Nick Micinski @nickmicinski.bsky.social Assistant Prof at American University @ausis.bsky.social - migration, political economy of aid, development, climate displacement, UN, EU, human rights
Charli Carpenter @charlicarpenter.bsky.social only-slightly-mad scientist, int’l law prof, author of books on civilians & war. fears tyrants & nukes; welcomes spiders & refugee children. loves whitewater.
Divine Fuh @divinefuh.bsky.social Director of HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa (@humauct.bsky.social), University of Cape Town & social anthropologist from Mankanikong, Bafut, Cameroon | Vice President ASAA
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
Read us at theconversation.com/africa
Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scholar of gender and politics, comparative politics, and African politics. Weaver, rower, and amateur horticulturalist. https://ailitripp.com
Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social War Studies, King’s College London. Researcher of war-to-peace transitions, civil wars, corruption, elite bargains, statebuilding, and UK foreign policy. Trustee at Conciliation Resources. Defender of democracy. Padel enthusiast.
Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social Co-Founder of Berggruen Institute, Noema Mag
Co-author of #RenovatingDemocracy (http://amzn.to/2CBhxJ3)
A believer that ideas can make a better world. #IdeasMatter
www.nicolasberggruen.com
Ali Altiok @atomicsentences.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate in Peace Studies and Political Science @Kroc Institute @Notre Dame. I study youth political trust in Kenya and Turkey
MPI for Social Anthropology @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the world's leading centres for research in socio-cultural anthropology.
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland
Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social #InternationalJustice stories. #InternationalLaw analyses. #TransitionalJustice experts. www.justiceinfo.net
Aaron Strain @aastrain.bsky.social
Jesper Bjarnesen @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social Senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute working on labour mobilities, displacement, urban informalities, street protests in Sahel, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Burundi. Also interested in AU, EU and Nordic migration policies and politics.
@sisresearch.bsky.social @sisresearch.bsky.social
Anne Menzel @amenzel.bsky.social Senior Researcher @IFSHHamburg; power, violence, knowledge production, change-making, fascization and counter-movements
Jorge Daniel Vásquez @jdvasquez.bsky.social Sociologist | Du Boisian and Global Sociology | Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow at American University | Guayaquil 🇪🇨
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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Amnesty West and Central Africa @amnestywaro.bsky.social Let’s take injustice personally in West & Central Africa.
Faisons de l’injustice une affaire personnelle en Afrique de l’ouest et du centre.
Accountability Research Center @arc-au.bsky.social Accountability Research Center bridges research & grassroots perspectives to learn from & inform strategies to improve public and corporate accountability. Based at American University, Washington DC. https://accountabilityresearch.org/
Clingendael Institute @clingendael.bsky.social Independent think tank and academy on international affairs to contribute to a secure, sustainable and just world. 40+ years of top knowledge & training.
Alt U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) @altusip.bsky.social
Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social Pan-African feminist writer. media specialist.
Editor @afrifeminists.bsky.social
Cofounder @afipcollective.bsky.social
Columnist @newint.bsky.social
Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social Journalist in DC, previously Kenya. Co-founder and Managing Editor of @51stnews.bsky.social. Covering inequality, gender, labor for the Washington Post, The Nation, Lux, etc. Organizing with The National Writers Union.
U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org The United States Institute of Peace is a premier peacebuilding organization. Congress founded USIP in 1984 as an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting peace by preventing, mitigating and resolving violent conflict abroad. www.usip.org
Andrea Purdekova @andreapurdekova.bsky.social Associate Professor in Conflict and Security at University of Bath. Conflict and peace-building in the Great Lakes of Africa, esp Rwanda and Burundi. Views mine.
Emily Dunlop @emilydunlop.bsky.social Post Doctoral Associate at Cornell University, Department of Government
Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social We are Forced Migration Review, a world-renowned publication based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
www.fmreview.org
Open Society Foundations @open-society.bsky.social We work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.
Our website: https://osf.to
Community guidelines: http://osf.to/CG
INEE @inee.org The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) promotes access to quality, safe, and relevant education for all persons affected by crisis.
