Alex White
Freelance historian with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. PhD from Cambridge, hot takes from the depths of a radio archive somewhere.
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Global, regional and national research and evidence on health and care workers and the policies that impact them
@quilombo.bsky.social
🏝️ isleño. canary islander. international affairs. commons. post/de/anti-colonial. anti-racism. 🗣️ views are strictly mine. ✍️ Español / English / Français / Português
@anothergreen.bsky.social
Teaches political economy at Goldsmiths, married to Emily Blyth #ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #Gaza #UCU #Rojava #transrights #Marx #DrWho #Wiltshire #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá
@give-a-damn.bsky.social
Activist working for peace, democracy and justice. A less corrupt government would be nice, too. Trustee: Metropolitan College of NY http://MCNY.edu Organizer for http://MediaAndDemocracyProject.Org Avatar: Liberty crying Header: James Webb Tele. Photo
@historyinpublic.bsky.social
A public history blog from the Cambridge History Faculty 🪶
@alastairtibbs.bsky.social
Editor at MENA site Maghrebi.org & Scotland-based freelance journalist
@marieboeton.bsky.social
Grand reporter @LaCroix Chronique "Regarde le monde" @FranceInter Membre de la Commission des droits de l'homme @CNCDH Chroniqueuse aux Midis @FranceCulture
@pfarrelly2025.bsky.social
History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Content Creator - 275k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕 https://theunchartedpast.com/
@beelitmag.bsky.social
A home for working-class readers and writers https://thebeemagazine.com
@panchocorral.bsky.social
Political Science @ the University of Maine, Mexicano, passionate about art, culture, and social science, Luis Miguel fan
@ceaubin.bsky.social
"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian Historian of Nazis & America & Nazis in America • Friendly neighborhood wizard • Host of This Guy Sucked, the world’s meanest history podcast https://thisguysucked.com Media enquiries: [email protected]
@vijayprashad.bsky.social
Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Editor at LeftWord Books (India) & Inkani Books (South Africa). Chief Correspondent of Globetrotter. Live in Santiago, Chile. Latest book: On Cuba, with Noam Chomsky.
@radleyben.bsky.social
Reader in International Development at Bath | Editor for Review of African Political Economy (roape.net) | Research mining, energy & labour in Africa & Asia-Pacific | www.benradley.com
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | future book (maybe) on philosophies of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer
@adambradley.bsky.social
Professor of English & African American Studies @ UCLA, founding Director of the RAP Lab, writer at large @ NYT's T Magazine, author of some books. Lives in LA.
@profbenjamin.bsky.social
Race/Ethnicity/Urban/Local/Community/Engagement. Clara Luper Dept of African & African American Studies @ OU. UCDavis 💙💛 Michigan 💛💙 http://www.andreabenjaminphd.com/news
@roapejournal.bsky.social
Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
@antikcagdeniz.bsky.social
Istanbul University | Philosophy and History — A big smile to the established thoughts of the normative.
@tatianalehat.bsky.social
interests in all things swana, human rights, global justice, you know the drill + comme cheb hasni j’suis sentimentale | north ldn – paris via القدس
@rchops7.bsky.social
imagining the postcolonial researching decolonial, non national futures at harvard; previously, oxford words in the scroll, newslaundry, the print, e-ir, pari
@drrochellerowe.bsky.social
Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance. Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions agent: @WatsonLittle
@niharikaan.bsky.social
research/write/teach on gender, militarism, coloniality, everyday politics & anti-imperial feminisms. co-plotting insurgent knowledges. lecturer in sociology QMUL. she/they part-time poet, talib-e-ilm//talib-e-qalb
@smallerspace.bsky.social
Diasporic Jew, UC Berkeley grad and City of Berkeley resident. Anti racist, pro trans. Into healthcare, labor, libraries and information, urbanism, natural history, books, museums, country, folk, rock, and punk music, typical genX shit
@mlorey.bsky.social
reader, writer, lawyer, repro & disability justice advocate 🏳️🌈❤️🔥♿️💚
@mbrescius.bsky.social
