Melody J. Hoefdraad
Research Assistant at AdeKUS. Interests: political game theory, state strategy in IR/IPE, development, defense industrial strategy, & Global South statecraft. Dut/Eng/Esp/Port.
@lordbrownof.bsky.social
Duvet Enthusiast | WaterAid Global Campaigns Director | Advisor to The Clinton Foundation | Proud Brit/American | Sports Lover ⚽️🎾🏎️ #pusb | Social Justice | New York 🏳️🌈
@edwickstead.bsky.social
Working on climate finance and policy coherence for development @ the Center for Global Development. Views my own etc.
@teaglingdfid.bsky.social
FCDO Climate and Food Security Adviser, general interest in intersection between climate and food systems, currently based in Accra. Niche interest in metals in plants, both the good (minerals) and the bad (heavy metals) PhD in #biofortification
@daniellewas.bsky.social
Talk about #internationaldevelopment and making #aid safe for all. #womensrights advocate and expert in violence against women and violence against children. Currently leading global work in child #protection & equal #education. Reposts not endorsements.
@hayleyljd.bsky.social
Campaigner, coalition-builder, consummate optimist. Passionate about peace, civilian protection and working for a kinder, fairer, world. UK Director, Crisis Action (don't quote CA)
@mpollard.bsky.social
Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, cultural property, journalists, torture & ill-treatment.
@idreesahmad.bsky.social
Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
@ayoub.bsky.social
Brighton-based researcher, writer | authoritarianism, migration, human rights | PhD in cultural analysis @thefirethesetimes.com / @fromtheperiphery.com / @thestartrekpod.bsky.social / ✍🏽 https://hauntologies.net
@janinedigi.bsky.social
Executive Director /CEO The Reckoning Project, war crimes unit in Ukraine, soon Middle East and Africa. Academic @Yale; war reporter of three decades and 18 wars; Guggenheim Fellow; CFR Murrow Fellow; nine books. Mother and Human Rights Defender. Paris.
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Founder of the Bylines Network. Founder of Scientists for EU. Lover of science, Europe and whisky. 🥃
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@3r1ng.bsky.social
Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
@trbrtc.bsky.social
Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Doing what I'm doing now (open source investigation combined with traditional reporting) because of Twitter's community. Retired hitchhiker.
@alisonkilling.bsky.social
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
@nickwaters.bsky.social
Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@robertmackey.bsky.social
Now: Report + edit @us.theguardian.com |Previous: "The Murder of June Knightly" for @forensicarchi.bsky.social https://vimeo.com/913426020 | "Meet the Riot Squad" for @theintercept.com https://vimeo.com/935228869 | +2,500 @nytimes.com bylines
@emmalbriant.bsky.social
International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof, University of Notre Dame; Fellow, Bard College, US; Associate @ U of Cambridge, UK; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Speaker; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
European Media and Editorial Director, Human Rights Watch https://bsky.app/profile/hrw.org. Subscribe to my human rights newsletter: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights All my links here: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!
@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.
@manisha.bsky.social
The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead manishaganguly.com
@iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social
Founder & chair, Kawaakibi Foundation. Obsessed with the future of liberty in the MENA & the world. Studying dictators at the Jamal Khashoggi Disinfo Monitor. Book: "The Middle East Crisis Factory" (Hurst, 2021) 🇵🇸🇳🇴 (Account managed by @kawaakibi.org)
@jehadabusalim.bsky.social
Writer. Executive Director of Institute for Palestine Studies-USA ✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com 🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
@chrisosieck.bsky.social
freelance open source investigations, currently at forensic architecture (forensicarchi.bsky.social) | views my own.
@nrg8000.bsky.social
@Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@emansh.bsky.social
Open source information analyst @ICRC.org. Former @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports @the HALO Trust, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive #osint 📍Lebanon
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Repression/resistance/(non)violence • Director of Research Unit Radical Spaces @interactfu.bsky.social • pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will • https://www.jannisgrimm.com/
@marieke.bsky.social
Journalist/factchecker. Wist je dat alle coole mensen luisteren naar de podcast Computeren?
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
@gianlucamezzo.bsky.social
Editor, OSINT and visual investigations @CNN Email: [email protected]
@birgittaj.bsky.social
Poetician from an island far far away: Iceland. Former Captain in, and co-creator of, the Pirate Party. Spent 8 years in parliament. Co-produced Collateral Murder. A annoying fly in the tent. Care about: Mother Earth & all her creatures 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌏
@thomasvlinge.bsky.social
Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
@warghetti.bsky.social
Writer, translator, Beiruter & now part-time Montrealer. Senior editor at The Markaz review.
@fadahjassem.bsky.social
Head of Data Visualisation @TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi #Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists) (Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
@rashaaqeedi.bsky.social
Storyteller and occasional provocateur Mesopotamian from Mosul,Ninewa Other interests include: Art, Culture, Pop Culture, Kale Smoothies, and Seneca 105K followers on X and heartbroken
@bobfrombrockley.bsky.social
Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
@khalilsayegh.bsky.social
Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
@leilashami.bsky.social
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War' Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social & co-host @thefirethesetimes.com Member @thepeopleswant.bsky.social Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
@qunfuz.bsky.social
Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/ 🇺🇦 🇵🇸