Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social linguistics mostly, politics, Wisconsin
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Human Relations Area Files at Yale University @hraf755.bsky.social Promoting understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present since 1949. Home of the world's largest anthropological data bank. https://hraf.yale.edu
HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web @helontheweb.bsky.social Shares the latest news about HEL. Posts by Dr Ayumi Miura (Associate Professor @utokyoofficial.bsky.social; she/her), who runs the website 'HEL on the Web' (2009-): https://sites.google.com/view/helontheweb/
EURALEX @euralex.bsky.social European Association for Lexicography. Leading professional #association for people working in #lexicography and related fields. euralex.org
dominique @domacanning.bsky.social she/they. working on black queer language. phd alum (!!!) from university of michigan. probably talking about bts. definitely crying about wicked.
CanE Lab @canelab.bsky.social Research Professor at UBC English Language & Lit. Canadian English & Austrian German at UBC (UVic): language & identity, Canadian (#CdnWrdoWk) & Austrian Words of the Week (#AutWrdoWk). Linguistics is best when theoretically grounded *and* applied.
Lars Hinrichs @larshinrichs.site UT Austin sociolinguist, anglicist, creolist | German, American, son, husband, father, violinist, guitarist, swimmer, humorist
American Name Society @americannamesociety.org The ANS was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices. It seeks to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics in names. https://www.americannamesociety.org
UCL Survey of English Usage @uclenglishusage.bsky.social The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English Linguistics. Posts by @englishgrammar.bsky.social and @bethmalory.bsky.social
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
Also follow us on @engliciousucl.bsky.social
English Wiktionary @enwiktionary.bsky.social The official account for en.wiktionary.org, the English Wiktionary. We’re a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. We aim to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social The APA is the largest philosophical society in North America, promoting the discipline of philosophy and serving philosophers at all levels.
Join: https://apaonline.org/join
Donate: https://apaonline.org/donate
More: https://apaonline.org
APA Style @apastyle.bsky.social This official profile is maintained by experts at the American Psychological Association. We share tips about how to format a paper, create APA Style references in seventh edition (APA7), write with concise and bias-free language, and more.
apastyle.org
Emily Brewster @ebrewster.bsky.social
Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Australian Linguistic Society @auslingsoc.bsky.social The Australian Linguistic Society supports the scientific study of language in Australia. We promote linguistics research, teaching and outreach. Hop on board!
Website Link: als.asn.au
🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green psycholinguist by training, now working in public health. L1: American English (~Philly). any pronouns, they/she if that's too hard.
i do not post as my worksona. posts are mine and not my employer's.
https://linktr.ee/colorlessgrey
Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social Podcast of adventures in language with @helenzaltzman. theallusionist.org patreon.com/allusionist
bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social Official account for the Bergelson Lab at Harvard, sporadically maintained by the PI:).
Just a lab, trying to figure out how babies learn language, somehow caught in the crosshairs of gov't admin battles.
Subtitle @subtitle.bsky.social A podcast about languages and the people who speak them hosted by @patricox.bsky.social and Kavita Pillay. Partners: @lingsocam.bsky.social & Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. Posts mainly by Allison S.
https://subtitlepod.com/
Valeria Ochoa (she/ella) @valeria8a.bsky.social Spanish Linguistics profe, focused mainly on Spanish as a Heritage Language at Oregon State. 🦫 Views my own.
