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Author | Activist | Somatic creativity coach | Sufi mystic
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Writes gay ghost stories about families breaking and rebuilding through war and grief. Posts about food, fiction, folklore, and fighting fascism.
Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Barrister & mediator.
Things I like: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port.
My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk
Please email rather than DM!
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Lover of stories and sunsets. Audio drama producer/director at BBC Studios Audio
Nothing but #fintwitter headlines to get you started on blue sky.
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
OSINT, geolocations, air/sea data. Snarky AvGeek.
Cites: Мілітарний, Newsweek, The Aviationist, TWZ, A&SF Mag
"Sharp-eyed aviation buff & flight tracker" ~ Brian Williams
https://buymeacoffee.com/vcdgf555
She/her
Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Green Party Councillor for Hale, Leader of Green Group on Trafford Council
Candidate for GM Mayor,
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Currently learning how to plaster 🥴
Creative director, The New World. Centrist - possibly. Dad - definitely.
#Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Molle Collection is a small sustainable business based in Ceredigion, creating handmade unique products made from repurposed and sustainable fabrics. Supporter of Mane Chance Sanctuary, making patchwork Wonky Ponies for them.
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Also
@OldUKPrintAds7890s.bsky.social - 1970s/80s/90s ads only
@OldUKPrintAdsXmas.bsky.social - Xmas ads, from Sept 16th
@OldInPrintAds.bsky.social - International ads (non-UK)
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
A printmaker based in Somerset producing original innovative monoprints, collagraphs, linocuts and woodblocks. Walking pathways taking a lot of photographs.
🇪🇪 Estonian blogger focusing on Russia/Ukraine | 18+ version: https://t.me/wartranslated | Glory to #Ukraine!
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I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody & Emmy winner
Propaganda scholar; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow Bard College; Associate Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk & signal: Emmalbriant.44
Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, University of Cambridge
Research in: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks & harms
Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Taoist bricoleur. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Fellow, Center for Security and Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit und Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI
🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau
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
Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff. Opinions are not my employer's.
free speech, digital justice, civil rights | now: senior counsel @freepress | past: US free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU.
www.norabenavidez.com
Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
Political Science, Information Warfare, Political Communication
Historian of political and psychological warfare; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center at Salve Regina University; co-host of the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast and host of “You May Have Heard,” Army and Navy vet, and proud University of 〽️ichigan grad.
Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Evolving Information Warfare (2025). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT, researching the rise of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com.
Dr Paul Lashmar, Investigative Journalist, author and retired Associate Professor at CityStGs UoL. Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism. New article on space, time, memory, and influence in VR: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241283895
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters - Gramsci
Gardener. Reader. Artist.
Magan-djin/Brisbane.
Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University.
Sr. Researcher @citizenlab.ca, Disinformation & Harassment. Fmr. Meta. Trainer: find & expose covert influence. I like doers. Opinions my own.
Exploring the forces shaping misinformation and institutional trust: uncovering the incentives, disincentives, and impacts driving systemic challenges. Notre Dame research scientist.
Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
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Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social 🕵️🛰️📡 · Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk · Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po - Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 📚
Website: https://clementrenault.com
Personal account
Head of Threat Analysis @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
Assistant Professor of International Relations & International Communication @inalco.fr
▪️Russian Politics & Media
▪️Influence, Foreign Policy & Authoritarianism
Co-founder @coruscant-eu.bsky.social
Previously Research Fellow @irsem.bsky.social
Head of the School of Politics and Economics at KCL. Conspiracy theories and democracy. Former 🚒🚑
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Head of the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com
Assistant Professor | Posdoctoral Researcher | UNAM-Mx 🇲🇽
Dis and Misinformation / Public Communication / Sociopolitical Sniffer & Avocado Fan 🥑
PhD Candidate Quantitative Network Science @ UZH, Research Associate @ Oxford Internet Institute, Data Scientist & Disinformation Researcher @ http://Pattrn.AI
PhD in political science, studying infosec, cyber conflict & information war at IFSH. Self-taught hacker & blue team.
Blog and podcast about my work over at https://percepticon.de or https://ioc.exchange/@percepticon
Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Assoc. Professor of Communication
University of Ottawa
Art & science of persuasion: Strategic Coms, PR, Information Warfare, Government Coms, Political Coms, Place Branding, Public Diplomacy, Cultural Statecraft.
I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at McGill University with research interests in great power politics, information warfare, and cyber security. My current research on Chinese and Russian foreign propaganda strategies.
Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Research media/coms and peacebuilding at George Washington University (GWU). Direct, Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication (GWU), Media & Peacebuilding Project (GWU), Peace News Network: https://bsky.app/profile/peacenewsnet.bsky.social
Son of a union organizer and a professor of political science/communication at GWU - in that order.
Documenting the history and techniques of political warfare, propaganda, and disinformation. Also on Substack under the same handle. Legacy TwiX will remain for now.
Exploring how information environments reshape power, legitimacy, and collective decision-making.
Weekly insights → https://massimoflore.substack.com/
Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL union executive
Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy
Educator
Counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
Swedish intellectual historian passionate about combatting disinformation and conspiracy theories. Languages 🇸🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧
Affiliation: Fojo Media Institute, Linnaeus University, Sweden
See more here: https://linnaeus.academia.edu/Andreas%C3%96nnerfors
Researcher at Friedrich-Alexander University, Nuremberg. In Media, Communication and Politics.
Interests: Political Communication, Propaganda, Digital Well-Being, Problematic Internet Use, Framing. Also loves photography & art
Professor of Environmental Science & Policy and Director of Climate Accountability Lab at University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.
Investigating Big Oil's climate propaganda. Formerly Harvard, MIT, Cambridge.
PhD | Fellow RCGS
Author: Climate Denial in American Politics (Routledge) http://bit.ly/4tFJKGA
Politics | Disinformation | Science
ClimateBrawl
Media scholar | Associate Professor @ Lund University | Propaganda | Visual Communication | Media History | Digital Methods | Preparedness and Resilience
Scholar of technology and society charting a path between AI hype and doom for the curious but skeptical.
About me: https://www.seanlawson.net/
Launching a new project at https://seanlawsonphd.substack.com/ Please stand by...
illustrator & zinester | late 30s, they/them | ✡ for Palestine | http://ezrarose.carrd.co | http://jewishmagic.carrd.co
Czech-based international team, tracking confirmed Russian officers killed in the war against Ukraine. Confirmations are made via funeral notices, obituaries, news platforms, monuments and memorial plaques. Names and sources: https://tinyurl.com/mpvx7snn
Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏. imposters get blocked and reported, and I never DM re crypto (which is the ultimate moron 'asset')
Illustrations / Character Designs / Comic Books / Partnered Twitch Streamer
https://linktr.ee/simz.art
Textile artist
Maker of perfectly imperfect art dolls.
European French, based in the UK.
https://littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/
Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy mainly at TVP World.
My substack: garvanwalshe.org
Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
