Conor Meleady
Former academic/historian, here to try keep track of views I value for whatever reason, esp. on Empire/Religion/MENA/South Asia. Don’t post much myself.
Now reading “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution” by Eric Foner
@orenkessler.bsky.social
Author, “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict,” winner of the 2024 Sami Rohr Prize and a Wall Street Journal best book of the year.
@phildorroll.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religion at Wofford College in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
@empiressdu.bsky.social
Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark #empiressdu
@gershonbaskin.bsky.social
Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
@acleddata.bsky.social
The highest quality and most widely used real-time data source on political violence and protest. Bringing clarity to crisis. acleddata.com
@menastream.bsky.social
@tcambanis.bsky.social
Director of @CenturyIntl, senior fellow @TCFdotorg. Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
@khen.bsky.social
mizrahi (moroccan) leftist in jlm / moremyselfthan on twitter / ceasefire now, end apartheid and the occupation
@dimitarbechev.bsky.social
Director of the Dahrendorf Programme St Antony's College, Oxford and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe Author: Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe and Turkey under Erdoğan (Yale)
@omarkadkoy.bsky.social
Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
@972mag.bsky.social
Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine. Run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
@telavivreview.bsky.social
An English-language podcast dedicated to books and ideas from Israel, the Middle East and other broadly related topics. Hosted by Gilad Halpern and Yael Berda. https://tlv1.fm/podcasts/tel-aviv-review-show/
@jewishwonk.bsky.social
Columnist for the Forward. U.S. Foreign Policy and Jewish communal concerns. Bylines in The Atlantic, Washington Post, & Tablet Mag. All bad takes are mine alone.
@radiatzim.bsky.social
anthropology of ecological conflict /nuclear power/security ☢️ , Ukraine , ✡️ אויב איר האָבן צו, איר קענען Kildare & Belfast, Ireland
@sarazanotta.bsky.social
Research fellow ERC @redmix.bsky.social at the University of Turin • Global history, mobility & mixedness of Iranians in the Red Sea • Editor for Persian, Turkic and Biblical Studies @digitalorientalist.bsky.social
@gonultol.bsky.social
Director of Middle East Institute's Turkish Program / Author of Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria.
@giancarlofiorella.bsky.social
Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat Assistant Professor | Utrecht University PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
@obtusatum.bsky.social
Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. NYC/Amsterdam via Oregon.
@tristanl.ee
Data scientist @bellingcat.com, interested in far-right networks and conspiracy theories
@almiraat.bsky.social
@nickwaters.bsky.social
Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
@msramalho.bsky.social
@littleflyingrobots.bsky.social
takes on drones, OSINT, and aid from @faineg.bsky.social.
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
@aramshabanian.bsky.social
Perhaps the real watch list was the friends we made along the way. Keyboard Inghimasi. Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex. --Dire Straits Appreciation Zone-- #Flowers4Qanon
@colborne.bsky.social
@bellingcat.com journalist etc focused on the transnational far right. i give trainings. i take pictures of stickers.
@koltai.bsky.social
Senior researcher & Trainer @Bellingcat.com Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT "I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
@gaborfriesen.bsky.social
Freelance Open Source Researcher. Previous collaborations: Al Haq, Al Jazeera, Airwars/AFP, Bellingcat, CNN, The Washington Post.
@sarahstoecklin.bsky.social
Technical writing, UX, open source research (DR Congo, misogyny, SGBV). Extremely Online at http://discord.gg/bellingcat CongoEye member, Bellingcat contributor. Reds and Tolkien fan. Views my own.
@malachy.bsky.social
I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
@oldpete45.bsky.social
investigator @Bellingcat.com, texan up north. interested in organized crime. views my own. Signal username: pk1994.88
@alisonkilling.bsky.social
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
@iwriteok.bsky.social
I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
@tehuringa.bsky.social
Digital flâneur | Open Source Researcher| GEOINT| Bellingcat GAP Project | Research 中国 & Central Africa | drinks wine & writes stuff |Views are my own |RSs ≠ endorsements
@rebel44cz.bsky.social
Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator. http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
@bendobrown.bsky.social
Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars - Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT - Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social - Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
@chrisosieck.bsky.social
paths are made for walking - freelance open source investigations, currently at forensic architecture | views my own.
@brennasmith.bsky.social
WSJ visual investigative reporter. Past: Baltimore Banner, New York Times, & Bellingcat.
@meganotoole.bsky.social
Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
@emansh.bsky.social
Open source information analyst @ICRC.org. Former @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports @the HALO Trust, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive #osint
@niemisentee.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher focusing on right-wing extremism @helsinki.fi | Contributions: @hs.fi, @bellingcat.com | Bellingcat Global Authentication Project member