hieland quoi @evpok.love Plays music on interesting instruments, cooks for the revolution, is a computational linguist, earns cider being a university prof. Death to all tyrants 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
they or anything gender neutral
emma machado @emmachados.bsky.social (she/her) wannabe PhD wrangler | Sociothings and discourse analysis enthusiast | Exploring queer linguistic identity at the University of Salamanca | Fueled by cats and cinema | ES/EN
Cooper Bedin @linguallyblonde.bsky.social they/them
sociocultural and computational linguist at uc santa barbara! i study queer and trans language 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💕
more about me: cbedin.gay
Hann Bingham Brunner, PhD @disabldlinguist.bsky.social They/them 🏳️⚧️
Asst Prof at Landmark College
Crip+Disability studies, Crip linguistics, rhetoric, First Year Writing, Neurodivergence, chronic illness #ActuallyAutistic
OKC ✈️ VT
✌️Views my own
Robin Queen (she) @rqueen.bsky.social Linguist, knitter, shepherd, reader
Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in language assessment. Associate Editor at Language Learning journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679922). Views own. https://isbell.github.io/
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Dylan Burton @dylanburton.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia State University. MSU and Lancaster alum. My research focus is on language testing and assessment. Learn more about me here: https://dylanburton.hcommons.org
Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social Artist, author, lexicographer, solo parent
Oxford, UK
(she/her)
www.imogenfoxell.com
Wendalyn Nichols @wendalynnichols.bsky.social The Dictionary Lady
Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social linguistiks knitting kids kats ceramiks and everything with /k/ or 'k', I just decided
she/her
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
📰 Sign up for the newsletter at LinguisticDiscovery.Substack.com or LinguisticDiscovery.com!
LingComm @lingcomm.org Communicating linguistics with broader audiences (#LingComm25, 23, 21 conferences).
Posts by @becauselanguage.com
More info at lingcomm.org
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner- L Lal Zimman @lalzimman.bsky.social
Joe McVeigh @eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social I'm a linguist & sr lecturer at Metropolia Uni. PhD in linguistics and marketing. I like #language & #linguistics, hockey, baseball and comic books - but maybe not in that order :)
https://eviljoemcveigh.com
Monica Krausse @realmnemonica.bsky.social Retired copy editor. Caregiver. Puzzle person. Crochet person. Dog person. I can see Mexico from my kitchen.
Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person.
Sonja Lanehart @slanehart.bsky.social Black woman Professor of Sociolinguistics. Whovian.
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
Heddwen Newton - English & Dutch @heddwen.bsky.social I write the monthly newsletter English and the Dutch, about all the ways English and Dutch interact: https://englishandthedutch.substack.com/
English teacher at Bielefeld University (EAL & ELA)
Dutch English
World Englishes
AI English
Lexicography
@thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social Poetry. Dictionaries. Toronto & Waterloo. http://thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca. Book on modern poetry and etymology from OUP in 2020.
Jonathan Dent @jwdent.bsky.social Lancastrian in Reading and Oxford, lexicographer.
Mike Pope @mikepope.com Tech writing & editing (update: now retired), language & words, occasional cats.
Friday words when the mood strikes me (and when it's Friday): https://mikepopewords.com/
Heather E. Saunders @h-e-saunders.bsky.social 🧡 That space-loving, orange-haired editor 🌟Here for edibuddies, space stuff, doggos, sustainability, inclusion & kindness🔸she/they/Mx
Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social A collection of non-detached linguist parts.
Currently an Assistant Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
(he/him)
Joel Tillman @jtillman.bsky.social he/him 🏳️🌈 IBS 💊 New York City 🗽
linguist, editor, educator 🤓
Jewish/Quaker 🕎☮️
Adult ESL Adjunct Instructor
EdM — Teachers College, Columbia University 🚕
MA — The University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰
sings karaoke and in piano bars 🎤
video games with friends online 🎮
Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.
Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social Linguist @ UC Berkeley. Language documentation, archiving, and historical linguistics. "Basic Yurok" (2014) and "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, memory, and Indigenous California" (2023). Running; semi-competitive age-grade racer.
Nathan Sanders @ludling.bsky.social University of Toronto linguistics professor, phonology, phonetics, EDI-focused pedagogy, educational games, R, LaTeX, boardgames, photography, sci-fi, 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳🌈 (he/him)
homepage: https://sanders.phonologist.org/
Anthony Shore @operativewords.com I name things.
https://www.operativewords.com
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.
Stephen Turton @stephenturton.bsky.social ‘Stephen’ with a PhD. Studies the history of the English language in relation to society and culture. Owns too many dictionaries. Departmental Lecturer in English Language @universityofoxford.
Language Science Station at Planet Word @langscistation.bsky.social We do language science research and engagement with the public! Find us at the Planet Word museum in Washington D.C., and here: https://go.umd.edu/LanguageScienceStationAtPlanetWord
Katherine Connor Martin @kconnormartin.bsky.social I work in academic publishing innovation at the Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford University Press. Personal account.
Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor & Associate Dean of Education
@Stanfordeducation.Bsky.social. Af. Am. Studies & Linguistics by courtesy.
PI of the @StanfordBADLab.Bsky.social
Jan Barker Alexander Resident Fellow of Ujamaa House
Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social Prof @ Purdue, ExLing Lab Director https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/
Author of Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gradient-acceptability-and-linguistic-theory-9780192898951
Anne-José Villeneuve @ajvilleneuve.bsky.social Optimist.e & sociolinguist.e | Personal posts en français and in English.
💜🐕🐶💚 (elle/she/her)
Ben Yagoda @byagoda.bsky.social Author "Gobsmacked!”; “About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made"; "Will Rogers: A Biography"; "How To Not Write Bad" etc.
Catchword Branding @catchword.bsky.social Naming and Branding Gurus
Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.
JP Villanueva @jpv206.bsky.social South Seattle language learner, ukulele learner. Fan of social justice, decolonization, and urbanism. You'll be proud of me someday.
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social Middle-school English teacher. Former dictionary editor and spokesperson. I write about etymology at mashedradish.com.
Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social The Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU. For the dinkum oil on Australian English, historical lexicography, Australian Oxford Dictionaries. CRICOS: 00120
Encyclopedia Briannica @e-briannica.bsky.social technical editor, historical linguist, 2D cartoon person
http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/
https://bit.ly/briannica
Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org Senior Lecturer in English linguistics, Université d'Artois | morphosyntax, pragmatics, corpus linguistics | Linguiste atterré @tract-linguistes.org | VP & webmaster @saesfrance.org | disability, autism | 🚴 | ☘️
🔗 https://linktr.ee/f_moncomble
UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social The University Of Massachusetts Boston Applied Linguistics Department. Account managed by @koutropoulos.bsky.social
Erin Brenner (she/her) @ebrenner.bsky.social Author of "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors." 📘
2024 winner of the Robinson Prize. 🏆
Builder of editing teams for small and growing organizations. 💪
Advocate for conscious language. 💬
Jerry Bailey @jbailey59.bsky.social
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesheidlower.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Lexicographer. http://sfdictionary.com. The F-Word. Ex-OED. Past President, American Dialect Society. Adjunct at Columbia. Coder. Barbells. Threesome […]
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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist
Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
@wordlust.bsky.social @wordlust.bsky.social
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
EditorMark @editormark.bsky.social Focus: the free exchange of ideas. Editor, writer, ally. Advocate for plain language, journalism, diversity, tolerance. Believes universities, corporations and other institutions should not be arms of the state (i.e., antifascist). Host, That Word Chat.
Martha Barnette @marthabarnette.bsky.social Co-host, “A Way with Words” public radio show. Speaking requests: info@marthabarnette.com
Author of the bestselling FRIENDS WITH WORDS: ADVENTURES IN LANGUAGELAND
marthabarnette.com
#etymology #writing #books #words @wayword
Prescriptivism Must Die! @mgrammar.bsky.social Psycholinguist, and the guy who used to write Motivated Grammar. He/him.
Erstwhile blogger: https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
Prosecute ICE and send Homan to the Hague.
@wishydig.bsky.social @wishydig.bsky.social
John McIntyre @johnemcintyre.bsky.social Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore.
Gerri Berendzen @gerrrib.bsky.social I teach editing, writing and information management at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at KU. I'm a fan of words, baseball, college basketball, St. Louis and Futurama. Remember: Everyone needs an editor.
Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social The Linguistic Society of America supports the scientific study of language and shares interesting linguistic stories. Join the LSA today!
Merrill Perlman @meperl.bsky.social Editor, language lover, teacher, journalist, consultant, baker.
Steve @stevenbird.bsky.social I paint models and roll dice 🎲
David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.
Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Economist-Guide-Books/dp/1639364374
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Erin O’C @kirinqueen.bsky.social Sewist, linguist, SF walker, baker, maker, observer. Probably mending or making something right now.