Maxim van Asseldonk 🟥 @maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social Assistant professor in Philosophy of law at Radboud University Nijmegen. PhD in Political philosophy from University of Aberdeen.
Radical democracy, constitutional theory, human rights.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Ícaro Obeso Muñiz @icaroviedo.bsky.social Geógrafo. Universidad de Oviedo.
🎓 universidadoviedo.bsky.social
🐘 https://mastodon.social/@icaroviedo
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social Researcher, academic, teacher, occasional musician. Prof in Arts & Media Practice at the University of the West of Scotland. Personal views, nothing to do with my employer! https://linktr.ee/grahamjeffery
Liu Cao 曹流 @drliucao.bsky.social Feminist urban and cultural geographer with interests in urban consumption. Tweeting mostly work and dog. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C7Sg3SYAAAAJ&hl=en
Transient_Spaces & Societies (Research Group) @spacessocieties.bsky.social Transient_Spaces is a research group based at Geography Departments @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social.
We research digital, cultural & political transitions of societies and spaces.
Website: https://www.transient-spaces.org
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Melisa AG @urbanita.bsky.social Profe in the Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies at UConn. I write about Latin American and Latine/x migrant children and youth's care and Labor in Baltimore - YPAR🧉
anwyn hocking @anwynhocking.bsky.social urban geography PhD thinking about abolition ecologies, rivers, militarism and climate imaginaires on unceded wurundjeri land
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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social PDRA @DurhamPhil || Marie-Curie Doctoral Fellow @DurhamGeog || researching place-based solidarities & rural left behind communities || she/her || 🇵🇸 || https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh5sfD6VRAtQ1kdF-AaZMx1ZGILzOVWMcwApC2gmdFA/edit?usp=sharing
Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social Geographer, PhD-ing @ Durham University. Interested in queering carceral geography.
Prone to posts about Parks and Rec.
linktr.ee/cmxckinlay
liz cox @lizcox.bsky.social PhDone • research practitioner • northern • fan of potatoes, seasonal playlists, and books • curious about: creative methods, gender, health, bodies, belonging, more-than-human, care, space + place, cultural sociology, feminism • she/her • views mine •
Juan Agulló @jagullo.bsky.social 🌎 #Sociologist without #borders. Professor of ILAESP. Executive Board of @CLACSO. Regional Editor at Journal of Borderlands Studies (LATAM) #Geopolitics
Unsweetened Black Tea ☕️ or Mate 🧉
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social Welcome to *GCSJ* - the Open University's Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.
Tom Disney @tdisney85.bsky.social Associate Professor and Social Geographer at Northumbria University. My research applies geographical theory and spatial methods to social work and child welfare.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/d/tom-disney/
Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social الأمان مش مكان.. ساق الله الحارة والأيام
Literary translator & PhD researcher at Tampere University (HOMCRI). Researching dwelling practices and everyday life in Gaza.
Troels Schultz Larsen @schultzlarsen.bsky.social Nosy interdisciplinary social scientist cum sociologist, based at Roskilde University. Developing neo-Bourdieusian State theory and critical urban analysis. Questioning all forms of domination, stigmatization, discrimination and exploitation.
Ed Brown @edbrownlboro.bsky.social Prof of Global Energy Challenges at Loughborough University. Research Director of UkAid funded Modern Energy Cooking Services programme.
Méabh Temple @meabhtemple.bsky.social Housing justice & property law.
PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin
Sí/í
@isameier.bsky.social @isameier.bsky.social
Wassim Ghantous @wassim-gh.bsky.social Political Geographer researching Palestine/Israel and their global extensions.
Tampere University, Finalnd.
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social Conflict, aid politics, #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar | SNSF Ambizione Fellow @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social | Prev University of Zurich and @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
https://www.shonaloong.com
Kirin Taylor @kirinrtaylor.bsky.social • POLITICS OF HOMELESSNESS • Human Rights: Economic & Social Rights • PhD Candidate & Teaching Associate in Political Science @ Syracuse University. • She/Her • All views are my own • https://linktr.ee/kirinrtaylor
Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social Critical Political Theorist and Social Sciences Researcher. Critique in the Anthropocene.
