Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social Policy director~professor~utility infielder for bodily autonomy. Roots in Ohio, branches in NM & CA. We're going to get the government out of your doctor’s office, because freedom is for every body.
Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com Data + news apps @propublica.org • Nonprofit Explorer • runner, squeaky fiddler, probably thinking about food • Green Mountain Transit 🚍 board member • 🧶🧵 • 📍Vermont
signal: asuozzo.05
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Oh Deer the Summer is Here @ohdeerthermos.bsky.social 
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social Yo, this my corner
I ain’t running nowhere
Lucille @lucilleiii.bsky.social jezebel spirit — NYC.
➡️ Support PP clinic escorts! https://www.weareplannedparenthood.org/a/ppgny-patient-escort-donate
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | rogue historian | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh | views mine, not my employer's
Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social HF trader and manager. Former sell side and NYSE. Views are mine and not my employers or investment advice. NFL owner. #girldad
Bill Horton @mrhortywho.bsky.social Retired Marine, #COYG, Lions, Wolverines fan also.
Transgender For Everybody! @ktfalvey.bsky.social And see what the boys in the back room will have!
Late-blooming trans woman, recovering academic, lefty politico, fashionista, peasant cook, art slut, tree hugger, auntie, bar fly. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Erin go Bragh!🇮🇪 Free Palestine!🇵🇸 Chinga la Migra!🇲🇽 Hail! Minnesota🥶
a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social trying to escape birb flu
Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social Psychologist; SEEK Safely board president; marathoner. Realistic, sustainable trauma & addiction recovery.
One day at a time.
NME @nme365.bsky.social 
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social Just another lefty urbanist #NOLATwitter in exile
Nerdy things I’ve made:
https://tupress.temple.edu/books/monument-lab-1
https://plotofland.monumentlab.com/
https://www.papermonuments.org/
https://small.tulane.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04
Johnny Normality @probgobl.in I will one day combine the powers of an AK-47 and a Hello Kitty hat.
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social Not Laconic
Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social USAID, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian assistance veteran.
Missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Democrats Work For America @demswork4usa.bsky.social Democrats Work For America is a political action committee run for and by grassroots activists. We use a 'grassroots up', multi-state, multi-cycle strategy to win blue, keep it blue, and build the bench.
Robin Epley @byrobinepley.bsky.social Now: Opinion columnist @ The Sac Bee
Mainly: Pics of my dog
Sometimes: Politics
Formerly: Pulitzer finalist @ Chico E-R
Always: Feminine rage
Noah Shusterman @ncshusterman.bsky.social Above-average historian
Katie L. Thompson @bigsamthompson.bsky.social Virginia-based Unprofessional. Pop culture aficionado, cat person, life-long ska kid. Chaos over curation. (she/her)
Heidi Faith @heidifaith.bsky.social Porcelain Artist. Dog Mom to Tigger & Boo. Bookworm. Aging Athlete. Nature Lover. Pitbull Advocate. Web Developer. Graphic Designer. Snarky.
https://heidifaith.com/
Mike, Lost in the Supermarket @thenakedvine.bsky.social Food, wine, travel, wonder, justice, hint of random.
Best hairstyle on Bluesky.
Liam Voice @voicefrom.bsky.social The closest thing there is to a voice of reason.
Lecturer in Digital Media. Thinking about #DigitalCulture #Posthumanism #AnimalStudies #Technology #Philosophy
#NFFC fan. Fascinated by octopuses🐙
🐘: @voice@hcommons.social
🌐: https://www.drliamvoice.co.uk
E. Normus Johnson @enormusjohnson.bsky.social Running from the Bluesky Klan
Bogus Logus Gravy Sommelier @thejollycrank.bsky.social He/him Recently transplanted to Duluth. I love animals and bicycles among a few other things. May you be as free as the reeds in my harmonica. Reproductive care is healthcare. Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter.
Jesse Lunsford, PhD @jesselunsford.bsky.social Nutrition. Public health, health justice, food access. Anti racist. Pro labor forever and always. Evidence based. #COYS, Atheist
Mostly here for the anti racism.
