Vlada Aksenova @vladaaksenova.bsky.social What do science and politics have in common? It’s hard to tell who is lying in both fields.
Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social Data visualizations & information graphics by David McCandless. Plus favourite finds & graphics from around the web. Making sense of the world - well, trying to - since 2009.
https://linktr.ee/infobeautiful
Gillian Darley OBE @gmdarksky.bsky.social Writer, reader, perambulator, observer.
www.gilliandarley.com
Onze Taal @onzetaal.bsky.social Tijdschrift, kennisdienst én vereniging van en voor taalliefhebbers (met 20.000 leden). Voor taalkennis, taalweetjes én taalplezier. Meer info: linktr.ee/onze_taal
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Alberto Miraglia @albertomiraglia.bsky.social PhD researcher in Political Science at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | Political parties, far-right, European Affairs, foreign policy
Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social Hoogleraar Politicologie UvA & AISSR pop quiz fanatic
Politiek Vertrouwen - Kiezers & Kiesstelsels - Burgerschap - Socialisatie
(will tweet mainly in Dutch)
http://tomvandermeer.nl
http://stukroodvlees.nl
Andrea Warnecke @andreawarnecke.bsky.social Assistant Professor in History & International Studies @LeidenUni; previously @EUI_SPS and @Aberystwyth_InterPol
Impartiality and legitimacy in crisis governance, peace building, and humanitarianism; Expertise & knowledge practices in global governance
Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Engel Rollenspiel @schwingenkreuz.bsky.social Das Pen&Paper-Rollenspiel Engel #pnpde #Engel #schwingenkreuz #EngelRollenspiel
www.schwingenkreuz.de
Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Jenny Ratcliffe @drjennyratcliffe.bsky.social Incoming postdoctoral fellow at Coventry University.
International relations - trust - disinformation - strategic communication - hybrid security threats.
Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social Associate Professor and Chair, International Relations Program (Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History)
| #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance
http://santinoregilme.weebly.com
Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social I have opinions & hobbies too, but here I’m a Professor of Political Science a the Swedish Defence University. I study security, power, identity, narrative & emotion in international politics, esp East Asia.
日本語大丈夫!
https://t.ly/1-z2c
https://t.ly/FG0TI
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
The Robert Schuman Centre @eui-schuman.bsky.social Research on European integration & Europe’s global role: migration, energy & climate, security, digital society & more at eui.eu.
Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in IR and Security, University of Warwick.
I write about the far-right and borders, sometimes emotions and sometimes memes.
Strong opinions about Science Fiction.
Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social Junior Professor at Université Bourgogne Europe | Associate researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Convenor of @populismpsa.bsky.social | Populism; Style; Far-right; Identity
https://tinyurl.com/populiststyle
Steije Hofhuis @steijehofhuis.bsky.social Cultural historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Studies uses of migration history in public debates today. PhD was about the cultural evolution of witch-hunting
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Revan @revan.eurosky.social Chair of the Malachor V Institute on Posting Madness
The Dark Side of the Posts is a pathway to many replies some consider to be unnatural. This medicine can’t fix stab. Not a real doctor or Sith Lord
Ewout Klei @ewoutklei.bsky.social Historian, journalist, writer, editor. https://dekanttekening.nl/author/ewout-klei/ & https://ewoutklei1981.substack.com/
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Kohl-Stiftung @bundesstiftkohl.bsky.social Politikergedenkstiftung öffentlichen Rechts
https://www.bundesstiftung-helmut-kohl.de/
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Department of Peace Studies and International Development @bdpeaceintdev.bsky.social University of Bradford.
First Peace Studies Department in the UK.
Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at @glasgow.ac.uk. But mostly hiking, cycling, and running around Scotland.
Chris is erbij @chrisiserbij.bsky.social Townhalljournalistiek van @chrisaalberts.bsky.social vanaf de plek des onheils. Ook nog steeds op www.x.com/chrisiserbij. Suggesties altijd welkom.
