Pasuth Thothaveesansuk @pasuth.info PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill studying international history (UN, internationalism, decolonization, pandas)
Also: running, iced coffee
Liam Prince @aciciscd.bsky.social Director of the Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies
(@acicis.bsky.social -- pronounced ah-chee-chis; https://www.acicis.edu.au/).
Opinions definitely my own.
Fiona Cunningham @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of “Under the Nuclear Shadow” (Princeton, 2025). China, nukes, cyber, space, international security. She/her. Personal website: www.fionascunningham.com- S Sophie Mak @sophiemak.bsky.social Covering Australia and the Pacific islands for Nikkei Asia
Julianne Cowley @juliannecowley.bsky.social 🇦🇺🇮🇹 Diplomacy, Foreign Policy &
International Development.
♥️ Canberra Ngunawal Land; Gender Equality & the Blue Pacific 🩵. EssendonFC ❤️🖤
Anna Fifield @annafifield.bsky.social Independent New Zealand journalist and foreign affairs analyst.
Rory Galloway @rorygalloway.bsky.social Senior producer of #TheIntelligence @TheEconomist 🎧 || AAAS Kavli Gold Prize winning science journalist 🥇 || Zoology 🦜 || Sci-Fi 📚 || 👬 🏳️🌈 || Past @BBC
Adam Roberts @adamxroberts.bsky.social The Economist's Digital Editor, based in London. Previously correspondent in Chicago, Paris, Delhi, Johannesburg. Author of a couple of books, including The Wonga Coup. www.economist.com
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Jonathan Rosenthal @journalistjon.bsky.social International Editor at The Economist
Previously covered Africa, banking, European business & finance
Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll.bsky.social Foreign Correspondent at The Economist
www.olliecarroll.uk
Tim Judah @timjudah.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Special correspondent for The Economist, reportage for the New York Review of Books. Ukraine, Balkans etc...
Bill Hayton @billhayton.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Prog at Chatham House; Editor of Asian Affairs; author of ‘Invention of China’, ‘South China Sea’, ‘Vietnam: Rising Dragon’ and ‘Brief History of Vietnam’
David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social Independent Senator for the ACT.
Insta: davidpocock
Authorised by David Pocock for David Pocock, Canberra
Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social Australian Election Analyst
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social Personal account. Retired USAF, former Director of CIA & NSA, author, husband, father, granddad. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social Nuclear Fellow @ Pax Sapiens, former Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and State Department International Sec Advisory Board, CNAS Sr. Fellow, former National Security Council. No #manels, Yankees/Gunners.
Rory Medcalf @rorymedcalf.bsky.social Professor Rory Medcalf AM | Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, Canberra | Indo-Pacific strategy | An independent Australian worldview
Yalkun Uluyol @yalkun.bsky.social China researcher @hrw.org
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Caitlin McCaffrie @caitlinmccaffrie.bsky.social Currently forced migration, refugee and just transition policy in Australia and Southeast Asia. Formerly legal education and transitional justice in Cambodia.
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.
Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR (Co-Author)
@PIIE.com (Senior Fellow)
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I think about trade and policy. Probably too much
Book: https://tinyurl.com/4ckmn3vp
Me: https://www.chadpbown.com/
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Gorana Grgic @goranagrgic.bsky.social
Dr Natali Pearson @sea-greeny.bsky.social ocean + heritage + Southeast Asia
living on Gadigal land
DECRA Fellow 2025-2027 + Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney | President, Indonesia Council | Councillor, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology | author #BelitungBook
@wesmorgan.bsky.social @wesmorgan.bsky.social Writes on Australia & Pacific Islands I climate change, geopolitics, diplomacy I Research Associate - UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response I Fellow - Climate Council of Australia I Views my own
Patrick Cronin @patrickmcronin.bsky.social Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute &
Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University
Sue-Lin Wong @suelinwong.bsky.social Host of "Scam Inc", a podcast series about the global rise of online scams & Asia correspondent at The Economist. Before that, I covered China, South-East Asia and hosted "The Prince", a podcast series about China's leader Xi Jinping
Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com Media: @twz.com | IEJ Media: https://www.iejmedia.com | Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific Podcast: @indopacpodcast.bsky.social
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social I write on politics, history, culture; also a speechwriter. Established and manage philippinediaryproject.com. Column in inquirer.net; editor-at-large, Spot.ph; Executive Director, Museo del Galeón; my stuff: Quezon.ph.
Shibani Mahtani @shibanim.bsky.social Washington Post international investigative correspondent, co-author of Among the Braves https://amongthebraves.com/
Doublethink Lab @doublethinklab.bsky.social A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!
Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney Book & Puzzle. Architecture Prof. ex Sydney Ind Councillor. Aust Arch Gold🥇2024
On Gadigal country
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
Drew Thompson 唐安竹 @tanganzhu.bsky.social Former DoD official responsible for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. Currently based in Singapore. Senior Fellow at RSIS.
@HopkinsNanjing alum.
Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social Senior Adviser, Asia @crisisgroup.org | Strategic narratives on China, Indo-Pacific, geopolitics, geoeconomics, philosophy and values. Ex-diplomat. Don't start none, won't be none. 实事求是。己所不欲,勿施於人 https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelkovrig
Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs.bsky.social Southeast Asia bureau chief at The Washington Post
Snaps from bikes and boats instagram.com/rebtanwp
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Bhavan Jaipragas @jbhavan.bsky.social Deputy Opinion Editor, The Straits Times. Previously Asia Editor of South China Morning Post in HK. Only sleuthing, no posts here. https://hk.linkedin.com/in/jbhavan
Dr Miah Hammond-Errey @miahhe.bsky.social CEO Strat Futures | Host Technology & Security podcast | Author | National Security, Data, Tech, Information Influence & Interference (disinformation and IO), Intelligence & Leadership | Adj A/Prof Deakin 🏳️🌈🇦🇺 stratfutures.com | miahhe.com
Till Fähnders @faehnders.bsky.social Political Correspondent for Southeast Asia, Aus, NZ and India, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) - former China Correspondent - Sinologist -
@djsde
Finn McHugh @finnmchugh.bsky.social Federal political reporter at @capitalbrief. Views my own. Reposts ≠ endorsements. finn.mchugh@capitalbrief.com
Mari Koeck @marilee223.bsky.social Director Engagement and Impact
@usstudiescentre. Co-host of USSC Briefing Room podcast. 🇺🇸 in 🇦🇺 | Comments and opinions are my own.
Greg Raymond @gregoryvraymond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. Mainly SE Asia, mostly Mekong, a lot on Thailand. AMSEAS President. IR editor Asian Studies Review.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/greg-raymo
Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Primarily on LinkedIN.
https://www.paulpoast.com/
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Alexander Arifianto @alexarifianto.bsky.social Senior Fellow/Coordinator of Indonesia Programme, Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University. All views my own/Repost # endorsement
Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social Refugee from Arizona/ DC. Perspectives from Australia's Indian Ocean Capital of Perth
Tommy Walker @tommywalker.bsky.social Foreign correspondent usually in Southeast Asia. Currently in the Middle East. TV Journalist. Host of Dateline Bangkok podcast. A Vice-President at FCCT.
www.tommywalkermedia.com
Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social Research Program Head, @apln.network
Adjunct Fellow, @eastwestcenter.bsky.social
Opinions my own, reposts ≠ endorsement.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-o-donnell-b84675158
Adrian Ang @auj-ang.bsky.social Research Fellow and Coordinator of the US Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies | US Politics | US Foreign Policy. All views are my own.
Kevin Ng 黄協龍 @sandhatu.bsky.social investigative journalist & writer in APAC, mainly focus on SEA. marketing strategist & researcher. words: LA Times, Vice News, The Jakarta Post, and else
Nick Kuipers @nickkuipers.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton
nicholaskuipers.com
Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social Policy & Research, @cpsu.org.au | Research Fellow, @percapitaaustralia.bsky.social | On the left-wing of the possible | Views are my own🌹✊
https://linktr.ee/ochiu
Ross Tapsell @rosstapsell.bsky.social Researcher in Southeast Asian studies at the Australian National University. Writes about media, disinformation, tech policy etc
Alexandre Dayant @alexandredayant.bsky.social Development Eco | Asia & Pacific | Behavioural Insights | Deputy Director @lowyinstitute.bsky.social | Author https://pacificaidmap.lowyinstitute.org/ and https://seamap.lowyinstitute.org/
@brendanktaylor.bsky.social @brendanktaylor.bsky.social
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social Senior North East Asia Analyst at @crisisgroup.org
Foreign correspondent covering East Asia in my previous life.
Email: wyang@crisisgroup.org
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at ANU @anubellschool.bsky.social A world-leading research school for the study of Asia-Pacific and international politics, society, strategy, security, and diplomacy.
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Tim Legrand @timlegrand.bsky.social Professor at Uni of Adelaide: International Security & Public Policy. Researching Authoritarianism and Blacklisting. Follows and posts 🇬🇧 and 🇦🇺 politics. ARC Future Fellow (2025-29).
Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social Journalist @FinancialReview covering wealthy families & their businesses. Fmr China correspondent and foreign affairs reporter primrose.riordan@afr.com.
My Signal: https://tinyurl.com/PrimroseSignal
My latest: https://tinyurl.com/PowerOfOneInvestigation
Jack Hewson @jackhewson.com Al Jazeera English Correspondent reporting from Iraq | Past lives in: Ukraine, Africa, South-East Asia | RTS '26 | DuPont '23 | http://jackhewson.com/showreel
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social
Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.
