Chris Roper
Deputy CEO at @Code4Africa, Former Ed-in-Chief: Mail & Guardian and 24. com. Knight Fellow at ICFJ 2015-2019. He/him
@nicolaspurr.bsky.social
Interested in journalism, literature, freedom of expression and human rights. Born in Jo’burg, now in London.
@actunifreiburg.bsky.social
Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
@phillipdewet.bsky.social
Editor, columnist, ex News24, ex Business Insider SA, ex Mail & Guardian, ex Daily Maverick. Living in Canterbury, writing about geopolitics, thinking about AI, advocating risk-adjusted writing.
@codendahl.bsky.social
European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.
@swanwebb.bsky.social
proud parent, data scientist, bon vivant, minneapolitan; lover of the outdoors, art and irony
@klyszcz.bsky.social
Russian foreign policy │ Research Fellow ICDS │ Tallinn, Estonia │ ivanklyszcz.com
@ohrolandsen.bsky.social
Prof. at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) https://www.prio.org/people/4704 No glib quips, just a list of some interests: mediation, security assistance, organised violence, foreign interventions, culture, South/Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sahel.
@claeshs.bsky.social
I've been working with journalism, business models, tech, and data since 2015. Here to find and share knowledge about that. Data- and analysis editor @ jfm.dk
@heritagethings.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at UCT | Heritage | Contested Public Cultures | Religion | Materiality | South Africa | Berlin | Editorial Team @Material Religion journal | ACHS Exec | ACHS Currents in Critical Heritage Studies Blog editor
@ermbates.bsky.social
Award-winning freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. @carteblanche.co.za anchor and presenter. Shares ≠ endorsements. Views ≠ those of my employers.
@busiradebe.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@cgelderloos.bsky.social
Germ studs prof at Binghamton University (SUNY). I write and teach about German modernism, science fiction, Marx, critical theory, literature, visual studies, Philosophical Anthropology, and other things. In a union (UUP). Opinions my own.
@suprememoocow.bsky.social
Distinguished Engineer at GitLab, Inc 🦊 Application Infrastructure, Scalability, Resilience, Reliability, Observability, Platforms. Love spending time outdoors, and with my fam. Based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Views are entirely my own.
@kachumbali.bsky.social
Diplomat 🇩🇪 @diplo.de and Tech, all things crisis early warning. Ornamental, without tie. If I had the time I’d have more hobbies. 👉🏻 Not official, views entirely my own. Najienjoy pia huko kwa tembo za karne -> kachumbali@mastodon.social
@pianozzino.bsky.social
I am a guitarist, teacher, songwriter, piano tuner, constant reader. 📚 I stand up for human rights. Power to the people! ✌️ Left is Best! 💙
@the-bibliosmiac.bsky.social
𝙼𝙰 𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 & 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 @𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚑 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍 (𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝/𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕/𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕). 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜. 𝙲𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌. 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎.
@rdvines.bsky.social
NY Dem. 💙Author, composer, musician, cyber-security expert. Wrote 10 cyber-security books, some best-selling. Author of “Composing Digital Music For Dummies”. Former bassist with the Rat Pack, George Benson, MGM, etc. No fascists! #resist
@samgregory.bsky.social
Executive Director http://witness.org : video + tech + human rights; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes https://gen-ai.witness.org, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster.
@samioutinen.bsky.social
historiantutkija contemporary historian political history, social democracy, communism economic regulation, labour market, Nordic welfare states, social policy, database research Helsinki Finland ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6964-5518 https://globsoc.hypotheses.org
@mikedrucker.bsky.social
Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
@nomboniso.bsky.social
Feminist. Researcher & Writer: Land, Gender, Politics & Culture. Yogi. Available for Public Talks and Keynote. Flowers. Jazz.
@tuminkosi.bsky.social
Engineer. MBA. MEng. Ke tswa Mamelodi. Mamelodi Sundows fan by birth. South African 🇿🇦 Startup Founder. Neurodivergent. Keto. Gym bunny. My husband’s baby mama. I work hard coz God promised me everything. Apple 👩🏾💻 is the hill I’m dying on.
@sandramoscoso.bsky.social
dc schools biggest fan/nightmare. best/worst mom-wife-friend ever.
@parinstitute.bsky.social
PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@pcunliffejones.bsky.social
Information effects at Facts Matter Research | visiting researcher at Uni Westminster | founder africacheck.org | Pre-order “Fake news - what’s the harm?” print or free e-book from June 2025: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/3197xq21t?locale=en
@michelawrong.bsky.social
Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
@cecilefromont.bsky.social
Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
@raediology.bsky.social
Ink spills, pencil shavings, glowing keyboard. Blank document. Investigative journalist and writer in South Africa.
@xiananj.bsky.social
Work at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.
@charles257.bsky.social
Progressive journalist, editor, podcaster, card-carrying Joburger, Arsenal fan, amateur DJ and obsessive record collector. Unfortunately no gofund requests will be considered — I’m a poor journo.
@euantaylor.bsky.social
Frankfurt am Main, Brit, Scot, German. Controller, coffee drinker, father of two, trying to get back into swimming (again!) Wish my German was better.
@muzhunter.bsky.social
Digital rights and surveillance oversight. Underperforming in mischief-making. South Africa.
@eintellection.bsky.social
Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
@corinnajentzsch.com
Political Violence, Civil War, African Politics, Security Studies, Fieldwork Ethics, Gender | Political Scientist @Leiden University | Author of "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936026)
@alicefereday.bsky.social
Senior Analyst, North Africa and Sahel Observatory @Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime Researching illicit economies in the Sahel, with a focus on Niger and Chad
@hennievanvuuren.bsky.social
Open Secrets | Open Sesame Stop: graft/grift/greed. For secure messaging and tipoffs - pls contact me on Signal. www.opensecrets.org.za
@expatriarchkeys.bsky.social
Africa expert, Red Sox fan, stay-at-home dad, obsessive new country visitor. Blogs at expatriarch.substack.com
@davidjeffery.bsky.social
PhD candidate at King's College London. I study how people think about the law, morality, and the nation in South Africa. www.davidjeff.co.za
@matswidgren.bsky.social
Professor emeritus of Geography, esp. human at Stockholm University. Historical geography. landscape history, recent landscape change. Local to global. Political ecology. Royal Swedish Academy of Letters and Antiquities. https://www.su.se/profiles/widgren
@crystallising.bsky.social
west africa correspondent @dpa / prvsly foreign politics editor / storytelling & international relations nerd / de & en
@sonicdave2112.bsky.social
Film Composer, Songwriter, Progressive coffee enthusiast and music nerd, Ally to all. No DM's🚫 No crypto🚫 Ask me about the Black Sheep Social Club! It's finally out! #Blueresisters