Diederik Ebbinge @diederikebbinge.bsky.social Acteur/Regisseur/Presentator/Schrijver/Producent bij Lehmitz
#OnzeJordaan #Promenade
#Top2000agogo
Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social #Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Substack: https://dimitrafimi.substack.com
Website: http://dimitrafimi.com
PSA Political Thought Specialist Group @psapolthought.bsky.social Political Thought specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association. Convenors: Simon Choat & Michael Keary. Become a member: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/political-thought
Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof @Brown JD/PhD
My podcast: The Oath and the Office: https://shorturl.at/H7vGP
My book: The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It: https://shorturl.at/z31fC
PUREKIMMINESS @purekimminess.bsky.social True to the Kimminess
Conflict/methods/pol econ
teaching and rocking research methods
I don't know about this living in interesting times...feels exhausting
"I'm incredible....cuz I does what I do."
-Craig Mack
Jeremy Springman @jrspringman.bsky.social Research Scientist at Meta studying AI. I run surveys, produce data, conduct experiments, and model stuff. Former Research Prof at UPenn. Duke postdoc, UPenn PhD, Pitt alum.
jrspringman.github.io
Anna Spain Bradley @aspainbradley.bsky.social Author of #GlobalRacism (OUP, coming October 1 2026) & Human Choice in Int'l Law (CUP, 2021). MacArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights & Professor of Law at UCLA.
Fareeda Khalifa @fareedakhalifa.com PhD Candidate at the University of Essex | researching violence against peacekeepers, rebel strategies, and post-conflict outcomes in #Africa | formerly Peacebuilding Lead at CCCPA, PSU at IOM South Sudan
Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود @nihadaboud.bsky.social Limbo | PhD in Government | Senior Research Officer @ Essex Law School | Conflict & terrorism | Strategies & behaviors of militant groups | Previously ETH & AUC
بين غربتك ف ديار أهلك… و غربتك ف بلاد الله
——
https://sites.google.com/view/n-aboud
Jordan Becker @jordanbecker.bsky.social I teach and do social science, and direct a social science research lab @WestPoint. Personal account; I'm in the Army but don't speak for it here! @CSDS Brussels; IHEDN Chaire ECODEF
https://www.westpoint.edu/social-sciences/profile/jordan_becker
Multilingualism, Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa @mccrafrica-essex.bsky.social Multilingualism, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution in Africa (MCCRA). ESRC-funded project at @Uni_of_Essex and @odi_global. Team in Cameroon, DRC, Mozambique, Netherlands, Nigeria, Uganda, UK. https://sites.google.com/view/mccrafrica/
Wolfgang Minatti @wolfgangminatti.com Postdoc @leuphana.bsky.social | Research on Peace and Conflict | Previously @EUI_EU, @UniAndes, @LeidenHum & @PolSciUIBK | he/him | @wolfgangMinatti
Victor Mulsant @victormulsant.bsky.social PhD researcher at the @Central European University
Interested in conflict transformation and the pathways to sustainable peace in post-civil war societies
Julian Walterskirchen @jwalterskirchen.bsky.social PhD Student, Dep. PolSci University of Gothenburg
Interested in Conflict, Security, Cooperation, Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and quant. Methods.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5587-7075
interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
at Freie Universität Berlin • conflict & violence • justice & accountability • research ethics & safety
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com. Author of When Rebels Win https://tinyurl.com/whenrebelswin
Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social Professor @josefkorble @UofDenver | global politics | climate | technology | security | human rights | democracy | pragmatism. I know, it's a lot. Also ISA, hiking, baking, travel, and #roseistoocute she/her deborahavant.com
David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social Assoc Prof in IR at Sussex Global Studies | Student of borderworlds, conflict & karaoke in and around Myanmar | Author of Rebel Politics: https://bit.ly/RebPol
Efe Tokdemir @efetokdemir.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @bilkentuniv.bsky.social, PI @counster.bsky.social, Director of Research @cfppr.bsky.social
Research on peace&conflict processes, strategic use of force, foreign policy & public opinion, Türkiye
www.efetokdemir.com
Regine Schwab @reginesonja.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Studying civil wars, non-state armed groups and wartime institutions. Interested in Middle Eastern Politics and Societies.
