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@nenazhivina.com
👩🎨 Artist📍Based in NYC 🗽 Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️ Mostly drawings ✍️ Vegan 🌱🫶 nenazhivina.com/hi No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
@ilsospirante.bsky.social
Rendre le monde heureux, c’est semer des sourires comme des fleurs dans le vent. Chaque acte de bonté éclaire l’horizon, chaque geste d’amour tisse des ponts invisibles. Dans cette quête infinie, un simple souffle de bienveillance peut faire la différence.
@umutozguc.bsky.social
#Borders #IR #CriticalSecurityStudies #IPS #Walls Convenor @acbsnetwork.bsky.social MacquarieUni
@jnmilic.bsky.social
Ph.D., linguist, lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney with special interest in home language maintenance, adult FL/SL learning and learning design.
@frode-weierud.bsky.social
Retired CERN engineer seriously interested in cryptology and its history. Enjoys ham radio, code breaking, programming, reading, walking and good coffee. AKA LA2RL.
@ridt.bsky.social
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
@jessmarindavis.bsky.social
PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
@cindystorer.bsky.social
Former counterterrorism intelligence analyst now working as an intelligence educator. I have a tendency to end up in documentaries. Also single childless woman dog lady who people say achieved something meaningful.
@gailhelt.bsky.social
CIA analyst, 2003-14. Close Guantanamo. Human Rights. China. My posts reflect only my views.
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
@cadetcunningham.bsky.social
Ex-PhD Candidate | Espionage Historian | International Relations Afficionado | Aspiring Novelist | Book & Movie Lover | Democratic Socialist
@drmcgowan.bsky.social
Historian • Postdoctoral Researcher • Ph.D. on the early history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council • Interests: intelligence, 19-20thC history & culture, film, theatre and football • Glasgow, UK • Here since Aug '24 🌅
@jrogg.bsky.social
Historian, academic, fisherman. “Better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.” —Georges Danton
@encyclopediageopolitica.com
Global Head of Intelligence @ major European corporation, Adjunct Prof in Intelligence at Sciences Po Paris. Author on private intel. Podcasting on dangerous stuff and writing about geopolitics @ EncyclopediaGeopolitica.com
@aaronbateman.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book#1 : Weapons in Space: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547369/weapons-in-s | Now writing a book on the politics/security of global information networks
@intelhistorian.bsky.social
Director Nat. Cryptologic Museum, NSA. Formerly IntlSpyMuseum; Miami native living in DMV; Author - Nuking the Moon, The Nuclear Spies, and Covert City; has “Grave Lack of Discretionary Judgment”-The Catholic Church; lesser half to @jordanspeak.bsky.social
@joshuachuminski.bsky.social
SVP of natsec & intel @ CSPC, policy for Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI, ret.), book reviewer for the Diplomatic Courier, GMU NSI Senior Fellow & host of ‘Coffee & Conflict’.
@hostilespectrum.bsky.social
Former intel, now academic @NDU_CIC, @TheKrulakCenter, @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA, @CyberStatecraft, @ElliottSchoolGW, @PAISWarwick. Apolitical, views=own
@dianabolsinger.bsky.social
Public Policy scholar; Assistant Professor, @UTEP Intelligence & National Security Studies (INSS); @ClementsCenter alum; @SocIntelHist; IC veteran.
@haydencenter.bsky.social
World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
@hedvigorden.bsky.social
Political scientist, Department of Communication, Lund University. Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies. New publications: https://tinyurl.com/ycx4hhzc https://tinyurl.com/y8p8a3sz
@larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social
Personal Account / Hayden Center Director / Led White House Situation Room / Fmr CIA Chief of Staff / Nat'l security & intelligence commentator / Speaker
@simonpratt.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne SSPS. Formerly of other places. Research: war, intelligence, and normative change in international politics. Cat paparazzo, BJJ-er, bad violinist. He/Him 🇨🇦🏳️🌈✡️
@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.
@electrospaces.bsky.social
Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications. Also tweeting in Dutch and sometimes in German.
@spytalker.bsky.social
Founding editor, SpyTalk.co. Longtime DC-based natsec journalist. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, CQ/Homeland Security, books, magazine freelance
@coldwarpod.bsky.social
Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
@womenknowintel.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the Women's Intelligence Network (WIN). WIN aims to connect, promote and support female scholars and practitioners working within the field of Intelligence Studies. Contact via chat or e: womenintelnetwork@gmail.com
@thomaseason.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University. Does Interpretivist Research on Foreign Policy Analysis. Currently working on Political Myth in diplomacy and foreign policy. thomaseason.co.uk
@thomasjuneau.bsky.social
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
@secretsandspies.bsky.social
A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
@alexaobrien.bsky.social
Analyst & writer focused on intelligence and espionage. alexaobrien.com/about Send tips via @signal.org ➜ @alexadobrien.357
@burgessct.bsky.social
30+yrs w/CIA🕵️♂️ | ✍️ Burgess Writing: NatSec/Espionage/Insider/Cyber and more | Co-Author Book 📕 Secrets Stolen Fortunes Lost https://www.burgessct.com/about/bio-christopher/
@billrobinson.bsky.social
Researcher focused on Canadian SIGINT activities past and present. Also FVEY and other countries. Citizen Lab Research Fellow. Occasionally compared to a hedgehog. He/him. Blog: https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/
@danstanton.bsky.social
Director National Security, Professional Development Institute, University of Ottawa. Former CSIS.
@nescioquid.bsky.social
“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
@stephaniecarvin.bsky.social
Former national security analyst, Associate Professor. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
@marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
Naval and intelligence historian. Familiar with the Second World War. PhD, MA etc. Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies @ King's College London
@wylienewmark.bsky.social
cyber(punk) threat intel. cyber operations, counterintelligence, russia, iran. i see kanly today in everything. “bloody inertia interspersed with bouts of bloody frenzy.” creator: #FUZZYSNUGGLYDUCK, drilangleton, Beff Horn. opinions are my own.
@spyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
@0xchich.bsky.social
Director Operations, NCSC, GCHQ. 30+ years in Government Cyber Operations. Views entirely my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my organisation. 🏴 🇺🇦
@leahwest-nsl.bsky.social
SJD. Associate Prof at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Sr Fellow @CIGI. Ex Armoured Officer & DOJ Nat Sec lawyer. Write about the law of spies, robots and terrorism. Sanctioned by Russia.
@deselv.bsky.social
Independent Historian. Expert on Soviet-bloc history, active measures, Stasi and KGB. RT does not mean endorsement. Views are mine, not those of my employer.
@zachsdorfman.bsky.social
National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House. It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
@lucatrenta.bsky.social
Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host of the Out of the Shadows Project Podcast. Follow The Brush Contact Substack for more.
@tonycraig.bsky.social
Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.