Incoming SNF Research Professor @unibas.ch, Consolidator Grant Global Social and Economic History, Resources, History of Science, Environmental History and Imperialism, Euro-Asian Entanglements
@theandrewgreen.bsky.social
Global health correspondent. Documenting the future of the global AIDS response: www.forsaken.life. 2025 Alicia Patterson Fellow. Newsletter: https://theforsaken.substack.com/
@septology.bsky.social
American Studies MSt student (Oxford), writing about the city in the postwar American Novel (Vidal, Ellison, Malamud) they/them
@janmarcmorawe.bsky.social
Gender Scholar Researching (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ... https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
@drtoddlandman.bsky.social
Professor, International Consultant, Speaker, Research Director of @rightslab.bsky.social. All views my own. http://www.proftoddlandman.com/
@josefskrdlik.bsky.social
Journalist wandering around West Africa | Recently Guinea, Sierra Leone and Mali | MPhil @Cambridge_Uni
@michaelscottmoore.bsky.social
Bestselling author of "The Desert and the Sea," about Somali pirates; "Sweetness and Blood," about the history of surfing, and "Too Much of Nothing," a novel about LA. The real action is here: https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelscottmoore
@maxbone55.bsky.social
Eyes on all things Africa, Human Rights and Democracy. Recovering Democracy & Governance Practitioner. MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Words in @foreignpolicy.com @wpr.bsky.social @newhumanitarian.bsky.social & elsewhere
@mpnelsen.bsky.social
Senior Research Scientist at Field Museum || Lecturer @saic-edu.bsky.social || Evolutionary biologist interested in macroevolution, symbiosis, fungi and geobiology. Posts my own. https://mpnelsen.com/
@miniminuteman.bsky.social
Archaeologist • Environmental Scientist • Googledebunker 2.2M YouTube 2M TikTok
@smanche.bsky.social
Postdoc on colonialism, ecological planning & French Marxism, University of Cambridge II Philosophy, Finance, Dependency Theory II Annoying van-owner who climbs II Obsessed with zombies & looking for a job
@maxvogel.bsky.social
Historian | Museums & Memorials | Political Education | NS, GDR and Colonial History | Berlin Working for brandenburg-euthanasie-sbg.de Current Project: paul-goesch.de Private views only.
@jacobgeller.com
Makes the most normal videos on YouTube. Also a cohort on MinnMax. https://jacobgeller.com/
@lukebrunning.bsky.social
Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.
@lazlo-passemiers.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Interested in transnational histories of decolonisation in Southern Africa.
@andreassieber.bsky.social
Associate Director of Policy & Campaigns @350.org Co-board chair TogetherForFuture Climate, Energy, Geopolitics Views = my own
@kjlauck42.bsky.social
Graduate of Lipscomb University. Louisville, KY ➡️ Nashville, TN. Sports fan and aspiring journalist.
@ncourtman.bsky.social
Alfred Landecker Lecturer at King’s College London | researching history of citizenship law and naturalisation practice in the Federal Republic of Germany after National Socialism
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
@mikefinnerty.bsky.social
Borough Market cheesemonger & journalist. “The Cheese Cure: How Comté and Camembert fed my soul” coming Aug 28, 2025 HarperCollins UK. Mainly cheese here but let’s see how it goes. London SE1/Montréal H2S. Journaliste et fromager, Londres et Montréal ♥️
@dlew919.bsky.social
Musician, historian, political scientist, lecturer, author, composer. Co host https://bsky.app/profile/newpolitics.bsky.social Contributor www.toppermost.co.uk. Telecasters, Stratocasters, Gretsch, mandolins, jazz basses. Banjos. Ukuleles
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center. New book! "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, coming September 2025!)
@yaakovepst.bsky.social
Head of Research at The Center for Combating Conversion Therapy. Anti-Zionist Israeli American Jew. Digital Sherlock at DFRLab. Former: Analyst & Head of Monitoring at Fake Reporter. National Leadership at Standing Together
@benjaminhodaye.bsky.social
Docteur en histoire contemporaine ATER Université d'Artois Histoire du Maghreb (Maroc) Colonisation - décolonisation
@centrafreak.bsky.social
Central Africa Country Specialist, Amnesty International USA (views mine). #humanrights #sahel #centrafrique #tchad #chad #droitshumains #drc #congo PhD Rutgers/poli sci, EdM Harvard, BA Yale/philosophy. Neurodivergent Trekkie hobbit jedi Loki variant.