https://www.regineschwab.org/
Adrian Florea @aflorea.bsky.social Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Indiana University PhD. Civil war. Separatism. De facto states. Rebel governance. War and state (un)making. Data. RT#endorsement. aflorea.weebly.com
Iris Volg @irisv.bsky.social Rådgiver Evalueringsavdeling/Norec
Associated Researcher TraCe/Goethe University Frankfurt
civil conflict | peace negotiations | nonviolent action | development cooperation | quantitative methods
(views are my own)
Roland Kostić @rokos031.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University.
Research interests: transitional justice, reconciliation, social memory, and knowledge production in interventions.
Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com Senior Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict. British Academy Fellow. Cat dad.
Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social Postdoc in Political Science at University of St. Gallen | Civil Wars | Political Violence | Arms Control
Serhat Tutkal @serhattutkal.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (political violence, dehumanization, racism, digital platforms) - Secihti, Mexico
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ShpYfisAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Main social media account: https://fediscience.org/@SerhatTutkal
Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦
Ilayda B. Onder @ilaydaonder.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M, studying political violence, civil conflict, and rebel organizations.
https://www.ilaydaonder.com/
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Euan Raffle @euanraffle.bsky.social Lecturer in Security Studies @mybcu.bsky.social. PhD from @polisatleeds.bsky.social. Research state violence, extrajudicial killing, human rights & Southeast Asia. He/Him.
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Millennium: Journal of International Studies @millennjournal.bsky.social Millennium publishes critical scholarship in international studies, rewriting International Relations since 1971. Posting as Vol. 55.
Pieter Omtzigt @omtzigt.bsky.social Member of Parliament, Nieuw Sociaal Contract, Netherlands
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Jelte Liemburg @jelteliemburg.bsky.social Historicus | 'Museumverslinder': http://tinyurl.com/museumtour500 🖼️ | 𝔎𝔯𝔲𝔦𝔰𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔤𝔢𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔟𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔯 | Frysk en Frij | Leiden | 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Jasmin Seijbel (she/her) @jasminseijbel.bsky.social anthropologist | historian | phd-candidate and lecturer Erasmus University Rotterdam | working on sports and (anti)discrimination | justice for human and non-human animals | NL/ENG | https://jasminseijbel.nl/
Jason Pridmore @jasonpridmore.bsky.social I am a researcher and educator focused on emerging technologies and everyday social practices. Co-director CLI (EUR), and coordinate SEISMEC (Human Centric Digitalisation - Industry 5.0) and COALESCE (developing the European Competence Centre for SciComm).
QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social he / him, 🏳️🌈 ✝️. i mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. makes silly games about politics/history. design lead for TNO.
Richard Wouters @richardwouters.bsky.social Think-tanker at Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks
🦋 @wbgroenlinks.bsky.social
🌐 https://www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl
Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social Senior researcher @IFSHHamburg | Critical security and resilience, climate change and the Anthropocene, technology and surveillance. Views my own
Clara eroukhmanoff @claraeroukhmanoff.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at London South Bank University
Gender and foreign policy | feminist foreign policy | French feminist diplomacy | bro masculinity and hybrid masculinity ✌🏻
Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social Associate Prof & Author at Uni of Southampton; USSR-born; speaker of ENG/ESP/CAT/AZ/RUS/FR/TR/...
www.lalamuradova.com
Empathy in Politics • Democracy • Climate Change • Democratic Innovations • Emotions • Deliberation • Autocracies
🏋♀️📚⛰️🕺
Pieter de Wilde @pieterdewilde.bsky.social Chair in European Politics & Society @ University of Groningen. Politicization, Representation, European Integration, Globalization Conflict.
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
Shalabh Chopra @shalabhc.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury, New Zealand | Foreign Policy, Narratives, Ontological Security, Emotions and Friendship
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social
Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie
Jochen Kleinschmidt @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social International Relations scholar. Interested in IR theory, war & conflict, political geography, military technology, and organized crime.
