Olga Capirci @olgacapi.bsky.social Research Director at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR Italy. Head of the LaCAM lab (Language and Communication across Modalities). Multimodal Language Development, Gestures, Sign Languages, Autism
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METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab @metulangcoglab.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account of METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab. Our PI is @duyguoezge.bsky.social. Reach us by e-mailing: lcd@metu.edu.tr
Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social #signlanguage #asl #deafed #AI #education language acquisition, #cogsci 
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Kate Rowley @katerowley.bsky.social Deaf academic based at UCL & Deputy Director of DCAL.
Bonnie McLean @bonniemclean.bsky.social PhD student at Uppsala University
iconicity and ideophones are the best words
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@aslierciyes.bsky.social @aslierciyes.bsky.social 
Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social Reader in Interpreting and Translation, focus sign languages
Mehmet Kerem Turkcan @mehmetkeremturkcan.bsky.social Associate research scientist at Columbia University. Computer vision and deep learning applications. Previously member of Bionet lab, focusing on Drosophila.
Marieke Hoetjes @mariekehoetjes.bsky.social Assistant professor in Language and Communication at Radboud University. Interested in multimodal communication, specifically gesture studies
Martina Mellana @martinamellana.bsky.social PhD Student in the Multimodal Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Milan University. SLP.
The LAB Lab 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social We study the neurobiology of language and its relationship to consciousness, mental health, and wellbeing using neuroimaging and psychedelics at UCL 🧠 🗣️
http://www.lab-lab.org/
UCL Centre for Consciousness Research
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Kenny Smith @kennysmithed.bsky.social Professor of evolutionary linguistics at Edinburgh. Cyclist, runner, climber, coward.
@esamghaleb.bsky.social @esamghaleb.bsky.social 
Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social City St George’s, University of London. Speech & Language Therapist, yoga, dogs #languagedevelopment #signlanguage #literacy #deaf
Science News @scinews.bsky.social Science News from Academic Journals etc.
Sharon Unsworth @sharonneke.bsky.social Linguist specialised in multilingualism @ Radboud University, science communicator, scientific director of Kletskoppen, creator and host of Kletsheads podcast, sewer, baker and lover of life
Chinmaya(ଚିନ୍ମୟ) (PhD) #SocialRobotics Researcher @chinmayamishra.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @mpi-nl.bsky.social
ex-Furhat Robotics
|| Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Social Robots, NLP, Psycholinguistics ||
Can we have a real "Jarvis" or "Sonny"? 
Rebecca Defina @rebeccadefina.bsky.social DECRA fellow @unimelb. Non-Indigenous psycholinguist studying event representation, complex predicates, gesture, and acquisition of Pitjantjatjara. She/they
Marta Morgado @martamorgado.bsky.social Post-doc fellow at the University of Birmingham. My research: International Sign in SLs. Deaf. My luggage: running shoes, kindle books and drawing materials. she/her 🌈
Marcus Perlman @mperlman.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in iconicity, language, gesture, evolution, gorillas, and the future of intelligent life.
Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social Conversation analyst at the University of York. Interests include CA methods, turn-taking, multimodality, and the recruitment of assistance—e/acc
Ludovica Serratrice @ludoserratrice.bsky.social Linguist, professor at the University of Reading and at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Interested in language development, multilingualism, pragmatics, speech and language therapy, and dogs.
https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/ludovica-serratrice
Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social Multimodal Communication and Learning in Social Interactions (CoCoDev team). Associate Professor of Computer/Cognitive Science at Aix-Marseille University.
afourtassi.github.io
Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Professor of the Psychology of Language at University College London. Director of the Language and Cognition Lab. 
@hasandikyuva.bsky.social @hasandikyuva.bsky.social 
Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Communication Sciences & Disorders @ChapmanUniversity. Director of of Cognition, Language & Plasticity Lab: http://www.claplab.org/ Co-founder of ASL-LEX database: https://asl-lex.org/ Pronouns: She/her. 
Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social The official(ish) account of the Auditory-VIsual Speech Association (AVISA) AV 👄 👓 speech references, but mostly what interests me avisa.loria.fr
Onur Keleş @onurkeles.bsky.social PhD Student of Linguistics, Research Assistant at Bogazici University | Interested in visual-gestural modality, quantitative linguistics, and natural language processing
Reyhan Furman, PhD @reyhanfurman.bsky.social Laboratory Manager of the Multimodal Language Dept. @ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics • Interested in language, gesture, development, and cognition • 🇹🇷 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 • Human of a grumpy 🐶 • Lover of swimming • She/her
Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social Assistant Professor
Director of the Cognitive Science of Language Graduate Program
Associate Editor
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ROLE Collective: https://www.rolecollective.org/
he/him
Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social I study STEM learning, development, education, instructional communication, gesture, diagrams. Professor and mom. She/her.
Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, PhD @cogirmak.bsky.social cog.neuropsychology | neurodiversity, memory, time, motion & comics - Postdoc @ Tilburg University | writer and doodle artist elsewhere
Ben Ambridge @ambridge.bsky.social Prof of Psychology/Child Language, University of Manchester. Author of PSY-Q, Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee? and The Stories of Your Life
Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
ManyBabies @manybabies.org A global consortium of developmental researchers. Join us! manybabies.org [posts by ExecDirector @hbaum.bsky.social]
Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living in California. Author of "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" from Oxford University Press, published in January 2025.
Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University 
Christina Bergmann @chbergma.bsky.social Cognitive Science, #ManyBabies, Transparent Science, Networking, Communication, and a big helping from the Open Science Buffet
Cargo biker, Fairphoner, Parent
she/her
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Kensy Cooperrider @kensycoop.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com 
Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social
Penny Pexman @pennypexman.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Vice President (Research) at Western University 🇨🇦
Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social Educational Neurosci. at Gallaudet. Brains, actions, language, emerging tech. ASL in XR. 🪴
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social Developmental psychologist translating the science of how kids learn for parents, educators, & policymakers. Loves tennis and vegan ice cream. Find me at Brookings Institution and Temple University.
Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno
Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist studying language & thought, multimodal communication, event cognition & evidentiality • https://ercenurunal.github.io
Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social Director, NCCR Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch) and Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
David Peeters @davidpeeters.bsky.social associate professor in communication and cognition - la science pour la science
Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social We study language and cognition interface (lclab.ku.edu.tr), led by @TilbeGoksun.bsky.social. Bilingual (Turkish-English) tweets.
Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social Professor at San Diego State University; sign languages, neuroscience, reading, gesture, all things linguistic
Boston University Conference on Language Development @bucld.bsky.social Official account of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), organized by the students and faculty of @bulinguistics.bsky.social since 1976.
BUCLD 50 took place on November 6–9, 2025.
Web: https://www.bu.edu/bucld
Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
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Judith Holler @judithholler.bsky.social Leader of the Communication in Social Interaction (CoSI) research lab (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) https://www.cosilab.nl/ https://www.mpi.nl/people/holler-judith https://www.ru.nl/en/p
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Sho Akamine @shoakamine.bsky.social Ph.D candidate @mpi-nl.bsky.social studying multimodal alignment in social interaction. Interested in #mulitmodality, #interaction, #kinematics, #stats, #causal_inference. Okinawa🇯🇵 → Nijmegen🇳🇱
Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social
www.disi.org/manyminds/
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
James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social Assistant prof at University of Amsterdam using motion tracking and virtual agents to study multimodal language and social interaction.
Autistic and interested in autistic language and interaction.
Dad/papa, artist, runner, gamer.
Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social Postdoc at @TTIC_Connect, working on sign languages, nonmanuals, multimodality. #FirstGen formerly PhD at @LifeAtPurdue, MA at @unibogazici | she/hers
International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social The International Congress of Infant Studies is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion of research on the development of infants
https://infantstudies.org/
Jennie Pyers @jenniepyers.bsky.social Developmental scientist and psycholinguist studying language and cognitive development and language emergence; sign language, bilingualism, iconicity, gesture; Queer parent of neurodiverse kids; Proud Coda
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) | 9-11 July 2025 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | https://www.isgs10.nl
Anita Slonimska @anitaslonimska.bsky.social Postdoc at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Multimodality, Pragmatics, Language Evolution
Albert Ali Salah @albertalisalah.bsky.social Prof. Social and Affective Computing, Utrecht University.
Former institutions: Boğaziçi University, Nagoya University, University of Amsterdam, CWI.
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~salah006/
Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social all about (sign) language acquisition & visual attention
Postdoc at the Language Acquisition & Visual Attention Lab at Boston University
Cagla Aydin @caglaaydin.bsky.social Faculty member, researcher at Sabanci University, Istanbul- Autobiographical memory, language- PI @ CLAM Lab
Sharice Clough, PhD @shariceclough.bsky.social Postdoc at MPI for Psycholinguistics in Multimodal Language Department studying links between gesture and memory after brain injury. Speech-Language Pathologist. Nature lover. Cat person.
Marlijn ter Bekke @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social language/neuroscientist (she/her) studying multimodal communication during face-to-face conversation @dondersinst.bsky.social | https://marlijnterbekke.nl
@bilimakademisi.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org - Bilimsel Liyakat, Özgürlük, Dürüstlük #BAGEP / #BAkonferans / #BAkitap / https://dukkan.bilimakademisi.org &
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Silva Ladewig @silvaladewig.bsky.social linguist, gesture researcher, prinicipal investigator, science communicator @University of Göttingen
https://silvaladewig.de/
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social 
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
Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick (@warwickpsych.bsky.social). Interested in #gesture, #language, #learning #evolution, #communication, #development, #Rstats, & #openscience.
Personal Webpage: https://suzanneaussems.github.io/
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Vera Kempe @vkempe.bsky.social Chair of Psychology of Language Learning at Abertay University. Here for language & politics. IRL also tango. 
Patrick Louis Rohrer @patricklrohrer.bsky.social Postdoc at the Donders Institute working at the intersection of multimodal prosody, pragmatics, and language acquisition
Catherine Laing @cathelaing.bsky.social Developmental linguist, outdoorsy type, PI for SENFM https://senfm.york.ac.uk/
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Onderzoeks- en onderwijsuniversiteit in Amsterdam. Meest duurzame universiteit van Nederland 2023 🌎 Unlock Your Potential. #VUamsterdam
Universiteit van Amsterdam @uva.nl Een moderne, onderzoeksintensieve universiteit met een lange en rijke geschiedenis. We zijn de grootste universiteit van NL met het breedste opleidingsaanbod. Making impact since 1632.
Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social Researcher in child language development @MPI for Psycholinguistics & Radboud Uni. She/her. "All models are wrong but some are useful" (George Box 1978). https://www.mpi.nl/people/rowland-caroline
Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social language & cognition (http://lclab.ku.edu.tr), faculty member @ Koç University - Istanbul, Turkey
Lab: @kudilvebilis.bsky.social
http://www.tilbegoksunyoruk.com/
Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social Developmental Scientist • Assoc. Prof of Psychological and Brain Sciences / Pediatrics at UIowa • Studying environmental experiences and neurocognitive development • Lab website: https://demir-lira.lab.uiowa.edu
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social We undertake fundamental research into the psychological, social and biological foundations of #language | Onderzoeksinstituut voor #taal, van genetica tot gedrag
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www.visuallanguagelab.com
Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social Director,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Multimodal Language Dept.Turkish expat studied in the US; lives @Netherlands,works for the German Max Planck Society - https://www.mpi.nl/people/ozyurek-asli - I am more active on Linkedin:)
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