Derek Barker
Senior program officer for research initiatives, Kettering Foundation. Political theorist, editor of From Many, We blog. Studies democracy, virtue ethics, Aristotle. Orioles fan. Opinions expressed here are mine.
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Reliable Source of Ukraine Information
These are Ukrainians and Western experts who are reliable sources of information about Ukraine: it's culture, history, and struggle against Russian imperialism.
@bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social
Sociologist with interests in religion, social theory, culture, and ethnography. Enthusiastic about beer, bikes, and books. A list of my knowledge widgets, courtesy of Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yjxtzarj
@drmann.bsky.social
Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Duke University sociology PhD. Science, knowledge, and politics.
@isilova.bsky.social
Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social
@juliocmateo.bsky.social
✊🏽 Activist | 📈 Researcher | 🎧 Producer 🔭 Seeking to co-create a world that promotes health, justice, democracy, equity, and safety for all 💭 Dreaming of a world in which we live in harmony with the planet that supports our life ☯️ Critic 🦉 & Dreamer 🦋
@emilyvaughnkf.bsky.social
Podcast producer at the Charles F Kettering Foundation. Based in DC. Always looking for new guests who can explain how to save democracy https://kettering.org/thecontext/
@donnerkay.bsky.social
Truth to power, always. DM tips. Editor, Co-founder, CEO: Mississippi Free Press, JXN Free Press, Youth Media Project • she/her • MY views here • Substack: donnerkay • Read: mississippifreepress.org
@profearl.bsky.social
Professor and Chair at University of Delaware. Section Editor of the Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Public Health at Science Advances. All post are my own views, not my employers. Same person as @profearl on that other place.
@fisherdanar.bsky.social
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | Chair, Political Soc, ASA | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on Saving Ourselves: go.ted.com/danarfisher
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof., author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
@ninajankowicz.com
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
@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.
@drfarls.bsky.social
Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
@gscheiring.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Comparative Politics Georgetown Qatar • Economic shocks, inequality, authoritarianism, class relations, populism, health • Political economy of development • FirstGen • former Fellow @ Harvard CES & Cambridge Sociology • gaborscheiring.com
@ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | Books: PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | Next book: MY TAX DOLLARS
@kkdumez.bsky.social
Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Next up: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
@thefulcrum-us.bsky.social
Non-partisan news and opinion. The voice of the electoral and governance reform movement. Subscribe to our free daily newsletter at thefulcrum.us
@pauldjupe.bsky.social
Prof at Denison University; Political Scientist studying US religion and politics. blogging at religioninpublic.blog. Riding all over (hilly) Ohio.
@dannagal.bsky.social
Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone. WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@willsommer.bsky.social
Senior reporter at The Bulwark. Email: sommer - at- thebulwark.com. Signal: willsommer.38
@mattngreen.bsky.social
Political scientist at Catholic University. Congress, D.C. & state (legislative) politics.
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. & Presidential Prof. of Communication @AnnenbergPenn. If you can't tell the difference between what's true and what you wish were true, take your business elsewhere.
@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
@associationpt.bsky.social
Official communications from the Association for Political Theory, which seeks to advance scholarly interaction among political theorists, & support teaching, research, & publishing in the field. https://associationforpoliticaltheory.org/
@anandbc.bsky.social
political theorist of race, gender, class, social movements, and cosmopolitanism • he/him https://csulb.academia.edu/AnandCommissiong
@clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social
Beatriz Galindo Fellow @cpoliticaub.bsky.social | Previously @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social & @jscvienna.bsky.social Studying populism, online communities, audiences.
@michaelgmiller.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Barnard College. Elections, Voting Rights, and Political Behavior. Blue collar scholar. #SkolVikings 🇺🇦
@ryanburge.bsky.social
Teach at EIU | Research Director: For Faith Counts | Books: The Nones & 20 Myths | Pastor: ABCUSA | Graphs about Religion
@profsamperry.bsky.social
Professor | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag and The Cross; Religion for Realists | CV: https://tinyurl.com/4hs86ntn
@opolianichev.bsky.social
Historian of Tsarist Russia at Södertörn University, Stockholm | Colonial and transimperial history | Ph.D. from EUI
@vpkivimaki.bsky.social
Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
@mariainkharkiv.bsky.social
Security Expert | Amplifying Ukraine's Global Voice | Former Twitter Enthusiast
@texty.org
Texty.org.ua — leader in data journalism in Ukraine Support us via Patreon: patreon.com/textyorgua Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/textyorgua
@ralexdc.bsky.social
✍️ DC Correspondent covering South Caucasus and beyond | #PressFreedom advocate | @AmericanU 🎓 | @ForeignPressUSA Board | Posts=personal
@lynseyaddario.bsky.social
Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist & author Memoir ‘It’s What I Do’ @penguinpress Photo collection book ‘Of Love and War’ @penguinrandomhouse https://www.lynseyaddario.com/
@igorsushko.bsky.social
Born in Ukraine. American. #WindofChange Racecar Driver (Ret.) Japanese SUPER GT #FSBletters ➡️ igorsushko.com/articles
@repkamlagerdove.bsky.social
Proudly representing CA’s 37th District | @democrats-judiciary.house.gov, @houseforeign.bsky.social, Congressional Black Caucus, @usprogressives.bsky.social | Account maintained by federal staff. https://kamlager-dove.house.gov
@slsvcoalition.org
The largest national, nonpartisan network dedicated to increasing college student voter participation. #StudentVote Join the movement: slsvcoalition.org
@rethinkintel.bsky.social
Author: "Policing White Supremacy,” "Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide." Brennan Center for Justice fellow, former FBI Special Agent, former ACLU. Opinions my own, re-posts are not endorsements.
@cnicolejones.bsky.social
@ambdanfried.bsky.social
Veteran diplomat now with the Atlantic Council. America’s values & interests are indivisible, as Lincoln taught us. Believer in a Free World strategy, informed by tactical realism and strategic determination.
@ukrinstitute.bsky.social
The Ukrainian Institute London (UIL) is an independent charity that champions Ukrainian culture and shapes the conversation about Ukraine in the UK and beyond.