Ben Stanley
Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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CEE political scientists
Political scientists (or sufficiently adjacent) who are either (a) from a CEE country, (b) based in a CEE country, or (c) specialists in the region.
@katzyna.bsky.social
conservation scientist; human-wildlife interface researcher; adjunct at Mammal Research Institute PAS in Białowieża; keen on transboundary mammals, forests, One Health, Rights of Nature, knowledge-sharing, walking; former asylee; east of the west
@jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, LSE https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/white-jonathan
@kaszyma.bsky.social
Just migrated over here! Asst prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
@marekbp.bsky.social
Ret glad for DM, Melodi Grand Prix og Radikale Venstre. Posts er for egen regning.
@liberalcurrents.com
A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. patreon.com/LiberalCurrents liberalcurrents.com
@shaunwalker7.bsky.social
Correspondent focusing on Central and Eastern Europe for The Guardian shaun.walker@theguardian.com
@pawlak-mikolaj.bsky.social
Associate professor at University of Warsaw, Vice-president of Polish Sociological Association. Interested in institutions, migration, ignorance, and failure. http://mikolajpawlak.bio.uw.edu.pl/
@rikefranke.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD UniofOxford, previously Sciences Po. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
@bencoates1.bsky.social
Author - 'THE INVENTION OF AMSTERDAM' out now! (https://amzn.to/2QJx3bh). Writer, aid worker, speechwriter, recovering Tory. Columnist @ADnl; articles NYT, Telgraph, New Statesman, Groene Amsterdammer etc. Still available on Elon’s hellsite too!
@rdubisz.bsky.social
Rozwój sektorów kreatywnych w Ministerstwie Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego - głównie gry wideo. Opinie prywatne. Creative Industries Development at The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland - mainly video games. Opinions are my own.
@aizielinska.bsky.social
Finally migrated. Medievalist-emerita, currently conducting research among living people. UCL History & LAHP PhD, 2021: Institutions & Territories of the Latin Church in Poland 1198-1357.
@lucyprebblish.bsky.social
@martav.bsky.social
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. PhDing @univienna, researching attitudinal democratic backsliding | survey experiments | exes: @ess-survey.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social @Bard_Berlin | she/her 🌈 https://vukovicmarta.github.io/website/
@agataboch.bsky.social
Researching, teaching and improving #openscience and #reproducibility at Uni Oslo. Co-running Norway’s Reproducibility Network 🇳🇴
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
You can't start a fire worryin' about your little world falling apart
@katyphipps.bsky.social
Historian of sexuality and French colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol. Always nosy.
@dorotdesigns.bsky.social
Scientific illustrator, educator, biologist 🇵🇱 in 🇫🇮 Drawing to explain and inspire Commissions open: DM Illustrations portfolio: https://www.behance.net/dorotdesigns she/her
@natsty.bsky.social
Political scientist based at Jagiellonian University @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social Interested in EUintegration, euroscepticism, populism & party politics in CEE & Balkans. Co-editor Contemporary European Politics.
@jusimon.bsky.social
University of Bremen; researching US politics & society, the (populist) far right, Critical EU Studies, Governmentality & counter-conduct
@katalincseh.bsky.social
MP of Hungary’s Momentum Movement. Former MEP. MD, MSc in Health Economics. Activist, feminist, idealist. Dog mom x 2
@kuba2025.bsky.social
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
linguist, discourse/pragmatics bean & bug’s mom podcaster liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/ author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with youtube.com/@arbielle?si=qzzG4mZwgbZWqhRY she/they substantively unserious
@mari-liis.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Sociology at Tallinn University. Researching migrant political participation, electoral realignments, PRRP strategies. PL of POLINERA, PI of SIDESTREAM. Visiting fellow at CREEES, Stanford University
@profziegler.bsky.social
Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law Co-Director of the Centre of European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) University of Leicester
@olgainseattle.bsky.social
Part-time lawyer until the next chapter. Trying to grasp physics (kid 1's field of study) and floundering, but at long last starting to hear the intricacies of jazz (kid 2). Thankful for experts among all disciplines, especially in these horrid days.
@katicseres.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Law, Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance, tweets on Hungary and Eastern Europe, power disparities, citizens and consumers, constitutional questions of the economy
@aimeepokwatka.bsky.social
Author of the novels SELF-PORTRAIT WITH NOTHING (2022), THE PARLIAMENT (2024), and ACCUMULATION (forthcoming 2026) (she/her)
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@pksthlm.bsky.social
Redaktör & förläggare/editor, Norstedts. Här skriver jag privat. Bl.a. om Ungern. Same in English.
@srd.bsky.social
Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. I curate the afripolsky feed for those studying or interested in African Politics (broadly conceived). Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
@jaowilliams74.bsky.social
UK Head of Methods at Verian, but not entirely defined by that. Tend to tangent.
@leaypi.bsky.social
Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
@hilarybarth.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan U, CT, USA. Tentatively using this to post mostly-science content .. no promises. Still on Ukraine X/Twitter.
@pengzell.bsky.social
I research nepo babies. Sociology Prof at UCL, ERC Starting Grantee 2025-2030, Programme Lead MSc Sociology, Associate Editor RSSM & ESR. Also at Swedish Institute for Social Research & Nuffield College. http://perengzell.com
@klarast.bsky.social
PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. an artist formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist. she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@reporterrwright.ft.com
Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles. "I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
@eduardosuarez.bsky.social
Head of Editorial at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Journalist. I love trains, opera and books. From León, Spain
@honoratabogusz.bsky.social
PhD candidate @labfam.bsky.social. Labor, gender, family. 🧗🏻♀️🏳️🌈🇵🇱🇪🇺 https://honoratabogusz.github.io/
@leamullerfunk.bsky.social
Senior researcher @demigkrems.bsky.social & PI @fwf-at.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe
@emilyjuliaroche.bsky.social
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University PhD History '24, Brown University Researching the relationship between architecture, war, and national belonging, writing about Jewish architects during the Holocaust
@kasiakoz.bsky.social
o siatkówce (zwłaszcza pań) w słowach i obrazach dla Siatkówka w Obiektywie fotograf/grafik |sci-fi| #twojemvp http://instagram.com/kasiakoz_13/
@dseelandwrites.bsky.social
UK correspondent for the German weekly stern magazine. Former President, Foreign Press Association. Always on the lookout for good stories.
@angelm16.bsky.social
Consumer of news and snacks. Distracted from grim reality by songs, stars and shiny things.
@eui-schuman.bsky.social
Research on European integration & Europe’s global role: migration, energy & climate, security, digital society & more at eui.eu.