that include LLM content get your account blocked.
Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social Political Economy, technocracy, legitimacy and more | "Non-profit finfluencer” | @UvA_AISSR @Politics_UvA
Erik Peinert @erikpeinert.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Boston University Political Science. PhD Brown University. Comparative and international political economy. Competition, market power, and maybe lots of other things. Views my own.
https://www.erikpeinert.com/
Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social I mean nom de plume literally means pen name.
Engineer playing god poorly.
Fund basic science research. (He/Him)🏳️🌈
Anne Meng @annemeng.bsky.social Associate Prof of Politics at UVA. Author of Constraining Dictatorship. Authoritarian Politics & Democratic Erosion. http://www.annemeng.com/
alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social EM doc. Politics nerd 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇫🇷
European at core
Into military stuff nowadays, out of necessity
Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social Polarkreiskorrespondentin in Reykjavík – 🍞&🌹 – Computer Comrade – Jules Verne Ultra – Writer of Fiction and Non-Fiction – sie/she/hún
www.beritglanz.de
https://weltreporter.net/author/glanzweltreporter-net/
https://ko-fi.com/beritmiriam
Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social Probably somewhere in an archive near berlin. phd-ing @ MIT Political Science on Chinese politics, technology policy, bureaucracy & GDR computing. Also at mstdn.social/@ktai
Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social Political Scientist (all views are own, not employers’). Visiting Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | poet | she/her
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/erinlockwood/
Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social Political scientist studying security, conflict, bargaining, US foreign policy, etc. Scored on by Geoff Cameron. Personal account. Opinions mine alone.
https://kyle-haynes.weebly.com/
Robert de Neufville @deneufville.bsky.social Superforecaster. Professional forecaster w/ Good Judgment, Metaculus, and The Swift Centre. I write Telling the Future (https://tellingthefuture.substack.com) and host Talking About the Future (https://tellingthefuture.substack.com/podcast).
Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
Justin Pyke @justinpykehistory.bsky.social MA in History. Studies intelligence, sea power, air power, and the Asia-Pacific War. Researching U.S. intelligence assessments of Japanese air and sea power, 1919-1941. Andor appreciator, PC gamer, mediocre miniature painter, and musician.
Thomas Hughes @thomashughes.bsky.social Assistant Prof Mount Allison Uni and Dep Director Centre for Defence and Security Studies Uni of Manitoba. Arctic and N. Am Defence, NATO and European Security. And fly fishing with a dose of NUFC.
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
@zakarpat.bsky.social @zakarpat.bsky.social 
Andreas Beger @andybeger.bsky.social Data/political scientist & Consultant. Political risk, forecasting, event data. Democracy is important, war is bad. Live in Estonia 🇪🇪.
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Chris Cook @chriscook.news FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
Olivier Beys @olivierbeys.bsky.social Works at EU Parliament on circular economy and green industry transition | Founder of Tournevie tool library | Fond of commons projects and Brussels | www.tournevie.be
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social American Expat living in beautiful British Columbia. I’m pragmatic and believe in reciprocity
Bodily autonomy is a basic right. Live and let live
Feminist
Mother
Ally
Everything is political
eclectic empath
free floater
awkward outlier
Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social Updates over de Russische oorlog tegen Oekraïne 🇺🇦
Steun Oekraïne: u24.gov.ua, savelife.in.ua/en/, sternenkofund.org/en, https://prytulafoundation.org/en
"Do not ask Ukraine when the war will end. Ask yourself – why Putin is still able to continue it."
Tony van der Togt @tonyphd.bsky.social Independent Russia expert; PhD candidate at Leiden University, Institute of History; retired Dutch diplomat; former Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Russia and Eastern Europe Center; views are my own.- C @crzwdjk.bsky.social @crzwdjk.bsky.social
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Jessica Weeks @jlpweeks.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adam Moore @conflictgeog.bsky.social Geographer studying political violence, war, peacebuilding, U.S. military, geopolitics, empire, Bosnia. UCLA professor.
Author of Peacebuilding in Practice (2013), Empire's Labor (2019), and The Difference Place Makes (2026)
Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social Artist Autist(ic) woman person parent.
