University of Pennsylvania Russian & East European Studies Dept.
he Russian and East European Studies department at Penn is a tight-knit community dedicated to advancing knowledge of a vast and unique region of the world. Our faculty’s interests and expertise span many centuries, countries, languages, and disciplines.
@syinats.bsky.social
Central Asia Researcher @HRW.org [Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan]; PhD (#nomadityofbeing); Writer [sci-fi]. Opinions are my own.
@jordanovaan.bsky.social
On #CentralAsia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. #PhD&memes, mostly. Call sign: Academic kelin. PlovINT, random rants. 🇨🇿+🇩🇪
@ceggart.bsky.social
@UoMAnthropology, @ZOiS_Berlin, @NEC Bucharest, researching lived geopolitics, customs regimes and infrastructure in and in-between Moldova, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
@judithbeyer.bsky.social
Legal/Political Anthropology, Lacan, Arendt 📖s: Rethinking Community (U of Hawai’i),The Force of Custom (U of Pittsburgh) ✍🏼 An Anthropology of Statelessness 🌾-work: Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, UK, D loves🌱🌸🌳 🕸️ www.judithbeyer.com private account
@nicholaskemery.bsky.social
Economics Ph.D candidate @UCLA | AI and innovation, economics of computing | industrial organization, innovation, political economy | PEPFAR fanatic https://nicholasemeryxu.com/
@jmitovich.bsky.social
Incoming News Associate @WSJ.com • Overseas Press Club Scholar in Panamá 🇵🇦 • Words @POLITICO.com @CNBC.com @YahooFinance.com @Inquirer.com @WHYY.org 📁: https://www.jared-mitovich.com/ 🗞️: mitovich.beehiiv.com/subscribe 📩: [email protected]
@markwingrave.bsky.social
Painter. Also translates contemporary Russophone poetry. Lives and works in Melbourne. mcwingrave.wordpress.com
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
Jacobin offers socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Support our work and subscribe to our print magazine! shor.by/jacobinmagazine
@protiv.osintukraine.com
Monitoring the Russian "opposition" Feed of Russian Opposition sources from the web and telegram (work in progress) suggestion of new sources welcome !
@frailtynine.bsky.social
i skate a lot. Also, ex-Meduza, ex-BBC, music journalist and wannabe software developer based in London
@nedgarvey.bsky.social
Currently: Moscow Times | Зануда | Formerly: Meduza in English | European champion of ultimate frisbee
@faridaily.bsky.social
all about Russian politics | 'Faridaily' newsletter on Substack | Faridaily24 channel on Telegram | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza etc.
@sashaslobodov.bsky.social
Freelance Editor, Writer, and Translator | Formerly: News Editor at Meduza in English, International Fellow at Caucasus Research Resource Center | South Caucasus, Central Asia & Russia
@evgenyfeldman.bsky.social
photographer & photo editor & editor at Meduza | часто пишу про американскую политику | rtwt≠согласие
@willneal.bsky.social
writer, investigative journalist | 2025 Livingston Award finalist, Amnesty Media Award shortlistee | 2024 John Schofield Trust fellow | contact via willneal.org/
@meduza.io
Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
@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.
@dmitri.silverado.org
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber Chairman @silverado.org Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS Co-Founder CrowdStrike @DAlperovitch elsewhere
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@thesoviette.bsky.social
Author of Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary of the 1960s (UC Press, 2025) & the graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (Microcosm, 2017) // Substack: https://thesoviette.substack.com, website: https://www.jalekseyeva.com
@remarksist.bsky.social
European historian. A socialist. occasional writer. Bylines mainly in Jacobin 📍 Berlin 🚩
@theflytrapmedia.com
Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm. 🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
@carbonbrief.org
Award-winning journalism focused on #climatechange, science, energy and policy. Subscribe to our free newsletters: http://bit.ly/CBnewsletters
@kyivindependent.com
Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine Become a member: http://kyivindependent.com/membership/ One-time donation: https://kyivindependent.com/membership/?interval=onetime
@handle.invalid
We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news. 🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@propublica.org
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
@theguardian.com
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@openculture.bsky.social
A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts. Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
@unesco.org
Building peace where it starts - in the minds of women & men. Official BlueSky account of UNESCO. #Education #Sciences #Culture #Communication #Information
@emollick.bsky.social
Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@aatseel.bsky.social
The 2026 AATSEEL Conference will be held in New Orleans, LA from February 19-22, 2026!
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]