Shahriman Lockman @slockman.bsky.social Director (Special Projects), Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia • Malaysian foreign relations, Asian security, South China Sea • Views expressed are my own.
Hannah Beech @hkbeech.bsky.social Asia reporter at The New York Times. Noodles, pickles, spice.
Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic.bsky.social Foreign Affairs (Asia Pacific) reporter, ABC. Canberra-based. Personal account. Pron: JED-jets
Stephen Kirchner @insteconomics.bsky.social Economist in Sydney, Australia. Personal account, usual disclaimers. If you like my short form content, you will just love my long form newsletter: https://stephenkirchner.substack.com/
Matt Wheeler @mzwheeler.bsky.social Born in Baltimore, based in Bangkok. Senior Analyst, South East Asia, International Crisis Group
Scott Edwards @scottedwards.bsky.social Maritime Security and ASEAN scholar. Lecturer, University of Reading and free and open Indo-Pacific Research Fellow, YCAPS
Bridget Welsh @dririshsea.bsky.social Independent Scholar & Political Analyst focused on Southeast Asia / Consultant Geopolitics/Governance / Podcaster - Straight Talk Southeast Asia / Columnist Malaysiakini/Benar News/ Love Food, Nature and Animals / w/beloved dog Surya / Global Citizen 🇮🇪🇲🇾🇺🇲🍉
Max Broad @maxbroad.bsky.social Research Associate at the Lowy Institute
Jack Sato @jacksato.bsky.social Data Analyst at the Lowy Institute
Claudia Merli @claudiamerli.bsky.social Cultural & medical anthropologist. Biopolitics, body, disasters, trauma, cosmologies. Research in Thailand, Japan, Italy. EuroSEAS board member. Assoc Prof @ Uppsala University. Psychodynamic conversational therapist. She/Her. https://eirapsychotherapy.se
Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia @boellsea.bsky.social Southeast Asia Regional Office of Heinrich Böll Stiftung (hbs)
making green connections, working on gender and social justice, climate action + energy transition
https://th.boell.org/en
SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium @sunycunyseac.bsky.social https://www.sunycunysoutheastasiaconsortium.org/
Young Urbanists of Southeast Asia @yuseainsights.bsky.social Join us in our collective vision for a better urban future in Southeast Asia | yusea.org
Julia Behrens @juliabehrens.bsky.social Dr. in Southeast Asian Studies working on #socialecologicaltransformation #climatejustice #developmentresearch.
Anna Grzywacz @annagrzywacz.bsky.social Interested in ASEAN, Southeast Asian politics, middle powers, and discursive politics/Assistant Prof at Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences/Usual disclaimers
https://annagrzywacz.com/
Mai Van Tran @vmtran.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, studying mass contention & social media in Southeast Asia, PhD Cornell. For more stuff: https://maivantran.weebly.com/
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Resto Cruz @restocruz.bsky.social Social anthropologist of kinship, siblingship, social and geographical mobility, generation, inheritance, Philippines and Southeast Asia, and the UK.
📍Edinburgh- C Casper Bruun Jensen @cbruunjensen.bsky.social sts anthro infrastructure climate more-than-human ontologies southeast asia. In Bangkok
Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
Adrian Hermann @anitchang.bsky.social Professor Univ. of Bonn. Director at FIW 🏛🌎🎓 and Study of Religion (he/him). Religion/cultural studies/documentary film/Southeast Asia/TTRPGs.
Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.
Michael Vann: Orca 5th Columnist @michaelgvann.bsky.social Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", Jacobin Southeast Asia Columnist, mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest, DLL
Charmaine N. Willis, Ph.D. @cnwillis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University.
Research: USFP, civ-mil, East/Southeast Asia, contentious politics, pedagogy, fieldwork.
Website: cnwillis.com
She/her 🏳️🌈#BLM
The views expressed are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.
Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social IR at ANU
International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia
Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
www.deepaknair.org
Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 2 rescue 🐈⬛ •🇸🇪
Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social anthropologist at NUS | editing at Anthropological Theory [@anthrotheory.bsky.social] with focus on new short-form theory space ATC | Burma Studies knowledge mgmt https://burmastudiesgroup.com/ | editing at Humanity | newish book: Rights Refused
JC Gaillard @jcgaillard.bsky.social Ahorangi / Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau / The University of Auckland - Focuses on Disasters and Disaster Risk Reduction
Mekong Review @mekongreview.com A quarterly magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in Asia, written by people from the region or those who know it well.
Subscribe: https://mekongreview.com/subscribe/
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/mekongreviewweekly
Critical Asian Studies @criticasianstds.bsky.social Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.