Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Katarzyna Zysk @kzysk.bsky.social Russian defence, military strategy, warfare, nuclear deterrence, Arctic, defence AI, EDTs
Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, which is a part of the Norwegian Defence University College in Oslo
https://www.forsvaret.no/en
Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social #StandwithUkraine. Journalist, deputy head of foreign desk, Slovak daily @pravdask.bsky.social. The usual caveats apply. 🎙 #TheGlobalAgora #podcast https://ko-fi.com/amatisak
Andrej Nosko @andrej.nosko.sk ⚡ Energy geek with a thing for justice, sustainability & tech
🌍 Walking the extra mile, thinking outside the box
🧠 curiosity-powered, policy-savvy, future-focused
Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
Stephane Siohan @stefsiohan.bsky.social Reporter in Ukraine since 2013 for Libération @libe @lesoir. Based in Kyiv. Author of a book about Zelensky. Writing about Ukraine, Central & Eastern Europe + Black Sea space. FR, EN & UA. Love creative docs
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Pjotr Sauer @pjotrsauer.bsky.social Reporter covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia for The Guardian. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com
Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7.bsky.social Correspondent focusing on Central and Eastern Europe for The Guardian
shaun.walker@theguardian.com
David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
Jakub Krupa @jakubkrupa.bsky.social Europe Live, Guardian / Board Member Fulham Supporters Trust, in H5. / One stop shop for all things #PolesinUK.
John Paul Newman @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social Historian of Central and Southeastern Europe, Maynooth University. Find me in Dublin, Prague, Zagreb, Sofia.
Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
Lena @notaterrornerd.bsky.social talk to me about mushrooms or the woods if you must; or don't talk to me at all
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Neil Hauer @neilphauer.bsky.social Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya), Russia, Ukraine, Syria, heavy metal. Stories @CNN, @CBC, @NYMag, @guardian etc. 🇨🇦 neil.hauer@gmail.com. Eng/рус/հայ.
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Adam Reichardt @areichardt.bsky.social Editor of @neweasterneurope.eu, co-host of the Talk Eastern Europe podcast.
Web: www.neweasterneurope.eu
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TalkEasternEurope
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/areichardt/
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group. https://t.co/5NNXBYA2ec
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Nicole Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com Physics professor, astronomer, educator, science communicator in NH, US. Lover of dogs, spec-fic, weights, and good trouble. She/they.
Opinions my own. RTs≠endorsements. Most older posts auto-delete.
I swear a lot.
https://bio.link/noisyastronomer
Mike Young @mkeyoung.bsky.social Author of 📘 Social Media for Research Impact. Workshops for researchers & universities. Ex-University Post editor, Copenhagen.
Here mostly for #philosophy #history.
Website: https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/
Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social Professor @supolisci.bsky.social and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, @maxwellsu.bsky.social, @syracuseu.bsky.social. Latest book: Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction. http://amzn.to/3gdhiFe
Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social Russia foreign and domestic politics. Editorial Director at ridl.io
Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social Modern Warfare | Defense & Military Analyst | Author of ‚How the United States Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory‘ Link: https://www.gady-consulting.com/
Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social Wishing for a thing does not make it so.
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR | 
Africa Elects @africaelects.bsky.social Poll aggregation and election analysis in Africa.
Partner of America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania Elects.
Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social Philosopher - ethics, politics, music | Slowly writing a book on Isaiah Berlin | Born in USSR, home is London | Living with ME since 2003.
youtube.com/vladvexler (main channel)
youtube.com/vladvexlerchat (chat channel)
youtube.com/@vladvexlerphilosophy
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social @bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
Kotelnaya: Life in Moscow @kotelnaya.bsky.social Observations on life in Moscow, stoked in the Kotelnaya
SUBSTACK: https://kotelnaya.substack.com
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Márta Pardavi @martapardavi.bsky.social Co-chair of Hungarian Helsinki Committee @hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social, working on strengthening the rule of law and the work of human rights defenders.
Most of the time in Budapest, Hungary.
R. Daniel Kelemen @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy @Georgetown University. Non-resident Senior Associate @CSIS. EU politics, policy & law.
https://www.rdanielkelemen.com
Dominik Želinský @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social sociologist @ViedAkademia | phd @EdinburghUni 2020
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
Adam Znasik @adamznasik.bsky.social adamznasik.substack.com
James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
Alexander Gabuev 陈寒士 @alexgabuev.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Senior Advisor at DGA Group.
Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social Journalist covering #Ukraine with the Financial Times / Also seen in La Croix, Les Jours, Foreign Policy & others
Daniel Fiott @danielfiott.bsky.social Professor and Head, Defence, Investment and Innovation, CSDS - VUB; and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano.
More on me: https://linktr.ee/danielfiott
Dave Schmerler @schmerler.bsky.social 
Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social Open Source Analysis of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, BMD, DPRK, & PRC.
Vice President of Nuclear and Technology Security Programs, Exiger.
Making podcasts over at https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
All opinions my own.
Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social PRC and DPRK strategic forces analyst with CNA. BA Reed College, MA Middlebury Institute. NSF GRFP. 
Jamie Withorne @jamiewithorne.bsky.social Nuclear weapons, international politics, and “”emerging”” technology.
Doctoral Research Fellow in Political Science, University of Oslo
LearnWMD Spreadsheet and Substack: www.jamiewithorne.com
Nathan J Hunt @isnjh.bsky.social GEOINT and 3D reconstruction
Colin Zwirko @colinzwirko.bsky.social Analyst at NK News / NK Pro, investigations and analysis about North Korea and satellite imagery, state media, military, Kim family developments etc.
https://www.nknews.org/content_author/colin-zwirko
Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social I count nukes for the Federation of American Scientists + the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 🇨🇦 Views my own.
Eliana Johns @elianajjohns.bsky.social PhD Student @ University of Maryland & Research Advisor with Nuclear Information Project @ Federation of American Scientists | Talks about nukes and satellite imagery (views are my own)
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
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
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com
Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
Omer Arvili @omerarvili.bsky.social מעצבנת דעת קהל
Tessa Knight @awildknight.bsky.social Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social studying how threat actors leverage AI for surveillance, influence operations and violent extremism.
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
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.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social Host / Producer of Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast. Former conspiracist turned debunker. Now that I debunk conspiracy theories, I have become an actual conspiracy theory. True story.
Jerome @jeromegill.com I build tech for charities and NGOs and the private sector, usually in the sustainability/environmental space
Interested in tech, modern propaganda, and cleaning up information spaces
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)