John Dickie @johndickie.bsky.social Prof of Italian Studies at UCL. Historian. Books on mafia crime, Italian food, Freemasonry, etc. Updated edition of Delizia! The epic history of the Italians and their food. Paperback out now!
www.johndickie.net
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism @icct.bsky.social The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) is an independent knowledge centre that focuses on the preventative and international legal aspects of CT.
🔗: icct.nl 📍: The Hague
Thorsten Hindrichs @thhindrichs.bsky.social Musikwissenschaftler | Antifaschist | er/ihm, he/him | #rechtsrocktnicht | #Musikwissenschaft | #musicology | #Betze | #diesdas
Fidelius Schmid @fschmid.bsky.social National Security Correspondent @spiegel.de
Anna Thalhammer @annathalhammer.bsky.social Chefredakteurin und Herausgeberin des österreichischen Nachrichtenmagazins “Profil”. Threema JRTUBHZD
Daniel De Simone @ddesimone.bsky.social Investigations Correspondent at BBC News
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Matt Cole @mrmattcole.bsky.social 
The Insider @theins.press The Insider is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. We're fully committed to investigative journalism and to debunking fake news.
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Roman Dobrokhotov @dobrokhotov.bsky.social Verified parody account
Theins.press editor-in-chief
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
Jake Hanrahan @hanrahan.tv Journalist and filmmaker. Anti-censorship.
Popular Front / Away Days / Gargoyle
www.jakehanrahan.com
affeu @affeu.eurosky.social 161 Recherche / AFA Research
affeu_intel@protonmail.com
Linus Svensson @its-linus.bsky.social Reporter at Swedish Television’s Verification Unit. Focus: OSINT, war/conflict, disinformation and online extremism.
Christian Fuchs @christian-fuchs.bsky.social Autor @zeit.de | @rowohlt.bsky.social
Send me picture postcards from L.A.: http://christian-fuchs.org or anonymous https://briefkasten.zeit.de
Christina Schmidt @rprtrn.bsky.social Investigative Recherche DIE ZEIT
Rechtsextremismus // Innere Sicherheit
Berlin // Norden // Rest der Welt
Drop me secrets: Signal: @christinaschmidt.11 Threema: BAF7WTY9
Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social Journalist @DerSpiegel
Centro Crímina @criminaumh.bsky.social 🔍 Investigación | 🎓 Formación
Centro CRÍMINA para el estudio y prevención de la delincuencia.
📍 Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.
linktr.ee/CRIMINA.UMH
Investigative Interviewing Research & Practice @iiirg-iirp.bsky.social The official Investigative Interviewing Research & Practice (II-RP) journal twitter page. Tweets from the editors.
Maja Vestad @vestad.bsky.social Criminologist
👉researching evidence production in Norway
🏠University of Oslo
Crime & Society Research Group @crisresearch.bsky.social Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social Research scholar
Green criminologist
Economic sociologist
Passionate about environmental, planetary and AI futures
Louise McNeil @louiseerika1.bsky.social Studying PhD in Law at University of Limerick, research areas: surveillance, technology, human rights, psychology and media discourse. BSc (criminology & psych), LLB, MA (Human Rights)
David A Raho 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 @davidraho.bsky.social AI Manager | HM Prison & Probation Service | Critical Realist PhD Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University: Researching AI Readiness and Decision Making in Criminal Justice Systems in England & Wales, Brazil & Japan https://startmodezero.com/
Sofie Royer @sofieroyer.be Houdt van mensenrechten en jazz.
https://www.sofieroyer.be/
Maria Genova @mariagenova.bsky.social Writer of 15 books and public speaker. #cybercrime #privacy #AI Take a look: www.mariagenova.nl 
Francesca Palmiotto @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social AI, Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor at @ielawschool
Editor and co-founder @The_Digi_Con
Sharing resources and abstract art
Michiel @mdhoefsmit.bsky.social Kingston upon Thames, Madrid, Utrecht
Photography, Lego and some training
KLM PFL, Iberia Gold. Star Alliance Senator
www.therunningaroundmethod.com
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Mark B Salter @markbsalter.bsky.social Professor, Vice Dean Research and Professional Development, uOttawa; Editor-in-Chief Security Dialogue
Rocco Bellanova @ikkibop.bsky.social Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Marc Schuilenburg @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social Professor Digital Surveillance | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Author: Making Surveillance Public - Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms (2nd edition, 2025) | www.marcschuilenburg.nl
Heidi Mork Lomell @heidimorklomell.bsky.social Professor i kriminologi, Universitetet i Oslo. Med andre ord: Her går det mest i kriminalitet, kontroll og kriminalpolitikk. Og teknologi.
