European Centre for the Study of Hate @ecsh-research.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Centre Addressing Group-Based Hate and Hostility. Values-driven impact-focused research. Advancing Europe's values of human dignity, equality and the rule of law from its Western edge.
www.ul.ie/ecsh
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Carole Joffe @carolejoffe.bsky.social Sociologist at UCSF. Studies abortion provision. Author with David S. Cohen of forthcoming book, After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but not Abortion. Tennis enthusiast 🎾love playing, love watching the women pros.
Corey D. Fields @coreydfields.bsky.social Professional sourpuss with a heart of gold. Research identity, culture, and politics. Author of Black Elephants in the Room. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291904
Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org Politicoloog at UvA. Book on Dutch neoliberal turn out now with Verso. Columns @DeGroene. Boek ‘De aanval op de linkse elite’, verschijnt binnenkort bij Boom. ‘Oh god, deze man, hou op! Deze Oudenampsen is een dwaas.’ - Frits Bolkestein
Dr Alina Polyakova @apolyakova.bsky.social President & CEO @cepa.org; Prof Johns Hopkins SAIS; former Brookings Institution; Berkeley PhD, Russia, Europe, democracy, tech policy.
Views my own. Media requests: press@cepa.org
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org Catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements.
splcenter.org
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social Pronounced Gyoo-in, Assoc Prof
@SociologyUCLA. Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy (and Social Science) Misses About Schools
Bart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Sociology and Politics at NYU studying nationalism, populism, and radical-right politics using surveys, experiments, and computational text analysis. Affiliate Faculty at NYU's Center for Data Science.
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008
* award-winning
* independent
* non-profit
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RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication
want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org The Social Science Research Council is an independent nonprofit that for 100 years has mobilized social & behavioral science for global policy impact. ssrc.org
The Immanent Frame (SSRC) @immanentframe.bsky.social The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. It was founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program @religionssrc.bsky.social.
Jonathan VanAntwerpen @vanantwerpen.bsky.social
Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
Tina Fetner @fetner.bsky.social Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦.
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com Professor of Politics at Flinders University in Adelaide | 🇮🇪🇦🇺 | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
Farid Hafez @fhafez.bsky.social IR Faculty W&M & Georgetown Univ The Bridge Initiative | Racism, Coloniality, Far-Right, Europe, Islam | Co-editor of European Islamophobia Report | Latest book: Politicizing Islam in Austria. The Far-Right Impact (Rutgers Univ Press) Opinions my own.
Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social Investigating war crimes, pursuing justice, and preparing tomorrow's advocates.
https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/
Maik Fielitz @maik.machine-vs-rage.net Head of Research on Digital Conflict Studies @idz-jena.bsky.social
Research on right-wing extremism, protest, digital platforms and Greece
Co-Editor of @machine-vs-rage.net
Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com Researcher and writer focused on right-wing movements for Right Wing Watch, a project of People For the American Way. Lover of dogs, poetry, singing, husband. Pennsylvania raised, long roots in DC. UU. Personal account. He/him.
@fabian-virchow.bsky.social @fabian-virchow.bsky.social
Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social Politics
https://joelowndes.org/
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social We are a network of scholars focusing on the rise of populism and the far right
Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @ipppriataru.bsky.social, Assoc Prof @richmondunildn.bsky.social, & Gbl Far Right Co-Editor @manchesterup.bsky.social, researching Far-Right Movements and CVE Responses. https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/william-allchorn
Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social Urban/cultural/political geographer. Antifascist. And other things. Newcastle via North Carolina. @NUGEOG
C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social Ass Prof @SciencePoULB
Deputy director #Cevipol
Migration politics
Far-right parties & movements
www.farpo.eu
AS Roma 🔴🟡
Andrea Pirro @andreapirro.it Associate Professor at the University of Bologna / Editor of East European Politics / Editor of Routledge Studies in Extremism & Democracy / andreapirro.it
📚 ‘Movement Parties of the Far Right’ (Oxford University Press) out now: https://t.ly/KPhkV
Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social Nonprofit supporting a transnational network of fellows and mentees conducting research on misogyny and its intersections with other forms of supremacist ideology and violence. Visit us at theirms.org. Email: contact@theirms.org
Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now!
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
Logan Macnair @loganmacnair.bsky.social Criminology prof/researcher specializing in terrorism, extremism, and radicalization; fiction writer specializing in weird - Troll (2023), Panegyric (2020).
www.loganmacnair.com/troll
Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social Associate Professor | SciencesPo_CEE| Editor @ejprjournal.bsky.social | Political parties | Political participation | Media | Far right
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social Prof. of Research on Far-Right Extremism @IRex/UniTübingen; researching far-right political actors & ideologies; PhD from @Cambridge_Uni; member of DeJongeAkademie @KNAW 📚
Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social Assistant prof of poli sci at Drew University; researches the right, Christian nationalism, male supremacism, IRMS co-founder and FRAN fellow.
Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social Research centre based within @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Formerly International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) & Centre for Grand Strategy (CGS). RTs ≠ endorsements.
