A multidisciplinary community for those who work on, study &/or want to learn more about Ukraine. For academics, policy makers, & practitioners.
Founded April 2024
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Physical Geographer | Air and Water Resource Manager | North Okanagan-Nk'maplqs | Civic Nationalist and Voltigeur | #StandWithUkraine REP-WC #NAFO 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🌩
A journal of the International Studies Association (ISA). Publishes cutting-edge research on global security and global aspects of debates in security studies.
Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University | Research on nationalism, populism, radical right-wing parties and voters; Class politics; Ethnic relations | Hammarby IF football supporter
History, cricket, TV shows.
Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Frm PL diplomat. BY, RU and UA enthusiast. PhD student @KozminskiUni. Expert at #ACAS. Visiting researcher @BIS_SEW @UniWarszawski. Personal views.
Book writer ("How to Win a Trade War")
Economics columnist at the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/soumaya-keynes
Host of The Economics Show podcast https://link.chtbl.com/economicsshow
Singer-songwriter http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker. MA 25 yrs, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. LL/Bridport. See www.elizabethloudon.com for more.
Professional: Foresight & Horizon Scanning | Research: Resilience (CNI / Societal) & Comprehensive Security, Total Defence, National Preparedness | Emerging Risks & CM / EM | Military mobility | High North, GIUK-NGap & Arctic Futures | Personal: #OnXII
Trainee in Research Communication (#Wisskomm) at @zois.bsky.social | Slavist & Political Scientist | M.A. European Integration in East Central Europe
Advisor Public and Active Mobility at Copenhagen City
Politician #MEP @europeanparliament @eppgroup @cdu_csu_ep coordinator for @ep_singlemarket #digital #competition #EUswitzerland
📍Freiburg🇩🇪 / Brüssel 🇪🇺
Left Twitter when it became a Nazi.
Ex libraire en langues étrangères. Osa sempre conoscere. Strongly European. Contre l'abîme de l'ignorance.
Paris Milan Deutschland
Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Senior Lecturer @OUPolitics. SFHEA. Russian foreign & security policy, soft power, narratives, ID, religion & disinfo, conspiracy theories. Associate editor, International Affairs. UK Young Academy member. Mum of 3.
MUSKISM, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian, comes out in spring 2026: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff
Cultural Studies in Arts, Media + Design ZHdK | fmr curatorial assistant + documentalist Museum für Gestaltung | CH - Zurich based | 🏳️🌈 | GenX
Editor A Sharper Blur
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Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Political & cultural history & memory, national identity. Lots on sport, food & travel. Some disability stuff. Polish/Polski speaker. Views my own.
Chercheur analyste RI/Défense
Enthousiaste pour tout ce que l'on peint en vert, gris, et variations de beiges et bruns, qui vole, chenille, roule, marche, plonge ou flotte
Marié, Papa x2, Catho, Français et désormais Lyonnais
Food + drink writer with a morale boosting newsletter: Sigstack! Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚
News reporter @Agence France Presse - covering Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Caucasus. Currently based in Warsaw. She/her
Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19
Chartered Linguist
Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin into English Translator
Australian English Expert
Let's talk about Balkan and Aussie stuff!
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Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 2nd book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club. Links: https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Doctoral student at University of Cologne. Interested in electoral politics, fiscal policy, (historical) political economy. https://nblossey.github.io/
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc). Was a Booker judge in 2025.
Proud father, hispanophile, history buff, once-competent bass player, ex-Fordie, pro-European.
Oh, and Janey Godley was right.
Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Associate Professor of History. Missouri State University. Global fascism (esp. Germany and Japan). Beagle enthusiast. She/her. Views are my own.
Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Now most battles are digital. Make tech&AI public good for everyone in #UE.
Committed european, living in #Paris. PhD Paris-Sorbonne. Public and private sector country-scale digital transformation.
Former Minister of Innovation Albania. Views mine.
PostDoc MPI CSL. Legal theory, Humanitarian Law, Public (International) Law, coffee. Wrote a lot about PMCs, then Wagner crashed my PhD. Secretary-General for ICON-S Germany
Let's leave that out there just for a second on its ow
Senior researcher in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime. Formerly @CrestAdvisory. Also trustee @EndometriosisUK
Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (oxford analytica, brill yearbook of muslims in europe, eater, eurasianet, oc media, saveur, the moscow times, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
Provost at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Professor of Humanities: I love golden retrievers, language, literature, linguistics, film, history. Opinions are my own.
50ish/M/Ont/🇨🇦, he/him. Aspiring "afflicted" WW2 military historian. https://www.alliedarmour.com My book about the Archer is available from Trackpad Publishing!
Also interested in art, video games, SF+fantasy novels, cats, puns
Historical Fiction Novelist. WW2 Historian. Classic movie fan. #TCMParty. Mom. Chronic illness (ME/CFS). Snoopy collector. Obsessed with books, chocolate, & 🦊 🦊
📍Nebraskan living in Virginia
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We are the Liberal Party of Canada Federal Riding Association for Barrie South-Innisfil in Ontario, Canada. Our Bluesky profile is approved and managed by the elected Riding Association. Follow us for the latest news and events.
A semi-retired architectural illustrator, drawing buildings & old stuff to relieve stress. Illustration, art, archaeology, conservation, reading. FSA, Fellow Society of Architectural Illustrators (FSAI). No NFTs.
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Studying Middle Eastern and North African identity in the US
Professor Emeritus, George Mason U. Schar School of Policy and Government; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council. Russian foreign policy; great power competition.
Sociologist
🔎 Minorities, Nationalism, Ethnography
📍 Montréal/Zagreb
European research collective for new Russian studies | Digital Fieldwork | Contact: coruscant.contact [at] gmail.com | https://coruscant.therussiaprogram.org/en
Leverhulme Early Career Postdoc Fellow researching the causes of Russia's wars at the University of Reading. Current Affairs, Media and OSINT Analyst. PhD from UCL SSEES. Focusing on Ukraine & Russia but regularly distracted by German & UK politics. he/him
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Assistant Professor at UC Davis | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | uterus | placenta | women's health | stem cells, uterine injury, & regeneration | Stanford postdoc | UC Berkeley Ph.D. | Harvard A.B.
zhang.faculty.ucdavis.edu
ElisaZhang.org
I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
YIMBY, E-Biker, Transit-Taker, & Pro Giving Ukraine Everything It Needs
Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology
Let’s Build Stuff Faster
Opinions are my own
A research centre at Goldsmiths, University of London dedicated to critical, cultural, interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary capitalism
www.goldperc.uk
Political Science @ the University of Maine, Mexicano, passionate about art, culture, and social science, Luis Miguel fan
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Director, Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (@ispk.bsky.social) | Vice President, German Maritime Institute (DMI) | Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council | ex-naval analyst @TKMS & ex-Sinology professor @Uni Hamburg.
Christian. History PhD Candidate at UT-Austin. US relations w MENA and Russia since 1945. Nat sec, terries/insurgency, proxy war. My opinions. Spitballer.
Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee Yorkshire Contemporary, Word Up North, Skipton Music
Labour MP for Luton North | Chair of @commonswec.parliament.uk | CoChair of @LFPME.bsky.social | Promoted by and on behalf of Sarah Owen at 3 Union Street, Luton, LU1 3AN.
Professor @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Director of @goldperc.bsky.social - occasional contributor to @lrb.co.uk and others.
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Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast. www.youtube.com/@TheNextBestPod
Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic.
"Needlessly polemical"
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish
Political economy and international development. Research on labour in global production and Chinese overseas investments. Lecturer @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
Your morning primer on news, politics, economics, culture and current affairs – five days a week.
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artist // writer // defeated neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists in "the free speech trial of our age" // http://hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨
🔗 luketurner.com
Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
PhD in IR at SciencesPo Paris & Associate Fellow with the Russia Program at George Washington University. Author of the Arctic security newsletter 66° North on Substack. Writing about Russia, China, the polar regions, sometimes the seas and space.
Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Uni Wien, FWF Cluster of Excellence "Knowledge in Crisis", https://paulinasliwa.weebly.com
Old school war reporter: author of 16 books inc Killer In The Kremlin, Murder In The Gulag and novel The Useful Idiot.
Co-host Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime?
Founder: VPDFO! Festivals
johnsweeney.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/c/JohnSweeneyRoar
Director, Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI
US journalist in Ukraine.
War correspondent: BylineTimes, EuromaidanPress
Also BBC World, TVP World, Sunday Post.
Literary Essays: Longreads, Paris Review, LARB.
🎥 https://khersonhumansafari.com/
Author. Novel: We, Monsters (2012)
Art historian @ Zurich University of the Arts
Research on Bodybuilding, Peacebuilding, Heavy Metal, Eastern European Art
Texts on art & politics a.o. for ZEIT, NZZ, STZN, Artforum
Singer & bassist of Malmzeit
Certified fitness trainer
www.joergscheller.de
CEO Whisperer & Professor of practice in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Disinformation, Propaganda, Democracy; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com • Eng Fra 中文
European Political Science Review (EPSR) is an #OpenAccess journal of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of children’s lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
Historian; Professor for Central European Studies & Judaism and Diaspora Studies @UniLeiden.bsky.social; Author of _Uprooting the Diaspora_ @IUPress.bsky.social; PI of “CareCentury” @ERC.europa.eu; Director, Austria Centre Leiden; Lover of cortados
Wir unterstützen die interdisziplinäre Forschung zu #Osteuropa, #Ostmitteleuropa und #Südosteuropa: Literatur, Open Access, Datenbanken & Recherche I angesiedelt an der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek | Impressum: https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/impressum
Senior researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Working on forced displacement, digitalization, and conflict.
My book: https://bit.ly/4gjNQ09
Open access: https://bit.ly/3AXzbI2
PhD, sociologist doing political & conflict psychology, post-doc @UniBwM
Author of "Political Meanings of Solidarity" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58323-0
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Typos and opinions mine
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Mestre em Políticas Públicas - The Hertie School - bolsista do República; Especialista em Ciência Política - Senado Federal; Bacharel em Rel (ou RI) - UnB.
The European Political Science Society: the not-for-profit professional association for political science in Europe and beyond
https://epssnet.org/
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. www.sceeus.se
Das KomRex – Zentrum für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Demokratiebildung und gesellschaftliche Integration ist eine wissenschaftliche Forschungseinrichtung der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists.
Historian of Soviet Ukraine. Michigander. O's fan in exile.
Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
PhD Candidate at the Swedish Defence University
Interested in civil-military relations, civil and total defence, non-state armed groups, Eastern Europe
University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
