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Hunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social Director for Southeast Asia & Asia Power Index Lead @lowyinstitute.bsky.social. Nonresident @instglobalaffairs.bsky.social. Adjunct Fellow @seasia.csis.org. Associate @9Dashline.com. Ultra runner. Dad.
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
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Aaron Connelly @connellyal.bsky.social Asia diplomatic editor and senior Asia correspondent at the Economist. Former think tanker. Author, with Shona Loong, of New Answers to Old Questions, on Myanmar.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
MW @mattyrdubs.bsky.social Sharing info on local humanitarian action & resistance in Myanmar. Sometimes posting about 🇲🇲 ⚽.
Ma Thibu @mathibu.bsky.social Schrödinger ဗမာကြောင်. Ambassacat in #Meowmar. Meower/s. Doer/s. Lost between black and white. Currently in #Myanmar. Team #AntiBullshit - @mthibu on X/Twitter
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@markfarmaner.bsky.social @markfarmaner.bsky.social Director, Burma Campaign UK. Working for human rights and democracy in Burma/Myanmar.
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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com The premier international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, covering politics, defense and society from China and Kazakhstan to Myanmar and Australia. thediplomat.com
Thanda Ko Gyi @thandakogyi.bsky.social Myanmar Ocean Project 🧜🏾♀️
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Mark Stanford @markstanford.org Cognitive anthropologist working on cultural evolution, moral psychology, religion; fieldwork in China and Burma.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of International Relations, Thammasat University, Bangkok.
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Joseph Young @josephyoung.bsky.social Journalist who is keeping up to date about what is happening in Myanmar.
Johann H Hesse @jhhesse.bsky.social Working for the #EU in Sri Lanka and Maldives. Love photography. This is a
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
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Cape Diamond @capediamond.bsky.social Journalist, Producer and Human Rights Advocate - covering #BurmaCoup in #Myanmar. European Parliament’s Sakharov Fellow 🇪🇺
Hannah Beech @hkbeech.bsky.social Asia reporter at The New York Times. Noodles, pickles, spice.
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
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Julia Behrens @juliabehrens.bsky.social Dr. in Southeast Asian Studies working on #socialecologicaltransformation #climatejustice #developmentresearch.
Jasmin Malik Chua @jasminchua.com Climate and labor editor 👗 👠 http://www.sourcingjournal.com. Previous bylines at the New York Times, Vogue Business, the Business of Fashion, Vox and the Daily Beast. Signal: jchua.99
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Kelly Macnamara @kellymacnamara.bsky.social Climate and environment correspondent @AFP
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Co-founder @kitetalesMM non-profit Myanmar storytelling project
Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social Food Systems nut who also happens to be a foodie. Writes Thin Ink, Lead Reporter for Lighthouse Reports, co-founder of Kite Tales Myanmar, founder of Myanmar Now, & former correspondent with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this).
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
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Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social Independent journalist focusing on Myanmar. Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow 2025
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Kite Tales Myanmar @kitetalesmm.bsky.social A digital archive of Myanmar's hidden stories. We highlight the voices of ordinary people to celebrate diversity and promote heritage preservation. Find us at kite-tales.org.
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