Matthew Palmer
🇬🇧 MOD. Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Not always as serious as I might seem. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
@suffolkprepared.bsky.social
To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail. Preparedness is a collective responsibility. Preparedness must reach all parts of society. #Resilience #Prepare #CivilDefence Account run by Rachel Mawhood (of @longitude0.bsky.social)
@tyrellmayfield.bsky.social
|| No Official Statements || Redefining the Modern Military || Writing a Kabul memoir || Servant of the Republic || Minor Spear Carrier || Will Not Surrender Prematurely || BoD at @thestrategybridge.bsky.social ||
@helencarr.bsky.social
Times and Sunday Times best-selling author Medieval Historian Mother of Doggos SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
@jayrayner1.bsky.social
Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
@forgottenwarpod.bsky.social
The definitive podcast about the Burma Campaign of WW2. Robert Lyman & Jack Bowsher take you through the incredible & often brutal war in SE Asia, out Feb 2025
@jameskanag.bsky.social
Pollster. Chief Research Officer of @focaldata.bsky.social
@cepa.org
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) | CEPA’s mission is to ensure a strong and democratic transatlantic alliance for future generations. Media inquiries: press@cepa.org
@ramshackle78.bsky.social
EM doc. Politics nerd 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇫🇷 Running is just an excuse for listening to podcasts
@starychsam.bsky.social
Co-Founder Council on Geostrategy King's College London alumna🇬🇧 Durham Institute of Research, Development and Invention Fellow (DIRDI) All tweets are personal
@kononenko.bsky.social
I'm an artist, love graphic, fairy tales and northern forest. https://www.patreon.com/KononenkoElena ✨
@bctallis.bsky.social
Intl Politics, Security & Strategy Director, Democratic Strategy Initiative, Berlin @DSI-Strategy.bsky.social #NeoIdealism | 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #BerlinsideOut Pod Co-Host [T=personal. RT≠agree]
@signaltonoise.bsky.social
Student of literature, law, and the classics. Marine intelligence manager turned attorney, now practicing cyber risk. Cycles and loops, it’s all cycles and loops.
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow https://t.co/Gea41bGhz9
@meeware.bsky.social
Centrist Dad, pro-rejoin, rational skeptic, into FOSS, archives, thorium fission power, naval defence tech, pacifist as far as possible, then clatter the buggers. Compassion as a superpower.
@markmackinnon.bsky.social
Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing). Add me to your top secret group chats!
@dpatrikarakos.bsky.social
Writer. Books: ‘War in 140 Characters' & 'Nuclear Iran.' Foreign Correspondent, UnHerd Special Correspondent, Daily Mail Host. 90 Seconds to Midnight
@nvondarza.bsky.social
Political scientist with a passion for EU affairs, Geek with a passion for technology. Head of Europe Division at @SWP-Berlin.org. Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.bsky.social Europe Programme. All views are personal. Journey before Destination.
@ilketoygur.bsky.social
Political Scientist | European Union & EU in the World | Director, Global Policy Center & Professor of (Geo)Politics of Europe, SPEGA, IE University | Senior Associate, CSIS Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program
@shannonmonaghan.bsky.social
Military Historian (PhD) / Ukraine book TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN (Hurst 2025) / WWII-Cold war book A QUIET COMPANY OF DANGEROUS MEN (Viking 2024) www.shannonmonaghan.com
@johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social
BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
@deborahaynes.bsky.social
I am security and defence editor at Sky News. My email is Deborah.Haynes@sky.uk
@inahpkvam.bsky.social
Researcher at Norwegian Defence University College / Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. Specialising on Russian military and maritime strategy. All views my own
@ryanevans.bsky.social
Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
@generalboles.bsky.social
Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
@willfreer.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy | Interested in 🇬🇧 defence and foreign policy | From Leicestershire but part time Stoke City fan
@militarnyi.com
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The official English page of Militarnyi, Ukrainian military media outlet: militarnyi.com/en 👉🏻 Support us: ▫️paypal@mil.in.ua ▫️patreon.com/milinua
@akmckeever.bsky.social
Amman-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria) This week in northern Syria newsletter👇 https://akmckeever.substack.com
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
@joerglau.bsky.social
International Correspondent German weekly DIE ZEIT (@zeit.de), Cold War kid, cyclist. Mein neues Buch über zur deutschen Außenpolitik hier bestellen: https://www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/joerg-lau-worte-die-die-welt-beherrschen-9783426562420
@josh97.bsky.social
Lost LT1 at the other place. Combined Arms, History, Star Wars, and INDOPACOM
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@simonwillison.net
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@fakehistoryhunter.net
I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked. https://fakehistoryhunter.net/
@ukandeu.bsky.social
UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
@defencestudies.bsky.social
Defence Studies is a scholarly journal aimed at the study of contemporary defence and emergent warfare from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fdef20
@goconnor.bsky.social
Hd of #Infosec, #Defence & #AI. #Cybersecurity. Will tend to post about politics more than my work. A stint in counterterrorism overseas. European, Irish & British, horses, sailor, and all-round bon vivant. Tweets & rants are my own opinions. (Rick/Morty).
@katemossewriter.bsky.social
Writer of novels, history, plays, ghost stories ~ Interviewer & Performer ~ Founder Director Women’s Prizes ~ Trustee British Library Find me at www.katemosse.co.uk
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
@jobmaynooth.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland. Posts on EU, Balkans and International Politics. Author: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU. Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/europe
@nerdicdefence.bsky.social
Following Nordic defence and security matters, mostly technical, and am myself based in the Nordics. Yes, I'm aware the pun is stupid ;). He/him.
@keohanedan.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Relations at Dublin City University (DCU) - mostly focused on European security, national strategic cultures in Europe (i.e. France, Germany, UK), European military cooperation, EU, NATO, US strategy
@disordershow.bsky.social
Ordering our era of global disorder. Hosted by Jason Pack. Regularly featuring @alexhh.bsky.social, @janekinninmont.bsky.social, @snellarthur.bsky.social disordershow@gmail.com Latest ep - https://tr.ee/ksicr-3Wty Partnered with @rusi.bsky.social
@interzone.press
a European magazine publishing fiction and non-fiction Subscribe: https://interzone.press/patreon Get issues: https://shop.interzone.press Listen: https://interzone.press/pod Banner art by Carly A-F Posts by Gareth Jelley
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Three-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director. clarkesworldmagazine.com neil-clarke.com
@laumatimans.bsky.social
Labour activist, East Londoner, passionate about making investment return better worker's rights, decarbonisation, equality, biodiversity protection, and higher quality living standards, local school governor, and Latvian folk dancer