bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social wondering how humans and computers learn and use language 👶🧠🗣️🖥️💬
the work is mysterious and important, see bbunzeck.github.io
mentally still at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, phd @clausebielefeld.bsky.social
DGKL-GCLA @dgkl-gcla.bsky.social Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik / German Cognitive Linguistics Association https://www.dgkl-gcla.de/
Next conference: Bielefeld University, 31.08.-02.09.2026 https://t1p.de/dgkl2026
11th DGKL/GCLA conference in Bielefeld @dgkl2026.bsky.social Account of the the 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, in Bielefeld, Germany, from August 31st to September 2nd, 2026. Run by @lingucat.bsky.social
Grammar and Corpora 2027 @gac2027.bsky.social 11th International Conference "Grammar & Corpora" 2027, HHU Düsseldorf @hhu.de
30.06–02.07.2027
Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor. Evolution, Genetics, Neuroscience, Linguistic Cognition
https://www.cedricboeckx.com
David Goldstein @dmgoldstein.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, and Classics at UCLA
Sofie Moors @sofiemoors.bsky.social PhD student @uantwerpen @fwo Instagram: @phdofsofie
Ronja Hulst @ronbaas.bsky.social PhD candidate at the evolutionary modelling Group at KU Leuven (@vandenberglab.bsky.social)
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg) @vandenberglab.bsky.social At the evolutionary modelling group at KU Leuven (Belgium) we develop evolutionary models to understand how living organisms adapt, from antibiotic resistance to the evolution of human language.
website: www.pietervdberg.com
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット) @kathetgedacht.bsky.social FWO fellow @ KU Leuven studying the origin and evolution of human language
@vandenberglab.bsky.social
winner of the 2025 LAVA Scholarship for autistic researchers
pedagoog, bioloog en ervaringstaalkundige
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland 
Karakter - Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap @karakterasl.bsky.social Essays waarin wetenschappers uit alle disciplines reflecteren op wat grensverleggend, spraakmakend, controversieel of simpelweg mooi is in hun vakgebied. Vier keer per jaar op papier, wekelijks op Spotify & Apple.
🔗 tijdschriftkarakter.be
Niklas Erben Johansson @iconiklas.bsky.social A linguist who likes cognitive biases, iconicity, typology and maps
Stan van der Burght 🟥 @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social Assistant prof. Neuro/Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social / Leiden University Centre for Linguistics @unileiden.bsky.social
https://www.mpi.nl/people/burght-constantijn-van-der
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/stan-van-der-burght#tab-1
Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social Consultant in Public Health at Bradford Institute for Health Research. Interested in quantitative research methods and mental health
NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social Exploring the past, present, and future of language
💬|🐵|🧠|📱 Based at the University of Geneva, the University of Zurich and the University of Neuchatel.
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Christophe Heintz @heintz-c.bsky.social Cognitive scientist @ CEU
--> Cognition and Society, communication, coordination, cultural evolution, evolutionary psychology
Kenny Smith @kennysmithed.bsky.social Professor of evolutionary linguistics at Edinburgh. Cyclist, runner, climber, coward.
Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social Cognitive scientist / Linguist - Full Professor at University of Oslo
Director of @manylanguagesc.bsky.social, PI of ICONIC (https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/iconic/)
#MetaScience #OpenScience
#DataViz #PresentationDesign #SciComm
Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social Group leader LEADS MPI_NL & Radboud ➡️ Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Animal & Human Cognition; Open Science; DON'T DREAM IT - BE IT!
Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social (Multi)Linguist, Creolist, Romanist
Professeur de linguistique française (VUB)
Citoyen européen, Saarlandberliner, Bruxellois
er/il/he/hij
Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social Assistant professor of communication and computational methods @ Radboud University. I'm interested in why human languages are the way they are and how people from different cultures use them. Communicative efficiency, corpus-based typology, statistics, AI
Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.
Outside of work: Classical guitar, beginning student of piano. I like our cats, on occasion.
Web page: vasishth.github.io
ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org The Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (ALICE) workshop, is an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in complex systems and collective intelligence.
🌐 aliceworkshop.org
Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social Little but fierce. PhD student in the Centre for Language Evolution (Edinburgh) studying the evolution of structure in kinship terminology. she/her
David F. @davflkr.bsky.social languaging is langauging
Eva Zehentner @evaevaz.bsky.social historical usage-based linguist at the English Department, UZH
project WWW-SArDEEn starting soon: https://evazehentner.wordpress.com/www-sardeen/
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social Associate Professor of English linguistics at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 🇫🇷 modality, language change, cognitive contact linguistics, World Englishes
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
An Olaerts @anolaerts.bsky.social journalist | columnist | neemt overal stylo’s mee ✍🏻
Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social Linguist @Uni Rostock & CRC 1646 Bielefeld. Young ZiF fellow. Ex-LUH Hannover, Ex-FWO Vlaanderen fellow @UGent. I like grammatical categories, CxG, teaching, and coffee. she/her; sie/ihr #linguistics #gamification #Syntagma #Tristaben - ['poːlɪt]
Wim Remysen @kwebek.bsky.social Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke, directeur du CRIFUQ (@crifuq.bsky.social) et responsable du Fonds de données linguistiques du Québec (@plateformeFDLQ.bsky.social).
Recherche en #sociolinguistique #histoiredelalangue #linguistiquedecorpus
Toke Hoffmeister @tokehoff.bsky.social Linguist | postdoc @GRK2700.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social |
LANGUAGE | COGNITION | CULTURE
www.tokehoffmeister.de
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot
NetLogo @netlogo.bsky.social Official account for NetLogo https://www.netlogo.org/
Melissa Schuring @melissaschuring.bsky.social 💬 postdoctoral researcher 🗣️ Contact linguistics / sociolinguistics - Project OMG - 🆒👥 http://melissaschuring.com
adriaan @a3lem.bsky.social ML engineer. Easily nerd-sniped. Spicy takes are my own
Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2027 will take place in Manchester, from 5-8 January 2027. Stay tuned!
https://2027.computational-humanities-research.org
Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social sie/ihr | she/her
Postdoc @isle-uzh.bsky.social
Gemeinderätin der Stadt Zürich @spzuerich.ch
Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social Prof Language Evolution FBA FRSE MAE. Head of Dept, Linguistics & English Language, Uni Edinburgh. With my students & collaborators I do science & art. he/him. simonkirby.net
Laura C. Dees @lauradees.bsky.social Doing a PhD in the realm of evolutionary language science @Uni Zurich, generally interested in linguistic and cultural diversity.
Background pic: one of Matthew Wongs masterpieces
Anastassia Shaitarova @shaitarova.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich @cl-uzh.bsky.social
Impact of GenAI on Language | Language Change | Psycholinguistics Digital Humanities | Negation Resolution
Matthias Freiberger @freiberg.bsky.social patterns | optimization | dynamical systems | nature | art
Here to learn new things and share thoughts. Not all of them are useful, but they are mine (i. e. not my employer's)
Melissa Farasyn @melissafarasyn.bsky.social Postdoc in linguistics at UGent and KU Leuven for FWO Vlaanderen. Passionate about dialectology, syntax, cats, word plays, French fries and French Flemish.
/ instituut voor de Nederlandse taal / @ivdnt.bsky.social Het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT) verzamelt, beschrijft & onderzoekt alle aspecten van het Nederlands.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands @clin35-2025.bsky.social Call for Abstracts is out!
Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN) is a yearly conference on computational linguistics. In 2025, CLIN is organized by KU Leuven.
https://clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/
Protolang @protolang.bsky.social Conference series "Ways to Protolanguage" http://protolang.org/
Next conference: #Protolang9, University of Vienna, September 15-17, 2025 https://protolang9.univie.ac.at/
Jos Swanenberg @josswanenberg.bsky.social Sociolinguist @ Tilburg University & KNAW Meertens Institute
Steffen Höder @steffenhoeder.de Scandinavian linguistics @uni-kiel.de | construction grammar & language contact | https://steffenhoeder.de | https://linktr.ee/steffenhoeder
Chiara Paolini @chiarascura10.bsky.social PhD candidate @QLVL_Leuven | Lang variation, constructions, distributional semantics | playlists plants politics poledance | Intersectional feminist she/her
Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social Associate Professor in English Linguistics - University of Lille. Interested in English, the semantics-pragmatics interface, Construction Grammar, Relevance Theory - VP (outreach) of AFLiCo
https://pro.univ-lille.fr/benoit-leclercq
CJ Young | 楊淳然 Iûnn Sûn-Jiân @seajayseajay.bsky.social PhDing @ucsbling.bsky.social. Classical flutist & linguist. Typology, syntax, prosody, Austronesian (Philippine & Formosan), new interests in Otomanguean (Mixtec & Zapotec). Coffee geek. Noodle-thusiast. Taiwanese. he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
http://seajayseajay.github.io
Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social Linguist | Sinologist
Ideophones, onomatopoeia, iconic words @KU_Leuven ➡️ @NTU_TW ➡️ @HKUniversity ➡️ @KU_Leuven and @FWOVlaanderen
thomasvanhoey.com
@lorenverreyen.bsky.social @lorenverreyen.bsky.social PhD Student @ University of Antwerp/University of Amsterdam/FWO
Distant Listening: Fictionality in True Crime Podcasts
Anna Sofia Churchill @aschurchill.bsky.social PhD Candidate - ERC Starting Grant Project COLLAB @KU_Leuven | Collaborative Practices of Making Literature in Contexts of Displacement and Migration | ex-professional opera singer 
Rik van Noord @rikvannoord.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Humane AI and NLP at the University of Groningen (GroNLP)
Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Linguist @ HHU Düsseldorf. Language dynamics, cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, corpus linguistics; dabbling in stats & data science. Also, bad puns. He/him. 🏳️🌈
Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
- W Martijn Wieling @wieling.bsky.social Bijzonder hoogleraar Nedersaksische/ Groningse Taal en Cultuur aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social. Vaak te vinden op #festivals met het #SPRAAKLAB
Artes Research @artesresearch.bsky.social Research Team at KU Leuven Libraries Artes | Digital Scholarship Support for researchers at the Faculty of Arts
Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social Marito e padre. Linguist @ Radboud Universiteit. Lezer. Hoofdredacteur Neerlandistiek. Editor Journal of Linguistics. Prezidanto de Esperanto Nederland kaj membro de la Akademio de Esperanto. פארװאלטונג פון דער יידישער לעקסיקאגראפיע־פא
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Thomas Winters @thomaswinters.be Guest professor AI @ KU Leuven | Researcher creative AI, large language models & computational humor | Keynote speaker
thomaswinters.be
Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change 
Miet Ooms (die van noncha vogala, Buurtaal en de leestekens) @taalmiet.bsky.social Taalnerd en kersverse student logopedie.
Boeken: Buurtaal, Tot in de puntjes, Eerste hulp bij taalkwesties, Van vogala tot noncha.
Podcast: Kinderen van het ABN (De lage landen).
Heeft het over taal, taal en euh ... taal.
Leah Budke @leahcb.bsky.social Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Specialist at KU Leuven Libraries Artes ➡ @artesresearch.bsky.social | PhD in Literary Studies, bibliophile, feminist, perpetual learner.
Other interests include: 🪡🧶🧘♀️🐈⬛☕️🌿
Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social NLP assistant prof at KU Leuven, PI @lagom-nlp.bsky.social. I like syntax more than most people. Also multilingual NLP, interpretability, mountains and beer. (She/her)