Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social Research Associate @pewresearch.org | PhD @polisciatnu.bsky.social
Aditi Malik @aditimalik.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross. Author of Playing with Fire: Parties & Political Violence in Kenya & India (CUP 2024). Political Violence | GBV | Africa & S. Asia
Boston - Delhi - Cape Town
aditimalik.net
Gabriel Lönn @gelonn99.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow - University of Oslo. Studying Political Elites as part of the GETGOV project
Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.
Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
Ina L Kristiansen @inalkristiansen.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ University of Oslo - MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies - Researching elite politics in autocratic regimes
IPSA @ipsa.org The International Political Science Association (IPSA), founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO, is a key international scholarly association and a key player in global political science ▪ ipsa.org
@counster.bsky.social @counster.bsky.social COUNSTER is an ERC-funded project that investigates how governments combat radicalization, insurgency, and terrorism by targeting the relationship between non-state armed actors (NSAAs) and their constituents. https://counster-project.com/
Sena Yenigün @senayngn.bsky.social PhD Student at Bilkent University, IR | travel, ir and IR
@gizemkaya.bsky.social @gizemkaya.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher @BilkentIRDept, Peace&Conflict Studies | Computational Social Science | Colombia | Latin America | MENA #rstats and #español enthusiast
The WhoGov Project @whogov.bsky.social The WhoGov Project seeks to extend our knowledge on political elites. It expands, integrates & manages several existing datasets, such as the WhoGov dataset, Paths to Power, and AutGov. It also has an annual conference. Webpage: https://whogov.net/
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Critical Terrorism Studies Working Group @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group: Research/Critique around 'Terrorism' Convenors: @aliceellafinden.bsky.social, @rmkhan.bsky.social, @marinegueguin.bsky.social & @mcneilwillson.bsky.social https://shorturl.at/xedHB
Ataberk Atan @ataberkatan.bsky.social phd student in economics
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
M. Aykut Attar @maattar.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics, Hacettepe University
https://www.maattar.net/
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social Stanford researcher. Work on applied stats, AI (?), China.
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
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
Yavuz Baydar @yavuzbaydar.bsky.social Journalist. Podcaster. Blogger. Author.
https://yavuzbaydar.substack.com (Eng)
https://yavuzlamola.substack.com (TR)
Music broadcaster. Movie buff. Social Media Influencer.
Knight-Wallace and Shorenstein Fellow.
2014 European Press Prize Laureate.
Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social A journal of the International Studies Association (ISA). Publishes cutting-edge research on global security and global aspects of debates in security studies.
@thirdworldq.bsky.social @thirdworldq.bsky.social TWQ journal publishes leading research in international studies, examining issues, policy & development discourses that affect the Global South.
Craig Whiteside @craigwhiteside.bsky.social teach for the Naval War College resident program at NPS in Monterey, CA; The ISIS Reader (Hurst 2020) and Non-state Special Operations (Routledge, 2025); dad, scout, sports fan, and Geronimo https://theisisreader.substack.com/
Gustavo Diaz @gustavodiaz.org Methods at Northwestern Political Science. https://gustavodiaz.org/
The Weekdy @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Giulia Piccolino @giuliapiccolino.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR at Lboro University studying conflict, security and development, mum, would-be runner. Belatedly joining the Great Escape from X. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/staff/giulia-piccolino
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Libération (Chroniques du Sahel) https://www.liberation.fr/auteur/yvan-guichaoua/ • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social I (try to) advance our knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://whogov.net/.
Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
BISA War Studies @bisawarstudies.bsky.social BISA War Studies Working Group | The home of #WarStudies
@mybisa.bsky.social | Co-convened by @jamespattonrogers.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social & Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social Editor of Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies (nomos.de/en/journals/diyar)
Host of the Turkologentag
Welcoming all Students and Scholars of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Altmetric @altmetric.com We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social @UTAustin
"Nullius in verba"
Students → connorjerzak.com/students
Jobs → aidevlab.org/jobs
Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com Econ prof at Seattle University. Book The Effect http://theeffectbook.net out now! Substack https://nickchk.substack.com/ Twitter @nickchk
Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social The first public workshop on autocracies. Hosted by @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social Siyun Jiang @emisimison.bsky.social Ikromjon Tuhtasunov
Subscribe at http://eepurl.com/iJc9FY
www.apsg.work
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salmamousa.bsky.social Political science prof at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social • PoliSci & Int’l Affairs Prof at GWU
• Researching politics, crime, & violence
• NYU & Colmex alumnus
• Mexicano 🇲🇽
• Website: https://www.omargarciaponce.com/
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
Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social Econometrics professor and author. Dogs = 2, cats >= 10.
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of Economics in the English language. Edited by the Department of Economics at Harvard.
@busrask.bsky.social @busrask.bsky.social 
The Polycrisis @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Political economy of climate, finance, geopolitics & other things, by @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social
All our stuff is now here! http://www.thepolycrisis.org
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social ag stats stan, trekkie, prison abolitionist
https://jpiaskowski.gitlab.io/
Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social Professor in computational Bayesian modeling, Aalto University, Finland. Co-author of Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd ed, Regression and Other Stories, Active Statistics and Bayesian Workflow. #mcmc_stan and #arviz developer.
https://users.aalto.fi/ave/
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
Adam Lichtenheld, PhD @alichtenheld.bsky.social Political Scientist | Professor @unileiden.bsky.social | Author, "Guilt by Location."
