John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Academic, U of Portsmouth, UK: corpus linguistics, lexicology/graphy, semantics, word play. Also interested in French literature & culture. UCU activist ( @ucu.org.uk )
Also likes: cats, singing, LFC, Lancashire cricket, talking too much
Kat @katriddell.bsky.social writer, knitter, cyborg, library wizard, Gentlewoman of Evil. “chaotic but a delight.” “lewd but a gentleman.” cake/coffee life. practice makes better. known across two universities for pronouncing “Foucault” like “fucko.” 🏳️🌈🧃✡️ (any pronouns)
Jean @voynichjean.bsky.social Interests include the Voynich manuscript and freshwater aquarium fish. Summer’s here and adventure calls…
Aline M. Ramos @alinemramos.bsky.social (ea/eam)
Philosophy Ph.D. turned alt-ac.
Fast thinker, slow runner, avid swimmer.
Formerly Twitter's favourite Medievete™.
Not your average Zelda Fitzgerald.
Occasionally still moonlights as a philosophy prof.
📍 Montreal, Canada
ϑ.WordArt 🖤🩶🤍💜 @wordarttmn.bsky.social eth/el/eu=he/him. Engenhaire logiciau guian. Un d'aqueths neolocutors. Giftedness information and Windows Vista appreciation account. Ղարաբաղ Էրմէնիստանտըր.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Akankshya Mishra @dandelionwhirl.bsky.social Doctoral Student in Theoretical Syntax (Depresso Linguini)
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Chartered Institute of Linguists @ciol-linguists.bsky.social For languages and linguists. The Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) serving linguists and language professionals in the UK and worldwide since 1910.
Tom Herlík @tomherlik.eu Píšu Anglofila, každopondělní newsletter o angličtině a Británii: https://tomherlik.eu/anglofil/
Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social Associate Professor, Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mostly Tolkien.
Rohan @pisatyel.bsky.social Aspiring Linguist
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
alexei l. batishchev @alexeibat.bsky.social [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej] (or [əˈlɛkseɪ] if you want) [bɐˈtʲiɕəf]
a man of many names
linguist, grad student, ESL instructor, artist, poet, immigrant, feminist, anti-racist, queer, bi, trans, episcopalian
(he/they)
probably rambling about linguistics and life
Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social Mom, Professor of Linguistics @colorado.edu. 1st gen Construction Grammarian, Fillmore protégée, using social semiotic syntax to combine climate-change action & meaning construction. Feet planted in Boulder, heart still in Berkeley
Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social @AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic)
art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers
David Neate @neatedavid.bsky.social Retired teacher, living on the land of the Wadawurrung people near Ballarat, Victoria. Working with my local Landcare Group to restore and protect our environment keeps me grounded. Caring for creation is an outworking of Christian faith.
afuyeas @afuyeas.bsky.social Profile picture: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/105212610
[əˈfu.jəs], [a.fu'jas] or whatever makes you most comfortable.
Suem pascaris, ante ostium cacabit.
FR/ENG OK.
Part-Time Genius @parttimegenius.bsky.social Fascinating facts and curious corners of the world, from Will and Mango, the guys who started Mental Floss. New episodes weekly, in all the podcast places.
Call our hotline with questions, ideas, and/or puns: (302) 405-5925.
museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, #AuDHD, strolling player, cishet 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.
Christian Seidl @cseidl.bsky.social Sprachwissenschaftler, politisch interessiert.
In Zürich wohnhaft, aber aus 🇦🇹
James @feelieking.bsky.social Role-player, boardgamer, lifelong Doctor Who fan. (he/him)
Nighttime Tea @nighttimetea.bsky.social A hot cup of tea on a cold starless night.
Audiobook reviews & quotes.
Fantasy, SF, Classics.
If I followed you I think you're neat.
Soul bound to @trashphalt.beauty
World’s slowest writer.
Living in Kanata. Gay old hag. No AI.
Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info Translator & flash sf writer (BSFA); 🇨🇿/🇬🇧
Eclectic poster (current affairs, archaeology, science, words, writing)
❤️ travel, coffee, puns; 🚫 genAI; unsolicited DM = block
Married; 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️ ally; #NAFO fella; 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇬🇱
Writing & links: https://linktr.ee/alastairmillar
Carrie Gillon @carrieg.bsky.social linguist, cat lover, nerd
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Grail Seeker @grailseeker.bsky.social Recumbent tri(c)k(st)er. Interests: myth, legend, folklore, symbolism, spirit of place, hauntology, psychogeography, environmental art, ecospirituality, apophenia, weirdness, forteana, metaphysics, mythopoeia, neurodivergence.