‘De Kooning and Bacon mashed together’ - John Musker, director of The Little Mermaid
In Norwich UK
deaf in one ear
Buy my art: https://www.chloecumming.com
Support me here: https://ko-fi.com/chloecumming
Bastian Herre @bastianherre.bsky.social Politics & Society Lead @ourworldindata.org. I make research on democracy, human rights, and conflict easier to access and understand. he/him
Check out my work: https://ourworldindata.org/team/bastian-herre
Julie Laumann @julielaumann.bsky.social Center-left Democrat, committed to human rights, police reform, climate action, gun control. NYU GSAS '00 (energy security; EU Energy Union)
Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social A #philosophy podcast for the worst possible timeline. Hosted by ethicist aaronrabinowitz.net. Ethics director and credentialed creator at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org. Author of Luckpilled (April, 2027). Sibling show: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/
Damien Smith @indysmith.bsky.social Deputy Director of Research (Economics) at the ESRC. Loves cities. Views own.
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Extremism; Extremism; AI; Pop Culture;
"An aging, angry woman laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💓💜💙🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Felix Trayhurn @felixt.bsky.social Based on true events
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social 金玉米, 君子不器, like nothing else in Tennessee.
rhymingchaos.com
thechinaweek.com
Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
free bahruz samadov (mike) @molenasreddin.bsky.social personal account of an intergovernmental quasi-bureaucrat in stockholm. apologies in advance for all posts
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Matthew Cebul @matthewcebul.bsky.social Political scientist studying civil resistance, democratic erosion, and US foreign policy in MENA. Lead Research Fellow at HKS Nonviolent Action Lab; formerly USIP. Manservant to Korra the cat.
Lives for Alcaraz highlights, epic fantasy, and "draw a card."
Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social Assistant Professor at William & Mary.
www.eunajo.com
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social Mastodon: @nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
Twitter: @enn_nafnlaus
URL: https://softmaxdroptableartists.bandcamp.com/
#Energy #EVs #Ukraine #AI #Horticulture #Research
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Peter Race @cokeynesian.bsky.social Postwar British history is obsessive. AKA Whitelocke or CoKeynesian.
Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱
https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social CTO, Harmonize
http://harmonizelearning.com
Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social Research Director and Research Professor at NUPI, ass. ed. EJIR. Comment here primarily as a private citizen. I do research on conceptual history, privateers and diplomacy etc. I like mountains, skiing and my woodfired pizza oven.
Geoff Allen @gallen89.bsky.social Political scientist; electoral systems, party politics, representation
Phoenix Suns fan
https://geoff-allen.weebly.com/notes-on-moment
Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social Prof & VP U of Toronto, author, political scientist, dad, Raptors fan.
jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social backend developer at bluesky
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social Host of all podcasts. Independent Muckraker. Hollywood’s Ultimate Insider.
The post is probably a joke.
sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social Dad, veteran, author, "The Paradox of Democracy," host of Vox’s The Gray Area https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gray-area-with-sean-illing/id1081584611
Seth J. Frantzman @sfrantzman.bsky.social Middle East security, defense analysis. War correspondent @Jerusalem Post; Adjunct Fellow FDD. Breaking Defense.
#ChezFrantzman Author of 'The October 7 War' and 'Drone Wars.'
Skipper. Maine. Phi Psi.
Joel Cantó Roche @cantjoel.bsky.social Català(n) 1st generation, working-class Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto (he/him/his) 🏳️🌈 | before at Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona, UC Berkeley | LGBTIQ+ & Gender Political Behaviour, EU, Representation. https://jcantoroc.github.io/
Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social Associate professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University. Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy. Assoc. Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies. Formerly The Guardian & Latin America advisor, Bernie Sanders. 교포
michaelpaarlberg.org
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social Wandering (ex-Soviet) Jew
Content product manager, xennial, anti-fascist, neurodivergent, cPTSD, OCD, disabled, luddite.
Anti-tankie professional consultant.
#decolonizeRussia
#NoBorders
#AbolishICE
pfp by Eduardo Robledo
Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦
Pre-order my new book "The Land of Tears and Hope": https://geni.us/tearsandhope
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social Democracy is worth defending | Public affairs strategist | Concert ticket buyer
Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social National political analyst/forecaster/strategist. Read election analysis from a real expert at The Cycle on Substack 🦆🏈
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.” -Winston Churchill
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social Founder, Center for Transformational Change.
Strategist, producer, writer, traveler.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/LinaSrivastava/
https://linasrivastava.com
https://transformationalchange.co
She/her.
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org Forensic climate economist and lawyer • The carbon accounting canary in your climate policy coal mine • https://ghgpolicy.org
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel