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@rudyakmarina.bsky.social
China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China & CCP, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹 www.decodingchina.eu www.deconspirator.eu
@shellyk.bsky.social
Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
@carlschreck.bsky.social
Investigations with RFE/RL. Russia watcher. 1990s German rap. Good handles, decent J, suspect finisher. Usually bumping Roger Miller.
@whitejenny.bsky.social
Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
@andreaghiselli.bsky.social
Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project. Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo More at https://andreaghiselli.com/ 无巧不成书
@alunrthomas.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at University of Staffordshire. Interested in Central Asia and Russia. Branch Development Officer for Staffs UCU.
@niaolainf.bsky.social
Regents Law Professor, Minnesota Law, Director Human Rights Centre, + Professor QUB Law School (Belfast). ICJ Commissioner. Former UN SR Counter-Terrorism & Human Rights (2017-23). Irish, Gaeilgeoir, Mom, Loves Yoga and Hiking.
@martinscheinin.bsky.social
Human rights law professor, expert, practitioner. Current affiliations: European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social (Law Department and Horizon Europe project @eloquenceai.bsky.social), Lund University @lund-university.bsky.social (Faculty of Law)
@soheilacomninos.bsky.social
Global human rights and democracy, philanthropy, peacebuilding, humanitarian protection. Consultant @snfagora.bsky.social. Fmr Senior Program Manager @open-society.bsky.social and CoProt @icrc.org. Parisian living in US.
@cpcs.bsky.social
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring comparative research on current and historical developments in the communist and post-communist world. Editor: Paul Goode (@jpaulgoode.bsky.social)
@nicoleeaton.bsky.social
Historian at Boston College communism, fascism, nationalism USSR, Germany, Balkans to Baltics hEDS🦓 LC ME/CFS book: GERMAN BLOOD, SLAVIC SOIL http://bit.ly/3wdaGkk Deeply skeptical of social media - just here to watch you all fight it out
@drjmankoff.bsky.social
Scholar and analyst of Russia and Eurasia at NDU and CSIS. Author of Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security (Yale, 2022) and Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
@krobertslyer.bsky.social
Chair, Human Rights Program, Associate Professor, Central European University Vienna | Chair, Scientific Committee EU Agency for Fundamental Rights | National human rights institutions | academic freedom | transnational repression | parliaments & rights
@elisethomas.bsky.social
Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
@jpaulgoode.bsky.social
Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy Editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (@cpcs.bsky.social) Co-lead of East European & Transatlantic Network (@eetn.bsky.social) McMillan Chair of Russian Studies, EURUS, Carleton University
@mmccuaig-johnston.bsky.social
Affiliated w @CSR_Institute, @uOttawaGSPI, @ISSP_uOttawa, @Uyghuradvocacy, @hk_watch, @HRWcanada + Proudly sanctioned by China
@sherkhashimov.bsky.social
Freelance journalist and researcher from Central Asia. sherkhashimov.com
@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
@jenkspl64.bsky.social
IR Policy & Economics Wonk, Research & OSINT, Human Rights, North East Asia, Aviation & Oz Intel History, Nonproliferation & Cars: RT doesn't equal an endorsement, just a topical issue or opinion
@emiledirks.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate at The Citizen Lab. Researching digital authoritarianism in China and beyond.
