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@kamalakkannan.bsky.social
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
Help us build the better - independent - media Britain deserves. Subscribe for exclusive content only in the Byline Times news magazine: subscribe.bylinetimes.com Visit our free daily news site: bylinetimes.com
@helenlewis.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 and Strong Message Here | Doom scroller, the internet
@farhanasultana.com
Professor, author, speaker Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University Past: King’s College London; UNDP ✍🏼 Climate, water, politics, justice 📕 Confronting Climate Coloniality 🔗farhanasultana.com #GeoSky feed: https://tinyurl.com/a6mdyuvd
@davidakaye.bsky.social
californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. go bears!
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
@severincarrell.bsky.social
Scotland editor for the Guardian. A personal account. Born 319.62ppm. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss) I’ll have you know I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
@jacobware.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement. https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sedition-Far-Right-Terrorism/dp/0231
@vajra.me
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023 Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus first novel winner) & RAKESFALL (2024 Nebula finalist) http://vajra.me/books Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://vajra.me
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
@jairofunez.bsky.social
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring... dignity.
@aiww.bsky.social
@privatechand.bsky.social
Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Exvangelical. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@unesco.org
Building peace where it starts - in the minds of women & men. Official BlueSky account of UNESCO. #Education #Sciences #Culture #Communication #Information
@libbybrooks.bsky.social
Guardian Scotland correspondent contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
@neelima.bsky.social
Covering climate crisis in the Himalaya & South Asia. Journalist / Photographer / Documentary Filmmaker 📍Nepal/India Words/images/film in Guardian, Deutsche Welle, BBC, Al Jazeera, SCMP etc. Portfolio at https://neelima.contently.com
@jasminekgani.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement jasminekgani.wordpress.com
@emmakale.bsky.social
Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia.
@larrycebula.bsky.social
"The Lightning Rod of Weirdness." Public historian, bicyclist, noted bon vivant. Taking a break from politics so if I unfollow you that's why.
@alonso-gd.bsky.social
Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. English / Español / Português
@manigarm.bsky.social
Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
@wienerlibrary.bsky.social
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era. Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
@milliganreports.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter: 4 Corners, ABC. Personal account. Author: Pheasants Nest, Witness, Cardinal. Walkley winner, Press Freedom medallist. Dublin-born. Writing second novel, set in Ireland. I salute sources’ courage. Linktr.ee/milliganreports
@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
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
@jricole.bsky.social
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole
@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/Bigger than The Shining http://www.markcousins.org
@faisalhamadah.bsky.social
Dr/comrade د./رفيق. Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnationalism
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@chitgrrl.bsky.social
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
@asianstudies.org
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
@audreytruschke.bsky.social
Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
@hochstet.bsky.social
Professor of International Development at LSE. Emerging powers, energy, climate
@saadgulzar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Princeton. Study representation, development, and the environment with a focus on South Asia. http://saadgulzar.com/
@klamberg.bsky.social
Professor Public International Law Stockholm University. Deputy director SCILJ. Affiliated with American University WCL, the Atlantic Council and CILRAP.
@mariegardiner.bsky.social
Writer of social history, heritage, culture, film, including three history books. Photographer. Partner/docu producer at Lonely Tower Film & Media. MDANT 🏅. Check lists & starter packs. https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner 📌 North East England
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
@ajayverghese.bsky.social
Political scientist at Middlebury College: India, religion (Hinduism), ethnic violence, history, and qualitative/mixed methods. Dad.
@uttara.bsky.social
Historian of borders and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
@milanv.bsky.social
Senior Fellow + Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and host of the "Grand Tamasha" podcast (grandtamasha.com). https://milanvaishnav.substack.com/
@jich.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism. EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social AE @yiannicart.bsky.social BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
@amitav.bsky.social
Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
@kamalakkannan.bsky.social
British Sri Lankan doc filmmaker, conflict and human rights lens. British solo exhibition @ Yorkshire Contemporary. Appears in Al Jazeera, Guardian, BBC, New Yorker; Oxford University, Cambridge University, Cornell University Glasgow—Colombo—Jaffna