Ryan Swan ريان سوان
PhD student @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/
@therealnews.com
Independent, viewer-supported news network. No corporate funds or advertising money. 🏠 https://therealnews.com 📺 https://youtube.com/@therealnews
@scottishtuc.bsky.social
Our purpose is to co-ordinate, develop and articulate the views and policies of the trade union movement in Scotland.
@cbrl.bsky.social
A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects. https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
@rchops7.bsky.social
imagining the postcolonial researching decolonial, non national futures at harvard; previously, oxford words in the scroll, newslaundry, the print, e-ir, pari
@niharikaan.bsky.social
research/write/teach on gender, militarism, coloniality, everyday politics & anti-imperial feminisms. co-plotting insurgent knowledges. lecturer in sociology QMUL. she/they part-time poet, talib-e-ilm//talib-e-qalb
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@maryamaldossari.bsky.social
Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
@scga.bsky.social
First all-Scotland international relations institute. Hub for collaborative policy-relevant research & home for informed, non-partisan debate on foreign policy. scga.scot @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
@refugeestogether.bsky.social
We're a coalition of 600+ organisations calling for a fair and kind new plan for refugees that works for everyone #FairBeginsHere togetherwithrefugees.org.uk
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@omarkadkoy.bsky.social
Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
@thefirethesetimes.com
The Fire These Times is a podcast by writer and researcher Elia @ayoub.bsky.social and friends connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.” Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS. Maintained by @danni.id
@maggiechapman.bsky.social
Scottish Greens MSP for North East Scotland | Eco-Socialist & Feminist | She/Her | Posts promoted by Maggie Chapman, Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street EH6 5QN https://linktr.ee/maggiechapman
@gbuttars.bsky.social
Socialist, trade unionist, archivist. UCU Scotland Vice Pres. & NEC | rs21 | he/him [“default-setting crank”, apparently]
@rs21edinburgh.bsky.social
Ecosocialist. Feminist. Anti-racist. We are a Marxist organisation with branches around Britain. See https://revsoc21.uk/
@arabcenterdc.org
Arab Center Washington DC is a nonprofit, independent, and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to furthering the political, economic, and social understanding of the Arab world in the United States.
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social
disaffected glass-half-empty type; starting to think belatedly about more than humans 📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
@standrewsir.bsky.social
🥇No.1 ranking in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025. Direct messages are not monitored.
@ledbydonkeys.org
Art, Activism and Accountability https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@fromtheperiphery.com
Producers of @thefirethesetimes.com, @mutualaidpod.bsky.social, From The Periphery Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and more to come. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperipher
@migrationscotland.bsky.social
Independent think tank in Scotland. Provides a home for informed responses to the opportunities and challenges of migration. https://migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk
@mdiasabey.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol School of Law | Socio-legal scholar interested in labour law, migration & political economy. Views my own.
@markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social PhD studying political contention of self-determination groups | 📊 Quant PoliSci | 🗳️ Scots politics & elections | Associate Member @ccc-research.bsky.social | ✍🏻 @heraldscotland.bsky.social
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
@noura.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social
Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
@tmegrisi.bsky.social
By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
@hannobrankamp.bsky.social
Migrant | Geographer | University of Glasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, race, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke, Feb 2026) Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
@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.
@scilt.bsky.social
Scotland’s national centre for languages. Sign up to our weekly email for all our latest news http://bit.ly/SCILTbulletin. Visit our website: https://scilt.org.uk/
@studyemmir.bsky.social
Erasmus Mundus master's programme: The European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (#StudyEMMIR). 🌍 Reflexivity, identity, dialogue, & learning in 9 partner institutions in Europe, Africa, & Asia. 🔗 Learn more at emmir.org!
@bdsatisa.bsky.social
We are a collective of International Studies scholars & university workers organising in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
@brismes.bsky.social
BRISMES brings together teachers, researchers, students, diplomats, journalists and others who deal professionally with the Middle East.
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@alanlester.bsky.social
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own. Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
@danifesto.bsky.social
🎓 aspiring academic and dad bod extraordinaire 📝 teacher + researcher @ glasgow uni 🎮 interested in video games and cultural labour
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social
https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need Writers, artists and educators organizing workshops to raise money for Palestinians: https://linkin.bio/workshops4gaza 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@nicolapratt.bsky.social
Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East, trade unionist, anti-imperialist, feminist
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
@notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' joint $1B Project Nimbus cloud contract with Israel. 📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com 💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake 🌐 notechforapartheid.com
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays run daily online and quarterly in print. http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
@bcfinucane.bsky.social
Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales