A multidisciplinary community for those who work on, study &/or want to learn more about Ukraine. For academics, policy makers, & practitioners.
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Historian of 19th & 20th century Russia/Europe (mostly pre-1921); science fiction author & fan; lover of cats, dogs, chocolate, books, movies, television, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, cricket, Hawaii.
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My name is George. I am the senior mouse catcher and I “work” at Stourbridge Junction railway station. *not all quotes are my own- but quoted with love
Professor at a University in the Fens.
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Historian, researcher of energy systems, Ukraine, Russia, & more. Blog: https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/. Author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (2018) & Dissident Communists in Early Soviet Russia (2023).
Sociology university teacher with a love of language(s)
University of Worcester, UK
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Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Historian. Thinking about Baltic history, Russian history, History theory and Use and abuse of history. Teaching @CollegeofLaw, Riga.
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Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; migrant, equalities & environment rep, @ducu.bsky.social.
Under the pavement, the forest! 🌳🌲🌳✊🏴
Literature prof, Eastern Michigan U // Anticolonial internationalisms, Cold War, and migration studies // Author, Narrating Post/Communism; Uncommon Alliances; Nonaligned Imagination.
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The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
Professor of Music, violinist, conductor, writer, poet, Holocaust researcher, UMC lay minister kelliedbrown.com
Historian | LBI for the Research of the Consequences of War | (South-) Eastern Europe | Byzantium | Maps | All views are my own
Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
The life and times of Steve the otter...
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
The 2026 AATSEEL Conference will be held in New Orleans, LA from February 19-22, 2026!
Long-time reader and infrequent poster. Historian.
Wilson Bell (he/him), history & politics prof (Thompson Rivers University); interested in connecting on issues of social justice, current events, vegan/vegetarian food, baseball, higher education. Author of Stalin’s Gulag at War (UTP 2019)
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Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). III Congreso Internacional (enero 2026): https://www.unavarra.es/congreso-historia-prision. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Professor of History. Writer of books.
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Slavicist specializing in the shadows of Russian literature from Dostoevsky to revolutionary terrorism and Soviet authoritarianism. Growing obsession with Polish lit & history. Husband, runner, dog person, audiophile. https://lonnyharrisonresearch.uta.edu/
Poet and translator in a bad time for Lyrik
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The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Wander, wonder, appreciate the little things.
Photography focused on wildlife, birds, and nature.
Florida, USA
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Professor of Polish Studies, University of Cambridge
Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy
Reader (Associate Prof), City St Georges, University of London. IOs, international inequalities, international security (including Russia's war against Ukraine), peacekeeping. http://kseniya-oksamytna.com
South London stuff from SE14 to the world http://transpont.blogspot.com ; also 'if ever I would stop thinking about music and politics' https://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com
Passionate Nature photographer. I run premier, small group photo tours in Patagonia, Namibia, Canada and Greenland. The world is full of beauty. Let me take you there! Website: https://beautysurroundsyou.com
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Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Faculty at UW–Madison. Scholar of Multilingualism & Slavic Cultures. Language, Identity & Digital Humanities in Post-Socialist Europe. President, North American Association of Teachers of Polish.
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Senior Lecturer in Global Histories and IR 👩🎓 Interested in Russia, youth militarisation and memory politics 💭 love travelling & food 🍜
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
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Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
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Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Ukrainian journalist, writer, founder Justice Initiative Fund, veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Spent 2.5 years in Russian secret torture camp Izolyatsia (Isolation).
"You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind."
European Thought and Culture, UCL; games that get out of hand.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/4327
Aleksanteri Institute is the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki.
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UK NGO supporting vulnerable groups in Eastern Europe, Central Asia & the Caucasus. We share know-how with grassroots NGOs in health & social welfare.
Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London
Author: Villager, 1983, Everything Will Swallow You. Shirley Jackson Horror Writing Award winner who doesn’t write horror. "Hilarious" - Stephen Fry. "Made me laugh out loud" - David Sedaris. "Arrived damaged." - Amazon reviewer https://www.tom-cox.com
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The restless people who remade themselves and made the Pelman Age
Writer, reader, editor, Russian > English translator. Gardener + crafter. Syilx + Secwépemc territory, British Columbia. kattancock.com
Europeanist [literature, thought, politics] | Directing @uclei.bsky.social | Working with @ucl-global.bsky.social | Curating @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
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Neurotic labrador personality with paparazzi voyeur tendencies. I watch people watching. I witness. Hope my death poem(Jisei) will be a photo.
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World & Chinese history, environment & climate, space & place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Academic freedom & labor. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
Assistant Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy at Ohio State. Associate Editor @ TCSJ.
Teaching and researching medical evidence + expertise (#techcomm, #medrhet, #femrhet, #sts). She/her.
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Prof @StAModLangs/Ukraine, extractivist politics, colonial encounters/Rep'd by Sophie Scard @UnitedAgents
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East: https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/life-in-spite-of-everything/
Author of FIREBIRD CAGED, CHIARA IN THE DARK, and more. Translator. Not willing to let democracy die quietly. 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇳
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Dubliner, Ex-Berliner, Editor at Internationale Politik Quarterly
@ipq.bsky.social. Doing an MPhil in literary translation at TCD. @tclctdublin.bsky.social she/her
Computational literary studies with a modicum of pure linguistics | research design, infrastructure and methods guy | open data enthusiast and curator | doing theory+engineering @ ERC Advanced project “Theory of tone” @ INALCO, Paris
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. The UK's largest university library collection on Russia and Central, Eastern & South-Eastern Europe.
We fight for everyone’s right to breath. From Research, campaigning, advice + support. For queries about your lung condition please call our helpline.
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Ph.D. in Slavic Lang&Lit, teaching at Carleton College. At home in Almaty, Astana, MN, WI, CT, PA and in the 19th century. Lost home in the Urals and St. Petersburg. Shanti, shanti, om
Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Lecturer in European Public Policy @UCL @UCLSSEES. Public Policy, #EU 🇪🇺, #BoundedRationality, #Homelessness, #Housing, Post-#Brexit EU-UK relations, #Populism #CEE
Senior Lecturer in Russian, University of Bristol
Languages, literature, travels, gardens
Posts in a personal capacity
Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts on books, journals and news by our editors.
A multimedia text adaptation project based at the University of St Andrews (PI: Dr Claire Whitehead; Creative Lead: Dr Carol Adlam). C19th crime fiction, Russian lit., creative writing, audio, podcast, graphic novel. lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Post-Soviet Literature in and outside the Former Soviet Union. Blog by Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social and Olga Zilberbourg
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Writer, feminist, climate campaigner
Coming soon: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
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Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
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Darpar Lywydd (AU) Undeb Prifysgol a Choleg (UCU)
President Elect (HE) of University and College Union (UCU)
Historian & professor @Ohio State.
Books on Eastern Europe & the Balkans: nationalism, migration, borderlands, Cold War culture. Current work on post-1918 divided families & displaced children.
2025 ACLS Fellow.
Slavist & Lecturer. Loves Ru&Ukr literature. Guided literary trips to Ru&Ukr&Caucasus. #nafo #fella #supportsUkraine #antivatnik www.russischeliteratuur.nl
Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Author of ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
Author at @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social | Editor at @carnegieendowment.org | My book 'Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire' is out now! | Order here: https://linktr.ee/russiastartshere
here for classic books and movies
#multilingualism, #identity, heritage languages, #children, #school, multilingual #libraries, #books, #reading, #makerspaces, #co-production and participatory research, at University of Sheffield, UK. Occasional multilingual storyteller
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Associate Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky | literary studies, poetry and poetics, theatre and performance, history of censorship, language pedagogy, environmental humanities, limits of ai for language and literature research
