SPIN Research Network
Research focused on Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance. Follow for research and more. Based at @bristoluni.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk & Cardiff University
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@sophieduroy.bsky.social
Lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social | Formerly @kfgintlaw.bsky.social & @eui-law.bsky.social Public International Law - Intelligence & Security - Human Rights. Book: http://shorturl.at/itU19
@annastavrianakis.bsky.social
Arms trade, militarism, global insecurities and global (dis)order @ Uni Sussex and Shadow World Investigations
@folukeifejola.bsky.social
Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet. Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge. Handle on all socials: folukeifejola Website: FolukeAfrica.com https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
@yoavgalai.bsky.social
Formerly a photojournalist, a project manager in an NGO, now an academic based in London writing about visual politics and memory
@victoriambasham.bsky.social
Posts in a personal capacity (generally about academia and politics, and occasionally about Bristol and craft beer)
@melaniebrand.bsky.social
Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Book Review Editor, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Historian interested in intelligence, analysis, warning, secrecy, accountability and espionage pop culture.
@thomasdmleahy.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer British/Irish Politics & Contemporary History, Cardiff Uni. Research Irish Republicanism, Irish Gov & conflict legacy. Also have RR Multiple Sclerosis and Cardiff/Vale MS Society group organiser. Mavenclad since 2025. Views own.
@crossdale.bsky.social
Rebellion and liberation and direct action and anarchism and queer stuff and militarism and policing and empire and cricket and cats and tired grumpy academia
@kindynis.bsky.social
Criminologist currently interested in conspiracies, parapolitics, deep politics
@perryzurn.bsky.social
Prof @Cornell & @AmericanU. Interested in the political theory, social movements, LGBT life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
@spencerizen.bsky.social
research coordinator, @bcfipa.bsky.social. opinion editor and deputy managing editor @ubyssey.ca. member @citap.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @researchspin.bsky.social. also @spfacampaign.bsky.social. views mine.
@nataliejester.bsky.social
Chickpea-lover and Kadis-Kot champion. Lecturer @ Uni of Gloucestershire. Security studies, digital things. Bring back old Twitter. She/her
@ewh.bsky.social
Reader in IR at Cardiff University, studying touristic governance and neoliberal authoritarianism in Cairo, Cardiff and beyond.
@jonshute.bsky.social
Bone-weary social media refugee. Also, criminologist, Uni. Manchester. Atrocity crime; death & memory; denial & acknowledgement; compliance in the lifecourse; evaluation research. Specialist in grim lists. GSOH. ORCID: 0000-0002-5624-3787
@nawalabu72.bsky.social
Lecturer in the politics of race & decolonial studies / IR lover researching terror & migration-security/ Black Muslim feminist killjoy | https://colouredacademia.wordpress.com
@hkrichards.bsky.social
Tutoring and PhDing at Cardiff Uni / exploring ideas of military justice / Enjoys being in the sea / Occasionally runs quite far / she/her
@drmargottudor.bsky.social
Not going to be invited to a UN xmas party any time soon Senior Lecturer in foreign policy & security at City St George’s, UoL. Historian of UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: http://shorturl.at/aoxzM. she/her
@pollypw.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, and the relationship between all of the above. Working at a university in the UK, with which this account is not affiliated.
@aaronwinter.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
@drharrietgray.bsky.social
Feminist academic. Gender, violence, war, militaries, memorialisation, ARTivism. Senior lecturer at University of York Politics. Insta: @gbv_memorials. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
@jamiejhagen.bsky.social
Feminist lesbian asking queer questions about peace & security | she/her | Manchester based | Lecturer in global politics, University of Manchester | Jamiejhagen.com DYKES FOR TRANS RIGHTS Usually looking at birds. @jamielovezbirdz (IG)
@hannahwright.bsky.social
Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️ https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
@reacpolrn.bsky.social
The Reactionary Politics Research Network brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
@zsamudzi.bsky.social
visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
Researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right Full profile: https://shorturl.at/CiYKm
@zaranosaur.bsky.social
Some kind of philosopher | mama of babies | disabled, chronically ill and neurod-d-d-d | permanently tired (with extra jazzhands) | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
@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.
@ckhillebrand.bsky.social
👋 I mainly share posts about contemporary intelligence 🕵🏼♀️🕵️♂️, state secrecy 🤫, politics 🌍, and cats 🐈⬛ 🐈.
@cb-hq.bsky.social
Writes about secrecy, transparency, conspiracy and everything in-between. Professor at King's College London.
@mfenster.bsky.social
bless your heart for asking; I profess law, part of the time and perhaps not for long; theorize conspiracizing too.
@jamcjo.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Relations. Researches liberalism's wars, crises, and scandals.
@rorycormac.bsky.social
Professor: Intelligence, Covert Action | Author: Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, and Dagger
@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
@drowendthomas.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, University of Exeter, UK
@crexuio.bsky.social
Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
@doccstevens.bsky.social
Lecturer in IR @CardiffUni dabbling in cybersecurity politics, STS, tech in global politics; secrecy studies; and a High Admiral of nerding out
@evanveeren.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Global Politics, Bristol (US security cultures, secrecy studies, visual politics) Co-ordinating @researchspin.bsky.social Secrecy, Power and Ignorance research Network www.secrecyresearch.com Owner of a moody teenager and a dog.