This is solely a personal account
@sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social Researcher | Assistant Editor
Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social Professor of Organisational Communication at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Odense (Denmark)
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.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
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Sally Zacharias @salzacharias.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at School of Education, University of Glasgow. Educational linguistics. TESOL, EAL, CLIL. Interested in metaphor and multilingualism.- N Nelya Koteyko @nelya-kot.bsky.social Applied linguistics, autism, digital identity
Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social Professor in Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University; ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Metaphor, narrative | corpora | cancer, pain, Covid, vaccines
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
(he/him)
www.michaelpleyer.com
@symbolicstorage@scholar.social
@symbolicstorage
Friederike Lüpke @friederikelupke.bsky.social Linguist. Multilingualism researcher. Africanist. Learner of Finnish. Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki and chair of AfriStadi.
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
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Niamh A. O'Dowd @niamhaod.bsky.social Linguist at Uni of Oslo | my research focuses on metaphor, multimodality, and environmental communication
Lorena Pérez Hernández @lorenaph.bsky.social Lingüista Cognitiva en #unirioja #GRISSU y #GA_ICON t.ly/BtyUn
Consultora Lingüística para Lexicon Branding, Co.
Colaboradora en Naukas.
Escribo sobre el lenguaje en Principia, The Conversation y JotDown.
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Michel Dubois @ejsmdubois.bsky.social Sociologist of science, CNRS Senior Researcher, Director @gemass-socio.bsky.social Co-director @rfs-revue.bsky.social #Sociology #Epigenetics #Researchintegrity, see https://www.gemass.fr/member/dubois-michel
STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social A blog that aims to share appreciation for the width & depth of microbial activities.
Posts by Christoph, not necessarily the opinion of all team members of Small Things Considered (STC) https://smallthingsconsidered.blog/
M Dolores Porto @mdporto.bsky.social Senior lecturer at @UAH. Metaphors, Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality…
🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social assistant professor of English Language
at the University of British Columbia. cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, gesture studies. she/her, singular they is as old as Chaucer.
http://elisestickles.com
Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social Public Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer: memoir, poetry, children’s stories. Identiplant, AI, education, climate, UCU, 🦠Covid 🇪🇺N Ireland 🐸 Resist
Blue Sky 3/9/23
🚫🚫b0ts, zero posts, accounts with ++b0ts following, no biog
Henri Olkoniemi @holkoniemi.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @oulu.fi | PI of the @percola.bsky.social
eye movements | cognitive psychology | individual differences | language processing | figurative language
>> https://olkoniemi.com
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in Ireland
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
Dr Fran Melhuish @fransplains.bsky.social Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic.
"Needlessly polemical"
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish 
Stephen Lucek @stephenlucek.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Head of Linguistics at UCD. Main research interests include: Sociolinguistics, Language Regard, Irish English, Mediatised Representations, Multilingualism and many more! Brewer of "drinkable" beers.
Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
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 
Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI @LeidenHumanities (NL). Loves metaphor, stylistics and (machine) translation. PI of NWO-Vidi project "Metaphors in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions" (2025-2030). 
Paula P Sobrino @paulapsobrino.bsky.social Cognitive linguist @unirioja. Interested in #metaphor #multimodality #methods // @accion_icon // www.paulapsobrino.com
Laura Filardo-Llamas @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics @Uva.es Interested in Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-975X
Esra Efeoğlu @esranureo.bsky.social Former Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Co-founder & co-convener @discore.bsky.social
corpus-assisted discourse studies
youth language, metaphor, crisis discourses
🪄 https://linktr.ee/esranureo
Eva Krockow @evakrockow.bsky.social Associate Prof of Psychology at University of Leicester; research on health decision making & risk communication, e.g. about antibiotic resistance; writer; yoga enthusiast; mother of two 
Bilyana Todorova @bilyanat.bsky.social Linguist and nature lover.