Claudia Aradau @cearadau.bsky.social everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
Claire Paterson-Young @clcpaterson.bsky.social Professor of Social Justice at University of Northampton. Research in #SocialJustice #AI #Youth #Criminology #SocialCare. Chair of University of Northampton Ethics Committee and Member of West Midlands Police Data Ethics Committee.
Prof Julia Davidson OBE @profjulesd.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, Expert on online harms and cybercrime. Director Institute for Connected Communities University of East London. LSE Alumni and Alpaca Fan.
Alba Díaz @adiazor.bsky.social Criminologist and predoctoral researcher at @criminaumh.bsky.social
Carrie-Anne Myers @carrieamyers.bsky.social Professor of Criminology and Victimology at City St George's, University of London. Co-Director of COSPI https://www.city.ac.uk/research/centres/online-safety-safeguarding-privacy-and-identity
Loves live music and the beach.
Prof Liz Aston @lizaston.bsky.social Prof of Criminology Edinburgh Napier University, Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. Local policing & intersections with health (drugs & harm reduction) & technology (PI INTERACT)
Tim Newburn @timnewburn.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Social Policy, LSE. Living with cancer. Health means some reorientation of priorities. Still music (selections from the back catalogue - gigs whenever possible), criminology and Everton FC. MD ANT
Sharda @sharda24.bsky.social Senior Lecturer interested in Policing & Criminal Justice research. Spare time taken up by Mummy-duties and BCFC 💙
Russell Brewer @russellbrewer.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at Adelaide University | Researching cybercrime, policing, digital forensics & ways to keep kids safe online | Diehard Canucks fan.
📍 Adelaide, South Australia
🌐 www.CybercrimeObservatory.com.au
Isak Ladegaard @ladegaard.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, interested in org deviance & alt markets/platforms. I use comp & qual methods. Asst Prof @ UIUC ➡️ HKU. PGP: E1FC377D. Author of Open Secrecy (UCP 2025). https://isakladegaard.com/
Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice.
An ‘elitist’ is anyone who can function from the neck up, according to populists.
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
Tom Daems @eurocriminology.bsky.social Gewoon hoogleraar KU Leuven - director Leuven Institute of Criminology - member CPT - pic: Bram Belloni - www.tomdaems.com
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
🌐: mattashby.com
Beth Weaver @bethweaver.bsky.social Professor of Criminal and Social Justice at University of Strathclyde, Assoc Dir of Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Spanning Probation, Desistance, Health and AI along with all the things in between.
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
Criminology, Sociology & Policing, Hull. @crimsochull.bsky.social School of Criminology, Sociology & Policing at University of Hull. 
Richard Kjellgren @kjellgren.bsky.social Quantitative criminologist @ University of Stirling. Data linkage, administrative data, justice, health, vulnerability and exploitation #rstats 🇪🇺🏴🇸🇪
Nandor Knust @nan-knust.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Law at Arctic University of Norway | Research on Crime Control | Atrocity Crimes & TJ | Environmental Crimes | Law&Tech
ECO-CRIM-NET:Network for the Monitoring & Investigation of Crimes against Ecosystems
Eintracht Frankfurt Supporter
Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social Assistant prof sociology dept Utrecht University | PhD in Security and Crime Science (UCL) | Extremism, hate and threats of violence |
Co-chair @opencriminology.bsky.social | isabellevdv.net
Lisa Sugiura @drlisasugiura.bsky.social Ass Prof in Cybercrime and Gender. Researches online gender-based violence and incels. Currently in my Red era. 
Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
Amy Stevens @amystevens.bsky.social Sociologist/Criminologist
Researching surveillance, resistance, encryption, human rights, law enforcement, and tech
Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social Professor Michael Salter, criminologist and specialist in the prevention, detection and treatment of child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence and complex trauma. Director of the Childlight Hub @ UNSW https://www.childlight.org/east-asia-pacific-hub
Intel Night OWL 🦉🇺🇸 @intelnightowl.bsky.social RePost ≠ endorsements | OpenSource RnD | OSINT COMINT SIGINT CYBINT ELINT GEOINT ADINT MetaData | ADSB AIS SAT | SDR IoT Arduino Linux | COFFEE
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Shane Horgan @drshanehorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Edinburgh Napier University.