UNICEF Innocenti @unicefinnocenti.bsky.social UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti generates research, data, and foresight to advance children's rights. #ForEveryChild answers.
Journal on Education in Emergencies @journaloneie.bsky.social JEiE publishes freely accessible groundbreaking scholarly and practitioner work on #education in #emergencies. Check out our publications and podcast, #BehindthePages!
For resources and more information, visit us at inee.org/journal
We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
Robtel Neajai Pailey @robtelneajai.bsky.social Liberian. Academic. Activist. Author of Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa. Passions: #scholarship + #socialjustice + #storytelling.
lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social LSE Gender pioneers intersectional, interdisciplinary and transnational research and teaching ➡️ https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender
Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social IR prof (security, civil conflict, peacekeeping, terrorism, climate change), bicoastally migratory (PDX-NYC), dog lover, horse lover, mediocre knitter, avid composter.
Pieternella Pieterse @p-pieterse.bsky.social Research fellow, Institute of Global Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Health systems, human resources for health research, mainly Africa focused. PI of HRH in Sierra Leone study.
Umaru Fofana @umarufofana.bsky.social An award-winning multimedia journalist based in Freetown, Sierra Leone and reporting mainly for the world.
Sarah A Bell @drsarahabell.bsky.social PhD in zoonotic disease communication/anthrozoology, founder of Pan Verus Project in Sierra Leone, current curator of the MoreThanADodo social accounts, especially fascinated with tomatoes (she/her/swamp witch)
@julianpecquet.bsky.social @julianpecquet.bsky.social
UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social
Martín Hernán Di Marco @martindimarco.bsky.social Sociologist. Violence, Femicides & Perpetration. Associate Professor at @OsloMet & Adj. Prof. @emoryuniversity.
Secretary @TG11_ISA & RC38. Food enthusiast
Gillian Mckay, DrPH @gillianleemckay.bsky.social Humanitarian Health Research Adviser @Elrha. DrPH from @LSHTM. Interested in #ReproHealth #SocialScience #HumanitarianResponse #Outbreaks and much more. Mum of two awesome kidlets. 🇨🇦🇬🇧she/her
Matthew Abdul Kanu @kma-78.bsky.social I am a professional journalist and an academic .l live in Makeni Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group @acyig.bsky.social Anthropology of Childhood and Youth Special Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association
acyig.americananthro.org
Dr Aiko Holvikivi @aikoiiris.bsky.social Assistant Professor at LSE Gender, feminist curious about knowledge, pedagogy and (in)security.
Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) @thesvri.bsky.social The SVRI is one of the largest global networks advancing research to end violence against women, violence against children, and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality in low- and middle- income countries.
#EndViolence #GBVResearch #VAWG
@karsdebruijne.bsky.social @karsdebruijne.bsky.social
Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) @parinstitute.bsky.social PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
Jennifer Brass @jenbrass.bsky.social Interested in all things NGOs, aid, electricity, energy, development, Kenya, parenting, universities, teaching, climbing, political science, public affairs, African studies, and so on. Professor by day. Duck duck gray duck.
Dorothy Hodgson @dolohodgson.bsky.social Retired dean, anthropology professor and author. Avid birder, photographer, reader, traveler, and citizen of the world.
Corrie Decker @corriedecker.bsky.social Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, history, African studies
The Harvard University Center for African Studies @africaharvard.bsky.social Where Harvard and Africa meet.
Official account for Harvard’s Center for African Studies
africa.harvard.edu
@asrjournal.bsky.social @asrjournal.bsky.social
Peace Medie @peacemedie.bsky.social
African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social Membership Association Enhancing the Exchange of Information about Africa.
Connecting all fields in/about Africa broadly in one association. Publishing @asrjournal.bsky.social & @historyinafrica.bsky.social
2K+ 🌍 members, join us!
American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social Come find us at https://americanethnologist.org/
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all.
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social President of @refugeesintl.bsky.social
Humanitarianism, baking, biking. Former lead for COVID (46) and disaster response (44) at USAID.
Personal account.🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️
Support our work! https://www.refugeesinternational.org/donate/
Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social Washington D.C. based Rock, Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul. Feeling Right EP out May 22nd!
Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social The magazine of the American Association of University Professors. https://www.aaup.org/academe | https://academeblog.org/
Sophie van Leeuwen @sophievanleeuwen.bsky.social Africa correspondent @rtl.nl former political correspondent in the Netherlands and EU-correspondent @bnr.nl 🇳🇱🇫🇷
Matthew Thomann @mattytho.bsky.social medical/queer anthropologist, ethnographer & associate professor @ university of maryland | global public health | marginality and exclusion | queer and trans resistance and intimacies | medicalization | health justice
Department of Peace Studies and International Development @bdpeaceintdev.bsky.social University of Bradford.
First Peace Studies Department in the UK.
Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 16 and 17, 2026. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
Elian Peltier @elianpeltier.bsky.social Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief - The New York Times
James Courtright @jamescourtright08.bsky.social Pastoralism, natural resource management and conflict in West Africa / Clingendael Research Associate / ex ICWA fellow & Gambia transitional justice / Kolda haa mayde- M Mish @mishshh.bsky.social
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
carnegieendowment.org
Boaz Atzili @batzili.bsky.social Political Scientist, borders, territoriality, Middle East, South Asia.
Joeva Sean Rock @joevarock.bsky.social Anthropologist @ Stony Brook University. Food & agriculture - Technology - Environment - Politics of development. Book: https://tinyurl.com/joevarock
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
@mikebschroeder.bsky.social @mikebschroeder.bsky.social
Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of children’s lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@jbockman.bsky.social @jbockman.bsky.social
Antoine de Bengy @adebengyp.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Oslo (SUM) | IR & Global health governance | Pandemics | International Organizations & public-private partnerships | Nordic ODA | Tweets in 🇬🇧 🇳🇴
Ellen Rigsby @silente.bsky.social Professor, Rhetoric, Media and Mass Communication. Parent; yoga practitioner; loves a good puzzle.
Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
Eric Hsu @drerichsu.bsky.social I teach math at San Francisco State University and drive my family around.
Https://Math.sfsu.edu/faculty/hsu
Jim Freeman @jimfree.bsky.social
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
Roger Mac Ginty @rogermacginty.bsky.social Peace
Professor, Durham University
Dogs and old stuff.
I block anonymous no-name accounts
Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social children & youth. peace & conflict.
feminist. academic. baker. probably in that order.
researcher @ Griffith Uni. she/her
www.hmberents.com | https://theYPSobserver.substack.com/
Millennium: Journal of International Studies @millennjournal.bsky.social Millennium publishes critical scholarship in international studies, rewriting International Relations since 1971. Posting as Vol. 55.
Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social Prof at UBC. Storytelling, responsibility, justice, memory.
Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social Researcher, educator, enthusiastic but terrible dancer, writing about gender, governance, security, pop culture. Views mine. She/they.
Laura S. Martin @thelauram16.bsky.social Lecturer, International Development at University of Glasgow.
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Research: violence, humor, justice, gender & FGC in #SierraLeone.
Iowan.Bookworm.Wino.I like funny.
Tara Sun Vanacore @tarasunvanacore.bsky.social Reader, writer, traveler, mom of two, lover of snow and daffodils
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Steven Lee Myers @stevenleemyers.bsky.social New York Times in California. Previously in Beijing, Moscow, Baghdad and DC. Author of "The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin" http://bit.ly/3bbpinS
https://www.nytimes.com/by/steven-lee-myers
@thurka149.bsky.social @thurka149.bsky.social
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Jacqueline Knörr @jacqueline-knoerr.bsky.social Anthropologist, Author, Professor... more to come
@rafi-el.bsky.social @rafi-el.bsky.social
Luisa Schneider @luischneider.bsky.social PhD-student @Uni Bayreuth @BIGSAS @Africa Multiple Cluster interested in Heritage, History and Memory in Africa 🤓