@orpheuslummis.info
Building software & events for AI safety, collective intelligence, civ resilience – https://orpheuslummis.info – 📍Montréal
@tessawong.bsky.social
BBC News Senior Journalist & Asia Digital Reporter. I write, analyse & report on Asia especially China for the BBC News website and digital outlets. You can read my pieces here https://linktr.ee/tessawongjourno
@tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com
Director, Founder, Firefighter at @hongkongfp.com - Non-profit, 100% independent impartial #HongKong news since 2015. Views own. Not leaving. #PressingOn Previously: https://x.com/tomgrundy
@airmovingdevice.bsky.social
China and the world in data and graphs 一点浩然气 千里快哉风 [email protected]
@carolegomez.bsky.social
📍PhD candidate interested in #safeguarding in sport @UNIL.bsky.social & @GOGESport #safesport 📍Former researcher @institutiris.bsky.social in sport, geopolitics & diplomacy 📍Agen 🏉 -> Paris -> Lausanne
@y-wenli.bsky.social
S.I.N.O.(Socialist.In.Name.Only)-phobic 中特社掘墓人，「馬鹿主義接班人」，anti-支黑，anti-大中華膠，World’s #1 Luol-Dengist🏀🐐(dengoids dni) 战无不胜的罗尔·邓思想万岁！！！
@yehaoqin.bsky.social
#taiwan | #foreignpolicy | #hybridthreats | #democracy | #humanrights Head of Taiwan Office, @europeanvalues.bsky.social Marcin Król Fellow, @visegradinsight.bsky.social Young Leader, Pacific Forum Views my own
@chercywong.bsky.social
intersectional feminist. socialist politico. diasporic sociologist. public policy wonk. 🇨🇦🇭🇰🏴 Personal Account 👧🏻 she/她/佢 🏳️🌈 📍 settler on turtle island 👧🏻 https://konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/ 🌲 https://linktr.ee/chercywong
@thomaskyhnbskysoc.bsky.social
“Music” et cetera. Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/th-kyhn
@afro-apero.bsky.social
@goldkorn.bsky.social
China: thechinaweek.com Lessons from China, Russia, South Africa, North Korea etc. for Trump and Musk's America: rhymingchaos.com Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
@tenletters.bsky.social
Avid micro-autobiographer, but overdue for a nap. Will update! 📍Santa Barbara. Longtime Canadian sympathizer. AKA KMK. Formerly of SFO, PEK, BKK, LAX, et alibi. Eternal student. Dad to a tri-lingual (ES/EN/ZH) kid. Beleaguered husband. linktr.ee/diezletras
@weibac.bsky.social
clarity is a public good computer and political science student weibac.github.io | 🏳️🌈 running AI safety @ UC Chile aisuc.dev
@peterirwin.bsky.social
Associate Director for Research & Advocacy @uyghurproject.bsky.social | @LSEHumanRights 🇨🇦
@polvrini.bsky.social
Du côté de chez Slate et ailleurs. Actu internationale/MENA. European Press Prize 2024. Kurt Schork Award 2023. | Dr littérature comparée/arabe à UT2J/AMU
@langley127.bsky.social
@huizhong-wu.bsky.social
Reporter at the Associated Press. I write about China(mostly). Philly yokel 如果您有新闻线索可以联系 hwu(at)ap.org
@nicolamacbean.bsky.social
Founding Director of The Rights Practice. Human rights, especially China.
@thecynicist.bsky.social
Political analyst focused on global conflict and security, Afghanistan, the Middle East and US politics. Purveyor of quality nonsense. Rare Afghan with two names. Previously HRW, ICTJ, Amnesty, OSF and ECFR. Always clean on OPSEC. "All the pieces matter."
@teasparrow.bsky.social
Mainly here to look at things. Any pronouns. Always remember to stare at your local birds.
@pacstandardtw.bsky.social
An American perspective at the western frontier of liberal democracy, framed and focused through the lens of life in Taiwan. #LiberalHawk #NeoIdealist #TaiwanIsACountry
@lavenderlion.bsky.social
Climate anxious, #carfree, #nd, migrant, 🇺🇸Corps alum, nontrad undergrad, aspiring polyglot, & simian engaged in trò khỉ. Pronouns are he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Also responds to “bird brain,” “bike boy,” & “leo núi.” Languages I know in order of fluency EN, Ñ, Việt, 日本語
@ysw4rights.bsky.social
Human rights analyst and strategy advisor. Co-founder and Lead Consultant @kyconsulting.bsky.social. Cantonese speaker. Focus on human rights issues in East and Southeast Asia, risk management for CSOs, and #bizhumanrights.