Associate Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social Law academic @ University of Sussex. Research interests: cybercrime and criminal law; digital surveillance, investigations & evidence; privacy law. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. (Views are my own.)
issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
Prof. Rachel Armitage @profrarmitage.bsky.social Prof. of Law and Social Justice & Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange at Leeds Law School
Co-Founder, volunteer & Chair of Trustees @talkingforward.bsky.social
&
🥁@memorialdevice.bsky.social ANT #MDANT
dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social Academic lawyer, philosopher | Postdoc at Max Planck Institute CSL, working on criminal law, personhood, human rights, technology facilitated violence, image-based sexual abuse | DPhil (Oxf), LL.M, MA (Leiden)
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
Sanja Milivojevic @smilivojevic.bsky.social Associate Professor in Digital Futures, Bristol Digital Futures Institute. Researching crime and technology, and borders and mobility. Happy to give Elon the boot.
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
Marijke Roosen @marijkeroosen.bsky.social Feminist | STS scholar | welfare and penal surveillance | digital welfare state
Associate researcher @ université de Lausanne
Jens Hälterlein @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social STS scholar interested in Military AI, Swarming, Autonomous Weapons, Surveillance Technologies,Governmentality; he/him
else: Cycling, Jazz, Dogs
Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social Professor of Global City Policing at University College London
m leal causton @mlealcauston.bsky.social [researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
Nils Zurawski @doctornilz.bsky.social Soziologe, Ethnologe, Kriminologe, Mediator / Überwachung, Konflikt, Sicherheit, Doping, Ethnographie, Polizei, Mit-Herausgeber kommunikation-gesellschaft.de
Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social
https://matthiasleese.com
Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social Sociology Professor at Stanford
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
ON A SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK
alexa dodge @xadodge.bsky.social Associate Professor @smucrim : researching tech-facilitated harm👩🏻💻 & teaching digital criminology 🤖
DIYdigitalsafety.ca
Diana Miranda @dianamiranda.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Stirling). Surveillance, Biometrics, Tech (and Tea). EU citizen 🇵🇹🏴🇪🇺
Prof. Marion Oswald, MBE @marion-infolaw.bsky.social Professor of Law, Northumbria University. Interested in law, technology, #AI policing, law enforcement & national security (& art, detective fiction). Chair, West Midlands PCC/Police data ethics committee, Hon FRSS #academicsky
Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
Pam Ugwudike @pamsoton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology | Researching AI & implications for justice
Co-Editor-in-Chief Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/crj
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Babak Bahador @babak9.bsky.social Research media/coms and peacebuilding at George Washington University (GWU). Direct, Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication (GWU), Media & Peacebuilding Project (GWU), Peace News Network: https://bsky.app/profile/peacenewsnet.bsky.social
Steven Livingston @stevenlivingston.bsky.social Son of a union organizer and a professor of political science/communication at GWU - in that order.
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Erik Underwood @erikunderwood.bsky.social I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at McGill University with research interests in great power politics, information warfare, and cyber security. My current research on Chinese and Russian foreign propaganda strategies.
Evan H. Potter @evanhpotter.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication
University of Ottawa
Art & science of persuasion: Strategic Coms, PR, Information Warfare, Government Coms, Political Coms, Place Branding, Public Diplomacy, Cultural Statecraft.
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Matthias Schulze @percepticon.bsky.social PhD in political science, studying infosec, cyber conflict & information war. Blue Team at SRLabs in Berlin.
Blog and podcast about my work over at https://percepticon.de or https://ioc.exchange/@percepticon
Dorian Quelle @dorianquelle.bsky.social PhD Candidate Quantitative Network Science @ UZH, Research Associate @ Oxford Internet Institute, Data Scientist & Disinformation Researcher @ http://Pattrn.AI
Rosie Arroyo @rosiearroyo.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Posdoctoral Researcher | UNAM-Mx 🇲🇽
Dis and Misinformation / Public Communication / Sociopolitical Sniffer & Avocado Fan 🥑
Whitney Phillips @whitneyphillips.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com