Have lived & worked in Colombia, Germany, Mexico, and the US.
#FDGOUltra
#SlavaUkrayini
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Lien 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🍉🎶 @lienatik.bsky.social 😶 41. tired. little on edge. 🌈 she/they
🧝🏼♀️ enthusiastic about lots of things
💜 music • lego • history • art • fashion • space • our flag means death • star wars/trek • lord of the rings • & other
⚠️ 🔞
🇪🇺 posts in 🇬🇧 & 🇳🇱
Pro-Democracy/ Anti-Kakistocracy @jadedsage.bsky.social Educator, Historian (Middle East Studies, Conflict, Migration), Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Yemen 1988-90).
Interests: TTRPG, AI Conceptual Design, KC Pro Sports, Oregon Ducks, KU hoops, Chicagoland, Cooking, Fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy)
Gocomments @gocomments.bsky.social I am a historian. I work on Sport and Identity. Current book project: Breaking Boundaries: Gender, Race and Nationality in the Olympic Games, 1896-2024.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2020.1815421
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social Reader in Politics and IR at @soasuni.bsky.social. Researcher @UJoburg. Co-Editor-in-Chief @comppol.bsky.social. Studies crime, police, vigilantism, ethnographic, interpretive, qual methods, 🇿🇦.
@rimkovandermaar.bsky.social @rimkovandermaar.bsky.social Universitair docent Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Mijn boek 'IN DE BAN VAN VIETNAM. De Vietnamese onafhankelijkheidsstrijd en het Westen' is verschenen bij Spectrum!
Johannes Blumenberg @jnblumenberg.bsky.social Political Scientist | Head of Dept. Knowledge Exchange and Outreach and gesistraining.bsky.social @ GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Politics of the Low Countries @plc-journal.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account of the peer-reviewed diamond open access journal Politics of the Low Countries
Official journal of the ABSP, NKWP, and the VPW
www.plc-journal.eu
Editors-in-chief @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social - @audreyvdleene.bsky.social
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Patrick Bijsmans @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social Associate Dean #Education @ Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Maastricht | Associate Professor #Teaching & #Learning #EuropeanStudies | #EU #Media #Euroscepticism | #Cycling research (!) | Committee Member @ #UACES | posts my own 🦋🇪🇺🟥
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Andrew A.G. Ross @andrewagross.bsky.social Research Professor, International Studies, JHU. IR theory, emotions/affect, media, populism, authority. Out now: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197698532.001.0001
Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Oxford - researching Emotions, EU integration, Ontological (in)security, Political psychology, the everyday, narratives, Brexit.
Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group @epir-bisa.bsky.social The Emotions in Politics and International Relations BISA (British Association for International Studies) working group aims to promote the study, research and teaching of emotions in politics and international relations.
Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social Postdoc at University of British Columbia political science working on child protection in 🇺🇦, 🇺🇳 peacekeeping, and my third coffee of the day. Views strictly my own, etc. BC 🇨🇦 is home, PhD GU 🇸🇪, from NM 🇺🇲. He/him.
Ondernemers in Geschiedenis @oig.bsky.social Wij zijn dé netwerkvereniging voor zelfstandige historici en organiseren netwerkactiviteiten en excursies voor onze leden. Lid worden? Kijk op www.ondernemersingeschiedenis.nl
Thomas Winzen @twinzen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @hhu_de
James Worrall @jamesworrall.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies @ the University of Leeds. Specialist in the Gulf and Levant, Conflict, Order, Global Governance etc.
Co-Editor Civil Wars
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/112/dr-james-worrall
Miriam Anderson @miriamjanderson.bsky.social IR prof | Toronto Metropolitan University | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Women, Peace, Security, LSE | Editorial Board, WPS Series, de Gruyter press | Books - Windows of Opportunity (OUP 2016) Trnsn’l Actors in War&Peace (GUP 2017)
Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social Reader (Associate Prof), City St Georges, University of London. IOs, international inequalities, international security (including Russia's war against Ukraine), peacekeeping. http://kseniya-oksamytna.com