Simon Watkins
Interested in finance, economics, politics, philosophy, literature and childish humour. Comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline, but occasionally tempted to turn the hot tap back on.
@alexbhturnbull.bsky.social
Climate / energy / materials / climate dad / Sneaky Sasquatch / in 🇸🇬. Posts are on rolling delete. syncretica.substack.com https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Vg7PNIAAAAJ&hl=en
@katemac.bsky.social
understander of things climate-related, Polycrisis co-writer, and more
@jwmason.bsky.social
Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY, senior fellow at the Groundwork Collaborative. Blog and other writing: jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad.
@tomashirstecon.bsky.social
Strategy & Asset Allocation. Queasy metropolitan liberal. “Economist” - @t0nyyates
@williamcb.bsky.social
Technology and politics. Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU Research Fortnight https://bit.ly/4i0 https://signal.me/#eu/xNzjw2P7XIGjBfdQicHbMp0V5SuVpgCQOeUZNpDRqH-mkt2Tan9G6Y0ZitEKsVkN
@marcbernstein261.bsky.social
MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
@theclassicslibrary.bsky.social
Classics news, resources & more. A hub for Classics teachers. http://theclassicslibrary.com | http://ow.ly/A70L304v7U9
@pariglas.bsky.social
A number of years ago the interest in glass, vintage and antiques began, with this our collection has grown and interest has increased, we have also seen an increased interest in our surroundings in this area, so for this reason we create this account.
@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)
@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
@ramijarrah.bsky.social
Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
@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.
@acarv.in
Former managing editor and director of research, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, occasional conlanger, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
@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
@thomasvlinge.bsky.social
Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
@manisha.bsky.social
The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead manishaganguly.com
@hhassan.bsky.social
Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
@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.
@marklittle.bsky.social
Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
@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.
@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/
@maitelsadany.bsky.social
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
@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
@amermatar.bsky.social
Syrian journalist, filmmaker, director of the ISIS Prisons Museum @alshare media foundation. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018). https://isisprisons.museum
@faredalmahlool.bsky.social
Freelance Syrian conflict reporter and researcher, bomb survivor, covering the ongoing crisis in Syria. Previous research assistant @columbia. Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
@ajaltamimi.bsky.social
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
@azelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com
@joannestocker.bsky.social
Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense.
@rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social
Global Security Editor for ITV News. Before that, UK Editor for ITV News, and before that, Africa Correspondent for ITV News and NBC News. [email protected] IG + X: @rohitkachrooitv
@qusaynoor.net
❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) ) 📸
@aronlund.bsky.social
Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
@kshaheen.bsky.social
Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
@sakhr.co.uk
🎥Executive Producer @ajplus.net 🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011 🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni ✍️ Social justice | Arab World
@rawya.bsky.social
Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
@rawanssa18.bsky.social
Human rights and tech @Amnesty| Ex @UN @TheSentry_Org @Bellingcat | Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen | Open-source and IHL/Human Rights | views my own
@maherakraa.bsky.social
A narrative may color reality, but truth is colorless. Design Researcher & Journalist | PhD Student at University of Zurich | Research Associate at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).
@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
@uhrp.org
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) promotes the rights for Uyghurs in East Turkistan through research, reporting, and advocacy. Support us: uhrp.org/donate
@cuyghurs.bsky.social
WE DEFEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF UYGHUR PEOPLE AND THE FREE WORLD BY EXPOSING AND CONFRONTING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S GENOCIDE, AND EMPOWERING UYGHUR WOMEN AND YOUTH IN THE DIASPORA.
@rushanabbas.bsky.social
Sister of retired Dr. detained by China Executive Director of Campaign For Uyghurs Chairperson of the World Uyghur Congress Executive Committee (The opinions expressed are my own)
@duncanweldon.bsky.social
Economics writer. Author. Expect history, finance, economics and other stuff. Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out in June 2025.
@yplac.bsky.social
Sharing the worst of parking. Complimentary to the original from the other place: therealyplac.bsky.social - follow them! Buy their stuff: yplac.co.uk/shop. Submissions by email if you want to stay anonymous. YPLACbluesky - at - gmail . com
@declassifieduk.org
We investigate Britain’s foreign policy, military & intelligence agencies and corporations. Please support our work - https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/
@markurban.bsky.social
Writing stuff for Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime presenter of Newsnight 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils and more!
@ianmartin.bsky.social
Have Love, Won't Travel. Comedy writer: The Thick of It, The Death of Stalin, Veep, The Hartlepool Spy, Unhinged, Epic Space. ET CETERA THERE'S MORE. Nuisance: https://pod.link/1774465485
@asentance.bsky.social
Independent Business Economist. Columnist for The Times and church musician. Former roles include: Bank of England MPC member; CBI Director of Economic Affairs; BA Chief Economist; and PwC Senior Economic Adviser.