GNET @gnetresearch.bsky.social The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is an academic research initiative backed by The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a special project delivered by @csns-uk.bsky.social.
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism.
www.balsalubarda.com
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Mina Baginova @minabagin.bsky.social Social anthropologist specializing in the intersection of social movements, protests, feminist mobilisations, gender, culture and politics.
Meredith L. Pruden @meredithpruden.bsky.social Assistant Professor in metro ATL. Researching harmful online content, far-right media & politics. Affiliate @UNC CITAP. Fellow @TheIRMS. Member @Coalition for Independent Tech Research & @Media, Data & Democracy Co-op. Words are mine. Duh. she/her
Mimi Arbeit @mimiarbeit.bsky.social I'm into antifascist youth development, antifascist developmental science, and antifascist community organizing. I'm a white antiracist queer femme Jewish organizer and college professor. Always antifascist. They/them/theirs. Find more at mimiarbeit.com
Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right |
Program On Extremism @gwupoe.bsky.social The Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Analysis and policy solutions on radicalization, terrorism and extremism.
📍Washington, DC 🔗 extremism.gwu.edu
Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies @fascismjournal.bsky.social A peer reviewed diamond open access journal | CEU Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social | sponsored by @niodamsterdam.bsky.social and the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS) | https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/22116249
OILab @oilab.bsky.social We are a collective of researchers studying radical subcultures online. oilab.eu
Western States Center @westernstatescenter.org Based in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, Western States Center works nationwide to strengthen inclusive democracy. ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏼
Tech Against Terrorism @techvsterrorism.bsky.social Saving lives and preventing harm by disrupting terrorist activity online and upholding human rights. Supported by UNCTED
🔸 Website: https://techagainstterrorism.org/home
🔸 Podcast: https://podcast.techagainstterrorism.org/
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Josie Roland Hodson @jrhjrhjrh.bsky.social
Tanjev Schultz @tanjev.bsky.social Journalismus-Professor an der Universität Mainz.
Podcast/YouTube: @DieMedienversteher
UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social Connecting UC Berkeley and Europe | Title VI National Resource Center + Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 🇪🇺 | https://ies.berkeley.edu
207 Philosophy Hall, Berkeley, CA | ies.berkeley.edu/mailing-list
Laura Rivas Arranz @larili.bsky.social Escritora de ficción literaria. Especialista en personajes que no saben bien cómo vivir.
Novelas: Pasos en la escalera; Rompecabezas. Cuentos cortos para leer en:
https://www.laurarivasarranz.com/
Johanna Maj Schmidt @jamannahoj.bsky.social Researching far-right meme culture | working @wi-rex.bsky.social at @efbisachsen.bsky.social | co-editor ‘Freie Assoziation’ | Art: johannamajschmidt.com
UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social The official account for UC Berkeley. #GoBears 🐻
Main website: https://www.berkeley.edu/
UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/
Martina Avanza @martina-avanza.bsky.social
The Canadian Institute for Far Right Studies @cifrs.org An independent think tank dedicated to the critical study of the far-right in Canada. We provide analysis and research to challenge far-right extremism.
cifrs.org
Michelle A. Taylor @michelletaylor.bsky.social The lazy laughing Jenny of the bard | fellow at Magdalene, Cam; once Emory FCHI & St Hilda’s, Ox | essays in The New Yorker, FT Mag, The Point, The Nation, &c. | modernism & coterie, w/ a taste for the archive
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/taylor
the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley @obi-belonging.bsky.social
Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social Fellow @epik-ukraine.bsky.social & Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social. Editor, book series SPPS & Ukrainian Voices: www.ibidem.eu/en/Series/Society-Politics/. Assoc. Prof., Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-4646.
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social sociology prof @Tufts and Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
David Broockman @dbroockman.bsky.social Day job = Associate Prof. of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Tweets = personal views.
UC Berkeley Geography @ucbgeography.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/berkeleygeography
eScholarship @escholarship.bsky.social eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide.
Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social Cultural studies researcher. I work on Colombia from within globalised & long-term critical approaches. Interested in media, feminist theories, decolonial critique, the far right, & the global flow of ideas. Posting in Spanish as @isisgiraldoa.bsky.social
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities.
🇦🇲🇲🇽 www.cyborglibrarian.com
Karthick Ramakrishnan @karthick.com Research for impact with a focus on racial equity and foresight; founder of AAPI Data; now at UC Berkeley. More info at https://karthick.com/
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
CSLS at UC Berkeley @cslsatberkeley.bsky.social Center for the Study of Law and Society
at UC Berkeley School of Law
Supporting empirical research and theoretical analysis on the social consequences of law.
https://csls.berkeley.edu/
Dr. Sophie Bjork-James @sbjorkjames.bsky.social Assistant Prof, Anthropologist, Race/anti-racism, gender and religion, reproductive politics
Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social Political sociologist researching immigration, welfare states, (neo-)nationalism, democracy and more.
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Posts my own.
https://www.maureeneger.com/
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social Catalyzing transformative social change research at UC Berkeley & beyond
🏠 issi.berkeley.edu
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