Editor-in-Chief of Ezikov svyat/Orbis Linguarum
https://ezikovsvyat.swu.bg/index.php/en/
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social language & cognitive scientist at @mcgill.ca; co-founder of @wicscanada.bsky.social; she/her
Christoph Johnson @christophj.bsky.social Linguist FKA The Name Inspector. Author of Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little. Analytical Linguist @ Twitter fired by Musk. Fomenting revolution on LinkedIn. MANGETOUT. Working on a new book. He/him.
Gonzalo de Polavieja @polavieja.bsky.social Scientist at Champalimaud Foundation (polaviejalab.org) and co-founder of Algebraic AI (algebraic.ai). #Maths4AI #AI4Science, #BehaviorAI #NeuroAI #CognitionAI #CollectiveBehavior
Carolyn Porco @carolynporco.bsky.social Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Inaugural NatGeo Eliza Scidmore Award. Living my best life.
If you like what you see here, signup for my newsletter on Substack!
https://carolynporco.substack.com/
Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: socionarratology . theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” . “Affordances of Short Forms” / fuchsflorian.com
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Caroline G. Ferrari @carolinegf.bsky.social PhD in Psycholinguistics (UFRGS)
Assistant Professor at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social
Communications Officer at @raammetaphor.bsky.social
The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social Welcome to RaAM!
The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor is the biggest international community of metaphor researchers.
Our next event will be the 18th RaAM Conference, hosted in Pamplona (Spain) in 2027 🇪🇸
https://www.raam.org.uk/
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
Dr. Anna Henschel @annahenschel.bsky.social Editor for science communication | PhD @ University of Glasgow | I write in 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧
Alice Deignan @alicedeignan.bsky.social Corpora, metaphor, young people's language, the language of school
Steve Flusberg @sflusberg.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist @ Vassar College. Interested in language, metaphor, and thought, amongst other things
@elenagiribaldi.bsky.social @elenagiribaldi.bsky.social PhDing in Linguistics
Unipv & Unibg, Italy
#Metaphor and social media
Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬
Multimodality, iconicity, metaphor, gesture, data science 🤏 🔢
#rstats #python #openscience 💻 🔓
https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x
Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social Artist, art historian, art/metaphor philosopher, loves animals, comics, progressive politics, physics too. https://www.drgreatart.ch/
Dr Zsófia Demjén @zsofiademjen.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics (she).
Language & illness: vaccination, psychosis, cancer, depression | humor, metaphor, (im)politeness, pronouns, negation, narrative, corpus linguistics
Schuyler Laparle @schuylerlaparle.bsky.social Lecturer in Communication and Cognition | Researching metaphor and gesture | Caring about prefigurative politics and emancipatory education | Wanting secretly to be a woodworker
Tomasz Dyrmo @tomdyr1.bsky.social 🧠 cognitive linguist
🖐️ gesture researcher
👨🏫 English teacher
🛤️ metaphor scholar
🎓 PhD in Linguistics
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social associate prof TU Delft; design+ai; relational prototyping; positive and critical; art+science; laptop musicking. https://dave.murray-rust.org
@angeliki-lampr.bsky.social @angeliki-lampr.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics at @QMUL
Metaphors and Beyond @metaphorsandbeyond.bsky.social Devoted to discovering, identifying, and using uncommonly high quality non-literal comparisons (metaphors, metonymies, similes, analogies, etc.). Send 'em my way! For much, much more go to metaphorsandbeyond dot com.
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social IMMA SHARK
Same shark, same plan...eat racists, make stuff.
Mostly jolly, sometimes i get hangry.
Gud about sharing recipes and shit.
INCAPABLE OF CRITICAL THOUGHT🤣
Don't be a dick.
🦈 🌈
Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social B.A. Biological Anthropology. M.A. in Biology (Conservation Biology). Animal lover. Cat Mom. Things I post about: Archaeology/Anthropology, Wildlife Conservation, Animals, History, Science, Primates. Proud Canadian! Southern AZ. #PrimatesAreNotPets