Ruimin Gao 高睿敏 @ruimingao.bsky.social Incoming PhD student @ NYU Psych | interested in language, 🧠 and 🤖
Cristiano Bacchieri @crisbacchieri.bsky.social 📺 Language Mediator 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 > 🇮🇹
✏️ Into languages & (great) stories
🏠 Parma, Italy
https://linktr.ee/crisbacchieri
Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
🐺 Monster enthusiast
🕹️ Games @spaceboat.bsky.social
🎵 Metalhead
📖 35 books published
🎙️ Legends and Lectures / Archaeoscoop
https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & £. Re-enchantment is resistance.
Dr. Smiti Nathan @smitinathan.bsky.social Archaeologist 🏺 & Public Educator 🧪
Academic research: archaeology, Bronze & Iron Age Oman, Ancient Ethiopia, archaeobotany, GIS, remote sensing, ethnoarchaeology
https://smitinathan.com
Jen Harland @jenharland.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Associate Professor in Environmental Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands, based in Orkney. Currently obsessed with whaling history and whaling stories in Scotland. 🇨🇦
Olof Vikberg @olofvikberg.bsky.social Teacher of German and Yiddish. Interested in all things languages and geography, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe.
Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social If you’d be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal.
Elizabeth she/her @eisraeldavis.bsky.social Always striving to better understand how we translate learning research into educational practice, especially in literacy.
Also enjoy most things Star Trek, cheese, mythology/folklore, language nerdery, cool things in Portland, OR, and union solidarity.
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Peter Foden @ysgrifnlaw.bsky.social Opening the scroll and the scrawl to seek the soul of things (then and now). Archivist, palaeographer, interpreter, tutor. Family. Disability. Faith. Ideas. Politics. Music. Cymro ar ddewis. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Hanesydd sy’n gweithio ar fy liwt fy hun.
Dr Patricia Kelleher @patkell07.bsky.social Historian. Hon Research Fellow, Univ of Dundee. Interested in all things historical on medical history of the Highlands.. Former archivist. Crime fiction, The Archers and knitting.
oren falk @orenfalk.bsky.social 🇮🇱🇵🇸 medieval cultural history, esp. Norse. wake up. brush teeth. sagas. rinse. repeat. not necessarily in that order.
Jimmywim @jimmywim.bsky.social Weather Nerd 🌤️. Social History Nerd 📖 Music Nerd 🎶 Architecture Nerd ⛪ Beginner knitter 🧶 Conservation Volunteer 🌿 Calligraphy ✍️ Cathedral Botherer ⛪
the Lsel ambassador’s situationship @garrettkiriakos.bsky.social “To think language would be so transparent as to allow knowing!” (Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace)
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social Ceterum autem censeo Crimaeam esse liberandam.
Nordistnörd @nordistnord.bsky.social Nordistfluencer, språkhistoriker, grammatiker. Doktorand i nordiska språk. Intresserad av allt från språk till språkvetenskap. Vintage style – not vintage values. AuDHD = äkta nörd!
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Leah @dreamsofvenus.bsky.social Linguist in LA. Vitam faciunt balnea vina Venus.
Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com A history podcast by @PaulMMCooper.com looking at a different collapsed society each episode.
patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast
Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social Aspiring linguist
Charles Snart (Histocrat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social Gnawing at the walls. 37. They/Them. Was a mediocre scientist now a mediocre youtuber.
No. of people Pathologic-pilled: 5
Discord (mutual's only): histocrat
https://www.youtube.com/@TheHistocrat
https://www.patreon.com/thehistocrat
Axel Jagau @yraneac.bsky.social Läbides inimkeelte metsi // Po puću přez lěsy rěčow // Kynii kelenii oi modoor ajalakani // בדרכי ביערות השפה
🇪🇪
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social NHS substance misuse service administrator. Writing a biography of King Leopold I of the Belgians. Beautiful Surrey. 
Languages Central @languagescentral.bsky.social We teach languages & English (EFL)
languagescentral.com
🇬🇬 Curiosity of!? Podcast @curiosityofpod.com A history, science and storytelling podcast. From spices to space dogs and corpse medicine to perception and AI to interviews. Stay curious! Host, find me on here: riclep.dev
Vera @infonta.bsky.social Type design & calligraphy — www.infonta.com.
The power of interpretation in type design. Historical material reimagined.
Letterforms of all kinds, styles and applications. Culture, research, fun.
Married, raising two bilingual kids.
Cambridge, UK
LanguageCrawler @languagecrawler.bsky.social A pan-linguistic experiment to crawl and uncover the world’s linguistic resources. www.languagecrawler.com
Lurks-No-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social A Finnish gamer, RPGer, science enthusiast, SF and fantasy fan, and a general nerd. He/him; "hän" in Finnish. :)
Anna Wright @annatwright.bsky.social German to English linguist | Translation & Localisation | Cross-cultural comms
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Anne Lipton, MD, PhD @annelipton.bsky.social Neurologist. Writer. Editor.
THE COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO DEMENTIA, PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION, THIS SIDE OF DOCTORING
Epistemic Literary Magazine.
#KidLitChuckleChallenge champion, #SpringFlingKidlit winner, #FallWritingFrenzy winner
Braden @niyate.bsky.social Daḳota iap kiŋ uŋhdukinipte!
Language revitalizationer. This is a personal account, but off-screen associated w/ Dakota Language Institute & Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies.
Donate to transadvocacysd.org
📍Daḳota Maḳoc̣e
Warren Maguire @warrenmaguire.bsky.social Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh.
Director of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics.
Co-editor of English Language & Linguistics.
English and Scots dialects, historical phonology, dialectology, historical linguistics.
Tetisheri @tetisheri.eurosky.social Photographer specialising in heritage and ancient Egyptian artefacts. Neurodivergent and living with MECFS.
Also at https://tetisheri.co.uk and https://tetisheri.substack.com. She/her.
Stav Zeitouni @stzeitouni.bsky.social Postdoc, Berkeley Law
NYU Law & Hebrew University alum
Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine)
🍂🫒
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
James Allen @jcjallen.bsky.social Software supporter, comedy industry escapee. Tell me your favourite trans-Neptunian object. #LGBwiththeT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Endorsed Legalise #Cannabis Party candidate for the Secret Harbour by-election.
Martyn Williams @martynmnw.bsky.social Presenter at Times Radio, LBC News, BBC Local Radio and the Time Team podcast.
Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social Archaeology (Time Team, Portable Antiquities Scheme). Politics (Green Party). Always have too much going on to do anything properly.
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
Katherine Connor Martin @kconnormartin.bsky.social I work in academic publishing innovation at the Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford University Press. Personal account.
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social Come and study German at the TEF Gold-rated University of Portsmouth on England's beautiful South Coast! https://www.port.ac.uk/study/subject-area/languages
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Barb the Birb @barbthebirb.bsky.social Bird & word nerd. Devotedly rhotic.
Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com YouTube word nerd. Host of RobWords and Words Unravelled.
LIVE AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE: 6th-16th August 2026. Tickets: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/robwords-live
Tanya Izzard @tanyaizzard.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I'm a book indexer working on scholarly humanities titles. Other hats include being the Marketing lead for the UK Society of Indexers and my E.M. Delafield website. https://tanyaizzard.co.uk/about/tanya-izzards-links/
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. VP British Society for the History of Science #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Helen Hey (she/her) @inkyfingertips.bsky.social Canadian editor/indexer for TTRPGs, websites, textbooks, and academic works. Hire me! https://trellisediting.com/
Likes: Video games, ecology, art, classic literature, geology, fantasy, food, history, anime, and folklore
Anti-LLM/AI
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social Musician/Composer/Electro-Medievalist.
PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song).
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social University of York, UK, Linguist, Phonetician, Conversation Analyst Occasional other stuff. Own views.
#EMCA #ConversationAnalysis #phonetics #linguistics
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Hippophlebotomist @hippophlebotomist.bsky.social 
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social 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.
голуboy @metempsychosisfan.bsky.social navigating a love-hate relationship with chomsky @ Georgetown Linguistics
they/he
Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Irish author.
Fic/non-fic. The "Finfarran" novels Standalone novel #OnceAYear Hachette 2025
Keynote speaker
London UK/Corca Dhuibhne Irl (Gaeilge 7 fáilte)
Lit rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
AA Bastian 卞曉菁 | باستيان @aabastian.com Freelance Journalist, Professional Interpreter @ForeignPolicy, Journal of Burma Studies, Honorable Mention “Japanese Carp”-75th Writers Digest Competition, https://aabastian.com
Rep'd by Amy Collins: The Dispatch: Rogue Americans in 19th C British Asia
Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚
Cascaolas @cascaolas.eurosky.social Early 40s, Scottish(ish). Here for nature pics and to learn things. He/him.