Always overthinker. Sometimes designer. Now the useless kind of doctor.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03091325251413608
Enquiries: benpbowsher@gmail.com
Just City by the Med @justcitymed.bsky.social Just City by the Med Research Network brings together researchers investigating social injustice and inequality in cities and exploring actions, approaches, and pathways towards just urban futures, within the Mediterranean context.
https://justcitymed.org
Anwesha Aditi @anweshaaditi.bsky.social Visiting PhD Researcher @camunigeography.bsky.social
ERC Research Fellow (CNR): https://www.irpps.cnr.it/anwesha-aditi/
PhD-ing at Sapienza University of Rome (Economic Geography)
Researching Labour, Political Ecology & Solar PV transitions
#illicitLABOUR
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Matt Baillie Smith @mattbailliesmith.bsky.social Professor of Global Development & Dean of Research Culture, Northumbria University UK.
Research voluntary labour and: humanitarianism; global development; climate action; citizenship.
www.mattbailliesmith.com
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matt-baillie-smith
Humangeographie | Human Geography @ Uni Wue @humangeowue.bsky.social Hier bskyt der Lehrstuhl Humangeographie der Universität Würzburg // This is the account of the chair in Human Geography at University of Wuerzburg
Prof. Sarah Mills @sarah-mills.bsky.social Human Geographer at Loughborough University, UK | profsarahmills.com | researching childhood, youth, citizenship, volunteering, gambling, gaming, prediction markets
Mauricio @moritzsz.bsky.social Um cidadão brasileiro.
Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social PhD student @ Sciences Po CEE. Institutions, infrastructures, instruments, and imaginaries of environmental politics.
Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, Urban School, CEE @tommasovitale.bsky.social Sociologist | Dean of Sciences Po Urban School | Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)
Active in fostering empirical and theoretical research and mentoring emerging scholars in urban sociology and public policy
Lindi Jahiu @lindijahiu.bsky.social phd candidate at western university | digital geographies, urban studies, surveillance studies, territorial stigma, and gentrification
Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Issue 8.1 is out in June 2026!
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
Francesca Chiu @francescachiu.bsky.social Researcher & lecturer at CityU Hong Kong. PhD from Copenhagen & UEA. I study urban planning, property, citizenship, migration and social mobility in Southeast Asia.
Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social Artist geographer. Posting mainly drawing, critical geography, queer-trans ecologies, environmental and social justice. Also fungi and hiking pics
e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social Author of Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life (University of Minnesota Press 2026). queer geographer extraordinaire / food systems researcher / grant writer / editor / artist
Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social Geographer/planner and Co-Director @igdc.bsky.social • energy transitions, urban climate responses, landscape interpretation, extraction frontiers • known to frequent the Uni of York
Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social Discipline Lead for Planning & Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at University of Liverpool
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) @devgeogsrg.bsky.social Development Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
https://developmentgeographiesrg.org/
Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social Social scientist. Housing, inequality, political economy. Associate Editor International Journal of Housing Policy. Associate Professor Dep. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Own views.
Stefania Fiorentino @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social Associate Professor in Planning and Urban Regeneration at University of Cambridge, Land Economy.
Fellow of Downing College.
Economic Geography & Planning: Local Economic Development, Urban and Regional Transformations.
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Grete Gansauer @gretegans.bsky.social Economic geography & policy analysis from/for peripheral regions. Resource economies, regional inequality, rural development, place-based policy, infrastructure. Asst. Prof, Sustainable Communities, University of Wyoming. Personal views expressed here.
Global Social Challenges Journal @gscjournal.bsky.social A non-profit open access journal addressing urgent global
social issues across disciplines, fields and geographies.
We publish 16 themes that are linked to, but not
limited by, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Iago Martínez @autonauta.bsky.social Cousas urbanas. Agora no Instituto de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia (IDEGA), na Universidade de Santiago. Grupo ANTE - Análise Territorial. Municipalista.
Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social Prof Systems and Spatial Analysis
metro regions | infrastructure | skills | productivity | innovation | systems | governance | bacon | proud Canadian | 50,000 unstoppable watts
Innovation & Research Caucus -Oxford Brookes Business School
Franziska Paul @franziskapaul.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Glasgow.
Researching ownership and transformation. Interested in de-privatisation, democratisation, and development.
Currently (re)reading Rosa Luxemburg.
Beekeeper.