Expert on forced displacement, conflict, peacebuilding. Consultant for USAID, World Bank, State Dept., others. @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social PhD. Crossfit enthusiast.
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social Galactic Effectuator (obvious Jack Vance aficionado); Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Interests: war and war termination, territorial disputes, why do leaders and why do individuals fight?
Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com
Rachel Schwartz @raschwartz.bsky.social Assistant Professor & Director of the Center for the Americas at the University of Oklahoma studying legacies of conflict, democracy, and rule of law in Central America; author of Undermining the State from Within (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Christian Oswald @christianoswald.bsky.social Research Associate @ Center for Crisis Early Warning, University of the Bundeswehr Munich | PRIO Research School Member | pol. violence & instability | analog player in a digital world | aggressively mediocre
https://christianoswald.net 
Mehmet Erdem Arslan @mehmeterdemarslan.bsky.social Lecturer in GCGA, Türkiye | PhD in Government, University of Essex | MA in Security Studies, TOBB ETÜ | Bsc Turkish Military Academy | CT Veteran
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President of @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
The Correlates of War Project @correlatesofwar.bsky.social http://www.correlatesofwar.org/
Dersu Ekim Tanca @dersuekimtanca.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at Canisius University
Authoritarianism, Democratization, Turkish Politics, EU Politics, Right-wing Populism 🏳️🌈
Burak Kazim Yilmaz @bkyilmaz.bsky.social Political Science PhD Student at Emory University
Müge Uğuz @mugeuguz.bsky.social Political Science PhD Student at George Washington University
MA @CEU @BilkentIR
Svend-Erik Skaaning @skaaning.bsky.social Professor of political science, Aarhus University
Democratization, autocratization, state capacity, cross-national comparisons, social science history
Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social Writing a book (+ some papers): "The Liberal Origins of Fascism"
Postdoc at the Cluster of Excellence, The Politics of Inequality
PhD from Penn, via many places
The political origins of hate: parties, voting rights, historical data, CEE
lotemhalevy.com
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social Publishing theoretical, methodological and empirical papers at the cutting-edge of research into international and global security challenges.
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association @andottoman.bsky.social OTSA
Sverrir Steinsson @sverrir.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Toronto's Munk School
VIP Workshop @vipworkshop.bsky.social Official account for the Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop Series | https://vip-workshop.github.io/
European Political Science Review @epsrjournal.bsky.social European Political Science Review (EPSR) is an #OpenAccess journal of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com
https://www.newarab.com/
Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Julia Simon, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, and Peter Marshall
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) – a renowned research institute and influential think tank for global sustainable development.
| Netiquette: https://blogs.idos-research.de/netiquette/
Department of Peace Studies and International Development @bdpeaceintdev.bsky.social University of Bradford.
First Peace Studies Department in the UK.
Johanna Amaya-Panche @amayoap.bsky.social Senior Lecturer IR & Politics @ljmuirp.bsky.social | Research Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social | PhD Government @universityofessex.bsky.social Before: Research Fellow @uclamericas.bsky.social |Postdoctoral Research Fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Mark Berlin @markberlin2.bsky.social Assistant Professor at American University. Previously a postdoc at Princeton SPIA. Political violence, civil wars, and Middle East politics. markberlin2.com
Michael Soules @michaeljsoules.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. Studies rebel recruitment and indoctrination, gender and conflict, and terrorism during civil wars.
https://www.michaelsoules.com
Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social Social scientist and teacher, University of Milan
www.aruggeri.eu
Omar Kadkoy @omarkadkoy.bsky.social Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
Patricia Justino @apvjustino.bsky.social Director @UNUWIDER. Views are my own.
https://patriciajustino.net/
Governance and Local Development Institute @gldinstitute.bsky.social The Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD) is a research institute based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Cornell University, US. GLD aims to explain variations in governance and local development to promote global human welfare.
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Workshop on Conflict Dynamics @conflictdynamics.bsky.social Annual Workshop by early career researchers for early career researchers
Political violence, including armed conflict and contentious politics
https://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/conflict-dynamics
Ayse Busra Topal @abusrat.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @UTAustinGov | Political psychology & behavior | Race & ethnicity | Religion & politics
aysebusratopal.com
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
International Security Studies @ ISA @isss-isa.bsky.social International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). We share section-related information, calls for proposals, and the like. Tag us to amplify your work!
https://www.isanet.org/isa/sections/isss
Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop @jqconworkshop.bsky.social Workshop for emerging scholars in quantitative conflict research. Twice monthly Thursdays, 1-2:30 PM EST. Grad students, postdocs & junior faculty welcome to apply!
Now accepting applications:
https://junior-quant-conflict-workshop.github.io/
Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social danbischof.com
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social Clinical psychology researcher | applied statistics geek | so called #RStats influencer
Casual Inference Podcast @casualinfer.bsky.social Casual Inference Podcast. Hosted by @LucyStats.bsky.social & @EpiEllie.bsky.social | Partnered with The American Journal of Epidemiology | Casual chats about epi & stats. Episodes every other week!
Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social Flagship journal of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/home/psx