Kathleen Stokes @kathleenstokes.bsky.social Assistant Prof Geography @ DCU //
Urban governance, vacancy, infrastructure, waste, labour & citizenship //
Inconsistent social media user (at the best of times)
@Planographer @planographer.bsky.social Director - UWA Public Policy Institute
🌏 #Belfast #London #Perth
🎓 #UrbanPolicy | #Cities | #Suburbanisms | #PeripheralCentralities | #PublicPolicy | #Retail | #SexIndustry | #RocknRoll
@mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social Housing, political economy, UCD Lecturer. Subscribe to my The Week in Housing newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/38ye4knn
Director of Equality Studies M.Sc. https://tinyurl.com/2jtw6cvu
Don't have social media on phone so not on here much!
Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social Geographer and planning theorist at the University of Luxembourg 🇱🇺,interested in spaces & flows. Studying urbanization, financial centres, governance and planning in conflict.
Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social Sheffield Urbanism is an initiative that brings together the urban research community across the University of Sheffield: a dynamic, productive and innovative centre for world-leading interdisciplinary urban research.
Rob Shaw @whatisrobshaw.bsky.social Geography Reader @ Newcastle Uni. Researches urban senses & night. Leverhulme Research Project 'Urban Sensory Pollution' at http://bit.ly/4dM8iWH. 2018 book: 'The Nocturnal City'. Posts ≠ employer endorsed. Shaw in professional life, Lawshaw in personal
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Alan Latham @citiesandstuff.bsky.social
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
GeoCritBot @geocritbot.uk A bot that got out of hand generating academic geography research paper/project titles using words that appear to be popular. Satire. Made by @samkinsley.uk
Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social UCL Bartlett Professor of Cities and Regions at CASA: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Academician, urban planner, geographer, scientist, film historian, futurist, pro-rail. Believe in creating inclusive future places for all
Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social www.postgrowthplanning.com | Starting from open questions in 2016/17, the exploration of #postgrowthplanning continues…
Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social Lecturer in Urban & Regional Planning | Community Councillor | 90s pop culture enthusiast | Occasional Agitator
Charlotte Cator @charlottecator.bsky.social Critical urban scholar interested in alternative economies, social theory and political ecology, based in Glasgow
Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social Prof @ Berkeley Geography writing a book on the history of the "logistics counterrevolution.” Geography, political economy, labor studies. www.charmainechua.com
Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social Geographer. New book, HOUSE SOCIETY, forthcoming in Feb 2027 (with Allen Lane)
Tariq Jazeel @rikjaz.bsky.social Geographer based at UCL who works on culture, politics, and space. Musings on diasporization, Sri Lanka, South Asia, and much more. coyg…
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/tariq-jazeel
Deb Cowen @debcowen.bsky.social
Austin Zeiderman @azeiderman.bsky.social
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Podcast on Urban Theory, Research & Activism
Based at Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies, Berlin
@humboldtuni.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
Access our podcasts and further information on our website (or on Spotify)
https://urbanpolitical.online
Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org We provide grant funding for innovative research projects that advance the frontiers of urban knowledge. Follow for news & updates. Read more on our website: https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social Geographer at UBC; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus |
Environmental and Urban Change | York University
Cities | Football | Music
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
Colin Lorne @colinlorne.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography & Director of OpenSpace Research Centre at the Open University | Usually talking crises and conjunctures | Jazz, soul, rocksteady | All views my own, etc.
Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Director, Institute for Inclusive Economies & Sustainable Livelihoods. (he/him)
Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam and University of Basel. Book Forum Editor, Urban Geography. SNSF Starting Grant research about aspirational urbanism (2025-2029)
Bert Russell @bertrussell.bsky.social Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB
Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025)
Preorder books: https://linktr.ee/Bertierussell
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Crispian Fuller @crispianfuller.bsky.social Professor at Cardiff University. Urban and economic geographer: urban governance, politics and austerity; corporations and global production networks. Process philosophy. Leverhulme Trust PI Local government Council Tax civic enforcement impacts project.
Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience • 🏀🏳️🌈 • all views my own, sort of...
michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography
RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social Research Committee 21 Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association.
Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
Raquel Rolnik @raquelrolnik.bsky.social Urbanista e professora da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP e coordenadora do LabCidade FAUUSP. 📷: Arte de Ottavia Pasta
http://linktr.ee/RaquelRolnik
Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social Social scientist with geographic inclinations
Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). Head of @lsegeography.bsky.social. #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Gentrification #Housing #SpeculativeUrbanisation #AsianUrbanisms #Megaevents #Megaprojects Personal web: https://urbancommune.net